Everytime I mention that BlueSky is just not good for non-US global news and discussion, I get piled on. BlueSky is great for many, many reasons, but the rest of the world is still very much on Twitter / X. What is happening in India is *massive*.

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · last wk.

It is wild the degree to which being on Bluesky (as opposed to Twitter, which feels like walking into the clamour of an Indian railway station) feels like hitting mute on India right now, with the whole nation at a turning point.

The empire is a snuff film now

“And the wife leaning out the window/ with her hand extended, as in payment” Glück, “All Hallows”

Every year, this house ups their game.

Lots on Twitter about NAZA, for any Blu skier interested

GO see NAZA. And realize that there are countless NAZA films to be made about intentional Israeli atrocities: destruction of hospitals & health infrastructure; targeted murder of 247 journalists, withholding food and humanitarian aid; raping & torturing “detainees”; destruction of universities…

“The German Greens support arming Israel, opposed a ceasefire to Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, backed the suspension of funding to Unrwa and co-sponsored a Bundestag resolution describing the arguments and methods of the peaceful, Palestinian-led BDS campaign as antisemitic.”

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7d ago

Green party of England and Wales facing ostracism over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote

few realize that John Lennon's glasses were the bog standard ones given out by the NHS when frames were still made available. So Lennon was clearly making a political statement about democratic socialist ideals www.ft.com/content/82d1...

The world’s best indie glasses makers

From Maison Bonnet to EB Meyrowitz and Ransome Optical, eyewear specialists are creating one-off frames to suit the quirks, asymmetries and idiosyncrasies of each individual face

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We’re moving 10,000 low-income children off the child care voucher waitlist — at absolutely no cost to their families. Eligible families with children ages 6 weeks to 13 years, and through age 19 for children with special needs, will be invited to apply for a voucher on a rolling basis.

The article in Journal of the History of Biology, published today, is open access and in the notes there is a link to Franklin's notebooks online: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Photograph 49 is the Key to Understanding the History of Rosalind Franklin’s DNA Photograph 51 - Journal of the History of Biology

This essay, co-authored by a historian of science and an X-ray crystallographer, sheds new light on Rosalind Franklin’s Photograph 51. We refute the infamous claim that, unlike James Watson, Franklin ...

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Science Magazine@science.org · last wk.

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

Link: www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf... and #OA version here on @philsci-archive.bsky.social : philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26292/1/Berg... #philsci

Contrasting Visions of Inquiry for an Open Society: Henri Bergson and Karl Popper Between Humane and Rational Openness - Volume 103, Issue 3, July 2026

This paper traces the intellectual lineage of the idea of openness as a guiding principle for scientific inquiry within democratic societies. To this aim, it contrasts Henri Bergson’s and Karl Popper’...

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My department is hiring in 20th-century American Literature! Happy to answer questions.

Assistant Professor of English (20th Century American Literature) - Jacksonville, AL (Main Campus), Alabama, United States

Assistant Professor of English, 20th Century American Literature Position Description We invite applications for an Assistant Professor of English in 20th-Century and Contemporary American Literature,...

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Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) and Train Drivers’ Union (ASLEF) say no to CAF apartheid trains This is a powerful demonstration of workers and people power, in solidarity with Palestine and a direct challenge to complicity with Israel’s regime of genocide and apartheid.

Had to grade a ton of student writing this week and developed a list of “real talk” questions to ask them about common issues I saw in their papers. It turned into a surprisingly productive conversation.

The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.

Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats

A Michigan rabbis' 'nonnegotiable' petition demanding El-Sayed disown Hasan Piker reveals a harsh truth for El-Sayed: that no amount of pandering will satisfy critics who want anti-Zionism expelled from the Democratic party outright. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/alwa... #Palestine #Israel

Very big subject on Twitter. Not so much on Bluesky. This is 40,000 tons of bombs for Israel, some thermal with capacity to vaporize

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4w ago

The Trump administration is preparing a multibillion-dollar sale of 40,000 bombs that weigh 2,000 pounds each, including 20,000 MK-84s, one official said. An MK-84 explosion can rip through metal and concrete, and can create large craters in the earth. https://wapo.st/4xpN2hC

All due commemoration to US dead on 9/11, all due compassion to their survivors. But in proportion, and in context: www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor... I heard yesterday on NPR about www.beyondthe11th.org and will send a donation there today.

‘Everything changed’: The human cost of 25 years of US wars

Successive wars launched after 9/11 have killed at least 4.5 million people and displaced more than 38 million others.

aljazeera.com

Everywhere you look real knowledge is being fenced off, but slop is always available for free

John Levin@anterotesis.bsky.social · last mo.

An "update" to JSTOR’s free reading program: they're downgrading access from 100 free articles/month to just 10. Access to academic writing is being whittled down, bit by bit. about.jstor.org/blog/an-upda...

Progressive candidates won Democratic primaries by centering Palestine. Now, advocates warn that without a firm demand like an arms embargo, politicians can co-opt 'pro-Palestine' rhetoric without real accountability. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/demo... #Palestine #Israel

June Jordan spoke at Barnard College in November of 2001, two months after 9/11, just six months before she died of cancer, in what I found to be the most profound words reflecting on 9/11: "what shall we do, we who did not die?"

corn alert

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · last mo.

Cytogeneticist Dr. Barbara McClintock won the 1983 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her study of corn chromosomes--revolutionizing the field of cytogenetics. She is the only woman to be awarded an unshared Nobel Prize in this category. She died #OTD in 1992. #WomenInSTEM

resin alert

Ben Wurgaft@benwurgaft.bsky.social · last mo.

I had a totally different chronology for Amber, beginning with Dworkin's flight from the Courts of Chaos with the Eye of the Serpent and his begetting of Oberon with the Unicorn. Like 2000 years max.

This airline rules so hard

Very hard to find anything about this new hareetz article on bluesky, at least in English. Subjects: early warnings of Oct 7 and Israel’s refusals of Hamas’ deal to return Hostages immediately (and blinken’s role) . ( Reporting on this has been out there 3 years now)

CNN Brasil@cnn-news.bsky.social · last mo.

Netanyahu teria sido avisado antes de ataque de 7 de outubro, diz jornal

If someone says to you "but isn't DSA all professionals and gentrifiers" feel free to just send them this piece by me dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...

The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine

Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.

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(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan