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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

🚨New preprint!🚨 arxiv.org/abs/2606.03095 In a randomized field experiment in a 300-level machine learning course, teaching assistants received AI-assisted feedback drafts after grading student submissions. Did AI help them provide more feedback when feedback was optional? A thread 🧵

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Romina Mahinpei @rmahinpei.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📝Excited to share our new preprint, “AI Assistance for Discretionary Work: Increasing Feedback Provision in Higher Education”: arxiv.org/abs/2606.03095 A thread 🧵 1/8

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year. Of course I have. The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious. Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

'Artificial intelligence tools used by more than half of England’s councils are downplaying women’s physical and mental health issues and risk creating gender bias in care decisions, research [led by Sam Rickman, LSE] has found.' 1/2

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AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds

Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Blue dots are UN aid distribution sites that existed in Gaza before the IDF and US mercenaries took over the process and blocked the UN. Yellow squares are current sites. The current system is aid theater and has created killing fields where dozens of aid seekers are killed every single day.

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Whew 😬 “Being forced to use AI has turned a job I liked into something I dread. As someone with a journalism background, it feels insulting to use AI instead of creating quality blog posts about education policy.” — A marketing team-member at an EdTech co. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-...

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AI Killed My Job: Tech workers

Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.

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sorelle @friedler.net · 25/06/2025

Specifically, if you're looking for a CS job at a small liberal arts college check this list (later this summer): cs-pui.github.io And warning: many of these jobs have early fall deadlines! #FAccT2025

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CS Jobs at Undergrad Institutions (PUIs)

A site to compile more teaching-oriented positions in CS that are often a struggle to find for Ph.D. students new on the market.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2025

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Victoria Dean (she/they) @vdean.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Our NEH grant was terminated this week. The reason? The letter reads, "NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President’s agenda." www.olin.edu/articles/new... 🧵 (1/5)

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NEWS: Olin receives NEH grant for AI, climate change, and humanities curriculum integration

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 08/04/2025

If you're working on "fairness" "ethics" "responsible AI" and such at these companies while watching your colleagues getting fired for protesting this carnage and managing to be quiet about these lucrative "AI" for genocide contracts, you're providing cover for these companies to commit genocide.

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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I'm supposed to be at Sweet Briar College, where I was so excited to meet with the amazing students, faculty, and staff who organized my visit & made Mobility their Common Read. Hours before my flight I learned about their Board's exclusion of trans & nonbinary people. So now I'm not going.

Screenshot of a letter. Full text here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WFgiczX6J1VYtVnSLzvaX3L02WuxCuLn/view?usp=drivesdk

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Immersed in so much cruelty, I'm 🥹 to see that the Arnold Arboretum is hosting a ceremony to say goodbye to its silver maple view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=e61e0290f...

Photo of two people standing beneath a large, gnarled tree. At the top: "The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University." Below: Tribute Tree Mob: Saying Goodbye to the Silver Maple, April 2 @ 4pm

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Victoria Dean (she/they) @vdean.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Proud to live in a precinct that went +87 for Harris.

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Emma Pierson @emmapierson.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Migration data is critical in the health, environmental, and social sciences. We're releasing a new dataset, MIGRATE: annual flows between 47 billion pairs of US Census areas. MIGRATE is: - 4600x more granular than existing public data - highly correlated with external ground-truth data 1/2

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Air-Moving Device @airmovingdevice.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024. Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/03/2025

BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

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Olin College of Engineering @olincollege.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Earlier this month, Olin students and faculty made a big splash in the scientific community - joining 4,000 attendees from 65 countries at the @aaas.org Annual Meeting. 📬 Read the recap: www.olin.edu/articles/sto... #science #technology #policy

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STORY: Olin College’s Undergraduate Research and Hands-on Learning on Display at 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 21/02/2025

Keep shaming them for this. I don't mean Musk, Bannon and the other turds doing the Sieg Heil very openly and purposely (we know they are Nazis). I mean the GOP members who people elect. They should not be able to get away with it and they should not be normalizing this. We know what comes next.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 19/02/2025

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 19/02/2025

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I think corporations making billions in profit should pay a reasonable percentage of that in corporate income tax. And 0% is not reasonable.

