Friends who read and buy books: where online do you buy used books? I don’t want to use Abebooks (owned by amazon), or Better World Books (they sell to AI companies). Other suggestions? (US based)

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

The problem? I read the goddamn speech, and the line wasn't in it! Copilot made it up, AS AI IS WONT TO DO. Apparently no one else on the team caught this? They were ready to hand a quiz to students with machine-hallucinated content. Sigh.

First it was the writing center, now Dudley House. This was the place where people like married veterans & other students who had reasons to live off campus found community at Harvard. I refuse to believe this was extremely costly. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Harvard to Shutter Dudley Community After More Than 90 Years | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard College will shutter the Dudley Community, ending an institution founded more than 90 years ago to provide advising and a social home for generations of undergraduates living outside the House...

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“Closing the Writing Center and removing its leadership now sends a disturbing signal about how seriously Harvard actually takes [its] mission.” Closing a writing center or library or dept or program or university press—an attack on one is an attack on all. 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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Record outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite 20M eggs recalled due to salmonella Worst air quality in world from wildfire smoke UN says world risks HIV resurgence due to funding cuts Most measles cases in 35 years They’re going after Fauci to distract you from current public health failures

End to B.C.’s $2K nursing tuition grant ‘like a shot in the back,’ says student www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

End to B.C.’s $2K nursing tuition grant ‘like a shot in the back,’ says student | CBC News

A grant B.C. introduced in 2023 that gave nursing students $2,000 a year to help cover tuition costs is set to expire on Aug. 1, leaving some students feeling undervalued.

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The waste of teaching talent caused by universities’ obsession with low-wage contract work (which drives people out of the profession long-term) is almost unimaginable. A societal disaster.

"Use LLMs to draft homework assignments or fliers instead of spending money on stock providers" is a fallacy. It's not free. Your org is paying for the LLM license and/or the systemic utility/environmental cost for a worse output as a ponzi scheme to transfer money to megacorps.

Claire Waller / Ellie Graves/ Claire Lunn@clairesnonsense.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was a teacher for 15 yrs. I’m ashamed at what I’m witnessing. The recent reliance on LLMs to create resources and homework has led to some of the most nonsensical, confusing and actively harmful stuff I’ve ever seen in a classroom. (I have complained. I used to work there - I’m not popular atm)

· #AcademicSky · #EduSky · #Humanities · #Arts · “One of Britain’s leading university vice-chancellors has described sweeping cuts to arts and humanities across the sector as ‘absolutely tragic’, citing her famous daughter as an example of the value of a creative arts education.”

Florence Welch’s mother says cuts to arts and humanities ‘absolutely tragic’

Exclusive: Prof Evelyn Welch, vice-chancellor of Bristol University, believes her daughter’s success shows value of arts education

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The news is making me anxious, so let's meet Shanti, the oldest Indian rhino in North America & talk about the wild SUCCESS of Indian rhino conservation. Shanti here is 39, which is near the maximum recorded age of a wild rhino. She's a grandmother many times over... (Michelle K., OKC Zoo)

If you are a humanities academic at a CC/college/university in the Boston to mid-Mass area and your department is looking for an adjunct for anything in the humanities (writing, film, history, critical thinking, etc.), please let me know! My CV is on this link if you want to see credentials:

Vaughn Joy - Black and White and Read All Over

Vaughn Joy is an independent researcher, author of Review Roulette, and the site creator, designer, and administrator of Black and White and Read All Over.

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I'm at Université de Montréal for the Canadian Society for DH and DHSI conferences. UdeM is a French-language university. As such, all visual signage that I have seen on campus is French-only. However, the braille on elevator buttons is in English.

Dean of the Faculty at Radboud University has resigned, citing disagreement over strategies that have been determined by external consultants. www.voxweb.nl/en/dean-of-t...

