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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The city of Albany can point at the city of Schenectady and say, Hey, we're not doing too bad! TU story: Schenectady mayor unveils budget proposal with 43% tax levy hike

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our local library has an amazing array of stuff to try in its Library of Things! (we borrowed a pickleball set this summer and got hooked.)

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How many times per day do I emit a nervous giggle and then drop my face into my hands and groan. [so many]

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I liked this bit: "One is the foolish “we don’t need know stuff cuz we has google” argument ... It’s hard to look things up when you don’t know enough to ask questions. And storing information outside your brain just means that it’s not available to power your thinking or insights."

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One humongous difference between journalists and politicians facing an error they've made is that the former issues a correction and the latter doubles down. (sure, sure: *most* journalists, *not all* politicians)

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

why we need #factcheckers cc: Congresspeople and their staffers

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Bryn Nelson @seattlebryn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This! The incessant attacks on reality have caused us to tone down or steer clear of even basic facts and moral statements, which only cedes more ground to the anti-reality industry.

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Right? Shocking but not surprising.

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A second theme is: Also, I’m looking for work.

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An emerging theme at the Awards lunch at #sciwri2026 : Nevertheless they persisted.

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Sal Keith (she/her) @salkeith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Powerful editorial: "Science must overcome its racist legacy" in @natureportfolio.nature.com from 2022 www.nature.com/articles/d41... "The point of learning about and analysing racism in science must be to ensure that it is never repeated". 4yrs on.... www.nature.com/articles/d41... We MUST change

nature.com

The death of Jason Arday must prompt deep reflection

Universities and media organizations need to scrutinize their roles in the events that led to this tragedy.

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Claude, Could you please cherry-pick some references that support my argument?

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"... to trust yourself entirely to an engine." I'm going to start using this framing rather than my usual wail when a friend googles something and reads the AI summary.

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Good food, good sleep, good exercise. As a health reporter, I have written this universal advice so many times in so many different ways. Just do it.

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Maybe we should simply help Ukraine defend their independence.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey I'm not actually done talking about Dolly Parton. 🧵 Specifically I want to talk about her album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, released in 1980 (not the soundtrack to the film 9 to 5, that's a different thing). The whole album is about work, with most of the songs focused on a different type of worker.

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

No cheating: Share the most recent photo of the sky from your camera roll.

A lone kayaker on a lake with trees shores and sun rays in the sky.

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airvarley.bsky.social @airvarley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Somehow this same Boise woman is quoted in several different articles saying "he didn't do anything". In ESPN she says she does know who Kanter is and is there to support him but others portray her as a random fan. Very suspicious www.espn.com/wnba/story/_... sports.yahoo.com/articles/una...

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Matty! @mattythemouse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Throughout all of this, I’m learning that there is a DISTRESSING number of people in academia that believe in race sciences that’ve been considered pseudoscience for literally a hundred years.

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Kevin Stevens @neohibolites.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Always a good reason for Stephen Jay Gould’s quote: “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

He may well have 1000 Einsteins and Mozarts working in his warehouses right now, but they can't do anything with their abilities what with having to work 18 hours a day under constant threat of being fired for taking a piss

@jaynitx
Jeff Bezos on why he wants a trillion
humans in the solar svstem
"I would love to see a trillion humans living
in the solar system. If we had a trillion
humans, we would have at any given time
a 1,000 Mozarts and a 1,000 Einsteins'
@propandco
Just pay your taxes bra

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is an incredible essay. Well worth your time to read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“Ego first” is excellent framing.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026

If nothing else this time in the US should demonstrate just easily someone can become a “criminal” and a target for state violence.

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yes. And K-12 education should be about more than simply preparing for college.

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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I've been toying with this idea about how we explicitly reframe the value of college to include other outcomes rather than ROI & workforce training. These are important outcomes but colleges also help people understand and participate in society and their governments as *citizens*.

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

👏👏👏 (what a great feeling!)

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

People are tired, man! Tired. (and by “people,” I mean me)

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is insane. This is a world I do not want to live in. This is … I mean … gah

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In Thomasville, GA, in a historic Black area, there's a creek Black churches once used for baptism Today, fecal bacteria and other contaminants have made the water unsafe due to an aging wastewater system The town got a grant to improve public health. Funding was axed due to Trump’s DEI crackdown

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Public health improvements stall amid Trump’s DEI crackdown

The predominantly Black neighborhood in Thomasville, Georgia, faces blight and health challenges.

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

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This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE

Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

All the ways Trump has gutted efforts to stop foreign election interference: -laid off a third of CISA employees -disbanded FBI task charged with combatting foreign election interference -eliminated DHS teams combatting foreign disinformation -fired all the EAC commissioners

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

“People try to come up with a rationale to justify their dislike of things they dislike for other reasons.” No shit.

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Jill U. Adams @juadams.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Psyched to listen to this. Rebecca Nagle is such a good reporter and podcaster -- I am a huge fan of This Land. Now she's out with this new story: First America.

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