Women need access to the public sphere and to remunerative, dignified jobs there in part because we are human beings with a full spectrum of talents, passions, and capacities, but especially because dependence on men in the home makes women even more vulnerable to those men’s violence.

A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.

People don’t need to “learn to use AI”. They need to learn how to think and make connections themselves and thus will facilitate their efficient use of whatever technology comes along. Crafting the right prompt for AI doesn’t take AI training, it takes liberal arts training.

Or, instead of relying on a bullshit machine that will dry up a lake to tell you stupid lies, you could simply read a book, watch a documentary, or see a film. www.techradar.com/computing/ar...

The Onion Looks Back On Pope Francis Busting His Holy Ass

You know how you went to church weekly as a kid but then you don't go for 20 years and then you go to a wedding and remember the words to the songs and prayers and when to sit and when to kneel and when to stand and when to shake hands? That's repetition. It. Helps. People. Remember.

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

Do you use a credit card? Rent or own a home? Use utilities like water and electricity? Send your kids to school? Have a job? Eat? Drink? Deposit money in a bank, or withdraw it? The government provides services and safeguards that enable us to do ALL of this safely. Now Musk is taking it all away.

What @kairyssdal.bsky.social is saying is that BLS produces the official economic statistics that we all rely on and if they start messing with those, no one will no what is really happening -- and whoever is manipulating them can make a killing by knowing the numbers in advance

Who knows what the vote will be, but cutting off federal funding before the nominee for Director of the OMB - who wants to cut off funding - is confirmed gives opponents a lot to work with.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Exacerbated by the fact that we - and by "we" I mean whichever political / apolitical group a person happens to be in - cluster together.

I've been thinking about this paper. A lot. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

Health research is one of those functions that if you stop it, people will not notice the impact tomorrow, or next month. This makes it hard to communicate its value, unlike, closed national parks during a shutdown. But it generates big public goods. Once that community is eroded, hard to recover.

That grants are ceased at NIH is a tragedy for scientists and universities and other scientific institutions. The bigger tragedy is that people who need breakthroughs now have a longer wait.