Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

Nothing can prepare you for the factual basis behind this 'wokeness gone too far' anecdote.

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

One little thing I’m really getting tired of is insecure over-empowered crybaby hypocritical disingenuous hate-filled white guys.

NSF changed their eligibility requirements for the GRFP a month before the deadline. Students used to be able to apply in their 1st or 2nd year, now only 1st years can apply - excluding an entire cohort of students with no notice. Yet another way this admin is kneecapping American science

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

They are literally canceling culture

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

they are vaccine deniers tbh

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

These people have smarted themselves into the dumbest fucking arguments. Determining whether someone is "doing politics the right way" depends almost entirely on the content of their speech! If someone lies constantly and endorses authoritarians that's not practicing good politics.

I went on Bechdel Cast to talk about when a woman shaves her head and withstands torture so she can…idk man it gets complicated just listen to us lose our minds @jamieloftus.bsky.social @caitlindurante.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6tSZ...?

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Step back, have a little perspective. This is a better headline: "University turns Judith Butler over to the police for thought crime"

“We have a right to know the charges against us, to know who has made the charges and to review them and defend ourselves… But none of that has happened, which is why we’re in Kafka-land… It is an enormous breach of trust.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

I'm not right wing but some of this "woke" stuff is a little over the top [6 months later] Slavery was fine. Your city is under martial law

Imagine being a science professor and thinking the threat to the university is coming from humanities disciplines rather than fascists.

[extremely originalist voice] actually Zohran Mamdani can be president, "natural born" simply means "born to a human person." the Founders were anticipating vat-bred clones

Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

And they say nothing inspiring is happening in America anymore

in the future you will all be very jealous of my completely illiterate child

fellas, i am gonna be rectify this. the keys: 1- gotta look good, so engage in preening 2- need to be a provider, so gather nesting materials 3- to get her attention, point your beak at her 4- gotta be healthy, so raise up one foot to show it’s vibrant blue color, the lower it and raise the other

Our *new paper* explores how flexibility in social categories like gender and race can undermine unfair norms. If we can't read an identity, we can't use it to underpin discrimination. We show even a little confusion can be powerful, and advocate identity play philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26062/

"pre-existing conditions" is eugenicist logic, BTW

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

🚨 Speaking of FedSoc judges... Today, my work on the Federalist Society is finally officially published!! Plz enjoy what I still believe to be (other than tax stuff) the first large scale empirical dataset about the Federalist Society. I hope folx can use. #LawSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky

OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING

A beautifully written piece on a terrible time www.science.org/content/arti...

It takes too long to explain to the relevant people, but I actually think it’s true that photoshopping Jerry fodor into the hot ones set and tweeting things like ‘how come quietists never stfu?’ is a valuable form of public philosophy

imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

mamdani pulls a little black device out of the heel of his shoe and presses a button on it “what’s that?” asks gordon “backup” mamdani says as the hans zimmer score swells and a swarm of thousands of bees attacks the cops surrounding arkham asylum

to the people mad at parker, i have good news: a world where Gavin Newsom is the Democratic nominee is a world where Dems are about to lose so badly that parker's vote simply does not matter

do not give money to dems who don’t support court reform. don’t vote in primaries for dems who do not support court reform. do not support dem leadership that will not pursue court reform. do not bother with pundits who are not on board with court reform.

Opinion pages have done so much damage to public health by platforming contrarians, minimizers, and anti-vaxxers. Have editors learned nothing from the damage they did when they made climate change a false debate?

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad