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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 7h

“What do you wish people knew about the everyday running of your library?”

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 15h

As a San Francisco resident, I beseech you to write this PSA on your heart.

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Dave Meredith @davemeredith.bsky.social · 13h

A one minute exposure of storm clouds moving over the #BrucePeninsula, Ontario this afternoon. The patterns in the clouds are due to them slowing down and speeding up in a strong, gusting wind. #BruceCounty #ECK #photography #TenMinutesFromHome #BackyardPhotography #LongExposureProject

Monochromatic storm clouds streaking up 80% of the image with tree tops across the bottom of the image.

This is a full colour image, not a monochrome image.

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 13h

Woman on a bus (reading from an article): Have you ever discussed your fantasies with your partner? Her friend: Like the one where I’m in a cottage by the sea completely on my own with a book and a cup of tea?

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 13h

In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.

A photo of a puddle in the woods, with leaves across the surface and reflections of the trees they fell from.

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 13h

“And young people, whose brains are still developing, often feel invincible, said Bernadine Waller, an assistant prof in psychiatry at Columbia Univ Irving Med Center. ‘They’re not thinking anything could go wrong’.” 🧪🛟 www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

“Besides ketamine and fentanyl, the drugs spurring widespread concern on campuses this semester include kratom, an herbal product which can be purchased in stores in some states, cychlorphine, which is estimated to be about 10 times more potent than fentanyl, and xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer. Cychlorphine and xylazine are sometimes added to other drugs unbeknownst to users, experts said.

Some of the newer drugs are very different from those of previous generations, said Mary Hoban, chief research officer of the American College Health Association:
"They'll kill you at a single use."”

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18h

Kimsooja, contemporary South Korean artist famous for works like To Breathe, which covers massive gallery windows in special translucent diffraction films that turn ordinary sunlight into glowing prisms of colour #Womensart

Photo featuring six gallery visitors in silhouette in front of a huge backdrop of prismic light causing reflections on the floor

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 19h

“‘The overall finding that we have is not that the agents are deliberately doing this for now,’ says Qin, a PhD student at the ELLIS Inst Tübingen. Instead, the researchers wanted to show that agents have the capability to do it, & can end up using it when under what they call ‘reward pressure’.”🧪

“The research itself began after Schmotz had left an AI agent running experiments on a computing cluster while he went on holiday, then found himself without internet access for several days. Nothing untoward happened, but when he returned, he realised that if the agent had gone off and done something it shouldn't, then deleted or altered its traces afterwards, he might never have known. "There's basically no ground truth anymore, no reliable log," he says.
The team ran its first experiments the following day—and quickly found agents were willing to delete those traces when given the opportunity.”

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt

Print featuring a flock of birds in silhouette flying over a hedgerow in a purple sky

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Holy shit next month has been stressful

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“‘The ideal situation is you would see no spike at all during heat events because everyone knew it was coming,’ said Kho, one of the study’s authors. ‘And they knew that they were at risk & they did the appropriate things, & it would look no different than any other day’.” 🛟🧪

Sixteen people have died so far this year in Cook County from heat-related causes, the most in at least a decade
The majority of deaths occurred during the heatwaves that scorched the Chicago area during the end of June and start of July. Three of the deaths have been in suburban Cook County, while the majority of deaths, thirteen, were in Chicago, largely on the South Side.

Note: Deaths were included if marked as "heat-related" by the Medical Examiner's office or if they mentioned heat stroke. Some deaths were omitted due to being unrelated to environmental factors.
Source: Cook County Medical Examiner's Office
Graphic: Cam Rodriguez / WBEZ

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 03/10/2026

'That was the last time she heard from him. David Sopys, 46, died 31 years after his own father died at the same age from the heat. “He was a ‘95 heat stroke victim,” Tanja Sopys said about their father. ”So he died the same way — from the heat.”' jesus

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cam rodriguez 🔎 @camrodriguez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@elviamalagon.bsky.social and I have been tracking and covering heat-related deaths all summer, and for good reason— at least 16 people have died from heat exposure in Cook County, 13 in Chicago, mostly on the South Side. That's the most in at least a decade. chicago.suntimes.com/health/2026/...

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Nine of the people who died from heat this summer in Cook County did so inside their homes or apartments and many had no working air conditioning, according to a review of records from the Cook County...

