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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 13h
Professor @mathieu-ice.bsky.social co-authored a study introducing the first 2D model of how glacier-dammed lakes release sudden floods through drainage networks beneath glaciers—offering new ways to predict destructive floods as glacial lakes grow with climate change.
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First 2D Model Captures How Glacier Lakes Unleash Devastating Outburst
Glaciologists have built the first two-dimensional model of jökulhlaups, coupling an ice-marginal lake to subglacial drainage and glacier sliding, and it successfully reproduces seventeen years of
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 16h
A plant’s roots do much of their work out of sight, which makes it hard to see how plants respond when conditions underground change, and how a warming climate affects them. Two new Dartmouth-led studies look at the strategies plants use below the surface to adapt and survive.
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Shining a Light on the Underground Life of Plants | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Dartmouth-led research finds warming can slow how tree roots feed soil microbes, part of a broader push to study the many underground strategies plants use to survive.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 18h
“One of the biggest successes of any kind of experience is becoming more comfortable in uncomfortable situations.” Megan Wood, the new executive director of the Frank J. Guarini Institution for International Education, discusses the value of Dartmouth’s study away programs.
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‘Becoming global citizens’: Guarini Institute’s new executive director on the value of study away programs
The Dartmouth sat down with new executive director of the Frank J. Guarini Institution for International Education Megan Wood to discuss how students can make the most of their time away from campus.&...
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“It’s a troubling thing for us because we see students that have this anxiety and stress that they have to figure out what they want to do, and they just got here.” Dartmouth Center for Career Design's Joe Catrino talks about high-achieving students’ fear of falling behind.
wsj.com
The Race Is Already on for Next Summer’s $50,000 Internships
Elite financial firms are recruiting earlier and paying handsomely for prospective talent.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A study co-authored by @dartmouthears.bsky.social professor Erich Osterberg examined 7,000 years of changes in Southern Hemisphere winds using dust particles preserved in an Antarctic ice core. The findings have implications for Antarctic ice sheet stability and the global carbon cycle.
scienmag.com
Dust Trapped in Antarctic Ice Reveals 7,000 Years of Strengthening Southern
A new dust record from the South Pole Ice Core shows that the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds strengthened and shifted poleward beginning around 7,000 years ago as the Southern Hemisphere warmed.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Computer science professor @nikhilsinghmus.bsky.social explains while AI agents are not new, the growing accessibility and adoption of new AI agents from Meta and OpenAI could lead to significant social changes. He recommends testing their reasoning abilities to better understand their limitations.
scientificamerican.com
Meet Mark and Sam, the AI agents that ran my errands for a week
Meta’s and OpenAI’s new agents can streamline your life. Artificial intelligence researchers helped me test how far to trust them
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Astronomer Doug Arion ’79, who found inspiration at Dartmouth’s Shattuck Observatory as a student, is funding a complete refurbishment of the 1871 Clark refracting telescope, while Dartmouth restores the dome. The reopening of Shattuck Observatory is expected in 2028.
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Shattuck Observatory Gets a Second Life | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
A gift from Doug Arion ’79 will rebuild the 1871 telescope while Dartmouth restores the dome, with reopening expected in 2028.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
An essay cites a 2025 study by professor @jsmankin.bsky.social and @ccallahan45.bsky.social, Guarini '23, that found carbon dioxide emissions tied to the world's top 111 fossil fuel companies accounted for up to $28 trillion in global economic damages from heat waves between 1991 and 2020.
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Opinion | The Science That Has Oil Companies Running Scared
However the U.S. Supreme Court rules, the work of holding oil companies accountable for climate change has a bright future.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Rodel Institute has named professor @miacosta.bsky.social’s “How Politicians Polarize: Political Representation in an Age of Negative Partisanship” the winner of the 2026 Edwards Book Award. The book also received three prizes from the American Political Science Association earlier this year.
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Mia Costa's ‘How Politicians Polarize’ Wins the Edwards Book Award | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Rodel Institute honor follows three American Political Science Association prizes for the government professor’s study of why politicians attack the other party.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Using hundreds of satellite images from over 40 years, a new Dartmouth-led study provides the first regional analysis of greening trends in the northern Appalachian region, showing that 69% of the alpine zones studied have experienced significant increases in vegetation.
