As a point of order it is also domestically illegal under 18 USC 2441 so folks shouldn't get too held up by the applicability of IHL to the president. It is a crime with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment whichever way you choose to look at it

I don’t know how we are ever going to be able to repent for this as a nation — but we owe it to ourselves to think creatively now about what re-engaging the world in a way they will believe actually looks like

"Get students not to use basic open-access AI because it's not a good learning tool except that they used AI to summarize the article, which it also sucks at, so they didn't understand why basic open-access AI is not a good tool for learning" challenge

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

People keep talking about tech firms in relation to the H1-B $100k fee but it’s gonna really sink universities.

Trump: "We're not spending any money on the war. We're being paid for everything we send ... the war is being funded by NATO."

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

I would say that the UN report on genocide in the occupied Palestinian territories is important and groundbreaking but anyone who isn't convinced of the facts already seems to me to be incapable of being convinced at any later date

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

The court’s hands are tied to stop the administration from cavalierly sending people to torture. That’s where we are.

Blog: US Funding of International Organizations Has Collapsed With weeks left in FY, US has paid zero toward assessed (membership) contributions to WHO, WTO, FAO, ILO, UNESCO, NATO, OECD, WMO, WIPO & more. FY26 budget suggests paying dues to only 7 out of 46 organizations under the IO account.

I don’t know who these people are, but it’s well said.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.

The US Administration has thus imposed a de-facto ban on most professional and academic interaction with a range of countries around the world. Barring those without a year of planning (or more, at their whim) equates to a ban.

Please, the U.S. Open asked us not to share any video of the president being booed heavily by an entire stadium, please respect their wishes, please

The net effect of the antithesis @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social observes here is that language models work a lot like djinn, or like oracles in Herodotos. You have to think carefully about what you ask for—because they view the blind spots of human imagination as your fault not theirs.

US participating in transnational repression

Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

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Minister @tonyburkemp.bsky.social, I'm no expert but surely, indifference to Nazis on the streets in our cities and towns should be disqualifying for an Australian Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism❓ Especially one on a 6-figure salary funded by taxpayers

I saw this so I am legally obligated to share it with you, I don't make the rules youtu.be/Brq-exSvB7Q?...

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

More coverage of the International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution. If these academics (who were earlier criticized for not saying this fast enough) are now saying it, news organizations should be comfortable saying it. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:

Reminder that unlawful deportation or forcible transfer of the population of occupied territory are grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Meaning all parties to the treaty—every country—are under an obligation to prosecute or extradite the perpetrators. Worth bearing in mind for Gaza.

We are going to be digging out from all this for years and years and years.

I understand why people in education say they're turning to this technology because they have too much to do and they think it can ease the burden, but this is not an AI problem. It's a labor problem that the AI is only going to make worse over time.

Thesis: Trump is ticking off his authoritarian to do list quickly Antithesis: While Trump is *trying* to tick off his authoritarian to do list, he's not fully succeeding Synthesis: Each item on this check list is not a binary but a spectrum, and we're *way* too far down the spectrum for any comfort

I am T&R staff at an Australian university. I took the survey which informs these findings. They are absolutely correct. I want my local professional staff back.

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Similarly, the AI boom has forced teachers who actually care about student learning to radically reconfigure their classes in order to disincentivize students from using the cheating machines they now have easy access to and which systemically undermine student learning. No one asked for this.

Labor was against JRG at the time, but have done NOTHING to undo that terrible law. >3 yrs as govt, & NOTHING has been done to #fundHigherEdFairly. It's not just about VC's high salaries, it's about govt NOT FUNDING #higherEd!! @jasonclaremp.bsky.social

Comparative Politics already uses different frameworks for legislatures, civil society, the executive, parties etc depending on regime type. So much of the work in AP is likely no longer valid because the regime type has changed

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

I can now also confirm that previous reporting is correct, and the ICC charges against Ben Gvir and Smotrich are/were centred around the crime against humanity of apartheid. The crime has never been charged by an international tribunal. #WestBank #Palestine

the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government

This is genocidal rhetoric calling people cockroaches. This is exactly the language used in the Rwandan genocide.

A week before the semester starts, Columbia University is replacing its unionized graduate student TAs with non-unionized adjuncts. This comes as Columbia sold itself out to the fascists, and the unions were mulling a strike. Any adjunct who takes a class there right now is a scab.

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Question: if you were alerted to a fake citation of your work (write in similar areas but the supposed piece referenced does not exist) in a piece on a scholarly website, what would you do? Asking for a me.

I'm an ANU alumnus. It's disappointing to read the testimony to the Senate about ANU governance. The COO's admission he asked that an NTEU representative submit timesheets documenting his union work and asked for a copy of his performance review is extraordinary: parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/dow...

Trump Administration Guts Annual Human Rights Report on Israel Clocking in at nine whole pages — down from 103 in 2024 — the new State Department human rights report is “functionally useless.” theintercept.com/2025/08/13/u...

Why is it always "Here's why its the left's fault for the rise of the radical right" and not "Here's how the center-right lost control of their own damn party"

Sudanese journalist Yousra El Bagir has managed to get some footage out of Al Fashir in Darfur, Sudan. The RSF siege of the city has cut it off from food supply and medical assistance for months. One reason you hear very little about Sudan is that the RSF kills anyone who tries to document the war.