I love this little bit of history - so glad that @katrinaaman.bsky.social thought to recirculate it today

Google News seems to need a remedial course in "Physics"

“Are there partnerships to be had between newsrooms and creators? Yes, there are partnerships to be had. Can the creator class replace the profession? I say no, it cannot, and should not. But there’s an ideal mix between the two that has yet to be found.”

I was off for a day-and-a-half this week and did not edit this week's @us.theconversation.com news quiz, but @fritzholz.bsky.social couldn't fool me! ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅ theconversation.com/the-conversa...

A @bostonglobe.com farewell to the legendary @bostonteresa.bsky.social, a pioneer of online journalism, retiring after 40 years at the Globe. Her speech reminded us of how lucky we are to be journalists, and how important the work we do is.

RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91. She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world. buff.ly/5Hwx3Z7 🌎🩺

Good news! Environmental engineers are making progress in a new method to clean up PCBs, a dangerous ‘forever chemical’ that lingers in the water, using bacteria attached to biochar made from corn kernels. buff.ly/Du92X1e

#Lexington #LexPorchfest The neighborhood is jamming

exactly what a coworker whose jokes bombed earlier this week would write TBH

Are you with us in the fight against misinformation? If so, please consider donating to our fall fundraising campaign. As a thank-you, you’ll receive a downloadable e-book from our series on bold ideas for tackling the housing crisis. donate.theconversation.com/us?utm_campa...

We rely on followers like you to support our work, not on billionaires or advertisers. If you can, please donate to our fall fundraising campaign. As a thank-you gift, we’ll give you a downloadable e-book of our recent series with ideas for addressing the housing crisis. Thank you! buff.ly/qXSztc6

Are you with us in the battle against misinformation? If so, we’d appreciate your support. Just this week, we’ve explained the importance and safety of vaccines… 🧵 buff.ly/cRsOxNT 🩺 🧪 #VaccinesWork

nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners

I just faced the music and looked at our Google Search Console numbers. It was as bad as I feared.

Many news outlets still shy away from calling Trump an authoritarian — but scholars warn that failing to name it can help normalize it and speed democratic backsliding. buff.ly/i94mMGx

Speaking at #ona25, @bencollins.bsky.social notes that The Onion now has almost 56,000 subscribers. "We are the 13th largest newspaper in the United States, which is really stupid--an indictment on all of us."

Having a beignet for the many unable to be here at #ona25

TFW the guy who wrote the last time he finally replied to your email "I don't usually take this long to respond" and now has taken over 3 weeks to respond to the next email in the thread. I suppose, since the first reply was almost six weeks delayed, that his reply could technically still be true.

Did you know court records from the 1300s show transgender people living openly and authentically? Long before modern medicine and gender-affirming care, trans people found ways to be themselves — dressing in ways that reflected their identities and building new communities of support.

President Trump’s attempt to remove Fed governor Lisa Cook could undermine the economy -- and amp up inflation. The Fed’s role is to keep decisions like interest rates tied to data, not short-term political gain. Video from an article by political economists Ana Carolina Garriga and Cristina Bodea

@theconversation.com is going to be adding DOIs to our articles, and I'm curious how many people will find this interesting or useful (we're doing it mainly to facilitate tracking the impact of research) So an informal 2-question poll: A) do you know what a DOI is? B) Are you in academia or not?

This is truly an amazing story. "I just wanted to be her friend", says Mayor Adams's advisor

9% of US troops surveyed say they would obey any order they are given, even if it is illegal. 9% say they don’t know what they’d do. 2% refused to answer. The majority understand their legal duty to disobey illegal orders.

I am kind of hoping for a Putin-Palin meeting just for the alliteration of it (and because I misread a headline and thought it said Trump would be meeting Palin in Alaska)

The new Substack from @us.theconversation.com has gathered subscribers in 49 states and 73 countries. What's up with Mississippi? Maybe @donnerkay.bsky.social or @ashtonpittman.bsky.social can help me close the gap theconversationus.substack.com?r=2dtp2j&utm...

