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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 19/09/2026

Stanford Medicine research reveals that the brain is two distinct organs that have evolved independently over millions of years. The findings were published in Nature Neuroscience on 18 September 2026.

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 14/09/2026

· #AcademicSky · #EduSky · #AI · The ‘Nonexistent’ Research on AI’s Benefits for Education

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 14/09/2026

Important issues raised in this @uniworldnews.bsky.social article: “What happens when AI begins to perform work that universities have historically employed people to do? At that point, AI ceases to be merely an educational technology and becomes a labour technology.”

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 08/09/2026

techxplore.com/news/2026-09... #ai #aigenerated 15-minute training helps people spot AI-generated faces

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 07/09/2026

AI could pose ‘existential risk to humanity’: UN rights chief The United Nations rights chief warned Monday that artificial intelligence could pose an “existential threat to humanity,” demanding immediate action to reduce the risks.

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 06/09/2026

equilibriumecon.wisc.edu/2026/09/05/i... #academicsky #edusky Is a Master’s Degree Still Worth It In 2026?

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 05/09/2026

· #AcademicSky · #EduSky · #GenAI · AI could undermine managers' judgement unless used carefully, University of Bath-led study warns www.bath.ac.uk/announcement... Research finds over-reliance on generative AI may weaken moral insights, contextual understanding, and practical know-how at work

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 03/09/2026

🤖 “School districts under pressure. … Some of the largest school districts in the [USA] … have signed expensive contracts to bring AI to thousands of students. Amid declining enrollment, perhaps AI offers a way for districts to both cut costs and seem cutting edge.” [1/3]

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 02/09/2026

#AcademicSky · How GenAI is leading to ‘McDonaldization’ of society “GenAI is different from previous technologies that merely spread information…in that it actively shapes it. Studies suggest that AI tools can flatten language use, creativity and cultural values, and… [1/2]

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 29/08/2026

www.sciencealert.com/scientists-i... #protein #fattyfoods #cravings Scientists Identify a Protein That May Control Cravings For Fatty Foods

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 27/08/2026

They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 25/08/2026

· #AcademicSky · #EduSky · #AI · #Deepfakes · #Harassment · [1/2] · They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 25/08/2026

North Macedonia registers fifth West Nile virus death

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 24/08/2026

www.wired.com/story/flock-... #aiagents #surveillance #privacy Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 23/08/2026

North Macedonia registers fifth West Nile virus death [1/2]

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 21/08/2026

www.wired.com/story/flock-... #aiagents #aipolicing #privacy Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 20/08/2026

ChatGPT creator OpenAI said Tuesday that it was tapping the brakes on development of its most advanced AI model and tightening internal controls, a month after revealing that one of its AI tools carried out an autonomous cyberattack. techxplore.com/news/2026-08... #openai

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 19/08/2026

The recent announcement of novel, viable viruses created by artificial intelligence (AI) was celebrated as a major advance in the fight against antibiotic resistance. But it also raised urgent concerns about regulation.

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 16/08/2026

“Cory Doctorow’s nightmare is the reverse centaur: a human conscripted to serve a machine. His key example is the delivery driver whose route, pace and bathroom breaks are dictated by an algorithm. The machine does the thinking; the human supplies a cheap, disposable body.” [2/3]

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 16/08/2026

Opinion: What does life after AI look like? Cory Doctorow’s guide is an outdated map, lacking answers A “centaur” is a human helped by a machine: The person sets the direction, the machine supplies the horsepower, and together they are better than either one alone. [1/3]

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 16/08/2026

aeon.co/essays/an-ai... #africa #ai An AI for Africa would be built on Hunhu/Ubuntu ethics Western-developed AI rides roughshod over Ubuntu values of connection and community that animate African ethical life

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 14/08/2026

🇬🇧 Emergency Alert: www.gov.uk/alerts/14-au... #highrisk #wildfires 🔥

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 14/08/2026

www.mayoclinicplatform.org/2026/08/07/a... #agenticai An Expanding Role for Agentic AI in Healthcare These autonomous digital tools can perform complex clinical and administrative tasks once considered the domain of humans. While they may ease our workload, we still need to be aware of the downside

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 11/08/2026

Homer Is Having a Resurgence—but You Wouldn’t Know It in Higher Ed Popular demand for The Odyssey couldn’t be higher, even as classics departments find themselves targeted for cuts. [1/2] #AcademicSky 🖋️ Richard A. Greenwald ‣ @insidehighered.com ↓

