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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13h
it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 11h
So if I'm going to seriously ask the question if the government is using its R&D resources wisely, it makes sense to spend a lot of time focusing on business and federal internal expenditures, as opposed to relentlessly focusing on less than a quarter of the overall pie.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 9h
To be more direct about it: OMB's budget-level cuts to science are not really about science. It can be very difficult for people (especially scientists) who are harmed by these cuts to grasp that science is really just collateral damage.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23h
Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, which leads … you get the idea. H/t UKHE
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everyone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I try to help people understand this so we don't just automatically suggest lowering tuition as a silver bullet college affordability remedy when lots of public institutions already have low tuition
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
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Anne Welsbacher @awelsbacher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For authors: beware emails or other approaches by an outfit called ClaimsHero offering to represent you in suing for use of your works to train AI without your knowledge. authorsguild.org/news/claimsh...
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Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FREE / public Patreon On Updike, narcissism at the end of the world, and Renee Good's mom explaining how she voted for Trump to kill other people's children instead of her own.
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THE SOLIPSISTS | Gin and Tacos
In one of the best book reviews of my lifetime, David Foster Wallace skewered what he called the Great Male Narcissist novelists of the post
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now I’m nobody, but I think that is indicative of a set of political principles. I think that’s worth taking a note of. They do not care whether it’s useful. They do not care about the user. If you are the user, however, maybe you care.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They are in fact contemptuous of the idea that I would go out and talk to people about how they use a technology or observe them trying to use it. Just hostile to the very concept of there being an end user.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer.
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bonedoctor.bsky.social @bonedoctor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This WILD and actually even worse than I expected 🙃 but I’m grateful for this detailed analysis of the Vanderbilt report anthropology sub-report: notebook.anthrowill.com/2026/09/27/r...
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Rigor for thee, but not for me! – Notebook
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump rescinded prior guidance on Title IX during his first year in office, then put out a new regulation that experts warned would retraumatize survivors and offer perpetrators impunity. It literally had provisions designed to allow confessed perpetrators to get away with rape.
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A New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against Them
A mere three months after its release, the DeVos administration’s new Title IX rule goes into effect on Friday, August 14. With the rushed timeline...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026
It's nice that people are agreeing with this, but let's not forget that our entire educational system, including in universities, is effectively organized against helping students learn how to read books in their entirety.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some brilliant words from Graie Hagans on Sukkot & community organizing. "The practice of gathering under the fragile, 3-walled sukkah reminds us that true safety doesn't come from rigid, heavy structures, but from collective care, community, and standing together in moments of uncertainty." Read:
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I Am Because Everyone Is
Sukkot, Radical Hospitality and Organizing; a Guest Post by Graie Hagans
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Friction” is humans. There is nothing else to build systems for but humans. They mean a system built for human flourishing won’t survive and they might be right. But not because the agents are so good but because AI is politics.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 28/09/2026
The data also strongly suggests that campus rape is perpetrated by a small number of actors. Put differently, most men on campus don't rape, but the ones who do rape a lot of women. Getting rid of those guys would make campus way safer . psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
(I don’t really want to debate AP again. I want to focus on the need to urge students to graduate fast comes with trade offs that may be bad for the student).
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We know that the best way to draw someone into a history major is in a class of 12. That's why you don't get classes of 12 as a service dept. You get 180 students, in two-hour chunks, with no breakout sessions or teaching assistants. You are set up to fail, at least in terms of attracting majors
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a revelation to me. Are most history depts not already "service depts"? I assumed they were. In any given year I might teach 500 students, most of them in the intro surveys, and maybe 25 of those 500 are history majors. But it's important to note how admins set these classes up to fail.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I could do this all day, but you get the point(s). Trust in higher ed ≠ trust in Ivy Leagues. Budgets are moral documents and if you want to examine trust in higher ed, look at how states prioritize public higher education.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.
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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Getting rid of just some part of the tax exemptions for Columbia and NYU’s massive real estate portfolios, which function as a private source of authority for these unaccountable institutions, and redirecting the money to CUNY would be just, meet, and right.
