Lisa Smith
@thatlisasmith.bsky.social
PhD student, K-12 educator.
Always curious. 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
Always curious. 🇨🇦 🇬🇧
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British music stars urge Starmer to tackle ‘pernicious’ ticket tout websites
British music stars urge Starmer to tackle ‘pernicious’ ticket tout websites
Radiohead, Dua Lipa and Coldplay among dozens of artists calling for cap on resale prices to stop exploitation of fans
Radiohead, Dua Lipa and Coldplay are among dozens of world-renowned artists who have urged Keir Starmer to honour his pledge to tackle “extortionate and pernicious” websites used by ticket touts to exploit music fans.
A group of British artists, who have collectively sold more than half a billion albums, took aim at “secondary ticketing” platforms such as Viagogo and StubHub. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 AM
British music stars urge Starmer to tackle ‘pernicious’ ticket tout websites
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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I am angry about what's being done to American universities. Stories like this one make me overwhelmingly sad as well www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
IU’s Hungarian and Estonian language programs are unique. Now, their futures are unclear
IU is well-known for languages, including some only offered at a handful of schools.
www.idsnews.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I am angry about what's being done to American universities. Stories like this one make me overwhelmingly sad as well www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
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Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!
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I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love.
Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!
We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚
Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!
We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚
January 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I’m a scientist who studies how climate change impacts our lives and the places we love.
Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!
We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚
Most of us are worried, but many feel stuck on what to do. If that's the way you feel, check out this list below!
We can’t fix it alone, but I know we can together. 💚
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🚨 Wide regional gaps in top grades at A Level 🚨
In 2024, the gap between the region with the highest proportion of top grades and the lowest was 8.8pp (London vs East Midlands).
That gap has now grown to 9.2pp (London vs North East) #ResultsDay2025
In 2024, the gap between the region with the highest proportion of top grades and the lowest was 8.8pp (London vs East Midlands).
That gap has now grown to 9.2pp (London vs North East) #ResultsDay2025
Sutton Trust response to Level 3 Results Day 2025 - The Sutton Trust
Our take on this year's results from A Levels and other qualifications.
www.suttontrust.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
🚨 Wide regional gaps in top grades at A Level 🚨
In 2024, the gap between the region with the highest proportion of top grades and the lowest was 8.8pp (London vs East Midlands).
That gap has now grown to 9.2pp (London vs North East) #ResultsDay2025
In 2024, the gap between the region with the highest proportion of top grades and the lowest was 8.8pp (London vs East Midlands).
That gap has now grown to 9.2pp (London vs North East) #ResultsDay2025
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Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
August 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!
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put street trees everywhere you can in a neighborhood, make curb cuts so that their roots can absorb storm water from the street, grow native plants around their base, check back in five years and count how many welfare and health measures have improved
Rule 78: Put Street Trees Almost Everywhere
Street trees do it all, they...
Cut crashes by 45%
Raise home values 9%
Boost retail sales 12%
Clean air, cool streets, absorb stormwater, improve health, and make places more inviting
Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...
Street trees do it all, they...
Cut crashes by 45%
Raise home values 9%
Boost retail sales 12%
Clean air, cool streets, absorb stormwater, improve health, and make places more inviting
Walkable City Rules www.amazon.com/Walkable-Cit...
August 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
put street trees everywhere you can in a neighborhood, make curb cuts so that their roots can absorb storm water from the street, grow native plants around their base, check back in five years and count how many welfare and health measures have improved
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Some AI models have begun offering translation and the teaching of Indigenous languages.
While this can be a positive in the efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages, some acknowledge there could be harms.
While this can be a positive in the efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages, some acknowledge there could be harms.
Language experts praise AI, but offer warnings as well
Experts speaking at a conference in Ottawa say AI offers many advantages for learning a language but comes with pitfalls.
www.aptnnews.ca
August 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Some AI models have begun offering translation and the teaching of Indigenous languages.
While this can be a positive in the efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages, some acknowledge there could be harms.
While this can be a positive in the efforts to revitalize Indigenous languages, some acknowledge there could be harms.
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Happy to see this essay by Angela Eimannsberger in @publicbooks.bsky.social on what reading means in our online age, reviewing @fpianz.bsky.social's Digital Social Reading www.publicbooks.org/our-golden-a...
Our Golden Age of Reading (Online) - Public Books
There is an urgent need for new, more affirmative ways to participate in culture, especially against the ongoing systematic whiteness of publishing and the exclusivity of elite institutions.
www.publicbooks.org
August 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Happy to see this essay by Angela Eimannsberger in @publicbooks.bsky.social on what reading means in our online age, reviewing @fpianz.bsky.social's Digital Social Reading www.publicbooks.org/our-golden-a...
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The Pentagon just announced a no-bid contract that will be awarded to Palantir for "the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the field of geospatial intelligence."
This means Palantir will have unprecedented access to maps, satellite imagery, GPS data, and more.
This means Palantir will have unprecedented access to maps, satellite imagery, GPS data, and more.
July 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The Pentagon just announced a no-bid contract that will be awarded to Palantir for "the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the field of geospatial intelligence."
This means Palantir will have unprecedented access to maps, satellite imagery, GPS data, and more.
