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Public health researcher, Black, Central American, enjoyer of food
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Nicole Pagowsky
about 10 hours ago
👏 from an R1 librarian, "Academic librarians are guilty of always trying to 'prove our worth' and get on board with every new trend regardless of whether or not we should." Also YES on problematics of reciting land acknowledgments yet promoting AI use
www.bloodinthemachine.com/i/189088481/...
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"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Education workers reveal a growing crisis on campus and off
AI Killed My Job: Educators.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/i/189088481/my-colleagues-have-abandoned-their-values-to-board-the-ai-hype-train
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Ian Boudreau
about 19 hours ago
Checking in on our tech overlords, one is on his way to Rome to give a series of talks about the antichrist and another has convinced himself that thinking is fake
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The Atlantic
2 days ago
Americans’ appetite for experimental drugs is reaching new heights—just as the FDA’s capacity to ensure the safety of America’s medicine seems to be diminishing, Nicholas Florko argues:
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Everyone Is a Biohacker Now
Welcome to the golden age of gray-market drugs.
https://bit.ly/40AQs3j
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Letterboxd
2 days ago
Michael B. Jordan wins Best Actor in a Leading Role for Sinners
#Oscars
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The Zodiac Monarch
2 days ago
I’m watching this on repeat.
#OscarsonBlacksky
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Mr. January 8th
2 days ago
Misty:
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Linda Holmes
7 days ago
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
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Ian L Morgan
13 days ago
NIH leadership wants to strip worker's rights from the majority of scientists on its campuses. But, the NIH does not get to say whether we are a union or not. We do, and we are no strangers to having to fight for our union. Time for a short history lesson. 1/n Disclaimer: all views are my own.
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NIH Says It Will No Longer Recognize the Research Fellows’ Union
NIH leadership said the union “should never have been certified,” in an email to the union’s leadership.
https://www.notus.org/health-science/nih-says-it-will-no-longer-recognize-research-fellow-union
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Yesenia Barragan, she/they
16 days ago
My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period. Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳
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Prem Thakker ツ
19 days ago
Columbia President with NEW details: 5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant. They said they were police looking for a missing kid. Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid." A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss. They ignored him & took the student.
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Liz Neeley
20 days ago
I’m grateful for faculty with expertise and track record on prevention & response plans for targeted harassment. I’m most familiar with
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’s projects
researchersupport.org
&
expertvoicestogether.org
- I’m sure she can recommend others for everyone who needs help now
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The New York Times
20 days ago
Four men, including two politicians, were found guilty on Wednesday in the assassination of Marielle Franco, a councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro who achieved global renown for fighting corruption and systemic racism and whose 2018 killing set off a lengthy quest for justice.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Convicts Four Men in Murder of Marielle Franco
Two politicians and two former police officers were found guilty in the assassination of a rival, Marielle Franco, a Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman who fought corruption and violence.
https://nyti.ms/4b92dnA
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS
20 days ago
Complete necropolitics. Who is more likely to use durable medical equipment? People who are older, disabled, people with chronic illnesses.
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Chris Jensen
21 days ago
Lol, The cycle continues... OpenAI: "we will save humanity" → humanity are lame robots Facebook: "connecting people 🥰" → ... to radicalising AI slop! Google: "don't be evil" → ok but what if evil was REALLY profitable tho Anthropic: "we're the *safe* ones 🥺👉👈" → lmao sike
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John Breen
22 days ago
Anyway, read Black Disability Politics by
@drsamischalk.bsky.social
(it’s free!)
read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
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Black Disability Politics
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the pre
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3091/Black-Disability-Politics
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AAUP
22 days ago
The UNC Board of Governors is trying to rewrite the definition of academic freedom, restricting what faculty can say & do in their classrooms & in public. This is a broader effort to limit open inquiry & free debate in higher education. We know what the aim is. We can’t let this happen.
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UNC Power Brokers Roll Into Raleigh With Tuition Hikes And Speech Rules On The Line
UNC System leaders will vote on tuition hikes and a new academic-freedom definition this week.
https://hoodline.com/2026/02/unc-power-brokers-roll-into-raleigh-with-tuition-hikes-and-speech-rules-on-the-line/
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Maybe I’m in the minority but I really dislike FaceTime (always have). If you want to have a call, and are no auditory issues, then just call me on the phone.
22 days ago
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA
23 days ago
Ahh yes, the cyclical Tourette's Discourse. Far too often, white folks use disability as a cover for their racism.
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Tony Corsentino
24 days ago
WHO KNEW that an
#adoption
agency would partner with ICE. Adoptees, that’s who. Listen to adoptees.
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Kathleen Bachynski
27 days ago
The Board unexpectedly postponed the this year’s tenure decisions. “I was shocked and sick at heart to learn that four of my colleagues who did everything asked of them, and who should have been celebrating their achievement, are now in an indefinite limbo without any clear explanation as to why.”
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Dozens exit faculty meeting, cite frustrations over tenure postponement - The Muhlenberg Weekly
After an unusual start to the Feb. 13 faculty meeting, with the President’s remarks moved to the end of the agenda, roughly 30 minutes into the meeting, Associate Professor of Psychology Connie Wofle ...
https://muhlenbergweekly.com/news/dozens-exit-faculty-meeting-cite-frustrations-over-tenure-postponement/
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Nicole Chung
26 days ago
“When Liu, 20, decided to return to skating, she did so with conditions. She’d wear what she wants. Dance to the music she wants. Eat what she wants. Take breaks when she wants…. [Skating] would be the vehicle through which she displayed the real Alysa.” she did it! her! way!!
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Alysa Liu’s Olympic run came with terms. Her choreographer helps her express them
Liu is the best U.S. hope for an Olympic medal in women's figure skating, which would be the country's first in the competition since 2006.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7055443/2026/02/19/alysa-liu-figure-skating-winter-olympics/
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Anna Gifty
26 days ago
lol if white students can bypass graduation requirements because of discomfort with Black and Latino topics, but Black and Latino students can't do the same with topics about white people, isn't that discrimination? 🤔
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Justin Zimmerman
26 days ago
Living in the time of comic book villains.
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Robert Reich
26 days ago
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
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The Guardian
27 days ago
Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea
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Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea
Former South Korean president found guilty over failed martial law declaration in 2024 A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the former president Yoon Suk Yeol to life imprisonment with labour over his failed martial law declaration in December 2024, finding him guilty of leading an insurrection and making him the first elected head of state in the country’s democratic era to receive the maximum custodial sentence. Under South Korean law, the charge of leading an insurrection carries three possible sentences: death, life imprisonment with labour, or life imprisonment without labour. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/yoon-suk-yeol-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-leading-insurrection-in-south-korea?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Ed Burmila
27 days ago
The rise of the far right is not a problem unique to the US. Our elite impunity problem, however, seems to be on an order of magnitude worse than a lot of our peers.
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Karl Bode
28 days ago
"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/
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ACLU
28 days ago
BREAKING: We reached a settlement that requires the Trump administration to permanently maintain medical research that had been erased on a government website. The government doesn't get to censor science.
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
27 days ago
Lol
finance.yahoo.com/news/google-...
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Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place
Hypocrisy much?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-says-people-copying-ai-191413997.html
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Chanea Bond
28 days ago
My students starting singing “We’re all in this together” when they realized Ramadan and Lent are at the same time this year. 🤣😩
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Betty C. Jung
29 days ago
Risk of type 2 diabetes may be higher up to 3 years after COVID infection in unvaccinated, severely ill
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ris...
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Risk of type 2 diabetes may be higher up to 3 years after COVID infection in unvaccinated, severely ill
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/risk-type-2-diabetes-may-be-higher-3-years-after-covid-infection-unvaccinated-severely-ill
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP
about 1 month ago
URGENT PETITION: As students, parents, alumni, staff, faculty, and community members, we call on the UNC System Board of Governors to protect academic freedom as defined by the 1940
@aaup.org
Statement. BOG: Vote against revisions to Chapter VI of The Code.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
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Protect Academic Freedom, Vote No to Revising The Code
The UNC System Board of Governors will vote to amend the UNC System Code with new restrictions on academic freedom at its February 26 meeting. The Board of Governors plans to rewrite the very definiti...
