Reposted by Kyle SilerAndy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 27/09/2026Student journalists have been heroes over the past ten years and the fact that we have allowed the world to reach a state where hardly any of them will be able to serve communities as journalists after they graduate is something we should all feel shame about 112943
Reposted by Kyle Silerleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli 5356161273
Reposted by Kyle SilerGordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #MetaScience Article worth reading, & sharing w/ your student researchers. Can't get this out of my head: "Bishop’s law: The better designed a study is, the more likely it is to obtain a null result" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Meimoun & @lakens.bsky.social 310134
Reposted by Kyle SilerDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff. 8390191
Reposted by Kyle SilerQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026>The PR narrative is spiraling out of control and people are freaking out, how do we fix this? >Quick, deploy Sam Altman to reveal he was intimately involved in the entire process and to personally reassure everyone they acted with all the integrity and generosity he’s famous for 2073381
Reposted by Kyle SilerQuentin André @quentinandre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Hilarious stuff from hypocrite-in-chief Bill Ackman, currently bankrolling Francesca Gino, who has *check notes* sued three brave scholars for telling the truth. 511928
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"Honest AI-editing results in a higher sanction risk than humanizer-assisted evasion." arxiv.org/abs/2608.11256arxiv.orgWhy AI Detection Fails for Academic IntegrityInstitutions use commercial AI detectors for academic integrity, yet detectors cannot distinguish AI editing from full LLM drafts and may treat both as misconduct. In a controlled study of published E... 000
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Just got a really weird mass-email from the new Chancellor of Syracuse University. What's especially weird about it, is that I have never had any affiliation with SU whatsoever, beyond a bunch of rejected job applications (I presume that's how they had my email). 110
Reposted by Kyle SilerIn Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 27/08/2026inpreparation.substack.com"We're Like A Family Here," Says PI Who Would Fire His FamilyBOSTON, MA—Describing the close-knit culture of his laboratory, Boston University professor Dr. 0185
Reposted by Kyle SilerStephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”. 282115252172
Reposted by Kyle SilerBrad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States. 301551529
Reposted by Kyle SilerRiley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026brb, adding these figures to my first day of class slides 35012
Reposted by Kyle SilerRetraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 18/08/2026Good satire always nearly indistinguishable from truth. 2429
Reposted by Kyle Silerlowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026this is a dead kennedys album cover 11461731217
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I expect to see Saul Goodman as lead counsel for the State of New Mexico. 000
Reposted by Kyle Silerceej @ceej.online · 16/07/2026gonna start talking like this to my boss 6180841215
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Not only is this sage advice, Obama is also helping CC not become MAGA-coded, through no fault of her own. 26716
Reposted by Kyle SilerSarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.apnews.comWhite House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grantsFederal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV... 1632951213
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Do scientific careers have to be like this? "The prevalence of depressive symptoms was approximately two to three times higher and anxiety symptoms three to five times higher than in age-matched general-population samples." 010
Reposted by Kyle SilerGale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I think we just passed oops. 451173255801
Reposted by Kyle SilerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026If you're hosting an international sporting event, you should be required to actually host all of the competitors. This isn't hard. 723214658
Reposted by Kyle SilerMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao 88122792401
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Fun detail about this article: I didn't notice until it was published, but writing about AI really changed the citation structure of my bibliography. Simply put, most of my references were super-recent. One-quarter came in the first quarter of 2026 alone. Over 50% since 2025. 000
Reposted by Kyle SilerVikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 06/06/2026The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med... 33049761446
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026🤼 Here's something different: I wrote this piece for inquisitive using professional wrestling as a vehicle to discuss issues of honesty and authenticity in academia. While pro wrestling is a fun context, it reveals a number of profound truths. 🧵⬇️ inquisitivemag.org/articles/the...inquisitivemag.orgStepping Through the Ropes — InquisitiveWhat the campy world of professional wrestling can teach academics about truth, performance, and the courage to break character 100
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 01/06/2026New article in @pnas.org: We all know ChatGPT loves to delve, bolster, leverage, encompass, showcase, underscore, et cetera. I analyzed full text of 7.3 million journal articles published 2020-2025, hunting for 228 words that spiked after ChatGPT launched in late 2022. 🧵⬇️ 26935
Reposted by Kyle SilerDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 01/06/2026If you do all this stuff against Liberty University it is actually constitutionally protected free speech in my opinion. 913969451
Reposted by Kyle SilerJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us? 361572290
Reposted by Kyle SilerKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/05/2026BROKE: It's anti-Semitic not to root for the OKC Thunder WOKE: The OKC Thunder must be returned to their ancestral Zionist homeland, in Seattle 472417383
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Glossip is only alive because some incompetent prison official (or alternately, some hero) ordered the wrong lethal injection drugs before a scheduled execution in 2015. Glad to see him go free. 010
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026🧟 New article in Research Policy! What happens to a journal that loses its people but keeps its name? Or, a journal that kept its people, but lost its name? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comSplitting status and substance: The diverging fates of breakaway and zombie journalsMass editorial board resignations from journals are an increasingly widespread phenomenon in academic publishing. Breakaway journals are new journals … 110
Reposted by Kyle SilerTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 11/05/2026Important context to this UCF commencement speaker being booed off the stage is that UCF has six commencement ceremonies and *THIS* is the one they had "AI is great" lady speak to 1446291
Reposted by Kyle SilerSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer. 157192504124
Reposted by Kyle Silersouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno. 172105161862
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 01/05/2026The @financialtimes.com just updated its FT50 journal list, the roster business schools use to evaluate "high quality" research for hiring, tenure, and program rankings. Out: Human Relations, J. of Business Ethics, Organization Studies. In: AOM Annals, Am. Sociological Review, Psych Science. 🧵 100
Reposted by Kyle SilerCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/04/2026If google gave a shit about their users, the top hits for any hotel wouldn't be sketchy intermediary booking sites. It's a perfect example of enshittification.nytimes.comThe Click That Cost $11,000 and Other Travel Pitfalls 1454975
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026@mark-carney.bsky.social This is utterly baffling. You were going to get your majority one way or another. Why would you bring one of the most batshit crazy anti-vaxxer SoCons in Canadian politics into your party? You did not need Gladu, and any respectable political party shouldn't want her. 100
Reposted by Kyle SilerRenee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 06/04/2026In all seriousness this is a huge issue with the subsidized right wing bullshit machine. Articles written by well-funded news “foundations” are syndicated out with no paywalls. This is subsequently rewarded in several ways. 11566109
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Just did my 1st peer review of an AI-generated paper. There was enough formatting/citation weirdness in the manuscript to make me run Opus 4.6 for an academic integrity check. Sure enough, hallucinations everywhere. This is the new normal. 🤦♂️ (I'm also aware of the irony of using AI to catch AI!) 010
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Really cool that the players association negotiated for this! 🏀 020
Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 17/03/2026This might be the best 3 minute political speech I have ever heard. 011