Nayeli Urquiza Haas
@nayeliurquiza.bsky.social
Lancaster Law School. Co-I of Wellcome Discovery Award "Between deception and dissent: regulating unproven, disproven, or misleading health-related claims". Interested in STS, sociolegal studies, medicines regulation, gender and vulnerability studies.
This would be the end of my US federal funding if of the anyone in thrall to the current powers-that-be knew that Nature is not a homeopathic aromatherapy magazine. Below, the thread referenced. h/t @thomasbackhaus.eu
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
📢 New addition to the Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 "How the tech oligarchy colonizes our futures," by Jennifer Chubb and @drfuturity.bsky.social, shows how tech oligarchy conjures opposing visions of desirable and undesirable futures in their technoentrepreneurial projects. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
How the tech oligarchy colonizes our futures
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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'Reports', or 'reporters'? 'Reports', or 'editors'? Reports don't write or publish themselves. People do. There are humans in this loop.
Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis
Exclusive: Analysis of nearly 2,500 articles finds almost three-quarters made no reference to global heating
theguardian.com
The death of Tibetan activist Lobga Rangzen is a tragic reminder of the devastating human cost of China's policies in occupied Tibet. As Beijing intensifies assault on Tibetan identity through the implementation of the new Ethnic Unity Law, the international community cannot remain silent.
The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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Wes Streeting’s Brexit play may be clever gamesmanship – but it has nothing to do with Europe | Anand Menon
Ten years after the referendum, its role as domestic football is still the order of day – and the ex-health secretary is happy to use it in his leadership bid, says academic Anand Menon
theguardian.com
Videos show an oil spill has reached the shores of a pristine Persian Gulf island in Iran surrounded by clear turquoise waters that provide refuge for endangered sea turtles and dolphins.
Oil Slick Reaches a Pristine Persian Gulf Island in Iran
nytimes.com
MAP MENNOUNCEMENT!! To celebrate the release of the paperback version of ’This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong’, Mark and I are doing another book tour! Come and see us, and ask ask us any question you like in.… Birmingham Reading Guildford Manchester Greenwich bio.to/MapMenOnTour
MAP MEN ON TOUR
Go to MAP MEN ON TOUR.
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Today’s Education Select Committee report on higher education is the best report on HE to come from Govt/Parliament in ages. It takes a rounded view of the whole system, moving away from the more atomistic or narrow accounts we’ve seen 🧵 committees.parliament.uk/committee/20...
“A very serious problem”: No clear government plan for universities risking insolvency, MPs find in new report - Committees - UK Parliament
Today MPs on the Education Committee warn that the government has no clear plan for universities facing insolvency and that protections for students are inadequate, as the Committee publishes a new re...
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My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
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Apparently they don’t wang on about themselves and drink 10 pints www.wired.com/story/cocain...
Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon and You Will Absolutely Believe What Happened Next
After scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they observed that, as in the lab, fish on cocaine do not act like normal fish.
wired.com
World’s Oldest #Cannabis Plant May Have Been Found in a Berlin Museum — and It’s 56 Million Years Old! 👇🏻 hightimes.com/health/scien...
World's Oldest Cannabis Plant May Have Been Found in a Berlin Museum — and It's 56 Million Years Old | High Times
Hiding in the collection of Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde was a fossil first described in 1883. Researchers just realized what it might be: the oldest known cannabis plant ever found, dating to the L...
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To address the harms chatbots can cause, we need to start at the beginning, D&S exec director Janet Haven tells @npr.org: "Chatbots are designed to be agreeable & validating, and that can become really dangerous when users are spiraling or contemplating harmful actions." www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...
OpenAI is under scrutiny after two mass shooters used ChatGPT to plan attacks
AI companies are under growing scrutiny over the potential harms chatbots can pose amid investigations into how mass shooters allegedly sought advice from the tools.
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Alberto Sosa-Cabanas, 2022 ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, has edited a new book fully devoted to the study of Cuban author and ethnographer Lydia Cabrera’s "El Monte." "El Monte's New Itineraries: Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean" is out now from @rutgersupress.bsky.social
Things are grim for academics in UK universities, but it's not all gloom Top administrators have done extremely well for themselves Number & pay of such lucrative positions has rocketed Here's pay of Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University as multiple of average staff pay
And De Montfort University! Which other Nous-victims are there in #UKHE?
QM_UCU@qmucu.bsky.social · 8mo agoI’d be entirely here for a Nous support group. The UK has Edinburgh, QMUL, Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Nottingham Trent already who can join us.
Seriously, who else's got the NOUS bros in in #UKHE?
QM_UCU@qmucu.bsky.social · 4mo agoNOUS is wrecking destruction all over the #UKHE sector. The list of clients isn’t pretty, seeing how they’re the ones with the most dire stories in a sector full of dire stories: Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Plymouth, Edinburgh, QMUL. Who else has got NOUS in? Cc @timeshighered.bsky.social
In case you missed it, Utrecht, Netherlands has begun building the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge.
Utrecht to start construction on largest car-free neighborhood in the country next week
Construction of a new neighborhood is set to begin in Utrecht next week. The neighborhood, called Merwede, is scheduled to be the largest car-free district in the Netherlands, with 6,000 homes. The ar...
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A rare good news story on homelessness. Manchester leading the way again on this issue www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
A ‘dress rehearsal’ for life: inside the Manchester project helping homeless men rebuild | Homelessness | The Guardian
Embassy Village offers 40 canal-side flats and support with budgeting, cooking and finding work, to help men start new lives and rediscover community
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Jemima Kelly | The hunger for ‘content’ is keeping us culturally stuck ft.trib.al/FiLLHmd #FTEdit
The hunger for ‘content’ is keeping us culturally stuck
The algorithms of the distraction economy are feeding us what we already like, creating a loop with no progress
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big tech firms face crisis akin to that faced by cigarette makers in the 1990s www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Accountability has arrived’: dual US court losses show shifting tide against Meta and co
With two unprecedented trial defeats, big tech firms face crisis akin to that faced by cigarette makers in the 1990s
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Democracy is on the brink of a worldwide depression — with the US leading the decline. Civil rights and equality in the land of the free have fallen to the levels of the mid-1960s and freedom of expression is at its lowest since the 1950s. Read Martin Wolf on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/ylR5qXv
