Ariel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 45mIf we want people to leave toxic, bigoted cults, then we really need not to greet the tales of the abuse they endured within those cults with abusive cries of "YOU CHOSE THIS FOR YOURSELF." You don't have to trust a person with your life not to compound their abuse and drive them back to toxicity. 100
Reposted by ArielAriel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 7hAlmost every time someone tells me of a use case for every day (not hyperspecialist research) genAI, I think, this is just the destruction of a human connection you would have otherwise had. AI is the anti-community. 131
Ariel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 1hThe statistics cited here are especially grim given how few sexual assaults and coercions are reported in the first place (a rarity that is the result of this culture of impunity and even reward for sexual predation - see the election, twice, of Donald Trump).usatoday.comCornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | ExclusiveA third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year. 000
Reposted by ArielCrawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 2hwww.propublica.org/article/cali...propublica.orgA Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But... 011
Reposted by ArielRobert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 2hSorry in advance to the Carnegie Mellon humanities faculty who will be laid off to boost the uni’s credit rating in advance of the debt restructuring that will be necessary in five years. 061
Ariel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 2hHonestly, I think student journalism is a bright light in our dark time. (Get ready to defend it from the inevitable rightwing assault.) 110
Reposted by ArielGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 16hThat's a $96,318 fine for being raped. 201877606
Reposted by ArielRobert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 2hGlad someone is finally remembering higher ed’s true purpose: artificially inflating real estate prices in trendy urban zip codes. 1207
Reposted by ArielGlobal Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 2hWild horses sold for $25. National monuments cut by 90%. Endangered species protections weakened. Sacred Indigenous sites damaged by border-wall construction. Project 2025’s public-lands agenda is translating into real losses of habitat, protections and sacred places.globalextremism.orgNo Accident: Project 2025 Comes for Public LandsProject 2025’s vision for public lands is becoming policy. Wild horses are being sold into a slaughter pipeline, national monuments have been drastically reduced, endangered species protections weaken... 11212
Reposted by ArielMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 4hIt’s particularly cruel to do this to Garbo, who protected her privacy and peace but it’s not surprising she was chosen. After all, she told the world “no” and AI pushers love to run roughshod over consenf www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...theguardian.comSKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the futureSwedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI 9606183
Reposted by ArielChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2hHad she posted her papers on the arXiv at the time of submission, this would have really forced her PhD advisor's hand on giving her the PhD. But without public accountability, he actually got away with this. She eventually got a PhD in a different field, leaving astronomy. 🔭 2365
Reposted by ArielChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2hIt turned out that she had submitted her main thesis results for publication, and the referee contacted her PhD advisor, and suggested they redo them with a slightly different technique. The PhD advisor agreed (fucker!!!!!!!!!!) and they basically stole her PhD. She left without a degree. 1284
Reposted by ArielSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 3hNEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis 🌤️ wind/solar generation up 14% in 2026 to date 🏭 gas down ~10% 🚢 >100 LNG cargoes avoided 10291112
Reposted by ArielAPTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 4hSeptember 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. Today is a time to raise awareness of the ongoing impacts of residential schools and remember the children who never came home. How are you honouring the day? 7458272
Ariel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 4hImagine if every time a tech/LLM oligarch said "AI could destroy humanity/the world" or something similar, they replaced the word "AI" with the word "we" or "I." Imagine also if every time a CEO or politician used the passive voice we instead forced them to use the active voice. #mistakesweremade 020
Reposted by ArielEmily Tesh @emilytesh.net · 8hit has now been two months of suddenly having my reading mojo back. I have read or reread twenty-nine books. I can now share such revelations as 'it's been 13 years but Ancillary Justice is still a perfect book' and 'has anyone else heard of this Tchaikovsky chap?' 61054
Ariel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 7hThis is so baffling to me because nothing about my job or day would change except perhaps that I'd have to resolve less confusion and anxiety among my students. 010
Reposted by ArielRachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 7hWe have had some BRILLIANT abstracts but we do have space for more, so we're extending the deadline to the end of Monday - you only need to pop in a short abstract, & if you're UK-based we can help a bit with travel expenses. Come talk with us about a vital topic! 058
Ariel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 7hAlmost every time someone tells me of a use case for every day (not hyperspecialist research) genAI, I think, this is just the destruction of a human connection you would have otherwise had. AI is the anti-community. 131
Reposted by ArielTyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/09/2026*smacks forehead* Ohhhhhhhhhh, guys. I get it. Okay! People don't hate the mass surveillance state as part of our carceral fascist society and lament the ease and access which people can now be a creep or worse. It's that they hate GLASSES! They just hate GLASSES! Let's just make it a necklace! 612131
Reposted by ArielBob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 8hWe're way behind on adaptation (and mitigation, of course) and it's costing lives ... insideclimatenews.org/news/3009202...insideclimatenews.orgMass Heat Wave Deaths in Europe Show Climate Extremes Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts - Inside Climate NewsAs preparedness lags, many regions around the world could be overwhelmed by rising temperatures, climate experts warn. 052