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/protect-academic-freedom-vote-no-to-revising-the-code?source=direct_link&
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Being surrounded by passive leaders is irksome.
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Ronan Farrow
about 1 month ago
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
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KB
about 1 month ago
Important to note here though: It isn’t UCLA or UC administration that are fighting back. It’s our faculty and staff unions.
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Omri Marian
about 1 month ago
Yes. But worth noting that UCLA also didn't fight. Its faculty and staff did all on their own.
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The St. Louis American
about 1 month ago
'Syphilis infections among pregnant women triple' 🖋 Jennifer Porter Gore | Word In Black 📸 Photo by Vitor Monthay | Unsplash
#stlamerican
#stlnews
#stlouis
#MaternalHealth
#PublicHealth
#HealthEquity
#BlackMaternalHealth
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Syphilis infections among pregnant women triple
Data released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a troubling trend: a sharp rise in the number of pregnant women diagnosed with syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection that, if left untreated, can cause serious harm to infants, including blindness. While experts say the increase is tied in part to delayed […]
https://www.stlamerican.com/your-health-matters/syphilis-infections-among-pregnant-women-triple/
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JAMA
about 1 month ago
Policy changes involving ICE enforcement and CMS data sharing with immigration authorities have raised concerns about reduced #Medicaid participation and limited health care access among immigrant patients. Learn more in the JAMA Medical News podcast:
ja.ma/467BG7p
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Aparna Nair
about 1 month ago
aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Aaron Clauset
about 1 month ago
My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity
www.axios.com/local/boulde...
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CU signs $2M OpenAI deal for ChatGPT access
Students and faculty will gain access to ChatGPT Edu starting in March under a three-year deal.
https://www.axios.com/local/boulder/2026/02/12/cu-signs-openai-deal-chatgpt-access
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA
about 1 month ago
Opened my email and now I'm wondering... where are all the big donors who care about higher ed?
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Noah Shachtman
about 1 month ago
This is really, really dark.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket to Bet on Strikes
The country’s internal security agency indicted a reservist and a civilian for security offenses, bribery and obstruction of justice in connection with the bets.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israeli-soldiers-accused-of-using-polymarket-to-bet-on-strikes-72d53012?st=WX5EDN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
about 1 month ago
I also think it's really important to note that THE NATIONAL GUARD IS STILL IN WASHINGTON, D.C. and PEOPLE ARE STILL BEING KIDNAPPED IN MAINE AND LOS ANGELES So even if they leave Minnesota, the struggle to end the kidnappings continues
apnews.com/live/trump-i...
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Live updates: Federal authorities announce end to Minnesota immigration crackdown
The immigration crackdown in Minnesota is coming to an end after thousands of arrests and two killings, Trump's border czar says. Over 2,000 federal officers are leaving.
https://apnews.com/live/trump-immigration-climate-change-2-12-2026
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
about 1 month ago
This is … I don’t know the word. Murderous?
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA
about 1 month ago
"“It is concerning that H.H.S. is cutting public health funding to local communities that cover core functions in the middle of a measles outbreak and other health threats,” she said. “This coupled with large staffing cuts to federal public health leaves communities less prepared.”"
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Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/health/trump-public-health-cuts-california.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LFA.oaE2.oFpmAQZIBSKn&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Albert Pinto
about 1 month ago
you: Both Germany and Japan are re-arming. Like for real. me: is that....bad?
@katemac.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Black Girl Nerds
about 1 month ago
You may already know that Latin America is decorated with Afro-culture. Afro-Brazilians invented dynamic and eye-catching dance moves with the creation of Capoeira and Samba.
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Here's What You Need to Learn about Afro-Nicaraguans | Black Girl Nerds
Honduras and Costa Rica has a rich history involving an overlooked culture. Here are some things you should know about Afro-Nicaraguans.
https://blackgirlnerds.com/heres-what-you-need-to-learn-about-afro-nicaraguans/
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