BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

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Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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I've have been trying to learn more about American Sign Language and I find it absolutely fascinating. If you are a language and literacy and multilingualism nerd, I think you should, too! Check out my new post on the topic! #language #ASL write.as/manderson/se...

Seeing Language

I had some opportunities this past year to visit and learn from a school here in NYC that is truly unique in the city (and, from what I...

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I've have been trying to learn more about American Sign Language and I find it absolutely fascinating. If you are a language and literacy and multilingualism nerd, I think you should, too! Check out my new post on the topic! #language #ASL write.as/manderson/se...

Seeing Language

I had some opportunities this past year to visit and learn from a school here in NYC that is truly unique in the city (and, from what I...

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Unacceptable.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

Breaking News: Federal officials acknowledged in court documents that they canceled grants to states that didn’t vote for President Trump in 2024. nyti.ms/4gRd5Kb

While I knew about Jacob Riis at a general level, his personal romance story, which I learned about in this book, is insane! History told with rich human details is the best

Mark Anderson@mandercorn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The sanctuary people who do this work believe that closeness, preparing and sharing meals, and simply showing up for mundane tasks can reassure people in need that they are not alone" theconversation.com/sanctuary-pe...

‘Sanctuary people’ redefine what it means to protect immigrants in uncertain times

Many faith groups supporting immigrants root their mission in the idea of ‘accompaniment,’ which springs from Catholic social teaching.

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“Every time I crossed into a new discipline, I felt like an immigrant again,” she says. “I had to learn a new language, understand a new culture, and earn the trust of people who had spent their careers there.” share.google/6ER5CD4IpucW...

Diana Grass: Listening to the body’s language

Diana Grass, a PhD student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program, develops soft bioelectronic devices that monitor how neural communication coordinates physiology across the entire...

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Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.

WIRED@wired.com · 3w ago

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

A statement from WIRED leadership.

From my post last year, my 4 favorite sources of wildfire smoke forecasts: 1-3 day from NOAA: airquality.weather.gov?element=apm2... rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/HRRRsmo... 3-day from Environment Canada: weather.gc.ca/firework/ 5-10-day from NASA: fluid.nccs.nasa.gov/wxmaps/chem2...

15 sources of wildfire smoke forecasts for North America » Yale Climate Connections

Forecasting wildfire smoke is hard. We review the best tools to help you predict when unhealthful levels of smoke are coming.

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Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Don't assume personalization is needed in all cases just because students differ. A statistical test for the benefits of personalizing interventions | Science share.google/95STubxzZhnt... #research #education

A statistical test for the benefits of personalizing interventions

From medicine to marketing to social sciences, the promise of tailoring interventions to individuals is undeniable. However, practical applications force weighing personalization’s potential benefits ...

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Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.

Scientists at Amsterdam UMC scanned the brains of 110 women before and after pregnancy and compared first-time mothers, second-time mothers, and women who did not become pregnant. Both pregnancies changed the brain. But the regions that changed were not the same.

Researchers scanned 110 women before and after pregnancy and found that a second pregnancy completely rewires different brain networks than the first one did - Tech paper

Researchers already knew that a first pregnancy physically changes the structure of a woman's brain. The changes were confirmed by multiple research groups worldwide and shown to persist for years.Wha...

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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.

I never had a teacher believe in me like this.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

A pilot jumped out of the door of a moving plane to his death, leaving the student he was teaching to fly to land the aircraft by herself. The student said he told her, "You know what you have to do, carry on."

"Our real duty as teachers has always been challenging students to think. The task now is finding ways to engage them in the painful, essential work of critical thinking in a world where machines are willing to do it for them" #ai www.science.org/content/arti...

My kids. enthralled, watching pop music performances (pre-fireworks) are pure comedy: "Why do those guys keep itching their balls?" "That lady had flames coming out of her boob covers!" "She isn't wearing any shorts!"

Is the golden age of field-based ecology only just about to begin? An interesting argument that AI will displace demand for computational skills but increase the need for real data. 🧪🌏

AI, Comparative Advantage, and the Next Decade of Ecological Research

Click on the article title to read more.

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New Preprint 📖 with @rogierk.bsky.social on 🔥 Does wildfire pollution affect cognitive and brain development? We merged data sources to answer this question in ~9000 children! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci

Elon Musk says that no one died because of his demolition of USAID, and that "Kristof is lying through his teeth." So here I invite him to join me on a visit to Africa to see for himself: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

Opinion | U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People. That’s the Truth.

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🌇 on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 20:32 in New York City. Current conditions (via NOAA): 🌞 Fair/clear Temperature: 31.7° Relative Humidity: 63.41% Heat Index: 37.39°

New lab paper ! "Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons" led by @xinyuanyan.bsky.social. 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons

The human brain has the remarkable ability to comprehend and express similar concepts in multiple languages. To understand how it does so, we examined…

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New paper from Giovanni Peri et al: "The immigration impact on population, labor productivity, investments and TFP in OECD countries." Finds non-OECD immigration boosts productivity & GDP per worker because it increases human capital & stimulates investment. www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/sint...

I love Claude #AI Doing some family project and I know people are so against everything AI right now but it's done some seriously cool stuff with old files and documents I had (audio/print outs) from my grandma and aunt.

EdWeek article on new research from TextProject: “What kind of text is best for beginning readers? It’s a question at the center of the 'science of reading” movement...' www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

How Should Teachers Select Books for Young Readers? (Hint: It's Not Just Decodability)

Three new studies offer clues about what makes texts easier and harder for young students to read on their own.

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Happy Father's Day 🖤

How do features of music shape the contents of our thoughts? Check out our new preprint here, led by Wei Wu, modelling the relationship between auditory and semantic dimensions of music listening: osf.io/preprints/ps...