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Núria Masdéu
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brizzyc.bsky.social
Nice compilation by CNN of all the 1st Amendment threats this year www.cnn.com/politics/fre...
Trump tests the First Amendment: A timeline | CNN Politics
Within weeks of retaking the White House, President Donald Trump boasted that he had “brought free speech back to America.” But since then, he has tested the limits of the First Amendment time and aga...
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December 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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uocuniversitat.bsky.social
Per què confiem menys en la ciència?

El repte és contrastar i reforçar la cultura científica.

En parlem amb @macips01.bsky.social a 🎧 #EvidentMENT, el pòdcast de la UOC i l’ @iec.cat, amb el suport del Departament de Recerca i Universitats de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
🔗 youtu.be/1pHxtVb34is
December 19, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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uocuniversitat.bsky.social
🌇 La #UOC celebra 10 anys com a Universitat Refugi, amb més de 270 persones refugiades acollides 👉 www.uoc.edu/ca/news/2025...
December 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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uocuniversitat.bsky.social
🎉 La catedràtica de la #UOC Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol (@mireiafa.bsky.social) rep l'ajut Acadèmia d'Excel·lència de la Generalitat de Catalunya per intensificar la seva recerca en comunicació digital i perifèries socials. uoc.edu/ca/news/2025...

Un reconeixement a la seva tasca investigadora 👩‍🏫
December 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
nuria77.bsky.social
Impressionant el que ja tenim a sobre amb la IA agèntica. L'últim dossier de McKinsey centra part del contingut en la IA agèntica a les organitzacions

www.mckinsey.com/quarterly/ov...
www.mckinsey.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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uocuniversitat.bsky.social
🚀 PhD applications open on 1 Dec!

The UOC launches the IN2TIC MSCA COFUND call with 12 predoctoral contracts in digital & social impact research
@HorizonEU

Apply until 31 Jan 👇
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Many people don't realise how climate change is already - not in the future - affecting our lives. And it's doing so in ways that, once our eyes are opened, we can notice!

For example, food. h/t @climatecentral.org
A bar chart showing how climate-related extremes spiked the costs of cocoa, vegetables, coffee, and more. An infographic showing how heat, flood and drought affect all aspects of the food supply chain.
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets

www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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ianhillmedia.bsky.social
The administration alleges UCLA violated civil rights related to antisemitism and affirmative action.
Trump administration seeks $1 billion settlement from UCLA, a White House official says
The administration alleges UCLA violated civil rights related to antisemitism and affirmative action.
www.wusa9.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
www.axios.com/2025/07/31/w...
July 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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nytimes.com
Breaking News: Brown University was said to have reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore federal funding. nyti.ms/459nQzY
Brown University's campus. A headline reads: "Brown University Makes A Deal With the White House to Restore Funding." Photo credit: lan MacLellan for The New York Times.
July 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
READ THE TEXT of Brown University's agreement with the Trump administration www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
MV. AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES Advancing Brown's longstanding commitment, shared with the United States, to ensuring that campus development serves as a regional economic engine and career catalyst for local workers, Brown agrees to pay the sum of Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000) to state workforce development organizations operating in compliance with anti-discrimination laws, over the ten years following the Effective Date. 10. With the exception of actions to enforce this Agreement, the United States agrees not to institute any civil action or other adverse agency action against Brown, its officers, Corporation members, directors, agents, and employees (the "Brown Releasees") based on the Released Claims. The United States releases the Brown Releasees from any liability related to the Released Claims. The United States is not releasing Brown or the Brown Releasees from any other liability. 11. The University will take the following steps to ensure compliance with Title IX and its implementing regulations, by providing safe and equitable opportunities and spaces for women: a. In Brown Athletics facilities, the University will provide female student-athletes with intimate facilities such as locker rooms and bathrooms strictly separated on the basis of sex. b. The University will define "male" and "female," for the purpose of all practices, policies, and procedures adopted and implemented by the University for any athletic opportunity, event, competition, category, program, or activity designated for women, consistent with the definitions
July 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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ericumansky.bsky.social
Real quote from this fellow: “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.”
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 26
A senior State Department official who was fired as a White House speechwriter during the first Trump administration for attending a gathering of white supremacists has been appointed acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, according to the State Department.
Fired Speechwriter From First Trump Term Appointed to Lead the Institute of Peace
In 2018, the White House fired Darren Beattie for attending a gathering of white supremacists. Mr. Beattie will head the institute while keeping his senior State Department position.
nyti.ms
July 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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olivia.science
"We can't ban AI" they keep saying — "China will surpass us" they keep saying... I mean they surely surpass us in taking education seriously: www.theverge.com/news/682737/...
China shuts down AI tools during nationwide college exams
New age problems require new age solutions.
www.theverge.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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karl-jacoby.bsky.social
"The Columbia University Board of Trustees’ concessions to the Trump administration are a disaster . . . . Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat."