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Study Finds Alpine Peaks Are Greening in Northeast U.S., Canada | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Satellite imagery shows the impact of wind above the tree line.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
. @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social professor Brad Duchaine co-authored a 2023 review of prosopometamorphopsia cases, which cause facial distortions, and previous Dartmouth research examining how the condition affects facial perception and how long symptoms can persist.
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Every Face She Saw Had Its Eyes Merged at the Center, and a Clot in Her Brain's Veins Was Behind It
A brain clot made the eyes on every face, even her own, look merged at the center. Her symmetrical distortion and two-day recovery stand out.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Religion professor Randall Balmer joins an episode of NPR’s All Things Considered to discuss televangelist Jim Bakker's legacy, including his media empire. "I think he distorted the teachings of Jesus. He brought shame, scandal on the church and on believers themselves," Balmer said.
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Jim Bakker moved millions — of dollars and followers — with his TV ministry
NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Dartmouth College religion professor Randall Balmer about Jim Bakker's legacy.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Although games are for entertainment, designing and building them is very difficult and technically demanding, challenging the students on many levels.” Computer science lecturer James Mahoney discusses Dartmouth's Digital Game Studio course where students build technical and teamwork skills.
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Dartmouth builds next-gen gamers with new game design course - Valley News
Dartmouth College lecturer James Mahoney discusses his digital game design course, which builds student skills for the competitive gaming industry.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Forbes highlights professor Sean Westwood’s study, which showed his autonomous AI survey agent evaded detection methods used by researchers 99.8% of the time, leading him to warn that researchers relying on behavioral or question-based safeguards are "fighting a losing battle."
forbes.com
Data Authenticity Is Now The Real Currency Of AI Research
Someone still has to decide where a verification system’s thresholds sit, and whether a borderline response deserves a second look rather than an automatic rejection.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Professor @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social’s “Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning” from @mitpress.bsky.social has won the 2026 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, the American Studies Association’s annual award for the most outstanding book published in American studies.
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Kimberly Juanita Brown’s ‘Black Elegies’ Wins Top American Studies Prize | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The book examines how Black grief finds expression across fiction, music, film, and poetry.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Government professor William Wohlforth discusses how the Cuban Missile Crisis pushed the U.S. and Soviet Union toward arms-control measures, providing historical context in an article examining cooperation and risk in the AI race.
nytimes.com
A Way Out of the A.I. Arms Race?
New research points to how the world could stop short of the brink of disaster. Even with the agreement signed at the White House by tech leaders, it won’t be easy.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Trump’s focus on coercively subverting American democracy poses strategic as well as civic problems.” Visiting professor Steven Simon co-authors an op-ed examining Trump's planned triumphal arch and how it reflects a broader homeland security approach of militarizing domestic law and order.
latimes.com
Contributor: What Trump’s 'triumphal arch' really means for America
Building the arch under the pretext of “national security” raises questions about just what sort of threat the president envisions.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees recently appointed five faculty in the Arts and Sciences to endowed professorships, which honor faculty whose scholarship, teaching, and service exemplify the college's core mission.
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Five Arts and Sciences Professors Appointed to Named Professorships | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The appointments honor faculty whose scholarship, teaching, and service exemplify Dartmouth’s core mission.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A new study led by @dartmouthgeography.bsky.social professor Jonathan Winter finds that drought frequency and intensity in the Northeast have decreased since the mid-1980s as heavier precipitation has offset drying from rising temperatures.
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Drought in the Northeast has decreased in recent decades, Dartmouth study finds
The study found that dramatic increase in extreme precipitation regionally counteracted the drought risk from warming temperatures.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Generation Z is a very values-focused generation, and they seek meaning and purpose in their work. We want to help students self-actualize.” Executive Director Joe Catrino shares how Dartmouth’s Center for Career Design helps students imagine and shape their futures.
chronicle.com
To Better Prepare Students for the Work Force, Colleges Turn to a New Role: the Chief Career Officer
Widespread doubts about the value of a degree are spurring institutions to show they are taking the issue seriously.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dartmouth professors Thalia Wheatley and Luke Chang, and @emmatempleton.bsky.social, Guarini ’23, partnered with The Skin Deep on “The Science of Human Connection,” a docuseries that explores the neuroscience, physiology, and biology behind human connection.
