The original Earthrise photo is arguably one of the most important things to have come from the Apollo mission, changing the way we see the world. Incredibly moving to finally have a new shot of our small blue dot.

Women having to prove they are female is not a win for women.

“To streamline future projects, the city’s Dept of Environmental Protection, which is responsible for fresh water supply as well as sewage + stormwater mgmt, has formed a Bureau of Coastal Resilience to lead responses to coastal flooding as well as spikes in stormwater volumes...”

"Venture capital (VC) is fuelling the boom in artificial intelligence (AI). Yet analysis of a UK dataset reveals that VC is dominated by men... we argue that the homogeneity of the VC ecosystem is key to perpetuating the gender gap in innovation." academic.oup.com/cje/advance-...

“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”

Shoutout to every writer out there writing the kind of books fascists keep trying to ban.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

I've been saying for almost 2 decades now that it should the current paradigm of "AI" acting as a helpmeet to fascism should be no surprise, when the drivers of fascism— militarism, capitalism, carcerality, white supremacy, &c— are the soil, the water, & roots from which this idea of "AI" was grown.

These fields of study are empowering and liberatory; they offer tools to understand, dismantle, and rethink societal structures. In a just world they would be acknowledged as essential fundamentals.

All right, I got mad enough to write a full post about all this:

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Did you know that a famous math reference – most physicists have owned a copy at some point – is the result of a New Deal project to employ scientists and mathematicians? Thread incoming.

While the struggle to defend the university will be fought over many years, the fight to reinvent the university—and to build the ideas necessary for escaping our public crisis—starts now. Support Public Books: buff.ly/JF5zxCh

Some tools for thinking about AI in a time when the companies making them are trying to destroy teaching and learning itself... 1/n 🧵

"we tend to focus on new, high-tech, and material interventions. But what if we adopted a more expansive approach that takes low-tech and even incremental solutions seriously, including those developed by members of the communities surrounding our campuses?" Let's imagine together, @shobitap.org.

Absolutely brilliant new Coates piece on the racial politics (and racism) of The Homeland.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Use the anger you’re feeling now to get caught up and keep fighting it.

Chuffed as heck to have my story Sand Dollars up now in The Eckleburg Review -- check it out here: www.eckleburg.org/sand-dollars...

How was #NYC's transit system desegregated? In 1854, Elizabeth Jennings Graham, a 24-year-old Black school teacher, stood her ground on a NYC streetcar. Jennings was ordered to get off the car and wait for a car that served African American passengers.

YES: "interdisciplinarity is never just the meeting of two pre-existing disciplines, disciplines are made and remade through the interaction"

Fostering curiosity and community, libraries are a social good -- "Importantly, these are not ad hoc exchanges but robust sociotechnical infrastructures, with nation-building effects." Ever on point, Shannon Mattern:

You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.” www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

“‘The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing. If students are taught to learn through automation, without learning about how & why things work, they won’t be able to solve problems when something actually breaks’”

“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”

Today's the day to honor the gales of November! Dug this photo essay:

Beautiful data.

"Either a bubbling idea led solvers to connect puzzle pieces across the board, or solvers had grown frustrated and decided to physically forage for new connections, which sparked a solution. Perhaps it was a mixture of both."

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

“I’d like our educational institutions, at least, to lead with the message that these generative AI programs as they currently exist simply cannot be used ethically. That doesn’t mean unenforceable bans, but it does mean telling the truth.” Amen

“Taken together, our roundtable contributors present a suite of ideas that, if enacted, just might make higher education more livable for us all.” The full series “Higher Ed Under Trump” is live at Public Books. Read all the contributions here:

Fear will try to convince us to isolate, to hoard resources, to avoid community, to build the least threatening campaigns making little impact. A grounded risk assessment will move us closer to each other, it’ll remind us of that we are millions, it’ll make our work more bold and more brave.

Stoked beyond measure to be in @mrbullbull.bsky.social this month, please check it out if you are so inclined.

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

The focus on "AI Literacy" is particularly baffling, because guess what: it's just literacy! You can't use LLMs reliably unless you know what you're talking about. And the best way to actually learn something is to—you guess it—do your own work instead of having Chat-GPT do it for you.

What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

Say it with me: this is not a glitch

ALL CAPS THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ... GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪 www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Find something to rejoice in today. Rage is fuel but not nourishment.

In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered one of the greatest speeches in US history. Today it’s often presented in abridged form, though, and skips what seems like a long-winded introduction. If you read the intro closely, however, there’s an ingenious structure. THREAD👇🏽

Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”