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 09/08/2026

“A wave of social media disinformation is believed to have played a large part in the deadly rush of tens of thousands of men, women and children into Spain's North African territory after a rumor that the Ceuta border was open spread on social media.” [1/2] #SocialMedia #Disinformation

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 08/08/2026

www.sciencealert.com/malarias-dru... #malaria #drugresistance Malaria’s Drug Resistance Is Becoming Alarmingly Sophisticated, Study Finds

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 04/08/2026

“Every paper has a story that the paper itself does not tell”

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 01/08/2026

Word worm crawls into Copilot, spreads chaos Researcher says months of coordination with Microsoft have yet to produce a robust mitigation www.theregister.com/security/202...

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 01/08/2026

European approach to artificial intelligence The EU’s approach to artificial intelligence promotes excellence and trust, by boosting research and industrial capacity while ensuring safety and fundamental rights. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/... #ai

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 31/07/2026

theconversation.com/sam-altman-s... #academicsky #edusky #ai Sam Altman says we’re ‘in the singularity’ with AI. Here’s why he’s wrong

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 31/07/2026

www.insidehighered.com/author/seher... #academicsky #edusky U.S. Universities Among 7 Approved to Set Up Greek Branch Campuses Institutions from the U.S., U.K. and France have been given the go-ahead following a controversial change in the law governing private institutions.

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 29/07/2026

The End of the ‘Learn to Code’ Era It’s no wonder students are walking away from computer science: We told them the wrong story. Here’s the right one. #AcademicSky [Click here🔗to go to the @insidehighered.com article↓]

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 27/07/2026

www.wired.com/story/privat... #chatbots #aiprivacy “What happens between you and an AI chatbot does not always stay between you and a chatbot. Just ask Google.”

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 26/07/2026

Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 26/07/2026

www.quantamagazine.org/for-the-firs... #syntheticbiology [2/2] For the very first time, biologists packed nonliving components into a cell-like membrane, piece by piece, and witnessed the bag of molecules start to behave like life...demonstrating the basic functions of a cell cycle.

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 26/07/2026

For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides 🔗⮛

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 25/07/2026

Weight loss jabs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro have boomed in popularity, and so have reports of myriad side-effects.

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 24/07/2026

Has AI become too powerful to control? [1/2]

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 21/07/2026

hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f... #academicsky #edusky #ai Artificial Negligence Why are college administrators so eager to adopt AI?

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 20/07/2026

How many cups of caffeinated coffee are safe to drink each day? The findings of the latest research were published today in the journal Circulation. (🔗⮛)

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 18/07/2026

“Higher education has repeatedly adapted to technological change […]. Each transformation reshaped how universities operated, yet none fundamentally altered their intellectual purpose. “But artificial intelligence poses a challenge unlike any university leaders have faced before.” [1/2] 🔗⮛

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 18/07/2026

No, SpudCells aren’t alive. But they’re a step toward the first synthetic life The lab-made cells can grow and divide — with scientists’ help [1/2]

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 14/07/2026

www.theguardian.com/education/20... #academicsky “The subjects with the biggest staff cuts were social work (-9%), English and classics (both -8%), anthropology (-7%) and linguistics (-6%).”

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 14/07/2026

“All but 110 [axed academic posts] were in non-Russell Group universities, reducing student choice and potentially exacerbating inequalities.”

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 14/07/2026

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year 🔗⮛

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 14/07/2026

The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 11/07/2026

#AcademicSky · #AI Chat, are we cooked? “You may have heard about AI data centres guzzling insane amounts of energy, and that using ChatGPT to write an email is equivalent to emptying out a bottle of water. “But is that true? And how worried should we be about GenAI’s environmental impact?”

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 08/07/2026

Beyond Grade Inflation—What We’ve Got Is Shrinkflation 🖋️ Zorina Khan ‣ @insidehighered.com

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 06/07/2026

techxplore.com/news/2026-07... #ai #academicsky “With AI advancing at ‘runaway speed,’ UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres cautioned that ‘an experiment is being run on our own societies, without a plan and without consent.’”

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 06/07/2026

World must not let AI 'vibe-code' humanity's future: UN chief The United Nations chief called Monday for a global governance system to shape artificial intelligence for the good of humanity, warning against allowing the technology itself to "vibe-code" our future. 🔗

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