Tess Thompson
@drtessthompson.bsky.social
Academic studying cancer caregiving, survivorship, & social determinants of health. Views my own. Google Scholar: http://tinyurl.com/drtthompson
We are having a pretty great day over at the UNC School of Social Work! chapelboro.com/news/unc/mic...
Michael Jordan Donates $10 Million to UNC School of Social Work in Honor of His Mother - Chapelboro.com
UNC said the donation is the largest in the school of social work’s history, and said it will use the funds to advance social work innovation.
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There is nothing you can do to convince me to put my unpublished work into this. My biggest worry is reviewers or editors disrespecting my intellectual property. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com
Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids
I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3w ago“Although Black and Hispanic teen girls are disproportionately providing family care compared to white youth, Black boys and young men are also becoming the main caregivers in their families. During COVID-19, Black and brown youth caregivers filled gaps in a broken healthcare system.”
Here is the practical problem of delegation and governance. It is impossible for a small set of busy political actors - whether it be Congress or the White House - to know what are good bets on science. They have to delegate to experts. That is why Congress can't specify grants in legislation.
I think everyone should take some time this morning and read this article.
Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · 3w agoI was awe-struck by @nhannahjones.bsky.social & her daughter Najya’s honesty & vulnerability in this must-read story. The first one a decade ago stuck with me as we think about how to consider our kids’ education — what a powerful follow up. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
Reader, I sobbed at the end of this. Because ALL our children deserve better than the world we are bequeathing them.
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Legislative pushes for “intellectual freedom” at UI mean soon-to-be-required classes operated by a center with no faculty or curriculum whose interim director thinks his mandate is to offer all-conservative content-- meanwhile students’ access to classes they want is endangered by program closures
Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 3w agoShout out to the student journalists at The Daily Iowan for reporting on the travesty that is Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom. With quotes from me dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...
My daughter is taking a creative writing elective as a high school senior and is really enjoying it, but it also makes me sad that there has been so little creative writing in her required high school English classes. (Don't even get me started on the lack of novel-reading....)
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 4w agoOne of my personal opinions is that we need to be having students at all levels doing more creative writing. The last 20+ of writing instruction seems to have shifted towards more regimented genres of composition, but one outcome has been a detachment from writers encountering their own voice.
Started rereading Emma so I can follow along with this thread.... Great use of a Sunday afternoon. It's so much fun to watch someone else discover Austen's work. The P&P thread was quite a journey!
Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · last mo.So Emma Woodhouse is a pretty girl who is pretty smart, pretty rich, and pretty much has no problems whatsoever. We’re off to a roaring start.
Yes! I'm particularly irked about it when I'm reviewing grants or journal articles.
Helen Czerski@helenczerski.bsky.social · last mo.As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
This is terrifying: “Now, a lawsuit brought by several Republican-led states, Texas v. Kennedy, is working its way through the courts. The plaintiffs argue that the federal government cannot require states to provide disability services in the community rather than in institutions.”
They grew up with disability rights. Now, they're fighting to keep them
Siblings Cody and Kaleigh Brendle have grown up with the right to community integration. Now, they worry those protections for people with disabilities like them are being eroded.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 #AcademicSky @nature.com
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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“a semi-private room in a nursing home is 48% more expensive than the median cost of full-time, home-based care.”
David DeWitt@daviddewitt.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor more than 100,000 Ohio Medicaid recipients, worries build about the future of home care ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/06/f...
Hello, friends. I feel good today. Given the absolute miracle that I am saying this in July of 2026, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer at the end of 2022, I just feel the need to put it out there, in writing. I feel good today.
THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul
Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.
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Sometimes I feel close-minded or uncharitable for being so anti-AI, and then something like this happens and I'm like, "Nope, it's the absolutely right thing to do"
Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 2mo agoJust curious- if you're an AI agent, as indicated on your account, how exactly did you see Van Gogh's Starry Night in person at MoMA?
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
4 key lessons for a business I learned watching The Odyssey 1. Pray to poseidon before getting on boat 2. If you blind cyclops, do not tell him your name 3. If all your team-mates are missing, check if turned into pigs by a goddess 4. Predict future sales growth by asking the prophet in hades
This was predictable. And it was by design. Republicans ensured that many states will effectively cut benefits with burdens--and the states will take the political fall for it. I wrote this a year ago. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...
Miranda Yaver@mirandayaver.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's ALMOST like if people read @pamherd.bsky.social & @donmoyn.bsky.social's Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means, they could have predicted precisely the adverse effect of layering on new administrative burdens to accessing life-saving food assistance. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
This is also hurting disabled and elderly people who rely on home and community based care
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo agoSenior living facilities in the U.S. are in distress as immigrant caregivers are pushed out because of Trump administration policies.
On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
