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Ass Prof of STS @ UVA Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.

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Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · Jun 23

Heyo! New piece by me, @ashleyshoo.bsky.social and @wolvendamien.bsky.social on our syllabi and teaching philosophies around our class Technology and Disability is out!

blog.apaonline.org/2025/06/18/t...

Technology and Disability, Ashley Shew, Damien P. Williams, and Joshua Earle

The three of us have taught classes about Technology and Disability through a philosophical lens, though this class has not been taught exclusively through philosophy departments. We’re excited to sha...

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 14h

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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joseph m. gabriel is feeling pain not observed in the data @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 2h

#... call, every day, like clockwork, and every time spend as much time on the phone as you can, and every time ask to be bumped up the management chain as much as possible; always be polite but insistent...

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joseph m. gabriel is feeling pain not observed in the data @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 2h

In addition to this, I strongly encourage anyone who has been denied a claim to:

1) demand, on the phone and in writing, ther the name, license number, and specialty status of the physician who approved the denial be sent to you in writing.

I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice, but....

ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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sqooky from:me @skeet.best · 1d

ChatGPT itself is a lazy nepo baby failson that constantly bullshits you about work it can't understand and blows off, but you somehow can't fire because it got this job as a favor to its parent company, as above so below etc

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Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 3h

That said, in the normal course of studies, don't expect this to make it to human trials for another 5 years (as they do larger animal studies), then Human trials for 5-8 years. So, if this continues to work, expect clinical applications between 2035 and 2040.

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Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 3h

I always caution people to append the phrase "in mice" at the end of any miraculous medicine story since we can make mice do, basically, anything biologically.

This is different. While it is a study in mice, the mechanism has little to do with mice's uniquely malleable biology.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14h

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst

The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

www.umass.edu

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 14h

Moist owlettes. 🪶

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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 4h

In LA for the Urban History Assn, I've belatedly learned that my colleague and fellow UVa historian @Andrew Kahrl has won the Lizabeth Cohen Prize for Best Book on Cities and Political Power, for his masterful book The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America. 👏👏👏👏👏

Andrew Kahrl @akahrl.bsky.social · Sep 5

I am happy to share the news that my book The Black Tax was named the winner of the Lizabeth Cohen Prize for Best Book on Cities and Political Power and received an Honorable Mention for the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American Urban History from the Urban History Association

2025 Award Winners

www.urbanhistory.org

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 5h

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5h

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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Activate Virginia @activateva.bsky.social · 1d

"And it’s worked exactly how the politicians and business lobbies wanted it to. It’s driven down wages, busted unions and kept Virginia at the bottom when it comes to worker protections."

Labor leader: It’s time to repeal so-called ‘right-to-work’ in Virginia

“Right-to-work” isn’t about freedom or choice. It’s a corporate scam dressed up in red, white and blue.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 7h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 9h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 15h

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Screenshot of aeschlus-stan account

“I hate it when I’m trying to look up a good golem recipe and the rabbi prefaces it with ten paragraphs about his life in 17th century Prague. Like, I feel for you, Maharai, but there are anti-semites going unsuplexed while I’m searching for the ingredient list.”

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Jenna Lee-Yun @jennaleeyun.bsky.social · 8h

WOW What an huge honor!! Thank you so much to @theignyteawards.bsky.social, everyone who voted, and the readers and writers supporting BIPOC speculative stories ❤️

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 12h

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Middle Grade is THE LAST RHEE WITCH by Jenna Lee-Yun

2025 Winner Outstanding Middle Grade: THE LAST RHEE WITCH by Jenna Lee-Yun

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Suyi @suyidavies.com · 8h

Holy shit, what????

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 12h

The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com

2025 Winner Outstanding Novella: LOST ARK DREAMING by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 7h

This really resonated with me. One of the best things we've done at @livablecville.bsky.social is start having monthly social events. They're a low pressure way to connect with people and have fun, often while nerding out over housing and transportation. Build community and you'll build a movement.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 8h

Some thoughts on SB 79 and how YIMBYs finally did it: publiccomment.blog/p/happy-hour...

Happy Hour Power

Why YIMBYs just won big in California

publiccomment.blog

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 12h

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works - THYME TRAVELLERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Sonia Sulaiman

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, hello

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 13h

This. Innuendo studio has a great explanation of this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzN...

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SPIROSAURUS 🦖 ((📱)) 🎼 @dottiedino.bsky.social · 14h

Someone told me once that asking white Americans specifically to mask meant you were pointing directly at them and saying “your god will not save you — NO ONE is saved by faith. Science has won, your religion is finished.”

And if you think about their reaction, yeah, the way they flipped out match

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 14h

The mirror's spherically aberrated

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 14h

Also: Sean Duffy, NASA Administrator

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I really recommend browsing a reddit called "Is this AI?" for this purpose. people post questionable images and commenters weigh in on their validity, but are required to provide specifics as to their reasoning. once you start seeing the signs, it gets easier and easier over time

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