Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

The Sycophancy Fallacy: Why You May be Worried About the Wrong Bias with Search aarontay.substack.com/p/the-sycophan… #AI #libraries #searcg #RAG

Summer Boismier, a high school English teacher in Oklahoma, lost her teaching license after she protested a book ban. Now she is fighting to return to the classroom. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

Nick Shirley and others like him are reminiscent of yellow journalism of the 19th century, updated and turbocharged by social media algorithms. Read more: www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it (H/T longtimehistory)

“A THIRD of people who turn to our community of food banks are in a household where someone works” @trusselluk.bsky.social

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Light in the snow ❄️ #SundaySilence

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

Was eine Pflicht zur Vollzeit zB in der Pflege bewirken würde: Noch mehr Berufsausstiege, noch größerer Fachkräftemangel. Wäre wirklich schön, wenn sich zum Thema Arbeitszeit vor allem echte Expert*innen äußern. Sonst verschärft die Politik mehr Krisen als sie lösen wird. #lifestyleteilzeit

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

For those of us in the UK, dropping an email to your MP won’t take long!

"Vancouver tech firm Hootsuite provides services to U.S. Homeland Security" www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Tapping the sign

In the 1990s, German courts ruled that the "duty to shoot" at the Wall was "statutory lawlessness." Even though it was the law of the GDR at the time, individuals were held responsible because they should have recognized that the orders violated fundamental human rights.

Technology companies issued a record $108.7 billion in corporate bonds in the last three months of 2025, according to Moody’s Analytics. That’s the largest total for any quarter and roughly double that of the previous three months.

i heard we needed more whimsy so i’m here to get the job done

In What Do Educators Want to Learn About GenAI?, Leon Furze shares findings from a survey of approximately 3,000 educators across K-12, early childhood, universities, TAFEs, and related industries spanning multiple countries. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation#AIEdu#AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu #Podcast

Doomscrolling won’t bring order to the chaos. It’s OK to put the phone down and take a break | Gaby Hinsliff

Listen to a new episode of the @uofgpolicy.bsky.social #UofGSpotlight podcast. Host @kezdugdale.bsky.social challenges Scotland's political leaders on public service reform, whether politicians can work together, the fiscal challenge in Scotland, devolution, the NHS, and more. 🎧 uofgspotlight.com

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The great graduate job drought

weekly #artstrategies and #reflections, showcasing various designs inspired by #nature, particularly #mushrooms and #frogs while encouraging community sharing #warmup4art #CreateWithCatCoq #spoonflower #designchallenge

"What do universities’ commitments to inclusion actually achieve? - LSE Impact"

When work coms go wrong A haiku Asked question in colourSeeking the form of a shapeWas told:it's soup

As EU policy makers pay increased attention to research security in Europe, EUA’s Sergiu-Matei Lucaci examines how recent developments, proposed measures and persistent questions affect the state of play for universities & researchers https://bit.ly/4aLAoSu #EUAExpertVoices #ResearchSky

OpenAI has absolutely zero ideas. They have no business. This is not a real business line and it’s so utterly vague and specious, I’m shocked at the credulousness to just print it without saying “there is no logical way this works of course” or talking about how the CFO of OpenAI is saying nonsense

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area? Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more. disinfoinstitute.org

25K have already cancelled tickets. FIFA will be pressed once UEFA & Other Soccer Federations tell FIFA they won't play if their matches are in the US. Look for big moments to come after Trump tries to take Greenland by force and then is met with serious NATO resistance militarily. #CancelFIFA

“Embedded precarity” in HE is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report #AcademicSky #highered

Well-respected SUNY Buffalo researcher makes a wrong turn and ends up in ICE detention. No grounds for detention and yet he's been there a week. Please help him! #scientists #ICE #SUNY #academicsky @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @reptimkennedy.bsky.social

Identify if AI citations are real of hallucinated. Let me know if you get any bugs. I ran a lot of tests but... nathalietasler.blog/2026/01/10/h...

📢 New preprint! Ten Simple Rules for Running a ReproducibiliTea Journal Club 🔗 doi.org/10.31222/osf... Our aim is to equip you as early career researchers with the tools needed to lead grassroots change in research culture. #reproducibility #openresearch #openscience #metasci #academicsky

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing #academicSky theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Really interesting techniques used to understand how learning styles is discussed on social media. One takeaway for me was that more debunking of the learning styles myth needs to happen in in-service/professional development contexts. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

BREAKING: National Crime Agency must investigate X say Lib Dems www.markpack.org.uk/176091/natio...

Can artificial minds decay like human ones? A new study shows that low-quality data from social media can cause measurable “brain rot” in large language models.

New Post: WEEKEND READING: What if, in trying to ‘fix’ universities, we are quietly unmaking them? www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/10/w...

Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.

Timely reminder that the UK Parliament still use X as their main public update method. Exclusive use of X is a massive endorsement of the platform.

“God damn them all.”

Our Principal, Prof Andy Schofield, took a walk through our fantastic archives, revisiting moments and members of our community who have helped shape the University of Glasgow.   We are proud to celebrate our 575th Birthday. #TeamUofG #UofG575 @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social

British voters believe Brexit has made things worse in the UK, from the economy to immigration, and left the nation with even less control over its own destiny, according to a major new poll www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

300,000 Wondrous Nature Illustrations Put Online by The Biodiversity Heritage Library

Such an interesting debate.

I don’t know who may need to hear this, but: Not every story needs to adhere to The Hero’s Journey template, which is not, in fact, universal, and the quality/value of a story shouldn’t be judged by how successfully it follows that template. There’s no cheat code. Sorry!

Latest news from behind the Iron curtain... In East Germany we had political leadership in each school (Pioneerleiter). Who ran illustrious stories such as WestGermans all fly to the moon to live after they nuked us.... Not sure what that woman was tripping tbh. Time warp much?