If there ever was a time to be excruciatingly careful about pronouns antecedents, writing this headline was that time

A very strange political tactic trying to make villains of pediatricians— a group generally respected by most everyone and depended upon and still very trusted by most parents. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...

Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

nytimes.com

Good article on the Alpine glacier loss, with impressive before-after pictures. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss

Scientists say such rapid melting is no longer surprising given the pace of climate change.

bbc.com

This has been on my feed all day so I'm going to give it as fair as treatment as I can. Prof. Wolfers is well meaning & I get the intuition, but he's speaking outside his area of expertise and he's just wrong. Having lunch with someone you disagree with isn't going to "cure ideological bias." 🧵

Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 3d ago

The best cure for ideological bias is find someone on the other side and go to lunch with them.⁣ ⁣ Sometimes we disagree about facts. Sometimes we disagree about values. Figuring out which is which is fun part. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/my-libertarian-friends-were-right

Yes, the black-crowned night heron does have a neck hidden away in that dirigible of a body

> an increase in thin papers of narrow scope, as well as ‘salami’ papers, where a single work is broken up and submitted as a set of smaller papers. There is also a marked increase in dense, AI-written papers. AI tools are making it easy for authors to flood arXiv [and others with] low-value papers.

arXiv@arxiv.bsky.social · 6d ago

arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters. This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors. Please read our announcement to learn more: https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-rate-limit-policy/

And by a current Cornell student: "This putrid treatment of women did not originate in this house. It is a culture created over years of “tradition,” and it is what fraternities are built to produce, no matter what we say about the usual exceptions to the rule."

Cornell, abolish your fraternities

The case surrounding the ‘Cornell 7′ is as lurid as it gets; whether or not these men face prosecution, it will not change the structural issue with Greek life

english.elpais.com

100% unedited crimson sunset from last evening

The World’s Loneliest Pelican™ tucking in at dusk

Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:

Rice University invites applications for multiple tenured and tenure-track positions at the senior and junior levels in #EnvironmentalHealth. Join our team! apply.interfolio.com/193813

NEW: Public records obtained by 404 Media show administrators taking meetings with parents and alumni when they take issue with student reporting. This comes as student journalists at The Cornell Daily Sun earned recognition for breaking the “Cornell Seven” story.

How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists

As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.

404media.co

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. (Published May)

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

propublica.org

The awful Cornell assault story reminds me of the movie "Promising Young Woman". A drunk young woman was raped by a classmate, as his college buddies watched and recorded the assault. It was a really dark movie & reminds me that the ugliness in fiction often stems from reality.

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

thecut.com

I know adolescents who can fact check better than Schmitt and his Harvard and ASSOL gofer boys

It’s not the most important part of this story but there is a Reel with film of Smith at the Iowa game in question. www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4epJb...

Senate In Session on Instagram: "We found the receipts. . . . . . @senericschmitt #jacksmith #proof #senate #hawkeyes #womenscollegebasketball"

436 likes, 41 comments - senateinsession on September 29, 2026: "We found the receipts. . . . . . @senericschmitt #jacksmith #proof #senate #hawkeyes #womenscollegebasketball".

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if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid

The MAGA/MAHA Administration really loves to censor science www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

Trump Administration Suppressed USPSTF Recommendations

Group's recommendations on cervical cancer screening, cardiovascular prevention were blocked

medpagetoday.com

“I want it to be perfect but I also want it to be finished” is like AuDHD in a sentence

If only any of those users or perhaps this poster had ever been taught logic, critical thinking, and/or argumentation tho

I mean, when you bury the bar to clear six feet under, it’s just not that hard to clear

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · last wk.

Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.

Guess what else matters when you have a southern accent

If you worked with Wesleyan University Press on a book, check your Anthropic allocation. In the last few days they went through and assigned themselves 100% of the allocation.

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

Byeeeee

Deb@sailebed.bsky.social · last wk.

Update: www.tmz.com/2026/09/28/a...

As fallout from the Cornell story continues, do you want to hear some history about the rape-on-campus/false-accusation panic from someone who was starting college as it took shape? Because this isn’t new, and it’s going to get ugly

Deb@sailebed.bsky.social · last wk.

Update: www.tmz.com/2026/09/28/a...