Bella0910
@bella0910.bsky.social
I am interested in current affairs, education, democracy, futurism; gardening, cooking, reading & writing, working out🫶👩🍳🧘♀️🎧📃📔
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Global plastic pollution will hit 280 million metric tons per year by 2040, or a dump truck’s worth every second.
The world’s plastic glut is set to get much worse by 2040, study finds
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December 3, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Global plastic pollution will hit 280 million metric tons per year by 2040, or a dump truck’s worth every second.
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As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bills. ncnewsline.com/2025/12/01/r... via @stateline.org #AI
AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care • NC Newsline
As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bil...
ncnewsline.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bills. ncnewsline.com/2025/12/01/r... via @stateline.org #AI
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"A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults."
Just one week off social media can improve young adults' mental health, study finds
A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults."
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Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
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New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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America’s economic boom rides on seven giant stocks and the spending of its wealthiest households. If those shares slip, confidence, jobs, and growth could fall fast, leaving the economy balanced on a thin edge.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
November 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
America’s economic boom rides on seven giant stocks and the spending of its wealthiest households. If those shares slip, confidence, jobs, and growth could fall fast, leaving the economy balanced on a thin edge.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
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Background reading #3: Read the AI Now Institute's 2025 landscape report: ainowinstitute.org/publications...
Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report - AI Now Institute
In the aftermath of the “AI boom,” this report examines how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies - and the tech oligarchs that run them - power that goes far beyond their d...
ainowinstitute.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Background reading #3: Read the AI Now Institute's 2025 landscape report: ainowinstitute.org/publications...
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New podcast! I discussed whether the AI investment boom is an unsustainable bubble and how a potential crash could reshape policy and public sentiment with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.
What Are the Implications if the AI Boom Turns to Bust? | TechPolicy.Press
A conversation with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.
www.techpolicy.press
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
New podcast! I discussed whether the AI investment boom is an unsustainable bubble and how a potential crash could reshape policy and public sentiment with Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research's Ryan Cummings, AI Now Institute's Sarah West, and Blood in the Machine's Brian Merchant.
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Racial categories have been included on every U.S. census since the first one in 1790. But they have changed from decade to decade, reflecting changing politics and public attitudes. Here’s an overview of how the U.S. census has measured race, from 1790 to the present.
The changing categories the U.S. census has used to measure race
Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.
www.pewresearch.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Racial categories have been included on every U.S. census since the first one in 1790. But they have changed from decade to decade, reflecting changing politics and public attitudes. Here’s an overview of how the U.S. census has measured race, from 1790 to the present.
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Question for BlueSky mind: who are the great contemporary sociologists? People writing ethnographic studies of the character of daily life in a digital / social media age.
“Each decade we shiftily declare we have buried class and each decade the coffin stands empty.”
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Question for BlueSky mind: who are the great contemporary sociologists? People writing ethnographic studies of the character of daily life in a digital / social media age.
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How can soldiers apply for grants to cover food stamps or child nutrition benefits that were missed because of the government shutdown?
Michael Grinston, CEO of Army Emergency Relief, explains in this video:
Michael Grinston, CEO of Army Emergency Relief, explains in this video:
Head of Army Emergency Relief explains how to receive a grant for missed federal benefits
The CEO of Army Emergency Relief posted a video explaining how soldiers can apply for grants to cover missed food stamps or child nutrition benefits.
www.stripes.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
How can soldiers apply for grants to cover food stamps or child nutrition benefits that were missed because of the government shutdown?
Michael Grinston, CEO of Army Emergency Relief, explains in this video:
Michael Grinston, CEO of Army Emergency Relief, explains in this video:
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Recall last month that more than a dozen colleges and universities received false bomb threats within days of one another. Will this be a repeat of that swatting event, the second or third such coordinated terrorism this school year?
bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bo...
bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bo...
A Rash of Bomb Threats Hit College and University Libraries
At least 15 US colleges and universities received bomb threats targeting the library since Sunday as part of a nationwide swatting event.
bookriot.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Recall last month that more than a dozen colleges and universities received false bomb threats within days of one another. Will this be a repeat of that swatting event, the second or third such coordinated terrorism this school year?
bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bo...
bookriot.com/a-rash-of-bo...
