"Antidepressants are not more effective than placebo" "Treatment-resistant depression is a depression that doesn't not react on antidepressants treatment. <...> Treatment-resistant depression is marketing" (not literal, but almost literal citation) Mark Horowitz, King's Open Research School

the 'hunger games' continue

Today I got to know about the case of Vera Rubin Tbh, I cannot consider the Nobel Prize award as a serious one anymore: to systematically ignore real geniuses, just because they are women is not serious, it is infantile and incompetent

Cool new paper in Neuron discussing how neuroscience can help us study misinformation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Я, кстати, согласна. Понятно что ИИ имеет цели создать секту шатателей реальности, она вообще не имеет целей. Но тот факт что довольно несложным алгоритмом (привычка к неформальному общению с ИИ + долгие разговоры про обретение им самосознания), могут привести к ТАКОМУ лагу - пугающий.

If you work in women's health, or you're a woman, or you're a doctor to women, please read the new World Economic Forum report, Prescription for Change, which lays out the problem of women's exclusion from research. Impressive suggestions. So much work to do! www.weforum.org/publications...

The Black Flag Group of some 800 academics in Israel is calling upon the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza

If you’re still using Duolingo, this is what you’re supporting. “Duolingo’s founder and CEO Luis von Ahn believes there’s nothing a computer can’t teach—but says schools won’t go extinct because people need childcare.”

The "big, beautiful" federal budget bill passed in the House while you were sleeping includes 1 trillion dollars - that's ONE TRILLION - in cuts to health and human service programs, including Medicaid and SNAP, so they can offer $1 trillion in tax cuts for those who make more than $500,000. 1/3

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

academic folks: Harvard international students may need to begin immediately transferring out in order to avoid having to leave the country If it sounds insane, that's because it is what will your institutions do to help?

🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨 NYU is withholding Logan Rozos’s diploma for speaking out at commencement about the genocide in Palestine. Commencement is a space for moral clarity—not censorship. Silencing students is NOT academic freedom - write to NYU now. tinyurl.com/standupforlo...

What a cool guy, I admire this a lot!!!

In Gaza, where Israel has imposed a total blockade on food and other aid for over 10 weeks, "rations are getting low, and the poorest and most vulnerable are beginning to starve and die," says Alex de Waal from @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social.

My goal is to stare at a wall

Trump just granted asylum to a South African refugee, Charl Kleinhaus, who accused Jews of being “dangerous” and promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories. forward.com/fast-forward...

After serving 130 million meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. WCK trucks loaded with food and cooking fuel have been ready at the Gaza border since early March. wck.org/news/gaza-up...

every day I wake up feeling grateful for the fact that I'm not calling myself an alpha male while falling for obvious crypto scams

Yep.

don’t give them their freedom, because they’re not going to give you yours

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

Saying that "autism is preventable" is essentially saying that autistic people should not be born. It's a eugenicist claim.

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.

It is wild to understand that my deep conflict on "Should I apply for PhDs only in Europe and eventually stay in Europe, or should I try the US as well" now is solved I am political refugee and activist, so I cannot go to the USA just for a safety reasons

A 19-year-old university student from Gaza I know, who is brilliant and charming and usually upbeat, just wrote back: "we are not OK. The bombing is continuous and non-stop. Please pray for us. Happy Eid to you."

pediatric brain cancer research being shut down:

Statement from the SANS Executive Board: Supporting Scientific Integrity for Advancing Social and Affective Neuroscience (Image for convenience, text in quoted thread.)

Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵

Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.

Hope to see you there! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...

Dear readers, oh great wide world, we wish to know your Trump vibes.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Supported by USAID, the Ethiopian clinic provides lifesaving medicine for HIV-positive kids and teens to suppress the virus. First came the 90-day freeze — and now an immediate termination of support.

I've never thought that something like this is possible in public policy, but the current USA government makes a lot of impossible things possible The level of cringe and disgrace the USA official just showed Wow

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

New #PrejudiceResearch study by @jenikubota.bsky.social and group.... .... you had me at: combining learning about outgroups, mixed w/ contact.

If you live in AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC, your reps are on the Senate HELP Committee which has jurisdiction over NIH. Write to them pointing out the jobs and money coming to your state from NIH: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-... describe impact of NIH cuts on....

Senior undergrad starting my PhD next year. I’m absolutely terrified — I love science and I’m great at it, but that might not be enough anymore. I’ve channeled my rage into making and distributing this:

I just got to know about this. As a person from a country where WW2 veterans are important only when they are used in political propaganda, and all the other time they live in poverty, I am disgusted I have never thought that Israel can fall any further in my eyes, but this is diabolical

Do you think you won't fall for misinformation? Think again. A new meta-analysis by researchers @arc-mpib.bsky.social covering 11,500+ participants across 31 experiments, reveals surprising insights into who is most susceptible to online misinformation—and why. 👉 tinyurl.com/mr462t8c

This is a great primer for those seeking to understand wtf is going on, and as the author says, theres a couple of sections in there that offer reflection for those of us who are pretty up to date, but reeling #AcademicSky 🧪

Oh wow

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

I think that this is the very time when the US (and not only!) Academia can do something amazing for itself and for the world in the light of this Trump's funding catastrophe Maybe the second target for the action should be these scientific publishing companies with their thousand $ fees

New study looks interesting. Already makes me wonder, though, if this is about sharing *political* info per se, or would people not prefer to share *any* info that's pro-ingroup (vs anti-outgroup) psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s. Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879. Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all. Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years? 1/4

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

BREAKING: Two unions with over two million government workers are suing the Trump admin over illegal executive orders. AFSCME and AFGE assert that Trump illegally exceeded his authority by unilaterally trying to roll back a regulation that protects civil servants.

"The Banality of Evil" by Hannah Arendt is more or less about it 😔🙏🏻

"no difference between trump and joe/kamala on genocide" theory looking preeeeettty fucking weak www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...