Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8hFour-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t... 1192040939
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 13hThis is a pretty stunning thing to admit 222010388
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21hThe White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 42965551799
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 13hI hate ads. But @thedailyshow.com Jon Stewart does his ads on his podcast and, they're wonderfully absurd. He did one today for @npr.org - how great it is they use jazz for the transitions, so you get this diddly bit of music and then "We are all going to die." 😆🤗 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comBlue Wave on the Prairie? with Josh TurekPodcast Episode · The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · September 30 · 1h 22m 1111
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Meh Pluribus Unum (Alli) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @pluribus-unum.co · 16hSonic screwdriver, please 051
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 17hA little reminder that the Doctor has spent multiple lifetimes, battling evil world-challenging robots, in a whole variety of guises. Take this shit, and fucking shove it. 1026462
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 15hI can't believe how inundated I've been with peer review requests recently. I've had 3 so far this week and it's only Wednesday. This must be the AI- effect. 1152
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient 202015609
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Researchers made a swallowable battery from a rice paper–like material and body-compatible elements: #chemsky 🧪cen.acs.orgThis battery is ready to eatPaper-based power source worked inside pigs for a few days, then vanished in weeks 43816
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet. 784057514
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Trump administration has infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress. The cancelled $810 million would have gone to refugee assistance programs ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/28/r...ohiocapitaljournal.comTrump administration revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more • Ohio Capital JournalWASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress. The $810… 12812
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕C. McGuinn Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's been a terrible food year for the bears, but FFS people! Do not feed them! Especially FOURTEEN on your property! Now they're all dead, thanks to this idiot. nbcmontana.com/news/local/o...nbcmontana.comOfficials euthanize 14 black bears after alleged feeding near BozemanWildlife officials euthanized 14 black bears north of Bozeman after investigators found the animals had become dangerously accustomed to people and human-provid 1167
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 25/11/2025NEW: My Udemy course 'Propaganda & Disinformation for Beginners' has helped students in 26 countries worldwide strengthen their armour against disinformation since it launched 2 years ago. Techniques Cambridge Analytica used to secretly profile millions have become a vastly profitable industry.. /1 81032413
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Amazing stuff here 9471137
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 29/09/2026NEW: During her time in public service, WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s private family investments included stock in: 🇺🇸 Trump’s social media company 🪖 Defense contractors 🛢️ Oil companies 🤖 Tech giants 🔌 Tesla In @washingtonsun.bsky.social: www.washingtonsun.com/money/karoli...washingtonsun.comKaroline Leavitt Discloses Family Investments in Trump Media and TeslaAn ethics document shows the former press secretary’s family holdings contain Trump’s social media company, defense contractors, oil companies and tech giants. 37359178
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026BREAKING: SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to restart third-country removals under a policy found by lower courts to violate federal law. The Democratic appointees dissent. The deportations will be OK'ed at least through the next several months, with SCOTUS agreeing to hear the case in December. 44423208
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There's only three women in this photo and one of them's in a painting. 3255
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 178109172054
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Antifa Chief Product Officer @evilal.com · 29/09/2026Have you seen this? appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.comMeta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consentIn a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to. 124
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Adrian Weckler @adrianweckler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ireland's DPC says AI firms unlikely to be permitted train data on private messages, because it would breach GDPR Likely a blow to WhatsApp, which launched Muse AI within WhatsApp in the US DPC says it also killed or delayed 9 AI services pre-launch www.independent.ie/business/blo...independent.ieBlow to WhatsApp as Ireland's DPC says tech giants can’t use private messages to train AIThe data watchdog also says it delayed or killed nine AI launches in Europe in recent years after the services failed to meet privacy standards 31417
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Investigate Reform's foreign funding now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...you.38degrees.org.ukSign the petition to hold politicians to accountTogether, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride. 05325
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Far-right activist Danny Tommo has been denied bail after he allegedly slashed a migrant dinghy thenational.scotAnti-migrant activist Danny Tommo denied bail after 'slashing migrant dinghy' 4318
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.' 29694
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Interview with @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on America’s corrupt empire “The U.S. we once knew is never coming back” Podcast and piece on the end of the liberal ordernickcohen.substack.comAnne Applebaum: America’s corrupt empireThe U.S. we once knew is dead and gone 23614
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 29/09/2026Is it me or are Meta's new 'upgrade' audio only surveillance glasses just as freaking creepy as the perve glasses? So, basically they are LESS recognisable and no light to show they are recording the speech of everyone around? That's meant to be reassuring how exactly? 4226
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I get the feeling that Meta tried SO HARD to make this mascot thing the cuddliest lil’ guy ever but all I see is an unholy amalgamation of the Snuggle fabric softener teddy bear & the Adipose Babies from Doctor Who. Its an echo of both but not either, and feels viscerally WRONG 2030366
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The study has been published in Nature. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧵⬇️ 428739
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics. 7339141145
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And as a reminder - vaccine innovations can & have ended the threat of many diseases over the last century (at least technically, barring the hopefully temporary outbreaks caused by anti-vaccine paranoia). 29429
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 15657041586
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 23/09/2026The Imperial Logic of “Lake America” by Emma Briant in Fair Observer www.fairobserver.com/united-state...fairobserver.comThe Imperial Logic of “Lake America”US President Donald Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario to “Lake America” reflects coercive, unpredictable tactics resembling mafia-style intimidation 271
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports. 121087323
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.” 44776287
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1trib.alTrump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of DegreesUnder a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan. 163964656
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Courtney (Dr. Version) @cakrolik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Small, but consistent, errors I've noticed that have become commonplace in undergrad writing: - titles not in italics or quotation marks; they're just hanging out in the text - no capitalization; not of names, places, titles, etc. - so little punctuation 2153
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 28/09/2026What Are the 26 Articles of Impeachment Against Trump? ...immigration policies, the use of military power, federal spending, tariffs, presidential pardons, the federal workforce, universities, law firms, the media, and alleged personal financial benefit. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...newsweek.comDonald Trump Hit With 26 Articles Of Impeachment 21310
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026Here’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.comSkydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airportFour 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. 122102402641
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026While reading, I thought it odd that I couldn't recall a full TV or film adaptation of A Study in Scarlet'... And then I reached the entire middle section of the book which is set in Salt Lake City and portrays Mormons as evil murderers, kidnappers, & enslavers of women. Ah, Victorian authors. 5294
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI #datacentre -- Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.com‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentrePlans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash 14712
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 27/09/2026France's far right gains ground in indirect Senate electionsf24.myFrance's far right gains ground in indirect Senate electionsMarine Le Pen's far-right National Rally and its allies won enough seats in France's Senate to form a parliamentary group in the upper house for the first time in the party's history Sunday, securing 14 seats out of 348. Half the upper house is elected through indirect voting every three years, with senators in the right-wing dominated chamber serving for six years. 056
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Zeteo @zeteo.com · 26/09/2026The White House is using taxpayer money to run pro-Trump propaganda ads just weeks before the midterm elections. @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social report how the ads violate federal laws and why this ad campaign even exists. Read more: zeteo.com/p/trump-love... 1424779
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac... 4954021199
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 27/09/2026Class sizes in the UK are getting larger and larger... 040
Reposted by Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 342488767
Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 27/09/2026Hmm I've never heard of it but I also am not into contemporary country music 130