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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will never forgive or forget a single Republican Senator who voted yes on RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. But as you know I hold especial contempt for Bill Cassidy (R, Invertebrate) for greasing the skids for RFK Jr. and for the destruction of U.S. public health.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026

It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Damn.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is a disturbing story - two published neuroscience papers that were seemingly completed AI generated retractionwatch.com/2026/10/01/o... It was only detected because of a vigilant peer reviewer on a third submission @deevybee.bsky.social.

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When open data are misused

Credit: HALUSTD from Popspixel via Canva When Dorothy Bishop was asked to review a paper for a small neuroscience journal in August, she could tell from the abstract the authors had used a dataset …

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306...

the header for a paper describing "Life after OSF" #metascience

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Words change behavior more than we think People cooperate more when a game is called the “Community Game” than when it is called the “Wall Street Game” Language changes the emotions & social norms we associate with it—and therefore what we choose to do. www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/shaping-be...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

According to a CNN report, toddlers as young as 2 years are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. A federal law, the Trafficking Victims ... TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights | Undermining democracy]

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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/09/2026

Google Gemini says that @jevinwest.bsky.social and I aren't to be trusted because in our first lecture, we had a playful example where Jevin presented data the same way that Tim Cook did, and I called bullshit on it. It hallucinates criticism and the only citations are to the lecture itself.

1. The "Explosive Growth" Slide ControversyIronically, the most direct and explicit example of this occurred during their very first "Calling Bullshit" lecture at the University of Washington.The Setup: Jevin West presented a slide to the class showing a graph that purported to show the "explosive, hockey-stick growth" of web traffic to their new Calling Bullshit website. The graph utilized standard marketing axes and compressed timeframes to make the project look like an unmitigated, runaway viral sensation.The "Bullshit": Carl Bergstrom actually had to step in and call "bullshit" on his own co-instructor's slide. When the data was displayed honestly without selective axis truncation or creative smoothing, it showed that while traffic was high initially, it heavily ebbed, flowed, and plateaued over time.The Criticism: While some praised this as a playful, planned pedagogical moment to show that "anyone can fall prey to bad data framing," critics viewed it as a perfect illustration of the double standard: when it serves a personal or professional promotional narrative (like proving your own course is a massive success), the temptation to use flawed, hype-driven metrics is incredibly high.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you need a quick briefing on what's happening in Northern Ireland today, this thread is a good place to start.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everyone I know who has been diagnosed has said they are happier in general and much more content/productive with work since being diagnosed and getting various forms of help based on the diagnosis.

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AG Andrea Joy Campbell @massago.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

During the worst cyclospora outbreak on record, Donald Trump wants to cut half the USDA's workforce, shuttering a lab studying the foodborne parasite. Trump and RFK's cuts to food safety programs have only led to chaos and confusion. I joined a coalition of AGs in filing a brief to fight back.

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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

💥💥BOOM💥💥 Costco took its $184M in rebate refund and used it to lower costs targeting products that would have the most impact for members!! Kudos Costco!! www.seattletimes.com/business/cos...

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Costco clinches $184M in tariff refunds, with more expected

The big-box retailer said the money was reinvested to give "value back to our members." It’s more than a third of the total tariff refunds the company expects.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#2891):

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 25/09/2026

It’s not law enforcement It’s ethnic cleansing

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Monosov Lab @monosovlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

1/11 How does the brain make the heart skip a beat? New preprint: a prefrontal→hypothalamus circuit that controls heart rate. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“…the new policy creates a catch-22: investigators must demonstrate independence to successfully compete for larger trial funding, while the K award can no longer support the career development needed to demonstrate it.” Excellent piece, please read.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 24/09/2026

eliminating the marsden to create an underfunded replacement ('TRF') led the govt to cap the # of apps from each uni obvious outcome: junior PIs are getting triaged more than senior PIs, so their science isn't even considered. heard today from a junior prof at UoA who didn't make the cut #nzpol

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Eight U.S. Navy sailors assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during its extended deployment, according to a letter from acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao obtained by CNN. None died.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

man I admire anyone who has the bravery to write about parenting and *especially* about their own failures in parenting, because there is no topic on which people are more stridently self-righteous and judgemental

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“The center had surpluses in the two years before the Trump takeover.”

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026

“The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how NIH distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.” Bypassing the many checks and balances at NIH on grant funding decisions.

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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New preprint with @violetsarebrown.bsky.social: "Measuring Up: Accessible Approaches for Improving Measurement Practices in Psychological Science." The aim of the paper is to reduce barriers to entry to doing measurement work in Psychology. #schmeasurement osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 19/09/2026

Anyway, I’ll be on capitol hill on Tuesday talking to congressmen about this stuff

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think it’s good to rally to protect the Kennedy Center, actually. The building isn’t just a building. It’s a symbol of American commitment to the arts, when they’re challenging, messy, moving, occasionally patriotic, etc. Art has to matter. There’s a reason dictators target it.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Reposting for the "I'm an academic I mostly only have time for BlueSky on the weekends" folks. It's possible this is my lab's biggest contribution to anxiety treatment research, not even kidding.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

OMG 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When I said three years ago that egg companies were using the avian flu as cover to price-gouge, Fox News called me crazy. But new documents from a major federal investigation reveal the truth. Watch. youtu.be/aGa7YNNC1R0

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Fox News Mocked Me For Being Right

When I said three years ago that egg companies were using the avian flu as cover to price-gouge, Fox News called me craz

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God @thegodshow.com · 18/09/2026

Thou shalt not demolish the Kennedy Center.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ugh, I hate seeing this

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Sheila Crowell, PhD @sheilacrowell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When my kids were young, I took them to Yellowstone. The garbage cans were so complicated and my youngest asked a Park Ranger why. He said "there's significant overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans"

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026

On September 17th, we filled our 200,000th pothole. See something that needs fixing in NYC? Call 311, tag @nyc311.bsky.social or go to portal.311.nyc.gov.

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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Sheila Crowell, PhD @sheilacrowell.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The student from Tufts studied child development. She cares about kids. She was a Fulbright student. To receive a Fulbright you are selected as an exceptional representative of your country. This is a human I would hope to know and have as a colleague.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.

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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich

Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

Ask yourself this: how have institutions that for years have said they face budget shortfalls, deficits, shortages that “required” them to deny faculty lines, fire staff, raise tuition, cut research support, etc. suddenly find the money to pay for outrageously expensive contracts for AI services?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In retrospect, we’ll see the key trend of the era was an elite revolt by the very rich, politicians and media employees against the idea there should be *any limits at all* on their behaviour, up to and including strangers publicly criticising them. All presented as The Wisdom Of The Average Punter.

one of those things I feel a little ashamed about for taking so long to clock is that rich people are surrounded by yesmen and consequently delude themselves into thinking their predictable bigotries reflect some suppressed yearning of the Common
Man.

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 16/09/2026

How do you model what your heartbeat feels like? Our new Bayesian toolbox makes models of cardiac and respiratory interoception easier to use and interpret, with familiar R formulas and worked tutorials. New publication 🧪: link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of interoceptive psychophysics - Behavior Research Methods

Interoception, the capacity to sense, perceive, and metacognitively appraise viscerosensory and homeostatic signals, is a growing focus in psychology and psychiatry. Adaptive psychophysical tasks now ...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trump's attacks on US higher ed, and Chinese scholars in particular, has been a gift to China's efforts to surge past the US on science and innovation. One report from Renmin University summed it up: "Thank Trump." 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

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China: “Thank Trump”

The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival

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