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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 18h

"This separatist movement is a guerrilla faction of the global far right which is attacking open societies across the world." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

theglobeandmail.com

Opinion: We must call Alberta separation what it is

It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work

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Dr Dave Clements @davecl.bsky.social · 22h

What is going on in space? Now you can see using space.bl2.net - a rather nice animation that shows how the Earth's neighbourhood is filling with satellites (among other things).

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Космос сейчас · Belle Lune 2

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h

Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)

propublica.org

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Dr Dave Clements @davecl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Film, possibly called Semper Vigilans, shooting behind IC Union building. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Solidarity with fellow academics in Nottingham going on strike. The real problem, as so often with universities, lies with the management.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.com

US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups

The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.

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Michael Merrifield @astromikemerri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

PSA: in the UK, Covid levels are rising (happily from a low baseline), and flu season is starting very early. If you are vulnerable, worth considering giving your immune system a boost. (www.gov.uk/government/s...)

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.

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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This tidbit was in the article. 🎈💥 ? "Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors."

finance.yahoo.com

Mark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock Rally

Zuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday.

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop www.theregister.com/os-platforms... DAWO combines a Linux-based client with open source tools for cloud, communications, and collaborative work <- by me on @theregister.com

theregister.com

Dutch government turns to NixOS for a sovereign desktop

DAWO combines a Linux-based client with open source tools for cloud, communications, and collaborative work

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thought for the day (riffing off discourse elsewhere on BSky): AI isn't real. But p-Zombies are real, and LLMs are machines for turning people who outsource their cognitive functioning to "AI" into p-Zombies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical…

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026

This is a photo of our home planet taken only a few hours ago! So what? We have photos of Earth taken from space every day. Ah, but *this* photo was taken by a spacecraft ON ITS WAY TO JUPITER.

From the source: "Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left."

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

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my experiences with being trashed in the media, and I think it’s interesting that the scientists who believed the bad press about me never noticed that the only colleagues who said bad things about me were men And they didn’t question why that was

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cornell case raises a broader issue than the horrific allegations themselves Cornell University Police investigated. The DA says his office relied on that investigation & didn't *independently* investigate in 2024 Now the DA has reopened the case www.goodmorningamerica.com/amp/news/sto...

goodmorningamerica.com

District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rewards for failure. Every damn time An academic responsible for the embarrassment of Cambridge University at the 'Whistleblowing Tribunal' has been promoted 🫨 Prof Nigel Peake is to become the new Master of @darwincollegecam.bsky.social 21percent.org?p=4411

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UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’re working with The @araukie.bsky.social National Surveys Group to launch this year’s ‘Survey of Onsite Visitors to Archives’ on 5 October. The survey invites in-person visitors to archives to share feedback on their experiences. Here’s how to get involved: www.archives.org.uk/news/survey-...

A woman stands next to a glass exhibition cabinet in a large space full of interactive digital screens.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Slytherin @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

AI has the worst marketing of any product in the history of technology. I've never seen anything like it.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026

New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:

science.org

NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding

Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

wisn.com

Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New whistleblower account: Former employees of the Kennedy Center say that center officials canceled a plan to start overhauling its leaking infrastructure months ago, despite those officials now asserting the leaks posed an urgent safety risk requiring the building to close.

nytimes.com

Kennedy Center Shelved Repairs Now Cited for Closure, Whistle-Blowers Say

In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.

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Space.com @space.com · 28/09/2026

Millions of satellites orbiting Earth? Astronomers hope the UN can slow the coming data center doom www.space.com/space-explor...

space.com

Millions of satellites orbiting Earth? Astronomers hope the UN can slow the coming data center doom

The International Court of Justice's advisory opinions can be used in local cases.

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

More on the AI-based triage from @isaacbarbosa1.bsky.social The Crane network, which carried out the triage, rejecting 50% of proposals using AI, said: "the confidentiality of the proposals was entirely safeguarded in keeping with our privacy policy" More below

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

nyti.ms

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Karam Bales @karambales.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK? Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK Other ignored issues includes IPC Guidance, Long Covid, clean air counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/why-is-dis...

counterdisinformationproject.substack.com

Why is discussing lack of Covid vaccine access taboo in the UK?

