A grandmother was jailed for nearly six months after an AI facial recognition software labeled her the bank robber in a series of North Dakota cases. But grandma Angela Lipps wasn't in North Dakota when the banks were robbed. She was home, in Tennessee. www.inforum.com/news/fargo/a...

"All of our state workers are still upholding #TheCTDifference, despite federal chaos, decades of state attrition and the reliance on public services only increasing. But the dam is breaking. Gov. Lamont, Connecticut's public workers have done our part." @aft.org

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

So I came across this "Rate My Professor" screenshot. I feel like I hear quite a bit of "not quite news" about chemists and chemistry professors, but this one is new. Anyone know the backstory? #chemchat

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

Minnesota will always be home, but I'm proud my new home shows up and fights back in solidarity with Minnesota 🫶 #IceOut

Rallies are planned for Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport and Willimantic at 4 p.m. on Friday Jan 23. #IceOutSchools @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @ctaflcio.bsky.social @ctforall.bsky.social

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.

The most popular sled at today’s Art Sledding event in Minneapolis.

We are proud to announce the formation of the Chemical & Engineering News Guild. We represent staffers across the editorial and operations teams at C&EN. 1/6

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Excellent Lockwood Seminar today from @buzznicholson.bsky.social at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station! Shared with us his work on the landscape ecology approach to understanding pesticide driven decline of pollinators 🐝 Look at these beautiful pictures and charts 🤩👏

I have had a miserable week. I've cried every single day. Work sucked. I ruined my fav hat. Setback with my broken arm & I'm just in pain. I canceled plans with friends & separately w/ family & my fantasy football team is going to lose At least I get to try again next week, I'm grateful for that

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

I've said it before, I'll say it again. #RHOSLC is the greatest tv show ever created. Absolute perfection 🙌

Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

TIL that Danny Bryson of News AF @robhasapodcast.bsky.social has never been on Survivor. And I'm still in absolute shock. I've been watching all of #Survivor for the first time (im very unspoiled on most survivor). Ive just been waiting for Danny to show up, but HE NEVER PLAYED

Pay them what you owe them! The Connecticut labor movement was proud to stand with members of the WNBPA at the Connecticut Sun game as they fight for a fair contract. Respect the players by paying them their fair share. (And the Connecticut Sun won 87-84!)

If you added French Toast to a taco, is it the tortilla or the filling ?

read the last sentence again. And again. And again. Collective action is our only hope in this world 👏👏👏👏 #UnionStrong #UnionsForAll

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

can I get a heck yeah for these block printed fish totes #blockprinting #printmaking #printmaker #blockprint #natureart #fish

It took me a long time to realize that not everyone has to argue/negotiate/shame their brain into doing routine household tasks.

Staaaaaahp! I am crying! Keanu's Buttler pool attire #BB27

The newspapers are not making a big deal of this today. This is a big deal. Someone shot into a Federal building repeatedly, fueled by misinformation and politics. It should be front page news across the country.

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services. www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

Her name is Kirsten. She's a really good person and actually playing a pretty good game so far, so let's at least respect her enough to call her by her name when you're fishing for likes. #bb27

A researcher at Texas A&M University flying home from abroad was detained for more than a week by immigration authorities at the San Francisco International Airport, sleeping in a chair and living off food sold in the airport, his family and attorneys said.

I’ve been teaching the histories of eugenics for over a decade and I honestly never thought I would be able to use an American Eagle ad in a lecture to demonstrate how dangerously normalized eugenics has become in 2025. A lot of it is the global ascendancy of far right fascism but also the pandemic.

With RFK said to be on the cusp of firing the entire US Preventive Services panel, some thoughts on the importance of this independent group's work--and what's at risk if these experts are summarily dismissed. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

My parents are currently in a tornado warning due to a doppler indicated tornado headed there way. And my dad is just sitting out on the back deck apparently. Tornado sirens wailing. I miss home

🧫 Raw milk outbreak sickens 171 people A new CDC report links raw milk from one California dairy to a multistate Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak. 70% of cases were in children. Raw dairy can carry serious health risks, especially for kids. 🔗 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes... #RawMilk #SciComm 🧪

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

Why tf doesn’t Derrick know how to pronounce Keanu #bb27

Oops! Broke my wrist and elbow being very dumb on my ripstik (like a skateboard) last night. Future Meghan will never again go 13 mph downhill and then immediately heel turn 😭😭

As a ChatGPT hater, I’m lovin this. How’d that work out for you Zae? #BB27

Hi!! Do you know how to correctly pronounce #Lao names? I'm emcee at a scholarship ceremony tonight and I really want to pounce these incredible students names correctly Google isn't helping enough I need some help with these: Sattah Lakkitta Sengsavath Phouthakoun

Using chatGPT for “research” is so funny bc like…research is a word with a meaning and typing into a large language model trained on stolen information does not fall into that definition 😭 #bb27

The level of how infuriated I am as someone who is neurodivergent and has an autistic son is off the charts. Production really should do something because it's happening almost every season. Doing nothing is just enabling the disgusting behavior.

Billionaires are convinced AI is on the verge of making new scientific discoveries because they don't understand how AI chatbots work.

« It takes a special kind of belligerence to piss off the nicest people on the planet. With friends like us, who needs enemies? And if our enemies now include Canada, we probably don’t have any friends left at all. » #ElbowsUp nymag.com/intelligence...

In @theintercept.com, Debbie Nathan reports on ICE lawyers refusing to give their names in court - and immigration judges going along with it. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

When I see people complain about male loneliness, it is so painfully OBVIOUS to me that most of these lonely men are men who feel entitled to a woman who does that labor for them, who acts as their agent enmeshing them into community through unpaid pro-social labor on their behalf.

Sobering study on the devastating impact of aid cuts on tuberculosis incidence and mortality in low and middle income countries Governments of highest TB burden nations will need to wake up and invest more! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

There is a movie franchise where each sequel is better than the previous movie and that movie franchise is the six Tinker Bell movies.