Reposted by Dean ShamessBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Ugh. Neither is further institutionalization what metascience needs as a field nor is a centralized metascience that issues science-wide mandates what sciences need. This kind of thing is something I've been strongly against even without an office of metascience at NSF. But I could see it coming. 13815
Reposted by Dean ShamessBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The interventionist, top-down, efficiency-driven approach to science policy depresses me even without that power being abused by an authoritarian government that is deeply scared of science and scientists but is aware of and needs to exploit its rhetorical power in society. 02713
Reposted by Dean ShamessQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st... 381556448
Reposted by Dean ShamessICPSR Summer Program @icpsrsummer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Visit us at booth 316 at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference in Boston September 3-5! The swag is choice, and the exhibitors are nice! 😉 #SumProg #ICPSR #APSA2026 #PoliticalScience #SocialScience 021
Reposted by Dean ShamessZander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 03/09/2026New preprint w/ Jian Gao, @yianyin.bsky.social & @dashunwang.bsky.social. We link campaign finance, faculty rosters, voter files, a ~7,000-scientist survey & bibliometrics to ask if scientists' politics show up in the science that gets made & used. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so... 12513
Reposted by Dean ShamessAngela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Who counts as a scientist, who gets to decide what counts as scientific, and are academics relevant to public engagement? Check out this Metascience symposium on Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project. 1/ @mjacquart.bsky.social @metasciencejournal.bsky.social #philsci #scicomm �link.springer.comBook symposium: Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project (Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart)Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart. 2025. Public engagement with science: defining the project. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This book is the ... 15018
Reposted by Dean ShamessDietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · 21/08/2026“[LLM] use has increased rapidly and is associated with proposals that are less semantically distinctive from recently funded work. At NIH, such proposals are more likely to be funded and to yield more publications.” #AI #scipol #scicomm #trust www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....pnas.orgThe rise of large language models and the direction and impact of US federal research funding | PNASFederal research funding shapes the direction, diversity, and impact of the US scientific enterprise. Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly diff... 032
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 05/08/2026Got an R&R at a good journal on a project that, at various times, has been described internally as “cursed”, “unfathomable disaster” and “definitely still cursed”. I assume by posting this the curse will return / the gods will punish my hubris. So that’s fun! 240
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 29/07/2026Former climbing guide - this is one of the most important and difficult parts of climbing/guiding. There is a deep, inherent tension when climbing becomes a “service” that is 99.99% of the time well handled by clients, it all comes down to safety. The other times are horrible situations for all. 020
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 29/07/2026I dunno man, if I ran a $200bn business that largely sells tshirts, I probably wouldn’t mouth off about destroying democracy and equal rights… but ymmv I guess 🤷♀️ 020
Reposted by Dean ShamessTrevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The portal to Hell has been opened. End Times are near… 0122
Reposted by Dean ShamessJeffrey Lin @jeffrlin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026We develop a spatial competition model to explain spreading out: inventors ("you", below) choose locations in idea space. As the frontier expands and entry costs rise, they spread out — capturing larger territories, raising R&D investment and invention quality even as knowledge spillovers attenuate. 122
Reposted by Dean ShamessCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/20266. On a more serious note, I work a lot in the science of science. The report prominently claims that scientific breakthroughs are far rarer than they used to be, and concludes that this somehow the fault of the funding system. Such claims are egregious misrepresentations of the cited research. 548362
Reposted by Dean ShamessJennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I deleted my earlier estimate after finding an error in the code. The long list (18 pages) of affected goods is equivalent to just under 5% of Canadian goods imported into the US for consumption. That's not nothing, but it's not everything. Source for USTR data: dataweb.usitc.gov/trade/search...dataweb.usitc.govDataWeb 46230
Reposted by Dean ShamessDaniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026“To accommodate the expected funding withdrawal, programme officers…are being required to pull back proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding….[M]any of the researchers who submitted those proposals had already been informed” www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comNSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiativeA proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications. 14028
Reposted by Dean Shamesslauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/07/2026challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today 974765686
Reposted by Dean ShamessBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"The more phil of science I read, and the more familiar I became with different pockets of the metascience community, the more I came to realize how little consensus there is about how to evaluate science. But I don’t blame those who default to thinking the metascientists have figured things out. 14312
Reposted by Dean ShamessBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Yet again www.nber.org/papers/w3535... 38128
Reposted by Dean ShamessBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort. 111042
Reposted by Dean ShamessJaap van Slageren @jvanslageren.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Job opportunity!! Are you interested in studying new politicizations of science? And are you interested in how these politicizations could meaningfully be addressed in university education? Then we are looking for you! 🗓 Application deadline: 27 July 2026 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...uu.nlPhD: Understanding the politization of university knowledge and educationAre you passionate about understanding the growing politicization of science and how to address these topics in university education? 054