Guardian article criticises RFK JR while ignoring greater restrictions in the UK

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Two-tier British citizenship latest.

Conservatives to strip migrant criminals of British citizenship

Dual nationals serving sentences over five years could lose passports under the proposals

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"LONG-READ: Inside Tommy Robinson’s empire of dodgy fundraising and questionable crypto schemes that fund his luxury lifestyle in Spain" 'Our reporters found him luxuriating at a stunning €1.5 million villa in L’Albir, near Benidorm ...' www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2...

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LONG-READ: Inside Tommy Robinson’s empire of dodgy fundraising and questionable crypto schemes that fund his luxury lifestyle in Spain

HE'S one of Britain's most controversial figures and a borderline enemy of the state. A firebrand who claims he's going to stoke a revolution. That's why

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yall, ig is popping off. the girlies are doxxing every single admin they can find at cornell, plus the cornell 7 and their families. women are (correctly) going scorched earth.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.

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Dr Jan Eldridge @astro-jje.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very proud of the amazing Dr @ordinarystarman.com who has now graduated and can get "Dr" on all her bank cards. Also not everyday you hear someone you work with on the radio because they're the first Samoan PhD in astrophysics from UoA: www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific...

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First Samoan astrophysicist encourages Pasifika students to reach for the stars

The first Samoan person to graduate with a PhD in physics at the University of Auckland has encouraged Pasifika students to remember that they belong and can succeed in academia.

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Labour Party’s women’s conference on 26/9/26 was an embarrassing farce, with only 200 delegates of the 1,000 normal attendance (no major unions) in protest of the Labour Party’s shameful abandonment of trans people following the legally absurd ruling of the Supreme Court in FWS in April 2025.

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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026

Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

“Cofnas is often presented as someone doing research on race and IQ. This is incorrect. Cofnas has two academic papers related to the topic (here and here), but these are articles in the field of philosophy of science….In other words: Cofnas is not a scholar doing research on race and IQ.” 🧪

skeptic.org.uk

Why it is reasonable to label Nathan Cofnas’ race realism as pseudoscientific - The Skeptic

"Race realist" Nathan Cofnas claims his "hereditarianist" viewpoint is scientifically accurate - by citing pseudoscientific research and misleading rhetoric.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trump’s just discovered the concept of population growth.

Donald J. Trump
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More people working in the United States right now than at any point in the History of our Country! President DJT

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

WATCH — @marshablackburn gives new meaning to running for office 🏃🏻‍♀️ 🐔 No debates with in the GOP primary. No debates with @jerrigreen4tn.bsky.social No town halls since 2017. Why reward her with your vote?

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Empty words whilst Shabana Mahmood remains in post.

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moose @moosewerk.filix-femina.com · 27/09/2026

IS THAT @doctorow.pluralistic.net?? Hell yeah I'm excited

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cornell case of institutional support for sexual misconduct is exceptionally shocking in its scale Punishment for the victim, protection for the perpetrator is standard in most universities There's an ongoing Oxford rape case heading to judicial review cherwell.org/2026/02/01/o...

cherwell.org

Oxford University did not suspend professor investigated for rape - Cherwell

An emeritus professor at the Saïd Business School, who is also a fellow of an Oxford college, was investigated for rape by Thames Valley Police (TVP).

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Magnificent trolling in Brum

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Rod @roddlyyours.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Canadians should stop drinking at Starbucks and eating at MCDonalds choose Canadian coffee shops and fast food chains instead. A fast food boycott would garner a lot of attention, and we could start with these two companies.

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gandalf dog meme where in the first frame gandalf says I am not trying to rob you. Second frame he says I'm trying to help you. Third frame is a little brown dog with a tennis ball in his mouth looking at somebody suspiciously thinking they are going to steal it's ball.

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