If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire. That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

My inch plant looking pretty fabulous

Best quote of the semester from a doctoral student in our dissertation seminar: “I am very confused. But I think something good will come of it.”

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

THE PRESIDENT OF WESLEYAN ATE TYLER AUSTIN HARPER UP LOL “Harper follows in the grand tradition of Senator Jesse Helms in mocking areas of research he expects will be unpopular with the general public.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Really having trouble getting past the rage I feel thinking about the same people who use women’s sports as a political cudgel against trans folks also using them as the punchline for their jokes.

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

epstein and the epstein class were so fucking desperate for validation they funded a cranberry bog of academics to explain why they were the master race, but yeah sure. it's women who only care about being admired

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

This #BlackHistoryMonth, I am teaching Bean about Black heroes. This week, the hero is Brad Lomax, a disabled member of the Black Panther Party who was also part of the 1977 504 Sit-in protest re disability rights. +

Oh my goodness, the UCSD neuroscientist who advanced an extremely ableist line of research on autistic people (that they have "broken mirror neurons") took Epstein money, I just can't even believe it. [pretends to be shocked] ucsdguardian.org/2026/02/17/u...

Maybe I’ll just keep posting this every time we learn of another violation of our 1st amendment rights (from our actual government) to remind us of the 152 prominent writers who were so bothered by “cancel culture” (post #metoo and #blm that they wrote an open letter about it back in 2020.

Waiting to see how long it takes institutions reinstate the diversity, equity, and inclusion programs they shut down, re-hire those they pushed out, and rewrite all the language they rushed to change. Something tells me it'll likely be a long wait.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions thread 1/

I am not exaggerating when I say this. This will kill autistic people, particularly #ActuallyAutistic children.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Come be my colleague! We are hiring a 1-year professor of the practice in special education at Boston College. You can find the call for applications here: apply.interfolio.com/180766

Cities must stand together to defend our communities & our values. Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, Brookline, Chelsea, Lynn & Newton all issued Executive Orders protecting residents from unconstitutional & violent federal operations. Proud to stand alongside city & state colleagues, DAs & advocates 🙌

Our new paper led by @sarah-foster.bsky.social Non-autistic observers attribute more negativity to autistic emotional expressions & more positivity to non-autistic ones, despite the autistic & non-autistic groups reporting feeling the same emotion & intensity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

So Super Bowl ads are just AI and gambling, got it.

Important study in Sweden found that females may be just as likely to be autistic as males but boys are up to four times more likely to be diagnosed in childhood. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

Mongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms

I was just given permission to teach a doctoral-level summer course called "Critical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence in Education" 💃💃

I’ve seen enough: the headlights are too bright

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

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Autistics on "autistic flow" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "findings challenge conventional flow models and suggest that autistic flow experiences may be qualitatively distinct in their reliance on sensory engagement as an entry point, aligning with sensory-seeking accounts of flow"?

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The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

I am looking forward to speaking at the National Autistic Society Annual Professionals’ Conference – which is live online on 12th March 2026 The theme of the conference is rethinking support through neuroinclusive practice Tickets and information available at www.autism.org.uk/conference

Hiring! 📢 We have a three-year position open at the University of Oulu for a Doctoral Researcher in English. Not only will you get to study social interaction in an interesting setting, you'll also get to work with the nicest* people in the business. See announcement below. *biased statement

Nothing brings the neighborhood together like trying to collectively solve how we each move 200 cubic feet of snow from our respective driveways and on street parking spaces.

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

Unions and community members rallied in the cold in a Home Depot parking lot in Boston today in solidarity with strikers in Minneapolis

Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism. www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...

In an online survey of formally diagnosed vs self-identifying autistics, 27% of diagnosed autistics are female, vs 53.5% of self-identifying autistics? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 68.7% of self-identifying autistics want a formal diagnosis, 24.5% are unsure, 6.8% do not want a diagnosis

We should not be redoing the plot line to 12 years a slave . 185 years later

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.