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David @daverino.bsky.social · 1d

#Straya

“Thousands of viewers have already tuned in to see a fluffy trio of falcon chicks born atop a Melbourne skyscraper, but the real cliffhanger is yet to come. Over the next few weeks..the birds will learn to fly. It’s heart-in-mouth viewing”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Melbourne’s skyscraper falcon chicks set for first flight as livestream audience becomes ‘permanent watch parties’

Tens of thousands watch online as city’s beloved peregrine offspring prepare for first plunge

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

The current paradigm of "AI"— all of its, e.g., embedded values, design, cultural deployment, & structural affordances— has been repeatedly demonstrated to harm both critical skills development & the structure & maintenance of the relational social fabric.

That sounds pretty anti-pedagogical, to me

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 2d

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 2d

I just bookmarked this and you may want to, as well. 🙄

Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · 2d

If you are a Texan being investigated for your connections to "radical leftist" groups, I am interested in representing you against harassment by Ken Paxton's office.

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 2d

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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maggie @riverportgin.bsky.social · 3d

its genuinely horrifying to have professors telling the class ‘i have to watch what i say now, in case i lose my job’ and warning us about democratic backsliding. we literally live under an oppressive authoritarian regime.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 3d

The thing about 7 billionaire freaks passing the same increasingly large wad of IOUs back and forth, is that only a pundit could possibly think this translates to increasing prosperity for everyone else.

🍁 Levi Kornelsen @levikornelsen.bsky.social · 3d

"We'd have a recession if it wasn't for all the AI spending" actually means "We are in a recession which is partially obfuscated *from statistics* (and nobody else) by rich people playing silly buggers with large transactions between each other".

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

Stuart Hall took Thatcherism seriously & tried to understand its affective & aspirational appeal. Trumpism operates differently, as @cnewf.bsky.social notes, but the need to offer a cultural & political counter-strategy is key. I keep thinking about Hall’s adept use of new forms of media.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Science Magazine @science.org · 3d

In a 2020 #ScienceReview, researchers investigated how systematic racist practices such as residential segregation have led to an unequal distribution of “nature” within cities.

Learn more on #WorldHabitatDay: https://scim.ag/3KQnEir

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments

Cities create challenging environments for many nonhuman species, and the presence of nonhumans in cities influences the health and well-being of the humans with which they share the environment. Dist...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 3d

Every year the Darkness Divided folks make a calendar that features artwork and poetry by currently and formerly incarcerated people, who are compensated for their contributions. See more here (they sell out): www.darknessrisingproject.org/rebuildcalen...

REBUILD Calendars - Darkness Rising Project

2026 REBUILD Calendar Each month showcases powerful artwork and uplifting quotes from current and formerly incarcerated individuals, who are compensated for their contributions. Last year’s calendar i...

www.darknessrisingproject.org

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 3d

OpenAI's Sora gambit is somehow even more reckless and arrogant than we've grown accustomed to with the company. OpenAI is betting that it can spit in the face of creatives, workers, and the largest media companies on the planet—and bend copyright law to its whims.

The incredible arrogance of OpenAI

With Sora 2, OpenAI is betting it can spit in the face of workers, creators, and the biggest media conglomerates on the planet — and win

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.

But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.

By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.

When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

www.propublica.org

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Emma Tumilty (she/her) @emtumilty.bsky.social · 4d

Give the new Research Ethics journal account a follow for the latest updates on publications and journal issues, as well as calls for special issues, etc.

Research Ethics journal @rea-ethics-sage.bsky.social · 4d

Read the latest: "Scientific integrity: Perceptions and recommendations from a qualitative study with actors of the science, technology, and innovation system in Colombia" Diana Rocío Bernal-Camargo et al, 2025

#ResearchEthics #ScientificIntegrity

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Scientific integrity: Perceptions and recommendations from a qualitative study with actors of the science, technology, and innovation system in Colombia - Diana Rocío Bernal-Camargo, Carlos Enrique Tr...

The review of the scientific literature has provided evidence of the presence of scientific misconduct and questionable conduct in research (QCR), without furth...

journals.sagepub.com

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Emma Tumilty (she/her) @emtumilty.bsky.social · 4d

Are you interested in #ResearchEthics or research related to #DeceasedDonation, or a someone who has had family donate their organs after death? We are a group who are creating research ethics principles for research on deceased donation and we'd like your input (see flyer).

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5d

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 5d

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 4d

Re: the Windy City, 🧊, and social media surveillance

Patricia Hill Collins reminds us that "oppression cannot be reduced to one fundamental type, and that oppressions work together in producing injustice."

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Image of page from Disabling Intelligences. The text is in this thread.

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 5d

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Karen O’Donnell @karenod.bsky.social · 5d

The #SST26 call for papers is live! Deadline 14th Dec. Theme: “Theology: A Discipline of Failure”
Bursary applications also open

www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/...

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 5d

Look at this gorgeous cover for Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine!! Thanks to Ian Williams for giving us permission to use his image on the cover, which captures brilliantly the concept & structure of the book. Briana Martino (@briwok.bsky.social) & I are grateful & thrilled!
#GraphicMedicine

Book cover for Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine edited by Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino. The image on the cover is from Ian Williams, & is a version of an image from his book The Bad Doctor, a graphic narrative based on his own experience with OCD. A boy is in bed with his hands folded in prayer & his thoughts take the form of a sefirot surrounding his head.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 5d

The AI bubble, which accounts for over a third of the US stock market, which exceeds the amount of consumer spending, which has literally warped the entire tech industry into an incestuous ponzi scheme of funding, is 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5d

Again, Kavanaugh justified racial profiling by claiming that this doesn't happen--a justification that becomes more preposterous with each passing day as Trump's goons terrorize more people based on the color of their skin

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 6d

The absolutely horrific reports of inhumane and degrading treatment that the courageous people abducted from the Sumud Flotilla have been subjected to should jolt the Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Wong into action.

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Bear Jewess 🟦🎗️ @388shark.bsky.social · 6d

They took 4 Black children from their US citizen parents. Chicago PD needs to make kidnapping arrests. Now.

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