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The latest state of the climate report is called
"a planet on the brink":
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
And most of America has decided that if we just don't talk or think about global warming, it'll go away.
"a planet on the brink":
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
And most of America has decided that if we just don't talk or think about global warming, it'll go away.
November 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The latest state of the climate report is called
"a planet on the brink":
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
And most of America has decided that if we just don't talk or think about global warming, it'll go away.
"a planet on the brink":
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
And most of America has decided that if we just don't talk or think about global warming, it'll go away.
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The official installation of a new chancellor happens only a few times in a generation. Today, Kevin Howell will be installed as NC State’s 15th chancellor, formally putting him in the position he began on May 5.
Watch the livestream at 11 a.m. ➡️ http://ncst.at/qYwI50XklBI #NCStateChancellor
Watch the livestream at 11 a.m. ➡️ http://ncst.at/qYwI50XklBI #NCStateChancellor
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The official installation of a new chancellor happens only a few times in a generation. Today, Kevin Howell will be installed as NC State’s 15th chancellor, formally putting him in the position he began on May 5.
Watch the livestream at 11 a.m. ➡️ http://ncst.at/qYwI50XklBI #NCStateChancellor
Watch the livestream at 11 a.m. ➡️ http://ncst.at/qYwI50XklBI #NCStateChancellor
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"The government shutdown began Oct. 1. The impact is already being felt at local food banks, where requests for food have spiked as much as 5,000%."
www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/request...
www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/request...
Requests for help up as much as 5,000% at area food pantries as feds go without pay
More than 33,000 federal workers in the Prince William County area are facing their first missed paychecks since the government shutdown began Oct. 1. The impact is already being felt at local food ba...
www.princewilliamtimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"The government shutdown began Oct. 1. The impact is already being felt at local food banks, where requests for food have spiked as much as 5,000%."
www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/request...
www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/request...
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As we reported earlier this month, many food banks are already reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of 94 million pounds of deliveries that were already scheduled: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
October 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
As we reported earlier this month, many food banks are already reeling from the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of 94 million pounds of deliveries that were already scheduled: projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...
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Military families using on-base pharmacies have begun to see their prescriptions out of stock or rationed, and pharmacists are citing the federal government shutdown, according to an organization that advocates for medically fragile military family members.
Advocacy group warns families are facing medication shortages, rationing at on-post pharmacies
A nonprofit that serves military families has heard about pharmacy shortages due to the shutdown at installations across the U.S. and as far as Germany.
www.stripes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Military families using on-base pharmacies have begun to see their prescriptions out of stock or rationed, and pharmacists are citing the federal government shutdown, according to an organization that advocates for medically fragile military family members.
Cause for concern.
This is arguably the world’s best university. Cutting PhDs, which are spearheading research, is genuinely bad for the world.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
October 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Cause for concern.
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🧠 Why some people defend obvious falsehoods
New research finds that some endorse disproven claims as a show of “symbolic strength,” valuing independence over truth, and making fact-checks seem weak.
🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...
#FakeNews #SciComm 🧪
New research finds that some endorse disproven claims as a show of “symbolic strength,” valuing independence over truth, and making fact-checks seem weak.
🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...
#FakeNews #SciComm 🧪
Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength
Conversations around misinformation that assume everyone cares about literal truth may be missing the point.
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
🧠 Why some people defend obvious falsehoods
New research finds that some endorse disproven claims as a show of “symbolic strength,” valuing independence over truth, and making fact-checks seem weak.
🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...
#FakeNews #SciComm 🧪
New research finds that some endorse disproven claims as a show of “symbolic strength,” valuing independence over truth, and making fact-checks seem weak.
🔗 doi.org/10.64628/AAI...
