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One good thing is that by and large people WANT to learn for its own sake and don’t need to be convinced. But it does need to make sense to learn given their actual material conditions. We can’t just assume it will happen without our care and attention to these conditions.

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I was once told by my (math!) department chair that we should all try to get our student evaluation scores above the department average.

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Still thinking about how the OB said they want all babies to be between the 25th and 75th percentiles and I joked that I bet only half of all babies can meet that standard and he was like what

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Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

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Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February. He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."

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New paper from Seth Frey (@enfascination.com) and me. Super groups or fair leagues? Rich-get-richer dynamics can drive capture despite active redistribution in professional basketball www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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Absolutely devastating and affecting a lot of my colleagues here at @scripps.edu who dedicated their whole careers to coming up with a vaccine for HIV. Which, btw, outside HIV, has led to a whole field of much better vaccines and vaccine platforms.

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Tired: Citing actual evidence to support your claim Wired: Getting AI to make up relevant-looking citations Inspired: Getting AI to write the papers to support your claim

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Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here. (Gift link)

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Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority Of Venezuelans Sent To Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted Of US Crimes talkingpointsmemo.com/news/deporte...

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As of today, Elon Musk is thought to be responsible for the death of 300,000 adults and kids due to the illegal closure of USAID (source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...) That's a 103 deaths per hour, each day. And it will get worse. His legacy is one of death, destruction, and failure.

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The British Medical Association have come out in support of trans and non-binary people 👏🏻🏳️‍⚧️💕 They also criticise the unworkable and damaging Supreme Court Ruling, that ends up diverting resources from an already underfunded NHS! @bma.org.uk 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Full statement 👉🏻 www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

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UPDATE: Per OCPF, Josh Kraft has received $965,566 in contributions. Only 49 Boston residents have contributed $100 or less, for a total of $2,974 out of $965,566 (0.31%). At nearly 4 months into the campaign, Kraft is neither relying upon, nor drawing, grassroots support. 🤔

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I’ve reported from Masafer Yatta and other parts of the West Bank four times over the past 18 months. German editors often passed, because they “lacked space” - or interest. Where’s the coverage of Israel’s systematic policy of ethnic cleansing?

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Global average temperature is expected to rise to almost 2C above preindustrial in the next five years, according to the WMO, with falls in crop yields and more than a third of the world’s population being exposed to extreme heat. People, I'm sorry but we have to deal with this. Later is too late.

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1. A transgender man was detained in South Carolina for using the restroom that Republicans want him to use. Officers allegedly hurled slurs at him for doing so. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-man-...

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I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

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For my @msnbc.com column this week, I wrote about exactly what the Republican anti-trans budget bill would do to trans people on Medicaid. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Your periodic reminder that immigration "judges" are employees of the executive branch who, despite serving a quasi-juridical function, can be fired at the whim of the president and AG like most DOJ employees. They are not independent Article III judges.

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So tired of waking up every day and the news is like, “President Trump signed an executive order called the ‘Anatomical Truth Act’ that declares pee is stored in the balls.”

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We're now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.

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I learned from her Patreon that Vi Hart has just deleted her 1.5M-subscriber YouTube channel. The worsening of YT’s policies for creators finally reached her breaking point. To help herd folks to her videos’ new home, here’s a link to an early favorite of mine. vimeo.com/showcase/116...

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🧪 YAASSSSS: 16 state AGs just sued NSF for its illegal changes in "agency priorities" The broad scope would seem to not only address grant terminations...but also the underlying basis for closing programs, returning proposals without review, etc. The filing: www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...

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Likud in Israel is proposing a bill to tax foreign NGO's functioning in Israel out of existence, as a way of shutting down human rights infrastructure in the country. The bill would also have the effect of shutting down services for Holocaust survivors: www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

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"The rhetoric hurts," one former USAID worker told me. "We had the internships. We had the degrees. We had all the things that Black people, especially, are told to have to get these roles." I wrote about the psychological toll of massive federal cuts. capitalbnews.org/trump-federa...

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Love him 🏳️‍⚧️ metro.co.uk/2025/05/27/s...

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Why do they hate higher education? Because it gives power to the "wrong" people. Because queers, women, immigrants, and nonwhite people can leverage college degrees to gain power--possibly even enough power to topple the old white boys network, which is what they fear most of all.

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SCOOP— FEMA essential functions are at "high risk" of not functioning properly just days before hurricane season because of staffing shortages, per a recent internal memo obtained by The Handbasket. These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery." Full story here:

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Israel plans on concentrating Palestinians into isolated camps within Gaza after it takes over 75% of the territory, luring Palestinians into those zones by using aid as bait. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra... #Palestine #Israel

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it's kind of astonishing just how terrible openai still is at generating math diagrams. I asked it for "a tape diagram representing 75% of 8 = 6."

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From former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert: "Enough is Enough: Israel is committing war crimes" [Gift link] www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

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“There is no Israeli public figure whose sleep is disturbed by the children screaming in terror and in hospitals…” ~Gideon Levy Haaretz ☕️🥐

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