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...

This constant sense of doom is shortening my life. I can feel it. And this was the plan all along. Russell Vought said the goal was to “traumatize” public workers but it was never gonna be limited to them.

It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.

Friday Night Massacre of accurate information. A devastating day for the USA as tens of millions of dollars of grants seeking to combat the spread of false information were terminated. We have a federal govenrment that does not consider the verifiable truth a priority. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Make America Great Again by destroying everything that made it the envy of the world and fill it with corruption, pollution, extreme prejudice, infectious disease, financial crisis and fear. I’m sorry Mr President, I can’t get that all on a hat, but the first four words sound great.

Celebrating > 15 years of @srndna.bsky.social with a special issue in JGPS co-edited by Drs. Karolina Lempert (@klempert.bsky.social), Nathan Spreng, & Debbie Yee (@debyee.bsky.social). More info: academic.oup.com/psychsocgero... MS submission deadline: 8/15/2025 Expected pub date: 7/2026

Why is Trump going after US science? What's the endgame for these attacks? Vance, Rufo, Trump and Republican elites are attacking NIH and manipulating its grants in order to attack American universities. "It's bad, folks." New contributed post at our blog. Please share it w/ your 🧪 colleagues.

America taking over Greenland is a foolish idea. America destroying its relationship with Canada is utter idiocy. America applying tariffs and engaging in trade wars with neighbors is economic nonsense. A lunatic is holding America hostage and his enablers are making fools of themselves.

Just before bedtime last night I got a message from inside NIH which read: “It’s so, so bad and no one cares (who has any influence)” I asked “What, in particular?” My friend responded “Everything”

Fuck Nazis.

The general vibe we are getting across #NIH institutes is deeply bleak — that the agency is nearly, if not already dead. Top people are leaving or have left. Nearly everyone's looking for other jobs. People still care about what NIH was, but are growing resigned to its death. 1/

It becomes difficult to counter lies with evidence when all the entities that compile and track empirical evidence have been gutted. This assault on knowledge is extending across medicine, science, economics, and the social sciences. This is the most dangerous censorship of all.

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

Canada? Europe? Iran? Can no one rid us of this meddlesome “leader”?

Hi Chicago friends, next week on Friday 3/7, @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social and I will be standing up for science at Federal Plaza at 12pm! Join us at @standupforscience.bsky.social in Chicago and nationwide! For more background info, read here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

The media seem to be lined up to report “man on the street” (or in the diner) stories about whether people are falling for these “waste and fraud” frames. That’s just reinforcing them. Instead, go find the stories that turn these frames on their heads.

Scientists need to face the reality that this is not some temporary funding crisis while a bumbling administration sorts out their priorities. This is an intentional assault on academia by accelerationist extremists who wish to break society. Fascism must be met in the streets.

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

Core themes for the April 2025 Cambridge Disinformation Summit: 1) Research on efficacy of disinformation interventions 2) Managing threats to the research community 3) Disinformation in authoritarian campaigns 4) Disinformation in Crypto influence campaigns www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/cambr...

"The menace of Adolf Hitler has been greatly exaggerated.... There is an innocence almost childish about the detailed fashion un which he sets out to be blood-curdling." --New York Times, Sept. 27, 1930