#FakeNews #SciComm 🧪
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The worst thing about this is that the service provider seems to be taking the line that a few citations of non-existent sources is something to shrug off and 'correct' - when clients ought to be treating errors this bad as utterly invalidating a report methodologically and ethically
It contained totally made up book titles and citations, it got the names of judges wrong, it attributed quotes to wrong people 😬 $440k report 🤯
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report
Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The worst thing about this is that the service provider seems to be taking the line that a few citations of non-existent sources is something to shrug off and 'correct' - when clients ought to be treating errors this bad as utterly invalidating a report methodologically and ethically
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15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
October 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
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"Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to a new study that suggests a link between social media use and poorer cognition in teens" in JAMA.
Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows
Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.
www.npr.org
October 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to a new study that suggests a link between social media use and poorer cognition in teens" in JAMA.
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🩺 New AI tool spots skin cancer early
Researchers have created a computer system that identifies melanoma from images with 99% accuracy, helping doctors detect skin cancer sooner and more reliably.
🔗 news.northeastern.edu/2025/10/01/m...
#SciComm #Cancer #AI 🧪
Researchers have created a computer system that identifies melanoma from images with 99% accuracy, helping doctors detect skin cancer sooner and more reliably.
🔗 news.northeastern.edu/2025/10/01/m...
#SciComm #Cancer #AI 🧪
New AI tool can detect melanoma with 99% accuracy
Northeastern researchers developed a melanoma detection framework that outperforms existing models with a 99% accuracy rate.
news.northeastern.edu
October 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
🩺 New AI tool spots skin cancer early
Researchers have created a computer system that identifies melanoma from images with 99% accuracy, helping doctors detect skin cancer sooner and more reliably.
🔗 news.northeastern.edu/2025/10/01/m...
#SciComm #Cancer #AI 🧪
Researchers have created a computer system that identifies melanoma from images with 99% accuracy, helping doctors detect skin cancer sooner and more reliably.
🔗 news.northeastern.edu/2025/10/01/m...
#SciComm #Cancer #AI 🧪
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😴 Sleep and selective memory
Researchers found that when emotion and instruction compete, the brain prioritises what we are told to remember, not what feels emotional. Sleep spindles reflected this selective memory process.
🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
#SciComm #Memory #Sleep 🧪
Researchers found that when emotion and instruction compete, the brain prioritises what we are told to remember, not what feels emotional. Sleep spindles reflected this selective memory process.
🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
#SciComm #Memory #Sleep 🧪
Frontiers | Top-down instruction outweighs emotional salience: nocturnal sleep physiology indicates selective memory consolidation
IntroductionSleep plays a crucial role in memory consolidation, not only stabilizing newly encoded information but also potentially supporting forgetting. Ye...
www.frontiersin.org
October 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
😴 Sleep and selective memory
Researchers found that when emotion and instruction compete, the brain prioritises what we are told to remember, not what feels emotional. Sleep spindles reflected this selective memory process.
🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
#SciComm #Memory #Sleep 🧪
Researchers found that when emotion and instruction compete, the brain prioritises what we are told to remember, not what feels emotional. Sleep spindles reflected this selective memory process.
🔗 www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
#SciComm #Memory #Sleep 🧪
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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🔥 Amazon fires getting worse
The Amazon saw its worst forest disturbance in over 20, mostly from fire-driven degradation. Emissions were 7 times higher than recent years. Brazil and Bolivia were hardest hit.
🔗 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Amazon 🧪
The Amazon saw its worst forest disturbance in over 20, mostly from fire-driven degradation. Emissions were 7 times higher than recent years. Brazil and Bolivia were hardest hit.
🔗 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Amazon 🧪
Extensive fire-driven degradation in 2024 marks worst Amazon forest disturbance in over 2 decades
Abstract. The Amazon rainforest, historically fire-resistant, is experiencing an alarming increase in wildfires due to climate extremes and human activity. The 2023–2024 drought, surpassing previous r...
bg.copernicus.org
October 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
🔥 Amazon fires getting worse
The Amazon saw its worst forest disturbance in over 20, mostly from fire-driven degradation. Emissions were 7 times higher than recent years. Brazil and Bolivia were hardest hit.
🔗 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Amazon 🧪
The Amazon saw its worst forest disturbance in over 20, mostly from fire-driven degradation. Emissions were 7 times higher than recent years. Brazil and Bolivia were hardest hit.
🔗 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Amazon 🧪