Reposted by SBryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents 382466527
Reposted by SBNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This year’s El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years #NothingToSeeHere #MoveRightAlong www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world 163
SB @sbridger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Maybe there'll be a street fight between Ari Emanuel and the worm-eaters vs Joe Rogan and the ivermectin-antiworm-eaters and they'll cancel each other out 020
Reposted by SBcmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student! 29488485
SB @sbridger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026They do! And you, too, can join the Paulinella Consortium: www.vanettenlab.org/paulinella-c...vanettenlab.orgPaulinella Consortium — Van Etten lab at UMD 031
Reposted by SBJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Making the US dirtier and less globally competitive www.reuters.com/world/trump-...reuters.comUS to finalize sharply lower vehicle fuel economy standardsThe US Transportation Department on Monday will finalize sharply lower vehicle fuel economy standards through 2031, reversing a push by the Biden administration to force automakers to build more elect... 25527
Reposted by SBMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here: 131862906
Reposted by SBAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026there is so much fascinating work on "cute" especially in the past decade, but especially how much it permits us to ignore and facilitate 5408
Reposted by SBWyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026new favourite Smaug dropped 281600328
Reposted by SBSam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Can we please go back to the old internet where Search was a bunch of efficient SQL queries? Please, I'm so done with this 322534
Reposted by SBAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 24/09/2026When you look at what Hamilton has done, you see how tiresome and pointless the “why is nobody majoring in the humanities” handwringing is. You need to invest and create a vibrant, research-forward humanities ecosystem on campus. Nobody’s going to want to major in disciplines that act dead. 2378
Reposted by SBAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 24/09/2026Democrats control the entirety of the state government of Massachusetts. Why aren’t they funding the humanities at MA public universities? Why aren’t they doing what Republicans in Florida did with the Hamilton School? 45511
Reposted by SBYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament. 22978325
Reposted by SBDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I don’t think most people realize how bad this will be for the world.bbc.co.ukEl Niño set to be 'strongest in living memory', says Met OfficeScientists say the growing El Niño weather pattern is an "unprecedented event" and means 2027 is likely to be the world's hottest year on record. 428479
Reposted by SBRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful. 47371673222
Reposted by SBR Subramanian (he/him) @rsubramanian.com · 17/09/2026"NPR tracked down equipment and found that some of it was auctioned, donated or thrown in the trash... NASA donated hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of radio communications equipment to Capitol Technology University without the knowledge of the scientists who used it" 8555254
Reposted by SBMary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... 825689
Reposted by SBConcerned Jewish Faculty & Staff @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Over 300 Haverford College students and alumni signed a letter criticizing Haverford's legal settlement with the Deborah Project, which appears to single out "Zionism" as a protected religious identity. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...haaretz.comHaverford College's policy stifles criticism of Israel, open letter warnsHaverford College's new policies following an antisemitism lawsuit seem to treat Zionism as a protected identity, signatories say 1126
Reposted by SBKatie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Food insecurity didn't go away just because they stopped collecting the data. (Our chart will not be going away, either.) 16034
Reposted by SBJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."bu.eduNew Learning Outcomes Announced | English 402366471
Reposted by SBTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Volunteer moderators are a big part of why some corners of the internet still feel human, writes Sarah Gilbert of Cornell's Citizens and Technology Lab. Without them, she argues, we face intertwined crises of knowledge and community.techpolicy.pressMillions of Volunteers Are Keeping the Internet Human. For Now.We’re never going back to the human internet we had. But we can hope for a better internet than the AI-dominated one that is emerging, writes Sarah Gilbert. 25320
Reposted by SBSeth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.networks.h-net.orgBrown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown. 2275235
SB @sbridger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Anyway, as of this morning, this little identify-and-count-the-letters-in-a-word problem still hasn't been solved. AI still has fundamental engineering problems and very basic dysfunctionality: 100
Reposted by SBPM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"OpenAI is hiring hundreds of contractors who read a massive stream of real users’ ChatGPT prompts, with the prompts sometimes including sensitive personal information, 404 Media has learned. The prompts these people review can include whole conversations between users and the chatbot."404media.coInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsHumans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M... 21821
SB @sbridger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Blunt, earnest, & thoughtful MIT report on numerous deleterious effects of AI on student learning, with recommendations for teachers and universities (more in-person activities and assignments, rethinking grades, etc.). aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ 011
