Join us for the AI Openness & Equity Forum 🤝 A space for policy practitioners, researchers & advocates to explore how AI policy can center justice, accountability & the public interest. Online, 14 Oct, 15–17h CET. Info & how to join: aspirationtech.org/blog/join_ou...

In 596 AD, Pope Gregory sent a monk named Augustine to what is now England to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. (thread)

Mullally, 63, is a former nurse who worked as England's Chief Nursing Officer in the early 2000s. She has advocated for creating an open and transparent culture in churches which allows for difference and disagreement reut.rs/3IvpcxP

🌸 #ECPG26 @ecprgender.bsky.social Section seeking Panels and Papers ⤵️ ✍️ Gender and Political Communication: Empirical Perspectives 🪑 @louiseluxton.bsky.social, Daphne van der Pas ⌛👇 7 Nov buff.ly/kOdHSfI #Gender #Governance #Government #Voting #Communication

EMERGENCY TIMELINE CLEANSE: Smile for the Gamera ❤️👍🏾

BREAKING: Britain appointed Sarah Mullally as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been named leader of the Church of England in the 1,400 year history of the role reut.rs/46RSbE6

David Nihill is a great comic!

📢 New episode featuring @esa's ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover! 🍿 Watch the most sophisticated laboratory set to work on Mars in action. Like a factory floor, an automated sequence drives samples through the lab. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuh8...

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Well, it's finally happening #Pubmed is being defunded 😢 #MedSky #AcademicSky

📢🔎@ejpgjournal.bsky.social call for editors is out! As journal editor you are a key gatekeeper who is on top of the most recent research. You initiate new ideas and nourish a community. Truth be told: it is a lot of work. But with the right team it is a rewarding professional experience.

Next Monday's "One First" was going to be about how we should stop covering new #SCOTUS terms through the "big" cases the Court will hear; and instead focus on how the Court is behaving. Fortunately for me (and you), @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social did it first—and *way* better:

This creature - an opossum - likes to visit during TNT cat feeding hours. My TNR contract doesn’t allow me to feed him, but i wish i could. #catsky #catcanoe

Marie Antoinette was an icon! She would NEVER!

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

MY KITTEN IS A PICKY EATER Vol. 5 A heartwarming manga about two loners finding happiness and trust with each other! Out today in print/digital! See RETAILERS section: sevenseasentertainment.com/books/my-kit...

THE MASTERFUL CAT IS DEPRESSED AGAIN TODAY Vol. 10 A comedic slice-of-life manga about a cat who cooks, cleans, and succeeds at adulting more than the woman who expected him to be a pet—with an anime! Out today in print/digital! See RETAILERS section: sevenseasentertainment.com/books/the-ma...

A small, loaf shaped companion?

THE TWELVE KINGDOMS BOOK 1 – SHADOW OF THE MOON, SHADOW OF THE SEA: PART 1 (AUDIOBOOK) The epic series about a young woman's quest in a strange world that inspired a hit anime—narrated by Grace Lynn Kung! #SevenSeasSiren Out today on digital platforms! sevenseasentertainment.com/audio_books/...

DINOSAUR SANCTUARY Vol. 7 A richly detailed manga about a rookie zookeeper learning how to care for dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes, sure to delight dinosaur lovers! Out today in print/digital! See RETAILERS section: sevenseasentertainment.com/books/dinosa...

I’m not into the post-apocalyptic genre, but this looks intriguing. Cats, you say?

Munich drone sightings force airport to cancel flights in latest Europe disruption | Germany https://www.newsbeep.com/160927/ Drone sightings over Munich airport on Thursday evening forced air traffic control to suspend operations, leading to the…

Here are 4 solid shots of the American Pika from this morning. Yesterday morning I had no plans to see this, but we adjusted and we did it. Yesterday I was dragging and wanted to go home. Now I'm fired up and ready to roll! 🗺️

"I had to work 10 times harder than the average man just to get the same level of recognition," Jane Goodall told us in 2020. "But once I had made a name for myself, I let the data speak for me."

If we’re unable to organize politically, freely contest political decisions, peacefully and democratically vie for power, then we no longer live in a democracy. At that point, we’re once again subjects. That’s why we’re fighting so hard for our rights in TX. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

www.schneier.com/blog/archive... This is worth your time.

Last week, thousands of people in Texas were suddenly knocked offline. The cause? A bullet. The outage hit cities all across the state, including Dallas, Irving, Plano, Arlington, Austin, and San Antonio. 🔗 www.404media.co/a-bullet-cra...

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure. 🔗 www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

Duterte is in the Hague for this

“Here’s an inconvenient fact for Republicans: undocumented immigrants pay around $100 billion in taxes every year, a majority of which goes toward payroll taxes, which fund Medicare, Social Security and unemployment — programs they can’t use.”

Is this our kristallnacht?

Trump's offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that this govt favors in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda stinks of favoritism,patronage & bribery.  It is entirely corrupt. @ProfTWolf.bsky.social @AAUP.org 🧵 www.aft.org/press-releas...

I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

Center of the mother trucking universe

“…theirs is a small, fearful, ugly America and, try as they might, they will never extinguish the hopeful vision and, for many Americans, the lived experience of a diverse and beautiful country that treats with dignity all who call it home.”

"Angles" #Photo #Pic #Sony #Photography #Houston #Streetphotography #Mono

OMG OMG OMG! Yay!

They're your rights - get to know them. In October, Disability Rights Texas will be sharing information online and at in-person events so more Texans with disabilities understand their rights. Learn more: www.DRTx.org/Events #DisabilityRights #Texas #Austin #FortWorth #Houston #SanAntonio

You know those freeways that have no business being THAT high in the sky? Those, but they lack side guardrails. They go up higher in the sky and become even more narrow. In my dreams, I try to avoid those roads and hate it when other drivers choose those exits.

This is the best city in the country. Maybe the world. #houston #refugees #htx #hou

Thank you, Laura Loomer, for showing Houston at our best | Editorial www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

I don’t understand this, but can we do more of this please?

ICE “Kavanaugh stop”-ped everyone — including children — in an apartment building in one of Chicago’s Hispanic enclaves.

Press Forward paid a PR firm to generate a toolkit for local news organizations suggesting they avoid using the word "democracy' in their messaging because it "now triggers partisan defenses regardless of people’s actual beliefs." Sigh. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/dont...

christopher walken in works of art: thread

Reading this today, written by an old friend who was also a great tv reporter. It’s on Amazon.

Introducing the William Volk papers, a new digital collection in the VGHF Library! Explore thousands of documents, developments schedules, and memos from the early history of Activision. Read more: gamehistory.org/william-volk...

James Talarico: I will never sell out people’s health care if I am elected U.S. Senator. I’m going to Washington to fight for the people of this state. I’m not there to do the business of billionaire megadonors