👏 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/...

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

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:

Another Green Book I see.

Realized I’ve only seen 1 of Anderson’s movies.

Michael B. Jordan wins Best Actor in a Leading Role for Sinners #Oscars

Yooooooooo

I’m watching this on repeat. #OscarsonBlacksky

Misty:

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

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.

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! 🥳

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.

I’m grateful for faculty with expertise and track record on prevention & response plans for targeted harassment. I’m most familiar with @rebekahtromble.bsky.social’s projects researchersupport.org & expertvoicestogether.org - I’m sure she can recommend others for everyone who needs help now

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.

Complete necropolitics. Who is more likely to use durable medical equipment? People who are older, disabled, people with chronic illnesses.

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

Anyway, read Black Disability Politics by @drsamischalk.bsky.social (it’s free!) read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

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.

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.

Ahh yes, the cyclical Tourette's Discourse. Far too often, white folks use disability as a cover for their racism.

WHO KNEW that an #adoption agency would partner with ICE. Adoptees, that’s who. Listen to adoptees.

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.”

“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!!

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? 🤔

Living in the time of comic book villains.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea

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.

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

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.

Lol finance.yahoo.com/news/google-...

My students starting singing “We’re all in this together” when they realized Ramadan and Lent are at the same time this year. 🤣😩

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...

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...

Being surrounded by passive leaders is irksome.

(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.

Important to note here though: It isn’t UCLA or UC administration that are fighting back. It’s our faculty and staff unions.

Yes. But worth noting that UCLA also didn't fight. Its faculty and staff did all on their own.

'Syphilis infections among pregnant women triple' 🖋 Jennifer Porter Gore | Word In Black 📸 Photo by Vitor Monthay | Unsplash #stlamerican #stlnews #stlouis #MaternalHealth #PublicHealth #HealthEquity #BlackMaternalHealth

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

aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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...

Opened my email and now I'm wondering... where are all the big donors who care about higher ed?

This is really, really dark. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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...

This is … I don’t know the word. Murderous?

"“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.”"

you: Both Germany and Japan are re-arming. Like for real. me: is that....bad? @katemac.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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.