Not only does JKR popularize anti-trans hate with her massive platform, she actively donates to anti-trans groups and supports legal cases that challenge trans people's human rights. If you support Harry Potter, you are actively making our lives more difficult. There's no escaping that fact.

"Now, there are fears another monster fire is about to hit Indonesia. The UN has warned the world to prepare for a Super El Nino which could trigger extreme weather and a shorter rainy season in Indonesia this year and next." www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...

Unfortunately now Google itself indexes pages with the ChatGPT tracking in them. I had a thread - bsky.app/profile/bogi...

#OTD Working at NASA, Barbara Askins asked to find a way to improve the quality of photos of space. Her method of enhancing photo negatives could clarify photos after they were already developed. Her tech, patented July 18 1978, has been adapted for use with X-rays and historical photo restoration.

We used thermal drones to capture the heat pouring from OpenAI's Stargate data center. Then we dug into the records. Our findings: AI power plants in Texas are being built with air permits more commonly meant for dry cleaners than massive industrial facilities. floodlightnews.org/ai-data-cent...

OSSOFF: I expect tonight's speech to be equal parts pathetic and dangerous. I think we will hear from the world's most famous sore loser, a prime time presidential sour grapes address reheating, debunked conspiracy theories about an election in which he was soundly defeated.

“What is unfolding is what climate and forest scientists have been predicting for 30 years. That as the world gets hotter and drier, we are exposing forests to more and more risk, and the old strategies of fire suppression are simply being overwhelmed.”

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Mail-in voting is a secure, century-old tradition in American elections. It is not radical, and one person’s inability to accept an election loss from five years ago doesn't change the facts. Don't let lies cost you your vote. #LoserTrumpsElectionLies

Former NFL player JJ Watt doesn't play around when it comes to his wife Kealia Watt ‼️ His response to MLS team Real Salt Lake's tweet, where they failed to mention the former NWSL and USWNT soccer player, is iconic 👏

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/ida-b-...

#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #ONEV1 #DV1 Rikers Island: Weeks ago, Mr Mamdani came to celebrate some of the inmates' high school graduation. On July 16th, he dropped by for the World Cup watch party. The mayor is the best neighbor. It’ll affect the inmates’ future. @apnews.com

a few good Jessica’s

#FunFactFriday: This little one lives only on the island of Nosy Bé and a small patch of Madagascar's mainland near Lokobe Reserve! 📷: Deb Bradley

When people wonder why food safety investigations try to keep information private until the investigation is complete, this is one reason why. Taco Bell did the right thing but it's being penalized for *what its supplier did*. That's not a good incentive to cooperate when future outbreaks occur.

This is leadership.

Unimaginably thrilled about the newly-scientifically described colobus monkey from Lomami National Park Inn DRC, which you may remember from the wonderful guenon newly described in 2012, Cercopithecus lomamiensis.

These guys' common name is Likweli, they're known a bit by communities in the vicinity, they're most closely related to other black and white colobus, and they're just extremely cool! ⚱️🐒🦊

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/kate-s...

So what changed? The Senate passed the Epstein Transparency Act - unanimously. Now, some of those very same senators are lining up to confirm Todd Blanche — the same man who's been leading the Epstein cover-up. We deserve better.

You can read more about her at www.infinite-women.com/women/almira...

Robots fill me with an abundance of empathy and sadness and protective feelings that would be really hard to manage as a child/student. I'm overly responsible/parentified sure, but teachers often helped me not added to the weight of life. Pay teachers.

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

Megan Rapinoe losing out on a world cup advertising brand deal for being an outspoken trans ally as a result of AI decision making underlines how these tools function as mechanisms for censorship and blanding culture into nothingness.

It's a sign of the times: a celebration of ignorant self harm

Researchers: what do you like to use as compensation for participants' time? I know many researchers use gift cards/vouchers, but what about when working internationally or with multiple diverse communities? I might need some creative ideas here. 🧪#science

I spoke with a nurse who has worked at a Bronx Hospital for 39 years and is now being laid off, along with 11 other nurses, to be replaced by AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

These people have no vision for the future all thanks to late stage capitalism. More than ever we need humanities due to the emergence of AI...

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly of them, they should have behaved better” - Anne Lamott

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

It is okay to feel relief when bad people pass away. He cannot answer now for his actions, but I hope the public finally finds out all that he did. May this bring some form of healing for the nation

Has anyone else seen that WSJ interview with the 2 consultants who found/recruited Platner to run? They just kept giggling(??) at questions like “how did you vet him” and then lie when asked if they knew about things like his tattoo & Reddit posts. It’s infuriating. And they’re in a relationship??

🐒 Work with primates? Have you observed 3 or more individuals grooming together? Polyadic grooming is barely documented and we know little about its distribution. Please take 1–2 minutes to fill out this short survey and share: forms.gle/cLPB1mnwrjJo...

Guest Post: Think Medieval Women Had No Power? Think Again by Ashley Firth Ashley gives us a tantalising taste of some of the incredible women who made an impact on medieval history

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I once read that the mark of a serious reader is not how much you’ve read, but how deeply your life has been changed by things you’ve read, and I wish to share how deeply reading the Cook’s Illustrated approach to caramelizing onions, a few years ago, altered my existence

2026 United States of Science Challenge is still going! We're raising money to support our program which matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, and more for virtual Q&As. We need your help getting across the finish line ❤️ $10 donations fill bubbles givebutter.com/USS2026

There are organizations that could offer many $150,000 fellowships that could support independent researchers to continue their work and get healthcare and they mostly do this on the Right.

It was an honor to join a home-based providers round-table at Xiomara Family Day Care in the Bronx.   While Wall Street execs make $1,796/hr, child care workers earn a median of $6/hr — a reflection not of their value, but of a system that has failed to value care itself. We're changing that system.

Always include money for a research assistant (in addition to any postdocs or PhDs) and at least one artist in all your research grants. Take what you think it will cost and double it. It's consistently what has made the difference in my projects. Happy Friday!

Many thanks to our recent Archaeology & Public Engagement speakers, we now have both their talk recordings available on Youtube: ✨ Jane Miller youtu.be/kkgFm0zearQ ✨ Annelise Baer youtu.be/i4w-hirdbwk?...

Not only did Grok help create CSAM of an 11 year old girl, but it protected her predator, her stepfather who trafficked her images to other predators.

Before air conditioning became the norm, New Yorkers found creative ways to beat the summer heat. #QPLArchives @queensmemory.bsky.social @meltingmetropolis.bsky.social www.instagram.com/queensmemory...

The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.

It's an ultra-personal choice and everyone should have all the options medically available to them, but it's nice to read about what Julia calls "a quieter third camp: scientists, doctors, and public health researchers who are scrutinizing birth control not to get rid of it, but to make it better."

Checking on an R package usually takes five open tabs: CRAN, GitHub, download counts, reverse deps, check results. R Observatory collects all of that on one page, for every CRAN and Bioconductor package. r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com #rstats