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Michael Seto

@mcseto.bsky.social
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Scientist, clinical/forensic psychologist, angler: A skeptical optimist. Research Director & Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa's Institute of Mental Health Research. Incoming Editor-in-Chief for Archives of Sexual Behavior. He/him

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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates. Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Authorities Investigating Explosion on Harvard’s Medical Campus, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/10/2025
Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty.
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Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty.
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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
References: Comparing companion open access journals to their traditional journal counterparts buff.ly/sErc72g
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NPR @npr.org · 09/10/2025
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn
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This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled
A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
We will be writing more of these. If you’re a scientist and your science has been disrupted, we want to hear from you: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/09/2025
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away theonion.com/fearful-americans-stoc…
Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Well, that’ll solve the problem
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 12/09/2025
Wanna know more about Einstein's anti-racist work, usually in collaboration with the great actor/singer Paul Robeson? I wrote about it for Smithsonian! (don't tell the White House) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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How Albert Einstein Used His Fame to Denounce American Racism
The world-renowned physicist was never one to just stick to the science
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Michael Seto @mcseto.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Pleased to share my inaugural editorial for Archives of Sexual Behavior, sharing my vision for the journal as the incoming Editor-in-Chief (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A Vision for Archives of Sexual Behavior - Archives of Sexual Behavior
Archives of Sexual Behavior -
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Michael Seto @mcseto.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Pleased to share my inaugural editorial for Archives of Sexual Behavior, sharing my vision for the journal as the incoming Editor-in-Chief (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A Vision for Archives of Sexual Behavior - Archives of Sexual Behavior
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
If you talk to queer and trans kids about the internet they will tell you that it’s full of issues and causes issues for people in general, not just young people—and that they probably wouldn’t be here today without it. It’s a lifeline. It’s the only LGBTQ resource and community many of them have.
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
They also investigate dose-dependence -- greater time interacting with the map = greater intervention effectiveness Based on this research they've created a public website: scienceimpacts.org
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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🧪 New study: Learning about economic impact of NIH funding motivates action to oppose funding cuts. Evidence from two preregistered, randomized experiments with >5,000 U.S. adults. Similar change for liberals and conservatives. Preprint from @asinclair.bsky.social et al: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Study 2 Intervention Materials
Base Intervention Text
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide funding for scientific research that
leads to major breakthroughs for cancer, diabetes, dementia, heart disease, infectious
diseases, stroke, mental illness, and more.
NIH funding is also an excellent financial investment. For every dollar NIH invests in
research, an average of $2.56 of economic activity is returned–a gain of over 250%.
The White House recently ordered major changes to NIH funding, which would take
back funds already promised to the states. States have sued to challenge the order,
arguing that the changes are unlawful.
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There are two major sources of cuts to NIH funding, which will result in current and
future losses.
First, many NIH grants for health research have already been cancelled, interrupting
ongoing studies and clinical trials. These cancelled grants are projected to result in
economic losses of $4.9 Billion and over 21,000 jobs.
Second, another change would greatly reduce NIH funding that covers “indirect
costs” of research. These funds help pay for essential facilities, equipment, skilled staff,
and safety checks needed across many research projects. Medical research would not be
possible without funding to cover indirect costs. In the future, this proposed change to
funding for indirect costs of research would reduce the U.S. economy by about $16
Billion and over 68,000 jobs every year.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/08/2025
PSA: go apply the urgent security update to your Apple devices. Don’t wait. Do it right now
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Update Now: iOS 18.6.2 and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerability
Apple today released new iOS 18.6.2, iPadOS 18.6.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 updates, and the software addresses a security vulnerability that is...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/08/2025
The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban. The media is hiding what's happening here.
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Monica Carson @brainimmunity.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... Critical read: As noted by a colleague, from the examples in this article, it is amazing how quickly German physics collapsed (and US exploded) after 1934. #academicsky, #neuroskyence , is there time and a route to prevent the collapse of research in the US?
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Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End
America’s run as the premiere techno-superpower may be over.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This is a historic horror that the United States government allows to get worse every day.
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite
Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards
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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
How getting tenure changes researchers’ publication habits — and citations www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How getting tenure changes researchers’ publication habits — and citations
Paper output varies between disciplines, as does the trend after tenure is achieved.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The age-gated internet is here reason.com/2025/07/28/t... Social platforms in the UK — including @bsky.app — have started verifying user ages. Consider it a glimpse into our inevitable surveillance-mad future here in the US
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The age-gated internet is here
Goodbye, online anonymity.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Education does not protect against age-related cognitive decline, brain aging; it is associated with better memory From >170,000 participants, age 50+, 33 countries www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries - Nature Medicine
In a large cross-national study, education was linked to better memory and larger brain volumes but not to slower cognitive or brain decline with age, suggesting that the association reflects early-li...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/07/2025
In several of the hospitals still functioning in Gaza, nurses are fainting from hunger and dehydration. After restrictions on aid imposed by Israel, medical institutions and staff, already struggling to treat war wounds and illness, are now grappling with rising cases of malnourishment.