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Ben Eysenbach @ben-eysenbach.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Excited to share new work led by @vivekmyers.bsky.social and @crji.bsky.social that proves you can learn to reach distant goals by solely training on nearby goals. The key idea is a new form of invariance. This invariance implies generalization w.r.t. the horizon.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/02/2025

Suspension Bridge xkcd.com/3048

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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Oh gosh. Found on the web. Anthropic (producer of Claude LLMs) asking job applicants to not use AI systems when filling in their application. simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/2/a...

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While we encourage people to use AI systems during their role to help them work faster and more effectively, please do not use AI assistants during the application process. We …

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Olin College of Engineering @olincollege.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

On Feb. 13-15 in #Boston, Olin will be at booth 823 at the @aaas.bsky.social Conference Expo. Come say “hi!” Also, w/ the guidance of faculty advisors, @vdean.bsky.social & Georgia Van de Zande, nine Olin students will present their research. More info on this year’s meeting: meetings.aaas.org

An Olin College save the date graphic with the main header text reading “AAAS Annual Meeting 2025.”

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Victoria Dean (she/they) @vdean.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Imagine pulling a grant because it uses the term "historically"

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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 03/02/2025

Do not comply. Do not comply. Do not comply. Do not comply. Do not comply. Do not comply. Do not comply. Do not comply. Do not comply. Do not comply. Do not comply. Do not comply.

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Victoria Dean (she/they) @vdean.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

ICML writing breaks call for ice cream. Feeling grateful that I live minutes from JP Licks!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Academics have been perfecting our skills at flighting fascism during faculty meetings.

Because it was written during active wartime, the book includes various suggestions for causing physical violence and destruction, such as starting fires, flooding warehouses, breaking tools, etc. But it also includes many suggestions for how to just generally be annoying within a bureaucracy or office setting. Simple sabotage ideas include:
• "Insist on doing everything through 'channels.' Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions."
• "Make 'speeches.' Talk as frequently as possible and at great length.
Illustrate your 'points' by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a few appropriate 'patriotic' comments."
• "Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible."
• "Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions."
• "Misunderstand' orders. Ask endless questions or engage in long correspondence about such orders. Quibble over them when you can."
• "In making work assignments, always sign out the unimportant jobs first.
See that the important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines."
• "To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. Discriminate against efficient workers;
complain unjustly about their work."

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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’ve spent about 2-3 hours each day on calls or chats with my US gov friends. Here’s an anonymized recap of what’s going on. First, I am so very sorry that they are living our last year at Twitter. I never wanted to think about that time again, and I hope my advice is helpful. 1/

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I tend to have pretty good timing. For example, I started getting therapy like four weeks ago.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/01/2025

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

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Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

As AI systems grow more efficient, will they reduce environmental impacts —or make them worse? Our new paper with @strubell.bsky.social and Kate Crawford explores how 𝗝𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗻𝘀’ 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘅 applies to AI, showing that efficiency gains alone won’t lead to sustainability 🌎 arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16548

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

NSF grantees - people who have already received their grants based on a previously funded and approved research proposal - are being told to stop any activities related to DEI and accessibility. Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects. www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 25/01/2025

If you are scientists, researcher, or scholar of any kind, it's time to invest HEAVILY in science communication. If the government won't let the people know the facts, we must. And I already got you covered. #academicsky #science #phd #research medium.com/educreation/... bsky.app/profile/roxa...

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Science Communication for the Willing

A helpful guide to sharing research (effectively) on Twitter

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Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 25/01/2025

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Wow

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Apropos of a co-panelist's remarks today: If you're asking how do we get people to trust this technology, you're asking the wrong question. Should be: How do we build technology that is trustworthy & sufficiently transparent so people can make informed decisions abt when to trust it.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The state of the world is pretty grim lately but check out this graph showing that throughout human history until recently, half of the people die before reaching the age of 15. Not even the convicted felon Donald Trump can take us back there. ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...

A graph titled "The long-run history of child mortality," showing the percentage of children who died before reaching puberty across various historical societies and time periods. It highlights specific rates from different regions, illustrating trends over time, with notable peaks and a precipitous drop to the present day.

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