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Stepped outside about 15 minutes ago and am already covered in plant dust. Do your thing, allergy meds! 🤧 💊

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Anyone have experience doing a sliding scale payment for an online newsletter, or do you know a platform that allows this? I don't want different content for different subscription tiers, just to allow different payment levels (including $0) for the same content. Thanks in advance for any advice!

The Mississippi Free Press got inundated with a raft of AI-generated opinion pieces—which we pay writers for—from people who don't exist pretending to be Mississippians. One of those columns made it to publication before we caught the scam. Kevin Edwards, editor for our Voices section, explains:

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

Post-Doc Position in Energy Modeling: My collaborator at SFU (not on Bsky) is hiring a post-doc for our joint project on modeling Climate, Land, Energy and Water systems for Canada. Come join the team. www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...

“Between January 2025 and February 2026, STEM and health employees at science-focused agencies saw nearly 15,000 jobs cut. The rate outpaced cuts among other federal workers.” OPM data - Figure from Wash Post article 19 April. (Where US science has been hit hardest.) NSF at -42%!

Tomorrow is Patriots' Day in Massachusetts, which means it's a good time to roll out this all-timer from our archives.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Sun is shining! Flowers are blooming! Joy is resistance!🌷 ☀️ 🌱 ✊

Web development gig 👇

Mamdani + team really seem to get that a lot of what makes life better or worse is the little things that you deal with on a daily basis. Obviously the big things matter, too (rent! food!) but those little hassles add up.

He's mentally unfit! He's the antichrist! He's possessed by demons! Folks are really bending over backwards to keep from admitting Trump's just a really shitty human who conned a lot of the American people into voting for him.

🧵America's boldest, most unique educational experiment is ending. Gutted as a @hampshirecollege.bsky.social grad. This is dire for critical thought, intellectual leadership, and left activism in academia and in the US. More than a *school* -- it was a world changing, status quo-upending revolution:

Company that sounds like it has to do with animals but actually sells shoes and clothes is apparently now going to make their money with AI somehow? Make it make sense.

UCS just released a very nice and concise guide for how to stay safe in the public eye -- for scholars and researchers, but also for anyone else concerned about safety during autocratization: www.ucs.org/sites/de...

My brother just published a book about his experience blowing the whistle at USAID. I am biased, but the book is gripping and important. Please read it. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Into-t...

Cooool! 👇👇👇

Bees just discovered 35,000 people above NY cemetery

People are only "unelectable" if we choose not to elect them. It's never a foregone conclusion.

The price of fertilizer is a concern right now. However, we've also had concerns about the negative impacts of fertilizer runoff (leading to harmful algal blooms) for years, so a price increase could incentivize farmers to be more judicious with their use this year. 1/2

Swalwell always gave me the creeps and I could never explain why and I know we all have implicit bias so I tend to be cautious about overinterpreting such feelings, but in this case it seems like my spidey senses were right. Justice for all of the women whose lives he impacted!

My big takeaway from reporting this story is that it's not JUST about the Forest Service. The closure of these stations threatens to upend a delicate system of mutually beneficial collaboration and resource sharing, and the impacts will ripple out far beyond the Forest Service itself.

My story on the 57 forest service research stations that are going to be closed is up now

Terrible news!!! @hampshirecollege.bsky.social is a gem! Makes me think of other nontraditional places too, like Antioch College in OH and The Evergreen State College in WA and their struggle to stay afloat financially. We must fight for these unique + special schools!!

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

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To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

@uwsafs.bsky.social @uwmarinebiology.bsky.social

This!!! As an economist, I wholeheartedly agree.

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

it's happening "PhD degree in Climatology or Atmospheric Sciences" "Deep knowledge of the mortgage business"

Interesting (+ unsurprising) piece! One thing I don't think is discussed enough is that each review committee for each subsequent position, grant, etc. uses all of the other previous awards as evidence. Now, this makes sense to a degree. One should use all available evidence to make a decision. 1/9

I am not knowledgeable about this topic area, but it always concerns me when someone who has expertise in a topic posts something like this. In my experience, it often means the economists involved have not done the reading. And this will only get worse if people use LLMs to generate lit reviews.

IYKYK

What we are implicitly accepting when we use LLMs...

Sending so much love to the people of Hungary! Your tenacity and perseverance to get to this point is inspiring!

1. A few weeks ago, I learned that there was a negative vote on my tenure case at Columbia. Posting some quick thoughts below:

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

Was not really focused on the Artemis II content until splashdown yesterday (welcome back, astronauts!!) but now I am going back and watching a bunch of the content and it's just the most wholesome and inspiring stuff. Kudos you to all the folks at NASA + beyond who made this mission possible. 🚀 ❤️

Every generation just wants a decent job where they are paid well and not treated like shit by colleagues or customers.

American dream right here... NASA live feed now has interview with this woman who is leading the landing and recovery team! 💙💙💙https://www.nasa.gov/people/kennedy-biographies-villarreal/

The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded.

"For America and a waiting world, Integrity is five and a half minutes from coming home." Would be nice if this was both figurative and literal.

WE ARE ON STRIKE TODAY! As someone who regularly looks at ProPublica web traffic, today's the only day of my career I want to see low numbers. We know our readers support our union. Don't read us today. We'll be there tomorrow.

If you did not enjoy today, then call your reps and senators tomorrow and say this 👇

Election results: One week after Festus leaders approved a deeply controversial $6 billion data center plan in Jefferson County, voters removed all four incumbent city council members up for re-election.