Vanessa Bentley (she/her)
@piratev.bsky.social
Philosopher of science (neuroscience). Experiment, science & values, neuroethics, and feminist philosophy of science. University of Central Oklahoma
“We have a running tally of how many people are crying in our store for happy tears,” said one of Curveture’s founders.
This Utah town is home to a rare plus-size thrift store. People from all over the country are flocking to visit.
“We have a running tally of how many people are crying in our store for happy tears,” said one of Curveture’s founders.
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Meanwhile, actual academic programs are cash cows for universities. My history classes, for example, generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in university revenue per class per semester.
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 3d ago"Across DI colleges, 94 percent of athletics programs, including 49 of the 69 Power colleges, spent more than they generated in revenue in the 2023–24 academic year. The median college reported a gap of $20.6 million. This gap was larger than the median a decade earlier ($12.3 million)."
If you would like to teach theoretical modeling skills to your psychology or cognitive science students, or would like to learn these skills yourself, check out our open online textbook: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/lovelace/
"The topic of the summer academies will be how disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, & humanities have deliberated about how to invest their always scarce resources of time, talent, & money in projects that will shape research in an always uncertain future." #HPS #HistSTM #histsci
Erika Milam@emilam.bsky.social · 3d agoPlease circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?
A few weeks ago I realized that tomorrow is the date the Ray Bradbury story “There Will Come Soft Rains” takes place. It’s a shame science fiction from 75 years ago isn’t relevant anymore
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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LAUNCHING: Philosophy Bookclub It transforms ‘meet the author’ into a novel philosophical conversation through storytelling.
EVENT LAUNCH: Philosophy Bookclub
‘a philosopher…walks…talks…makes’ is delighted to bring you the inaugural 2026-27 series of PHILOSOPHY BOOKCLUB, transforming ‘meet the author’ into a novel philosophical conversation through storytelling. You have a unique opportunity to meet the authors of books that explore ideas in philosophy, or philosophically. Along with our guest authors reading from their books, your host, Dr Kathrine Cuccuru of ‘a philosopher…walks…talks…makes’ will creatively respond with stories, anecdotes, and illustrative examples.
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Literary Outlets for Environmental Writing : EcoLit Books
We’ve compiled a list of publications devoted in large part to eco-literature — essays, articles, short stories, poetry. Last updated on July 25, 2026. To be notified when new publications ... Read mo...
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Four years after ChatGPT, ‘AI natives’ are graduating college with key skills missing — and a bad case of ‘AI guilt’ - Moneywise.com
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If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.
Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · last wk.Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.
Serious stuff. Now 7 states have had municipal water services hacked. FBI issues warning to be on the alert for further cyber attacks. Meanwhile, DJT is blaming the victims. 🙄 www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
Hackers targeted municipal water systems in 7 states this week, FBI says
The federal warning comes after more than 30 water facilities in Minnesota were breached.
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Special Issue Call for Submissions to Psych Science: “Advancing Psychological Science using Large Language Models” www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Special Issue Call for Submissions: “Advancing Psychological Science using Large Language Models”
Editors: Jamie Cummins and Ruben C. ArslanPsychological Science invites submissions for a special issue on psychological science involving large language models. We welcome theoretically and empirical...
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A little resistance story for your weekend reading: How Dr. Angel Foster and her abortion-access allies have create a "shadow" healthcare and legal system to keep abortion-pills flowing into some of the reddest states in the US. My latest @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
She's remaking the abortion landscape one pill at a time
Far from buckling under Dobbs, the access movement has created “a whole new way of doing healthcare.”
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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
The conservative solution for the “male loneliness epidemic” and decentering men is to just remove women from public spaces.
If you don’t start from the dignity and inherent equal worth of every human being and keep it central to your life, policies, governments, businesses, then everything ends up this way.
This story about a college bio lab fuckup is fucking wild from start to finish arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure
Lab students were supposed to ID a mild germ. They all identified a deadly pathogen.
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Linkedin automatically opts you in to their plagiarism machine unless you specifically go and disable it you are feeding their LLM This isnt their U-Turn this is them getting you to filter out AI slop so it doesnt Ouroboros itself on slop www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...
Control whether LinkedIn uses your data to improve generative AI (GAI) models that are used for content creation on LinkedIn | LinkedIn Help
Control whether LinkedIn uses your data to improve generative AI (GAI) models that are used for content creation on LinkedIn
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database@eddcoates.bsky.social · last wk.LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.
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Semantics, lexicography, and TESOL in action! Which words in English are most important for L2 learners to know, 1953 vs 2023 pudding.cool/2026/07/esse...
How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed
Differences between “essential vocabulary” lists, 1953 vs. 2023
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I made no-bake cookies and that was a bad idea because I keep eating them.
Fascinating paper on the progression of women in academia. 👩🏻🔬 ⚛️ 🧪 #AcademicSky docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf?... Here's an excerpt from the conclusion:
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Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
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I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
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It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
I set up a shop for selling my lino prints! Jimothy with two paper options, a coffee plant, and an octopus tentacle are all ready to go. ko-fi.com/teddylaich
