According to the Lancet, vibrio infections have broken records the last three years in a row. They also degrade ecosystems & cause mass die-offs, including commercial marine species & coral reefs. Experts say the cost of Vibrio is already in the billions & expected to increase with climate change.

The idea that the Supreme Court uses its independence to protect political minorities and uphold the Constitutional text is pretty ingrained in many people especially liberals. Even though it only did that for ~25 years of the 20th century and at best ~35 years of the 19th century.

The statistic was quietly posted online in a department report in recent days.

📣The special issue is out! for a global, anti colonial criminology of war, genocide and resistance - with @hannahwilkinson.bsky.social 🌸 thanks to @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social and Ana Gabriela Perez for the editorial guidance and support ✨✨ www.criminologicalencounters.org/index.php/cr...

Collecting DNA seems fine, sure it won't be misused etc www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Re-up on this in light of the @404media.co story out today.

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

genAI is STOLEN WORK. Using genAI in *any* capacity is trafficking in stolen work, supporting the plunder. Period. These facts aren't even denied by the AI companies, they just find ways to make that plunder seem benevolent. Using their product enables that lie. Stop enabling the theft of our work.

This is the institutionalization of Turning Point's professor watchlist. It invites mass harassment and declares war on independent ideas. If unlearned sociopaths can influence your teaching through threats, academic freedom is essentially dead.

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter: spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!

It’s concerning that we’re enabling a police and surveillance state of unprecedented scale at the same moment when the veracity of any textual or visual document has become structurally suspect

“Kai Erikson, Who Studied the Collective Trauma Left by Disasters, Dies at 94 - He said Hurricane Katrina was ‘far and away the most telling disaster of our national experience’.” www.wsj.com/health/kai-e...

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

At… PROPUBLICA????? God we’re so fucked

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

I mean, is it too much to ask that students don't leave the "source=chatgpt.com" extension on their citation hyperlinks? Like. Cheat better.

@samanthamichaels.bsky.social has been a criminal justice reporter for over a decade. She has lived in an authoritarian country overseas. But she has never seen a police presence like the one in ICE-occupied Memphis. “The people supposedly eliminating crime are making the city unlivable.”

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪

As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...

“She was so afraid they would take her baby” Why? ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women — even *during* labor… So pregnant immigrants are skipping the doctor altogether

More to the point, this culture of students showing up to college at 18 believing they know what courses they need to take is ludicrous in its face, yet here we are. You’re 3 months out of high school. In terms of insight and understanding of adult life you are effectively a toddler.

Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

gen ai as a project exists to ingest the other and reconfigure it as white supremacist fantasy

Watching people humanize ChatGPT while dehumanizing literal small human children is one of the most fucked things about this era.

"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered -- private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..." www.kuow.org/stories/thou...

I want to scream www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

An unambiguously and unabashedly pro-rape administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Normalize the dismantling of intrusive, nonconsensual surveillance technologies

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

The release of over 23,000 files associated with Epstein is raising questions about the scope and scale of his sex trafficking ring and its connections to power. @moiradonegan.bsky.social joins @michelegoodwin.bsky.social to discuss: msmagazine.com/podcast/on-s...

NEW: An AI image generator startup left its database exposed online, unsecured and accessible to anyone. The "overwhelming majority" of the files inside contained nudity, with images appearing to contain children and explicit face-swaps

There's this constant discourse about how "the left" (whoever that is) has to stop being condescending and speak directly to men's issues. But these gurus are, without fail, more condescending to men than any feminist or SJW I've ever met.

Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence are being silenced by the very people accused of committing the abuse. 📣Read our new report revealing how abusive legal actions in the UK & Ireland are silencing those who speak out ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2025/10/the-...

This has been my whole freaking life. Every time Republicans take power people are like goddamit this is awful, they get voted out, then two years later people are like hmmm Republicans again

Works the other way around too. “If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”

Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children. Committee hearings begin tomorrow.

In the Kids Onle Safety hearing going on right now they predictably called privacy and free speech concerns "a farce" I think we should call and refute this shameful behavior extremely loudly Watch it with me democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/committee-ac...

Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence. In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT. Universities are cooked.