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The Science of Human Connection: Season 1 Wrap-Up
What Did We Learn from Putting Human Connection Under the Microscope?
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The darkest vision I have is that everybody lives in their own information ecosystem, and nobody knows how to talk to each other anymore.” Professor Hany Farid discusses the growing difficulty of detecting deepfakes and the risks AI-generated content poses to the public on CBS Sunday Morning.
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Detecting deepfakes, in a world where even reality is suspect
Hany Farid, a leading expert on deepfakes and digital manipulation, estimates that half of the content widely viewed on the Internet is fake. What does this mean for our ability to detect images gener...
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Professor Sarah Slotznick received the 2026 Takesi Nagata Early Career Award from the Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism, and Electromagnetism section of the American Geophysical Union for her work using magnetic signals in ancient rocks to learn how early life and the planet evolved.
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Earth Scientist Sarah Slotznick Wins Early Career Award | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The assistant professor uses magnetic signals in ancient rocks to learn how early life and the planet evolved.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“But when the low-cost response is to leave, investors retreat, creditors downgrade, and the resources a country needs to be resilient shrink as its people contend with El Niño’s human toll—death, famine, disease, violence, displacement,” geography professor @jsmankin.bsky.social writes.
science.org
Hedging El Niño isn’t the same as adapting to it
Record-setting warm waters slosh eastward across the tropical Pacific, forming El Niño. This recurrent climate pattern reconfigures severe weather worldwide, and with it, the global economy. Scientist...
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Professors @brendannyhan.bsky.social and Jeffrey Friedman offer strategies for countering AI and restoring confidence in the integrity of writing assignments. “Removing such assignments from undergraduate curricula would, we believe, significantly erode the value of higher education,” they say.
chronicle.com
How to Assign Research Papers Again
Three ways to counter AI and restore confidence in the integrity of student writing.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“If students slow down, take the time, be in community with each other, I think we can learn so much about each other, ourselves, and the wider world.” Geography professor Abigail Neely cultivates care as a form of resistance, both in her scholarship and her role as a house professor.
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A House Professor’s Case for Slowing Down | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Geography professor Abigail Neely cultivates care as a form of resistance, both in her scholarship and her role as a house professor.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Carlene Kucharczyk, administrative assistant in the Department of English and Creative Writing, was awarded a 2026-27 Short Term Research Fellowship at the New York Public Library, where she will study the Clairmont family papers. on.nypl.org/4zghAUt
Photo of Carlene Kucharczyk, with text overlay that reads, “Carlene Kucharczyk, administrative assistant in the Department of English and Creative Writing. 2026-27 Short Term Fellowship at the New York Public Library.”
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Broadway World highlights Alexander Woodward’s new role as associate professor of theater at Dartmouth and scenic designer for the department’s production of “The Cherry Orchard.” His teaching will focus on live performance design, new-work development, and sustainable theater practices.
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Broadway Designer Alexander Woodward To Join Dartmouth College Faculty
Scenic and costume designer Alexander Woodward has joined the faculty of Dartmouth College as Associate Professor of Theater, beginning a new chapter that…
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super excited to bring @lollardfish.bsky.social to Dartmouth for a talk and a workshop on public scholarship! More info and registration here: leslie.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/09... Sponsored by Dartmouth's Leslie Center for the Humaniites and Dartmouth Dialogues.
Poster for a talk by David Perry, including QR code to register; title (Making Public Scholarship Count); date, time, and location (Monday October 5, 2026, 5-6:30pm, Dartmouth Hall 105); and bio ("For over a decade, David M. Perry has been helping academics craft timely, compelling opinion pieces that translate research into public discourse and build author platforms. A columnist at The Minnesota Star Tribune, he has just published (bold, cursive) The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook (end bold, cursive), (Johns Hopkins University Press), in which he's collected his years of experience, experiments, mistakes, and triumphs in order to provide a guideto everyone who wants to bring their expertise to bigger audiences.") Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and Dartmouth Dialogues. Picture of author (white middle-aged man sporting a beard, wearing a hat and a white scarf, black blazer and light blue shirt against a winter tree landscape).Poster for a workshop with David Perry, including QR code to register; title (Workshop: Making Public Scholarship Count); date, time, and location (Tuesday October 6, 2026, 2-5pm, Irving Institute Room 375); and workshop description: This an active learning workshop. Bring one or more ideas for a public-facing writing project that you might like to try. It doesn't have to bedirectly connected to your academic discipline or field. David will present for about half the time and try to answer all your questions--including about counting this work for tenure and promotion, dealing with the good and bad of social media, and how to fit this kind of work into an academic career--and then you'll do some writing on your own. Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and Dartmouth Dialogues. Picture of author (white middle-aged man sporting a beard, wearing a hat and a white scarf, black blazer and light blue shirt against a winter tree landscape).