This means Palantir will have unprecedented access to maps, satellite imagery, GPS data, and more.
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Fate of Indigenous items in Hudson's Bay Company massive archival collection uncertain: Heritage Canada has seen list and signed no disclosure, collection potentially going to auction. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/04/c...
As North America’s oldest company faces bankruptcy, the sale of its collection raises fears among Indigenous communities
Little is known about the vast collection of art and artefacts the Hudson’s Bay Company amassed from its founding in 1670, but experts believe it includes many important pieces of Canada’s First Natio...
www.theartnewspaper.com
July 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Fate of Indigenous items in Hudson's Bay Company massive archival collection uncertain: Heritage Canada has seen list and signed no disclosure, collection potentially going to auction. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/07/04/c...
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Turning online archives into resources for training data not only exploits and devalues the archived works, but also renders these archives literally unusable. Like all extractivist business models, #genAI ultimately threatens to destroy its own foundations. It's not generative, but destructive
Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
June 27, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Turning online archives into resources for training data not only exploits and devalues the archived works, but also renders these archives literally unusable. Like all extractivist business models, #genAI ultimately threatens to destroy its own foundations. It's not generative, but destructive
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A *very* beta version of an app for #tracking the #academic and #scientific #articles you’ve read and want to read.
Totally #free. Would love ANY feedback on how it could be made better!
Totally #free. Would love ANY feedback on how it could be made better!
April 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A *very* beta version of an app for #tracking the #academic and #scientific #articles you’ve read and want to read.
Totally #free. Would love ANY feedback on how it could be made better!
Totally #free. Would love ANY feedback on how it could be made better!
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Reading the first proposal from a prospective trainee where chatGPT was obviously used. The reason I discovered it is b/c I am cited several times, but none of the papers are real. Ugh. People, please don't do this. 🧪⚒️ #AcademicSky
April 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Reading the first proposal from a prospective trainee where chatGPT was obviously used. The reason I discovered it is b/c I am cited several times, but none of the papers are real. Ugh. People, please don't do this. 🧪⚒️ #AcademicSky
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I’ll be studying neuroscience with a focus on memory and Alzheimer’s disease, especially in underserved communities.
Representation matters—in science and in the people behind it. 🧵 (3/5)
Representation matters—in science and in the people behind it. 🧵 (3/5)
April 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I’ll be studying neuroscience with a focus on memory and Alzheimer’s disease, especially in underserved communities.
Representation matters—in science and in the people behind it. 🧵 (3/5)
Representation matters—in science and in the people behind it. 🧵 (3/5)
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My library is building a youth-focused makerspace for STEAM programs & open use in our most economically challenged community, where kids don’t have access to tech tools and project materials at home. It’s partly funded by an IMLS grant, of which we’ve already spent half & not yet been reimbursed.
April 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My library is building a youth-focused makerspace for STEAM programs & open use in our most economically challenged community, where kids don’t have access to tech tools and project materials at home. It’s partly funded by an IMLS grant, of which we’ve already spent half & not yet been reimbursed.
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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It is imperative that grantees who have been affected by the terminations reach out to their Members of Congress directly. We can help you make this contact. Fill out this form to let NHA know about the termination & get contact info for the appropriate staffers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Notify NHA about grant terminations!
docs.google.com
April 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It is imperative that grantees who have been affected by the terminations reach out to their Members of Congress directly. We can help you make this contact. Fill out this form to let NHA know about the termination & get contact info for the appropriate staffers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Done arguing over why, yes, audiobooks are, indeed, books & therefore count as reading. But if you must, here's @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social (whose The Anthropocene Reviewed I LOVED on audio!) laying it out perfectly. #booksky m.youtube.com/watch?v=80SC...
Do Audiobooks Count As Reading?
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
m.youtube.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Done arguing over why, yes, audiobooks are, indeed, books & therefore count as reading. But if you must, here's @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social (whose The Anthropocene Reviewed I LOVED on audio!) laying it out perfectly. #booksky m.youtube.com/watch?v=80SC...
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University cuts threaten ‘complete loss’ of some research fields.
Campaign for Science and Engineering raises alarm over lack of oversight as universities cut back.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Campaign for Science and Engineering raises alarm over lack of oversight as universities cut back.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
March 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
University cuts threaten ‘complete loss’ of some research fields.
Campaign for Science and Engineering raises alarm over lack of oversight as universities cut back.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Campaign for Science and Engineering raises alarm over lack of oversight as universities cut back.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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83% of UCU 'members who took part in a ballot said that they were prepared to walk out over Cardiff’s plans to axe 400 full-time equivalent academic roles and close programmes in ancient history, modern languages and translation, music, nursing, and religion and theology.'
Cardiff staff vote to strike as axe hangs over 400 academic jobs
Welsh university faces mounting criticism over job cuts and course closures
www.timeshighereducation.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
83% of UCU 'members who took part in a ballot said that they were prepared to walk out over Cardiff’s plans to axe 400 full-time equivalent academic roles and close programmes in ancient history, modern languages and translation, music, nursing, and religion and theology.'
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Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, I’d highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (open access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...)
Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the
direct.mit.edu
March 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, I’d highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (open access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...)