Dr. Carlie Trott

honestly I don't really mind writing the 15 page research summary (though 10 pages would be better for both writing and reviewing). It is, inter alia, a helpful conduit to plan out a project.

What kills me is the extra week(!) filling in tabs in research.gov, and ...

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The problem is that anyone working towards justice is slowly being labeled a "terrorist."

This is happening in Israel. It's happening in the US. And it's even happening in the UK and Germany.

Don't you all see it?

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Dear US: "All members of the military have the right, and in some cases the duty, to refuse illegal orders. Your oath is to the Constitution (which incorporates internat'l [human rights] treaties ratified by the US...), not to the commander-in-chief or to any other indiv'l in the chain of command."

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

This should be copy/pasted in an email to every service member in your family or circle of friends.

Pass it on.

girightshotline.org/en/military-...

"All members of the military have the right, and in some cases have the duty, to refuse illegal orders. Your oath is to the Constitution (which incorporates international [human rights] treaties ratified by the US...),not to the commander-in-chief or to any other individual in the chain of command."

Fun fact to add: In 1935 German Defense Minister Blomberg - the one who introduced the new oath of loyalty to Hitler renamed the German Defense Ministry… wait for it… the “Ministry of War”.

I started doing this thing where when I read a book I admire I try to find the author’s email & send a quick message saying I appreciated it. No big deal, not trying to be weird, but like: thank you for helping me think something new. It’s hard writing books. It matters when people read them.

Trump just signed a terrifying order classifying anyone challenging his regime or espousing anti-MAGA worldviews as “domestic terrorists.” It directs National Joint Terrorism Task Force, DOJ & Treasury to investigate & prosecute individuals/nonprofits/funders & freeze assets.🧵

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Air pollution Air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills 8.7 million people each year. We homed in on over 9,500 point-sources located in urban areas that expose a disproportionate number of people to PM2.5

This is a super interesting site where you can track the super polluters in your immediate area and how they are affecting your air quality. It's quite sobering.

www.climatetrace.org/airpollution

Fossil fuel companies try to tie environmental campaigners and protesters up in lengthy legal battles to waste their time and money – and scare them away from criticising the rich and powerful

Wonderful from @seanburkeshow.bsky.social

#TimeToResist

It really is this simple. The idea that there’s this deluge of people out there that “want” to be homeless no matter what society would try to do for them is a political myth; ginned up so that we all have more people to hate and we’ll maybe not look more closely at income inequality.

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If I could just summarize 1 sentence from the new National Academy of Sciences study on climate, boldface, flashing red, it would be:

"the evidence for current and future harm to human health and welfare created by human-caused GHGs is beyond scientific dispute."

BEYOND SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE
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Disabled people aren’t “less than”.

It’s not a moral failing.

Most people will experience disability at some point.

It’s a minority group you can join at any time.

We need more accessibility, inclusion, accommodation and compassion.

There’s no social justice without disability justice.

Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

Yeah, I'd appreciate something that digs deeper into direct connections as well. For example, something like this but with tech: share.google/8O939PledM8J...

Some recommendations: More Everything Forever by Adam Becker, the work of Gil Duran, and the Dystopia Now podcast. All very informative and get at the idea of techno optimism and accelerationism.

Hopeful. A 2025 study of 102 autocratization episodes found that "democratic breakdown does not necessarily prevent a return to democracy, especially if autocratization is halted and reversed relatively soon – the average time for turnarounds is about five years after the onset of autocratization."

Done and done. The 9/16 terms of service were outrageous, and it was very easy to delete my account without agreeing to TOS before doing so. Just click outside of the TOS page without clicking Agree. Navigate to My Account, then Delete. And tell them why.

They are literally canceling culture

I'll be deleting my academia dot edu account. The comments here are illuminating. Unapproved AI slop podcasts? Rights to content, voice, likeness, signature, etc.? Uh, nah.

The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind."

Welcome to the World of Obstruction Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Targeted Harassment of Faculty The AAUP has developed a toolkit to address the threat of targeted harassment of faculty.

@aaup.org has prepared materials for faculty who face these threats and harassment. 6/ www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

"Will our travel be restricted? Will our email communications be surveilled? ... To allow universities to be bossed by political operatives ... undermines the basic ideals of the university as well as [its] important links to the future of critical thought, dissent, & democracy.” - Judith Butler