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Professor Dad. ATLien. Scientist. Critical Cognitive Science www.criticalcognition.org
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looks like I'm writing a book. title to be something along the lines of "Critical Approaches to Human Cognition" coming to a well known academic press sometime in the near future. hopefully not too long. I hear writing is pretty easy. 😭
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DEI Virologist
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This is exactly why things like ethics, unconscious bias and general confronting of people’s racism in science IS necessary and will always be necessary.
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the mind sometimes need to know about bird poop.
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Dominique Baker
16 days ago
LISTEN! The number of students of color I informally advise on publishing, fellowship applications, dissertations, job applications, fly outs, etc. could fill an auditorium. And the vast majority do not attend the institution that provides me with a W-2.
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Guardian US
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"There’s a freedom people are craving because they’re feeling so constrained, surveilled and, frankly, threatened in so many other spheres." Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections.
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Gen-Zine: DIY publications find new life as form of resistance against Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/10/zine-revival-organizing-social-media?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1765375528-1
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folks seem to be adding a lot of AI addendums. names of majors, schools, all getting "AI" added. Has anyone gone ahead and changed at the university level? Like "Texas A&M" but for Artificial Intelligence instead of agriculture. 😂
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yearly reminder Don't experiment on thanksgiving. 😂
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maybe I'm misreading the email, but I think they just floated the idea of using AI in the tenure & promotion process.
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Lana Sinapayen
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People are desperately drawn to phrenology. You could set your clock by the regularity at which those stupid papers come out and are debunked. Can't people FINALLY know better? No, the urge to judge people by characteristics they can't control is too strong...
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I've actually been just standing here this whole time reading the AI discourse
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
4 months ago
It was one thing when this was about intellectual ephemera. I ver it. Mock us all day long. We do, in fact, make up words. But seeing people throw “gatekeeping” charges at practical craftspeople feels so bleak.
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I see the professional smart man is saying ridiculous things again.
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Retro Tech Dreams
4 months ago
MusicNet (1995) was an early "online" music store that came on a CD with music samples. You could preview tracks, add items to your shopping list, and then call a phone number to order with your credit card.
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managed to work "D1 babies" into my lecture on day 1 of the semester.
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🪐1/10 YA BITCH WANNA PARTY WITH TITTY
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Rdell47
6 months ago
This article is always relevant
www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
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'These kids are ticking time bombs': The threat of youth basketball
In part one of a two-part series, ESPN explores the dangers of youth basketball -- and how the culture of perpetual competition is jeopardizing the futures of the very stars it hopes to create.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27125793/these-kids-ticking-bombs-threat-youth-basketball
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just me going through my old memes
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Watch while it's still available. The people in this doc are roughly my parents age. Very much still around. Very much all in living memory.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIw...
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Meet The Families Who Defied the KKK | PBS Short Docs
YouTube video by PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiIw55O_Mbs
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Annie Waldman
8 months ago
NEW: Whistleblower records show that the NIH axed research grants – even after a federal judge blocked the cuts with an injunction.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s executiv...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nih-cuts-transgender-research-grants
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I actually kind of like these "100 men vs a gorilla" type things. Yes there is a lot of comedy and ridiculousness. But also people are actually trying to think through a problem. How it's defined (do we get weapons?), and what might happen.
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KUOW Public Radio
9 months ago
The Trump administration has revoked the visas of nine current and postgraduate University of Washington students without prior notice to the students or school, the university said Monday.
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9 University of Washington student visas revoked by U.S. Department of State
The Trump administration has revoked the visas of nine current and postgraduate University of Washington students without prior notice to the students or school, the university said Monday.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/state-department-revokes-university-of-washington-student-visas
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George Takei
9 months ago
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
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ACH
10 months ago
ACH is collecting information about impacts on research. If your National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) work has been impacted, or if you anticipate future impacts, let us know.
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Digital Humanities Funding Impacts
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is collecting information about impacts on research. If your National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or Institute of Museum and Library…
https://buff.ly/bvZQdAK
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
9 months ago
Family is getting ready.
#powertothepeopleyall
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ɴɪᴄʜᴇ ɪɴᴛᴇʀɴᴇᴛ ᴄᴇʟᴇʙʀɪᴛʏ ɴɪɢɢᴀɴᴊᴀ
11 months ago
Me in the party when Pop Smoke come on
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
9 months ago
Listen, I’ve been all about mocking them instead but it does not endear you to the educated liberal folks, for sure. A lot of pearl clutching. Also, they’re not GOOD at mocking,maybe best they don’t try. I know the whole “satire didn’t stop WWII” bit but I think some punching up can pierce the veil
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looks like I'm writing a book. title to be something along the lines of "Critical Approaches to Human Cognition" coming to a well known academic press sometime in the near future. hopefully not too long. I hear writing is pretty easy. 😭
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Saeed Jones
9 months ago
White folks talking about the Obamas still / always — “please come save us” — remind me of that joke from “Get Out.” “I would’ve voted for Obama a third time.” Sometimes I wonder if y’all reference the Obamas so frequently because they’re the only black couple you feel you’ve gotten to know.
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Michael Yarbrough (he/him)
9 months ago
They call on their own president to convene the process to create it. Link to full resolution below. I strongly believe that higher ed is better positioned than most sectors to respond to the prisoner's dilemmas that authoritarian leaders deliberately create. 🧵
senate.rutgers.edu/wp-content/u...
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https://senate.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Resolution-to-Establish-a-Mutual-Defense-Compact-for-the-Universities-of-the-Big-Ten-Academic-Alliance-in-Defense-of-Academic-Freedom-Institutional-Integrity-and-the-Research.pdf
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WIRED
9 months ago
“Everybody in math and physics uses it.” Nearly 35 years ago, Paul Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository for sharing research. It changed science for good. Three decades in, Ginsparg reflects on its legacy—and its future.
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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
https://wrd.cm/4iNlQDf
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update tomorrow 📚
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Aaron Rupar
9 months ago
is you texting war plans to journalists on Signal?
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Sam Wang
9 months ago
Here at Princeton, we’re amplifying our university president’s leadership. It’s time for everyone - faculty, students, staff - to speak out. tl;dr: rights can’t be blackmailed. From me and science colleagues:
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
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To stop intimidation, Eisgruber needs your help
When targeting one institution is a bald attempt to divide and conquer, as is the case with Columbia, it is essential for a coalition or group of institutions and individuals to stand up together.&nbs...
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/03/princeton-opinion-opguest-academic-freedom-trump-education-protest
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Strictly 4 My Navigators
10 months ago
We?!? *glares in
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Anna Gifty
10 months ago
France: Can we get the Statue of Liberty back? Naomi Osaka: Can Haiti Get Its Money Back? EXACTLY NAOMI. EXACTLY.
#blacksky
www.bellanaija.com/2025/03/naom...
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Naomi Osaka Calls for Haiti Reparations from France: “Can Haiti Get Their Money Back?”
Naomi Osaka flips the script on France with one powerful question about reparations:
https://www.bellanaija.com/2025/03/naomi-osaka-haiti-france-reparations/
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
10 months ago
Scientists who are actively against fascism because fascism is bad, not just because sometimes it hurts scientists, are my people
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Lucas C Parra
10 months ago
Large crowd in New York City at Stand Up for Science.
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Will Jones
10 months ago
So much for anticipatory obedience.
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Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants and Contracts to Columbia Univeristy
The White House blamed the university’s failure to protect Jewish students from harassment during protests last year over the war in Gaza.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/nyregion/trump-administration-columbia-grants-cancelled-antisemitism.html
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥
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