Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialDr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026If the FT reports this, perhaps the evisceration of UK universities is now a legit *economic* challenge, and politicians might finally be moved to *do* something?! 0156
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'd like to see a lot more heat - naming and shaming - on the Danish researchers here. the USians involved are a lost cause, but I hope we are still able to resist this grossness spreading in Europe. 16018
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialKenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Finding an executioner could be difficult, and officials would do whatever they could to find (and avoid being) one. In northern England, for instance, there are cases in which people who had their goods stolen from them were required to perform the execution if they wish to get their goods back. 3534
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialMarc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026You could also describe public executions as Roman, Tudor, Georgian or Victorian. 10828
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live. 3022021068
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialWaging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 09/10/2026Across rural Southeast Africa, a small but loud grassroots movement has emerged to resist destructive Chinese mining companies — and they are winning.wagingnonviolence.orgInside the successful campaign against illegal Chinese mining in AfricaAcross rural Southeast Africa, a small but loud grassroots movement has emerged to resist destructive Chinese mining companies — and they are winning. 0175
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialOnni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/202641% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking. 1617186
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it. 171758473
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialRobinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026major democracies electing far-right populist governments 121593281
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026A member of the National Guard shot and killed a man in Memphis and it barely made a ripple in our discourse. 5570139
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this. 27787308
jrosew.bsky.social @jrosew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Issues. These are similar concerns in scientific publishing. There is this great dumbing down, sloppification, making up mostly incomprehensible verbose vs tight, accurate narrative. It is being deployed irresponsibly and muddying waters. This is real! 010
jrosew.bsky.social @jrosew.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It’s not just that some of us don’t find use for it, it’s also frankly making many jobs worse- I work in grant management and the deluge of AI slop applications is legitimately messing with science granting capacity. And no, ai screening tools are not sufficient counter measures, because of accuracy 110
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialI may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 02/10/2026People chose this. 11812
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialSarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 30/09/2026Just over 50 years ago marital rape wasn't a crime anywhere in North America and in many, many other countries. This timeline is upsetting as hell and we have made so much progress. 0379
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialAdam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Some 👀 #cholera findings in the WHO's "Cholera Annual Report, 2025" www.who.int/news/item/29... 013
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Google and Apple immediately update their maps. 382474543
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialCeleste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also: if you're new, this is the context for what happened to me. He injured me so badly that night, I have chronic pain permanently in my lumbar. He was 440 pounds to my 137. But he was believed since he cried, and his parents took him home. Talk to your sons.harpersbazaar.comAll The Women I Met in JailA law meant to help victims of domestic violence often results in their arrest. One woman details surviving abuse and the system that claimed to protect her. 0305
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialCeleste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I have a lot to say about the Cornell case, but I'm largely keeping it on the inside, since I'll be honest: I find it triggering. But I have one specific ask: parents, talk to your sons. Talk to them and make sure they understand accountability. Talk to them about consent. Do it now. 223647
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialUrvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which. 132524872
jrosew.bsky.social @jrosew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I can’t finish the series. So disappointing! The movie version with Sam Niell tho is excellent. (Tho the book itself is the best) 110
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialDave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Murdered by our collective lunge into fascism. Well done, everyone with a scrap of power. 023754
jrosew.bsky.social @jrosew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yes!! Her only son became a historian of Ethiopia and spent his life there, raising his 2 kids who also spent their life working for Ethiopia. But Sylvia was relentless. It’s incredible how much work and influence she was able to wield, tirelessly! 010
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 27/09/2026I think software engineering has been in a crisis since at least when Facebook facilitated a genocide and there wasn’t any meaningful change to the formalized ethical practices of the industry as a whole 38317
jrosew.bsky.social @jrosew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026(Yes my avatar is a clipping of her leaving jail on one of her many stints! I admire her so much.) 010
jrosew.bsky.social @jrosew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Create a British protectorate of Ethiopia in 1941-44. She raised hundreds of thousands of pounds in wartime England for Ethiopian causes, including one of the first hospitals, in memory of Princess Tsehay who died in a plane crash. Her fierce anti-colonialism was very notable, unique and admirable! 230
jrosew.bsky.social @jrosew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The only non Ethiopian buried in the state’s cemetery in Addis Ababa. She was trailed and followed by UK foreign office spies for years because of her devotion to Haile Selassie’s rights to rule Ethiopia. When he was in exile in Bath, she raised his living, and fought against English attempts to 130
jrosew.bsky.social @jrosew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I think about this all the time. It’s so so so good and important. 000
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialEvan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That P*t*r Th**l clip going around about 'evil is good' made me hunt this Toni Morrison observation.youtube.comToni Morrison on Trauma, Survival, and Finding MeaningYouTube video by CTFORUM 55020
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialdarcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Seeing UK succeed at multiculturalism almost so well if flips back to bizarro world racism has been wild man 171
jrosew.bsky.social @jrosew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026And 800,000 people, mostly children, died. 800,000. 030
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Where's the lie? 0326
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialGregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the housing crisis is due to financialization not to immigration 183
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 27/09/2026🇪🇹 Ethiopian faithful celebrate Meskel festival with calls for end to conflict Thousands gather in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa to mark the east African nation's Orthodox Church festival of Meskel. 0207
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialMike Meginnis @mikemeginnis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is maybe the right hour for me to post that the "we're all so poor and miserable of course people are voting for fascists" shit is such moral cowardice; I would have to be starving to death to consider a Trump vote and we are not generally starving to death. That's very rarely a thing here. 3597
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.social🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 124123775269
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 7040131580
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On the one hand, it's just dumb. Universities are, in fact, real, and they exist in the world. American universities employ about 3x as many people as there are active duty servicemembers, so if soldiers are "real," then so are academics. 330340
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialDr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Plus ça change...? 051
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialJack Harrison @jlharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Rees-Mogg is embelmatic of how far the Overton window has shifted because he wears his opinion on his sleeve and he has held the same opinions basically forever and through no fault of his own he has gone from being on the right flank of the right-wing party to more liberal than a Labour government 196
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026(Again, this directly refutes an increasingly popular policy frame that says primary prevention of spillover through nature-based solutions is a more equity-oriented solution than investment in healthcare or action on political determinants of inequity such as vaccine nationalism. It's just not.) 17912
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/20261: For every hour you travel from the nearest clinic, the odds of detecting an outbreak decreases by about 1/3. 👉 For policymakers: the best thing we can do to catch and intercept spillovers before they become epidemics is build rural clinics and pay for diagnostic machines and supplies. 119854
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026The man is literally prosecuting a sitting US congresswoman for doing her job in trying to inspect a detention center carrying out a monstrous and unpopular policy, like, what do you mean let him save face? 425440
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialMeredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.c-span.org 37947311060
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialMadhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It doesn’t fall by itself Active disinformation and bad policy are driving the fall www.reuters.com/business/hea...reuters.comTrust in measles vaccines falls in US, Reuters Ipsos poll findsAmericans' trust in vaccines for deadly childhood diseases including measles has fallen in recent years, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found, a troubling sign for the country as it experiences its worst ... 13010
Reposted by @jrosew.bsky.socialheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley 153694754
