ProfJSG
@profjsg.bsky.social
Professor. Constitution hugger. Worried for democracy.
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New: Periodic identity confirmation checks with video recording to ensure authentic, human feedback in your academic and industry research.
Along with bank-grade ID verification, this ensures participants are who they say they are—not bots, duplicates, or fraud.
#AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity
Along with bank-grade ID verification, this ensures participants are who they say they are—not bots, duplicates, or fraud.
#AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity
September 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
New: Periodic identity confirmation checks with video recording to ensure authentic, human feedback in your academic and industry research.
Along with bank-grade ID verification, this ensures participants are who they say they are—not bots, duplicates, or fraud.
#AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity
Along with bank-grade ID verification, this ensures participants are who they say they are—not bots, duplicates, or fraud.
#AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity
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Anyway.
Today I’m remembering that the EMTs and firefighters who rescued people from Ground Zero and suffered horribly for years afterward only got relief when Jon
Stewart shamed legislators for a solid decade.
May we all be a dog with a bone when it matters.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/911...
Today I’m remembering that the EMTs and firefighters who rescued people from Ground Zero and suffered horribly for years afterward only got relief when Jon
Stewart shamed legislators for a solid decade.
May we all be a dog with a bone when it matters.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/911...
As 9/11 first responders face cuts to health care, Jon Stewart returns to the public eye to fight
Former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart has led the public fight to fund health care costs for ailing 9/11 first responders.
abcnews.go.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Anyway.
Today I’m remembering that the EMTs and firefighters who rescued people from Ground Zero and suffered horribly for years afterward only got relief when Jon
Stewart shamed legislators for a solid decade.
May we all be a dog with a bone when it matters.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/911...
Today I’m remembering that the EMTs and firefighters who rescued people from Ground Zero and suffered horribly for years afterward only got relief when Jon
Stewart shamed legislators for a solid decade.
May we all be a dog with a bone when it matters.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/911...
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I was in NYC on 9/11. I was under the towers, in the subway, between the 1st & 2nd strikes. I watched the them burn from my office rooftop. I was in the ash cloud.
The attack caused a national autoimmune reaction. We've destroyed ourselves over the past 24 years, fighting off a memory of a threat.
The attack caused a national autoimmune reaction. We've destroyed ourselves over the past 24 years, fighting off a memory of a threat.
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I was in NYC on 9/11. I was under the towers, in the subway, between the 1st & 2nd strikes. I watched the them burn from my office rooftop. I was in the ash cloud.
The attack caused a national autoimmune reaction. We've destroyed ourselves over the past 24 years, fighting off a memory of a threat.
The attack caused a national autoimmune reaction. We've destroyed ourselves over the past 24 years, fighting off a memory of a threat.
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Two lockdowns at HBCUs today, and now an “incident” at the DNC HQ. Stay safe out there, my fellow academics, Washingtonians, Americans, and other humans.
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MSN
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September 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Two lockdowns at HBCUs today, and now an “incident” at the DNC HQ. Stay safe out there, my fellow academics, Washingtonians, Americans, and other humans.
www.msn.com/en-us/public...
www.msn.com/en-us/public...
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Can someone please build an AI tool that will read all your social media feeds, filter out the ads and garbage, and repackage it in a custom feed that aggregates content from across these services while providing users full control over how it is all displayed?
September 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Can someone please build an AI tool that will read all your social media feeds, filter out the ads and garbage, and repackage it in a custom feed that aggregates content from across these services while providing users full control over how it is all displayed?
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Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
September 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
Explanations of why something is flagged as misinformation helps!
🔎🔎🔎 New study by Paul Mena shows that adding explanations to #misinformation warning labels significantly reduces credibility of false claims and improves #factcheck recall—making warnings more effective. doi.org/10.1177/1077... @profdimitrova.bsky.social #commsky
Reducing Misinformation Credibility: How Explanations Impact the Effectiveness of Social Media Warning Labels and Fact-Checking Source Recall - Paul Mena, 2025
Social media platforms have been using warning labels to alert users of misinformation. Although research has shown that flagging can be effective in reducing t...
doi.org
September 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Explanations of why something is flagged as misinformation helps!
Who’d a thought?!?!
BBC News - Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
The fast food chain is reassessing its use of the tech after a number of errors were shared widely online.
www.bbc.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Who’d a thought?!?!
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Anthropic is changing its Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy and extending data retention to five years. www.anthropic.com/news/updates...
Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Anthropic is changing its Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy and extending data retention to five years. www.anthropic.com/news/updates...
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This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
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A contractor for the Alabama agency tasked with child welfare was arrested and charged Friday after she allegedly left a 3-year-old boy in a hot car for five hours, resulting in his death, prosecutors said.
Contractor charged after Alabama toddler in state custody died in hot car
A contractor for the Alabama agency tasked with child welfare was charged after allegedly leaving a toddler in a hot car for five hours, resulting in his death.
wapo.st
August 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A contractor for the Alabama agency tasked with child welfare was arrested and charged Friday after she allegedly left a 3-year-old boy in a hot car for five hours, resulting in his death, prosecutors said.
