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WIRED @wired.com · 11/10/2026

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems. www.wired.com/story/openai...

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OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again

“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/10/2026

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

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Statements — AHM

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Lots of ongoing talk about "superintelligence", AI consciousness/feelings, and the like, so I figured it would be worth giving this another round. The AI industry is going to keep pushing its crappy narratives, but we don't have to do their work for them. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

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We’re all going to die, but not from AI

That artificial intelligence could destroy humanity is a story imposed by the AI industry itself. It’s time to challenge it

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/10/2026

‘Intellectual diversity‘ meaning the inclusion of conservative viewpoints in the academia for the sake of doing so is not “diversity.” The right’s tendency to weaponize and distort progressive concepts does not invalidate them.

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 26/09/2026

“We gave up our attention. We gave up our intimacy. Now what’s being hacked is agency itself,” says Maria Ressa. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/25/m...

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Big Tech Is Destroying Democracy. Here’s How to Fight Back.

A conversation with Nobel laureate Maria Ressa.

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Philosophy Now @philosophynow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Massimo Pigliucci revisits Cicero to argue that skepticism isn’t about doubting everything, but about holding beliefs provisionally, and changing our minds when better evidence comes along: philosophynow.org/issues/175/C...

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Education Week @edweek.org · 01/10/2026

Trump's Ed. Dept. Is Still Disrupting Grants—Just More Quietly Than Before: The agency is deploying subtler procedures that result in fewer new grants and less stability for recipients.

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Trump's Ed. Dept. Is Still Disrupting Grants—Just More Quietly Than Before

The agency is deploying subtler procedures that result in fewer new grants and less stability for recipients.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

I'll have to be vague on the details, but I've been sad to see and hear how the Vanderbilt report is being used opportunistically by people who never cared for humanities research to begin with to begin "debates" about the "state" of the humanities.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

Democrats defend "science," but what they really should be defending is "wissenschaft." No major social problems - from global warming to AI - can be solved without non-commercial research across multiple fields, including the social sciences and humanities. Really wish the party understood this.

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PolitiFact @politifact.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Trump administration said its new TV ads are public service announcements. But law experts said unlike PSAs, the ads don’t inform viewers about how to access, benefit from or understand government programs. buff.ly/a3F1IM8

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Are Trump’s TV ads a public service? Experts say no

The Trump administration said its new TV ads are public service announcements. But law experts said unlike PSAs, the ads don’t inform viewers about how to access, benefit from or understand…

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 29/09/2026

Adam Jentleson wants to drag American politics away from the brink of right-wing authoritarianism and out of the hands of left-wing “groups.” In his new book, he turns to history for guidance, and misreads what he finds. thebaffler.com/latest/stupo...

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Stupormajority | Chris Lehmann

In his new book, Adam Jentleson offers a blueprint for reviving the Democratic Party’s political fortunes. No one should follow it.

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WIRED @wired.com · 29/09/2026

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

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Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI

One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 28/09/2026

Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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How America Became Antifascist

Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around.

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The Economist @economist.com · 27/09/2026

The main explanation in Nikole Hannah-Jones’s personal essay on the failings of American schools is decades out of date. Here’s why

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Schools for the poor are not poor schools

A viral personal essay leaves its political implications unsaid

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For the first time, scientists recorded bacteria in the act of transferring functional proteins to neighboring bacteria in order to evade antibiotics.

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Scientists catch bacteria sharing proteins to survive antibiotics

Bacteria send protein packages to dormant neighbors to endure antibiotic attack

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BrainFacts @brainfacts.org · 25/09/2026

Kids from immigrant backgrounds in the U.S. often struggle to develop fluency in two languages. Many factors — parental misconceptions, the lack of support in schools and social attitudes — play a role. vist.ly/5jvac

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How a Child Becomes Bilingual — and What Can Be Done to Help Them Get There

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 22/09/2026

"World leaders will be gathering at the United Nations in an era of deep uncertainty," U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told reporters recently. "At the same time, power is shifting. The world is changing. And our institutions must change with it." to.pbs.org/4yJsIci

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Diplomats face a world in turmoil as UN opens annual meeting

With two escalating wars raging on in Europe and the Middle East, a global economy in flux and a shifting world order, international leaders are arriving in New York on Tuesday to an outlook that is m...

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants" [everybody up in arms, as they should be, but for those who have been paying close attention, this has pretty much already happened - the realization just hasn't sunk in yet] www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...

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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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Sander Verhaegh @sanderverhaegh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In the 1930s, a group of European philosophers fled fascism and reshaped American philosophy. Why did logical positivism have such an impact on US thought? And why did it play a central role in the culture wars of the 1950s and 1960s? Released today! Logical Positivism: An American History (1/3)

Cover of Logical Positivism: An American History

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 19/09/2026

We all have parts of ourselves others know but we don’t. Gain greater self-awareness by seeing yourself from the outside in. A Guide by Jennifer Farrell

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How to uncover your blind spots | Psyche Guides

We all have parts of ourselves others know but we don’t. Gain greater self-awareness by seeing yourself from the outside in

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 16/09/2026

Ursula von der Leyen wanted to make a splash in her big speech. Instead, the European Commission president’s audacious offer of making Canada the EU’s first “associate member” has created a major diplomatic headache.

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Von der Leyen blindsides EU with Canada ‘associate member’ pitch

The Commission president unveiled the idea without consulting EU capitals — and Ottawa quickly tamped down expectations.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026

Discussion has focused on behavioral outcomes. But Meta’s settlement shines a light on damage to young people’s emerging desires and identities

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I’m a psychoanalyst. Social media is damaging children’s inner lives in ways we don’t fully understand | Robin Kirman

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Science Magazine @science.org · 15/09/2026

“The greater danger is allowing uncertainty to convince us to stop building, mentoring, investing in ambitious ideas, supporting vulnerable communities, or imagining a future worth creating until conditions improve.” #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4ivIdj8

As an academic scientist in the U.S., I’m learning to live with uncertainty

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When Karin reached out to me about this piece, I knew it would be good and it is even better than I expected www.chronicle.com/article/high...

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Higher Ed’s Harvard Problem

An exclusive club of colleges commands the public narrative. Does that come at a cost?

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 14/09/2026

When students memorize key information, they free up their working memory to tackle high-order thinking. 🧠 Here are 3 memory-building strategies that make foundational knowledge more automatic.https://edut.to/4A30Zot

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There’s Still a Place for Memorization

When students have a rich store of readily retrievable knowledge, they’re able to more efficiently approach new content.

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NPR @npr.org · 15/09/2026

The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow mail-in voting restrictions under a U.S. Postal Service plan for the midterm general election. n.pr/4rfHHIr

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The Supreme Court rejects Trump's mail voting restrictions for this year's midterms

The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow mail-in voting restrictions under a U.S. Postal Service plan for the midterm general election.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What AI developers don't seem to get is that finding "the answers" here was never really the point. Mathematicians don't really want to know if a conjecture is true or false for its own sake. They love doing maths, for a host of reasons but in the end because they're human.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I wonder if this might be a turning point. I'd like to think so. Because this declaration speaks to so much about the problem with AI in such contexts. If it can be of help in, say, drug discovery, that's fine. But it's precisely because maths doesn't have those stakes that the message is powerful..

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“Mathematics only makes sense as a gift economy. It has no trade secrets. Substituting a monetizable ersatz culture for the one evolved through historical experience is a particularly insidious form of knowledge collapse.” Mathematician Michael Harris on the AI companies coming for math:

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Knowledge Collapse

AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OK, so AI can apparently solve the puzzles of the Navier-Stokes equation. But can it solve the puzzles of the universe, in the way that Einstein did? My latest news feature for @nature.com looks into the question of how far AI can go towards scientific discovery. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The Einstein test: what happens when AI tries to rediscover relativity?

Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/09/2026

Transferring vast sums of money to a so-called "department of war" to do infectious-disease related work doesn't exactly assuage anyone's fears about bioweapons now does it?

The senior NIH official said the new arrangement would untangle civilian public-health initiatives from defence priorities. “We’re trying to get research that’s more Department of War-related back to Department of War,” the official said. “When the public hears that NIAID funds biodefence, they think we’re developing bioweapons, and we’re trying to get out of that business.”

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think it's important that he's been arguing for the importance of "digesting" LLM-generated proofs, and that he's now coming out against AI labs who might generate a massive "indigestible" disproof of Navier-Stokes. But okay: maybe it's too little too late, too subtle to do any good.