QM_UCU@qmucu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Relieved to see more coverage of the grip Nous is getting on #UKHE. Thanks @privateeyenews.bsky.social! A million pound @cardiffucu.bsky.social alone. That’s a lot of money for the very same PowerPoint…

Scientists engineered biocompatible lipid-shell nanocarriers to encapsulate the enzymes, allowing them to travel through the bloodstream undetected by the immune system. The dissolve the mechanical blockage and restore blood flow without requiring a single invasive incision or stent deployment.

It has now been 10 weeks and three days since Nigel Farage last turned up to vote in the House of Commons

Whatever about the impact on my own career, I am so sad and frustrated to see more and more artists I love struggling or considering leaving the field because of decreased sales, increased costs, and the impact of genAI. I don't want to lose the joy of seeing my favourite artists' beautiful work.

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

'What appears as declining demand is more accurately understood as the result of uneven access to language learning across the school system.'

Modern languages has a future – and it’s all about access

Contraction of modern languages provision is often painted as a response to falling demand. For Ana de Medeiros and Marcela Cazzoli, if you look across the whole education system then HE starts to loo...

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Results from UUK's spring 2026 survey, with 140+ respondents. 'Staffing has become one of the most common areas of cost saving with 79% of universities pursuing voluntary redundancies and 79% implemented hiring freezes or pauses to recruitment over the last three years.' 1/3

Two in five universities consider joining forces through 'multi academy trust' style models or mergers, new survey shows

A new Universities UK survey of more than 140 universities reveals the steps they are taking to respond to funding pressures and ensure they continue to deliver world-class education now and into the ...

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Just learned the sad, enraging news that York University in Toronto plans to close its Glendon campus, one of Canada's handful of truly bilingual higher ed institutions yet another bit of bad higher ed news and a new blow to the status of French outside Québec

World Cup fans are using AI to mass-produce viral songs supporting their teams ahead of next month's tournament, a trend experts say raises questions about song ownership, artist compensation and the valuation of human creativity. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Fans create AI-generated team songs ahead of World Cup

World Cup fans are wielding artificial intelligence to mass-produce viral songs supporting their teams ahead of next month's tournament.

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"The Univ. of Hertfordshire has decided to close all eight Humanities undergraduate programmes in English Language and Linguistics, English Literature, Creative Writing, History and Philosophy.... PLEASE sign this petition to support staff and students in Humanities" www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

Sign the Petition

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

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Librarians here found out about this via social media on Monday. Those I've spoken to are devastated and furious. No consultation, no attempt to respond to concerns. Just a constant stream of violence against the Humanities in any form it takes by people who do not value it. #skystorians

Fears for thousands of rare books as Cardiff University plans 'proof of concept' experiment

Martin Shipton Staff and students at Cardiff University have launched a petition aimed at stopping changes to the Arts and Social Sciences Library they fear could lead to the loss of thousands of rare...

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Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Mental health touches every one of us either directly or through someone we love. Let’s commit to talking about it with the care and honesty it deserves. www.samhsa.gov/mental-healt... #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #SeeThePerson

Cuts to Library and Archives Canada because of the Liberal government are revealed in Library and Archives Canada 2024-25 Departmental Plan. This affects access for everyone, and support for community archives across Canada. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

It’s time for Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and STEMM staff to talk and stand together. We are actually all on the same ship. Stronger and better together.

Alessandra Candian@donnainfiorino.bsky.social · 3mo ago

56 of our wonderful colleagues at in the #Physics & #Astronomy department in Nottingham (UK) received “at risk of redundancy” letters. Their University is planning to reduce the size of the Physics department by a third. Consider sign the open letter: 🔭 nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/

We 'are a long way from proactive system stewardship. Course closures continue, and the landscape keeps shifting – and contracting. With our interactive maps updated using new 2024-25 HESA data, we can now see, one year on from our first assessment, how closures are reshaping provision [cont.]' 1/4

Subject cold spots are growing. We need to address the root causes

New analysis from the British Academy shows us huge areas of the country where key areas of humanities, arts, and social sciences are not taught. Ruairi Cullen has the details

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