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“I believe it is worthwhile trying to discover more about the world, even if this only teaches us how little we know” K.Popper.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another study finds no link between taking acetaminophen (Tylenol) during pregnancy & autism or ADHD The study examined data from 7 meta-analyses involving more than 3 million participants I wish RFK Jr & Trump would stop terrorizing people about this drug onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Prenatal exposure to paracetamol and the risk of autism and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An umbrella review and meta‐meta‐analysis
This meta-meta-analysis synthesizes evidence on prenatal paracetamol exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Crude analyses suggest small associations with autism and ADHD, but these attenuate subs...
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Nessa Carson @supersciencegrl.co.uk · 24/09/2026
This new paper is... a lot to read 🤔 #chemsky doi.org/10.1002/chem...
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Bond Formation: Shaken, Not Stirred
Shaking of seismo-molecules efficiently transforms kinetic energy into storable chemical potential, unlocking high-utility Gibbs free energy. This innovative mechanism pioneers uncharted scientific f...
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
RUSSELL VOUGHT'S ILLEGAL ACTIONS MUST BE STOPPED
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/09/2026
This skit is not even funny, it's just stupid. SNL needs new writers.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 21/09/2026
Sens. Susan Collins and Patty Murray are rejecting efforts by the Trump administration to give the White House control of National Institutes of Health grant funding. to.pbs.org/4iH9YW1
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Key senators reject White House proposal on NIH grants
Sens. Susan Collins and Patty Murray are rejecting efforts by the Trump administration to give the White House control of National Institutes of Health grant funding.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/09/2026
Anyone remember when we had three branches of government?
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Jill Lepore: "But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job."
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Artificial Education | The Harvard Crimson
Machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends.
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Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio! @ugresearchsci.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Who do you think you are, Kant?"
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
The Right is winning because they understand people can be influenced to change position on a host of issues including abortion, LGBTQ rights, and racial justice And a bunch of extremely online people are sitting here like "nobody's mind can be changed ever because those people are bad" ok
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"IRS sent 10 agents and three analysts to national effort to police 'anti-capitalism' and 'extremism on migration, race, and gender.'" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...
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Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Still plenty of time to REGISTER TO VOTE Still plenty of time to call your Family, Friends, Neighbors, Coworkers, and Young People STILL TIME TO CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION THESE NUMBERS MUST CHANGE Blue Wave in 49 Days 🗳
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Standing firmly for the dogfucker lobby 🫡
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s tour opener, Irish singer Aaron Rowe, has dropped out of the tour in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore.
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Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio! @ugresearchsci.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKNi...
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every AI ceo all of a sudden
YouTube video by Man Carrying Thing
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.
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Susan @naurielsjh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Notice how often we say this and not a single person has been sued? Hmm..
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
More details in Popular Information:
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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The world has gone mad! Folks getting arrested under the UK Terrorism Act for holding a sign that said "I oppose genocide" 🇬🇧 That is fucked up! The majority of those arrested have been pension aged women, often with disabilities. Do these folks look like terrorists? Shame on you England. #Free 🇵🇸
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ed Miliband’s parents survived the Holocaust, Ed Miliband is Jewish - that is immutable Questioning his Jewishness like this tells you all you need to know about people like this, and what their values are - and what they truly think about Jewish people that don’t behave how they want them to
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Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio! @ugresearchsci.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
less a footnote, more a classic intro
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/09/2026
Writing some scientific workflow slides for this week’s MPTC class.
Research workflow for those branches of the sciences where the important thing is to become famous.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New email to Director Bhattacharya to start Labor Day weekend regarding the secret transfer of appropriated funds to the Department of Defense.
Dear Director Bhattacharya:

Nothing screams "radical transparency" like quietly signing an agreement with another agency transferring hundreds of millions of dollars appropriated to NIH that is only publicly disclosed through investigative reporting and only confirmed by a vague statement by you on "X".

As you know, I have been tracking NIH commitments in as close to real time as possible. I am flattered that NIH has mimicked my "funding curves" on the front page of the NIH Reporter website. Apparently, I will need to consider essentially secret interagency transfers in my analysis.

This is another good contribution to your legacy at NIH..."Director Bhattacharya broke new ground and many other things."

Sincerely,

Jeremy M. Berg
Director NIGMS, 2003-2011
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/09/2026
The current NIH director is a grievance-driven weasel, a sycophant so desperately out of his league that he lacks even the most basic of bureaucratic reflex arcs: the impulse to protect if not expand his own domain.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
John Fetterman called in sick to avoid a meeting with three Pennsylvania paralyzed military veterans. Then he walked into the office less than an hour later to shoot a Fox News interview www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio! @ugresearchsci.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Parents refusing the vitamin K shot for their newborns has increased by 57% in 2026 alone. This puts their babies at risk for brain and GI bleeds. Rate of refusal is higher for girls than boys, as some hospitals won’t circumcise male infants unless they’ve had the shot. RFK Jr. caused this.
Screenshot of a figure showing refusals of vitamin K shots and a drastic increase beginning in 2026. Refusals are higher for girls than boys.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 31/08/2026
NIH's Aug 2026 proposal would scrap exact scores and percentiles for three broad bins (top = top 25%). With funding rates at 5% or lower, too much then rides on administrative discretion. It devalues peer review and is a deterrent to engage. Tell NIH before Oct 13. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-26-088: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI) on Proposed Changes to Reporting Outcomes from NIH Peer Review NOT-OD-26-088. NIH
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 30/08/2026
As expected, the Lake Ontario change is rolling out in the wake of GNIS updates. Bleah. Sure, “companies should simply refuse”, or “USGS employees should resign en masse”, or blah blah blah but the root cause is that the US was dumb enough to re-elect Trump and here’s another stupid consequence.
The U.S. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has formally changed the name for "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" in the United States.
Since we update Google Maps to reflect name changes in official government sources, which is GNIS for the U.S., people using Maps in the U.S. will see "Lake America," those in Canada will continue to see "Lake Ontario," and those outside of the U.S. and Canada will see both names. These updates follow our long-standing policy for bodies of water with names that vary from country to country, and are starting to roll out
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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
First RFK lied under oath during his confirmation. Then he lied about lying under oath. He’s not only nut job; he’s a nut job who lies. Impeach him already. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news/A4bNx_mEDSxe...
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that — The Associated Press
The Associated Press and The Guardian have obtained documents that contradict statements made by current Health Secretary Robert F.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So far, insurers have been very good about simply ignoring Trump administration vaccine recommendations.
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Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio! @ugresearchsci.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Why aren't companies refusing these summons?
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Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’
Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Amazing to live in a country where the secret police are handling inter-chud beefs. It's like the Night of Long Knives playing out in the parking lot of a Dollar General.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
life comes at you fast
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This was always the use case.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
THIS is an example of what many have been worried about wrt NIH Institute Directors. No NIH experience, limited publication record, minimal management experience but LOADS OF CONNECTIONS AROUND POLITICIZED ISSUES THAT OVERLAP WITH SCIENCE.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that www.statnews.com/2026/08/27/k... via @statnews.com “…lawmakers could use Kennedy’s statements as grounds for hearings, investigations, or an impeachment inquiry.” Yes, please. 🙏
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RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents obtained by The Associated Press and The Guardian refute that testimony.
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Life of a drone bee: Honey, Nut, Cheerio! @ugresearchsci.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Are We the Baddies? - Wikipedia
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/08/2026
The ball is in your court, Pinker.
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.
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