Super exciting work, and a bonus to see a major university research department promote an exciting @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint rather than wait 9-12 months for the final version 👏🏽 @asapbio.bsky.social

"Between June 9, when the video dropped, and the June 14 registration deadline, 54,291 people registered to vote... That’s 82% of all the voters who registered in June and 43% of all registrations in 2025 before the June 14 cutoff."

Why no causal effect of candidate left-right ideology anymore? It doesn't mean "there are no tradeoffs in politics." But it does mean you can't simply Turn the Dial to Moderate or Turn the Dial to Left to win

Updated paper with @adambonica.bsky.social w/ many more measures of candidate ideology Mass politics is volatile & uncertain these days, and you should take very confident pundit/consultant claims about What Candidates Should Do™ with a big grain of salt www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mjih7...

Hey guys heads up – Republicans are repeating the same braindead lie about health care for undocumented immigrants to try and distract from their open efforts to spike your premiums.

Exclusive: "The CDC is far too important to just give up on" says Susan Monarez, who was director of the CDC for just 29 days under the current administration go.nature.com/4pSmanQ

Yes yes yes. A lesson in this even for people who aren’t CEOs but who are a little bit of a somebody.

On the one hand, I'm so proud and in awe of these young people who are taking care of their community. On the other, I can't believe in 2025 that women have been reduced to starting underground birth control networks apnews.com/article/abor...

I have become the person who comments directly on pdfs (vs writing down notes in a separate file) and I'm not sure why I feel conflicted about this 😬

Democrat Cliff Johnson says he will stand up for “vulnerable” Mississippians and bring “Mississippi values” to Washington, D.C., if voters elect him to serve Mississippi’s 1st Congressional District, he said in an announcement today.

🚨 New from our lab in #ScienceAdvances! RAD21L cohesin acts as both a 3D genome architect and a transcriptional gatekeeper in the male germline. Its loss disrupts both structure and function—highlighting the tight link between genome folding and gene regulation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Powerful interview of recently fired CDC director by @maxkozlov.bsky.social . What unfolded is chilling and also sad to read in her words. The decimation of the CDC is a low point in global public health history because its impact extended beyond America. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Yesterday’s #OTD *should* have been astrophysicist Dr. George Carruthers, born 1939. He developed a UV spectrograph (launched in 1970 on a sounding rocket) that confirmed the existence of interstellar hydrogen, and a similar device placed on the moon by Apollo 16. 🧪 ⚛️ Image: US Naval Research Lab

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On October 6, please join me, @richardsever.bsky.social, @rachelzamzow.bsky.social, and @gabestein.com for a virtual panel: how can we make sure open science advances not just science itself, but society’s understanding of, trust in, and willingness to invest in research? Register here:

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Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

Reason #1000 I'm glad I escaped UT six years ago www.statesman.com/news/educati...

Yeah. Because it's illegal.

Was an undergrad at UT Austin. Have an incredible fondness for the institution, its faculty, staff, students, and leadership—when I was there. What was one of the best public universities in the U.S. becomes more and more unrecognizable in the face of the nonsense Republicans have subjected it to.

Today is the first class meeting of the Inclusivity in STEMM seminar I’ve been doing since 2020. One of the first things we’re going to discuss is how all this *gestures at everything* makes it super easy to tell performative from genuine DEI efforts

A lot of the resistance I’ve encountered in my own sphere is from liberal white profs who set up shop ca. 1990, slapped a coat of gloss over “I don’t see color! I run my lab based on MERIT alone!” and are pissed as hell that they are now being asked to examine all the ways this approach falls short

The Compact says "Signatories commit... to transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas." What does this mean for units teaching evolution, history, or climate change? www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

My dream is to add a million bonus rounds like Worldle: worldle.teuteuf.fr Masterclass in bonus rounds

I hatched this idea a couple of years ago with Anna Preus, who picked many of the poems and passages. There are some real gems in here! We're open to adding other passages/authors and/or being sponsored by a major literary organization 😅 The Humanities Data Lab would love some collabs!

