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Only slightly amazed at how many people on this site keep telling me the answer to our current situation is to give more power to the federal government to silence "disinformation." Look at who you'd be empowering. Look at what they call disinfo and "fake news."

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Thanking about all my German friends today. I hope you manage to avoid making the same mistakes as my country.

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I just learned about Lévy walks and now I can't stop thinking about Epicurians and their "swerve."

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We should just start calling him Krasnov

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 13 hours ago • 174 comments

Ultimate frisbee was invented at wife @duniabest.bsky.social's alma mater in NJ. Also Lauryn Hill & SZA's. 🥏👋

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

JOB! Please share with your networks - I'm open to recent- and near-PhDs in Sociology or Poli Sci or adjacent disciplines, ideally with a research program that is in some way about the (goal/promise/ideal of) Healthy, Equitable and Responsive Democracy in the US. Info: bit.ly/HEARDpostdoc2025

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

submitted 19 hours ago • 87 comments

We are crowd sourcing reductions in graduate admissions and hiring freezes across biomedical research and higher ed in response to pauses in NIH funding and EO’s. If you have information if you could add to this spreadsheet, it would be greatly appreciated!: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

Anti-DEI is an attack on civil rights by segregationists. Most white "allies" are completely silent while segregationists attack Black people and our civil rights. These silent "allies" without a shred of shame or self-awareness, fully expect Black voters to make sacrifices to save them at midterms

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

I mean who would've thought that ceding control, without any oversight, of earth's shared satellite orbit space to singularly rich private players would lead to monopoly power that can intervene, at will, in global geopolitics and social censorship?

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The American Bar Association will temporarily suspend enforcement of its diversity and inclusion standard for law schools reut.rs/3CZRBJA

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

and if you want to support an organization that actually provides for prison-impacted musicians in a positive way, here's one i've supported when I've had the money to: www.freerrecords.com/story

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Beyond betrayal.

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

what would a foreign adversary do differently as part of a coordinated attack

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This is literally how the Crusades started

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it's really saying something that this is how an apparent friend explains Elon's goals www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...

submitted 1 day ago • 179 comments

A female admiral. A Black general.

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NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

transformative work of the day

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I recently completed my own MRI soundtrack survey and Indian raga was the winner by a mile

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No more students will be offered admission to grad school at Pitt due to the instability of our federal government.

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Our latest #FridayFind is a “groovy” piece of vinyl from the 1970s, featuring tracks like “Wind Chill Factor” & “Livestock Care.” Listen to the full record: noaa.gov/heritage/stories/friday-find-1970s-winter-storm-psas-record-from-noaas-past

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The US Copyright Office just canceled a planned visit to my class this semester, with no explanation.

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Three online "news" stories published this week that include quotes from me that I didn't say. But I didn't do interviews and get misquoted. And they're not written by actual journalists. My best guess is there are massive amounts of AI slop getting posted as news and now I'm part of it. 😬

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Good lord. The only thing worse than AI hype is “I’ll make you rich licensing your data to AI” hype. Three guesses who actually gets rich.

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Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 2 days ago • 692 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 857 comments

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

submitted 10 days ago • 74 comments

I talked to @dhm.bsky.social and @papapishu.bsky.social about the principles and practice of preserving both important and less-important video, and one of my favorite weird American performers, Ricky Jay. defector.com/someone-has-...

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

For more on this point, see my friend and colleague @adriennemassanari.bsky.social's new book "Gaming Democracy" direct.mit.edu/books/monogr...

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This morning I told my therapist what I think the Trump/Musk endgame is and she was visibly distraught

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Here's a starter pack of scholars in Communication pushing for Open Science 🤍 go.bsky.app/U2af8bT

submitted 95 days ago • 10 comments

I'm one of the conference organizers this year and can confirm that there is significant anxiety from international scholars about whether they'll be able to attend a conference in the US, and whether they even should.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I am hiring a lab technician! If you know anyone who has experience with field studies, enjoys working with plants, and is a good communicator and hard worker, pls pass this along! The position is for one year with the possibility of renewal. Please re-skeet! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Fixed it for you NYT

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments