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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 19h

Please. If you see evidence of workplace harassment. Badmouthing of own junior staff, unreasonable expectations, removal or omission from authorship, hostile language, evidence of overworking or distress. Don't walk by. Academic safety nets can't rely on whisper networks set by marginalised people.

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“There is a certain threshold when there is no more stopping the total breakdown of the AMOC.” PIK’s @rahmstorf.bsky.social explains how global warming could weaken the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation AMOC by adding more freshwater to the North Atlantic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNOS...

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 8h

"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...

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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences

Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gran Paradiso Aug. 1980 | Sept. 2026 Incredible repeat photography of the Gran Paradiso glaciers 46 years apart, showing the magnitude of man-made glacial collapse in the Alps - which will never be white again! 🧊🔥 📷 Antonio and Riccardo Bussano 🙏

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

After the Trump administration cut funding for the next U.S. National Climate Assessment and dismissed its authors, the science didn’t stop. AMS and AGU launched the U.S. Climate Collection. Now its first paper is published. Science first. Evidence matters. 👏 headlines.ametsoc.org/2026/09/22/f...

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First Paper Published in the U.S. Climate Collection

The U.S. Climate Collection has published its first paper, with 175 authors outlining research priorities for future U.S.-focused climate assessments.

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Kamil Ustaszewski @wukaimi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm seeking to fill a #PhD position in my #structuralgeology group @uni-jena.de on deep #geothermal resources in central Germany. The post is ideal for #geoscience students with interest in brittle deformation, #tectonic stress analysis and #fieldwork. www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/en/72369/ope...

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Open PhD position in structural geology

Open PhD position in the project:

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Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Super proud of my now former student Dr Rivoningo Khosa who graduated with her #PhD yesterday ❤️🙌🏽🥳 My first UCT PhD graduate 💫 So a big moment for us both 😊

Two academics wearing red gowns, one wearing a black velvet PhD hat. Both smiling widely

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Assoc Prof Robyn Pickering @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Big graduation day!! Super super proud of my first UCT PhD graduate 😊💫🙌🏽 Dr Khosa worked hard for this moment 💪🏽 Congratulations 🥳

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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🏆 HERI is proud to last night receive the NRF Science Team Award! It recognises contributions to research excellence and key members @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social, Rebecca Ackermann, @drpeechiwara.bsky.social, Wendy Black, Lauren Schroder & Palesa Madupe. 🎉 www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

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European Geosciences Union (EGU) @egu.eu · 02/09/2026

Wondering about what brilliant science we have published during August with the #EGUJournals? Check out the latest GeoRoundup, with all the #OpenAccess highlights on the #EGUblogs! 👉Discover more here: egu.eu/0QDBJ2

Image description: EGU's scientific journal covers. Text reads:''GETROUNDUP''

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Literally.

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Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The World: WTF are those planes doing flying so low?!? The whole stadium could have been kaput! South Africans: Lekker bru! Fly lower next time, though, ja?

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Elizabeth H @elizabethh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Whooohooo the #MinCup26 is a fun way to learn about new to you minerals and get incredibly personally attached to them. 😆

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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is partly tied in with a long-term lack of recognition for collectors, field hands, preparators, database managers, collections managers, volunteers, etc. That's getting somewhat better, but still there is much to do. <7/n>

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Andra Meneganzin @andrameneganzin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I inadvertently deleted the thread w/ the link to the published version of this paper in Bio&Phil (🤦‍♀️): here it is! 🏺🦣🧪💀 It’s not OA, but the publisher’s full text is available on ResearchGate. Or, more simply... drop me a line! 📩 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #evosky #philbio #philsky

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Buried, or maybe not: adherence to evidential standards in paleoanthropology - Biology & Philosophy

This paper examines how evidential standards are constructed, interpreted, and enforced in paleoanthropology and funerary archaeology, focusing on claims of deliberate burial practices in Homo naledi....

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/08/2026

It's doing its best!

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

First Dolly and now Tim Curry?! Folks, check in on the theater kids in your life.