Reposted by Dean Shamessnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Just now learning that raccoons are *legally permitted* to go through your trash 7305
Reposted by Dean ShamessElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Even knowing of the existence of Twitch streamers is an unfortunate state of being, to be vulgar enough to 'debate about them' on Bluesky.app takes one from tragedy to farce 0143
Reposted by Dean Shamessjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/06/2026walking is low key my favorite activity 66148334
Reposted by Dean ShamessRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I watched John Wick and I discovered that labour is capital’s dead wife. open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...open.substack.comThings I like about watching John Wick in chronological orderThis does not quite do what it says on the tin but it’s close 7204
Reposted by Dean ShamessMelanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgProgression without progressProgress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t... 1421150
Reposted by Dean ShamessDaniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Canadian scientists: I’m taking a look at how Canadian science and regulation (e.g., food safety, disease control, drug development & assessment, etc) relies on American science and how that’s changing. Please send me stories of how you use/used American science and how that’s changed/changing. 35548
Reposted by Dean ShamessBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right 294886763
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 14/05/2026This isn't dollar for dollar, at all - the comparison has lots of little issues (and some big ones too). But... Canadian Institutes of Health Research 2024 budget: $1.4bn CAD NIH: $47.1bn USD University of Toronto 2024 R&D: $1.5bn CAD John's Hopkins U: $4.1bn USD 020
Reposted by Dean ShamessTimothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Love this image! I need this "isolator machine" for writing my next book. FOCUS UP! Interesting article: Are attention spans really shrinking? What the science says www.nature.com/articles/d41... “...a huge disconnect between what we feel like is happening and what is actually happening." 2414
Reposted by Dean ShamessBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026There are a few more metascientific implications I'd like to highlight. 1. When reporting replicability rates, there are multiple levels of uncertainty that needs to be modeled in a hierarchical way, and metascientific practice flattens all to the lowest level, masking much of it in the process. 13611
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 27/04/2026Certainly overkill in response to me switching to Telus after their customer service was so bad last week… 020
Reposted by Dean ShamessDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026My story on the NSB terminations:nature.comEntire NSF science advisory board fired by Trump administrationMembers of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination. 28058
Reposted by Dean ShamessScience Magazine @science.org · 25/04/2026U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. scim.ag/4cxQWhlscim.agTrump fires NSF's oversight boardDismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence 61999807
Reposted by Dean ShamessCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/04/2026How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”. 121312497
Reposted by Dean ShamessDaniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026My friend, Dan Breznitz, begins talks about innovation by asking “What exactly do we want from innovation?” I follow up with “Who gets to be part of the “we” in that conversation?” Here’s our pal, Tom Goldsmith, offering a good answer to both. 085
Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 16/04/2026You should fill this out, if for no other reason than to try to figure out what your own thoughts here are 111
Reposted by Dean ShamessBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Brief fun survey from Jessica, Andrew & myself: If you are a faculty member, research scientist, postdoc, or senior Ph.D. student in any area of science, please take five minutes and fill it out. We’ll share the results widely along with some reflections. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comEpistemic Virtues for Scientific Inquiry — Community SurveyIn Six Memos for the Next Millenium, Italo Calvino proposed six literary virtues he felt should be preserved and cultivated in literature regardless of how the world changed: lightness, quickness, exa... 65353
Reposted by Dean ShamessMark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/03/2026And posing a good question is hard in basic science not because we don’t know what good questions are (though in emerging fields that can be a constraint), but because a good question is one that can be answered definitively with data that can be realistically obtained. 1266
Reposted by Dean ShamessMark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/03/2026The hardest part of science is posing the right question, not answering it. 424052
Reposted by Dean ShamessBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Last word: History of science exists. Philosophy of science exists. Science and technology studies exist. There is no excuse for writing about science in complete and utter oblivion about vast scholarship that has produced a lot of knowledge and understanding about what science is and how it works. 26712
Reposted by Dean Shamessnilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Huge result here and the CA jury still deliberating. The idea that social platforms are defective products is going to pick up a lot of steam: www.theverge.com/policy/89991...theverge.comMeta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decidesThe jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in penalties. 11620186
Reposted by Dean ShamessFoucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 21/03/2026All the Saxon Musk posting reminds me of one of the all-timers 53672614
Reposted by Dean ShamessShahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Anthropic doing what it does best: hype this as large-scale qualitative study. Qual research is not evaluated by scale but by depth, context, and human interpretation. Stop assuming that “hand-wavey-ness” is a qual problem just because qual work doesn’t look like large-N quantitative analysis. 2216
Reposted by Dean Shamessben @vtben.bsky.social · 06/05/2025What if in 20 years an actor named LeBron B. James comes along and people spend weeks arguing about whether him or Michael B. Jordan made better films 292547556