Atlantic Association of Universities just released their first peek at 2026-27 enrolments. International student numbers are down collectively by 18%. That's a $60 million hit to the region's universities - 2x the new money they recieved from governments in the last round of provincial budgets.

Yet another example of why land-grant universities are awesome.

Flatwater Free Press@flatwaterfreep.bsky.social · 12h ago

Der Viener Schlinger, the world’s first handheld hot dog launcher, can now fire a 2.67-ounce Fairbury Tomboy at 90 mph from Tom Osborne Field over the 165-foot-high skyboxes. The machine has come a long way, in part thanks to 170 UNL engineering students. Read more 🔗 buff.ly/RUjRedg

This is very good - and I think Sam is right to identify the impact on public trust and how confrontational it is as well. It's a major asymmetrical issue; the state is obligated to deal with citizens enquiries properly and seriously - and this isn't a principle I want to move away from.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 23h ago

New post: "Drowning in slop" Large parts of the state are being increasingly overwhelmed with complaints, appeals, objections.... written by AI. It's gumming up every process. Britain is particularly vulnerable. How bad has it got and what can we do about it? samf.substack.com/p/drowning-i...

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Apparently Atlas doesn't shrug, in Norway at least.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d ago

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

For the afternoon crowd.

Alex Usher@alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 2d ago

In which I lay out why Minister Quinn's decision to suspend all private institutions from OSAP is a desperate effort to distract attention from the fact that it is now clear that he lied about the reasons for the February OSAP cuts (and he knew he was lying). Those cuts need to be reversed. Now.

In which I lay out why Minister Quinn's decision to suspend all private institutions from OSAP is a desperate effort to distract attention from the fact that it is now clear that he lied about the reasons for the February OSAP cuts (and he knew he was lying). Those cuts need to be reversed. Now.

The Contemptible OSAP Cover-Up | HESA

If you have been paying only casual attention to the Ontario Student Assistance file over the past few months and seen headlines like this one from July, where the province suspended several private c...

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Amazing.

Wesley Morgan@wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Here’s LL Cool J trying to explain Clausewitz’s “remarkable trinity” to an uncomprehending Joe Rogan

Oooo, new Neal Stephenson dropped today, just in time for a transatlantic flight. Lucky me.

This is what we're not supposed to call Nazi.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "The Republican Party, we believe that Somalia bandits, third-world gangs, and jihadist sympathizers do not belong in Ohio, they do not belong in America. We got to get them the hell out of here." More "De-port! De-port!" chants from the crowd.

oh man 😂

<willy wonka no stop don’t dot gif>

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2d ago

"AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"

I have a feeling BC might be the first province to hold an election in the 21st century when not a single provincial party mentions post-secondary education in any way. HEWERS AND DRAWERS 4 EVAH!

Concluding the meeting with the American delegation in the US two days ago, after receiving a tirade of threats from Trump officials, Ukraine's Budanov turned when leaving and said, "We are now going to burn every last Russian refinery and every last port to hell. All of it, down to the final one."

Russian diesel is not certified to meet U.S. standards and is unlikely to undergo certification. If Russian diesel ever makes its way to the United States, good luck to anyone who puts it in their vehicles.

Who funds the Neo Nazi AfD? Overwhelmingly, it's the Kremlin and Russian interfaces.

Sort of surprised to learn that Haiti has a domestic higher education press. www.gazetteuniv.com

Gazette Universitaire

Le média haïtien où l'université dialogue avec la société.

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This is amazingly quick product development cycle. Great news.

Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d ago

A new Ukrainian interceptor drone, developed jointly by Pavlo Yelizarov, founder of the highly effective drone unit Lasar's Group and former deputy commander of the Ukrainian Air Force (was responsible for developing short-range air defense), along with Ukrainian military and engineers,

This movie was weird and inconsistent but it wasn't *that* bad.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

Digger on course for $245m loss after box office collapse

Why does Trump criticize Zelensky and not Putin? Because Trump thinks that criticizing Zelensky is punching down, while criticizing Putin is punching up. And Trump always punches down.

Obvious question: what would a Mancunian Clay Davis accent sound like?

James Nalton@jdnalton.bsky.social · 3d ago

Read this banner in the voice of Clay Davis

Thing that annoys Little Miss F1 more than anything else on earth: me telling her she is among my three favorite children. (I have two kids). And I can keep telling her this for the rest of my natural life. Years of amusement!

1) Our politicians are neither brave nor imaginative 2) We are also being held hostage by the worst coalition of assholes imaginable

Stephen Leahy@stephenleahy.bsky.social · 4d ago

What the heck is happening in Canada? Canada’s electricity production today is “less green than it was just five years ago”. 440megatonnes.ca/insight/net-...

Whoever recruited this guy to run for Senate, take a bow.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

KARL: JD Vance called your views 'left wing radicalism dressed in the skin suit of our religion' and said they 'aren't Christianity.' ADAM HAMILTON: I thought it was a sad statement that the VP would come here and attack the faith of the pastor of the largest church in the state of Kansas

Tthis week's edition of the Fifteen! The web's best all-in-one-place overview of higher education developments around the world. Free tuition in Indonesia, bananapants surveys of female students in Belarus, and scads of fake degrees, universities and even Vice-chancellors all over the place. Enjoy.

The Fifteen: October 9, 2026 | HESA

Hi all. A big, big fortnight in higher education: unprecedented private financial commitments in Pittsburgh, unprecedented public investments in Jakarta, huge demonstrations in Paris, big ambitions in...

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From @adamtooze.bsky.social's newsletter, holy moly.

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 4d ago

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

In light of world events, I'm going to take a break from LOLing about BC politics here for second and say this in earnest: it is a genuine privilege to live in a place where a political leader shows contempt for the population by calling an election two years early, as opposed to never