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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 13h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 1d

Take part in a groundbreaking workplace psychosocial safety census of all university staff in Australia, run by Pyschosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory. This an independent survey from University management and only open to staff.

Start here: nteu.info/census (takes 5-6min)

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Chris Taylor @christaylornyc.bsky.social · 1d

Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal

bsky.app/profile/ryan...

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 1d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 1d

I am but I have US citizenship, so...

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 2d

American Political Science Association 2025 was scheduled for Vancouver (yes, that's Canada) but was made partially virtual bc non-US-citizen academics currently in the US were worried about getting back into the US after leaving it for the conference.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 2d

Closing soon!

Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 12d

To my UniMelb colleagues: if you haven't already done it, please take a look at the NTEU's pre-bargaining survey. You would have received an email on 17 Sept, member or not. We really do want as many different perspectives as we can get to make sure we fight for what staff really need. Thanks!

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 3d

Competent security sector reform (SSR) includes lustration and vetting processes, policy change, human rights education, independent oversight, possibly trials for the worst offenders, and yes maybe abolishing whole institutions.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3d

It wasn’t an accident, it was Made this way, not just by years of policy and culture, but turbo charged by the second Trump era. It is not an organization of just a few bad apples there is something desperately sick and depraved about what we are unleashing on our neighbors today

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 4d

One more reason to tax billionaires out of existence.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 5d

TOO MUCH GO BACK.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 5d

Every piece of that memo appears to be completely wrong by even John Yoo standards of legal interpretation.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 6d

Time for every single military with a SpaceX contract to shred it

ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

www.propublica.org

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 6d

And no, I'm not neurodivergent and I don't have 'issues' stemming from being classed as a smart kid. Other than being a professor now, of course.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 6d

Its use in early grades is debatable (I had 'gifted' English and Math starting grade 3 or 4), but given continued time in the accelerated classes, I completely tested out of like a year of Uni with AP credits. Still did the rest of it with everyone else.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 6d

Honest answer from a former gifted kid: People learn at different speeds and that varies across subjects, not just people. It's a way to keep the kids who learn faster from getting hella bored in those subjects (not necessarily creating separate entire classes).

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 12d

To my UniMelb colleagues: if you haven't already done it, please take a look at the NTEU's pre-bargaining survey. You would have received an email on 17 Sept, member or not. We really do want as many different perspectives as we can get to make sure we fight for what staff really need. Thanks!

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 6d

I wonder what Greenblatt is atoning for this year...

Reuters @reuters.com · 6d

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League reut.rs/48715Qp

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League

The FBI has cut ties with advocacy group Anti-Defamation League, Kash Patel, the bureau's director, said on Wednesday.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 7d

Lieber code says what

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8d

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 9d

Russia has officially withdrawn from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture after Putin signed a law denouncing the treaty. By pulling out, Russia blocks the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture from monitoring its detention facilities.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 9d

I seem to remember AOC making an early effort to link immigrants/immigeation and prices but haven't heard it much since then.

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Alex Dukalskis @alexdukalskis.bsky.social · 23d

Author copies for

Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics

by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today!

If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10d

JUST IN: A judge concludes the Trump administration sent a man to Mexico to sidestep protections against torture.

He has no criminal history and had legal protection from being sent to his native El Salvador — where it appears Mexico is sending him. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 10d

Sorry not sorry #laurentians

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 10d

Literally - and I mean that literally - the Stasi. Literally.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

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Carla Winston @carlawinston.bsky.social · 10d

Vuvuzela?

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