Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

thenation.com

The polls only opened an hour or so ago!

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 5d ago

Hey @bsky.support @support.bsky.team your AI is falsifying election results again

I mean, there's really no hiding anymore that the purpose of The Atlantic is to ease centrists into gladly welcoming and accepting the rise of fascism.

Today, climate change and the exploitation of natural resources increasingly threaten Indigenous lands and livelihoods. Indigenous Peoples make up less than 6% of the global population, yet represent thousands of cultures across some 90 countries.

This is, of course, why #ClimateChange is a kind of class war, and why passing climate policy — decarbonizing the economy — is in the interest of working and poor people everywhere. 2/2 Screenshot from here: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

E&E News: The economic toll of Europe’s infernal summer

Global warming, not climate policy, is bad for business, experts warn.

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Does anyone have colleagues/friends who recently passed through Canadian work permit application process as postdocs? I'd be very happy to connect and discuss the process. Thanks!

“In other words: generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants.” @katemanne.bsky.social is provocative and insightful, as ever, with this feminist approach to AI.

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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🚨 New publication 🚨 We engage with the subject matter system justification with discursive and rhetorical psychology! In public debates, speakers construct system justifying arguments to achieve context-specific social actions. Full paper available & #openaccess ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/spc3...

From System Justification to System Justifying Arguments: Discursive and Rhetorical Constructions of the Status Quo in Parliamentary Debates Concerning Brexit

System justification theory (SJT) explores the psychological and ideological motives of those supporting social and political structures of inequality. Given that SJT is generally explored through a ....

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*JOB* My group at @gesis.org has an open position: we are looking for a candidate to support the expansion of our Trusted Research Environment for providing access to sensitive research data: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2707934?...

Research Infrastructure Specialist (Postdoc) for Trusted Research Environments (DSS-26) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...

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*No mention of climate change. *Rhetorical question. Of course more could have been done. *Spare a thought for the loss of life. www.dw.com/en/the-econo...

The economic toll of Spain's wildfires

Devastating wildfires are ravaging Spain's tourism, economy and nature. Could the country have done more to prevent them?

dw.com

The political right in Australia used the same talking points after the Black Summer Bushfires, with two additions: the fires were the work of arsonists and/or the Greens for curbing forestry activities, and "Australia is a land of extremes, it has always burned. What of it?"

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 2w ago

This (from the @wsj.com Editorial Board) distills every denialist trope there is: It implies climate change isn’t exacerbating extreme weather. It calls solutions “costly … nostrums.” It fosters doomerism. And it suggests we can just adapt to or “manage” climate impacts. How is this journalism?

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

"Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds" Tegan George thepoint.com.au/new/260731-a...

Australia’s biggest industrial emitters are being paid to pollute, new analysis finds

New analysis has found Australia’s biggest industrial emitters received around $22 in Fuel Tax Credit rebates for every dollar they spent complying with the federal government’s emissions reduction po...

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Imagine if hundreds of people died in hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many ppl. They are a silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear. Hope this by @economist.com helps save lives as Europeans wake up to danger bsky.app/profile/eate...

Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun@eaterofsun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My round up of @economist.com's heatwave coverage (gift link) www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

This grotesque headline is from the Telegraph. 3,000 people in Britain have been killed in heatwaves this year so far. 20,000 in Europe. Even if Britain did get to “embrace Mediterranean life”, what about the actual Mediterranean, what do they get to embrace? What about India?

"Defunding excellent basic science to focus on commercialisation ... is like pulling an apple tree up by the roots to harvest its fruit."

Nicola Gaston@nicgaston.bsky.social · 3w ago

Part 2:

I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.

TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.

🔥 Spontanaktion wegen der #Waldbrände in Spanien & Frankreich! Erst Rekord #Hitzewelle, jetzt brennt Europa. Die #Klimakrise eskaliert und die Politik verschiebt weiter Klimaziele. 📅 Do., 30. Juli ab 18 Uhr 📍 München, genauer Ort folgt (Anmeldung läuft) Kommt vorbei! #ClimateJusticeNow

An entire article about the ways #ClimateChange is decimating the Bourdeux wine region of France — that never mentions the words “climate change.” This is journalistic malpractice. Not even high-school papers leave out such necessary context. #EndClimateSilence www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...

Fire Raging Near Bordeaux Brings More Bad News for Its Vineyards (Gift Article)

One of the largest fires in modern French history is raging near the vineyards of Bordeaux. That is just the latest problem for France’s embattled wine industry.

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When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

Adelaide airport pulls ads from conservation groups but keeps gas and mining ads during ALP conference

Adelaide airport pulls ads from conservation groups but keeps gas and mining ads during ALP conference

Digital billboards from environmental groups, targeting Labor MPs attending national conference, cancelled with airport stating they are ‘too political’ * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Conservation groups have questioned why their advertisements targeting Labor politicians were pulled by Adelaide airport for breaking rules on political advertising while others promoting gas and mining kept running. Labor politicians including the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, have been arriving through the airport for this weekend’s ALP national conference. Continue reading...

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Thousands flee from deadly wildfires in Europe. In Spain a state of emergency has been declared in the capital region and France has asked for aid from the European Union. today.rtl.lu/news/world/d...

6,000 firefighters: Deadly wildfires in Europe force thousands to flee

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This is a lovely example of a classic greenwashing tactic: the tactical snooze button. 'Don't worry, we'll do the renewables later'. Spoiler alert: they won't. The plan is 100% fossil fuels, 100% of the time. www.afr.com/companies/en...

🔺Psychology Job 🔺 Assistant Professor in Psychology (Grade 8) at Durham Uni to support our new MSc Psychology (Conversion) You should use computational approaches, incl machine learning and artificial intelligence Closing date 30th Aug Please share! #Psychology #AcademicSky #PhDSky More info 👇

Furthermore, the evidence shows that when center-left parties adopt right wing policies, it does not help them win votes. In fact, it only makes the right more powerful because its seen as a legitimization of right wing grievances. People will vote for the real fascists. UK Labour being the example

Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’

Study of European electoral data suggests social democratic parties alienate supporters by moving towards the political centre

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A new study finds that fact-checking often has limited coverage, arrives too late, and reaches too few people to keep up with political misinformation. Corrections can still provide useful information, but they often don't reach enough people in time to have their greatest impact.

Political Fact-Checking Efforts are Constrained by Deficiencies in Coverage, Speed, and Reach

Fact-checking has been promoted as a key method for combating political misinformation. Comparing the spread of election-related misinformation narratives along with their relevant political fact-c...

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Analysis of 669 social and personality psychology articles finds 28% included at least one statement about how the findings could have implications for real-world contexts. New work by @bethclarke.bsky.social et al. Open Access: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #MetaSci #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky

Beth Clarke@bethclarke.bsky.social · last mo.

Is 28% too many or too few? That depends on whether the evidence warrants the claims (which we didn't assess). In a field with strong, application-ready evidence, maybe it should be higher. If evidence is weak, even 28% could be too many.

'Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year' You can now add psychology to this list... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

theguardian.com

Wildfires in Europe so far this summer have led to Spain's deadliest in decades, with temperature anomalies peaking around +9°C in France and Germany and a high of 45.1°C in southern Spain. But how is the UK 'fire wave' after its first 'megafire' that burnt for four days in Dava Moor in May? 1/n