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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 5h

"US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work" But why you would do such foolish thing on yourself? They want to reap money for prestige, sacrificing cheap high-level international tallent intake. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

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US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work

Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 19m

Oh that is wonderful. Congratulations!

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 6h

Recently I have been thinking about how we should use jokes as a means of distinguishing humans from AI, but I just bombed an attempt at a joke online with another person so yeah, maybe that's a terrible idea.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 6h

I know. Me too. I thought it could be a fun bit. In my head you would counter with all the ways crows are metal and murderous and AI would soothe us and we would both be in on the irony of you joking and me pretending you were not.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 7h

COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 6h

Crows are sustainable. They don't pretend to be people. They are loyal to their families. They are beautiful. Crows bring you little shiny presents. We have lived with crows for a long time and each side seems to fear and appreciate the other equally.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 7h

Every woman who has been assaulted or has a close friend or relative who has should put paper in her window. Lets rise up for her. I am tired of this bullshit.

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 8h

Putting this together with the Snoop Dogg “read the syllabus” video

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Astrid Atkinson @astridatkinson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The writer Camus gave a speech in 1957 where he talks about another generation's view of what seemed like a doomed world, and his own answer to that, which was the responsibility and privilege of telling that story. I find it hopeful. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

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Nobel Prize in Literature 1957

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 was awarded to Albert Camus "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our time...

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Related to @jrmorber.bsky.social’s Q from earlier today: there was a lot Bonkers stuff happening in #SF in the ‘70s, including the #PattyHearst saga. Those of us who were kids then got through it emerged with strong dedication to egalitarianism—and accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

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One of Patty Hearst’s Kidnappers Has Died

Bill Harris was a disillusioned Vietnam veteran looking for purpose when he joined a revolutionary group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow, what a symbol of pettiness, ignorance, and hollow bravado: "Historically, the atrium of the State Department has flown flags of all the countries in which the US maintains an embassy...Today...every single overseas flag has been replaced...There are more than 190 US flags arranged in a row..."

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I definitely think you can grieve a book. You can grieve a future, a hope. It’s something I think we don’t acknowledge enough, or build enough rituals for.

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m not sure if it’s clear to the public that most policymakers and scientists have left 1,5C behind and are planning for warming that is closer to 3C. That is a major difference.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m old enough to remember that time people from another country destroyed a few US city buildings and the President got so mad he decided we could do torture

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s fun to finally have a little social experiment on “what if we try helping people”

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“They have had to forge for themselves an art of living in times of catastrophe in order to be born a second time and to fight openly against the instinct of death at work in our history.”

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you for the good work you do

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have teen kids. I tell them how one of my base beliefs was in the arc of progress—that it took much more work and time and suffering than it should, but slowly slowly we marched toward egalitarianism, empathy, kindness. They do not have this base belief.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just over here reading the good ole Declaration of Independence

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government.”

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So often it feels like the government is something done TO us when in reality we are the ones who grant the govt permission to work FOR us.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the world I want to live in

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Honestly after the pandemic, growing authoritarianism, and the accelerating climate crisis I don’t see how any of us are even able to function. It’s been a time. Maybe some old timers can tell me about how it felt like this in the 60s but we all survived anyway?

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I don’t live in DC anymore so I don’t really get an opinion but if I did I think public transit should be free and paid for by taxes as one of the base services that a government grants to its people.

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s always the prize and I hate it

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"A national election, that of Brazil, which will affect the 8.3 billion people who inhabit this world. The Amazon, according to scientific evidence, is close to reaching a point of no return. Returning to the deforestation levels of 2022 (Bolsonaro) would be the final blow" x.com/ActisAndres/...

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Dr. Jenny Morber @jrmorber.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank. You. I’m sick of the whining about “division.” The problem is not that some are pushing back against authoritarianism, making others uncomfortable. The problem is that this is a crisis and some are not yet uncomfortable enough to face it.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

6/ Others were arrested while trying to protect colleagues. Quentin Williams, a staffer at Minneapolis' Roosevelt High, was trying to help a teacher when he was shoved by Greg Bovino and tackled by agents. He was charged with assault, but like others, his case was dismissed.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 06/10/2026

It's a PRIME DAY to shop our Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale, where every audiobook you purchase directly benefits your independent bookshop (versus a mega corporation). You don't have to be a member to shop, but members do take an additional 30% off. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/10/2026

I'm a scientist concerned about trainees using Chat, Claude etc recklessly Imagine if that internal employee ID number was protected human subjects information, like the email address of a participant, or a confidential diagnosis or worse

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is how we should see these magnificant animals, not hauled up on a boat or in fillets on a slab. We should no more catch or kill this rare and stunning megafauna than we should trap or kill tigers or whales. Here are some more of Rupert’s photos from yesterday, with his kind permission.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We can’t just move past what SCOTUS has permitted this Administration to do to people who have lived and worked in the U.S. for years and even decades.

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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 06/10/2026

Want to join the fight for press freedom at this critical moment? @rcfp.org is hiring three legal fellows to help protect journalists and their First Amendment rights! The deadline to apply for all positions is Oct. 15:

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Fellowships | The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

The Reporters Committee employs several fellows to support our legal work in furthering press freedom.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Wait, *another* one?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

This is so inspiring and should be the bare minimum moving forward bsky.app/profile/vjka...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026

All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison

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Representative Val Hoyle @repvalhoyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today in Tacoma, we were checking on community members to ensure they have legal representation, healthcare and access to food and information. If you know someone who has been picked up by ICE or have questions about immigration status, reach out to my office at (541) 465-6732 or hoyle.house.gov

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)

Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A few weeks ago, US Citizenship and Immigration Services released quarterly data on the legal immigration system through June. The data presents a stark picture of an agency going through a period of total dysfunction. As of June, net application backlogs have risen by 80% since Trump took office.

Chart showing total net USCIS immigration application backlog, from Q4 Fiscal Year 2023 through Q3 Fiscal Year 2026. The data shows backlogs were slowly dropping from net 4.3 million applications in Q4 FY 2023 to 3.8 million in Q3 FY 2024, after which applications began to rise again, increasingly every single month until Q3 FY 2026, where they stand at 7.7 million.

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