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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4h

Also here are higher ed professors from UT Austin, the University of Arizona, and the University of Southern California strenuously urging all institutions to reject the compact

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 4h

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the layoffs have brought a human cost that cannot be tolerated.

Judge pauses shutdown layoffs at more than 30 federal agencies

In a hearing on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the layoffs have brought a human cost that cannot be tolerated.

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Katie MacKinnon, Ph.D. @ktcapuchin.bsky.social · 4h

Full time, TT position in Biological Anthropology at Santa Clara University:
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879320...

Assistant Professor in Biological Anthropology - Santa Clara, California (US) job with Santa Clara University | 37879320

Seeking for a teacher-scholar with an active field/lab based research program at the intersection of infectious disease/immunology/human growth & dev.

jobs.chronicle.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 4h

as I've said many times, he's one of our foremost public historians

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 4h

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

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Jordan @slclunk.com · 6h

Your standard online liberal who worked at a conservative think tank in college

Peacemaker looking at a mural of hitler and saying “Fuck. How'd I miss that?”

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 5h

Judge Immergut in Portland National Guard case says she intends to extend her order blocking any Guard deployments into the city for another two weeks

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 5h

The CDC Library plays an important role in providing our public health professionals with access to the best information.

Without them, CDC employees will lose access to information and resources in an outbreak.

bit.ly/4qaDIMi via @everylibrary.bsky.social

PETITION: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library

Staff at the CDC Library were laid off on October 10th and have not been brought back. Sign the petition to call for their return.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 7h

*10/15/2025 noncooperation thread*

DHS put up an illegal fence. Everyone from protestors, to lawyers, to the fire dept, to the mayor refused to comply & demanded its come down.

Yesterday it did.

& the regime learned (again!) that they're not nearly as strong as they want us to think they are.

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 19h

A fence outside the Broadview ICE facility was taken down late Tuesday night, in accordance with a federal judicial order issued last week.

ICE facility fence in Broadview has been removed, in compliance with federal judge's order

U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt of the Northern District of Illinois had set a deadline for 11:59 p.m. Tuesday for the removal after finding that ICE had placed the fence on city property without...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 13d

Therefore both ‘general intelligence’ and ‘intelligence’ have already outlived the (limited) scientific usefulness they had, and it’s high time to put them on the relic shelf next to phlogiston. Or behind it. At least phlogiston wasn’t invented by eugenicists.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 13d

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3

Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 13d

This was a truly heartening day, with deeply thoughtful challenges to the dominant narrative framed around AGI, coming from across disciplines and perspectives. Felt like the tide might finally be turning a bit, at least among the scientific community. Thanks @royalsociety.org!

Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 14d

1/2 I'm looking forward to taking part in a panel on AGI and the Turing Test, tomorrow afternoon (Thurs 2nd Oct) at the @royalsociety.org, w/ Dame Wendy Hall, Shannon Vallor, William Isaac, & Sir Nigel Shadbolt. royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 1d

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.

Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

us06web.zoom.us

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · 6h

It’s been a while, and I thought I’d be kinda over it? But no, it remains his best work.

👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 5d

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 1d

also -- oop get ready for so much more of this

Jill ONeill @jillmwo.bsky.social · 1d

"Unlike closed ecosystems that require researchers to adopt proprietary tools, Wiley AI Gateway prioritizes intentional interoperability, seamlessly integrating scholarly content and data subscriptions with today’s leading AI platforms." newsroom.wiley.com/press-releas...

Wiley Launches Interoperable Platform to Power Scientific Discovery in World's Leading AI Technologies

Wiley AI Gateway brings trusted scholarly content directly into Anthropic's Claude, AWS Marketplace, Mistral AI's Le Chat, and Perplexity Wiley (NYSE: WLY), a global leader in authoritative content an...

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 1d

This is just another higher ed hit piece, but I was dinged in my tenure case for not recording my classes. I don't record them for pedagogical reasons, but also because I don't want to go viral & receive death threats for saying that black people also deserve rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

College lectures may not always be engaging, but in the past, students still had to go (or borrow notes from a classmate). Now that many lectures are available to view remotely, Dr. Wolf-Wendel added, professors have to try harder to draw students into the classroom.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

North Carolina effort wipes out $6.5B in medical debt for 2.5M people

Officials say a North Carolina government initiative is eliminating over $6.5 billion in medical debt for more than 2.5 million residents.

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 1d

@fivefourpod.bsky.social hi y'all can you think why Firefox is labeling your website as a security risk?

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 1d

Always love a good failure writeup, even of the everyday "that's what it means to run infrastructure" variety, along with "how we fixed it" tales. 🥰

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

A candid and transparent postmortem of two technical incidents we've had on Knowledge Commons recently, brightened up at the end with a summary of the good work we're doing in moving development forward.

about.hcommons.org/2025/10/14/d...

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Chris @ary.bsky.social · 16d

Heads up about spreadshirt 😬

Chaleur Art ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 🔞 @chaleurart.bsky.social · 16d

Il paraît que Spreadshirt permet désormais de modifier les designs mis en vente à la volée par IA. Avec aucun moyen d'opt-out apparemment.

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 1d

I am not interested in dying soon and also would love to think that people I care about might gather to tell each other fun and meaningful stories when I am gone. I need to build more stories.

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Rebecca Schoenkopf @wonkette.bsky.social · 1d

welcome to the Resistance, led by Teen Vogue, the dictionary, and airports.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 1d

Just back from a marvelous gathering with colleagues for a friend &collaborator who left us far too soon this Spring. Live your life so that an entire auditorium of people who knew you, along with those who didn't get a chance to know you, can hear how marvelous you were, &how much you are missed.

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 2d

this is perfect. no notes.

ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

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Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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