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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 4h

Striking how often pro-AI arguments always require like 10 different caveats. "What if AI was well regulated, trained on non-stolen data, not made by companies run by sociopaths, was didn't harm the environment, made discoveries that were verified beyond the statements of PR reps? What then?"

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 8h

I’m really thrilled to share details of a special day-course that we’re running at @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk ‘Toil and Trouble’: Early Modern Witchcraft Sat 27 Feb 2027 - Oxford Speakers include Dr Laura Kounine, Dr Tabitha Stanmore and myself. lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/toil...

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'Toil and Trouble': Early Modern Witchcraft - Oxford Lifelong Learning

Explore the history of witchcraft belief and persecution during the early modern period in this special study day.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 8h

Same story with a friend of mine, who is now actually quite famous. She dropped out after my university refused to discipline the two men who raped her, and made her sit in the same class with her in her specialized major. Her planned entire career path ended immediately.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 7h

the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow is the USA premiere of my film BLACK PACIFIC, CHINESE ATLANTIC @ ICA in Philadelphia. Part of a group exhibition on #AfroAsian ecologies that will be on till Feb 21, 2027. An Afro-Chinese Jamaican cinematic odyssey, it follows my grandad’s errant itineraries from Asia to the Americas.

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 8h

📢 Our first seminar of the academic year is nearly here! Declan Kavanagh, University of Kent, will be presenting a paper on: "‘The Fear You Had for Your Eyes’: The Terror of Sight Loss in Gulliver’s Travels (1726)" 🗓️ Tuesday 6 Oct, 5pm 📍 H/G09, Heslington Hall 🔗 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Tiny Gulliver rows a toy boat in a large wooden cistern while an oversized king, a queen and fanned ladies, and stern pikemen watch from a raised platform, a satirical scene emphasizing the comic size contrast and royal bemusement.

The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver. [graphic] / (Plate 2d), Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker, Lewis Walpole Library

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series is back and we have a stellar line up: @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social, 6 Oct; @cberiksen.bsky.social, 28 Oct; Jim Endersby, 25 Nov; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 Dec. All seminars are on Zoom, 15-16 CET

Poster for Instructing Colonial Natural History, Autumn Term 2026 seminar series. The design uses an 1785 watercolour by Sarah Stone showing the interior of Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum in Leicester Square, London: a dark green natural-history collection crowded with display cabinets, birds, shells, antlers and other specimens, with green curtains opening onto receding galleries and a large elephant on the right. Four online seminars are listed: Sadiah Qureshi, 6 October; Christoffer Basse Eriksen, 28 October; Jim Endersby, 25 November; and Ma. Mercedes G. Planta, 9 December. All seminars are on Zoom, 15.00–16.00 CET. Registration: instructingnaturalhistory@uu.se

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 18h

Grinnell has a required writing class for first-year students. As part of the class, we have to teach about academic honesty and avoiding plagiarism. Easy enough, I thought, until I got the first student question: "Why does Grinnell seem to take this so much more seriously than it does Title IX?"

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Tabletop Bookshelf🔜Gamehole Con @tabletopbookshelf.com · 18h

NEW: Five Hundred Year Old Vampire is a multi-player keepsake role-playing game that adapts the award-winning Thousand Year Old Vampire by Tim Hutchings into a new collaborative play experience. Players become vampires chronicling centuries of existence. From Central Michigan University Press

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17h

I probably should not have read this. The sterile language of this timeline only heightens the effect. There are so many layers of anger, but the “afforded the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting essays to CORNELL” part hits me where I live. I have measured out my life in essays…

174. At around 5:45 AM, this assault concluded and Plaintiff lost consciousness.
175. When Plaintiff awoke later that day, on October 20, 2024, Plaintiff returned to her
residence within the ALPHA BETA CHAPTER sorority house.
176. At this point, Plaintiff was in a state of shock.
177. At her residence, Plaintiff noticed a large bruise that had formed on her buttocks
and took preemptive medication for a urinary tract infection (UTI).
178. Later that day, Plaintiff became aware that what had happened to her at the XI
CHAPTER house the previous night was becoming public knowledge on CORNELL's campus.
179. With the encouragement of her friends, on or about November 8, 2024, Plaintiff reported the incident to CORNELL's private police force known as Cornell University Police
Department located at 117 Statler Drive G2 Barton Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853.
180. On or about November 8, 2024, XI CHAPTER was placed on a temporary
suspension for alleged violations of the Student Code of Conduct.
181. On or about November 8, 2024, temporary suspensions were also issued for several
students, including Defendants INGALLS, NEWELL, LEE, LOPES, SARABIA, NORRIS, and
KRETZSCHMAR, who were afforded the opportunity to mitigate their conduct by submitting
essays to CORNELL.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 18h

a lot of very annoying men have been going on about “restoring trust” in universities, by which they mean increasing “viewpoint diversity,” by which they mean privileging evidence-free conservative beliefs. but it seems like a bigger deal that students and faculty can’t trust their school this way:

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 18h

incredible work by these reporters & editors. yes, “student journalists.” seems they can teach us a lot… www.thecut.com/article/corn...

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How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case

“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 17h

like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20h

Three Florida counties have declared emergencies over Dengue Fever because the state is experiencing the most locally-transmitted cases since they began collecting the data 17 years ago.

