Not only is this sage advice, Obama is also helping CC not become MAGA-coded, through no fault of her own.
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w agoDuring a surprise visit to the WNBA All-Star weekend, Barack Obama delivered a personal message to Caitlin Clark, picked up on a hot mic. The encounter was a “heartening reminder of what ‘presidential’ can look like,” @sallyjenx.bsky.social argues.
A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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Student 22 with a very noble C-minus.
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4w agoFriends don't let friends continue to give exams and papers that are not adapted to the current AI landscape www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... (this is AFTER 27 bailed so the reality is even worse) PS Props to students 1, 22, and 31
Do scientific careers have to be like this? "The prevalence of depressive symptoms was approximately two to three times higher and anxiety symptoms three to five times higher than in age-matched general-population samples."
Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · last mo.Prevalence and severity of mental health problems in early-career researchers: a systematic review and meta-analysis
If you're hosting an international sporting event, you should be required to actually host all of the competitors. This isn't hard.
Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians)@mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 2mo ago
The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao
Fun detail about this article: I didn't notice until it was published, but writing about AI really changed the citation structure of my bibliography. Simply put, most of my references were super-recent. One-quarter came in the first quarter of 2026 alone. Over 50% since 2025.
Kyle Siler@kylesiler.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew article in @pnas.org: We all know ChatGPT loves to delve, bolster, leverage, encompass, showcase, underscore, et cetera. I analyzed full text of 7.3 million journal articles published 2020-2025, hunting for 228 words that spiked after ChatGPT launched in late 2022. 🧵⬇️
The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...
🤼 Here's something different: I wrote this piece for inquisitive using professional wrestling as a vehicle to discuss issues of honesty and authenticity in academia. While pro wrestling is a fun context, it reveals a number of profound truths. 🧵⬇️ inquisitivemag.org/articles/the...
Stepping Through the Ropes — Inquisitive
What the campy world of professional wrestling can teach academics about truth, performance, and the courage to break character
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New article in @pnas.org: We all know ChatGPT loves to delve, bolster, leverage, encompass, showcase, underscore, et cetera. I analyzed full text of 7.3 million journal articles published 2020-2025, hunting for 228 words that spiked after ChatGPT launched in late 2022. 🧵⬇️
If you do all this stuff against Liberty University it is actually constitutionally protected free speech in my opinion.
Jomboy Media (Unofficial)@jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 2mo agoGeorgia's Tre Phelps was tossed for unsportsmanlike conduct after hitting a go-ahead two-run home run
An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?
John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2mo ago73% of faculty are not in this sample.
BROKE: It's anti-Semitic not to root for the OKC Thunder WOKE: The OKC Thunder must be returned to their ancestral Zionist homeland, in Seattle
comrade@nowarbutclasswar.myatproto.social · 3mo agoHoly shit
Glossip is only alive because some incompetent prison official (or alternately, some hero) ordered the wrong lethal injection drugs before a scheduled execution in 2015. Glad to see him go free.
The Intercept@theintercept.com · 3mo agoThree decades after he was arrested for a capital crime he swore he didn’t commit — and more than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction — former death row prisoner Richard Glossip was granted bond by an Oklahoma judge and released from jail. theintercept.com/2026/05/14/r...
🧟 New article in Research Policy! What happens to a journal that loses its people but keeps its name? Or, a journal that kept its people, but lost its name? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Splitting status and substance: The diverging fates of breakaway and zombie journals
Mass editorial board resignations from journals are an increasingly widespread phenomenon in academic publishing. Breakaway journals are new journals …
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Important context to this UCF commencement speaker being booed off the stage is that UCF has six commencement ceremonies and *THIS* is the one they had "AI is great" lady speak to
Jed Brown@jedbrown.org · 3mo agoThis is truly heartwarming, especially the joy when the camera pans to students. Every senior university administrator should watch this interaction. Queued up in official video: youtu.be/zwYkHS8jvSE?...
Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.
Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 3mo agoSo, if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of aces...
The @financialtimes.com just updated its FT50 journal list, the roster business schools use to evaluate "high quality" research for hiring, tenure, and program rankings. Out: Human Relations, J. of Business Ethics, Organization Studies. In: AOM Annals, Am. Sociological Review, Psych Science. 🧵
If google gave a shit about their users, the top hits for any hotel wouldn't be sketchy intermediary booking sites. It's a perfect example of enshittification.
The Click That Cost $11,000 and Other Travel Pitfalls
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@mark-carney.bsky.social This is utterly baffling. You were going to get your majority one way or another. Why would you bring one of the most batshit crazy anti-vaxxer SoCons in Canadian politics into your party? You did not need Gladu, and any respectable political party shouldn't want her.
Martin Concagh@mconcagh.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis defection is genuinely shocking, Marilyn Gladu is a crank in a safe Conservative seat www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
In all seriousness this is a huge issue with the subsidized right wing bullshit machine. Articles written by well-funded news “foundations” are syndicated out with no paywalls. This is subsequently rewarded in several ways.
eric gonzalez juenke@egojunk.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Journalists should be on Twitter." Twitter to journalism: "Drop dead."
Just did my 1st peer review of an AI-generated paper. There was enough formatting/citation weirdness in the manuscript to make me run Opus 4.6 for an academic integrity check. Sure enough, hallucinations everywhere. This is the new normal. 🤦♂️ (I'm also aware of the irony of using AI to catch AI!)