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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For your consideration, I present "Smiling dog."

A dog, Bo, smiles as he eagerly awaits the demolition of his birthday cake.

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I asked ChatGPT if we should regulate AI and it said no.

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“This makes the public outcry to punish 7 male students miss the point, which is that there are tens of thousands of campus rape stories, few of which make the news. We know that nearly every campus in the US has a plethora of rape victims &rapists. We also know how [*and when*] it often happens.” 🧪

"The 'Red Zone' is a period of time that lasts from the start of the fall semester through Thanksgiving break when the majority of sexual assault occurs on college campuses ... It's a six-to-10-week time frame when many students are going to parties, gatherings, and other socjal events to celebrate their return to campus. Data shows that over 50% of sexual assaults that occur on college campuses occur during this time. New students can be especially vulnerable during this period, due to their unfamiliarity with the campus, new social experiences, and the resources available to survivors."

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3/10/26 - nocturn

small hours
big time

on back roads
two lights ahead

turning off / trees against stars
until the shining water

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Margaret Thatcher in NE England (© Ella Murtha) #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a girl juming on top of an abandoned car near a wall with graffiti and houses beyond

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo featuring three rectangular vertical wood sculptures with blue and green inlayed stained glass, side by side on a wet beach with reflections

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

sexy mantis / angry bird my alter egos

Diego Perez - Sexy mantis
'A tiny green mantis peeks over a leaf during a night walk in an area of Camanti, Cusco, Peru, that is still waiting to be protected. I entered this photograph because almost everyone I showed it to laughed immediately, even if they could not quite explain why. At first, the mantis seems to be sunbathing, or perhaps striking a glamorous pose. But there is also a small visual trick: half of the insect is hidden behind the leaf. Suddenly, its forelegs begin to look almost like a pair of human legs'
Photograph: Diego Perez/Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards
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Jan Wittmer- Angry bird
'During my photo trip to the island of Helgoland, Germany, I encountered a goldcrest for the first time - and it was love at first sight. Europe's smallest bird wandered right in front of me, presumably searching for food. To get a perspective at eye level, I placed my camera on the ground. My heart was pounding and my finger was glued to the shutter as the tiny bird darted back and forth.
Suddenly, it came to a stop and looked straight at the camera. That was the exact moment this photo was taken' Photograph: Jan Wittmer/Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards
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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“‘Learning happens as a consequence of cognitive processing. Cognitive processing is typically effortful, & that’s what AI effectively removes,’ says cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham at UVA. ‘People are really worried about that’.”🧪

“And science - in which people need to critically evaluate theories and data - is one important area that's under threat from the Al revolution in large language models (LLMs). "There is a risk that students outsource precisely the activities through which scientific thinking develops: formulating hypotheses, interpreting evidence, considering alternatives and struggling with uncertainty," says Thomas Nygren, who studies education and critical thinking at Uppsala University in Sweden.”

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ok but like, the terminator is going to happen in real life really soon, right

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No one is more attractive than a woman who clearly wants to be left alone, I swear. Sigh.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My mother always said “I sent you kids to college so you’d never have to be cold and wet at work. I wanted you to have a job where you got your own chair”

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Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 02/10/2026

A mum comforts her little boy on the bus. He is crying about something. She says, ‘It’s ok. Have a good cry.’ Man nearby: Well done. We’re so bad at letting boys just feel sad.

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“The cognitive scientist @alisongopnik.bsky.social suggests A.I. is a ‘cultural technology’ that emulates the stories & info humans have documented, & that we should think about A.I. agents as ‘fictive characters abstracted from text’.”🧪 @leifw.bsky.social

“…. In the Hugging Face incident, it makes sense to see the models not as embracing a life of crime, but instead following a cultural script they've learned in their training - a kind of cybercrime adventure novel — and writing it as they go. The "covert" messages are a kind of choose-your-own-adventure novel, not evidence of conspiratorial swarms. We need to understand that cultural technologies are vulnerable to a vast number of such narrative swerves at every moment.”

