Time travel in MDPI journals!

Student 22 with a very noble C-minus.

More smoking guns than a spaghetti western.

The Uncle Phil/Aunt Viv Effect:

Do scientific careers have to be like this? "The prevalence of depressive symptoms was approximately two to three times higher and anxiety symptoms three to five times higher than in age-matched general-population samples."

I think we just passed oops.

If you're hosting an international sporting event, you should be required to actually host all of the competitors. This isn't hard.

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

Fun detail about this article: I didn't notice until it was published, but writing about AI really changed the citation structure of my bibliography. Simply put, most of my references were super-recent. One-quarter came in the first quarter of 2026 alone. Over 50% since 2025.

The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...

🤼 Here's something different: I wrote this piece for inquisitive using professional wrestling as a vehicle to discuss issues of honesty and authenticity in academia. While pro wrestling is a fun context, it reveals a number of profound truths. 🧵⬇️ inquisitivemag.org/articles/the...

New article in @pnas.org: We all know ChatGPT loves to delve, bolster, leverage, encompass, showcase, underscore, et cetera. I analyzed full text of 7.3 million journal articles published 2020-2025, hunting for 228 words that spiked after ChatGPT launched in late 2022. 🧵⬇️

If you do all this stuff against Liberty University it is actually constitutionally protected free speech in my opinion.

An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?

BROKE: It's anti-Semitic not to root for the OKC Thunder WOKE: The OKC Thunder must be returned to their ancestral Zionist homeland, in Seattle

Glossip is only alive because some incompetent prison official (or alternately, some hero) ordered the wrong lethal injection drugs before a scheduled execution in 2015. Glad to see him go free.

Western Sahara erasure. 🇪🇭

🧟 New article in Research Policy! What happens to a journal that loses its people but keeps its name? Or, a journal that kept its people, but lost its name? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Important context to this UCF commencement speaker being booed off the stage is that UCF has six commencement ceremonies and *THIS* is the one they had "AI is great" lady speak to

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.

The @financialtimes.com just updated its FT50 journal list, the roster business schools use to evaluate "high quality" research for hiring, tenure, and program rankings. Out: Human Relations, J. of Business Ethics, Organization Studies. In: AOM Annals, Am. Sociological Review, Psych Science. 🧵

If google gave a shit about their users, the top hits for any hotel wouldn't be sketchy intermediary booking sites. It's a perfect example of enshittification.

@mark-carney.bsky.social This is utterly baffling. You were going to get your majority one way or another. Why would you bring one of the most batshit crazy anti-vaxxer SoCons in Canadian politics into your party? You did not need Gladu, and any respectable political party shouldn't want her.

In all seriousness this is a huge issue with the subsidized right wing bullshit machine. Articles written by well-funded news “foundations” are syndicated out with no paywalls. This is subsequently rewarded in several ways.

Just did my 1st peer review of an AI-generated paper. There was enough formatting/citation weirdness in the manuscript to make me run Opus 4.6 for an academic integrity check. Sure enough, hallucinations everywhere. This is the new normal. 🤦‍♂️ (I'm also aware of the irony of using AI to catch AI!)

OpenAI is the new Tesla.

Really cool that the players association negotiated for this! 🏀

This might be the best 3 minute political speech I have ever heard.

A clever - but fiendish - business model.

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

In a mild sociology subtweet, I'll quote @ashleytrubin.bsky.social and say "you don't need to add conservatives to fix a field, you just need to excise the bullshit."

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

Sloppelganger will be in Merriam-Webster within 5 years.

Personally, I'd prefer to be Taylor Swift's full-time boyfriend over another year of CTEball, but that's just me...

I assumed this was a joke about a chyron typo, because Bam Adebayo actually scoring 83 in a game is nonsensical.

A valuable and timely critique (among many) of the American Sociological Association.

#WorldCup ⚽🏟️

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

There are real issues higher ed needs to address, but the outrage porn that you see on social media, Fox, etc. is just not at all typical

The Supreme Court:

New piece for @heterodoxacademy.bsky.social on multiverse analysis: What happens when you run thousands of models on the same data instead of just the one that made it into the paper? Turns out disagreement in science is a feature, not a bug. heterodoxacademy.substack.com/p/how-multiv...

This GOOD BOY ran onto the course during the Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Team Sprint event, crossing the finish line and being automatically recorded by OMEGA’s photofinish camera 😆

Pol Pot killed 3 million people. Vought and Musk have him beat three times over.

"Crowd watching...in stunned silence..."

I'm imagining the bulk commercial sulfuric acid industry is even tighter-lipped than the Swiss banking sector.

The best of Dutch bluntness and worst of British politeness: 🇳🇱: "JD Vance is getting booed. People are unhappy about ICE." 🇬🇧: "Mixed reception to JD Vance, I don't want to be contentious."

Spectacular photojournalism: You can see how Vonn clipping the gate with her right pole sent her flying off-balance.

Low salaries are common in state legislatures, and are an interesting - but often pernicious - wrinkle to typical "Politics as a Vocation" stories.