Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

Brutal.

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New episode of Opinion Science, featuring @sylviapperry.bsky.social! We talk about her research on racial socialization, specifically focusing on how white parents navigate—or frequently avoid—conversations about race with their children.

New in Nature Human Behaviour: How Deceptive Online Networks Reached Millions in the US 2020 Elections www.nature.com/articles/s41... -Reached at least 37M Facebook and 3M Instagram users -3 networks out of 49 responsible for >70% of users reached -Exposed users older, more conservative

Trump’s immigration agents have detained over 170 U.S. citizens this year — including little kids and at least three pregnant citizens. This isn’t “law and order.” This is chaos. And it puts all of our rights at risk.

The reality is that foreign students are the ones investing in the US: they invest their money and their skills. That allows us to have stronger higher Ed, more slots for domestic students and a better economy.

America (especially Dems), repeat after me: • Immigration is GOOD. • We should have MORE OF IT. • It should be very EASY TO DO.

also on hold w them, since I did not receive a confirmation number via email, why can’t the hold music be the “there are currently two (2) cats ahead of you [on line for the heating grate]”

Wow, this is frightening: 95,000 scientists and researchers, gone. Brilliant minds no longer working to protect, help, and save people and the planet. Don't take this sitting down.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

This is genuinely a bombshell. All courthouse arrests should cease immediately. There should be a Congressional investigation & civil rights actions for every illegal abduction of immigrants trying to follow the rules and appear in court. (2/2)

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

genuinely don’t know what the limits of the law are here, but if it’s possible, when dems take back the house, they should compel the financial records of every person with direct access to the white house

So if Russia phones in fake threats, as they did last time, our institutions will leap into action to do what Russia wants…. This is very transparent.

In 2024, NIH published 756 funding announcements. In 2025, it published 120. In 2026, as of March 15, it has published 14.

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

Note from my notebook (2018).

It would've been reckless and inexcusable to cause generational damage by illegally defunding USAID, NIH, HHS, Dept of Edu, and so on just to reduce the deficit... ... but spending and the deficit are both higher than '22, '23, '24. It was all just harm for harm's sake. The cruelty was the point.

People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data.

Entertaining and interesting post by @kurtjgray.bsky.social on how science works using his own research on moral psychology in contrast to @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social's work.

The USPS IS NOT LOSING MONEY. THE USPS IS SPENDING TAX DOLLARS ALLOCATED TO IT BY THE BUDGET. THE USPS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO ZERO OUT ITS BALANCE SHEET IT IS NOT A BUSINESS IT DOES NOT HAVE SHAREHOLDERS. IF THE USPS IS OUTSPENDING ITS BUDGET IT SHOULD BE ALLOCATED MORE BUDGET.

both lewandowski *and* noem, *as his superior* need to spend long stretches in prison for this — his behavior is abhorrent, but her approval of it as the head of the department is just as egregious

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#DR26 The U.S. democracy is currently in a much faster deterioration process than any other democracy in modern times. Within only one year, the USA’s score on the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index (LDI) has declined by 24 %, from 0.75 in 2024 to 0.57 in 2025. 🧵1(4) #Polisky #PoliSciSky #PolDataSky

Anne Applebaum shoots the cleanest, straightest arrows of any columnist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Had the Defense Department’s harm-reduction plan not been axed by the Trump administration, the policies almost certainly would’ve reduced the number of noncombatants harmed over the past year, current and former officials tell ProPublica.

oh my god I cannot stop laughing x.com/om_patel5/st...

Made some charts and maps to visualize just how stark the U.S.'s democratic backsliding has been in the past year. www.pbump.net/o/visualizin...

An EXTREMELY helpful thing folks can do, if they live near a federal courthouse, is volunteer for Habeas Dockets. Docs in habeas cases aren't viewable online by default. But they are at courthouses. This site makes them available/searchable for free. Helps lawyers a lot habeasdockets.org/volunteer/

I hope Kat Abughazaleh stays active in the district and especially keeps going with mutual aid. The US is heading for economic disaster and neighbors helping neighbors is the only way a lot of folks are gonna make it through. High profile folks willing to do that level of real local work is huge.

Apply for NCA Division awards by March 25! Mass Comm Division (for which I am the VP) has three awards, Teaching Award, Service Award, and Dissertation Award. Consider nominating yourself or others who are eligible! #NCA2026 www.natcom.org/2026-interes...

BREAKING: huge summary judgment win in our Voice of America case EVERYONE put on admin leave is ordered rehired & all other decisions made by the Trump admin to gut agency down to "statutory minimum" r "vacated and set aside" Kudos to r amazing partners & clients in labor, democracy & journalism

I graded them. They had to listen to me. I could get them in trouble. You shouldn't date somebody whose life you can fuck up. It's not about age. And in college, a prof can make your life hell in an entire department.

The saddest piece I've ever read about the Trump administration's deliberate destruction of US health research The gutting of NIH has been as bad as the gutting of CDC "In 2024, NIH published 756 funding announcements In 2025, it published 120 In 2026, as of March 15, it has published 14" 1/n

I've been getting quite a few questions from press, etc. and so wrote up something a little bit longer here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

Geez. This seems… not great …and also a totally predictable outcome of an administration abandoning diplomacy and soft power, while governing through chaos, personal whims, and grudges.

I believe in year-round Organizing. Applications for my Democracy Summer Fellowship are now open! High school & college aged folks will work directly with my campaign in Central Florida — gaining hands-on experience in Organizing, canvassing, phone banking, event planning, and campaigning.

Sometimes I feel like academic work is a poor fit for the moment. While the university is under threat, engagement with the public is not incentivized. Along with some friends, we started Society Workshop as a way to bring more social science to the public. www.societyworkshop.org

every single DOGE goon should be arrested and have their assets seized the moment democrats have the power to do so. they are threats to national security as long as they remain free due to all the sensitive and classified data they illegally accessed and likely stole. this comes before hearings

There are quite a few US trans folks who are moving to various places - especially Europe. Some potentially useful resources here: transworldexpress.org/wiki/Main_Page (I help out a bit with the Spanish sub-site).

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Lots of folks asking how to join the class. My lawyers' emails and contact-form here. As well as the complaint if you want to take a look. prf-law.com/current-case...

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Gotta say that this is some extremely creepy language. And the argument basically is... that if the prevent people from treating gender dysphoria (adults, in this case), that they'll just... stop having it? That's not at all how any of this works.

This work was a wonderful collaboration with: @narrprof.bsky.social , @martakowal.bsky.social , @misiakmichal.bsky.social , @scraigroberts.bsky.social , Agnieszka Sorokowska, and Piotr Sorokowski

What did we find?💥 Across cultures🌍, narrative transportability shows a stable four-dimensional structure: • Cognitive involvement • Cognitive–emotional imagination • Sensory imagination • Personal involvement

How do we get "lost" in a story? Is it the same in places like Poland, Peru, or Japan? 📖🌍 We validated the Narrative Transportability Scale in a global sample: ✅ 8,800+ participants ✅ 50 countries ✅ 21 languages Out now in the inaugural issue of @gpccomm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/gpco...

For months, we warned DOGE's access to Americans' private data was ripe for abuse. And here it is: A former DOGE employee stole the Social Security numbers & personal info of over 500 MILLION Americans. Musk, Trump, & their DOGE lackies must be made to answer for this, NOW.