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Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)

We are transitioning in mathematics from an era of proof scarcity to an era of proof abundance, but our mathematical infrastructure and culture has not yet adapted to this. As mentioned previously, t...

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Nature @nature.com · 04/09/2026

Nature research paper: Rewiring the ribosome to translate proteins encoded in its own RNA go.nature.com/46DfIc4

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Rewiring the ribosome to translate proteins encoded in its own RNA - Nature

Bacterial ribosomes can synthesize proteins encoded within their own RNA.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 01/09/2026

More than half a century ago, educators in western Massachusetts undertook a grand experiment in learning, one that rewarded curiosity and independence. Its closure marks the end of an era. thebaffler.com/latest/class...

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Class Dismissed | Hannah Gais

Private liberal arts schools were never going to kickstart the revolution. But the closure of Hampshire College further narrows the political imaginary.

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 01/09/2026

"Friction that causes students to think hard is good friction. Friction that happens before they start thinking hard is bad friction," writes teacher Dylan Kane. Dive into his interview:

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Dylan Kane Went Tech-Free for a Year--Here's What He Learned

After replacing Chromebook activities with paper and pencils, the middle school math teacher thoughtfully considers the costs and benefits.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/08/2026

Any higher ed administrator that collaborates with the American Enterprise Institute has no credibility. And the Chronicle is a joke for giving the viewpoint diversity crowd so much free air time.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

UChicago core social science classes go AI-free: “'we first equip students to read, write, and think without dependence on AI, just as we equip students to read, write, and think beyond the bounds of conventional views or leading ideologies,' the memo reads." chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...

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Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall

All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026

If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 20/08/2026

America effectively has two bills of rights—one for citizens who live inland, and one for immigrants and anyone who happens to live in the heavily policed “border regions.” There, agents wield extraordinary powers without checks on abuse.

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Shot by the Border Patrol, One Woman Pursues Justice

Can a Mexican woman shot by the Border Patrol while migrating into the United States exact justice from the legal system?

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 10/08/2026

Excellent:

That Bollinger does not reckon with the reality of what it means to be an academic in the mid-2020s underlines a key feature of his work: While he has much to say about the glories of scholarship, he is ultimately not interested in the people who produce it. This is a serious problem for his program, because at the end of the day, universities are above all else workplaces, and their defense requires a buy-in from the workers who make them what they are.

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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 10/08/2026

"The Better Angels of Our Nature," "Bowling Alone," "The New Jim Crow"? What's the most influential scholarly book of the past 20 years? chroni.cl/4fYYUAC

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What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years?

Scholars from across the academy give us their picks.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 01/08/2026

A dangerous heat wave will bring record-breaking temperatures to parts of the Western U.S. this weekend, prompting warnings for people to stay inside and heightening wildfire risks in areas that already are dry or burning. to.pbs.org/452eNRL

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Heat wave expected to bring record-breaking temps, heighten wildfire risk to parts of Western U.S.

A ridge of high pressure is holding heat close to the ground — what’s known as a heat dome — from Arizona to Montana, though the good news is that it will be relatively short-lived, National Weather S...

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The Economist @economist.com · 25/07/2026

Cuba’s doctors are the country’s most valuable export. 1843 investigates why Trump is cracking down on them bit.ly/3TOhGDb Illustration: Patrik Svensson

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2026

Our analysis shows that the measles virus seen in Utah as recently as May is very closely related to one that circulated in Texas a year ago. Given our findings, one expert said it’s going to be difficult for the U.S. to prove measles isn’t endemic: propub.li/4vKYjs3

A comparison of eight measles virus DNA sequences with 12 genetic letters each. The first sequence is labeled "Texas, May '25," and the rest are labeled as Utah and dated between June '25 to May '26. The sequences for "Texas, May '25" and "Utah, June '25" are identical, and the first five letters of all sequences stay the same. After the "Utah, June '25" sequence, each sequence gains one to two mutations from the previous sequence listed.

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Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"The painting is calculated to engage our amazement . . . by its very immensity and boldness; it is spectacular, and we are enchanted by the spectacle." Remembering Joel Snyder: read "'Las Meninas' and the Mirror of the Prince," Free Access on CI: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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