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Florida counties declare local emergencies as dengue cases rise

Dengue fever is here in Florida, prompting several Florida counties to issue a state of emergency for the mosquito-borne disease.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)

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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 17h

Starting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔

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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 17h

New achievement unlocked: a random person emailed to accuse me of plagiarizing the design for my own book, which was a handpainted watercolor by Kevin Wilson Kinzer. Of course I went to check the link in their signature only to discover they are "proudly using AI to expand the possibilities of art!"

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Zócalo Public Square @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

English professor Andrew Black is more excited than ever to teach The Odyssey after Nolan's blockbuster—and get the chance to introduce his students to the more bizarre version that unfolds over hundreds of pages: zps.la/4AziJYD

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I’m More Excited Than Ever to Teach The Odyssey | Essay

My Students Saw Nolan’s Blockbuster. Now I Want to Introduce Them to the Darker, Weirder Poem That Inspired It

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Post Mo Thóin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's a very famous sketch about an Alexa controlled elevator in Scotland and the vocal contortions folks need to use to get it to work. AI is forcing conformity on more than just the accents though. Structure and syntax must fit its parameters. It forces homogenization.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A global pandemic killed an estimated 20 million people and still countries cannot agree to come together for the collective good. The US and EU objected en bloc to the UN declaration on future pandemics. www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

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US, EU object to UN declaration on future pandemics

The objections prevented UN member states from endorsing a political declaration that aims for better international coordination.

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Construction History Society @constructionhist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well, this looks pretty disastrous for researchers into English structures. How on earth could this have happened so suddenly that #HisttoricEngland had no warning?? Their risk register and risk management must be pretty weak. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...

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Historic England’s Vanishing Archive

Historic England’s photos didn’t vanish. SmartFrame did. Then they broke their own links. Not just the aerials. The lot. Historic Englan...

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Alta Journal @altajournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Historian and activist Susan Stryker traces the evolution of gender as a concept. buff.ly/pXK7FTs

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Gender Epiphany

Historian and activist Susan Stryker traces the evolution of gender as a concept.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s so much hatred for disabled people. People assume we’re faking. They assume we can “positive think” our way to better health. They assume we want to trample their rights to a “normal” existence. They vilify us because they’re terrified of becoming us.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

RFK Jr. has a contract for a book entitled “Unsettled Science”. He likely means it in the sense of “not yet resolved or decided” (as he falsely claims about vaccines). I think the title works in the sense of “feeling nervous, upset, or worried; not comfortable” (with him in charge).

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Exclusive | RFK Jr. Got Free Flights to Fiji and Greece From a Top Donor

The health secretary disclosed over $250,000 in gifts from security specialist Gavin de Becker.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 27/09/2026

Big thread of science scarves for all your chic geek friends

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

“Cofnas is often presented as someone doing research on race and IQ. This is incorrect. Cofnas has two academic papers related to the topic (here and here), but these are articles in the field of philosophy of science….In other words: Cofnas is not a scholar doing research on race and IQ.” 🧪

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Why it is reasonable to label Nathan Cofnas’ race realism as pseudoscientific - The Skeptic

"Race realist" Nathan Cofnas claims his "hereditarianist" viewpoint is scientifically accurate - by citing pseudoscientific research and misleading rhetoric.

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Red POP! News @redpopnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yesterday was a big day for Indigenous literature as Kinsale Drake, Darcie Little Badger, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie received the 2026 American Book Award for Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms. redpopnews.com/beyond-the-g...

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Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms Receives 2026 American Book Award

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If 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!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As the executive director of a small nonprofit working my absolute ass off to bring science to this city, hearing that the people negotiating with Drexel and the academy might brush off funding that would provide the kids of our city with access to a science museum *for a year* is boiling my blood.

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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recorded 3,659 confirmed measles cases across 47 jurisdictions as of late September.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is certainly a different opinion to the Vanderbilt report: “corporate libertarian donor networks, fossil-fuel companies & conservative think tanks intensified campaigns targeting university governance…embedding donor-aligned scholars, building research centers insulated from faculty oversight…”

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

US healthcare: She went to the ER for migraine. They did vitals & then told her to sit in the waiting room. After vomiting every 10 minutes for hours, she left for another ER. The 1st one charged her $410, & her insurance refused to pay because she'd left. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

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She waited for hours and left untreated. The ER billed her anyway.

The hospital said her visit began as soon as “care,” which could mean registration and nursing assessment, was initiated.

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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...

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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology

The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026

It's me, the mythical STEM PhD who not only took history classes but got a whole history degree! Studying history is arguably one of the most important things STEM students can do. Science isn't done in a vacuum, and students should investigate the people, places, and events that shape it.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We watched CDC staff be ousted or suddenly decide it was time for retirement; provisional employees were fired en masse last year, and in some cases, trainings have been frozen so no one new can fully engage. CDC has been a ghost ship this year. Thanks to Apoorva for her reporting on this.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/09/2026

i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

Eniko Fox
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place

OH. right! i get it now!

i get why AI is so depressing to me. because covid already shrunk my world to almost nothing, where almost all of my life revolves around socializing and watching videos on the internet (which is being ruined by AI) and creating creative works through coding (which is being ruined by AI), often using open source tools and libraries (which are being ruined by AI)

i already had so little and now even that is being rotted away before my eyes
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

college for all, college for all

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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