Reposted by Andrea StoccoCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/09/2026Today, with backing from the ACLU, Kelton and twelve other named researchers filed a class action suit against the NIH under director Jay Bhattacharya for censoring their research and violating their First Amendment rights.aclu.orgResearchers Challenge NIH Screening of Grants for Disfavored Viewpoints | American Civil Liberties UnionClass action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research 4692143
Reposted by Andrea StoccoCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind. 19876134
Reposted by Andrea StoccoMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 484297707659
Reposted by Andrea StoccoMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel. 21432713
Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 13/09/2026This is a horrible, cruel, dumb decision. Higher ed is one of the US biggest exports; this will suffocate it. And it will deprive the country of many talents. And crush the dreams and hopes of many foreign students. 061
Reposted by Andrea StoccoDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I want you to know I resigned today after 3 years with ALIEN (Archaeologists Laughing, Imminent Extinction Now). I'm tired of the coverup. For years we've known the truth about intelligent beings who lived here 12,000 years ago and seeded all civilizations. Now, they will come back to kill us all. 825628
Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 13/09/2026I just knew that you, of all people, would be the one to finally blow the whistle!!! 150
Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 12/09/2026I mean, for an Italian kid like me, a Studebaker Commander (did I get it right?) was the type of stuff that existed only in American movies :-) Pure style! 110
Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 12/09/2026Dang 😱. Your pictures and your cars beat any classic Hollywood production. 100
Reposted by Andrea StoccoCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/09/2026"...solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of AI may turn the tool against the primary goal." 231788
Reposted by Andrea StoccoTerence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 422052926
Reposted by Andrea StoccoIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Maybe useful for some people to know: Being a well-funded lab does not —necessarily — mean the lab is doing good research. I have seen several examples where the two seem fully dissociated. 2316
Reposted by Andrea StoccoJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I stand firmly by my assertion that metascientists should have seen this capture of science coming, but there is no reasonable way they can reasonably delude themselves into thinking the new nsf announcements are anything other than epistemic capture. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgScience’s reform movement should have seen Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ coming, critics sayEfforts to improve the rigor of research may have unwittingly handed the administration a way to attack science 29038
Reposted by Andrea StoccoAnnika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If politicians really cared about safety in youth sports, they'd be focused on preventing traumatic brain injuries and eating disorders. Not keeping trans kids from playing. 1266
Reposted by Andrea StoccoKianté @kiante.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A few years ago at MathPsych @singmann.bsky.social and I spoke about making an update. Well here it is new rtdists live on CRAN! 0156
Reposted by Andrea StoccoC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026One of my favorites of the year! It's on VOD in the US and coming to theaters around the world. Weird and wild, Boots never disappoints. 1012315
Reposted by Andrea StoccoBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026theonion.comTrump Claims He Was Falling ManWASHINGTON—Saying America could frankly be more grateful for the enduring image he provided, President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he was the previously unidentified Falling Man captured midai... 412021316
Reposted by Andrea StoccoBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026As once-extinct diseases sweep through America, sickening, maiming and killing, the wild lunacy of anti-vax superstition grows ever more difficult to excuse. 1307123
Reposted by Andrea Stoccoe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/09/2026"If most of what he presents here about Musk isn’t particularly new, there is a fearsome power to the way the director brings it all together." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/m...nytimes.comFour-Hour Elon Musk Documentary by Alex Gibney Has Venice PremiereMuch of what Alex Gibney’s documentary presents isn’t new. But in piecing it all together, he wants the viewer to take Musk seriously as a threat to democracy. 520433
Reposted by Andrea StoccoSanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 09/09/2026This is rad and I'm proud of my city for doing it 1253
Reposted by Andrea StoccoStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 07/09/2026The OMB Proposal will stop scientists from fighting against Trump's policies that fuel the climate crisis. We need the proposal permanently revoked. Visit the link to contact your MoC's and tell them to #RevoketheRule: tr.ee/QyLCZm #news #politics #AmericanPolitics #Trump 17640
Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 06/09/2026It's an absolutely unique blend :-) Love Lupin III too, was the most beloved anime of my childhood! 110
Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 06/09/2026OMG you are a fan of Dylan Dog????? 😱 I thought it was unknown outside Italy!!! 110
Reposted by Andrea StoccoChantel Prat PhD @chantelpratphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026According to the Motion Picture Association, the average American spends more than half of their waking hours feeding their brain entertainment. In the newest episode of Brains for Dinner @andreastocco.com and I discuss why brains in different states crave different types of entertainment! 111
Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 02/09/2026This was my favorite #Brains4Dinner episode! We got to geek out about the cognitive neuroscience of what makes us like movies, books, and music, why we like different genres, and what makes good entertainment. And the Star Wars prequels. Oh, and I got dual citizenship! substack.com/@chantelprat...substack.comEpisode 11: Why Brains Crave Different Genres of EntertainmentThe All-American Edition 020
Reposted by Andrea StoccoRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026USPS is reportedly pushing ahead with untested technology to carry out Trump’s attack on mail-in voting. The plan, if it’s allowed to go forward, could completely “derail” the midterms, according to a whistleblower. Trump will stop at nothing to cheat his way to victory.npr.orgWhistleblower claims USPS plan for Trump's mail voting order could 'derail' midtermsA whistleblower says the U.S. Postal Service is rushing out an online system for President Trump's push to restrict mail 13121931012
Reposted by Andrea StoccoRoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 01/09/2026A 76-year-old man holding permanent US residency and grappling with stage four prostate cancer is reportedly being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention in Tacoma, Washington. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comICE holds man with stage 4 cancer in detention despite permanent US residencyICE spokesperson says Loreto Javar failed to disclose criminal conviction in Philippines when he applied for visa 12824221267
Reposted by Andrea StoccoKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Part 1 of a 3-part strategy. First, delegitimize real polls (that show Trump and his party struggling). Second, promote fake polls (that show the opposite). Third, deny election results they don’t like using fake polls as the “evidence” of election malfeasance. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...brennancenter.orgHow Polls Can Help or Hurt DemocracyAttacks on legitimate polls and the rise of fake polls make it hard for voters to know what to believe. 17621225
Andrea Stocco @andreastocco.com · 30/08/2026I read that article last week and I was thinking of you! It's so strange to think that such a dark underbelly lives within a collage town. And it's strange to think it is not far from where I live... 110
Reposted by Andrea StoccoWashington State Democrats @wadems.org · 29/08/2026ICE is now targeting folks at Sea-Tac Airport. Including those with no criminal records, who have built lives, received work permits, and waited years for their application. Trump is now using domestic flight info to track, detain, and send them to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.seattletimes.com‘It’s very unprecedented’: ICE targets certain immigrants at Sea-Tac AirportU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is targeting immigrants at Sea-Tac International Airport, including asylum seekers and green card applicants married to U.S. citizens. 21460344
Reposted by Andrea Stoccosamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 28/08/2026this is probably the first line of research I've undertaken that I got into purely bc of personal experience with a psychological phenomenon I'm v grateful to have received Marsden funding to do this. it almost certainly would not be funded under NZ's new, fully anti-science science funding schemes 33712
Reposted by Andrea StoccoJennifer L. Hoffman ✨😷 @astroprofhoff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026That red glow is sunlight, filtering through the Earth’s atmosphere and getting redirected to hit the Moon’s surface. A lovely visual treat created by the gravitational dance of the three celestial bodies. 😍 07912
Reposted by Andrea StoccoCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/08/2026When I think of all the amazing scientists that have lost their jobs here in the states because of Trump/Vought/Musk/RFK Jr/the GOP, it makes my blood boil to see the US interfering in a single overseas postdoctoral appointment matter to advance a white supremacist agenda. 430452
Reposted by Andrea StoccoCarrie McDonough @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026triblive.comCarnegie Mellon faculty form advocacy group amid increasing pressures in higher educationMore than 40 Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have formed an advocacy chapter, an effort they say gives them more teeth to respond to university decisions during a time of increasing pressur... 062
Reposted by Andrea StoccoKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...nytimes.comWashington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen AttiahAn arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing. 1194326356224
Reposted by Andrea StoccoBoze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton rose from poverty to stardom. She gave $500 to every student in her hometown who finished high school; she built hospitals & bald eagle preserves; her Imagination Library has gifted 300 million books to children. Roger Ebert met her and came away thinking she was a literal angel. RIP. 40117983397
Reposted by Andrea StoccoGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.” 244360995
Reposted by Andrea StoccoColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Good morning. This is fascism. This is the US Govt creating thought crimes. It’s not about who they are arresting today, it’s about how this vague and threatening pursuit will be used against dissenters. ✨EVERY✨ fascist govt to date, has taken this step. www.state.gov/releases/off...state.govRemarks at the Opening of the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism - United States Department of StateDEPUTY SECRETARY LANDAU: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the State Department. It’s an honor and a privilege to have you here. For those of us who grew up in the 1970s, the topic that ... 391329613
Reposted by Andrea StoccoPaul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 24/08/2026Bouie is 100% correct here. The goal for Democrats should be to grind the Trump administration to a halt and prompt Trump officials to abandon their posts in humiliation and despair. 201365247
Reposted by Andrea StoccoSam @samd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason 2364887897