@jtkantor.bsky.social it's great to be back! Could you play Will to Power when either Wilyer or Willson is on the scene? ⚾

I donated at a blood drive at BrownU last Weds. Just got the text it has been used. Please donate blood in RI if you can: www.ribc.org

Live updates: Brown names victims in mass shooting Two students were killed and nine others were hospitalized in Saturday's mass shooting.

Thank you Sen. Sheldon @whitehouse.senate.gov. "Ill-informed and unnecessary speculation” about the incident does “no good at all” to the affected families. “All the conspiracy theories, all the creepy, weird plot ideas, please, just knock it off,” he said. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Blood drives available in Providence - Mon, Tue, and Wed - please sign up to give if you are eligible

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.

This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.

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Please follow official updates and only share confirmed updates. This keeps us all safer.

www.brown.edu

American Science, Shattered An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that

I know there's a lot of news but if you can tear yourself away from the CDC vaccine committee today — you should really read this series on how the Trump administration has upended science in just 10 months, from my incredibly talented colleagues:
www.statnews.com/american-sci...

Social/behavioral science research support for PhD students from NSF - now frozen ("archived") as of Nov 2025. This is grim news for research & knowledge economy. On the heels of cuts to other important federal research funding programs (e.g. Fulbright-Hays grants canceled in May 2025). 😡

All set up for @dukepress.bsky.social at #AAA2025 in New Orleans. All books $15! Exhibit opens tomorrow morning at 10. See you there!!

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Apt historical commentary from local vintage shop (Hope St, Providy, RI)

Minute Cryptic - 20 August, 2025
"HARdLY ReMaRKABlE!?" (3,1,3,4)
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I scored: 3 under par
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Appreciate you sir
Have a good night!

Meanwhile my son is asking for Interstellar by Hans Zimmer... 👀

ALoRoWaHAiBA Abbreviated List of Resources on Why and How AI is Bad, Actually Worsening Climate Change, Pollution, Environmental Racism, and Associated Negative Health Consequences On the pollution and health con...

Academic pals: I'm starting a shared doc to collect info on exactly why/how AI is indefensible—specifically in humanities classrooms, but also across the board. Please share/add as you see fit. I plan to lecture from this in the first week; many students don't know.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Dear @jtkantor.bsky.social we would like to request Girls and Boys by Blur tonite 🙏🙏⚾⚾🎹🎹

Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professorship in Anthropology and Gender and Sexuality Studies In May 2008, Louise Lamphere made a generous gift to Brown University to establish the Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professorship in Gender Studies, a recurring two-year position for a junior…

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the Louise Lamphere sex discrimination lawsuit. Lamphere's fight resulted in a large increase in women faculty. In 2008, Lamphere established a professorship in Gender Studies. Read more here: anthropology.brown.edu/louise-lamph.... @brownanthro.bsky.social

Hello! I would be happy to help. You can email me lollardfish at gmail with a draft of a piece and a pitch and I will help you refine it to improve your chances of being published. I mean this. I've helped a few dozen people these last six months.

The growing environmental impact of AI data centers’ energy demands The EPA has reportedly drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. Now, with the rise of artificial int...

If you are embracing AI in your schools, this is what you are agreeing with and contributing to.

Just let us know how to turn it off, sir

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times less accurate than humans.

Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

I just switched over to DuckDuckGo last week too. You can tell it to NEVER give you stupid AI summaries and then it doesn't! Reduces stupidity and also saves water (actual ducks approve) 🦆

Who Is Pope Leo XIV?

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...

My colleague David Kertzer (who knows about popes) quoted in the @nytimes.com: Leo XIII (head of the church from 1878 to 1903) "'called on the church to reach out to the working class [and] to work out an amicable relationship between capital and labor'" @brownanthro.bsky.social

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Opinion | Pope Leo, Peru and Me

🇵🇪 🌭 '“Chicago” and “Chiclayo” almost rhyme' --- Carlos Lozada in @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/o...