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Kyle Siler

@kylesiler.bsky.social
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Academician. Friend of puppies.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 27/09/2026
Student 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
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli
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Gordon 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
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Research 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.
figure shows dramatic cut in research staff
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Canada geese fly East for Winter.
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Quantian @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
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Quentin André @quentinandre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hilarious stuff from hypocrite-in-chief Bill Ackman, currently bankrolling Francesca Gino, who has *check notes* sued three brave scholars for telling the truth.
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Honest AI-editing results in a higher sanction risk than humanizer-assisted evasion." arxiv.org/abs/2608.11256
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Why AI Detection Fails for Academic Integrity
Institutions 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...
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Just 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).
New Syracuse Chancellor marks his territory.
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In Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
inpreparation.substack.com
"We're Like A Family Here," Says PI Who Would Fire His Family
BOSTON, MA—Describing the close-knit culture of his laboratory, Boston University professor Dr.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.
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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
brb, adding these figures to my first day of class slides
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 18/08/2026
Good satire always nearly indistinguishable from truth.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
this is a dead kennedys album cover
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I expect to see Saul Goodman as lead counsel for the State of New Mexico.
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ceej @ceej.online · 16/07/2026
gonna start talking like this to my boss
screenshot where claude is saying "Good catch -- I fabricated that figure."
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Not only is this sage advice, Obama is also helping CC not become MAGA-coded, through no fault of her own.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 22/07/2026
A 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.
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White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal 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...
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Time travel in MDPI journals!
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Student 22 with a very noble C-minus.
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
More smoking guns than a spaghetti western.
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Uncle Phil/Aunt Viv Effect:
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Do 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."
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think we just passed oops.
A timeline of climate change concern.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
If you're hosting an international sporting event, you should be required to actually host all of the competitors. This isn't hard.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Fun 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.
Citations over time.
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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The 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...
Top accounts are all right-wing
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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.org
Stepping Through the Ropes — Inquisitive
What the campy world of professional wrestling can teach academics about truth, performance, and the courage to break character
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New 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. 🧵⬇️
The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
If you do all this stuff against Liberty University it is actually constitutionally protected free speech in my opinion.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
An 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?
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
BROKE: 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
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Glossip 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.
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Western Sahara erasure. 🇪🇭
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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...
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Splitting status and substance: The diverging fates of breakaway and zombie journals
Mass editorial board resignations from journals are an increasingly widespread phenomenon in academic publishing. Breakaway journals are new journals …
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 11/05/2026
Important 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
it's the ceremony with all the arts and letters and communication and film and journalism and creative arts majors
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.
Bugs Bunny giving a monster a manicure, caption: My I'll bet you monsters lead interesting lives.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The @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. 🧵
The Financial Times 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 (journal), Journal of Business Ethics, Organization Studies. 

In: Academy of Management Annals, American Sociological Review, Psychological Science.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/04/2026
If 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.com
The Click That Cost $11,000 and Other Travel Pitfalls
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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.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
In 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.
Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel cofounded the Daily Caller News Foundation for two primary reasons. First, to train, mentor and launch the next generation of reporters, all the while providing full-time salary and benefits. We nurture a group of journalists committed to the guiding principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and pledged to produce trustworthy news reporting. Second, to investigate and tell stories that are overlooked or intentionally ignored due to media bias. Then we push those stories through our licensed media network partners to reach millions of Americans.
We strive to be the most innovative, successful, results-driven training ground for up-and-coming journalists in America through our flagship program, the American Journalism Institute.
We are also one of the most impactful news organizations in the world. We are the go-to newswire service for conservative media outlets wishing to publish the national news. Our goal is to prompt policy changes for the better, hold public officials accountable and educate the public on relevant issues with facts, not opinions.
All content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact Thomas Phippen.
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Just 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!)
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
OpenAI is the new Tesla.
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Really cool that the players association negotiated for this! 🏀
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This might be the best 3 minute political speech I have ever heard.
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Kyle Siler @kylesiler.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A clever - but fiendish - business model.
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