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PhD IO Psychology, professor, people analytics consultant www.talentmetrics.io

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Sarah Lazare@sarahlazare.bsky.social · 23h ago

At a time when US violence and belligerence toward Iran keeps reaching terrifying new heights, this call to action from dockworkers is so concrete, so needed. These are the same unions that pulled off dockworker strikes in solidarity with Palestinians, so they mean it when they put out these calls.

Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide

Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.

inthesetimes.com

Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · yesterday

Thinking about this in conjunction with the article released on how the protection of solar farms made berries sweeter. We can make conditions safer and more pleasant for people while helping communities and the earth at the same time.

United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yesterday's temperature topped 105° in Fresno. "Carlos" and team were working in the watermelons. "Our team is paid piece rate. The more boxes we fill the more we make. The person closest to the truck has the hardest job so we switch off. This is exhausting work." #WeFeedYou

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2d ago

Pro-wrestling executive Linda McMahon issued a letter today (in her role as US Secretary of Education) demanding that universities justify their existence and explain policies to the Trump administration by the end of 2026. Not sure what the endgame is, but it sure feels like a trap.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Issues National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards

Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon issued a national call to action to university presidents and governing boards, urging them to reaffirm higher education’s foundational commitments to ...

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Cody Ziglar@yayforzig.bsky.social · 2d ago

15 years ago today Miles Morales debuted in Ultimate Fallout 4 it completely changed my life. Getting to write for Miles was one of the highlights of my life & career & I’ll be forever be thankful for getting to leave my mark. Anyone can wear the mask yall & don’t you ever forget it!

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Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

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Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · yesterday

"Barbara Snyder, president of the Association of American Universities, said that the AAU had been promised that responses to the letter would be divorced from federal funding considerations." I have this bridge I am selling, in Brooklyn. Special rate. Just for you. www.chronicle.com/article/for-...

For Higher Ed, Trump’s Compact 2.0 Is Either an Olive Branch or a Gloved Fist

The White House has promised there will be no direct penalties — or rewards — for making the statements asked for, but some are skeptical.

chronicle.com

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social · 2d ago

Women ages 40+ searching for jobs may find their decades of experience as a hindrance. Some remove dates and years of experience from their resume. It is another way women are considered 'never quite right'. www.thetimes.com/money/family...

‘I’m invisible now’: The high-earning women who can’t find work

Job hunters in their forties and fifties are finding that decades of experience in top roles can be a hindrance, not a help, in today’s job market

thetimes.com

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ahmad & Samar got married in defiance of Israel's genocide, and are expecting a child. They're still trapped in their home of Gaza, now turned to rubble and desolation by Israel's genocide. Please share & give to help them ensure a future for their child. They're not getting enough support:

Our Baby Deserves Safety: Help Ahmad& Samar to Start Again

Hi, I'm helping my dear friends Ahmad and Samar who are seeking your support to build a secure and stable future for themselves and their growing family. Please read their story and consider supportin...

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AHMAD_JOHAR🕊𓂆🇵🇸@ahmadjohary16.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’ve carried the weight of Gaza on my shoulders, along with the silence that followed. All I dream of is a new beginning and a safe life for my wife, our baby girl arriving in two months, and me.♥️ Please help us reach that dream. Your donation is the light we hold on to for our daughter's future.🕊

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

It will depress you! Sorry about that but it’s kind of my jam. I selected well-written books, some of them are even wryly funny at times — if you come from a culture with macabre humor. Still, the issue is big, complex, and scary. All the more reason for us to face it together.

John Robinson@jrobin.bsky.social · 2d ago

A reading list that I know will depress me, but one that also seems vital to understand (and fight this version of) the future. From the brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Lucas Seehafer@seehafer.bsky.social · 3d ago

This study is a textbook example of statistical significance not meaning clinical significance. The "small spikes" equated to a couple minutes. I'm confident saying these "small spikes" were ultimately meaningless. It's also the problem of using linear statistics to explain nonlinear dynamics.

NBA players’ Achilles tendon tears are linked to small spikes in playing time, study finds

The injury is one of basketball’s most serious. A recent study found that players logged more minutes than their season averages during the 10 to 15 games before their Achilles tendons ruptured.

nbcnews.com

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago

“Bybee drove about two miles to a restaurant, picked up an order, and placed it in the Dot robot as it waited in the parking lot, she said. She took photos of each step to document the process, and the gig took five minutes, she said. DoorDash paid her about $5.”

DoorDash is paying people to load its delivery robots. It points to a shortcoming of automation

DoorDash is using gig workers to load orders into its Dot delivery robots, highlighting limitations in autonomous delivery technology.

businessinsider.com

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3d ago

I wonder if students today would be less likely to lean on AI for writing assignments if schools had made sure they could touch-type (at least 60wpm) before having them submit all their assignments online. 1/🧵

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

404media.co

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 5d ago

As I've said before: What high-paying long-term jobs do they pretend exist here? A data center isn't a place where execs come and do Big Deals. Go to the server room at your workplace; are there lots of rich people in there spending money?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 5d ago

One day several years ago, I got an anonymous handwritten, threatening letter delivered to my campus mailbox, and then someone (the same person? someone else?) DM'd me on twitter from a burner account, with a photo of my driveway with my car parked in it. This is real and it's dangerous

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d ago

There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d ago

There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.

@carmenlynn.bsky.social · 5d ago

The Koch Nazis are back “A shadowy network of conservative activist groups, backed by Koch-linked dark money, is deploying hidden cameras and mass public-records requests to hunt down and destroy the careers of college professors and administrators — and it's working.”