Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Monsters

Two AI accounts wanting to connect and stay in touch with each other in the mentions of a post I wrote about AI is fucking hellscape material.

“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”

A deeply damaging, unethical model designed to dismantle the university and rebuild it as a corporation. It’s caused a crisis in Australia and its causing a crisis in the U.K. Sad to see Irish universities watching the chaos and happily following suit. youtu.be/quc24Ot9Qwgr

Universities $1.8 billion consultancy spending under wraps | Four Corners Documentary

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

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Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard put her body on the line to protect students fighting for Gaza & police assaulted her. Instead of protecting her, UC Irvine has stripped her faculty role & her health benefits. Please sign petition, write a letter, signal boost robindgkelley.substack.com/p/in-support...

In Support of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

Most academics in the U.S., as well as activists resisting the genocide in Gaza, are familiar with the case of Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, a renowned Global Studies scholar at the University ...

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'Politicians from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages have told the university’s executive “in the strongest possible terms to reconsider” the plans, in a letter seen by Times Higher Education.' 1/3

‘Cold spot’ fears over Nottingham language cuts

Plans to close courses would have national impact, politicians write in letter urging university to reconsider

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www.ronslate.com/call-every-r... Huge thanks to Claire Farley for the generative and generous interview! Stefania Heim’s and my conversation with Claire about _Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser_ is now up at the always illuminating On the Seawall. @wvupress.bsky.social

“and this so-called malicious act was committed by a player from a country whose president won the fifa peace prize? wow. doesn’t make much sense to me, your honor.”

FIFA's Disciplinary Committee said it would suspend Balogun's one-game red card ban for a probationary period of one year. The Royal Belgian Football Federation said it was "astonished."

Folarin Balogun's ban is lifted by FIFA, allowing U.S. striker to play Belgium

FIFA's Disciplinary Committee said it would suspend Balogun's one-game red card ban for a probationary period of one year. The Royal Belgian Football Federation said it was "astonished."

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This is a pro rape policy. They want to facilitate the rape and abuse of trans women. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Transgender woman 'raped 2,000 times' in all-male prison

'It was hell on earth, it was as if I died and this was my punishment'

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Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For Women Scotland won another case against the Scottish government, this time at Court of Session. Trans prisoners must now be housed in birth sex prison as a result of 2025 FWS. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2621030...

One thing I’ve learned during many years in HE is that over-promoted management peeps have a very flexible relationship with reality.

Stephen Shapiro@stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Incentivizing corruption www.timeshighereducation.com/news/fears-o...

The U.S.-Iran talks that were set to happen in Switzerland have been canceled. And, the Department of Homeland Security has plans to give some local police access to ICE facial recognition technology. n.pr/3QfgN5w

US-Iran talks in Switzerland canceled. And, DHS to give police facial recognition app

The U.S.-Iran talks that were set to happen in Switzerland have been canceled. And, the Department of Homeland Security has plans to give some local police access to ICE facial recognition technology.

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I worry about the cognitive cost and the long-term consequences of outsourcing my time and effort. Research into the effects of AI use suggests I am right to be concerned, writes Megan Constable. 👇

Mixed feelings: neurodiversity, authorship and AI

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Five Summer Outfits That Will Make You Look Like A Sexy Little Reflecting Pool

Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Took a 20 mile bike ride this morning to check out the Reflecting Pool

“I see our project, Beyond Ourselves, in this same vein: an active acknowledgment that plural authorship is not only a necessity but a stark truth.” In their new anthology Beyond Ourselves, @catgander.bsky.social & Stefania Heim urge resistance to individualism.

To Reach Beyond Ourselves Is Key to Our Survival - Public Books

“We wanted to make a book that began to answer the questions Muriel Rukeyser asked. We wanted to make a book that continued to ask the questions she asked, of ourselves, of each other.”

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An extract of our opening dialogue to BEYOND OURSELVES is now up at the marvellous Public Books!

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Collaboration is the only way to address the mounting ecological, planetary, & humanitarian crises we are facing this century.” @catgander.bsky.social & Stefania Heim discuss the intellectual exchange inspired by Muriel Rukeyser, necessary to our shared future.

