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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 7h

Please help me in congratulating #FindThatLizard Scholarship Awardee, Symorah Johnson!! 🦎💜

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 9h

I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 6h

talked about this before and again, i'm speaking as a third generation journeyman trades worker, but working in trades is not something that any of the people who write these pieces, or honestly most of you, respect at all. It's perceived as something you do when all the "good" options are gone.

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CoreyWelch_STEM @coreywelch.bsky.social · 6h

@pablo.show continues with great journalism. Ohio State University promotion of these events is embarrassing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV7t...

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From Tim Tebow to Urban Meyer: Backstage at Ohio State for Life Surge | PTFO

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

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Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 9h

PERSONAL NEWS: Wednesday was my last day at @sciam.bsky.social. I was laid off during another round of restructuring and my department shuttered. If you are looking for a skilled editor, project manager and people manager, I'm your hire. Thanks. #lookingforwork

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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 01/10/2026

We live in a society that punishes people who are assaulted. We question them, we shame them, we disbelieve them. Many survivors instinctively do that societal work for us. Survivors question themselves, they shame themselves, they don't believe their own version of events. We've trained them!

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

This was when OpenAI was announced in 2015 and the press was hailing it as a company that was going to save humanity from extinction due to AI and instead build the good kind of god machine 🙄

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

company." I've basically been saying the same thing over and over and over and over again 🙄 You can preorder my book if you want to come on that journey with me lol. bsky.app/profile/timn...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

A couple of years ago, I interviewed a leading attorney who represents survivors of sexual misconduct on campus, Iliana Konidaris (whose brother is the awesome 🔭 Nick Konidaris). I learned A LOT:

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Photo by Edwin Andrade on Unsplash I first met Olympias Iliana Konidaris at her brother’s wedding, where she gave a great toast that affirmed all of my...

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c milagros @bibibivalve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

forever thankful that as a young egg capsule I had wisdom across generations and outside my institution- v grounding , keeping everything in perspective , + able to offer that to others …

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I also think a lot about cross-generational friendships. We’re all taught to seek out friends of a similar age in the same life stage. And that culture plays a role in keeping all of us naive about misogyny that women a few years older are experts in navigating.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This thread is so important because it gets at the AI industry’s central failure of imagination. While I’ve met exceptions to the rule in Silicon Valley, most human beings do not reduce their sense of being alive to a stream of successive task completions, and find it a truly alienating vision.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

This right here, and it’s not just about rape. It’s literally anything he does wrong.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But that doesn't mean that we get to give up. So I'm extremely grateful to the elders who are lending their expertise, and the youth who keep showing up with energy and ideas, and the sandwich generation folks who feel like we're holding it together at both ends -- we're stronger together.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Archives and online catalogues are fragile, massively underfunded and rarely given priority. Yet this is the infrastructure on which academic and commercial research relies. Sigh.

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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Herpetology is very much a white and male field because of racism. There's no getting around that. Historically and presently Black people were/are not seen as knowledge holders and contributors by the academy.

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c milagros @bibibivalve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my fellowship last yr explored this - will probably have something tangible once I have my degree in hand & my lease has ended LOL. also disconnect between mission statements, researchers, all the entities that interact w / them.

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Brittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IMO, there's still a huge disconnect between how the public perceives natural history museums and the prestige surrounding them, and the actual economics of sustaining them.

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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"If you allow the most wealthy and powerful segment of society to opt out of public services, those public services will get worse." Yes! (see also: charter schools in places like Princeton)

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Watching the AI doomer panic the last two weeks and I'm struck by all the strident certainty on display about a subject with little transparency and not very much certainty. I wrote about treating AI as an unexceptional crisis and what that involves. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

go on nfl, keep streisand effecting this guy's protest bsky.app/profile/mark...

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

We are ALL gonna have inconsistent politics. All of us. Either from simple ignorance or just the hypocrisy of being human. But you cannot be better than in seeking to become better. And that is where integrity lies. It’s fidelity to the journey of being better everyday.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

UMaine: "Strategic staff layoffs and faculty retrenchments will be necessary to reduce the university’s expenses on an ongoing basis." UMaine System: "We just signed a $1.4 million/year contract with OpenAI!" Cool.

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Dr. Earyn McGee @afroherper.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As a young adult, it’s exhausting to have to keep experiencing “the real world” It’s exhausting to have to reconcile the way I want the world to be vs how it is. I’m tired of complaining about how it is and wishing for better.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 16/09/2026

"Without work, talent is only talent, promise, not product."

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"eLife has been without an impact factor for just over a year...and [has] an overall 21% decrease in revenue" newsletter.journalology.com/p/journalolo... Perhaps the only more stark illustration of academia's addiction to Impact Factor is this:

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“AI will kill us all” is how the tech industry, especially rich people in it, avoid talking about real world problems—ones they’re causing, exacerbating, or neglecting—while still thinking themselves good. “I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 16/09/2026

Guest @mirplo.bsky.social shares lessons she's learned on last week's School of Practice episode. Listen and follow: edut.to/4gHCpln

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

fuck it, I'm feeling honest today. It's not just highly successful ppl it's also moderately & mildly successful people. There's like 9 billion ppl on this planet, getting ahead is more a function of fortune and circumstance than personal achievement. roulette wheel stopped where we were, thats all

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this is correct and many people can't let this penetrate their brains. My great aunt was one of the most BRILLIANT, CREATIVE, TALENTED people I knew. But because of when and where she was born & lived her whole life, she didn't get the opportunities and wasn't lucky.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't think the most useful thinking on this will come from inside the U.S.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Are there scholars and thinkers outside the U.S. who are writing interesting things about how the world is and will be managing U.S. decline? I am really interested in reading these. Please share with me.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Doing this develops many of the skills you need to be a decent organizer... It's a useful point of entry. You will learn a lot about yourself and importantly about the communities you belong to.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every time a young person emails me about what they should do at this moment, I say "organize a fundraiser for someone or a group doing the kind of work you value." I don't usually hear back after that, lol.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And this is why I don't have time for "bring the revolution" cosplay bullshit! This, is reality. NOW.

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thedentalmama.bsky.social @thedentalmama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And moral courage is contagious. These are the kind of instances where the majority of people see the complicity of their supposed leaders and begin to question why their leaders lack such courage.

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c milagros @bibibivalve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ik expressing it will get me a permaban from the academy, but this is why ive always side eye “don’t speak up until tenure” bc I have never seen someone speak up after tenure & im getting “old” enough to see people go thru the whole professorial conditioning, etc

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

I'm still so annoyed by this framing because like, god forbid that a group of people is working on understanding the fundamental nature of the universe, which is a major endeavor, and it's not happening on the scale of one human lifetime. The hubris!!!!!!!

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Other funding opportunities in NSF: The AI-enabled scientific discovery Genesis Mission. (AI AI AI AI AI AI). Interested in proposals that support GEO Core *and* Genesis Mission simultaneously. (AI AI AI AI AI AI).

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

No requirements for: -when to submit (no deadlines) -duration and total amount -organizational eligibility is NSF's standard thing -same for PI requirements

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In contrast to prior "GEO Office Hours" webinars, we will *not* be hearing from the normal NSF Geosciences directorate staff members. This is unfortunate as we all know and like them and would like to make sure they are doing ok.

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c milagros @bibibivalve.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

bro I was in the webinar & I can’t even think abt this or I’m gonna cry - to be honest, I’m angry at the old guard and angry at this dumb academic training system. Business as normal when every damn year is unprecedented. I know it’s complex, just let me cry for 1-2 business days.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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