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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from the very real risks and dangers and the way to deal with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

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Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)

If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ryan Sullivan, April 2, 2013 - April 11, 2013, 2013 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Before my trip, I knew, in the abstract, that 1 in 4 ppl in the US ends up taking care of an aging loved one, & that more of us will become unpaid family caregivers as the pop becomes older than it ever has been. I also knew that, by some estimates, women who’ve had to leave the workforce to care

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gambolloch @gambolloch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

foreground #aofoto #eck

Ragged holes cut in fencing. Blurred out, in the background is the Brooklyn Bridge and the lower Manhattan skyline

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Catherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Banned laptops in the classroom. Today I caught students passing handwritten notes. Nature is healing.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

40th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, from Salmon Tower 11 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, 1935 by US photographer Berenice Abbott #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a New York cityscape with skyscrapers

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“‘This study shows that banning AI in peer review is very difficult to enforce,’ says Kayvan Kousha at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. ‘Bc of the workload of academics, there is a temptation’ to use AI, says Kousha.”🧪

“The reason for that lack of difference became clear after an anonymous survey of 1486 of the reviewers who took part in the exercise. There, 22.5 per cent of reviewers who were instructed not to use AI admitted to using an LLM anyway. "Self-reported noncompliance of 23 per cent is definitely higher than what I was anticipating," says Miro Dudík at Microsoft Research, who was involved in the study and was also one of the conference organisers.

Those who used AI when told not to did so to brainstorm feedback, draft review text, read the papers and summarise their strengths and weaknesses. "Our post-conference survey reveals some reasons why reviewers might end up violating policy, like large reviewing workloads and insufficiently clear rules," says Dudík.”

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Joseph Donahue

Something somewhere
is eclipsing something else.
Now, suddenly, looking up,
the sky is different. Some
great joy may be about
to transform your life.
The moon glows red.

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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

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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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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“A scientist is not a lab coat. A scientist is a whole human being carrying curiosity, history, taste, ambition, doubt, discipline, contradiction.”🧪 @zernickagoetz.bsky.social @christophermichel.com

Scientist [Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz] rocking it

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“RAND researchers used survey data from the American Youth Panel to trace patterns of disconnection among 18- to 22-year-olds, identify who is most likely to experience the longest spells, & examine how disconnection relates to social interaction & mental health.”🧪 Key findings 👇

“Long spells of disconnection are common among American youth.
Nearly one in four young adults reported disconnection lasting at least six months; about 11 percent reported spells of a year or more.

Many disconnected young adults suffer mental distress.
Nearly one in four disconnected young men reported that their mental health was "not good" every day of the prior month.

Disconnected young men are often socially isolated.
About two-thirds of young men experiencing disconnection reported no in-person time with friends in the prior week-a stark contrast to their peers who had never been disconnected.

Youth programs should address social connection and mental health.
For disconnected young men especially, the findings suggest that education and employment programs alone may miss critical needs around social isolation and well-being.”

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I realize this is extremely anecdotal but I'm working on a story where teenagers had to reflect on their own screen time, and their observations are more nuanced and thoughtful than 90% of the online discourse around young people and screens.

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gambolloch @gambolloch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Chambers St Station

A subway platform office with a window covered with old graffiti. The window is reflecting the station lights and walls

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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Natalie Shapero describes her poetic ideal as balancing precision with “the messiness of actual life.”

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jean Valentine, wow

Outside the Frame

It is enough, now, anywhere,
with everyone you love there to talk to.

And to listen.
Slowly we can tell each other some things about our lives:
runs, rests, brief resolutions; falls, and lulls;
hard joyful runs, in certainty; dull, sweet
durances, human silences;
look back in at the children,
the regular, neutral flicker of their blood; pale, solemn,
long-legged animal-gods in their sleep,
growing into their lives, in their sleep.

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Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

haven't contributed in a little while, so here's one from "read a little poetry" for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Humberto Ak'abal, from IF TODAY WERE TOMORROW (seems a fitting poem for a Sunday morning...) #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

DAWN

Dawn
is a little animal
that comes in noiselessly.

It’s so tiny
it slips under the door.

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Evaluating & predicting the efficacy of any public health intervention, as well as calculating the cost effectiveness is essential … [incl] whether a public health intervention works, for whom, when, where, how & why.” 🛟🧪 *open-access* book 👇

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/09/2026

the world would be a better place if all science students also studied history- and I don’t mean “memorise the list of Presidents/monarchs”, I mean “here is why people have fought and killed each other in the past and how that ended up for everyone”

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again shocking dinner guests by saying I never use AI

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