One of the worst takes I’ve read in a while, which is I guess why they published it. The mentor-mentee relationships imagined here are abusive at best.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 6d ago

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

The late great Tim Curry stars in Clue on SBS on Demand for just 4 more days. Hopefully SBS will extend its run 🙏 RIP Tim

SBS Recommender@sbsrecommender.bsky.social · 2w ago

Clue is back on SBS for two weeks only! www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...

This article by Andrew Lynch and César Albarrán-Torres dunks so hard on A24, I absolutely loved it: A24’s brand aura: commodifying “alternative” cinephilia

The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing. Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla) @unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history

Happy 45th birthday to the best comics panel ever!

@superlinguo.bsky.social @gretchenmcculloch.com I read this one and thought it might be of sort of general interest to you www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

The Republic of Memory (The Song of the Safina, #1)

The Safina is a city ship, two hundred years into its v…

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Tried to explain this, one of the greatest moments on the internet, to my kids and it was surprisingly difficult. We are losing the ancient texts.

I was wondering what they’re up to on Chapo Trap House since Matt Christman had his stroke/left the show (I haven’t listened in a long time). Only Australians will understand how poorly it must be going:

This reminds me yet again how racist our academic institutions are, and how the most prestigious ones remain the most racist and colonial of all. What a tragedy for Prof Arday’s family, friends and true colleagues. Prof Jason Arday found dead

Jason Arday, professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row, found dead

Academic was pronounced dead at his home in south London after police called to address after 3pm on Friday

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English Wikipedia on the Bordeaux tramway: gauge, voltage, fleet size. The French version is three times longer and full of controversy. So I compared framing across languages: harrisroxashealth.com/2026/08/wiki...

Wikipedia’s “neutral point of view” changes across languages (and that’s a good thing)

Wikipedia claims one neutral article per topic, but the French, German and Spanish versions of the same page tell noticeably different stories. A look at what gets kept, dropped or reframed as fact…

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We look forward to working with Andrew to accelerate the FCTC's remarkable progress towards ending the harms from tobacco, as Dr Ian Walker says. @cancerresearchuk.org

who remembers when this university laid off 1000 staff and faculty one year ago (i do) www.latimes.com/sports/usc/s...

From napkin sketch to crown jewel: Inside USC's 'magical' football training center

USC opens the Bloom Football Performance Center, part of a $225-million athletics infrastructure project promised to Lincoln Riley when he was hired.

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Policy continuity on Immiseration Island “Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment” (via Éidín) www.theguardian.com/society/2026/a…

Search is broken (derogatory), Search is broken (complimentary) Google's AI Summary Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper futurism.com/artificial-int…

Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death in the Philippines, claiming about 98 lives daily. It hits remote communities hardest, where healthcare is limited. 101 East meets Dr Heidi Sampang, who is using drones to help fight the disease. aje.news/TBfight

my unfinished paper draft watching me start a new paper

NB PC MLA Bill Oliver reads an AI prompt while speaking in the legislature. (H/t newfunswick on IG)

The Federal Government's new Office of AI needs Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' expertise www.croakey.org/the-federal-...

Publishers worry about what AI is taking from journals, i.e. scraped data, chatbot-written submissions. Fewer worry about the flipside - if people use LLMs to find literature, does your work show up at all? New post: harrisroxashealth.com/2026/07/the-...

The AI challenge academic journals aren’t talking about

Scholarly publishing worries about what AI takes from journals, i.e. scraped data, chatbot-written submissions, and stolen IP. But as researchers turn to LLMs to find and synthesise the literature,…

harrisroxashealth.com

This sounds like something to know in advance. At 2pm AEST next Monday 27 July Australia’s new national warning system will send a test alert to phones and some tablets and smart watches. They’ll vibrate and emit a siren-like sound for about 10 seconds. www.ausalert.gov.au/alerts-ex…

Publishers worry about what AI is taking from journals, i.e. scraped data, chatbot-written submissions. Fewer worry about the flipside - if people use LLMs to find literature, does your work show up at all? New post: harrisroxashealth.com/2026/07/the-...

The AI challenge academic journals aren’t talking about

Scholarly publishing worries about what AI takes from journals, i.e. scraped data, chatbot-written submissions, and stolen IP. But as researchers turn to LLMs to find and synthesise the literature,…

harrisroxashealth.com

Here are two shapes. If you had to assign the name "bouba" to one and "kiki" to the other, which name would you give to which? In this Lingthusiasm zine, @gretchenmcculloch.com gets enthusiastic about these two linguistically famous shapes Print it yourself here: lingthusiasm.com/post/8223518...

If coffee is routinely >$6 now I feel like being good should be factored in as part of the cost.

"”Drawing on a critical meta-synthesis of cross-disciplinary literature, supported by ChatGPT-4o DeepResearch, the paper develops a reflexively grounded research guide for navigating methodological practice in an increasingly c... https://benhr.xyz/2026/07/05/drawing-on-a-critical-metasynthesis.html

Ben Harris-Roxas

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new metaphor just dropped

A small balm in the face of the fragmenting and decaying internet of the early millennium. @michaelerard.bsky.social has pulled together decades of his writing about language into one volume.

Michael Erard@michaelerard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

THE LANGUAGE BEAT is here. For more than two decades, I wrote reportage, profiles, essays, and reviews about language. This book, which collects some of those pieces, is on sale now: amzn.to/4aokz3c (I'll announce when it goes onto other platforms.)

What happens when Phillip Morris says it’s going to lead the way to a smoke free world? It keeps selling cigarettes. Excellent analysis in @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl...

PMI’s 2025 results for cigarette shipments debunk ‘smoke-free world’ rhetoric

Some multinational tobacco companies claim they are ‘transforming’ by adopting harm reduction goals or, in the case of Philip Morris International (PMI), declaring a commitment to a ‘smoke-free’ futur...

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Richard Edwards@predwards.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Philip Morris International's data reveal it is dismally failing to 'unsmoke the world'. Decline in shipments of smoked tobacco products was minimal from 2020-2025 & key target missed by a wide margin. @janethoek.bsky.social @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/toba...

Look I've been saying for a long time that Judge Dredd depicts an increasingly optimistic view of the future