Reposted by SBThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.nyti.msE.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power PlantsGeneration of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States. 265728477
Reposted by SBTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much. 192028659
Reposted by SBScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026They're exposing our secrets! Israel’s Culture Minister Miki Zohar said Sunday he will work to revoke the citizenship of Oscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their documentary “NAZA” won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. The film examines what it describeshaaretz.comIsrael's culture minister threatens to revoke citizenship of Gaza doc filmmakersThe film won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. It reveals 'in detail the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza' following the e... 615484
SB @sbridger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026An apt poet for the grimness and grief today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b...nytimes.comCarolyn Forché on Her Favorite Books and New Poetry Collection, ‘Otherwhere’“I haven’t finished it yet,” she says of the 20-volume gift from her husband. A new book, “Otherwhere,” collects 50 years of her poetry. 100
SB @sbridger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There is so much to "never forget." costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human?... 011
Reposted by SBDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Summer is over but I want to vent about an old man peeve: Sunscreen should be cream, not spray. I shouldn’t be inhaling your spray from five towels away. Spread that white gunk on, like our ancestors did. 281927
Reposted by SBDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026there's a teaser trailer and everything youtube.com/watch?v=GGJSRFWALTI&feature=youtu.beyoutube.comYou Can See Everything | Official Teaser HD | A24YouTube video by A24 1661988298
Reposted by SBTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it. 141171305
Reposted by SBKeifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time 121896586
Reposted by SBJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Shame on the 33 House Democrats who voted for an unconstitutional bill to block financial aid to any colleges or universities that support BDS. It's a solution in search of a problem (none currently do) and an assault on protected speech. 711836
Reposted by SBJen Fifield @jenafifield.bsky.social · 01/09/20261/ Just in: An anonymous federal worker has filed a whistleblower disclosure warning that the U.S. Postal Service's attempt to create a system to regulate mail voting for the midterms has been "rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed." @propublica.org has the details 👇 15262442643
Reposted by SBAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously. 4331341632
Reposted by SBHansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 31/08/2026SCOOP: After the Census Bureau issued a highly unusual report tied to a President Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau’s parent agency, the Commerce Department, cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, @npr.org has learned www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...npr.orgTrump officials cut political interference ban after unusual Census Bureau reportAfter the Census Bureau issued a report tied to a Trump-aligned think tank, the bureau's parent agency cut language banning political interference from its scientific integrity policy, NPR learned. 23951509
SB @sbridger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026U.S. students at unis governed by the (deeply flawed) IHRA definition of antisemitism are forbidden from "Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis." But here are former high-ranking Israeli military and defense officials--in Israel--making these allegations.nytimes.comThese Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society b... 000
Reposted by SBAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I’d never heard this version before. God, the emotion she puts into it. youtu.be/CEPUxpR64YE?...youtu.beDeportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic 6495166
SB @sbridger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Excuse me while my head explodes that my university *library* has decided to end the practice of physical course reserves. Only e-books can be placed on reserve (a meaningless designation for an e-book). 020
Reposted by SBChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/08/2026The Empire State Building went pink at exactly 9:25pm for Dolly Parton. Because of course they made it 9 to 5. That’s how you honor an icon. 🩷 381272896277
Reposted by SBDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton supported so many important causes, among them donating a million dollars to COVID vaccine research early in the pandemic, which saved millions of lives. She will always be remembered as a champion of the people. 3558151366
Reposted by SBJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24/08/2026The real "administrative bloat" in education is the money that schools are being forced to fork over to tech vendors that can just keep jacking up their prices year after year, because it would cost even more to rebuild the systems and retrain the people that were built/trained on that tech. 9498145
Reposted by SBAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026cognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...chicagomaroon.comSosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This FallAll social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students... 16912272
Reposted by SBDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 23/08/2026(The loss of search function is a vastly vastly vastly more damaging thing to information equity and social progress than research papers being paywalled and yet it’s getting a fraction of the indignation) 08819