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Dylan Schwilk
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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 2d
I’ve also heard instances of this at UVa: well-qualified faculty members who want to teach topics of great current interest and importance are being discouraged from doing so because it feels risky.
It’s truly a shame.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d
I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.
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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 1d
“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...
Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers
New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 4d
MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

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This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers. We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah. Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 5d
This is a truly hopeful story on the data center front, and I hope folks will give this and our episode from last week a listen to understand the data center playbook and what is becoming a community organizing blueprint.
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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 5d
One city decided it didn’t want a data center and the community had about three weeks to organize. We talked with Dr. Mike Bogan from the University of Arizona about what went into Tucson’s efforts, including his role as a scientist, and learned A LOT www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 72: A Blueprint for Community Organizing around Data Centers — Water Talk
A conversation with Professor Michael Bogan (University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and the Environment) about data center water use, the concept of water neutral development, and community...
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 6d
University of Texas leaping to the top of the rankings of higher ed institutions most eager to cozy up to the authoritarian, taking over the top spot from previous leader, Columbia University. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 5d
Let’s not forget the nectar-feeding bats! 🦇 Ipomoea ampullacea is a night-blooming, bat-pollinated species from western Mexico. 🦇 📷: Efraín Octavio Aguilar Pérez CCBYNC4 #Convolvulaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Night photo of a single white, short-tubed, trumpet-shaped flower with exserted stamens.
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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 5d
Thinking of y'all.
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 5d
Who is furloughed, and who isn’t, remains uncertain, according to agency employees and observers interviewed by High Country News; it is not being carried out in an orderly or consistent fashion across the agency.
Shutdown causes ‘confusion’ across the Forest Service - High Country News
Prescribed burns are on hold during shutdown while logging continues.
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Tim Steller @timsteller.bsky.social · 5d
The University of Arizona faculty are slamming the deal offered by the Trump administration and demanding that it be rejected.
tucson.com/news/local/e...
Faculty chair slams 'dirty compromises' White House asks of University of Arizona
White House asks the U of A and eight other universities to pledge support for President Trump's political priorities in return for priority access to federal funds.
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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 6d
I might be a total weirdo, but there is this one benefit.
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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 6d
I had to sign in to office365/outlook/whatever recently while on a classroom computer and was immediately assaulted by intrusive "AI" help. I've never been so happy that I run linux for everything in the lab and use emacs and plain text for everything from lecture presentations to email.
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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 6d
Whatever happens, this is more proof that if you want the world to be better you just have to make it so. Take a risk and put yourself in the situation you want to improve. Whether or not this flotilla reaches Gaza, there will need to be another even larger. I hope to God I can join it
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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 7d
Many vessels of the Samud flotilla still sailing in international waters despite ongoing piracy attempts. www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 7d
Rima Hassan on the Captain Nikos is urging people to contact their political leadership and protest in the streets to put pressure on our governments for Gaza and the flotilla.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 7d
Today in @thenation.com: Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, a 19-year-old in Gaza, describes what it's like to be so scarred by genocide that you lose your very ability to speak.

Taqwa is brilliant and profound and deserves to be listened to. Please read her words. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
In my own life, it feels like there is a constant fog inside me. I often know what I want to say, but the words just don't come. My thoughts get tangled, and even when I try to speak, my voice falters or dies in my throat. Sometimes my body reacts too-my chest tightens, my hands shake, or I find myself frozen, unable to move forward. It's not just about grief or fear; it's the sensation of being muted from within. I feel as if my inner landscape has been shrouded in silence, and navigating even simple conversations or expressing my needs becomes exhausting. Every attempt to speak out loud feels like breaking through an invisible barrier, and the frustration of being trapped in my own mind is overwhelming.
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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 7d
Summary of discovery here. knightcolumbia.org/content/land...
Landmark Trial Ends, With Court’s Ruling to Come; Record Uncovers New Details on Ideological-Deportation Policy and Its Effects on Academic Life
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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 7d
Worth reading the decision and summary of discovery in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio
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Opinion
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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 7d
They're getting close

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Sumud flotilla 150km NW of Port Said heading towards Gaza
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 7d
Adorable IG Babies of Gaza Page Is Now a Haunting War Memorial

A photography studio in Gaza—dedicated to creating portraits of newborn babies—is posting stunning images of the babies who have died in this war.

From Jan of 2024 on Yahia, who is no more. 💔

www.thedailybeast.com/baby-photogr...
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Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social · 10d
Fascinating essay by @martinebotany.bsky.social on spiny solanums (tomato et al. relatives) as an example of all the important natural history research left to be done. Great observations on pollination and symbiosis... A very inspiring Sunday morning read!

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The inherent values of observation and description: A case study in the spiny solanums of Australia
Click on the article title to read more.
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Emma Whitford @emmawhitford.bsky.social · 8d
Texas Tech isn't the only university system handing down chilling, verbal-only directives banning discussions about transgender identity. If this is happening at your institution, I want to know about it--reach me on Signal at emmawhitford.96

www.insidehighered.com/node/192421/...
Texas Ban on Transgender Course Content Sows Chaos
Verbal-only policies prohibiting academic discussions of trans identity appear to be extending beyond the Texas Tech system and now include anti-trans curricular reviews.
www.insidehighered.com
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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 9d
The continued lack of mainstream media coverage, or more important, analysis of whether this is legal, is driving me up a wall. Even political podcasts barely mention the impending lay offs or dig in to legality.

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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 11d
Democrats are saying shutdown RIFs are illegal but what are they doing to prepare for that legal battle??? My guess is not a whole lot
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Feasibility of RIFs around a government shutdown called into question
Despite a White House directive on further RIFs, some questioned the ability for agencies to put together those plans just days before a government shutdown.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 9d
First time tragedy, second time farce and so on…
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 9d
A century removed from Western colonial powers casually drawing Middle Eastern borders with a ruler while disregarding the will of local populations, the region gets Tony Blair to dream up schemes of governing Gaza with little say by its people.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Draft of Tony Blair's Gaza plan: Remote governance, little Palestinian representation
Haaretz Reveals the Full Document Proposed by the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for a Postwar Gaza Strip: A Regime Run by Affluent Foreigners With Palestinian Executives at the Bottom
www.haaretz.com
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 9d
Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers - Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers
A third of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers are expected to drastically wind down and possibly close after Sept. 30.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 9d
Cornell carrying out the goals of foreign intelligence op should result a mass resignations of everyone involved.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d
Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.
Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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