Janet Frick

This was a great conversation, thank you! Going to check out your pod

Neuroscientist resigns from Columbia amid revelations about Epstein ties Nobel laureate Richard Axel announced resignation as co-director of Columbia University’s neuroscience institute

And another one bites the dust.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

a woman holding a plate of food with the words you just fold it in Alt: a woman holding a plate of food with the words you just fold it in (meme from schitts creek tv show)

Having a very Gen Alpha moment in my lab this morning as two undergrads figure out together how to create a folder in Google Drive. “Wait, what do you mean, right click? Is that like two fingers? Oh my gosh!” 😂

The same one where Mecca is permitted in a game that allegedly doesn’t allow proper nouns. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (rules? What rules?)

Oh for heavens sake. Ooof.

Photo of Brian kemp and his wife signing legislation about human trafficking. They have seemingly been silent about the Epstein files.

Georgia gov Brian Kemp and his wife Marty campaigned on stopping child trafficking. Kemp has signed several pieces of legislation and Marty has also worked on it for ~10 years. Has anyone seen either of them comment about the Epstein files? @bluestein.bsky.social ? Maybe I missed something?

This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.

This was a super interesting (and disconcerting) discussion. Surveillance cameras have been a big conversation topic at UGA / in Athens since a particular high profile murder last year.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

This is insane. Brooks says everyone is too blinded by ideology to see the truth of what the video shows. Then the host asks him what it shows and he refuses to answer.

“Left and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

Beautiful, thank you!

I’ve never regretting nuking my account there.

Great ideas on both. I’ve been doing oral presentations in my smaller classes but it takes a lot of class time.

I’m a big podcast listener and just came across this one: great conversation and @americancampus.bsky.social is now jumping up in my queue

Raise your hand if you’re doing more in-class writing and activities on paper and the whiteboard.

Minnesota Can & Must Prosecute the Unnamed ICE Agent Who Murdered Renee Good | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon

You're going to hear a lot of lies about what the law allows after the Trump Regime's murder of Renee Good.

States can prosecute federal officers, they've been doing it since the 1800s. Trump cannot stop it and cannot pardon it.

Here's the legal analysis

www.patreon.com/posts/147687...

This is the technology our schools are encouraging our children to use.

ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. O...

“What the driver was or wasn't doing with her vehicle is irrelevant; so are the ICE agent's feelings about it. The agents never had to be clustered around the woman's vehicle in the first place. They never had to try to extract her from it.“

I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice

One of several reasons that I require students to turn in the actual PDF of the study they are reading /citing with most of my upper level writing assignments. Relatedly, so discouraged today to learn that folks are using AI to grade student papers. Seems unethical to feed LLMs with student work!

Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption

Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy

I had a student protest a grade in a class and allege religious discrimination in the process, and that earned an automatic bump to an EOO office investigation. I was cleared, and it didn’t become national news, but it was still super stressful. Departments & grad coordinators need to have plans.

Also, I'm sending flowers and candy to all the schools who maybe have one rating item and just say "upload your damn letter", and a lump of coal to portals with the ridiculous "please rate the student on these 29 attributes, using this 7 point scale in a drop-down menu."

I have submitted ALLLLLL the letters of recommendation due on Dec 1 with a full 42 minutes to spare. Please clap. (This is after the batch due mid-October, Nov 1, and mid-November). A few weeks of rec letter peace now arrive, just in time for grading hell! :)

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.

Psych professor here, and yes it is obvious that the essay was not responsive to the prompt. Not because of the viewpoints shared (as Mel stated) but because it does not engage with the substance of the original article. Nothing in her essay indicates she understands the original paper.

Blue Sky censored one of the most important writers of our times, and they owe her an apology. In the meantime …

Glad to see @sarahkendzior.bsky.social back. But READ her Thread.