The grandmaster’s not feeling it….

How can we embed Global South perspectives in GenAI teaching? | THE Campus Learn, Share, Connect www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-c...

New England warming faster than most places on Earth, study finds www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Overwhelm the public with muzzle-velocity headlines: A strategy rooted in racism and authoritarianism theconversation.com/overwhelm-th...

What’s More Dangerous Than India’s Frequent Heat Waves? Heat Stress. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/w...

Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...

Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Faculty panel determined Dr. Melissa MCoul’s firing was based on the content of her course and a violation of her academic freedom. Administration ignored the finding. Another violation of due process in this egregious case.

I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Literary Hub » Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Same.

We needed this hope!!!! #NYC

notes on gatesnotes, in a thread "A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense

Max entertainment 🖤 #void

US farmers are struggling to sell soybeans. Here’s how to think about the trade war. | Vox www.vox.com/future-perfe...

OSU has again changed its policy on land acknowledgement bans after faculty pushback. Our board member Chris M. Nichols is cited in the article. The Dispatch also quotes from our chapter’s September statement. www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

The Planetary Health Diet, Revisited open.substack.com/pub/thinink/...

Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.

Gosh. 🤦🏽‍♀️

The federal government is canceling the leading national survey of household food insecurity and hunger in the United States, @wsj.com reported today. The Dec 2025 survey will be canceled, while the Oct 2025 report based on Dec 2024 data will be released as usual. (1/4)

"Since Donald Trump returned to office, I have noticed a phenomenon at my high school that I call the 'new chill girl'," writes high school student Naomi Beinart for the Guardian US. "The girls I talked to say it’s riskier to be outspokenly blue."

My phone wallpaper :)

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🙁 Jerry is leaving #BenAndJerrys (via @yobencohen.bsky.social)

“we are not mutual because of the provision of aid; we aid each other because we are already mutual.” Rebecca Solnit on the (real) stories of mutual aid after disasters. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/09/tell...

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

AAUP-OSU board member Richard Finlay Fletcher spoke to “Inside Higher Ed” about OSU’s ban on land acknowledgements - and its chilling effect on academic freedom. Link below.

One of the strongest, clearest increases in likelihood & intensity, attributable to climate change, I've seen in a complex index like fire weather - the more intense & frequent events in Greece & Türkiye are already outpacing efforts to adapt. www.worldweatherattribution.org/weather-cond...

Octavia Butler Predicted Our Dystopian Present. What Can a Futurist Learn From Her Chilling Accuracy?  – Mother Jones www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How federal officials talk about health is shifting in troubling ways • Ohio Capital Journal “MAHA rhetoric may signal a coming shift in how the federal government views the needs of people with disabilities – and its responsibilities for meeting them.”

Commentary: As a scholar of rhetoric and the mother of an autistic child, in the language of MAHA I hear a disregard for the humanity of people with disabilities and a shift from supporting them to blaming them for their needs ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/26/h...

Support the FEMA Katrina Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

#FEMA Employees Warn That Trump Is Gutting Disaster Response www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

“Whether it is dismantling diversity programs, complaining about anti-white bias in museums or simply promoting an aura of authoritarian nationalism, Mr. Trump has embraced an array of far-right views and talking points.”

In 2025.

The UN announces an official designation of famine in Gaza, noting that "by the end of September, more than 640,000 people will face Catastrophic levels of food insecurity – classified as IPC Phase 5 – across the Gaza Strip." www.wfp.org/news/famine-...

💯 .."those of us with even an ounce of privilege have a responsibility to speak up...if we cannot rise to meet this moment, then what does our commitment to science — and to justice — really mean? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New research by Doherty et al.: "Extreme heat preparedness and coping among older adults: A rapid review" journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Hurricane Erin achieved something most storms do not this weekend. "Extreme Rapid Intensification". Did climate change play a part? Science says, yes. In 12 hours winds increased by ~65 mph. Only 3 other storms have done that and Erin was the earliest & only August storm to do so. 1/

An authoritarian regime is calling up troops from red states to occupy the capitol city, harass its residents, and further entrench his control

Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 15, 2025 ~ Feedback loop alert! "these factors have the potential to trigger an amplifying positive feedback loop: ice-darkening microbes nudge up temperatures and accelerate melt, exposing more nutrient-rich debris that encourage the growth of yet more microbes..."

There is currently a heat wave in Gaza. 100F (37.8C) at the moment with a real feel of 111F (43.8C). People are living in tents—the old, the young, pregnant women, babies—with few ways to beat the heat. The climate crisis is making life unbearable for people trying to survive a genocide.

How Chris Wright recruited a team to upend climate science - E&E News by POLITICO www.eenews.net/articles/how...

"If we keep cutting NOAA, there is an increasing risk of an Otis-like scenario, with a Cat 5 hurricane roaring ashore in a heavily populated area with inadequate warning. With global warming steadily increasing the odds of rapid intensification, we’d better stay ahead of this dangerous curve."

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse | Environment | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NOAA cannot just rely on outside providers for weather data. The costs of deploying and operating upper air, radar, weather station, and buoy networks, and other sensing platforms like satellites are far higher than the $27 - 30M Congress wants to give NMP. insideclimatenews.org/news/0108202...

Public Statement of Solidarity with Palestinian Social Workers and the People of Gaza – International Federation of Social Workers www.ifsw.org/public-state...