Jewish students who are facing actual antisemitism on campus, and who testified about it, overwhelmingly feel that the Trump administration's cynical use of antisemitism to attack higher education is making them less safe: www.jta.org/2026/02/23/u...

It's weird to think the super-serum that created* this guy might have made him colour-blind? A study by biologists at Cambridge University & Uni Of Newcastle Upon Tyne found colour-blind men were terrific at spotting camouflage & “extraordinary connoisseurs of khaki.” *in body, not spirit. 1/

Whoa, this story by @lizszabo.bsky.social is wild! I had no idea clindamycin was so bad! www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Happy 36th Birthday Adobe Photoshop! On February 19, 1990, Adobe Systems released a raster graphics editor called Photoshop 1.0.

21 years of evolution of web design trends. The Pirate Bay homepage in 2005 vs. The Pirate Bay homepage in 2026 #WebDesignHistory

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

🧵 The House Judiciary's hearing on the recent detention of a Soldotna family, including a kindergartener, is underway. Chair Rep. Gray opens up, but lays out a history of immigration enforcement, noting that harsh deportations have happened under both Republican and Democratic presidents. #akleg

Anna Taylor, the Executive Director at the Alaska Institute for Justice, has talked about the various legal barriers for immigrants to access justice in Alaska. Basically there aren't resources at just about every single step of the way through the process.

The Trump tariffs are the highest tax increase on the American public since World War II Yes, you read that correctly What's worse, he did it while taking health insurance away from 20 million people And giving $75 billion to ICE so they can hunt US citizens #TrumpTariffChaos

Hey so if CBS airs the state of the union, don’t they have to offer equal time to his opponents? Can we bank that time and save it for later?

Wolfers: What we have is a pro-tax Republican president. Maybe he favors this tax because it’s regressive — it takes a bigger chunk out of the paychecks of the poor than of the rich. Maybe he thinks he can baffle us with bullshit and pretend China is paying, but that’s a story people aren’t buying

Fairbanks February snowfall as of 3pm AKST Monday up to 32.4 inches (82.3cm), making this the second highest February snow total on record. Highest is still 43.1 inches (109.5cm) in February 1966. #akwx #Climate #Snow @carrieinfbx.bsky.social @leahwrenn.bsky.social @coyotetrail.bsky.social

I am BEGGING you. Please, PLEASE, do not try to talk your way out of an arrest or detention. Do NOT talk to cops. "I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT." Say that and SHUT UP.

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs shows how easily pseudonymous users can now be re-identified from unstructured text alone. When discussing our EJMR paper at NBER SI 2023 Catherine Tucker argued that rising compute would soon erode online anonymity. The future may already be here.

The Antarctic Program term is “Herbie”, short for Hurricane-Blizzard.

Last week, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed a law banning local and state agencies from participating in ICE’s 287(g) contract. That automatically forces nine sheriffs to end their agreements with ICE.

This reads like a headline that would scroll by in the background of a sci fi horror movie at the beginning of act one to establish the dystopian tone and setting

Rep. Schrage says a lot of the opposition to the budget doesn't make sense. He says some say they need to get the DOT money out right away, but others say it's no hurry. He says, for as much as everyone's complaining about DOC costs, they still have to pay them. "Do we pay the bills now or later?"

Rep. Johnson: "Don't try to hold us hostage. Don't try to make it, you know, your way or the highway." Again, the funding for said highway is at issue.

Well, there's no highway because the Republicans are blocking funding for it.

Rep. Johnson complains that it's a "my way or the highway budget." Again, this budget is entirely handed down by the Dunleavy administration. If they have a problem, take it up with the boss.

Rep. Kopp: "This bill just reflects the real cost of governing. Nothing more, nothing less. And a yes vote today is a vote for fiscal responsibility, paying what's due. ... A no vote does not reduce these costs. We still have to pay them."

Rep. Kopp, the House Majority Leader, says that "They're not aspirational. They're not an expansion beyond truing up FY 26. It's the mechanism that we do every fiscal year to true up the real cost of the year we're in." "We don't get to pick and choose which bills we pay."

The House floor session is underway, where the House Republicans are about to block funding for the budget requests covering the state through July 1 from... checks notes... Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy. This includes money for this year's construction season #akleg www.ktoo.org/video/gavel/...

I wish that governing bodies for universities would stop trying to tell faculty how to do their jobs. Thinking critically and thoughtfully about general education—and content to include in those courses—is a non-trivial part of faculty responsibilities. www.highereddive.com/news/bluepri...

me, graciously "i will be on zoom during the usual class time if you have any review questions before wednesday's exam" my students *no one shows up*

Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.

i will unfortunately be watching the state of the union tomorrow and posting my reactions here on this very lovely website in case the president talks about budget stuff. follow along if you, like me, have atrocious priorities and will be doing this instead of, i dunno, board games with friends.

Cartoon by @hucktooner.bsky.social.

I've heard many people say we'll need another Reconstruction after Trump, so I decided to dive into the history and look at what that would mean. The latest from my newsletter:

LLM-adopters have adjusted their expectations of how quickly one can write a grant, thereby expecting their teams to write and submit more grants per year, as compared to those who are more LLM-critical. Again, those positions are not visible from the outside, but the # of submitted grants is. 4/

Today, in honour of WEB DuBois's birthday in 1868, the @publicdomainrev.bsky.social features the hand-drawn infographics DuBois made with his students to depict the conditions of African-American life in 1900. Arts-based pedagogy all those years ago! buff.ly/3kdWqRD

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying [FBI Director] Chris Wray doesn’t need a government-funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.” (Patel charged taxpayers approximately $75,000 so he could take a private jet to Milan)

Funding health visitors to do newborn jabs is, I can almost guarantee it, going to work out cheaper than these measles outbreaks

call back tomorrow, and we do that until i run out of steam and give up? that's not a parenting failure. that's a policy failure. the NHS and its ability to give and administer preventative care has been cut to the bone by successive governments.

the correlation of income to low vaccination is stronger than anything else, including immigration status, ethnicity, or education levels. But childhood vaccines are free on the NHS, right?

one thing about me is that i love my home. i can’t imagine having to evacuate one day and never knowing if i could come back but that’s a real crisis for kipnuk, and many other alaska tribes so it’s very important that we support and vote for leaders who recognize and support this issue in alaska

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii

And when people are like "oh you're PURITY TESTING" Yes, if you want to call it that? I do feel like "no concentration camps" is a fine purity test?

addendum: never use any llm or llm-powered tool to plan any outing in nature. EVER. not even once!

Most fascinating email preview I’ve ever seen

Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people. Me: Ok. May I talk to a person? Corporation: No. Never again.

genuinely in awe of how audaciously stupid this plan is

Normal dinosaur doing dinosaur shit. 🪶

Banger cormorant eye footage today 🪶

🧵This is the story of an UNSUNG HERO who helped expose Prince Andrew: Emily Maitlis has gotten all sorts of accolades and awards for her 2019 Newsnight interview in which Andrew showed the world he was guilty AF and Sam McAlister, the BBC Newsnight producer and booker

Still, Laura Burns name was removed from the credits. The single mother who made the expose of Andrew and Epstein possible was not on any of the BAFTA award submissions either. To call her erasure unfair is to put it mildly.

Remember when they fired Jim Comey as FBI Director during Reign 1 while he was speaking at a conference and they wouldn't even let him on the FBI plane to fly home?