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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We do so with just a fraction of the resources, and, while there are significant challenges, to a high standard, in my experience.
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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I often find myself explaining to people that Hunter College, just one of a long list of senior colleges in CUNY, educates more undergraduates (~17,000) than Columbia University, even if you include all the Barnard students, too (~13,000).
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
in the long run it's hard to make out the difference between behavior caused by a lack of skill and behavior caused by lack of incentive, since ceteris paribus you'd expect either over time to produce the other. but these changes are recent enough that we can probably sort out which is the culprit
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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey, folks, this quiz that's circulating? The guy who made it is Emil Kirkegaard, a pretty prominent "race-realist" aka white supremacist who's also virulently misogynist. I really recommend not giving it any of your attention.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I hope it is obvious I am not some sort of science denier here: there are very few labs who have quantified the role of global change in viral spillover more than mine. What I take issue with is the policy frame that, in the absence of climate change, we would never have to worry about hurricanes.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Think of spillover as extreme weather, and think of the pressure we're putting on ecosystems as climate change. Spillover is naturally occurring as a phenomenon, but the contemporary (post-1950) spike in spillover is probably mostly, if not entirely, due to human pressure on ecosystems.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I cannot ignore this now, as I have never been able to ignore it before, because getting the science wrong leads to the wrong policy frame: if you believe that you can prevent every outbreak simply by living in harmony with nature, there is no reason to invest in preparedness or health systems.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am not going to spend another twenty posts discussing how this is an exploitive, neo-colonial policy frame shamelessly used by conservationists to exploit global health for their own objectives, because I've been writing about it my entire fucking career. www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/rou...
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Is a river cleanup a vaccine? — The Carlson Lab
This and other questions posed by the One Health approach, on the twentieth anniversary of its first adoption.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This narrative is part of a broader one that places the blame for pandemic risk on the Global South, and demands that they think less about how colonialism has entrenched poverty and denied them vaccines, and think more about how to responsibly manage their rainforests and wildlife populations.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"It's hard to know" isn't the same thing as "deforestation doesn't drive Ebola." But what David is presenting here - that if we stopped cutting down rainforest, we'd stop having Ebola outbreaks - is a matter of his personal narrative he's crafted across his career, not scientific evidence.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am emphasizing change here because land use and land use change are a meaningful distinction: we find that people get sick in fragmented landscapes where they live near forests; it's less common that we find people get sick where forests are being cut down to use the land for something else.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
3. Our new study further complicates this narrative, showing that in this and many systems, records of outbreak geography primarily tell us where we have surveillance infrastructure - and, when you take those signals out, the land use *change* story often drops out. bsky.app/profile/coli...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
2. Bats frequently roost in human structures, undoubtedly exposing humans to viruses passively - while humans are "leaving them alone." journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...
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Frequent and intense human-bat interactions occur in buildings of rural Kenya
Author summary Many bat species share space with people and domestic animals. Bat use of buildings, which serve as roosts where they raise young and sleep, is increasing globally with the loss of natu...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Similarly, one of the two 2020 outbreaks of Ebola in the DRC was a re-emergence from the 2018 outbreak. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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2020 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Équateur Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo: a retrospective genomic characterisation
Integrating genetic and epidemiological data allowed for investigative fact-checking and verified patient-reported sources of possible zoonotic spillover. These results demonstrate that rapid genetic ...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Viral persistence is believed to be the origin of the 2021 re-emergence of Ebola virus in Guinea, five years after the end of the previous outbreak. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Resurgence of Ebola virus in 2021 in Guinea suggests a new paradigm for outbreaks - Nature
The viral lineage responsible for the February 2021 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Guinea is nested within a clade that predominantly consists of genomes sampled during the 2013–2016 epidemic, sug...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Free Press has been pushing this lady since the election. they published six of her "why I left the Democrats" pieces since then, three since this May.
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
they’re fine with being deskilled by machine learning because it hasn’t hurt them to willfully deskill (or never-skill-in-the-first-place) themselves with regard to all the tasks they consider the domain of either wives or hired help, they assume others will always be available to serve them
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