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Studio art professor and visual artist Dawit Petros is an exhibition artist at the 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art, which commissions artists to create new works in dialogue with Toronto’s diverse local contexts.
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Professor Dawit L. Petros Participates in the 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art: Things Fall Apart | Department of Studio Art
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Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila @josephtumber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Couldn't have asked for a nicer day to teach the Forest Ecology and Management Students at Dartmouth how to measure forest stand dynamics (Good thing they were all wearing orange vests!)
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Canadians are voting with their feet and not coming to the U.S. and also voting with their pocketbook and not buying as many U.S. products.” Economics professor @douglasirwin.bsky.social discusses the impact of broad-sweeping U.S. tariffs on Canadian trade and declining Canadian tourism.
wcax.com
At NH winery hit by tariffs, Pappas calls for small business exemptions
Soaring diesel prices, higher costs for imported goods, and fewer visitors from Canada are hitting a winery in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"So if there is a new identity that you’re looking to explore, look for places where people are meeting regularly and have a chance to get to know each other.” Professor Janice McCabe discusses “friendship markets,” places where people regularly interact and are open to forming new friendships.
cnn.com
How to make – and keep – friends as a grownup, according to science | CNN
The query “how to make friends” reached an all-time high last spring and vastly outpaces searches for how to find a date or fall in love. There are steps to take to make new friends as an adult.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Professor @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social joins Native Bidaské to discuss her work to help establish guidelines for the governance of Indigenous peoples’ data and the importance of protecting Indigenous knowledge and ensuring that information remains connected to the communities that steward it.
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Next on Native Bidaské: New Guidelines Aim to Protect Indigenous Knowledge in Scholarly Publishing
Dr. Lydia Jennings joins Native Bidaské to discuss new guidelines for Indigenous peoples’ data in scholarly publishing and Indigenous data governance.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sociology professor Sunmin Kim received @asanews.bsky.social's 2026 Section on the History of Sociology and Social Thought Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award for his book “The Unruly Facts of Race” from @uchicagopress.bsky.social. bit.ly/4ddxM0d
Photo of Sunmin Kim. Text overlay reads, “Sunmin Kim, assistant professor of sociology. American Sociological Association’s 2026 Section on the History of Sociology and Social Thought Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award.”
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Religion professor Randall Balmer delivered a keynote address on Christian nationalism at the Hoosiers United for Separation of Church and State forum, arguing that the U.S. was not founded as a Christian nation and religious pluralism has been strengthened by the separation of church and state.
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CHURCH AND STATE: Forum asks whether America has abandoned its ‘best idea’ - THE INDIANA CITIZEN
By Greta Lapp Klassen The Indiana Citizen September 22, 2026 FORT WAYNE - Christian nationalism in the United States can be distilled down to a combination of three core beliefs, according to religiou...
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Professor Peter Orner, author of “Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live,” discusses the benefits of solitude and the distinction between being alone and feeling lonely on a recent episode of WBEZ Chicago’s Say More podcast.
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Lonely vs. Alone: The difference matters more than you think
Solitude can be a good thing if you need some peaceful time to sit with your thoughts.
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Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Dartmouth @dartmouthears.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Using NH as a classroom! Last week, students in the EAPS 18 (Environmental Earth Science) lab run by Dr. Vivian Taylor went out to Storrs Pond to measure dissolved oxygen and collect sediment in sediment traps to investigate the biological pump and to see if Storrs Pond is a carbon flux or sink!
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A new study finds increased precipitation in the northeastern U.S. outpaces water loss from warmer temperatures. “As long as increases in precipitation continue to outpace increases in evapotranspiration, more drought in the Northeast is unlikely,” says lead author and professor Jonathan Winter.
