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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10h

It's Mountain Day, a unique Elmira College tradition that connects contemporary students to those who preceded them, as well as to local history. Here's a group that hiked up to Quarry Farm when the Mark Twain Study was still there, following Twain's own favorite trail.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 2h

I appreciated this chance to go on Bloomberg Tech, though it's always a bit odd to have a conversation with a reporter who is really interested in what's effectively a fictional story. www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

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Watch Bender: AI’s ‘Existential’ Risk Is ‘Fake’ - Bloomberg

University of Washington professor Emily Bender argues the AI safety debate is too focused on hypothetical existential threats while overlooking harms already happening today. She points to environmen...

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12h

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 10h

Profound gratitude to Prof. Anna O Law (@unlawfulentries.bsky.social) who last night showed up virtually to my graduate class “Immigration, Citizenship, and Deportation” to discuss her excellent book Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship! tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd

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Book - Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship — Anna O. Law

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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Mitch R. Murray @mitchrmurray.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

TEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE: ESSAYS FROM THE CLASSROOM Officially under contract and coming in 2028! It's a monster volume: 33 teacher-scholars from around the world writing provocative, shortform essays in the service of pedagogy

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Mitch R. Murray @mitchrmurray.bsky.social · 9h

Recording a new episode of Less Worse this week

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 20m

You mackguyvered it (or however you choose to spell it)

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SUNY - The State University of New York @sunyofficial.bsky.social · 6h

4 more days!! Send your submissions now using www.suny.edu/vote/sticker.... We can't wait to see what you'll design✍️

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 11h

Vancouver Island’s marmots have clawed back from 22 animals in 2003 to 427 today, the highest count on record. The Marmot Recovery Foundation released 41 captive-bred marmots this year, with 40 more due in 2026, an estimated 120 pups were born in the wild in 2024. buff.ly/UKzvRJ6 #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Marmot population on Vancouver Island climbs to 427 as recovery efforts continue

The Vancouver Island marmot population has come a long way, making a remarkable comeback from the brink of extinction.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 8h

There’s still three years left.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 8h

The starting point for any discussion of declining public trust in higher education in the US has to be that since the McCarthy Era, the center-right has systematically misled the public about the purpose and practices of higher education as well as underfunded it.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 12h

I'm very excited to share that I had the pleasure of working with Michael Lewis on a section of his new book Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State! This is SUCH an important book that tells the stories of seven public servants standing up to DOGE. Buy it here: bookshop.org/p/books/bloc...

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Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State

An inside look at the early days of Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, as told by the public servants it targeted and one of America’s best storytellers.Blockers. It wasn’t a compliment. In ...

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SUNY - The State University of New York @sunyofficial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Time to fill out your FAFSA! @sunychancellor.bsky.social joined parents and high schoolers as they participated in a FAFSA event at @sunybroome.bsky.social. The event encouraged students to fill out the FAFSA to receive financial aid for college. Participants learned more about the financial aid

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21h

Solomon: cut the baby in half Mathematician: good. Now cut it in half again and continue cutting it in halves until the partitions are small enough to fit smoothly along an irregular curve. The number of cuts will approach infinity as the sum converges to the exact definite integral

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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 14h

Unsportsmanlike Conduct…..

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 12h

can't stop thinking about our latest Google review

A Google review with five stars. It says "I’ve never been so amazed by a place before, This and Puregym are tied first place"

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 12h

MAHA/MAGA aiming to reverse this progress

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A consistently pernicious framing of student experience is that they are not in the “real world” yet, as if the debt they’re accruing and incessant punitive surveillance of their labor and speech isn’t entirely of a piece with the broader cultural moment.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 12h

Consumers, I’ve invented a machine* that will lift weights for you. Pay me. *Investors, give me $6T to make this machine work.** **Regulators, for this machine to work, I need to be exempted from all intellectual property, safety, and liability laws, regulations, and policies.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To AI proof assignments begin by locking work browsers and activating work history. Then slowly lower each classroom computer into the nearby pool of molten steel. Next locate Cyberdine Systems Corporation. Your job is not complete until you have eliminated every trace of the machine. You’re free.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 12h

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13h

What is the IceCube neutrino observatory? Neutrinos are elusive particles that rarely interact, but can create flashes of light when they do. Most neutrino detectors are giant water tanks surrounded by light detectors. IceCube is kilometer-long strings of detectors embedded in the Antarctic ice.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 22h

Grateful to the team at @studiosity.com for inviting me on their podcast with Judyth Sachs to talk about why I think human writing matters. Here's something I said that I think gets at what humans can do that chatbots can't --and why teachers and writing centers matter more than ever.

And this thing is that often what really will sort of light the fire under a student is when you help them figure out not how to do something with what's ont he page, but how to find the thing that's not yet on the page. That's what we're doing.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14h

Just want to point out that I was literally in the newspaper yesterday saying one of the most important questions of our time is why neutrinos are non-trinary 👀

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 16h

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13h

Too soon/late

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 20h

QT'ing this instead of replying because I don't have too much to contribute to this discussion but it does remind me of something I encountered in the *marketing* of my novel, which is very SF but marketed on the literary side, for purely *marketing* purposes: litfic audiences actively eschew genre.

