Great news!

With the federal government poised to (illegally) kill off the EPA's climate authority, what has been an open secret is now the only game in town: If you want to make progress on climate, you need to focus on the States. This is our dna at @climatecabinet.org. Here's the playbook:

"We’re not continuing on the same path we had before. Something has changed." A @washingtonpost.com analysis of a dataset from NASA, which it used to analyze global average surface temperatures from 1880 to 2025, shows the *fastest* global warming rate on record occurred in the last 30 years. Oh.

Like CBS, Gallup just succumbed to Trump. No more presidential approval numbers after sinking to the high 30s. Coming soon - the new Trump-Gallup poll, with 95% approval for Trump. thehill.com/homenews/med...

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

#OpenAccess from Politics and the Life Sciences - Conspiracy thinking in American politics - https://cup.org/4aBsTwW - @davinphoenix.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @davidakaye.bsky.social, @laurennross.bsky.social#OpenAccesset al #FirstView

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Delighted to share the news that my wonderful #HPS colleague @miguelohn.bsky.social has been appointed the next Director of the BU Center for Philosophy & History of Science, beginning July 1st. Congrats Miguel! www.bu.edu/cphs/about/

Congratulations to Jennifer Eberhardt for making TIME's 2026 "Closers" list! Recognizing Black leaders who are addressing racial disparities in different fields and in different ways. #Bias #AI #Psychology

"Meta’s internal research demonstrates clear knowledge of frequent and severe harms (e.g., increases in social comparison, body dissatisfaction, anxiety, depressive symptoms, exposure to sexual content and harassment...) at scale." metasinternalresearch.org

Big news, dorks: We're going NATIONAL! Join us for our National Day of Action on March 7th in Washington DC, or at one of our satellite rallies across the US. We're taking back our science, health, and democracy! Find or host your local rally! standupforscience.net/march7 (Link in bio!)

🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...

ICE killed another Minnesotan. there is video and it is very bad. www.facebook.com/share/r/1aPB...

Truly we should all be striking everywhere. Not just Minnesota

I don’t know what PR team possums hired, but I thought the one showing up in our yard was adorable until it started taking chomps of our chickens tail feathers

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Researchers studying the impact of social media on society—everything from effects on teenagers’ mental health to the spread of misinformation—often work with the companies that run these platforms. But these ties evidently run much deeper than the scientific record acknowledges.

My ex-advisee Ben Genta writes about the promise and perils of using AI in systematic literature reviews. It can greatly speed progress and continually integrate new findings, but risks error and inconsistency. newrepublic.com/article/2045...

A thoughtful response to our recent preprint from @broniatowski.bsky.social broniatowski.substack.com/p/when-is-a-...

"The deeper question is not whether every co-authorship should trigger a disclosure. It is whether we are willing to treat social media research as a domain where integrity safeguards scale with stakes."

At least there is some good news today

The Trump Admin constantly tries to tell us that only woke blue states are moving toward clean energy. The speed and scale of the wind, solar and energy storage buildout in Texas tells a very different story.

On its face, ICE targeting the Native community in Minneapolis seems weird, until you look at Kristi Noem’s history as South Dakota’s governor. You can’t get much further from the US-Mexico border than South Dakota. 🧵

Great piece on prioritizing quality over quantity in scientific publication. For those of us with labs, this necessarily involves shrinking our group size. After I got tenure I started to downsize my lab and have not regretted it one iota. More time for each student & more time to think & write.

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

Every new high is treated like the new normal, but the new normal is rapid change. I couldn't think of a better descriptor for the coming year than "fire horse."

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Social media research has a conflict of interest problem: “these findings suggest industry influence in social media research is extensive, impactful, and often opaque” A real concern is that this may incentivize scholars to minimize the harms of social media platforms arxiv.org/pdf/2601.11507

"Undisclosed ties to industry are common ... among authors, ... reviewers and academic editors ... industry ties are associated with a topical focus away from impacts of platform-scale features." @jbakcoleman.bsky.social et al. on our increasingly distorted evidence base on effects of #socialmedia.

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Kai's write up and @cailinmeister.bsky.social's thread do a great job of summarizing our results. Rather than cover them a third time, I thought I'd clarify some misconceptions over our piece and COIS more broadly that keep cropping up scattered across replies. 🧵🧪

Great thread from our resident expert on industry influence, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, enumerating and contextualizing the key results of our recent preprint.

Some coverage of our new findings, with perspectives and thoughts from @shelbygrossman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social

Many thanks to @kakape.bsky.social for covering our new work on industry ties to social media research!

Who is the Big Tobacco of today? In new work, we find 50% of high profile social media papers are connected to big tech through funding, collaboration and employment. Most connections aren't disclosed. @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @jevinwest.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com 1 arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry? New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com. Thread tomorrow. arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area? Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more. disinfoinstitute.org

My 4 yo was looking over my shoulder and said “I think those are bad guys trying to take her, and she’s yelling help”

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

Trump's appellate judges have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. How often they ruled for him in 2025: Trump appointees: 92% Other Republican appointees: 68% Democratic appointees: 27% @schwartzesque.bsky.social Emma Schartz www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

Another ICE shooting today. Do they feel emboldened?

Woah the US withdrawing from this feels like it could be a big deal, and very bad news indeed. This has been one of the primary means of coordinating the scientific community's advice giving to governments and international organisations.

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

heartsick for our country today, and all the lives torn apart by our administration

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Just wanted to share that as we crossed into the New Year I had one more 2025 citation than @jamesowenweatherall.com which I believe means that for next year I get my way in all household disagreements. Thank you colleagues, I won't waste this opportunity.