Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

Episode of @npr.org Code Switch about the student protests and bloody strikes that led to the creation of ethnic studies across the US. I think about this episode all the time, especially when University administrators shut down protests & closed racialized student groups. TW: police violence

Scientists should listen to philosophers more: correlation is not causation. New research shows fMRI signals don’t always match the brain’s true activity levels, overturning a core assumption used in tens of thousands of studies. neurosciencenews.com/fmri-neural-...

Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like. Here’s how to use it.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

"take away Gxxgle's predatory acquisitions they wouldn't have a mobile stack, an ad stack...a server management, they wouldn't have document collaboration, they wouldn't have navigation. They haven't made a successful consumer-facing product in this millenium" Cory Doctorow youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?...

Funny coffeeshop chats: 1) Guy gives his guy friend a book as a gift, "oh cool, now I have a book to read" 2) two elderly ladies making plans for lunch, "I have leftover Chinese at home. Beef and mushrooms. Maybe you can show me how to reanimate the Mexican round things that come with the Chinese."

Chart via @taxfoundation.bsky.social / @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.

NEW: The South Carolina NAACP and three voters with disabilities sued state election officials, arguing that several state laws restricting who can give and receive voting assistance violate Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act. They seek to block the restrictions.

The sound of your uncle's laugh; an ice cream cone you had ten years ago. Why do we hold on to memories like these? Are they more than mere mental clutter? Just one of the topics discussed in our latest episode, w/ @aliboyle.bsky.social & @jomahr.bsky.social! Listen: disi.org/what-is-memo...

5-year (!) postdoc opportunity: Join our Edinburgh team and do fieldwork on the Burun languages! Deadline for application: 17 December. Position starts March 1st, 2025 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Calling all linguists: Join us for an evening with Eve Sweetser who will be talking about viewpoint and multimodal communication! Thursday December 4th at 5pm Central time #Linguistics #CognitiveLinguistics

The Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America inaugural CLANA Speaker Series features Dr. Eve Sweetser presenting, "Viewpoint in Multimodal Communication" this Thurs., Dec. 4 at 3:00PM PT | 6:00PM ET. ASL–English interpretation provided. Register here: tinyurl.com/clana-sweets...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

This random copy shop has a stronger message than the Democratic Party

PBS: “A poll from the journal "Nature" found 75% of researchers are considering leaving 🇺🇸— including a man dubbed the Mozart of Math… a scientific brain drain.” The Trump Effect. The opposite of Making America Great Again. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI. We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods. paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu #VisionScience #NeuroSkyence

There's also noai.duckduckgo.com Been using that as my default search for quite a while now. No downloads required.

NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research. Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪

The intersection of disability justice, civil rights, race, and language are all on display in this disturbing case in Houston. This is like saying, he said is name was "Mike" and we didn't connect him to the missing persons case because it said "Michael." Worst detectives ever or willful ignorance?

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

A reminder that gas-powered leafblowers are nightmare devices that are bad for you, bad for your lawn, and very bad for the environment. They fume and scream and kill the world all so you can messily and ineffectively move leaves around, leaves which are generally supposed to stay where they fell.

Hurray, @npr.org's "Books We Love" end-of-year book coverage is up! An annual joy. Here's the link to the whole thing: apps.npr.org/best-books/#... #Booksky #books #amreading #writerscommuniity

The Regents have always had ultimate power over hiring and curriculum. Previously they were wise enough to take recommendations from experts in the areas involved. We urge the Regents to continue to rely on the considerable expertise of the university’s world class faculty!

After reporting by ProPublica and other publications, the administration is dropping an effort that could have led 830,000 people to lose eligibility for Social Security disability payments.

Remember you can "press reset" any day. You don't have to wait for the new year, or the first of the month, or even a Monday #Rest #Reset

Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...

Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...

Hey linguists, check it out! @lingsocam.bsky.social has virtual registration options for the #LSA2026 meeting: web.cvent.com/event/d45318... 🐦🐦

We need more electrons, Scotty! #TechBroLingo #LawsOfPhysics

A federal court in El Paso ruled that the redistricting backed by Trump and Republicans to reshape the map for the 2026 midterms illegally weakened the voting power of minorities. n.pr/44b30At

Rosemary and salt bagel and a spiced hot apple cider y'all

Elementary, my dear Watson #TidyTuesday While the full phrase is never there (see also "Luke, I am your father" & "Play it again, Sam"), you can find "My dear Watson" multiple times across the Sherlock Holmes novels – but which lines? 🔎📖 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #r4ds #DataViz #ggplot2

I'd guess that 85-90% of American scientists would be ineligible for future funding under this law, maybe close to 100% in the R1 universities. So much for funding proposals based on scientific merit. Apart from being sinophobes, the people pushing this have no clue how science or higher ed works.

NIH grant applicants: October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

"In an interview, Ms. Adams said that she worried her job might be in jeopardy. But she said she was speaking publicly nonetheless because 'I feel this is an important issue to talk about — censorship, stifling of academic freedom and this real overreach through this legislation.'”

“Curriculum is created and approved based on the accepted body of knowledge needed for our students to be successful in their chosen profession,” Mr. Torn said. “It is unacceptable for other material to be taught instead.”

KRUGMAN: “Republicans don’t care about deficits & debt, they care about trying to prevent Democrats from spending money on helping people.” 🎯

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.

This has been their plan for a very long time. "Where did this idea come from that everybody deserves free education, free medical care, free whatever? It comes from Moscow, from Russia. It comes straight out of the pit of hell." -- Houston GOP representative Debbie Riddle, March 2003

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

"Hiring professors with PhDs is meaningless if administrators are the ones deciding what gets taught,” he said. “Faculty will start asking not, ‘Is this accurate?’ but ‘Will this get me in trouble?’ That’s not education, it’s risk management.” #HigherEd

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

One would think if you were retiring you'd have nothing to lose and go out "guns-a-blazin" using every moral fiber of your being to resist the authoritarian takeover of the government. One would think.

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

New episode!! 🎙️🎉 A conversation w/ @erinhecht.bsky.social about the diversity and evolution of canine brains. We've lived and worked with dogs for 15,000+ years, sculpting their brains and bodies along the way. What can we learn from their singular story? Listen: disi.org/of-breeds-an...

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