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Semafor @semafor.com · 23/09/2026

While Washington can’t stop talking about AI doom scenarios and the public backlash to data centers, around the world, sentiment toward the fast-moving technology is much more nuanced. Read more from Morgan Chalfant: www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Adults worldwide feel more positive on AI, poll finds

In 34 out of 37 countries polled by Gallup, more adults express positive feelings about AI than do negative ones.

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Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My favorite news from the past week - Tyrannosaurus Rex was *warm blooded*!!! And they figured this out using isotopes from tooth enamel 🤯https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb7653?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.bsky.app%2F

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The body temperature of Tyrannosaurus rex

Despite an extensive history of study, quantitative constraints on the thermophysiology of Tyrannosaurus rex remain limited. Here, we derive a thermodynamically based determination of T. rex body temp...

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Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI usage daily, weekly, monthly (& never) -- Gallup poll of 37 countries eg Ireland -- 25% daily, 18% weekly, 13% monthly, 45% none

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Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Folks re losing their minds over this as if it is either/or read whole papers vs interact with the product. My favorite word is 'and' :)

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

"What is uniquely African about the African AI landscape? Is it because those working on it are from/based in the African continent? Because it focuses on African languages/datasets? Or does it adhere to distinctly African values?" @hellinanigatu.bsky.social aial.ie/blog/worksho...

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An Introspective Look at the African AI Landscape: An organizer’s reflection

Key takeaways from “An Introspective Look at the African AI Landscape” workshop at the 9th inaugural Deep Learning Indaba

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 10/09/2026

China only just missed the income cutoff to become a high-income country this year. In July every year, the World Bank sorts countries into income groups based on their per capita gross national income (GNI) in the previous year.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today is National Voter Registration Day — and we're less than 50 days from the midterms. The best time to check that your voter registration is up to date is right now. And remind your friends and family to do the same. This is absolutely vital. ⬇️ nationalvoterregistrationday.org

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National Voter Registration Day

National Voter Registration Day is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of every September. It's goal is to focus

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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WNBA @wnba.com · 13/09/2026

2026 FIBA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CHAMPIONS 🇺🇸🏆 The #USABWNT claim their fifth consecutive and 12th overall #FIBAWWC title.

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Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 13/09/2026

If the Speaker feels they don’t have enough expertise there’s a way to bring it back - The Office of Technology Assessment! www.liberalcurrents.com/congress-nee...

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Congress Needs Its Tech Experts Back

If Congress is to tackle issues from DOGE sabotage to AI to social media, it needs to resurrect its Office of Technology Assessment.

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ysph.yale.edu/news-article... Single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1.04 trillion or 20% less than the system it would replace, according to new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.

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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Slowing down," then, doesn't necessarily mean literally slowing down AI production. It means making sure your testing environments are actually secure, that your agents have fail safes built in, and that admin access to critical systems isn't guarded by a plain text 4 letter password.

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Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This book looks really good, but I'm fascinated that the NYT Book Review on it last week was such a different telling.

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Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Look at this fantastic bsky starter pack! Back in twitter days, we folks in international humanitarian aid had a great community. I miss it dearly, as much as I miss #epitwitter. It's so nice to see many of those faces here. Thanks for including me! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I got this book for my daughter and she has already made four or five recipes. I'm benefitting from her fresh loaves and bagels :) It's a beautiful book. I love the way the opening cover looks like a counter with flour on it.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/09/2026

At least 28 datasets have been deleted and another 338 modified across more than 60 federal agencies since Trump returned to office. Health data accounts for roughly 40% of what’s been affected. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

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Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

thinking of what it means to cut trees down instead of plant them. "The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

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TBSkyen @tbskyen.com · 24/08/2026

zohran mamdani video essayist arc

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Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I do miss the old twitter relationship we had with our users sharing their experiences of a conference together. If you're on bsky and at #SIWI #worldwaterweek, please connect! We'll try to recreate our old communities here.

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Zimbabwe has enough problems without hadedas @shonatiger.hararereview.com · 23/08/2026

Greatly privileged to have been on the team for Coffee with Professor Felwine Sarr, whom I deeply admire. Published in the latest @thecontinent.org, which you can access here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/287…

Parts from four pages of The Continent arranged in a grid.

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Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's release day for Nemesis! Ch 1 opens w/Vasiliy, sent to the US against his will and not having a very good first day. Ch 2 intros Octavia, a road weary ballerina in NYC who rose from orphanage to principal w/little more than a busted knee to show for it #booksky www.amazon.com/Nemesis-Brat...

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Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Nemesis is out today! And just a dollar on Kindle for the opening! (or free on Kindle Unlimited) Read this if you like dark romance with badass women. Ballerina-turned-mafia #fridayreads #booksky www.amazon.com/Nemesis-Brat...

