Rebecca Reynolds
@rebeccareyn.bsky.social
iSchool prof, RutgersCommInfo. Aca-journal co-founder, editor: Information & Learning Sciences. Socio-tech, ed-tech researcher. she/her, #blacklivesmatter. conjuring a pre-inaug hail mary ⋆˖⁺‧₊☽◯☾₊‧⁺˖⋆
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Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.
October 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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The fitness imagery doesn't surprise me. MAGA figured out long ago that fitness bros are a ready audience for disinformation campaigns. They consume tons of content (usually podcasts) while spending hours a day in the gym or on long runs/rides, often looking for "secret" info to give them an edge.
July 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The fitness imagery doesn't surprise me. MAGA figured out long ago that fitness bros are a ready audience for disinformation campaigns. They consume tons of content (usually podcasts) while spending hours a day in the gym or on long runs/rides, often looking for "secret" info to give them an edge.
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I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Axios’ Sara Fischer in conversation with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince
YouTube video by Axios
www.youtube.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...
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May every single human being on this planet be safe.
May every single person be protected from harm.
May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.
May every single person be protected from harm.
May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
May every single human being on this planet be safe.
May every single person be protected from harm.
May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.
May every single person be protected from harm.
May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.
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Honestly given where things are heading, and have been, we need more prison journalism. Every beat exists in prison: health care, education, labor, inequality, markets, media, the arts, the law, politics…
May 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Honestly given where things are heading, and have been, we need more prison journalism. Every beat exists in prison: health care, education, labor, inequality, markets, media, the arts, the law, politics…
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I don’t have a lot of capacity to deal with this but I just found out the sixth edition of the Disability Studies Reader is out. Four years ago a bunch of disability studies scholars, activists & artists protested our inclusion in this textbook.
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Why Disability Studies Scholars Are Protesting a Prominent Textbook
A group of authors see problems not just with this edition of the reader, but with previous editions as well.
www.chronicle.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I don’t have a lot of capacity to deal with this but I just found out the sixth edition of the Disability Studies Reader is out. Four years ago a bunch of disability studies scholars, activists & artists protested our inclusion in this textbook.
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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The propriety! It is strained
May 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The propriety! It is strained
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Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
First dataset for the new @huggingface.bsky.social @bsky.app community organisation: one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗
huggingface.co/datasets/blu...
bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
November 27, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵
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At least 140,000 children and 67,000
adults have died as a result of Musk, the orange, and Rubio terminating USAID support to healthcare and food aid. The lag effects of HIV/AIDs, TB and malnutrition will soon start increasing the toll more rapidly.
adults have died as a result of Musk, the orange, and Rubio terminating USAID support to healthcare and food aid. The lag effects of HIV/AIDs, TB and malnutrition will soon start increasing the toll more rapidly.
Never forget that the richest man in the world chose to take food from the mouths of the world’s poorest children.
Burn in hell.
Burn in hell.
April 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
At least 140,000 children and 67,000
adults have died as a result of Musk, the orange, and Rubio terminating USAID support to healthcare and food aid. The lag effects of HIV/AIDs, TB and malnutrition will soon start increasing the toll more rapidly.
adults have died as a result of Musk, the orange, and Rubio terminating USAID support to healthcare and food aid. The lag effects of HIV/AIDs, TB and malnutrition will soon start increasing the toll more rapidly.
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NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
April 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
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The White House. The actual White House.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
April 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The White House. The actual White House.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
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I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten.
senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
April 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten.
senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...
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laughed pretty hard at this boat
April 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
laughed pretty hard at this boat
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Free speech and academic freedom killed off in the USA in less than 3 months.
Jason Stanley: “It’s not going to affect me, but no noncitizen professor at my institution can speak about politics ever again. Half my colleagues are not U.S. citizens. They can never speak about politics again.”
www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...
www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...
‘No Noncitizen Professor at My Institution Can Speak About Politics Ever Again’
Why Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, is leaving Yale for Canada.
www.chronicle.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Free speech and academic freedom killed off in the USA in less than 3 months.
More incidents demonstrating this unholy alliance of American silicon valley techbro and DT administration leadership --- being *hoisted with their own petard.* With dangerous, insecure and reckless *corporate tech product usage* in governance. www.wired.com/story/michae...
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
www.wired.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
More incidents demonstrating this unholy alliance of American silicon valley techbro and DT administration leadership --- being *hoisted with their own petard.* With dangerous, insecure and reckless *corporate tech product usage* in governance. www.wired.com/story/michae...
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I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
March 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
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This is a deeply ill, deeply dangerous man
March 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is a deeply ill, deeply dangerous man
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The crisis is less “is Elon Musk the president” — whatever — than the reality that the United States functionally has no one in the role.
Trump heads a syndicate of plunderers inside the institutional remnants of the U.S. government — but has in no sense carried out the duties of his office.
Trump heads a syndicate of plunderers inside the institutional remnants of the U.S. government — but has in no sense carried out the duties of his office.
Breaking News: The Pentagon is set to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s closely guarded plan for any potential war with China, officials said.
Musk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With China
Giving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The crisis is less “is Elon Musk the president” — whatever — than the reality that the United States functionally has no one in the role.
Trump heads a syndicate of plunderers inside the institutional remnants of the U.S. government — but has in no sense carried out the duties of his office.
Trump heads a syndicate of plunderers inside the institutional remnants of the U.S. government — but has in no sense carried out the duties of his office.
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Few publications have risen to the moment like Wired. Kudos to them for courageous, quality coverage of our current national crises.
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Few publications have risen to the moment like Wired. Kudos to them for courageous, quality coverage of our current national crises.
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Holy shit! In plain sight…
March 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Holy shit! In plain sight…
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Our inability to imagine big numbers is going to kill us all.
Another way to put this:
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.
DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
February 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Our inability to imagine big numbers is going to kill us all.
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New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...
February 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...
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“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.
www.thebookseller.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:16 PM
“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...