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Mollie Holmberg @octoqueenphd.bsky.social · 12h

Tomorrow! Yale SPH Winslow Auditorium

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Traditionally, the CDC would be highly visible in a situation like this, but it hasn’t been this time… The U.S. public health agency has to be invited in by state officials, however, and Florida officials have not asked for CDC disease investigators to come in”.

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Florida's dengue outbreak is now the largest in the continental US in decades

Florida is experiencing its largest dengue outbreak in decades, with over 250 locally acquired cases reported this year.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

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Mollie Holmberg @octoqueenphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is HORRIFIC. (read whole thread)

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

welp another thing to worry about if you're a source worried about AI. read the whole thread:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The primary objective of journalism is supposed to be telling the truth. It is a DECISION on the part of USA Today to know that new details have emerged about this case and to refuse to update an old story that is still circulating and still shaming Jane Doe.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026

shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BREAKING: A BC Supreme Court judge has sided with Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx, who operated an illicit-drug compassion club (Drug User Liberation Front), were convicted of trafficking, and challenged the constitutionality of Canada's drug laws. Trafficking section ruled invalid, convictions stayed.

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Mollie Holmberg @octoqueenphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BC's Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) wins in court. Members faced life imprisonment for providing lifesaving safe supply. This is HUGE. Help cover their ongoing legal costs at dulf.ca/2026/09/24/s...

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September 23, 2026

DULF Legal Aid Fund Update – 09/24/26 The Court will deliver its decision. JUDGMENT DAY Judge’s DecisionTuesday September 29, 20269:00 AM – 900 Hornby Street, Vancouver DULF continues to face…

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Garth Mullins @garthmullins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We won!!!

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

95% of college-age men admitted to using coercive tactics to get women they already knew did not want any to have sex with them to have sex. When men say they don’t know who these creeps are, all it tells me is that either they’re lying or they’ve chosen not to learn about rape culture.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We have to say it plainly: a lot of people—a lot of men—just don’t think that rape is very serious.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/09/2026

The worst part about twitter is there are a number of people who think they have to be active there who are left-leaning but have had their brains absolutely cooked by the site. You can't inundate yourself in exposure to that stuff without it having an impact on you.

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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/pipa... Crips for eSims for Gaza hasn't stopped sending and topping up eSims since December 25, 2023 bit.ly/eSimsRUs

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Crips for eSims for Gaza

Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

So many autistic/neurodivergent women (which I bet describes a LOT of women in the Silicon Valley AI scene) report being *specifically* targeted by sexual predators who take advantage of their issues with reading social situations. Which is why I loathe the “oh, those poor autistic men” excuse.

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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is strong historical connection between disabled people in Palestine and disabled people in the U.S. Both governments are utilizing the same policy framework of eugenics. That is why you can't free one group without gaining freedom for all. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Israel blocks wheelchairs bound for Gaza - ABC listen

Australian-made wheelchairs intended for injured children in Gaza have been barred from entering the territory by the Israeli government. Hundreds of wheelchairs have been sitting in Jordan waiting f...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.

The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

These interactions are undoubtedly accelerated by deforestation, but the idea that people have not come into contact with bats for millennia, only for this to change in the last fifty years is, again, an oversimplification.

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Colin 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.)

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2: Outbreaks happen anywhere that people live alongside nature: fragmented landscapes with a mosaic of human population centers, livestock farming, and forests. 👉 Stop planning around spillover "hotspots." Emerging infectious disease outbreaks can happen anywhere - both the Amazon and Central Park.

Fig. 2: Geographical reporting and detection biases confound inference of global emerging infectious disease drivers.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

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socketwench @deninet.com · 22/09/2026

Starting to wonder if there's a connection between the whole "AI will kill us all" think and white fears about being colonialized and replaced. It's the new version of the Alien Invasion/subjugation plot. It says more about white techies than it does about tech.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Research has shown that administrative burdens can lead to procedural denials, where applicants are rejected not due to ineligibility, but because they are unable to navigate the complex application and eligibility recertification processes." www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

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Administrative Burden and Procedural Denials in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

The effectiveness of the SNAP program is hampered by complex administrative processes that create significant barriers for potential participants.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/09/2026

If you’re like me, immunologically, you have probably suffered a fever for one (Moderna) up to the (Pfizer) days after getting a Covid vaccine. Yesterday I tried Novavax instead, and had absolutely zero side effects (at the same time as my flu shot no less). It’s well worth a try if you haven’t.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Put another way, I will endure inconvenience for the sake of allowing other disabled folks to participate fully in a space. No questions asked.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

To put it simply: I see very little daylight between complaints about having to do alt-text (were it required) and the complaints of some of my colleagues when asked to make their courses more accessible. Same shit, different context.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would simply ask people to reflect on why the term "identity politics" has been so pathologized. Also to learn from the people who actually coined it.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Jesus fucking christ people, vaccinate yourself and your damn kids if you're eligible

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If Sudanese people can fly the Palestinian flag in the midst of the revolution & my comrades in Ramallah can call me to ask about my family in Sudan - western leftists can find a way to show principled solidarity to both struggles.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Don't want to or can't review something? Tell the editors. Ive done it. Im chronically ill, overworked, and always behind. My cognitive function can be shit sometimes. But please don't tell me how you can't do this without an LLM.

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 18/09/2026

someone—many someones—needs to be held responsible. This is a war crime and both the military chain of command and the AI companies need to face consequences. Will they? of course not. Because 123 brown children are worth nothing to the US. We are genocidal monsters.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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Dan Stirk @jdanielstirk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As someone on here put it, America is not how it is because Trump is President. Trump is President because America is how it is.

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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 17/09/2026

I tried to explain rationalism to a philosophy major friend of mine, who scoffed and said "so they're Cartesians, but racist"

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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 16/09/2026

NEW: Here’s a list of Canadians who signed an open letter denying the genocide in Gaza. It includes people associated with Canadian institutions as well, such as professors. www.readthemaple.com/a-list-of-ga...

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A List Of Gaza Genocide Deniers In Canada

Thousands of people signed an open letter denying genocide in Gaza.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think the celebrity jokes about sheeran are just escapism for me. Because israeli forces raided a kindergarten 2 weeks ago, and a building damaged by israeli bombs collapsed on top of families yesterday, and everything is heartbreaking.

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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 15/09/2026

Swipe to see some bat toe beans (including the incredible glow-in-the-dark toes of 𝘛𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴!) ✨

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: 14 civil rights & humanitarian organizations demand United Airlines stop sending weapons to Israel on passenger planes. "Should United continue to aid and abet war crimes…we will have no choice but to pursue further action against United." Demand led by @ampalestine.bsky.social:

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15/09/2026

Given all the *flails hands* you all deserve one of the most adorable pictures I took of Baby Bird Season 2026. A snowy ploverlet peeking through a little sand shrub. Perhaps a once in a lifetime shot. 🪶 🐣

a tiny snowy plover chick, about 2 inches tall, looks through a shrub as if theyr hiding, on a beach

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

wtf kind of pets they got in there

SMOKING
BARE FOOT
PETS
PROHIBITED IN BUILDING

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's not mentioned in the piece, but (in part because of my own research interests) imo also worth noting that this was staffed by a Canadian company (Garda): profits on anti-migrant violence travel translationally.

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

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