"The Gloria Wekker Reader," edited by Chandra Frank, Nancy Jouwe, and Mikki Stelder, compiles articles, essays, interviews, poems, and letters by the Afro-Surinamese Dutch theorist and activist known for her work in feminist Black diaspora studies. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/jhDDyXf

Humbling to proof your own transcriptions a year or two after making them — a good reminder that people also hallucinate words 🙃

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

New working paper with Thomas Delcey and Alexandre Truc: “One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought” ▶️ osf.io/preprints/so... We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009) #rstats #EconSky

When you're editor of stuff you get to see the chaos of your colleagues' file-naming conventions, and what a gift that is.

@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Steph Brown [@stephjayb.bsky.social] has just won the 2025 Surveillance Studies Book Prize for Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905–1924. This is an incredible book that everyone should read. Congrats, Steph!! ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans! actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans.

In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...

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🚀 Big news!! The first papers from our AI & Archives SI are up!!!

Nanna B Thylstrup@nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 6mo ago

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

MIT study: the technology that our professors have been working on for 50 years isn’t working 🫠

Ok the world may be going down, but at least the visual politics classes are flourishing (where they are still allowed to be taught)

Nicolai von Ondarza@nvondarza.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Good diplomatic reasons for Europeans to try to appeal for calm and work it out behind the scenes with the US. But just this morning Trump posted pictures of him putting the flag on Greenland, and presenting his conquests of Greenland and Canada to European leaders.

Yay! The hard copies of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities arrived today. It was a pleasure to write a chapter in this about pirate infrastructures and shadow libraries.

I've seen a lot of upset over the NASA library being closed. But, I haven't seen any plan to: intervene, file a lawsuit, corral members of Congress, get irate citizens to reach out to elected officials, have a bake sale, or anything else. Does anyone know of a plan to stop or ameliorate this?

Recommended read by the always excellent @eve.gd !

Martin Paul Eve@eve.gd · 7mo ago

But this also ties in with the sustainability efforts of shadow libraries, as I was writing about the other day. eve.gd/2026/01/01/t...

this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

“Don’t walk in” instead of “just walk out.”

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Sarah Osment@smosment.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"There is no sense calling for independent or solitary action by something called “the humanities” when that category has been so thoroughly absorbed by concerted attacks on democratic governance, due process of law, rights to privacy, security, assembly, and expression. We are all humanists now."

Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵

Andrew Lilley Brinker@alilleybrinker.com · 7mo ago

"Memory Safety for Skeptics," published in the ACM Queue. Arguing for why memory safety is worth pursuing, even amid competing priorities and limited budgets, and with or without Rust.

"By tracing how schools habituate young people to responsiveness and optimisation, we can see how algorithmic docility is normalised across society at large,” write Alexander Gardner-McTaggart and Carmen Blyth.

Ontological capture: AI, childhood, and the algorithmic governance of becoming - AI & SOCIETY

This article interrogates how algorithmic infrastructures and AI reshape social life through childhood, civic identity, and education. Drawing on Anders’ account of Promethean shame, Baudrillard’s not...

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"You’ve become the tip-line for The Washington Post,” another colleague joked. “You look terrible,” my work wife said. I asked them to send me a picture of their govt ID, then tried to forget it. I kept notes from reporting conversations in an encrypted drive, never writing down anyone’s name."

I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.

One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.

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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8mo ago

Color me shocked.

Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'

"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."

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Exam time! Technological innovation has destroyed the advances made by technological innovation, so students once again sit their exams using tools from the 18th century ('pencil') and the 2nd century ('paper') #analoglife

You have got to be kidding me