Reposted by Lisa FazioLily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 6hMy new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy. 9314105
Reposted by Lisa Fazioanthropomo @anthropomo.bsky.social · 12hReplacing assistant with gemini is like taking away someone's screwdriver and replacing it with a swiss army knife... with no screwdriver. You weren't using it for screws, right? You wanted to open bottles and cut stuff this whole time, right? 0234
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 13hIn the vein of AI making everything better 🙄 today google discontinued their google assistant that we used to verbally add things to a grocery list. Instead you now have to use Gemini which cannot complete the same task. Anyone have a good android list app that allows you to add things by speaking? 98825
Reposted by Lisa FazioDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...startribune.comPerry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic... 16740285
Reposted by Lisa FazioRyan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so. 431780393
Reposted by Lisa FazioSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Last night & this morning, the headline isn’t about the top-down decision. It’s about the will of the people of Philadelphia. It’s about what the kids of our city deserve, and the path forward, back to an open public museum. Don’t let people in perceived power dictate the story. The power is ours. 515519
Reposted by Lisa Fazioc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him. 2847131587
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Scholars of colour often described having their objectivity and scientific rigour questioned, including suggestions that their work was below standard or ideologically motivated. White scholars, who also studied racial issues, rarely described receiving such intense scrutiny and doubt" 0123
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The recent paper where a reviewer asked if we were aware of the illusory truth effect because they thought it was relevant to our manipulation (it wasn't - which I know bc I've been publishing on the effect for the last decade) 080
Reposted by Lisa FazioKevin O’Neill @kevingoneill.github.io · 29/09/2026big congrats to my mentor @felipedebrigard.bsky.social for being recognized for his incredible work on memory & forgiveness! also props to his student @gabrielafm.bsky.social who is leading this research and to lab manager @kmiceli.bsky.social 2235
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says - there must be consequences for bald-faced lying. Especially for authorities/elected officials. 050
Reposted by Lisa Faziotal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We often say that humans struggle to produce random sequences… but what if that's not the whole story? In a new paper, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, @samiyousif.bsky.social & I show that context matters (a lot!). When playing strategic games, humans can produce near-random behavior osf.io/preprints/ps... 16926
Reposted by Lisa FazioNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex. 21365257
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sewing cute baby clothes remains a top-notch distraction from the horrors. New ocean-themed romper heading to @shaunambowes.bsky.social's little one. 3130
Reposted by Lisa FazioKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Huh, looks like someone on social media is experiencing hope and joy. Well, I better shit all over that." 843318
Reposted by Lisa FazioJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A great overview of how the Trump admin cultivated fear inside NIH to force compliance, even with harmful, unethical & unlawful orders. Also covers origins of the Bethesda Declaration community. From my friend & co-organizer Dr. Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...psychologicalscience.orgNIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping ReceiptsSylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure. 110856
Reposted by Lisa FazioJason Reifler @jasonreifler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I just want to brag that I have seen the impossible -- someone replying to an academic listserv asking to be removed from said listserv without it turning into a reply-all free for all. Not a single additional reply! There is hope for us yet. 0232
Reposted by Lisa FazioMark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year 36862184
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yet again, the most common harm of AI-image generators is nonconsensual porn (as it's been for the past ~decade). Perhaps unsurprising given the sex cult reporting, this is an obvious problem with clear demonstrated harms and tech companies have put very little effort into solving it. 0175
Reposted by Lisa FazioRyan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One note about this, because I was curious: remarkably, the state-level explanatory power of Google searches for testosterone and Trump vote survives controls for education, income, and rurality. 1126383
Reposted by Lisa FazioAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026one of the fun things about digging up older surveys is that you get a lot of practice with the game of "am I more offended by the underlying question or the choice of scale" 9767
Reposted by Lisa Faziodawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 28/09/2026Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl 603679543
Reposted by Lisa FazioBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The lede is like something a soldier might have written decades after storming Omaha Beach, and having lived long enough to tell his grandchildren about how he somehow survived that fateful day. 832130132
Reposted by Lisa FazioDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"The same employee...pointed to Vanderbilt’s use of funds on new campuses in New York and San Francisco rather than focusing on the established schools the uni already has." One of the reasons that vandy nymag piece was so bad is that it skipped these issues nashvillebanner.com/2026/09/25/v...nashvillebanner.comVanderbilt Divinity School in receivership - Nashville BannerVanderbilt Divinity School has been placed into receivership as university administration looks to restructure operations, reevaluate investment. 27626