Reposted by ArielHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i 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 11128533545
Reposted by ArielLeah @leah.myatproto.social · 22h(pounces on you at a cocktail party) Did you hear the good news about crabapples! #PlantSky 🌱 #ScienceSky 🧪 #Apples 🍏🍎 source.washu.edu/2026/09/wild...source.washu.eduWild crabapples have genetic potential to improve domestic varietiesA plant scientist at Washington University in St. Louis studies genetics of native crabapple species to identify traits that will help production of domestic apple crops. 59528
Reposted by ArielQuinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 22hliterally the only irreparable harm here is to the people who are fucking getting sent to countries they have no connection to 29226
Reposted by ArielKristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The pandemic should have led to clean indoor air, treatments for long covid and related illnesses, next gen vaccines, normalization of masking, mandatory respiratory protection in healthcare, sick leave, and a paradigm shift around what infections do to people 7270102
Reposted by ArielSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED 60766951495
Reposted by ArielDave Ghoul @daveghoul.com · 29/09/2026This is pretty much me. I got Covid then health problems I had got worse *and* I developed new issues. Then my 2nd infection made all of that stuff worse *and* I developed more new issues. So yeah, Long Covid isn't just developing new health issues, it can also worsen existing issues. 1289
Reposted by ArielKate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What Kevin said. And public media (which can be housed at universities- esp regional publics)! 314827
Reposted by ArielDr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪 15554164
Ariel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If only bad actors and everyday people weren't spreading misinformation about the HPV vaccine. 001
Reposted by ArielMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.' 29694
Reposted by Arielfolukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 29/09/2026In Truth and Reconciliation, there is a reason "truth" comes before "reconciliation". 03312
Reposted by ArielNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026(Important to note here that women of color are disproportionately likely to be sexually assaulted in college. The “white women” people wag their fingers at are very often not white.) 17811
Reposted by ArielNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026That tactic gave quiet misogynists a “moral” reason to justify their public support of rapists at the expense of survivors. Once again, survivors who wanted their perpetrators gone were “vengeful” and “man haters.” But it was okay if the misogyny was directed at “white women.” 27914
Reposted by ArielNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The co-optation of the history of lynchings of Black men to protect the privileges of wealthy white male college students was racist. It’s one of many scenarios in which Trump (falsely) argued that a marginalized group had to lose their rights to protect another marginalized group. 18922
Reposted by ArielNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Since then, there has been a good deal of research on racial disparities in Title IX enforcement. No one found anything. (Myself included.) In fact, sexual assault is one of the only school disciplinary proceedings without a racial disparity.gao.govU.S. GAO - K-12 Education: Discipline Disparities for Black Students, Boys, and Students with DisabilitiesWhat GAO Found Black students, boys, and students with disabilities were disproportionately disciplined (e.g., suspensions and expulsions) in K-12... 110525
Reposted by ArielNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026During the Trump era fight over Title IX, there were a series of think pieces that insinuated that expulsion was an unfair consequence for sexual violence. Many of them cited an article by Caitlin Flanagan who announced without evidence that there were racial disparities in Title IX enforcement. 18513
Reposted by ArielNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026At the time, the general public was outraged to learn that most elite universities expelled zero students for sexual violence on an average year, which was presented in stark contrast to the numbers of students expelled for plagiarism. 115128
Reposted by ArielNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school. 327598
Reposted by ArielCAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026New data shows tuition has gone up more than 20% in the last 5 years. Starting next week, we’ll break it down by province. With tuition going up and student financial supports going down, fewer Canadians can access education. Tell the government to stop cutting student supports. 035
Reposted by ArielCAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Students should be able to attend college or university without taking on massive debt. @pattyhajdu.bsky.social, don't cut student grants. 034
Reposted by ArielCAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Canada’s public colleges and universities are among the country’s most important economic and social drivers...Yet despite their importance, public funding for post-secondary education has failed to keep pace." More in @policyalternatives.ca's Alternative federal budget: buff.ly/va3A9Aebuff.lyAlternative federal budget 2026-27: Post-secondary education | CCPAA budget that makes Canada stronger by committing to solidarity and dignity for all 0612
Reposted by ArielAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026This is why the Vanderbilt/WashU report cannot be understood apart from both institutions‘ massive investments in AI. Their leaders needed to discredit those disciplines and forms of knowledge asking hard questions about the cultural, social, political, and environmental costs of AI. 14211
Ariel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Gosh, what could be giving women the ick about Palantir Gary? "sometimes he makes up stories out of thin air to justify working for Palantir—like that line about the medical debt. His parents don’t have any, nor are they ill." www.wired.com/story/tech-b...wired.comWhy No One Wants to Date Tech BrosOnce seen as nerdy but harmless innovators, men in tech are now widely regarded as red-pilled Elon Musk wannabes. It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder. 100
Ariel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh, FFS. Zoom going out of its way to make itself useless as a teaching tool. 000
Reposted by ArielDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency 22325841055