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No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals
After Israeli restrictions on aid, hunger has risen across Gaza. Doctors and nurses, struggling to find food themselves, lack the resources to stem the surge.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
people are still getting deported or denied diplomas or fired from jobs for saying that this is happening
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The era of climate migration is upon us. Residents of Tuvalu are slowly resettling in Australia. This is only the beginning… www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
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The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
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Hedwig Eisenbarth @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Great discussion of two recent systematic reviews on the relationship between personality disorders and criminal behavior/recidivism by @mcseto.bsky.social - content overlap needs to be considered for antisocial personality disorder (and psychopathy): shorturl.at/DenrE
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Personality disorders, violence and antisocial behaviour: updated systematic review and meta-regression analysis: commentary, Seto | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Personality disorders, violence and antisocial behaviour: updated systematic review and meta-regression analysis: commentary, Seto - Volume 227 Issue 1
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"Japanese officials said there was no written agreement with Washington — and no legally binding one would be drawn up", and surprise surprise, they deny giving Trump $550b to arbitrarily spend however he wants. www.ft.com/content/c118...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.
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Nature @nature.com · 23/07/2025
Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/450KElr
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Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them
Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.
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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A third of UK universities have now ceased posting on X. I've updated my data to see whether they are adopting Threads and/or Bluesky as a microblogging alternative. The simple answer is that they are, slowly. 1/9
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michael h keller @mhkeller.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Instagram announced today that it's adding increased protections to so-called "mom-run accounts," which are run by adults but primarily feature children too young to be on Instagram themselves. Before, these protections only applied to accounts run by teens. about.fb.com/news/2025/07...
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Expanding Teen Account Protections and Child Safety Features
Today, we’re announcing a range of updates to bolster our efforts to protect young people from both direct and indirect harm.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🧪 Win for NIH researchers: An appeals court just effectively upheld an earlier order to reinstate terminated NIH grants. Full opinion here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... SCOTUS may be next (see next post) 1/3
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 21/07/2025
In February, the US gov shut down the Demographic & Health Surveys. It was the only data source on maternal & child health, births, household structure in many countries – making it crucial for research. In a new article I explain why it should be rescued. ourworldindata.org/demographic-...
Map of countries where the DHS was the only source of maternal mortality data
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/07/2025
Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
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Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
404 Media continues to punch waaaay above its weight: www.404media.co/flight-manif...
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Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even the...
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
After many requests, I finally accessed what turned out to be the saddest and smallest library I have ever seen. I was surprised to find that the books were not categorized by author or Dewey number but size. I tried to find a book before my allotted time ended and picked a cooking book; the second time I got a novel. I began flipping through the pages in search of solace, as books have always been my safe haven. To my surprise, I discovered handwritten notes scattered throughout the book, dated and written by various detainees over time. These messages were filled with reminders of hope, strength, and the assurance that this, too, shall pass. Tears welled up in my eyes as I read their heartfelt expressions. It’s incredible how human beings can find ways to uplift each other, transcending time, space, and borders if they want to and if they choose to. I continued to turn the pages, holding on to the hope of finding brighter moments in this terrifying situation—all thanks to the kindness of people I had never met.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I cited this in my talk last weekend as further evidence that academics are abandoning twitter and joining Bluesky
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Please share! Amazing opportunity at @mcgill.ca We are looking to recruit an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary scientist with a strong track record in innovation and research to direct a new program in climate, environment, and health mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/07/2025
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
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Michael Seto @mcseto.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I was intrigued by the fact that CBC Kids was willing to cover a story as sensitive and complex as the Sean Combs (Diddy) trial for young news readers when they contacted me for input. I thought they did a great job. www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/pos...
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The Diddy trial is over. Here’s what experts say it teaches us about power
The trial of Sean (Diddy) Combs for alleged sex crimes is over. Here's what experts say kids and teens should learn from the case.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/07/2025
“The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Harvard College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Replace Diversity Offices Amid DEI Purge | News | The Harvard Crimson
The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fan...
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 08/07/2025
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
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‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...
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Lindsay Healey @healeylindsay.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Our paper led by Emily Doyle (@mcseto.bsky.social, Adelle Forth) published in the #InternationalJournalofForensicMentalHealth (@iafmhs.bsky.social) found that a brief educational intervention may positively impact #publicstigma towards #forensicpatients. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Nature and Science are two behemoths where Nobel-level scientists publish their latest research and discoveries. The Trump administration is revealing its rage at people who are simply better and smarter that they are.
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