The House overwhelmingly voted to pass a bill to make daylight saving time permanent

Our friends over at St. Nell's, a writing residency program for women and non-binary writers, are accepting reservations for their fall program. They are looking for satirists this round. Click the link for more info!

Call for #Neuroethics essays for students and trainees: neuroethicsessaycontest.com/call-for-neu... Deadline: August 21 @neuroethics.bsky.social #neuroscience #AI #bioethics

purposeless wanton resource arson, you can ban it www.reuters.com/world/new-yo...

Re: the teaching and AI discourse, we 💯 need to be changing *what* we teach, not just how we teach. And hey-o, my team (all undergraduates!) have added a ton to our growing set of modules teaching AI *methods*, including a causal ML stream, OCR, machine vision ... ubcecon.github.io/praxis-ubc/p...

"The little girl was still in Bluey pajamas. No older than 3, she was trying to smell the flowers. At her side, a pink rolling bag. Her father, Joan Sebastian Guerrero, had just been fatally shot & yanked from a car he’d been driving. He lay handcuffed in the street, where he'd remain for 5 hrs."

Gentle reminder to submit your abstracts for ISPSM 2026! Submissions will close at the end of this month (31/07) ✨ For more details, see: philevents.org/event/show/1...

There’s an increase in cyclosporiasis (a parasite that can cause watery, sometimes explosive, diarrhea) reported in multiple states. What to know ⬇️ 1/

Reasons for decline in fertility involve greater female autonomy and a mismatch between the desires of men and women, from Claudia Goldin www.nber.org/papers/w35425

Are you a savvy storyteller wanting a boost in covering the intersection of science and tech-based growth, industrial policy, and the workforce/education? Apply to our new Future of Work Reporting Fellowship by July 24! www.forbes.com/sites/shalin...

please share any tools, libraries, or other resources that you find helpful for numerous research tasks

Join us Monday @2PM to send a clear message to Congress: Protect our science infrastructure from partisan interference. Peer review, not politics, should guide scientific research. Slashing funding for science that does not conform to Trump’s ideological agenda will harm ALL Americans.

This woman contracted polio as a child about two years before a vaccine became available and spent much of her life in and out of an iron lung to survive. I truly can't fathom anti-vaxxers who seem happy to resurrect these diseases. people.com/the-last-us-...

$1.1 trillion in federal grants is on the line, including Medicaid, Head Start, and community health centers. Learn about a free tool that I built to help you write your public comment in <5 minutes. 🔗 drruth.substack.com/p/i-built-yo... Deadline: July 13. Every voice counts. #medsky #2CFR200

PSA: Our house is on what my spouse calls a “digital rewilding” campaign to change what tech we use and how we use it. We tried all the gizmos to try to make us use our phones less when off work. Ultimately, we bought magnetic mounts to just hang our phones in the kitchen. Worked like a charm.

I do think chatbots have radically altered people's sense of lying and cheating. Students who would never pay someone to write an essay happily pay a bot. Lawyers and academics who wouldn't otherwise fabricate evidence shrug and say "oops" if a bot does it for them.

I broke the cycle by posting about it. Now steeping a lovely cup of Yunnan Gold from @fridaytea.com

Caught in the academic tea cycle: 1. Realizes I could use some tea. 2. Stops working to boil water. 3. Continues working. 4. Go back to 1.

“For example, a 2023 paper found that women were not discriminated against in the ‘we can’t promote her because she’s a woman’ sense; instead, women’s other identity characteristics were weaponized against them through double standards that were not applied to their male peers.”

It is almost blinding to see such wholesome Americanness written into a government document, as we now watch political favoritism and punishment be codified in the rules of places like NSF instead.

We are delighted to invite you to the interdisciplinary workshop of @animalinvention.bsky.social on Agency between Biology and Philosophy. It will take place at UCL and online on 22-23 September. All info and registration details can be found here: www.animalinventiveness.com/post/interna...

In local news: koco.com/article/okla... #oklahoma #education

Please, someone know the answer, because it's familiar and is going to bug me forever if we don't identify it.

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it):

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Happy 4th! 🇺🇸🛸

Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt's discovery completely changed our understanding of the universe. She was born #OTD in 1868. A human "computer" at Harvard College Observatory, she was assigned to study variable stars—stars whose brightness fades and intensifies over time. #WomenInSTEM (1/3)

“Nearly 60% do not know the main purpose of the U.S. Constitution is to limit government power, and do not know why the colonies declared independence from Great Britain.” apple.news/A2zz-0S5zQSq...

BREAKING: The Great American State Fair temporarily closes due to extreme heat in Washington, D.C.

Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.

Job klaxon: we’re hiring a one-year position in the History of 19th and/or 20th century Western medicine broadly construed, with capacity for teaching courses related to women/gender and health history and the history of technology and medicine. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/374...

A fantastic new addition to my Elements in Philosophy of Mind series: The Senses by Ann-Sophie Barwich (@smellosopher.bsky.social) offers a new and refreshing take on an old philosophical topic, grounded firmly in modern neuroscience. And it's open access. Enjoy! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

If you are papermaxxing with AI and swamping academic journals with claude- or chat-prompted scholar-like content, then you are taking the time and labour of editors and reviewers that others who actually put the work in deserve instead.

www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM... Submit your comment here. Read this short piece by lawyer Claudia Polsky to see why science needs you and all your friends and colleagues to write. It’s fast and easy and it will make a difference.

Nomination Deadline Extended: 2026 AI2050 Prizes. New deadline: July 23. www.apaonline.org/news/729946/...

The three largest RAM manufacturers in the world are being sued for allegedly working together to fix the supply and price of memory, leading to the recent surge in price for consumers. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ram-man...

Truly bizarre story of how two papers from the 1940s by physics pioneer Max Planck have been "retracted" from Naturwissenschaften, potentially by an algorithm, for anachronistic "plagiarism" issues, leaving the current editor baffled (but it is Springer Nature so.... www.science.org/content/arti...

Some Sunday Black Boy Joy

Study (N=8,097) finds women more likely to finish a PhD before 30 & have children after 35. Men tended to become parents during doctoral studies & often had 3+ children by 40. Early-career mothers had lower citation rates; fathers had no such penalties. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weird! 400 birds, plus cats, dogs, lizards, and a horse. Oh, and meth, too. koco.com/article/okla...

Updated preprint and code from my lab. If you want to explore more realistic neural dynamics in models that can still perform visual tasks, check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I can't go this year for a pile of reasons, but if you're in the area you should go to Robophilosophy this year in Dublin because it's always a really stellar event! sites.google.com/view/robophi...

We rarely post on social media calls for submissions because (1) we never close for submissions (2) we get plenty of submissions. But, we thought, why not, let's remind people we are (1) free to submit to and (2) pay $75/short story. #litmag #fiction buff.ly/K79OL9S

🚨1/7 New paper(s) alert! What is our brain doing when we feel flow? I've been trying to understand this question for more than 15 years now. I wish I had the answer, but in many ways, much of my research has clarified what the brain *isn't* doing during flow.

I'm starting a lab at the University of Notre Dame! 🎉🍀🧠 Doors open Jan 2027. I'm most excited to meet my future students (recruiting psych grad students for 2027!), help grow a budding neuroscience area, and head home to the midwest after many years away. Please reach out! @notredame.bsky.social

I started reading “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” I’ve never read it. I felt like it was time. Possibly related is that I am currently designing an AI Ethics course.