The tech industry realized in the 1990s that if you make digitization about “access” everyone will think you mean for “the public” and not for them and well here we are.
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The tech industry realized in the 1990s that if you make digitization about “access” everyone will think you mean for “the public” and not for them and well here we are.
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
Reminder that Thompson Reuters sells several crucial academic + legal research databases! See @sarahlamdan.bsky.social’s Data Cartels!
Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $
Defunding the BBC World Service & shutting it down would be an incredible loss & very shortsighted indeed. The BBC has broadcast for nearly 90 years in foreign languages, battlind disinformation & propaganda globally. Serious journalism is more needed than ever.
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‘You put the top on and your life is sucked out of you’: The fight to change women’s sports uniforms www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/ar...
Somehow not the first time this year that a high-profile star athlete unretiring has put a spotlight on health insurance access.
Venus Williams said explicitly that insurance was a reason why she came back to play at tennis tournaments this summer. youtube.com/shorts/akZ70...
Do you care about the sharp decline in children reading for pleasure in the UK? Here’s your chance to make a difference by responding to the call for evidence (3,000 words max) to the House of Commons Education Committee inquiry. Often the most compelling evidence is not from the « usual suspects »
Every once in a while I revisit @everest.bsky.social’s awesome directory of tiny tools for creative coding. Instant inspiration: pick a random tool and just play around with it.
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British music stars urge Starmer to tackle ‘pernicious’ ticket tout websites
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
I am angry about what's being done to American universities. Stories like this one make me overwhelmingly sad as well www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
A list of the most effective ways an individual can catalyze change at the scale we need to effectively tackle climate change, based on social science.
I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love.
Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!
We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚
This. This is what I needed to see today ❤️
🚨 Wide regional gaps in top grades at A Level 🚨
In 2024, the gap between the region with the highest proportion of top grades and the lowest was 8.8pp (London vs East Midlands).
That gap has now grown to 9.2pp (London vs North East) #ResultsDay2025
Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!
put street trees everywhere you can in a neighborhood, make curb cuts so that their roots can absorb storm water from the street, grow native plants around their base, check back in five years and count how many welfare and health measures have improved
Some AI models have begun offering translation and the teaching of Indigenous languages.
While this can be a positive in the efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages, some acknowledge there could be harms.
Happy to see this essay by Angela Eimannsberger in @publicbooks.bsky.social on what reading means in our online age, reviewing @fpianz.bsky.social's Digital Social Reading www.publicbooks.org/our-golden-a...
The Pentagon just announced a no-bid contract that will be awarded to Palantir for "the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the field of geospatial intelligence."
This means Palantir will have unprecedented access to maps, satellite imagery, GPS data, and more.
Fate of Indigenous items in Hudson's Bay Company massive archival collection uncertain: Heritage Canada has seen list and signed no disclosure, collection potentially going to auction. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/04/c...
Turning online archives into resources for training data not only exploits and devalues the archived works, but also renders these archives literally unusable. Like all extractivist business models, #genAI ultimately threatens to destroy its own foundations. It's not generative, but destructive
Those are amazing shoes!!
A *very* beta version of an app for #tracking the #academic and #scientific #articles you’ve read and want to read.
Totally #free. Would love ANY feedback on how it could be made better!
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Reading the first proposal from a prospective trainee where chatGPT was obviously used. The reason I discovered it is b/c I am cited several times, but none of the papers are real. Ugh. People, please don't do this. 🧪⚒️ #AcademicSky
I’ll be studying neuroscience with a focus on memory and Alzheimer’s disease, especially in underserved communities.
Representation matters—in science and in the people behind it. 🧵 (3/5)
