This is so dumb. They’ve made their choice and it was predictable.

Back in the earliest days of autism research, the working theory was that 'cold mothers' caused autism - it still lingered in the early 2000s theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/the-day-ou...

When I got home from my first conference as a PhD student, I regaled my husband with TALES of the sexism and bullying I had witnessed/endured. He was surprised. Aren’t philosophers be about Right and Truth and Reason, not power and manufactured ends? … silly boy.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

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Would love to hear what this does to @ox.ac.uk’s sustainability pledge….. www.businessenergyuk.com/knowledge-hu...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

@aoifemod.bsky.social, @colinmurray.bsky.social, proud to know you!! 💪💪

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

This is why I don't understand the hagiography of him as a bastion of free speech. I agree that his murder was an assault on free speech as a principle of liberal democracy, but so was his politics. Condemning both is the only consistent position.

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Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

Wasn’t this two months ago?: “Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced the UK will recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel meets certain conditions, including agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza and reviving the prospect of a two-state solution.” (www.bbc.com/news/article...)

Cowards

Thursday!

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

The greatest political ad I’ve ever seen ?

The the United States Department of Energy does not understand renewable energy or how batteries work.

Back-to-School (and also returning from holiday one day before back-to-school) has caused severe backlog on my part but, fear not!, Collective Discussions is back and this term will be *fab* (per usual) Join us @collectivewlp.bsky.social to receive links and drafts

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Americans clearly don’t understand that this line of argument is entirely lost for at least a generation. Talk about the US as representing “democracy” or “the free world” will be met with scorn everywhere. The world has converged to Latin America in that regard.

Outstanding news that should be shared.

My favourite place on that campus

Okay I guess I can see why this new logo is controversial

No VAT on books is definitely one of the Top 3 things I miss about the UK

Private equity looted 3 Connecticut hospitals. Services cut, nurses buying their own supplies etc. They will do it to your hospital if we don't stop this trend right now. 1/ Today I'm releasing a report on the truth about private equity in health care. tinyurl.com/adangerousprospect

Proud of the women at Air Canada for singing rage against the machine. “Fuck you! I won’t do what you tell me. “ #aircanada

88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms cupe.ca/88-canadians...

I still think it’s so weird when I meet someone who didn’t read this in school. I’ll never forget when I did.

In which a Yale prof writes poorly and demonstrably needs help from his colleagues in the humanities to both correct that and identify the weaknesses in his critical thinking…. and also a thesaurus because man he loves the verb ‘yoke’ a bit too hard

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

OpenAI doesn't realise that PhD-level expertise has very little to do with the stuff you know and more to do with how you can think. I forget facts from mine all the time! The value in my PhD is knowing how to reliably generate, evaluate, and defend or dismiss information that's new to the world.

Legally, there isn't the slightest basis to the complaint, even on the most extreme possible interpretation of the Supreme Court judgement. A shop floor is not a single sex space, regardless of whether they sell bras or not. This is just hatred and spite, unleashed.

Welcome, new friend!

my feelings exactly

None of these people have imposter syndrome.

People didn’t “used to be fine” without air conditioning during heat waves in the U.S. - a lot more people *just died*. According to this study, air conditioning has cut heat deaths in the U.S. by around 80% since 1960. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The white students who are struggling to make ends meet are not struggling because Black and immigrant students got into our university. They are struggling because of a shitty social safety net & high tuition because people like Andreesen don't pay sufficient taxes/the state doesn't pay its share.

Zohran Mamdani you have 48 hours to confirm whether you floss nightly or the NYT will publish without comment

She’s one!!

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Proper gender scholars: 'Your work is bad! Here are lots of reasons!' People TERFs harm with their objectively bad scholarship: 'You're bad scholarship is also harmful!' TERFs: 'Wah! We're being persecuted!' England: 'We must protect TERF academics' right to be bad at their jobs!' ???

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

Co-signed

It is deeply disturbing that just two weeks ago, two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota were targeted in an attack in which one lawmaker and her husband were killed, and the much of the mainstream media has moved on.