I just tried this and it's fun and beautifully designed (and maybe not *that* hard for someone who teaches English lit.!).

a spot of good news, finally.

We can remember Goodall’s accomplishments and legacy while recognizing that National Geographic created a narrative that erased the local people who contributed to her research. Her African colleagues deserve to be credited, not erased (10/10).

While Goodall received her PhD in the 1960s, it was not until the 2000s that Ugandan Emily Otali became the first African woman to complete a PhD on chimpanzee behavior. The networks that facilitated European and North Americans researchers impeded the same opportunities for Africans (9/10)

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

What the narrative leaves out is the contributions of the local Tanzanians who assisted and facilitated Goodall's early research, as well as preceding and concurrent research. Nat Geo created a story about a lone white woman alone with chimpanzees, erasing the Africans that were beside her (3/10)

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

Very nice reporting on the importance—and the vulnerability— of model organism databases www.nature.com/articles/d41...

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society 22% in 2022 47% in 2025 No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Reveling in the fact that we can post our own gifs on Bsky now. My gift to you, @fim.bsky.social at the cheesiest tiki bar in Hawaii that we could find.

The leader of the Senate declaring Congress cannot act as a check on the executive is …bad

This is how I grew up, having to piece together important cultural histories that were not directly taught in classrooms or most popular culture (bless PBS!). And we can't forget that this is EXACTLY what the current regime wants to go back to

A good political message for Dems is that Republicans say they are unwilling to hold Trump/Vought accountable, so elect someone who is.

This is apropos of a thread about what publications lose when they lose older culture writers and only have young ones. All I'll say about that is that learning about cultural history is a lifetime's work, and if you do this for a living, there's no shame in not knowing, only in not trying to learn.

As some of you know, for 4 years I've been working on a book about the last 80 years of popular culture as a flashpoint for the gay rights struggle. Sometimes I've wondered who it's for. Then yesterday a young gay man, maybe 23, asked me if Stonewall happened because everyone was in NYC for Pride. >

"Undocumented immigrants in the United States are barred from applying for federally funded healthcare, including Medicaid and subsidized plans from the ACA. They also cannot receive, as Trump claimed, 'Medicare—the Cadillac Medicare.'"

We end on asking you to use our lens where useful to note Pygmalion displacements as a first step towards escaping the cycle of sexist AI-based harm. When a parallel between women and AI is drawn, ask whom does that bait-and-switch serve?

I've a preprint with Annelies K. and Lelia E. that is relevant to feminised people and our relationship to AI; dehumanisation here follows previously underdiscussed patterns from AI's inception: Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jqxb6

If people want to understand and read more, see: Erscoi, L., Kleinherenbrink, A. V., & Guest, O. (2023, February 11). Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. doi.org/10.31235/osf... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

I know you mean "new news articles", and you're probably familiar with this work already ... but you can't get a more perfect example of Pygmalion displacement than hey what if we literally replace female actors with AI bsky.app/profile/oliv...

This isn’t just “hey, I like this other old artist from the 20th century”. It’s about erasure of Black artists — again — and the difference between a billionaire buying off _and rewarding_ those who owned her masters, and someone *actually fighting* those who controlled their master recordings.

For what it’s worth, the contemporary story of Dua Lipa getting control of her masters and building a media empire is both more interesting and more structurally impactful than Taylor just buying back her catalog, notwithstanding Taylor’s higher profile. That’s another thing context makes clear.

Yes, Olivia Rodrigo was inspired by Taylor to get control of her masters, and that’s great! But Prince helped Hendrix’s estate get back control of his recordings. And pushed everyone from Madonna to Nas to DMX to Mariah Carey to Jay Z on owning their masters *decades* earlier. That opened the door.

Pressure to reject the compact should come from all sides: Alumni, students, current employees, AND anyone who engages with people or work from the institution, high school students looking to attend, etc. We say NO. @standupforscience.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...