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JuliJess @julianajess.bsky.social · 21h

Book Launch for "Thinking from Black: A Lexicon" hosted by The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. Opening remarks from Kaiama Glover and readings from several contributors. Truly a revolutionary work of art. "Poetry sustains people and place." I'm very grateful to have been here tonite.

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 17h

CFP 📢📢📢 *New Approaches to Teaching the Gothic*, co-edited by myself & @factorygothic.bsky.social Critical practice; pedaogical reflections; case studies; particularly in a relation to these times/spaces of crisis. VERY broad cfp. Deadline 10th November More info 👇👇 l1nq.com/7ra7rtb

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cfp | call for papers

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 14h

The wheels are coming off. Great reporting. The first account I’ve seen that questions & contradicts Alpha’s self-reporting on standardized tests, screen time, etc.

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How Morath’s agency linked Texas schools to Alpha’s AI tool - The Texas Tribune

The State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School's AI tool. Then the Texas Education Agency helped pilot it in public school districts.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The global population of greater one-horned rhinos has hit a record 4,075. Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India, shelters more than 2,600 of them. Poaching has fallen 86% since 2016; India, Nepal and Indonesia all recorded zero rhino killings in 2025. buff.ly/O4lKhqy #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Assam’s Kaziranga Leads Rhino Revival as Global Greater One-Horned Population Rises to 4,075

A CORRESPONDENTBOKAKHAT: The global population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros has now reached 4,075, with about 80 per cent of the population found i

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In DRC, the government has adopted its first-ever National Forest Policy. It requires free, prior and informed consent from communities before forest is allocated, and eases the path to Local Community Forest Concessions. buff.ly/H05uWr3 #ShareGoodNewsToo

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DRC Adopts First National Forest Policy with New Protections for Community Rights - Rainforest Foundation UK

Kinshasa, 9 September 2026 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has adopted its first-ever National Forest Policy, setting out the government’s vision for forest governance over the next…

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

China’s clean-air campaign has cut Beijing’s smog by 70% in a decade, and cut heavily polluted days from 58 a year to just one. The effort has prevented an estimated 680,000 premature deaths since 2020 and generated $715 billion in cumulative health benefits. buff.ly/ZfRCR1q #ShareGoodNewsToo

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China’s air best on record, delivers $715 billion in health benefits: officials

More than a decade after China launched an aggressive campaign against the choking smog, the country’s air quality has reached its best level on record, with the cleanup generating an estimated 4.8…

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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Cornell students, faculty, and staff stand with survivors!

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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

A new IWPR report confirms that college-educated Black women are more likely to lead in government than in companies. Which is why the DOGE cuts that slashed federal jobs have been particularly devastating for college-educated Black women. #blacksky

Figure 3. College-Educated Black Women Are More Likely to Be Hired for Management Positions in the Public Sector than the Private Sector
All women and Black women (bachelor's degree or higher) as a share of total managers in the public and private sectors, 2024

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Women's share of all managers
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Black women as a share of all college-educated women
15.9%
10.8%
Black women as a share of women managers
19.8%
9.2%
Black women as a share of all managers
8.2%
2.2%
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Source: Author's analysis of Current Population Survey microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 2026.7.8, https://microdata.epi.org
Note: Race and ethnicity are mutually exclusive; Black women are all non-Hispanic.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The organizational hypothesis of @standupforscience.net is that we believe the scientific ecosystem can thrive if we refuse to compromise our integrity. We believe that if we stand by our values, unflinchingly, we won’t doom science and democracy, we will see a better future. Integrity ages well.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 05/10/2026

Us too! Let's get together and take action. Come to our virtual rally to defend academic freedom this Wednesday, October 7th, at 7pm ET. Register at buff.ly/moFj2Km

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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The @standupforscience.net Foundation is releasing the first part of our report on forging a new future on the science and technology ecosystem. To get where we want to go, we need to understand what has happened and the forces at work that enabled it. Resilience requires reflection.

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Advancing science for the public good.

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Citizen of Somewhere Else @citizense.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Parks of the 716–all within walking distance of home

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh hey! Are YOU pissed about the state of higher ed? Us too. Let’s get together and take action.

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Education Writers Association @edwriters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Amid enrollment declines and federal changes, gillenmartin.bsky.social of washingtonmonthly.bsky.social explains a new rural college rankings system and shares tips for reporters covering higher education in rural America. Read the Q&A. ewa.org/educated-rep... #eduSKY #journalistSKY

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What Makes a Great Rural College?

An editor details a new rural college rankings list for students trying to find a great rural college, including those providing top salaries.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[edit] The book Venn I am going to suggest: This is WHO: American Oligarchs by Andrea Bernstein + This is WHY: Caliban & Witch + This is HOW: Capital Is Dead by McKenzie Wark anyone you see missing in that formulation is in: Golden Gulag.

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