Christina Frangou

As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed

As Trump Administration Plans to Burn Contraceptives, Europeans Are Alarmed www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t…

What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom: Piers Gelly on a Semester-Long Dive into the AI Discourse. lithub.com/what-happene...

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

4kg: the weight of a double standard. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot climbed into history and all we talked about was her body The scrutiny of Ferrand-Prévot’s body and the ongoing double standard in sports

👏 to Anne-Marije Rook at @cyclingweekly.com for calling out the double standard in the coverage of the TDF Femmes this week. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot climbed into history and all we talked about was her body www.cyclingweekly.com/news/4kg-the...

This Is the News From TikTok When young adults use the social-media outlet to keep up with current events, what kind of information are they getting?

When young adults use Tiktok to keep up with current events, what kind of information are they getting? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

MAGA Influencers Don’t Understand What Journalism Is As the Jeffrey Epstein case shows, right-wing internet personalities prefer “just asking questions” to getting answers.

Many people don't understand what journalism is or how it works, as the Jeffrey Epstein case shows. That's a big problem. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Rare aerial imagery shows displacement and destruction in Gaza Airdrop flights offered a vantage over the closed-off Gaza Strip.

Photojournalist Heidi Levine of the @washingtonpost.com captured rare aerial images of Gaza from a Jordanian Air Force aid flight. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

US medical groups fill gap with own vaccine guides amid ‘information crisis’ As official health guidance changes, scientific groups are stepping in with evidence-based recommendations

As science becomes increasingly politicized and federal officials change policies on vaccination, sometimes reportedly overruling their own scientists, independent scientific groups are now stepping into the gap for evidence-based recommendations. My latest:
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Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Last fall, I saw the A++ film For Winter at Banff Mountain Festival. It's about a queer climate scientist who leads a team up 🇨🇦's highest peak to capture a record-setting ice core. National Geographic has now pulled this film. @evaholland.bsky.social with the goods: defector.com/why-did-nati...

Science Is Winning the Tour de France Why today’s competitors far surpass the cheating champions of yesteryear

This is an era of clean(er) cycling. How, then, do today’s competitors far surpass the cheating champions of yesteryear? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals

No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/w...

Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why.

Many lung cancers Are now in nonsmokers. Scientists want to know why. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/w...

If You Think We Have Press Freedom, Try Sharing This Story on Instagram | The Walrus Growing up in Egypt, I knew access to news could be fragile. I didn’t expect to lose it again in Canada

Growing up in Egypt, @mostafaalasar.bsky.social ‬ knew access to news could be fragile. He didn’t expect to lose it again in Canada. But that's what has happened with the Meta news ban. thewalrus.ca/if-you-think...

#CalgaryFlood #CalgaryWeather #YYCFlood #FloodAlert #CalgaryStorm #SevereWeather #yyc TikTok video by Proud Canadian

Hey fellow Calgarians... does anyone recognize this video or the street it's on? Curious because this specific clip of alleged flooding this week has been all over my Tiktok this week and I'm trying to figure out where its from. Help! www.tiktok.com/@proud.canad...

Everyone in Alberta should very concerned about this.

The targeted campaign against @carrietait.bsky.social is a direct attempt to intimidate one of the finest, most diligent reporters in Canada. In doing so, it is an attack on journalism, an accountability mechanism essential for democracy.

Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

Brilliant, frightening piece from Meaghan O'Rourke on what AI is doing to students). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

J. Alaphilippe climbing the last part of the Tourmalet, stuffs a piece of cardboard under his jersey.

Absolute scenes with the demise of the print press; Julian Alaphilippe stole a cardboard sign from a spectator, ripped it up and stuffed part of it under his jersey. Newspapers were so much better. #tdf25 #tdf2025

Like I didn't hate Microsoft Teams enough already.

Great to see another distraction added to to the driving experience.

A sign on a brown door reads "Room 426 - The Narwhal News Society v. Attorney General"

Carol Linnitt, co-founder of The Narwhal, flew to Vancouver in April, took a glass elevator up a glimmering skyscraper and entered a boardroom full of lawyers. There she was grilled, for hours, about details of The Narwhal’s press freedom lawsuit against the RCMP.

Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

When he was 64, Mike Kessler retired from his job in the auto industry because he felt like his brain wasn’t working as it should.

A breakthrough drug could slow Alzheimer’s. Many Canadians won't be able to access it www.thestar.com/life/health-... @cfrangou.bsky.social @thestar.com

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Are Weighted Vests Worth the Hype?

Are Weighted Vests Worth the Hype? So glad to see the NYT taking this on. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/w...

People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug

People With Severe Diabetes Are Cured in Small Trial of New Drug www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...

Kennedy’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines

Kennedy’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/h...

Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training Anthropic didn’t break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books.

I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.

Here’s what’s happening in Trump-land (It’s bad) Canada Healthwatch: Weekly — June 19, 2025

RECOMMEND: @canadahealthwatch.ca has become my must-read for Canadian health news. Today, it's got important updates from Canada—including Alberta's COVID vaccine policies—and the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/canadahe...

Alberta’s Bill 34 attacks the public’s right to know | The Narwhal he UCP plans to further block information from the public with Bill 34, part of a larger remaking of Alberta in the party’s image

Congratulations Alberta! The new restrictions on what information you can get from the government are now official!

Here's some background from earlier in the year. #abpoli

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The fires in/near LA this year made me realize how little people care. I've covered Canada's biggest wildfires and they've stayed on the front page for days, weeks. But people lose interest, which I struggle to understand when people's homes are burning and I'm in the thick of it.

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