These authors wanted to know whether mothers face discrimination in hiring, even when they are equally qualified as other applicants. So they ran two experiments...

I made a comic on how we got here & trump/supporters - collecting things he's said that would seem to have been over the line - and how that never seems to be the case is the real problem... on my site with full alt-text and citations here spinweaveandcut.com/draw-the-line/

**SPOTIFY, target of a long and strong boycott campaign from @indivisible.org has announced ICE recruitment ads are no longer running on their platform. **Another boycott target, Avelo Airlines just halted deportation flights. **Next Up: Citizens Bank. variety.com/2026/digital...

In my insanity, I count my blessings. If the current discourse is transparent Monroe doctrine – peak 19th century colonialism –, I can finally stop taking seriously people who say "colonialism is death" or "is a thing of the past". Reclaiming 5 mins in a talk and a paragraph in the intro of papers

So embarrassing — the Trump DOJ’s Maduro indictment accuses him of leading the “Cartel De Los Soles”, which as we previously mentioned is not a real thing… …so they just changed it. 🤦🏼 🎪 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

It does feel like a cosmic joke that the Nobel Peace Prize triggered a crime of aggression.

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"The US killed at least 40 people in its illegal aggression against Venezuela" Refreshing not to see the abuse of the passive voice. www.publico.es/internaciona...

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

"The machete isn't just for cutting sugarcane, it also works for heads." youtu.be/GK87AKIPyZY?...

🇻🇪🇺🇸 | 🇫🇷 Manifestantes ateiam fogo em um bandeira dos Estados Unidos durante um protesto em Paris contra a ação militar dos EUA na Venezuela. 🎥 LucAuffret/X

¿Estamos de acuerdo que ya le cayó caca al pastel del mundial? Desde las deportaciones masivas, pues, pero con lo de los bombardeos en Caracas por Estados Unidos y el aparente secuestro de Maduro, no hay forma de que ésto se pueda realizar de forma vagamente funcional.

Sheinbaum debería de sacar a Mexico del Mundial en protesta de esta invasión. No podemos ser participes de las Olimpiadas de Berlin de 1936 modernas. Apoyar a la propaganda del “Premio FIFA de la Paz” de Trump seria escupirle a toda la gente de este país.

Fox News sycophants framing things more accurately than Reuters—"those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty." May the Republican and neoliberal regime crumble, its enablers and bystanders be cast out in disgrace and shame, and Monroe Doctrine die!

I am paralysed with anger and fear...

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

Every person, company and institution that went out of their way to suck up to Donald Trump and the New American Reich stuck a target on their back that they will not find easy to remove

Outer Wilds is frustratingly fun... "Oh, I get it... I have to..." *Explosion*

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This Brazilian woman hates AI

A year of intense creative energy ends with a look at the staging of Rocky Horror in Luxembourg. I guess 2026, ready or not, here we go.

For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.

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Historian here people forget the immigration regime being championed by the Trump regime and its bigoted heart in Miller. Make America 1924 again.

Im profoundly committed to access as care, access as process. Some of you need to understand that since chatGPT etc have entered the fray, many profs are seeing truly detrimental effects on students' engagement, learning and community. Caring about that isn't ableist/being a cop/technophobic.

🐉 The book of the great sea-dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, [gedolim taninim] gedolim taninim, of Moses. London, W. Pickering, 1840. [Source]

We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

😸 ... Animaux venimeux et venins: la fonction venimeuse chez tous les animaux;. Paris, Masson & co., [1922]. [Source]

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Just gonna say this again for games sphere cus we get the same question: Networking doesn't mean schmoozing up to famous people, it means making friends with your peers. Then in 10 years, 20, one of you might be famous? And sure you're still helping each other cus well yeah friends. Make. Friends.

Happy holidays! Riding towards 2026 on a purple dinosaur

🦕 The dinosaurs of North America /. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1896.. [Source]

Most people confuse subject expertise with instantaneous encyclopaedic recollection. If that’s what an expert is, then yes, LLMs can definitely replace experts. But thats not what subject expertise is.

One of many things the pro-AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is the very important distinction between academic scholarship and the production of papers. Of course they can be related but they're not necessarily the same thing

It’s long past time we stop pretending the right-wing crackdown on higher education had anything to do with “fighting antisemitism.”

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Shitty AI overviews for browser searches are becoming ubiquitous, even in the "good" browsers. Here are some sites with workarounds: www.startpage.com and udm14.com

🚨 BREAKING: We’re outside the Royal Courts of Justice on the day that 100+ Filipino claimants are suing Shell in the UK, for the damage caused by Typhoon Odette (over 400 dead, 1.4m homes lost) - in a first-of-its-kind legal case! Shell: pay your debt for Typhoon Odette 🇵🇭🔥

Thread 1 (from 12 September 2022) This flower is called a Poinsettia in English. September is the best time to discuss the name's connection to colonialism and why I would never call this plant a poinsettia.

Es el año 13 después de nuestro señor Enrique Peña Nieto; ya va siendo hora de que quienes se dediquen a la política memoricen el título y autoría de cinco libros. Así de irse a perder a Suburbia 1 hora y copiar cinco títulos de los anaqueles y leer los resúmenes en Goodreads. youtu.be/4upv9rbgGgk

If German bureaucracy makes me sit another English test – a full decade after I last sat one of those, I will lose all my sanity...

I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.

It is sad that how the World Wars set back the species discovery rate by 100 years. I also indirectly observe the wars' impact on the taxonomy of fossil gastropods in the number of publications from the 19th century to today. There were also books that were planned to be written and never published.

I am catsitting this week... Or being a sit for the cat to make biscuits

Why is Trump threatening Mexico with tariffs if Mexico does not send water to Texas? Because colonialism, the thing many people insist ended in the 60s-70s and has absolutely nothing to do with the present.

The song "Feliz Navidad" is my Grinch origin story.

Btw it would be really cool if Brits stopped pretending that all of this Hostile Environment stuff with their immigration system is ‘the Trumpification of the UK government’ or just ‘Labour wanting to be like the US’ - this is all the logical endpoint of decades of homegrown bigotry.

When you pursue me, world, why do you do it? How do I harm you, when my sole intent is to make learning my prize ornament, not learn to prize ornament and pursue it? —Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, translation by Rhina P. Espaillat www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

My favourite part of trains in Germany is when the announcement, in German, very clearly shows the poor lad has had it and sounds like he is just making up an excuse.

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.