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A small crowd of pro-science advocates turned out on a cold and windy morning for the Stand Up for Science rally at the Capitol, part of a nationwide network of rallies. | Alex Gatley reports:
I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.
www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...
College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.
The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.
Link to the full resolution below.
Deadline reminder: Submissions for the Journal of Value Inquiry Prize are due tomorrow, March 5. The JVI Prize is awarded for the best unpublished, article-length work in philosophy by a non-academically affiliated philosopher. Please share! www.apaonline.org/jvi
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Okay SOTU counter-programming in the form of Sneakers plot holes:
Bishop could stay underground for 25 years but couldn’t check if the NSA had San Francisco offices?
I'm hiring a postdoc at @cmu.edu (w/ far.ai & @dgrand.bsky.social + @gordpennycook.bsky.social)!
How do LLMs shape human beliefs — and what do we do about it? AI safety meets behavioral science.
Open to technical and social science backgrounds.
Sometimes industry rhetoric involves dehumanizing people.
Other times it involves humanizing AI.
It’s important to recognize how both of these moves work together to serve industry goals.
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Now THAT's a headline.
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...
Any movie recommendations? My spouse and I are out of the loop. Preference for action/fun. Nothing too emotionally draining.
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
The map for No Kings Day just went live with nearly 600 peaceful protests planned across all 50 states (including our flagship event in the Twin Cities).
Find your local protest or start a new No Kings event if there’s currently nothing planned near you: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
“Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust.”
—Audre Lorde 🌸🌸🌸
❤️🖤💚
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
📚 Reading Women in Cognitive Science 📚
“Recommendations for readings are welcome, especially in the history of cognitive science (prior to 1950s, and the older the better).”
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/15/%...
"[P]ro Philosopher 2 can bring memorable entertainment while also being a very nice (and needed) first dip into political philosophy."
Dídac Jiménez-Torras digs into Pro Philosopher 2, a game that lets you explore some of the most famous philosophical arguments:
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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🚨 Our book Environmental Sociology Now is available for preorder.
You can order through UC Press now and get 30% off the book with code UCPSAVE30. Instructors will also be able to request an exam copy of the book beginning in early January.
www.ucpress.edu/books/enviro...
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Fun thread ⬇️
Spent my Sunday afternoon writing scholarship recommendation letters for 3 stellar students. I hope they’re all successful!
More from the annals of 'no one asked for this' ~
SpaceX adding a *million* satellites & data centers to orbit means seeing oligarchs' mess even in the heavens
That's a 6800% increase in #astronomy (& beauty) -killing space junk from today's < 15,000 satellites
Public comment period is open:
AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.
Hoooooly crap. The Chronicle article is paywalled, but here’s the executive order: www.sos.ok.gov/documents/ex...
"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
Job posting: Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs @ Smithsonian American Women's History Museum. Closing date: 02/18/2026; Salary GS14 $143,913- $187,093/yr Onsite, Washington, DC
Role leads and supervises the Museum's historical research, collections, and archives functions.
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
