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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 28/09/2026

Homecoming looks a little different when you're returning from space 🚀🏡 Back at @esa.int's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne 🇩🇪, readaptation, scientific investigations and mission debriefings help turn spaceflight experience into knowledge for future explorers. 🔗 esa.int/Science_Expl...

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How ESA astronauts return from space

When an astronaut from the European Space Agency (ESA) returns from space, the mission is far from over.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026

"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...

Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Brazil should ban X. In fact, every country would be better without it.

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ah, enshittification, we meet again. (and by enshittification, I mean the original specific @doctorow.pluralistic.net version, not just the colloquial understanding of "online things getting worse")

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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Did you know hydrogen trucks were THIS loud? I sure didn’t! #IAA ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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Juraj Mikurcik @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A cool solar PV facade and balconies on the 12-storey biobased apartment block in Malmö 🇸🇪 A total of ⚡ 218kWp system paired with 🔋 194kWh battery storage. Makes a lot of sense for low sun winter generation ☀️ via ETC Bygg

Photo of an apartment block being fitted with solar PV panels on facade and balconies

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/09/2026

I'm fascinated by U.S. tech and business journalism because it doesn't adhere to literally any rules of actual journalism. There's no effort to actually explain objective truth; they can't even so much as hint at the fact there's funny math here and the company isn't worth anything close to this

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OpenAI Considers New Financing at a $1.5 Trillion Valuation (Gift Article)

The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world’s most valuable private company.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Judge Luttig has again performed a great service to the U.S. Constitution and our republic by exposing the treachery the Trumpsters have planned for 1/3/27, the new 1/6/21, and wisely outlining what must be done to stop the evil coup in its tracks. judgeluttig327269.substack.com/p/january-3-...

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January 3, 2027 - The Final Battle for America’s Democracy

House Republicans are poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3 to decide which Members-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wow. Researchers at Leiden university and TU Delft university in the Netherlands accuse TU Munich of "gross misrepresentation" of their findings in the TUM press release of last week, which attacked EU regulations on vehicle emissions www.linkedin.com/pulse/misint...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/09/2026

"Gibney’s basic take on Musk is that he’s a confidence man whose power comes only from the stock market and disappears the minute we see through the facade of sales pitches"

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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”

He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he may also be the most dangerous.

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Have you ever felt like something was missing from your #fmri results? Have you been worried about potential reproducibility issues? Well, this new @natmethods.nature.com article with 40+ coauthors shows how the simple change to transparent thresholding helps both. Go Figure! rdcu.be/B4tikBETdQZa

A comparison of old and new thresholding approaches for fMRI data. The newer, transparent thresholding allows for interpreting context, more complete modeling, a reduction of biases and an increase in meaningful content. This all leads to more accurate interpretations and improved reproducibility evaluations.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29/08/2026

New footage exclusively obtained by The New York Times showed the aftermath of the moment a giant glacier broke away from the top of a ridge in the Himalayas, setting off a torrent of mud, snow, floodwaters and debris to the valley communities below. nyti.ms/4x0ckTw

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Manoj Doss not exist @manojdoss.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Finally out in @JOCN_Journal. We had hoped to inhibit the amygdala using transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) as a proof-of-concept that the amygdala is causally involved in emotional episodic memory encoding, but this backfired…1/10 direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

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Enhanced Episodic Memory Encoding Following Modulation of the Amygdala via Transcranial Low-intensity Focused Ultrasound

Abstract. The amygdala is considered crucial to the formation of emotional episodic memories, yet causal evidence in humans is limited due to challenges in noninvasive neuromodulation of deep brain st...

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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 22/08/2026

A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation. www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asyl…

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Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/08/2026

3. if LLMs are going to transform science and life in general, the fact that a small number of massive companies— propped up by government funds—are able to conceal how these systems work from everybody except their internal teams should be an outrage.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is what the forests of Kharkiv region look like today: covered in thousands of kilometers of fiber-optic cables left by Russian drones. This deadly "web" is almost invisible, but its impact on nature is devastating. 📹: 57th Motorized Brigade

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Kerrie B @wheels002.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Can we have this here in Australia? Shoppers should be paid for their efforts in serving themselves #auspol

New York introduced bill requiring 10% discount on all items at self-checkout.
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DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Ovarian cancer is a misnomer." Nearly all ovarian cancers are fallopian tubes cancers. American Cancer Society, American College of Surgeons & European Society of Gynaecological Oncology have recently urged MD's to offer tube removal with other abdominal surgeries. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/h...