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Drought in the Northeastern United States Has Decreased | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Study finds increased precipitation outpaces water loss from warmer temperatures.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Government professor @brendannyhan.bsky.social worries that isolated incidents of federal agents intimidating voters or seizing ballots in key races could throw the legitimacy of the November election into question, with the Trump administration capitalizing on it to serve its own agenda.
latimes.com
Despite court wins, California election war with Trump rages on
L.A. County says it has received federal grand jury subpoenas demanding voter registration information on dozens of individuals the Trump administration suspects may not be U.S. citizens.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I am here, as your professor, because I want to help create spaces where you can learn strange new things, create, explore, and find your voice. I am your professor because I want you to enjoy learning enough that you never stop,” professor @wernimont.bsky.social shares in a letter to her students.
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Dear Student - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Below is a letter shared by Professor Jacqueline Wernimont of Dartmouth College to her incoming students which she now graciously shares with the readers of
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Data has always been the product of human choices.” From ancient Mesopotamia to modern AI, professor @roopikarisam.bsky.social examines the long, fraught relationship between data and power in her new book, “Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate.”
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In ‘Data Empire,’ Roopika Risam Traces Data’s Grip on Power | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Risam examines the fraught relationship between data and power, from ancient Mesopotamia to modern AI.
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The Neukom Institute For Computational Science at Dartmouth @theneukominstitute.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Neukom Director Dan Rockmore at @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social Dartmouth in The New York Review "OpenAI showed that one of the world’s most important math problems can “experience a singularity.” But did we?" www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
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The Work of Math in the Age of Artificial Reproduction | Dan Rockmore
There are seven questions in pure mathematics deemed important enough by the Clay Mathematics Institute, a nonprofit foundation devoted to “furthering the
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Forward highlights the decade-long collaboration between Dartmouth's Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern Studies programs, which has expanded since the Oct. 7 attacks through jointly taught courses, public forums, and the Middle East Dialogues series.
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At Dartmouth, Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies refuse to stay apart
As universities battle over how Israel and the Middle East are taught, Dartmouth has spent years intertwining two academic programs — an experiment that has taken on new significance since Oct. 7.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Former National Park Service Director Chuck Sams, climatologist Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, and hydrologist Ryan Emanuel will share their expertise on climate adaptation and sustainability through classroom visits, public lectures, and more as the fall term’s Montgomery Fellows.
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Montgomery Fellows to Focus on the Environment | Dartmouth
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"There’s been no president in modern history who has used the tariff threat nearly as much as Donald Trump.” @dartmouthecon.bsky.social professor @douglasirwin.bsky.social comments on the scale of President Trump’s tariff policy.
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Analysis: ‘Voters are like, No thanks’: Trump’s tariffs fall flat with the working class | CNN Politics
It’s become an article of faith for trade hardliners in both parties that a protectionist agenda is a guaranteed pathway to building support among working-class voters. But now that President Donald T...
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"When you sow distrust of the visual record, nothing has to be real. Nothing’s fake, nothing’s real.” Computer science professor Hany Farid speaks to the risks posed by viral fake images, warning that repeated hoaxes erode public trust.
washingtonpost.com
Images of Trump kissing Natalie Harp went viral. They’re AI-generated fakes.
Hoaxes like these are “death by a thousand cuts” that chip away at people’s trust, one expert said.
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Professor @brendannyhan.bsky.social comments on Trump's jokes about his presidential power, including his remarks that he could have banned fishing and driven the Bass Pro Shops founder out of business. "Statements like that one can help to normalize extreme abuses of presidential power,” he says.
huffpost.com
Experts Spot An Alarming Comment In This Otherwise Ridiculous Trump Statement: ‘He’s Not Joking’
Experts in political science point out the underlying message they see behind the president’s humor.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Your moment of early autumn Vermont Zen
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Justin S. Mankin @jsmankin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Pricing El Niño is not the same as preventing its loss of life. Yet, many of those acting on its forecasts are using them to move money, not people, out of harm’s way." My editorial for Science on why hedging El Niño is not the same as adapting to it: www.science.org/eprint/DU6FR...
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Hedging El Niño isn’t the same as adapting to it
Record-setting warm waters slosh eastward across the tropical Pacific, forming El Niño. This recurrent climate pattern reconfigures severe weather worldwide, and with it, the global economy. Scientist...
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