Reposted by Lisa FazioKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I used to love Talenti, but this reported feature at Wirecutter explains how the recipes changed over the years, and turned so many fans off: www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...nytimes.comWhat Happened to Talenti?Over the past 20 years, Talenti has changed from a small, independent brand to a piece of a corporate conglomerate. Has that affected its quality? 1813628
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"AI encourages students with endless platitudes, luring the would-be-writer with an illusion of assistance to degrade the inimitable self that makes their writing interesting. AI trains us, more than anything, to parrot the AI voice. I’d rather we teach students how to find their own." 1136
Reposted by Lisa FazioProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.propublica.orgI Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro... 11838911491
Reposted by Lisa FazioSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A good read on the the state of the academy as it stands today. We're in a pivotal moment right now. The academy board must accept the bridge funding or find another way to keep the museum open immediately. neighborhoodfundamentals.substack.com/p/the-academ...neighborhoodfundamentals.substack.comThe Academy Has an Offer. Does It Have the Authority to Take It?A year of funding is on the table. What's unresolved is who actually gets to decide. 112746
Reposted by Lisa FazioApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 381374572
Reposted by Lisa FazioLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Trump is doing his best to weaken and undermine higher education, an area in which the United States has been a global leader since World War II, with economic and other benefits that extend far beyond the students, staff, and faculty at universities. 6539108
Reposted by Lisa FazioSarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A longish post which goes beyond the description of the heroic pause. This message is my takeaway 210736
Reposted by Lisa FazioVivian Paulun @vivianpaulun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🚨 Preprint alert! 👶🧠🌊 "The Emergence of a Distinction between Things and Stuff" osf.io/preprints/ps... So excited to share my first infant study, with the wonderful Sanghee Song and Liz Spelke.🎉 Do babies expect sand to behave differently from solid objects? 🧵1/5 411833
Reposted by Lisa FazioTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain. 52522658
Reposted by Lisa FazioEthan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 25/09/2026If I get an interview I already know how I’m going to respond with regard to my CV being mostly comics-related work: Comics and aquaria are both about telling stories by putting little things in boxes. 91285
Reposted by Lisa FazioShannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And here’s the opposite of democracy-framed reporting. Trump didn’t “bow” to pressure from a federal judge. He followed a court order to reinstate media access. 2237
Reposted by Lisa Fazio404 Media @404media.co · 25/09/2026Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m... 53816315
Reposted by Lisa FazioGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026This is both hilarious and an inspiration 224618
Reposted by Lisa FazioDannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Imagine reporting that starts not with Trump as the subject of every sentence, but with American democracy or the Constitution as the subjects; subjects whose health & agency are harmed by the actions of this administration,including by efforts to ban the press from covering the White House at all. 12510
Reposted by Lisa FazioJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026-Did the AI actually “go rogue,” or did a human tell it to do something? -Does “AI decided” actually mean “a company decided”? -Does the "study" make the claim in the headline? -Did this happen spontaneously in the wild, or in an experiment specifically designed to make it happen? 212127
Reposted by Lisa FazioDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6437521481
Reposted by Lisa FazioAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21188103855
Reposted by Lisa FazioTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/ 332866733
Reposted by Lisa FazioTashasEv @tashasev.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Seriously this is just how she is 341677181
Reposted by Lisa FazioDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I appreciate that bluesky is the home of long threads of bus drama that end with our main characters getting to their destination safely 1664
Reposted by Lisa FazioJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Update on Vought’s #ScienceDeathPanels: The administration is reportedly backing away from the promised EO that would have furthered political oversight at NIH. Looks like our advocacy has worked (for now). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u... When we fight, we win!nytimes.comTrump Backtracks on Plan for New Controls on N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards. 17325
Reposted by Lisa FazioJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026My op-ed is out in USA Today www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...usatoday.comDEI initiatives didn't cost companies. Just the opposite. | OpinionFirms that kept DEI, whether due to executive decisions or shareholder pressure, performed as well in the stock market as those that rolled it back. 6505157
Reposted by Lisa FazioDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling. 33931780
Reposted by Lisa FazioLisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New favorite thing. AI agents emailing me about books that I didn't write. Today's is "RV Dogs! Getting Started" which is apparently a children's book about dogs who travel in an RV. It currently has zero reviews on Goodreads but they'd be happy to help me generate reviews and reach more readers. 042
Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New favorite thing. AI agents emailing me about books that I didn't write. Today's is "RV Dogs! Getting Started" which is apparently a children's book about dogs who travel in an RV. It currently has zero reviews on Goodreads but they'd be happy to help me generate reviews and reach more readers. 042