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Most ‘Ovarian Cancer’ Isn’t. And That Fact Can Save Lives. (Gift Article)

The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Kyiv 🇺🇦🙏

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Christopher Michel @christophermichel.com · 26/07/2026

It sure feels like there is too much advice in the world. Advice about how to work, sleep, eat, love, travel, think, grow old, and spend an afternoon. Somehow, nearly every ordinary part of being alive has been turned into something we need to optimize. Maybe we just need a little room to live.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2026

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

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The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Nature interviewed five artists from a variety of backgrounds about how to create engaging images that accurately convey scientific/medical concepts, & how they see the future, in light of AI developments. Insightful nuanced piece, with beautiful visuals from talented real-life human illustrators. 🧪

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‘Good design takes mastery’: scientific illustrators sketch out AI’s future

Nature talks to five artists about their approaches to communicating science visually.

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Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado, PhD @drcaromaldo.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026

Those of us going up for tenure in the next few years have had to not only carry the extra labor of teaching during the rise of GenAI, that difficulty will not be considered when we were evaluated.

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Mauro Silva Júnior @maurosilvajunior.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Analysis of **110,303 submissions** to two elite journals over 5 years found that institutional prestige, team size, topic, and country strongly influenced editorial decisions. Most biases emerged in editorial review. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #metasci #science

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Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals

Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's not that I think they have a super-secret plan to overturn the elections and seize power, but you're watching an entire political party, from top to bottom, meme itself into convincing itself that its opponents are inherently illegitimate, and that road doesn't go anywhere good.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is not a speech. It is a disinformation campaign.

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Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact

Collage titled "Trust is not Governance — an essay from inside Google DeepMind, written in personal capacity."

A 2014 memorandum, "Conditions of the Acquisition," lists: military applications of DeepMind technology banned; deployment decisions before an independent ethics board (as reported in Mallaby's The Infinity Machine).

Red threads lead to a 2026 U.S. Department of Defense agreement for classified networks reading "any lawful government purpose," with safety settings and filters adjusted at the government's request and no contractor veto (reported terms, The Information, Apr. 2026).

Below: a 2018 AI Principles strip ("no weapons, no surveillance") stamped DROPPED 2025, and a Project Mario 2016–2021 tag stamped ABANDONED.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/07/2026

"The reach of Chinese authorities has become so extensive, and the costs Beijing bears for detaining foreign citizens and operating beyond its borders have become so low, that cases like Min Zin’s are now the norm, even for U.S. citizens." www.worldpoliticsreview.com/china-transn...

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China’s Transnational Repression Is Being Met With a Deafening Silence

The arrest of a U.S. scholar highlights Beijing’s expanding campaign of transnational repression and Washington’s muted response to an increasingly global threat.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

So military troops under the direct control of Trump and Hegseth will be on the streets of our nation’s capital for the rest of Trump’s term. The rationale—they’re here to help with a crime emergency—is laughable. But of course the real reason is ominous. cbs4local.com/news/nation-...

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Pentagon to keep National Guard in D.C. until Inauguration Day 2029

The Pentagon says the National Guard will remain deployed in Washington, D.C. through Jan. 20, 2029, unless President Trump ends the mission earlier.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There is no defensible reason to ever give an online exam again

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🔞🕯️ A Russian missile killed an entire family. Will this photo stop the war? Most likely not. But I believe that the world should see the truth, - photographer Yefrem Lukatsky "I hope that those who will be hurt by this photo will forgive me. Kyiv, July 6, 2026," - he added.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We should pay peer reviewers Paying reviewers led to faster decisions—an average of 5.5 working days vs 38 days for unpaid reviews And review quality improved (judged by handling editors) Reviewers who delivered a good peer review in 4 days were paid $290 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

JD Vance urging the Ukrainians to be defensive is peak pro-Putin lobbying by the Trump administration. Now that Ukraine is doing better than they ever imagined, they want Ukraine to back off and take a deal Putin would go for. Nothing has changed. The US is with Russia.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

If this is true -- a very big if -- it is surely how McConnell would have wanted to go: exploiting the timing of the death of major figures (Scalia, RBG) for cynical partisan gain.

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Nico Lange @nicolange.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Russland umgeht mit der Schattenflotte in der Ostsee die Sanktionen, finanziert seinen Angriffskrieg und spioniert uns von diesen Schiffen aus mit Drohnen aus. Und wir Deppen lassen die gutmütig da rumfahren. www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/nato...

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Russische Schattenflotte in der Ostsee: „Wir Deppen lassen die da gutmütig herumfahren“

Militärexperten halten es für sehr wahrscheinlich, dass Russland die Nato-Staaten in Europa testet und ausspionieren will. Die Drohnen starten wohl von Schiffen der Schattenflotte.

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GMacGuffin (T.C.) @gmacguffin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

man that guy is ruining things for all the other politicians with his do things that help people sort of ethos who does he think he is

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Physical books. You own them. They don't require updates. They don't surveil you or collect and sell your data. They are a genuinely safe hallucinogen that leaves you smarter and more empathetic and with a longer attention span the more you use them. Free from the library. What's not to like?

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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I challenge anyone go try and reproduce some random papers, even those based on open free public datasets, but without the code and/or a detailed description of how the data was obtained and processed, and not become militant about the necessity of code and complete data sharing at a minimum.

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