Aimee Knupsky, PhD

A #birddivination for today. The set of 100 is out Tuesday! (The day after my birthday – I begged to move it, so it can be a birthday gift to the world, but learned that by some absurd convention pub dates are always Tuesdays.) Find the book of cards (and see more of them) at almanacofbirds.org

You think cooling data centers takes a lot of water? Try and cool a thermal power plant.

As “serious” people talk about the energy demands of A.I. and how it could be powered by fossil gas (@cmu.edu) let’s keep in mind the water demands of thermal power, which consumes about 50% of water resources.

Oh my god

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International Resistance To AI In Education Marked In Open Letter Some educators are pushing back against the “inevitable” technology, and open letters are becoming one tool of the resistance.

“But some educators are pushing back against the “inevitable” technology, and open letters are becoming one tool of the resistance. (…) In the Netherlands, over 900 educators have signed a letter entitled “Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia.”
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To Live and Die in Gaza Stories from my friends still trying to survive.

I wrote this two months ago, and was not online for the last few weeks, hoping and praying for absolution.

Meanwhile, Gaza has descended into mass, chronic starvation. conversationalist.org/2025/05/29/g...

I believe this with all my heart.

Columbia University disciplines at least 70 students who took part in campus protests The crackdown ranges from probation to degree revocations and expulsions.

"Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a student group advocating for the university to divest its ties to Israel, stated that nearly 80 students were informed on Monday afternoon that they would be suspended for one to three years or expelled for participating in the May protest."

OMG, yes. 😭

"Not great, Bob, I'll tell you that much for free."

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In the spirit of "we do what we can," spent all day creating a Friends of the Library digital directory from 10 different versions of paper lists with various kinds of contact information from across the past 10 years.

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

Agree completely. Especially if a lot of life has been lived in between. The reread is never just a repeat. It's a moment to reflect on change and growth. A new moment of discovery.

We Do What We Can Where We Choose to Look Affects What We See

So powerful.
"My emotions feel like bubbles blown into a rapidly rotating fan these days. I am trying to listen to my little life in these moments of storm and upheaval in my country. I need this bench in front of church with an invitation to pause. Let me tell you what I see."

My GenX brain completed the rest of the sentence as "end of the world as we know it."

Wonder tales in the twenty-first century do not look nostalgically back to the past but ask questions, enact relationships, and build hope based on ways of being and knowing that are too often either dismissed or violently crushed."

Brown, black, white tabby looking directly at camera with white paw stretched in front of a green book. Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the 21st Century.

"Wonder tales cultivate our capacity to be humble and act humbly; as such, wonder is both the trigger and the product of transformation, ours and the world's.

Disabled veteran who is a US citizen was taken during Camarillo immigration raid, family says Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.

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Book lays, cover up, on tan leather footstool. Transformations by Anne Sexton. The cover has an illustration of old woman and a crow peaking through a hole.

"The speaker in this case
is a middle-aged witch, me--
tangled on my two great arms,
my face in a book
and my mouth wide,
ready to tell you a story or two."
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Misinformation lends itself to social contagion – here’s how to recognize and combat it Mass psychogenic illness has happened throughout history, but social media makes it more likely to spread.

Pre-bunking, a method akin to vaccination, trains people to spot and resist misinformation.

A behavioral scientist explains why group-based approaches may be key to maintaining resistance over time: theconversation.com/misinformati...

Canceled grants get the spotlight at a Capitol Hill 'science fair' On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.

On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.

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Screenshot of the audiobook cover for The Alewives by Elizabeth Andersen Blue background with brassy illustration of a pitcher and two frothing mugs.

"That anyone could feel happiness during the great pestilence and the years beyond was an indication that human kind had either a remarkable resilience or an inability to comprehend the desperateness of their lives."
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I would recommend reading How Emotions Are Made and doing a deep dive with Lisa Feldman Barrett and colleagues. I don't know if this would answer your direct, computational question, but would give good context for a strong cog psych model of emotion.

the audacity. the avarice. the entitled. FATWO

No one scrunches their sleeves three inches above their elbow crease. Awkward and uncomfortable. They don't fit up there.

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

Our goal this summer is to train a million Americans in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. This is how we slow down, stop, and ultimately defeat Trump’s authoritarian takeover. You’re invited to join us — and lead.