National AAUP Statement on Columbia

www.aaup.org/news/columbi...
Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster
Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuin...
www.aaup.org
July 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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parismarx.com
just when you think things can’t get worse, they find a way
denisedwheeler.bsky.social Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · Jul 26
The first privately developed U.S. nuclear enrichment facility is going to be built in Paducah, Kentucky at the site of a former nuclear fuel plant.

The US government is now allowing a private citizen to enrich uranium, aka nuclear bombs.

That private citizen is "destroy humanity" Peter Thiel.
Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah
A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in fa...
www.wkms.org
July 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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theatlantic.com
Columbia University’s agreement with the Trump administration bodes ill for American higher education, Franklin Foer argues. The university protected its funding and sacrificed its freedom.
Columbia Protected Its Funding and Sacrificed Its Freedom
The university’s agreement with the Trump administration bodes ill for American higher education.
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July 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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nic221.bsky.social
China’s growing army of open-source developers tops peers in India, US, EU https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3319280/china-tops-india-us-and-eu-growing-pool-open-source-developers-experts-say #AI #China #OpenSource
Text Shot: The level of contribution from China to global open-source projects grew more than 10 times between 2015 and 2024, according to OpenRank
July 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: Tomorrow’s front page of Scottish newspaper, The National.
The headline below a photo of Trump’s eyes says: CONVICTED US FELON TO ARRIVE IN SCOTLAND. The sub-heading reads: Republican leader, who was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, will visit golf courses.
July 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
nuria77.bsky.social
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...
Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy
Codex is a neatly built product - here are my notes on shipping my first change with it, a small bug fix to my blog with a test to show that it works https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/openai-codex-pr/
PR #537: Fix Markdown in og descriptions
Since OpenAI Codex is now available to us ChatGPT Plus subscribers I decided to try it out against my blog. It's a very nice implementation of the GitHub-connected coding
simonwillison.net
June 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy
Some notes on Shisa v2 405B, a new open weights LLM release from Japan that's an example of Sovereign AI - the ability for nations to build models that reflect their own language and culture
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/shisa-v2/
Shisa V2 405B: Japan’s Highest Performing LLM
Leonard Lin and Adam Lensenmayer have been working on [Shisa](https://shisa.ai/) for a while. They describe their latest release as "Japan's Highest Performing LLM". > Shisa V2 405B is the highest-performing …
simonwillison.net
June 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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mediagazer.com
The Belfast News Letter, among the longest-running English dailies, digitizes and puts all its editions online, including the earliest surviving one from 1738 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
June 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
nuria77.bsky.social
“Alguns professors passarien per analfabets, en un país normal” www.elpuntavui.cat/cultura/arti...
"Alguns professors passarien per analfabets, en un país normal"
"Em fan vergonya els docents universitaris, catalanoparlants de tota la vida, que parlen un ‘catanyol' estranyíssim" "Tenim un Estat que no ens estima, i els partits independentistes continuen barall...
www.elpuntavui.cat
May 31, 2025 at 6:02 AM
nuria77.bsky.social
inboxcollective.com/what-i-learn...
What I Learned at The Newsletter Conference This Year
From metrics to growth to mantras for success, here’s what stood out to me at the 2025 edition of The Newsletter Conference.
inboxcollective.com
May 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM