The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Heartbreaking. Such a waste of good people’s lives and expertise, who could be doing good for the world, but instead are suffering themselves. All so Trump and his buddies can pocket more money and build more bombs to lob around the world. Good job, MAGA.

I mean...she's correct on both counts, but it's still striking to see!

The Coalition for Independent Technology Research has filed a lawsuit with the @knightcolumbia.org and @protectdemocracy.org challenging a US State Department policy to revoke or deny visas of non-citizen researchers because of their work studying the societal impacts of technology. (1/4)

Independent tech researchers accuse the Trump administration of trying to silence them with threats of visa revocations and deportation. It's leading some to change the focus of their work, self-censor, and even leave the country.

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Excited to share a new preprint on psychological characteristics among voters that predict support for Donald Trump: specifically, low empathy, low agreeableness, and complaints about unfairness. (1/4) osf.io/preprints/ps...

He keeps referring to Greenland as Iceland. His dementia is on full display. Just look at him slumped over the podium . Time for people to get up and leave the clown show.

"There comes a point where we have to start questioning whether or not he’s actually aware of what’s happening around him & the harm he’s doing. It’s similar to historical figures like Nero or Caligula. Their madness took over & they started doing wildly destructive things. Trump is in that place."

I've noticed that ICE agents keep yelling "18 USC § 111" at people filming them. I'd like to see the memo they all got on that talking point, and I'd like to know who sent it. Filming ICE or alerting your neighbors to their presence doesn't violate § 111.

But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?

In a new review paper that I led (with Jean Decety), we explain how research in psychology and neuroscience supports the need for more regulation of social media algorithms to protect against threats to democracy. The EU Digital Services Act is a good model for this type of regulation. (1/5)

This is a grim read. I don't know how we construct even a semi-functional party system when the rising generation of Republican leaders are going to be even more Nazi than the current batch. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

11/20: Coast Guard classifies swastikas as "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... 11/21: Guard leader's new policy calls them "[d]ivisive or hate symbols" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Today: Back to "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

so now if you worked in content moderation you are visa-blackballed like you'd be if you're friends were all al qaeda

The Republican Party is a death cult. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The pro-Nick Fuentes Administration destroying people and institutions on the basis of “fighting antisemitism” has me losing my damn mind. The Nazi-sympathizers pretending to be protectors of American Jews has to be one of the most profound mindfucks in an era rife with them.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Nice piece, and consistent with our findings that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online www.science.org/doi/full/10....

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview. This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association. I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

When anti-Semites claim to be fighting anti-Semitism they trivialize a very real problem and thereby deliberately make it worse. Attacking universities was always about spreading anti-Semitism, not combatting it. forward.com/fast-forward...

I've been inspired by the courage shown by @katmabu.bsky.social in protesting ICE. Now the fascist fucks are charging her criminally for protesting. She is the kind of leader we need right now.

I’ll be giving two talks in Chicago this week! • Wednesday: “The Brain and Misinformation” at Theater Wit • Thursday: A talk on my book and research at Northwestern University’s Department of Communication Fall Colloquium

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored Quite proud of this paper, which just received the journal's APA Editor's Choice award 😊 Big thanks to my coauthors Li Qian Tay, Jon Roozenbeek, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, John Cook, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, and @lewan.bsky.social

Call for Papers: 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit, 8-10 Apr 2026 University of Cambridge For more information, see the Summit website, the Summit's LinkedIn feed, or email [email protected]. www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Useful frame for understanding Trumpism from @aselrod.bsky.social: "It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists. Trump/MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

Social Cognition invites papers for a special issue on disrupted scholarship guest edited by Galen Bodenhausen, Jacqueline Chen, & Franki Kung. bit.ly/3HkcyBf

New preprint -- we (me, @klempert.bsky.social, Dave Wolk, and Joe Kable) examined whether characteristic aging-related changes in cognition and personality show up on six online platforms (3 crowdsourcing sites -- MTurk, CloudResearch Toolkit, & Prolific, and 3 panels). osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/

New, from an anonymous NIH insider: Trump is being pushed to spend more NIH money. The White House is ordering NIH to do multi-year budgets for awards. This budget trick means fewer awards, fewer labs funded, and lower paylines for researchers. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/alert-the-...

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

Press for my new article with @profsanderlinden.bsky.social !

New paper out in Neuron today with the great @indecisionwins.bsky.social. We call upon neuroscientists of all stripes to work on the neuroscience of misinformation: what makes the brain susceptible, how does it spread, & how can we optimize interventions? 👇 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lG3e3BtfH...

New paper: A short position piece that @profsanderlinden.bsky.social and I wrote, laying out some ways that neuroscience can inform our understanding of how people process misinformation. authors.elsevier.com/c/1lG3e3BtfH...

Well said. It was never about antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

America’s future?

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...

Somewhat oddly, the Trump regime's initial moves to cut science funding went very broad. This is catalyzing solidarity & advocacy around the value of science (see comms featuring cancer cures & tech innovation). But their next move may be to try to drive a wedge b/w "good science" & "bad science".

I am thinking a lot today about how heavy things feel in my world of faculty doing scientific research. There's the immediate chaos and panic about our ability to pay people and continue our research. But there's also a deeper grief at watching everything get bulldozed for no reason

there's still time to submit your abstract to the Metacognitive Science meeting in Amsterdam in August -- a satellite to @cogcompneuro.bsky.social ! sites.google.com/view/metacog...

"I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty. I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...