This is an excellent essay by Shae Omonijo describing how the decline in critical thinking began long before the recent rise of AI, and that AI is accelerating existing trends. shaeomonijo.substack.com/p/something-...

Exploring the experiences and wellbeing of competitive women, transgender, and gender diverse gamers by Cecilie Lolansen, Tyrone L. Burleigh, @drliamcahill.bsky.social & Eden Morley www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

can you teach something at Texas A&M? just follow this flowchart. www.chronicle.com/article/insi... via @jasperjsmith.bsky.social and @mzahneis.bsky.social

The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today. www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/b...

You can read the letter here: csa-scientist-open-letter.org/ageverif-Feb...

A large number of privacy and infosec researchers have published a detailed letter calling for a moratorium on laws requiring age assurance technologies until there is a scientific consensus on the risk/benefit tradeoff of using them www.politico.eu/article/age-...

"Once built, this surveillance infrastructure will be abused, just as every prior expansion of government surveillance and censorship power has been. We must do everything in our power to stop these laws where we can and preserve a free and open internet." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you're lamenting the loss of critical video investigative journalism bc the biggest sites don't tend to keep around the folks with those skills, have i got done good news for you.

@pkrugman.bsky.social at his most trenchant. The Economics of Technological Change: What history and models can (and can’t) tell us about AI open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

ONE. THIRD. and countless lives destroyed because of it.

I have little to say tonight beyond expressing horror and grief at America's latest evil act. But Dayal's point here is worth echoing. I'm old enough to remember that the war in Iraq had a long build up with an attempt to manufacture a case through the UN. Here, they just bombed.

Interesting (via @Visualcapitalist) www.voronoiapp.com/public-opini...

Huang, H.-C. (Brad), & Evans, J. B. (2026). Confront in public, validate in private: Effective male allyship responses to sexist remarks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/pspi...

This informational video on enshittification by the Norwegian Consumer Council is absolutely glorious.

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

If you're in academia and you think we can just "ride this out," please read this #thread and think about how the current attacks on scientific research disproportionately affect junior researchers- who are literally the future.

Title: "Ban, Improve, or Ignore? Social Media Regulation From a Communication Research Perspective". Last week I gave my inaugural lecture at University of Zurich, @ikmz.bsky.social. Now online on YouTube.

📝 Latest Article Alert! 📝 "A Delphi survey on attitudes to serious research misconduct: Exploring convergence vs. polarization of views of research “sleuths” and research integrity experts" @deevybee.bsky.social → doi.org/10.1080/0898... #ResearchIntegrity #ResearchSleuths #ResearchFraud

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

The ideological paradox of Technologism by Ashley E. Martin & Shiri Melumad doi.org/10.1016/j.je... "I believe that AI will fix society" *hand waves away the hows and nuances*

Clear and brief communication on a critical topic. If you care about ways of making social media better give this one a scan!

Academics, this is a really, really important story to stay abreast of.

“Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the previous one” fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Perpetrators have long used new technologies to enable abusive behavior. @mharrisondupre.bsky.social finds that AI delusions are amplifying domestic abuse, harassment, and stalking in disturbing ways. futurism.com/artificial-i...

“Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. She says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone”

"Disciplines reject what isn’t intellectually valid... If the discipline of Geology determines that the flat-Earth theory doesn’t meet its standards, geologists do not need to hire flat-Earthers and provide lessons in flat-Earth theory to their students." stanforddaily.com/2026/02/17/v...

nice to know we were fighting the big bad all along i guess

Documenting a ‘Drastically Changing’ Scientific Landscape www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/i...

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

This was written last year... now we know that it is extremely concerning and haphazard open.substack.com/pub/grimoire...

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"? www.techdirt.com/202...

Add this to research that suggests that as Musk took over Twitter (but before Twitter became X), the algorithm there was serving up content that leaned markedly to the right, even for users whose networks leaned left. www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.06129

Mark Zuckerberg stuck to Big Tech’s favorite tactic during the social media addiction trial: deny, deflect, delay. But Meta’s own documents show the truth. They knew children under 13 were getting onto Instagram. They ignored warnings that beauty filters harm kids’ mental health.

Governments telling professors and students what they’re not allowed to talk and think about. Nakedly authoritarian and also, should work great. There are few things young people respond to more obediently than having politicians tell them what they’re allowed to think about. s/

The mod that makes The Sims 4 sexy: aftermath.site/sims-4-wicked-...

How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof Results will be shared here!

No, not the obscure chess move. This: jilliancyork.com/2021/01/14/e...

This is particularly weird because most of Open Science boils down to: just be honest. Write down in your paper what you actually did. Seems a rather low bar for any science, but apparently pointing this out touches upon a very sensitive issue for some fellow academics.

"name and shame them" so yeah the number of times I've seen multiple women come together with binders of evidence about a single man and essentially nothing happened to him kiiiinda discourages that approach

It's nice to see more academic journals cover the importance of scientists meeting people where they are (social media) in order to share evidence-based information. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

📣 New preprint! We brought together experts from academia, major video game studios, NGOs, funding bodies, and civil society groups to ask: what should be prioritised when it comes to the future of video games? 🧵

Just 85 experts 😓, it should've been double that number

One of my current projects is a book that will likely interest of perhaps four or five people (give or take) is a monograph on the history of research on the weapons effect. I start out with a discussion of the conditions (social & research) in the mid-1960s that led to Berkowitz & Lepage (1967). /1

Loyalty to favoured groups trumps the effects of causal structure in making causal judgments on issues of politics. When identities are not provided, causal structure matters; when they are known, they are almost all that matters. Here is the link to our study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The distinction between grassroots activism and automated influence is collapsing. We typically worry about "bot farms" or "troll factories." But a distinct, more complex threat is emerging. We call it "Cyborg Propaganda."

Sharing this one last time before the survey closes at the end of February. If you had an NSFW game posted to Steam or itch.io in July, consider participating in our survey.

Babbage, 1830, discussing the problem that scientists selectively report findings that they want to be true. Confirmation bias is a strong human tendency. This is why we need to design science in a way that prevents conformation bias from leading us away from the truth.

I ran into the same problem described in @malte.the100.ci et al's paper of meta-science authors hiding which papers they've studied. This anonymization practice is antithetical to scientific norms and the entire purpose of meta-science. Old blog post about it: