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Professor of c18 British literature and culture, dog lover, hot yoga enthusiast.
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Education chief to school districts: Remove sexually explicit books before anyone complains
Florida’s education commissioner is directing school districts to set stricter rules for reviewing library and classroom books or face “corrective measures.”
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The billions of dollars we send to a foreign military to drop bombs on somebody else should have been spent to build schools, housing, and to provide healthcare HERE.
Workers saved the life of a dog that had been stranded all night.
Any task whose assessed object is a final number or tidy conclusions is not measuring students’ thinking, writes Lucas Long. He shares three ways to put the reasoning back at the centre of learning: https://ow.ly/lRea50ZPEKN #Highered #Academicsky
If a chatbot can pass your assignment, you are grading the wrong thing
Any task whose assessed object is a final number or tidy conclusions is not measuring students’ thinking, writes Lucas Long. He shares three ways to put the reasoning back at the centre of learning
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High-school journalists describe a chilling effect on student speech as students and teachers increasingly self-censor. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... #censorship #DefendResearch #Academicsky #AcademicChatter #Freespeech
ArtDependence | MALBA Buenos Aires Expands Beneath Plaza Perú artdependence.com/articles/mal... #artsky
ArtDependence | MALBA Buenos Aires Expands Beneath Plaza Perú
MALBA Buenos Aires Expands Beneath Plaza Perú
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apnews.com/article/khal... Khalil lawsuit says Columbia failed to protect pro-Palestinian activists
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Tierra Walker’s Family Sues Ken Paxton and Doctors, Saying Texas Abortion Ban Caused Her Death msmagazine.com/2026/02/11/t...
Tierra Walker’s Family Sues Ken Paxton and Doctors, Saying Texas Abortion Ban Caused Her Death
After 90 Doctors and Months of Crisis, a Texas Mother Tierra Walker Died Without the Abortion That Could Have Saved Her
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This is the first lawsuit filed on the death of a woman from an abortion ban. It argues that the Texas abortion ban violates constitutional rights. 🧵 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton.
The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban.
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Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.
All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore
Four openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments
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An N.Y.U. Mathematician Clashed With OpenAI Over a $1 Million Proof www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/s... #academicsky
The Mathematician Crushed Between OpenAI and Anthropic Over a Math Problem
Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.
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Could Your Chatbot Be Stealing Ideas From You? It’s a Thorny Question. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/s...
Could Your Chatbot Be Stealing Ideas From You? It’s a Thorny Question.
A controversy around OpenAI’s latest math proof raises a fear that might become increasingly common: that A.I. tools could take valuable insights from one user and hand them to another.
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Garcia: There’s a group of Jeffrey Epstein’s survivors that are here in Dallas. And the survivors are saying that they are also disgusted that Todd Blanche is out there giving speeches while refusing criminal convictions, while refusing to release the rest of the files.
Foster puppy Cowboy works up the courage to snuggle with Cactus: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
Jason Weida, then chief of Agency for Health Care Admin, gave $10M, not $10.8M, an effort to avoid having to deposit money in a state general revenue fund as required by state law that requires settlement over $10M be deposited with the state #HopeFlorida www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/09/05/i...
In Hope Florida scandal, Florida shorted $800,000, grand jury says
The money, “owed to Florida’s taxpayers,” was never paid, the grand jury’s report says.
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#Florida votes to ban undocumented students from state universities #academicsky www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/09/03/f...
Florida votes to ban undocumented students from state universities
The decision, which goes into effect starting in the 2027-28 academic year, makes Florida the largest state in the country to ban undocumented immigrants from public universities and colleges.
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The WMO just confirmed a near 100% likelihood that a "supersized" El Niño will persist into 2027. We are facing unprecedented risks of extreme heat, megadroughts, and devastating floods. Nature is sounding the alarm—demanding immediate, radical climate action! wmo.int/news/media-c...
El Niño set to become very strong, raising risks of extreme weather into 2027
Geneva, Switzerland (WMO) - El Niño is firmly established and will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months, with big impacts on rainfall and temperature patterns and associated risks o...
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