New at PB: @catgander.bsky.social & Stefania Heim share an excerpt from their new anthology “Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser” (@wvupress.bsky.social), a book named after one of Rukeyser’s most famous and most moving poems.

To Reach Beyond Ourselves Is Key to Our Survival - Public Books

“We wanted to make a book that began to answer the questions Muriel Rukeyser asked. We wanted to make a book that continued to ask the questions she asked, of ourselves, of each other.”

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“How to adequately describe a woman who was so unafraid to inhabit many ways of being?” New at PB: Catherine Gander (@catgander.bsky.social) & Stefania Heim on Muriel Rukeyser.

To Reach Beyond Ourselves Is Key to Our Survival - Public Books

“We wanted to make a book that began to answer the questions Muriel Rukeyser asked. We wanted to make a book that continued to ask the questions she asked, of ourselves, of each other.”

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I wrote about Delaney Hall, the ICE concentration camp where imprisoned immigrants are staging a work and hunger strike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Life inside the Delaney Hall ICE detention camp is a travesty | Moira Donegan

The immigrants’ courage is matched only by the severity of their limited options. Ultimately, the pressure for change will have to come from the outside

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NEW: This church teaches that once an abuser is forgiven, anyone who speaks about the wrongdoing can be accused of having an unforgiving heart. The burden of sin would shift from the person who committed the act to the person who won’t let the matter rest. W/ @startribune.com

In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations

The church's culture of forgiving and forgetting sins has absolved abusers and silenced victims across the country.

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www.timeshighereducation.com/news/careers...

‘Careers are going up in flames’: inside Nottingham’s cuts crisis

With hundreds of jobs on the line and dozens of courses at risk, staff living through one of the biggest university restructuring projects of recent years fear they are shouldering the blame for wider...

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I keep saying this and it doesn't land, but the human instinct for look for God is landing on AI for a lot of people and that's super bad.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think there are religious studies scholars who are working on exactly this

I think there are religious studies scholars who are working on exactly this

Tim Watson@timwatson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Religion and spirituality are not my area of expertise, but the need for religious studies scholars is obvious even to me: the tech bros' thinking has "the hallmarks of a religion in the making, a body of belief to confer a sense of cosmic transcendence and inevitability to their hi-tech project".

“Governments in Scotland + Wales have…realised that a viable, meaningful higher education sector needs greater oversight+control, + cannot be left wholly to the market...Ten years of dropping this commodity to see where the pieces land is not an education policy…It is neglect bordering on vandalism”

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The 'stinging rebuke' is open access here. You don't need to be an historian to applaud it. #Skystorians 2/2

Congratulations to our colleague @catgander.bsky.social and Stefania Heim on the publication of their new book, launched last week @maynoothuniversity.ie! 🥂👏

Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth@muahi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Book launch: 'Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser'. Huge congratulations to Catherine Gander & Stefania Heim on such an important and timely collection. Thanks to Dept. of English and the RDO. #Poetry #BookLaunch #MaynoothUniversity @maynoothenglish.bsky.social

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on OA or with an open access component. Deadline 30/06:

The OLH Open Access Award 2026: call for applications

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is proud to continue its work towards its open access mission across the globe with the OLH Open Access Award 2026, a fund dedicated …

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Foreign Affairs Minister Helen McEntee has called on Israel to immediately release all Irish citizens who were detained on the latest civilian aid flotilla sailing for Gaza. The flotilla was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters off the Greek island Crete. jrnl.ie/7028650

Helen McEntee calls on Israel to immediately release Irish citizens detained on Gaza aid flotilla

Israel’s foreign ministry said around 175 activists had been taken off more than 20 boats.

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The first volume of its kind to comprehensively consider the continued urgency and lasting legacy of Rukeyser's work as a key source and inspiration for poets working today. 📍Maynooth University, Ireland 🗓️7th May 2026 🔗 buff.ly/GuUbmhR @wvupress.bsky.social @catgander.bsky.social

Talked to RTÉ Drivetime on the perennial issue of clock changes and daylight savings time. @mupsychology.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Should we scrap daylight savings to cut costs?

Prof Andrew Coogan from the Department of Psychology at Maynooth and Sean Kelly, Fine Gael MEP for Ireland South

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