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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New school year off to a stumble w/ three major higher ed AI fallacies: 1. “We must embrace it because it’s here to stay.” So are radioactive waste & heroin. 2. “MY students would never cheat.” A statement about the speaker’s ego, not their students. 3. “I can always tell.” Sure thing, Sherlock.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 16/09/2026

This sounds like I'm joking but I'm not: the idea that this much structured data could potentially get flattened into plain text feels like a major loss. (Someone should write something about web preservation vis-a-vis the history of architectural preservation)

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotland imposes mandatory environmental assessments on new datacentres - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... now require renewal energy too

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Scotland imposes mandatory environmental assessments on new datacentres

Government announces before vote on moratorium that any projects above 50MW must submit assessments in planning process

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Matt Handelman @mhandelman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Delighted to share my article on the Frankfurt School in conspiracy theories. Conspiratorial thinking about critical theory employs what I call "contemporary mimesis" both to imitate critical theory and blame it for the decline of the West. Out now in New German Critique. doi.org/10.1215/0094...

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The Mirror of Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School in Conspiracy Theories | New German Critique | Duke University Press

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 09/09/2026

another researcher accuses OpenAI of training on conversations and then claiming a breakthrough

Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro
X.com
BREAKING: OpenAl might have stolen another major proot.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAl may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAl later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.

And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
Al is not discovering new mathematics.
Al is stealing human discovery.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

"The Gloria Wekker Reader," edited by Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder, compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist known for her work in feminist Black diaspora studies. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/jhDDyXf

Cover of The Gloria Wekker Reader by Gloria Wekker. The cover has a sepia photograph of Gloria Wekker. The title apears to the left of Wekker's face in a cream sans-serif font. A dotted line is under the title. The author's name is in the bottom right corner in orange with the editors' names in yellow below separated by a cream dotted line. Directly below is written "foreword by Angela Y. Davis" in light red in all caps.

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Humbling to proof your own transcriptions a year or two after making them — a good reminder that people also hallucinate words 🙃

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CNN @cnn.com · 14/02/2026

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

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Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · 05/01/2026

New working paper with Thomas Delcey and Alexandre Truc: “One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought” ▶️ osf.io/preprints/so... We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009) #rstats #EconSky

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

When you're editor of stuff you get to see the chaos of your colleagues' file-naming conventions, and what a gift that is.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Abstract
The scarcity of subspecialist medical expertise poses a considerable challenge for healthcare delivery. This issue is particularly acute in cardiology, where timely, accurate management determines outcomes. We explored the potential of Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE), a large language model-based experimental medical artificial intelligence system, to augment clinical decision-making in this challenging context. We conducted a randomized controlled trial comparing large language model-assisted care with the usual care of complex patients suspected of having a genetic cardiomyopathy, and we curated a real-world dataset of complex cases from a subspecialist cardiology practice. Nine participating general

Highlighted in blue: randomized controlled trial

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Ethics approval
The clinical subspecialist evaluator component of this research involved the participation of physicians. This study adhered to the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was obtained from each physician before their participation. This study used only retrospective, de-identified data that fell outside the scope of institutional review board oversight.

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Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Steph Brown [@stephjayb.bsky.social] has just won the 2025 Surveillance Studies Book Prize for Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905–1924. This is an incredible book that everyone should read. Congrats, Steph!! ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

Image of book cover: Watching Women by Stephanie Brown

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

actionnetwork.org

Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans.

In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...

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katie mackinnon @ktmac.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🚀 Big news!! The first papers from our AI & Archives SI are up!!!

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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AI & Archives

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/12/2025

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

MIT study: the technology that our professors have been working on for 50 years isn’t working 🫠

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Delf Rothe @delfrothe.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Ok the world may be going down, but at least the visual politics classes are flourishing (where they are still allowed to be taught)

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 17/01/2026

Yay! The hard copies of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities arrived today. It was a pleasure to write a chapter in this about pirate infrastructures and shadow libraries.

The cover of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities with the top words in yellow and the bottom in red

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I've seen a lot of upset over the NASA library being closed. But, I haven't seen any plan to: intervene, file a lawsuit, corral members of Congress, get irate citizens to reach out to elected officials, have a bake sale, or anything else. Does anyone know of a plan to stop or ameliorate this?

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Recommended read by the always excellent @eve.gd !

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026

this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 30/12/2025

Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

"You’ve become the tip-line for The Washington Post,” another colleague joked. “You look terrible,” my work wife said. I asked them to send me a picture of their govt ID, then tried to forget it. I kept notes from reporting conversations in an encrypted drive, never writing down anyone’s name."

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I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.

One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19/12/2025

Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

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James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'

"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 18/12/2025

Exam time! Technological innovation has destroyed the advances made by technological innovation, so students once again sit their exams using tools from the 18th century ('pencil') and the 2nd century ('paper') #analoglife

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

You have got to be kidding me

An actual NY Times headline: "Trump's Diplomats Are Inexperienced and Unqualified. Is That a Good Thing?"

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

For a while I understood the EU institutions remaining on X, as a pure public broadcasting channel. But given it has fully become a radicalisation machine, and an owner who calls for destroying the EU, it is high time to leave also for European politicians.

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. Please please please please stop giving me news articles about blog posts about AI that include images of blue data and robot hands. betterimagesofai.org

betterimagesofai.org

Better Images of AI

We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...

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Pannier Peter 🚲 @peter.dev · 04/12/2025

Was just in this part of Ohio visiting family and these were on *every* lawn in the town my grandma lives in. It seems to be a uniting issue across the political spectrum.

"No Data Center" signs on basically every lawn in a part of Ohio just outside of Toledo.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?

The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

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UCLA Library @uclalibrary.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐 Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l... @uclasamueli.bsky.social

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How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM

At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.

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Digital Humanities Research Hub @dh-researchhub.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It's here! The National Archives’ #AnnualDigiLecture, in partnership with the School of Advanced Study, is fully booked and takes place tonight at Senate House. We're delighted to welcome Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, speaking on ‘When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age’.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

Autism and
Vaccines
QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS
PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
• The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
• Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.

HHS Research on Plausible Biologic
Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism
HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more.
* The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the
U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

What the WaPo has become: "The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification." The MAGAfication of the language.

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Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom

Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

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Charlotte Sussman @charlottesussman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

POSTDOC ALERT: in 2026-27, James Mulholland (NCSU) and I are running a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Sharing Ground: Humanities, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the University.” The position is for a Humanist-in-Residence and the job is live on AJO: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31122

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Duke University, English Department

Job #AJO31122, Postdoctoral Associate, English Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

My new book will be out in early December 2025 via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

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