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Kurt Phillips @kurtphillipstx.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Fresh books!

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. The HOBAR ebook is only $1.99 for a limited time! That’s a lot of creatures from beyond the reef, horror, crime, vengeance, murder, and magic for cheap! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CP...

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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My package in @economist.com on contrails and the climate advantages of there being fewer of them 🧵 1st up: reporting on Operation Blue Skies, the big new Atlantic trial looking at reducing contrails by air-traffic-control tweaks. www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Contrail-free flying could help the climate

A trial over the Atlantic aims to show how

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Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is my daughter's second book, a dark romance/mafia adventure. I love it so much! Today, it's just a dollar on Kindle so go try it out!

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 20/08/2026

Fridtjof Nansen is remembered as a legend of polar exploration. In Ukraine, his name tells a very different story — one that continues more than a century later. 🧵 1/11 ⬇️

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katjr @katjyr.myatproto.social · 19/08/2026

I have been struggling with something lately. I haven’t been able to put it into thoughts much less words, but sometime in the wee hours it occurred to me that duality is the answer. Be the child; be the mother. Put yourself to sleep, be patient with your fears, be patient with your own impatience.

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Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

among other important details in this article, please note that AC units for the poor and unwell are life saving equipment equal to healthcare. They should not be made to unfairly pay for larger causes of global warming.

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The core of open-source AI is that the training recipe itself is the closest analogue to Linux and open-source software. Model weights are transient. Nvidia is building their models in the open so everyone can build their own, avoiding a monopoly on intelligence www.interconnects.ai/p/teaching-e...

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Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens

Nvidia wants you building your own model, not buying from Anthropic/OpenAI.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Got an email saying that @skypeascientist.bsky.social is especially in need of ecologists this year (to sign up to match with classrooms). I've been doing it for years and it's always a lot of fun (and a great reward: effort ratio), I very much recommend! Open to grad students too!

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Turtle eclipse

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Analysis of over three million households across 73 countries reveals that survey data collectors systematically omit respondents who are disproportionately costly to interview, particularly under difficult working conditions.

Effect of the man's questionnaire on number of eligible men in the household

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 09/08/2026

Women accounted for 100% of the jobs the US lost last month, and since January, they've left the workforce at a rate double that of men's. Want to know why? Or what we can do about it? If you're in NYC for #ASA2026, come join me at 3pm to chat about what we can learn from Holding It Together.

Flyer for a book signing from 3-4pm on Sunday August 9th at the PRH booth in the Hilton Midtown

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Dr. Thomas Ronge @thomasronge.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The new @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social Fire Emissions Watch tool is both haunting and mesmerizing. Pretty impressive site. apps.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/fire-emissio...

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's -- how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain #UPI

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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's -- how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain - UPI.com

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Alt US Forest Service @altusfs.altgov.info · 02/08/2026

Tagging in @roguenoaa.altgov.info and @roguefema.altgov.info / @rebelfema.altgov.info for any additional insights. Apps clearly have a role in wildfire situational awareness / preparedness, but a NOAA Weather Radio is an indispensable tool for all hazards. www.weather.gov/abq/Emergenc...

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Emergency Preparedness: NOAA Weather Radio

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The Continent @thecontinent.org · 31/07/2026

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 247 of The Continent Be aware of your sharing permissions. We got the spreadsheet for how Rwanda pays influencers to craft its shiny image. bit.ly/247_TC

This is the cover of Issue 247 of The Continent. It is dominated by a giant puppet master's hand reaching in from the top right. The sleeve bears the Rwandan flag, representing the Rwandan state. Four strings hang from its fingers, controlling four people below like marionettes.

Each person is absorbed in a smartphone. They are shown in different poses: one slouches while scrolling, another sits smiling at her screen, a third walks with head bowed over a phone, and a fourth hunches over a device. None appears aware that they are being manipulated.

The blue background resembles a digital network filled with faint social media logos and online symbols, including WhatsApp, TikTok, Instagram, X, email icons, hashtags and AI graphics. Scattered among them are slogans and usernames such as #VisitRwanda, #RwandaSafe, @Manzi_Patriotic and @harerimana_tittu, suggesting an organised online influence campaign.

The headline reads: "Rwanda: Like, follow, share." The words mimic the familiar prompts used on social media but, paired with the puppet strings, imply that online support for Rwanda is being directed or orchestrated rather than arising organically.

The cover is illustrated by Gado.

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Dr. Annie Feighery @afeighery.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

After several rounds of edits on a draft in which Fable and I disagreed about my use of the term, passive tense, Fable took to not arguing with me anymore, but still passive aggressively thinking about it in front of me.

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