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The Fall 2025 International Student Enrollment Outlook and Economic Impact is bleak to say the least.
New Research shows that the U.S. economy could suffer a loss of $7 billion and 60,000 Jobs. www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-in...
New Research shows that the U.S. economy could suffer a loss of $7 billion and 60,000 Jobs. www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-in...
Fall 2025 International Student Enrollment Outlook and Economic Impact
NAFSA: Association of International Educators is the world's largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education and exchange.
www.nafsa.org
August 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The Fall 2025 International Student Enrollment Outlook and Economic Impact is bleak to say the least.
New Research shows that the U.S. economy could suffer a loss of $7 billion and 60,000 Jobs. www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-in...
New Research shows that the U.S. economy could suffer a loss of $7 billion and 60,000 Jobs. www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-in...
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“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
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Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
July 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Public media has been defunded. Your support keeps journalists on the ground, lifts unheard voices, and connects communities.
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
Help us plan for what’s next. Make a monthly gift today. Stand with public media: n.pr/458sOhq
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"States Investigated Noncitizen Voting. Big Surprise — The Results Don’t Match the Right’s Rhetoric." www.democracydocket.com/analysis/sta...
States Investigated Noncitizen Voting. Big Surprise — The Results Don’t Match the Right’s Rhetoric.
Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.
www.democracydocket.com
July 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"States Investigated Noncitizen Voting. Big Surprise — The Results Don’t Match the Right’s Rhetoric." www.democracydocket.com/analysis/sta...
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Meta ends political ads on their platforms in the EU by October because they don't want to comply with new transparency and targeting regulations.
The reasons given here are really weak. And if you do *not* allow these ads, you still need to define what they are.
about.fb.com/news/2025/07...
The reasons given here are really weak. And if you do *not* allow these ads, you still need to define what they are.
about.fb.com/news/2025/07...
Ending Political, Electoral and Social Issue Advertising in the EU in Response to Incoming European Regulation
From early October 2025, we will no longer allow political, electoral and social issue ads on our platforms in the EU. This is a difficult decision - one
about.fb.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Meta ends political ads on their platforms in the EU by October because they don't want to comply with new transparency and targeting regulations.
The reasons given here are really weak. And if you do *not* allow these ads, you still need to define what they are.
about.fb.com/news/2025/07...
The reasons given here are really weak. And if you do *not* allow these ads, you still need to define what they are.
about.fb.com/news/2025/07...
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Omg I love this so much. Yoga pants ftw
July 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Omg I love this so much. Yoga pants ftw
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I want to take you back in time to any moment, literally any moment, when someone told this guy that.
Not so smart, now, in a “I can’t believe what this loaded gun in my hands just did!” way after all.
Not so smart, now, in a “I can’t believe what this loaded gun in my hands just did!” way after all.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.
Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7
Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7
July 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I want to take you back in time to any moment, literally any moment, when someone told this guy that.
Not so smart, now, in a “I can’t believe what this loaded gun in my hands just did!” way after all.
Not so smart, now, in a “I can’t believe what this loaded gun in my hands just did!” way after all.
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As a reminder, PBS NOVA is one of the coolest science entertainment platforms that we have today!
If you're thinking of unsubscribing from any other streamers today, or if you have the capacity in your wallet, you can sign up to donate a monthly gift to PBS here: donate.kqed.org/secure/kqedpbs
If you're thinking of unsubscribing from any other streamers today, or if you have the capacity in your wallet, you can sign up to donate a monthly gift to PBS here: donate.kqed.org/secure/kqedpbs
July 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
As a reminder, PBS NOVA is one of the coolest science entertainment platforms that we have today!
If you're thinking of unsubscribing from any other streamers today, or if you have the capacity in your wallet, you can sign up to donate a monthly gift to PBS here: donate.kqed.org/secure/kqedpbs
If you're thinking of unsubscribing from any other streamers today, or if you have the capacity in your wallet, you can sign up to donate a monthly gift to PBS here: donate.kqed.org/secure/kqedpbs
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Colbert has the highest ratings of any late night host.
"Financial reasons" my ass. This is political.
"Financial reasons" my ass. This is political.
July 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Colbert has the highest ratings of any late night host.
"Financial reasons" my ass. This is political.
"Financial reasons" my ass. This is political.
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We love you, PBS. "American Masters – Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny premieres nationwide Friday, June 27 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS" youtube.com/watch?v=8aZb...
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny | Official Trailer | American Masters | PBS
YouTube video by American Masters PBS
youtube.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We love you, PBS. "American Masters – Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny premieres nationwide Friday, June 27 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS" youtube.com/watch?v=8aZb...
This is one of my staple shows. Super sad about this.
July 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is one of my staple shows. Super sad about this.