ChatGPT is reportedly piloting "Study Together," a new feature that reorients the AI from providing direct answers to guiding users through an interactive, question-based learning process. This initiative aims to foster deeper understanding and discourage misuse.
#AcademicSky #MLSky

The second day of a key federal trial is underway. @ngluckman.bsky.social has details from Day 1, in which two professors who hold green cards argued that the government's detention of noncitizen academics who publicly supported Palestine has chilled their own speech. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

For those following the AAUP v. Rubio trial on the chilling effect of ideological deportation, learn more about the history of ideological deportation (and exclusion) in the US in my book "Threat of Dissent," which traces that history from 1798 to Trump 1.0. 🗃️

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Women have always led, fought, ruled—and been written out of the story.

On How to Write the Future, Beth Barany and I talked about women warriors, the myth of the “exceptional woman,” and what happens when we start putting them back in the narrative.🗃️

Listen here: https://tinyurl.com/3yx2m7d3

Dear Americans ‘Make America Good Again’. Stay away from Greatness

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A year ago, I wrote a review of Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts," an account of the US Ambassador to Germany's tenure there in the early-mid 30s.

I shared lessons from the account that feel more relevant now than ever.

Here is a snippet of them:

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Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa.

I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:

Right-wingers are not coming to this platform for any reason other than to be obnoxious trolls to people who just want to be left alone. They are not here for any useful or constructive purpose. They only want to tear down and insult. It’s all they know. It’s how they live.

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

Unlike last week, tomorrow a simple majority in the House could pass the “nonprofit killer” bill, placing all NGOs that campaign for human rights in jeopardy. We need each of our US followers to contact their congressperson and tell them VOTE “NO” ON HR 9495!
cartoonistsrights.org/stop-hr-9495/

🎶 Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but books are still delightful. And since we’ve a fresh pot of tea, let us read, let us read, let us read. 🎶

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

-- Margaret Mead, who died #OTD 1978