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I'm sorry. I send all the sympathy I can!

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Kyle D. Long @blatherscribe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This. I just do not want to contribute to the furthering of educational inequality that seems inevitable. I prefer (and my student population demands it, unlike at boostering institutions) to concentrate on more basic skill development to bring everyone to the best thinking they can muster.

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With coding, all of its proponents have already built their own coding expertise, and they don't seem to be grappling with what it will mean for the next generation not to know how to code, only how to prompt. In the sciences, I see signs the same thing is happening.

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caemeron @caemeroncc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

lol, many times on here when someone articulates so closely what I feel I find I have already been a follower. Not so in this case, but I just pressed the button...

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you email me with the auto-composed AI slop that shows you don't respect me or want to communicate with me as a human being, and I reply anyway (for reasons) and then you do it again at which point fuck you. I tried to break through and you reiterated your disregard

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The brain's "who's in charge?" depends on the dynamics of the moment, not on a fixed org chart. #neurosience

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Those non-academic PhDs - the ones who are likely losing expertise - are designing the bridges we’re driving over and the buildings we live in.

That last sentence of the abstract gives me the chills.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Basic citizenship, updated for the modern era.

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If we really wanted to prepare students for the future, we would be teaching them all how to protect the environment, fight climate change, and work on adaptation. We would be teaching them how to protect and participate in democracy and about economic systems under which they could thrive.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What’s that again about AI and students‘ futures?

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 08/10/2026

I'm sorry that's the case. I wake up and love life - until I get in front of my first year students; I feel like a way overmatched boxer by the time class is over. 😀

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Dream big or step aside. This is downright underwhelming. "Democrats Expect to Win the House. Here’s Their To-Do List. Hakeem Jeffries, possible next speaker, says his party will try to restore healthcare spending and push back against Trump on tariffs, Iran war." www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

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Democrats Expect to Win the House. Here’s Their To-Do List.

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the possible next speaker, says his party will try to restore healthcare spending and push back against Trump on tariffs and the Iran war.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 08/10/2026

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 Her groundbreaking work included leading the team that programmed the first computers that took humans to the moon. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... #womeninstem

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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I published this in 2024. It remains as true today as it did then — though in need of a refresh on so-called agentic AI, which somehow manages to be even worse for education than chatbots. Free to download here: www.cognitiveresonance.net/resources

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Intergenerational Links Between Parents’ and Children’s Hostile and Benevolent Sexism - Sex Roles

Here's a link to the abstract and paper. I cannot even begin to stress how important this paper is. Benevolent sexism shows especially pernicious effects (in acceptance of the gender status quo, in reduction of activist behaviors) seen in much experimental work. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Research has confirmed that adults’ hostile sexism and benevolent sexism harm adult women and men. Yet, men’s and women’s sexist attitudes also shape parenting behavior, and children agree with hostil...

Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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New research explores how beliefs about gender are passed across generations. As Oksana Voznyuk (University of Auckland) explains, the effects are appearing earlier in life than previously thought. Check out Character & Context - SPSP's flagship blog - for more psych insights!

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Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🚨 New publication at Nature Reviews Psychology! (natrevpsychol.nature.com) rdcu.be/d2jxg7tYHWNa A recently published paper in the same journal argued that infants use two separate domain-specific systems -- naive psychology and naive physics -- to reason about objects and others' minds.

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

𝗛𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 New preprint with Andrea Gambarotto. Neuroscience often treats control as a hierarchy: the structures behind a behavior hold a stable rank. We argue this mistakes a configuration for an architecture. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2610.04643 #neuroskyence

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I await the lawsuit from the Civil Rights Division

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In this episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @mraginsky.bsky.social draws on control theory, engineering and philosophy to explore what makes biological brains intelligent, what AI is missing, and what principles underlie biological autonomy. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

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How does a control theorist explain cognition?

Maxim Raginsky draws on control theory, engineering and philosophy to explore biological and artificial intelligence and biological autonomy.

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"I'd seek" does not mean I would find a job or that it would be easy to find a job. I am aware of the contingencies of the job market, not from experience but because I am a thinking, reading person.

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2026

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Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How selective college admissions is still designed for kids from elite, mostly private hs: today my kid's public urban hs counselor (who serves 450 students) warned him the Nat Merit Scholarship app was due today. He was never told he qualified or given time to collect letters, transcripts, etc...

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, this is what is wrong with football today. Men can't rip off their shirts fast or easily enough, and they get yellow cards for doing so. Goodness, I thought this was an Aprils Fools joke!

A picture of the new Gillette shirt, in black, with the company name and slogan "The best a man can get" on the front center.

Description of item:
"Designed To Be Removed.
A shirt built for celebrations.

An ode to the moments that deserve a replay. Gillette has launched an exclusive football shirt that allows you to tear it off it in celebration in seconds. Designed to be removed quickly and easily.

For nearly 30 years, players have faced automatic bookings and fines just for showing raw emotion. Gillette want to change this by stripping away a needless rule and bring back the moments of optimism, hope, and excitement that come with ripping your shirt off.

Produced in extremely limited numbers, this one of a kind shirt, celebrates ‘celebrating’ in its purest form."

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thank you for your service

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence

The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is incredibly important. I feel deeply that curbing sexual violence will come from raising social expectations of men, not from ‘educating’ them. I fear this is an unpopular view, because people are afraid to face up to the scale of the issue.

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If fantasy football (or another allegedly voluntary non-work activity) was that ingrained in my workplace I'd seek other employment immediately. Did the fantasy football (or crocheting, or pickleball) requirement jump on the person without warning? Would there not be signs before accepting the job?

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power and c) training/access to published works on and off the internet. 3) Does anyone think of the fact that minor errors will be compounded by these systems over time? Logically I just don't see how a discernment system for error correction would work. 4) I'm not claiming stochastic parrothood.

I see it's a more-incredibly-breathless-anticipation-of-AI-discoveries day; that is, Wednesday. 1) I don't use these systems but also don't deny their power. 2) I'm not at all surprised that discoveries in math and other fields are happening given a) architecture modifications, b) sheer computing

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