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NSF NCAR & UCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

✨kinda chic to be a Boulder icon designed by I.M. Pei (and go really overboard on this trend 🤭)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Prof. Jason Arday, a highly cited, brilliant human+incredible teacher, accused of plagiarism+never got to defend himself. Accusations false. Nathan Cofnas, postdoc, trash human, overflowing outhouse level racist writing, given op ed, petitions for reinstatement post suspension. Racism in action.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

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Chris Rowan @allochthonous.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Geologist: the water in the cup is a geopetal structure which allows us to tell you that the glass is right way up.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Please show me the “legitimate journalism” where you did nineteen articles about a white professor doing plagiarism or lying on his CV because there are PLENTY of examples @theguardian.com

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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📚 Whose voices shape our past? Drawing on her SAJS review of the book The Untold History and Prehistory of African Indigenous Palaeontology, @drpeechiwara.bsky.social reflects on representation, Indigenous knowledge, and the stories we tell about Africa's past. 🔗 www.heriuct.co.za/news-content...

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

i am personally aware of three recent cases, all senior figures who faced credible accusations, none of whom appear to have suffered any consequences

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I didn't follow the Arday story closely. It's pretty clear though that plagiarism allegations against Black professors are seen as a major news story because many ppl see Black success and intelligent as automatically illegitimate. So the real "scandal" is that Black ppl are professors at all. 1

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As a woman, who isn’t feminine, won’t perform middle-class identity, who doesn’t aspire to class and status, an unashamed northerner, who won’t hide the accent, English academia is about the fight. You fight to get in, you fight to be taken seriously by male colleagues, and you fight to stay.

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AJ McKenna @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I wonder why the media didn't pursue THIS plagiarist so harshly? I can't qwhite put my finger on it 🤔

Cambridge professor remains in post despite
plagiarism
History academic published an article containing large parts of essays copied from one
of his students
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Cambridge university professor Dr William O'Reilly. A university disciplinary tribunal ruled the plagiarism was product of negligent acts but was not deliberate' Warren Gunn/Cambridgeshire Live/BPM Media
Bethan Staton and Chris Cook in London
Published JUN 16 2023

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"The internet itself is not filled with uniformly reliable sources, and ChatGPT, with no notion of a world outside its language tokens and their relationships, simply does not have the kinds of knowledge needed to distinguish reliable sources from unreliable ones"

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Ashe @ladyinsanity.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If someone near you is secretly recording with glasses, yell “META stop recording!” It works even if you’re not the owner. (This is more effective than the Disney trick, since there are AI tools to remove background music.)

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Losing Exeter philosophers of science would be devastating to our field and to the international standing of U.K. universities. Please help us publicise this letter and put pressure to the Exeter execs. Their work as teachers and researchers is irreplaceable #philsci #HigherEd

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Data centers

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 02/08/2026

“Students expressed concerns ab cognitive dependence, enviro impact, bias, misinfo, academic integrity, & worker exploitation. They were invested in their own learning, developing their creative identity & fostering genuine intellectual relationships." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care... #edusky

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Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/07/2026

Smithsonian Acquires Rare Photograph Where Whole Family Looks Really Nice theonion.com/smithsonian-acquires-r…

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E.J. Fagan @ejfagan.com · 20/07/2026

Just heard from a friend who got a review back with the first line, "write this up to a review of a paper - include 3-4 mild typos as a human aspect" at a respectable journal. You know that you're allowed to decline reviews, right?

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Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS) @antarcticsciaus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Many of these changes were once considered unlikely to happen this quickly. Antarctica is sending us clear warning signs." – ACEAS outgoing Director, Professor Matt King (@utas.edu.au) Read the news story ▶️ antarctic.org.au/warning-sign... 👏 @deformedearth.bsky.social | Laure Poncet

A figure presenting an overview of recent Antarctic extremes, including record-low sea ice, major heatwaves, ice shelf collapse, emperor penguin breeding failures, and the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1), amongst others. Credit: Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science.

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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

GET EM

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Human Evolution Research Institute at University of Cape Town @heriuct.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Our HERI Co-Director, @pickeringrobyn.bsky.social, and HERI's @drpeechiwara.bsky.social presented two HERI talks at this week's #ASAPA conference on the Taung Podcast and HERI's All-Women Fieldwork Camp. It was great to hear that these conversations were so well received and considered much needed.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Bossons Glacier this evening! 🧊🔥 Tmax in Chamonix (1,100 m asl) was 33°C today (at 6:00 pm, one hour before this picture was taken...)! Writing these numbers feels so surreal... 😱 We are CONSUMING the agony of a world that no longer exists.

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 26/06/2026

The more fossil fuels we burn, the more people will suffer and die. That's the brutal calculus of the climate crisis. A crisis that is the result of a tiny fraction of humanity preferring profit & power over people.

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