Best Headline of the Day goes to...

TIL the Washington Post's print circulation is only 97,000. And add to that a huge exodus of good people, and apparently lack of strategy www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/work...

I’m on vacation and didn’t edit @us.theconversation.com’s quiz this week, but apparently I read enough of the news to do pretty well ✅✅✅❌✅✅✅✅ theconversation.com/the-conversa...

We just learned we are the most visited nonprofit news site in the U.S.

So @us.theconversation.com started a Substack where all the content is free and the same as what’s on our regular website, and 17 people are paying us for our work after one week. That’s 16 more than I expected. theconversationus.substack.com?r=1nuxuf

If you are involved in trying to make nonprofit news sustainable, I wrote and reported this story for you! So much news that deserves our attention right now, but I hope you'll spend some time with my Houston Landing retrospective for @niemanlab.org (1/3) www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/what...

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

The 'big, beautiful bill' will increase inequality in a wide variety of ways, including with provisions that are supposed to help low-income Americans, according to law professor Beverly Moran. This article is featured in our Substack, "The Afternoon Story" open.substack.com/pub/theconve...

From the new, free Substack of @us.theconversation.com, a look at Trump's settlements with CBS and ABC, from keen media observer @michaelsocolow.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/theconve...

Even the spammers are getting lazy these days #SEO

So proud of @ashtonpittman.bsky.social for getting how much of a "big deal" it was back in 2020 when I mentioned to him that I was getting reports from Black Mississippians that their polling places were moving or being eliminated at the last minute. We were first media to do this tedious work here.

College has its fair share of boring required classes, but then there are the ones that actually make you think and see the world differently. If you're into those kinds of courses, check out our Uncommon Courses series. #HigherEd #Edusky

I procrastinated a bit today and made it #inbox55000

I love to do threads like this once in a while

Techno-autocrats are reshaping government by using AI, surveillance and social media to censor dissent, spread propaganda and undermine democracy. From China to Russia, and now Silicon Valley, the threat is global, according to a political scientist: theconversation.com/social-media...

No. No. Nooooooooooo.

It's a challenging time for higher education budgets, and for ours as well. We still have a few thousand dollars to go to meet our goal for the end of our fiscal year at midnight, and we hope you can help us get there. Please partner with us to bring facts and expertise to the public

Friday afternoon timewaster -checking my BlueSky stats. Fun fact - apparently, with 3300 followers, I'm in the top 0.4% of accounts bluefacts.app/profile/joel...

So it turns out that a lot of the supposed controversy over 'mercury in #vaccines' comes from folks confusing methylmercury, which is toxic, with ethylmercury, which is not. It's ETHYLMERCURY that was produced by metabolizing the preservative thimerosal.

Concrete homes could revolutionize affordable housing in the US, according to an architecture professor. A new open source precast system allows for quick assembly, energy efficiency, and resilience against extreme weather - all at competitive costs. buff.ly/8azh06v

Thinking of giving up my struggle to stay under #inbox55000

The 287(g) program allowing local police to act as federal #immigration officers in collaboration with ICE has expanded from 135 agreements in 25 states to 628 in 40 states since January. A criminal justice professor explains why this undermines community trust and public safety: buff.ly/M7C8if8

Important story just dropped on The New Climate from @theconversation.com: 'How the US Can Mine its Own Critical Minerals − Without Digging New Holes' (and, tbf, without bullying vulnerable countries into unfair minerals deals...) medium.com/the-new-clim...

White Americans aren't the only ones confused about how to mark #Juneteenth (as explained in this article on @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/whats-the-ri...). So are LLMs. I asked one for a picture of a squirrel celebrating Juneteenth and this is what I got:

I subscribed to the e-edition of a major newspaper, and they opted me in to *7* different email lists. Yet another crappy user experience in #journalism (cc @damon.kiesow.net)