I'm making a puzzle game where you discover German for yourself, starting from shared etymology and cultural knowledge. It's called German Is ~~Awful~~ Easy and the first five levels are up! Feedback welcome! michellefullwood.com/languages/ge... #puzzles #etymology #LearnGerman

Georgia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country — and Black mamas face the worst outcomes. I know that fear personally. That’s why I introduced the Blood Pressure MATTERS Act to help pregnant and postpartum patients access home blood pressure monitors and lifesaving care.

I just want to point out, politely, that there are other colleges apart from Ivy League institutions. They are where most college students go. They are where, believe it or not, America's massive comparative advantage in higher education exist. You would never know this if you read the Times.

Firefox updated and for some reason reset all my setttings. So I'm trying to remember what something I use for multiple hours per day, every day, looks like so I can restore it to that state and stop feeling intense unease every time I look at it. Did I have a theme? Where did these buttons go?

the trans agenda is literally just trans people asking to keep the rights trans people had without much issue until a few years ago, when Republicans started trying to take them away and a frightening amount of Democrats decided some of that was reasonable

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I was just talking about this. AI in a robust social safety net is very different than AI in a scam economy without one.

Short piece w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social addressing errors on the role of scientific models related also to AI misuse seen everywhere not just psychology: On Models, Prediction, and Scientific Roles Thereof: Commentary on Sanbonmatsu et al. (2025) doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

"Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines 70% to 76% effective against severe illness in kids in 2022, data suggest" Incredible that some doctors devoted their nearly their entire pandemic output to making sure kids didn't get this vaccine.

Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, seeks applications for Editor-in-Chief! The SIPS Publications Committee encourages editors with innovative ideas about how Collabra: Psychology can best accomplish its mission to apply.

Yesterday, a new generation of civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery to fight for voting rights. As states across the country try to make it harder for citizens to be heard, we need to learn the lessons of those who came before us and refuse to take our democracy for granted.

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: Did you know that John Snow did not draw his famous cholera map during the 1854 Soho outbreak itself, but in the months afterwards to help explain his water transmission theory to colleagues and the wider world.

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Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

I always send this to my students before their defenses.

At least the reviewer I invited declined within 5 minutes and suggested another reviewer...

As semesters start and you find yourself repeatedly answering emails with the same questions from students, this is my annual reminder that you can make all your frequent responses email signatures and just select them from your signature list to respond. You're welcome. #academicsky

*laughs in archivist* It always amuses me at how little historical material is actually not only digitized but also made available online compared to what lay people think.

Chelsea Perkins murdered the man who raped her. She pled guilty and took full responsibility. She was given 22.5 years in prison. Jesse Mack Butler raped and strangled two children. One sustained such severe neck injuries she almost died. He got community service.

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Explain the steady funding and cuts being considered to anyone who has applied for a NIH R01 grant. Top-scored grants with 10% percentile used to be nearly certain to be funded. Now? A coin flip. joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/moving-the...

Years ago I started replying to keynote/symposia invitations with a provisional accept based on speaker diversity (I decline if ≥ 50% male speakers). Declines are rare but have happened. Receiving a follow-up email like this is so encouraging. 🙏 We CAN make a difference!

🚨 New article klaxon 🚨 Gaby Mahrholz, @emilynordmann.bsky.social and I have our article "Practice What You Preach: Designing Student Assignments That Advance Open and Reproducible Science" published in AMPPS. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

This week, Donald Trump asked a child, "You think you could take me in a fight?" So we at @today.yougov.com obviously polled Americans on the topic. Our results:

Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.

1/6. No, this is wrong. Not about the fuck up - it was HUGE - but the nature of the Worldcon is that each one is its own organization. The Glasgow Worldcon addressed the Chengdu fuck-up head on and was a model of transparency and went a great way to restore the credibility of the award.

Oh Brother Where Art Thou is the best odyssey adaptation because it understands the core truth of the original poem: Odysseus is kind of a dirtbag

Alt text is not the same as a photo caption. Captions are typically written to support a photo, and usually depend on users being able to see the photo. But alt text is meant to be the stand-in for the photo. The alt text is what a screen reader user gets in place of the photo.

The median age of astronauts increased by 11 years between the 1960s and 2010s. This reflects a shift from the era of young military test pilots to modern crews of seasoned commanders and specialized scientists. #30DayChartChallenge | Day 25 - Space #ggplot2

Apparently March-me was smarter than May-me, because I already created that ID variable that I spent the last 10 minutes trying to backtrack and create... Go March-me!

Less than 800 NSF grants awarded over the first half of the fiscal year for the entire country. Previous years were already over 2-3k awards by now. It is not particularly overdramatic to say we are seeing the death of federally funded science research in the United States.

Are you cool? We asked Americans, and 56% say yes, they're at least somewhat cool. 35% say they're not that cool. Check out more in the latest @today.yougov.com newsletter (and subscribe for more polls in your inbox!): substack.com/home/post/p-...

Nyt front page - www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This paper was retracted from the @nejm.org because the images of bronchial branching after smoke inhalation were obviously and transparently manipulated by generative AI. Look at the ruler. I don't even know what lesson to draw from this. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court's majority ruled to demolish the Voting Rights Act's remaining protections, Louisiana and Tennessee have already signaled that they'll redraw their congressional maps with the clear effect of shutting Black voters out.

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

this is what a fingerprint match looks like. notice how the pattern of the prints look almost nothing alike? (makes sense, your fingertips squish and compress when you touch things). but what's with the yellow dots and blue lines? well, that's what's actually being analyzed.

📰 New post alert! Our second #tidymodels cheatsheet is out now! It covers creating models with {parsnip}. We have written a post with an overview of both our current cheatsheets: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... #rstats #DataScience

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

I'm not much of a videographer but have you ever wanted to see a young shrimp riding a jellyfish? Usually if I scoop them the hitchhikers disembark but this one was determined to hold onto his ride. 🦐🤠#InverteFest

🎶 you know the day destroys the night night divides the day tried to run tried to hide BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE

Happy birthday, Dad. Wish you were here. You’d know what to do. Or at least you’d know what to write. ❤️

🚨 Watch the CBS California governor debate tonight. And remember: California has a jungle primary. Top 2 advance, regardless of party. With the field this split, two Republicans on the general ballot is a huge risk. 8 candidates take the stage tonight. Here’s a recap of the top 5.

Good morning BlueSky 💙

Bear cub looking for momma bear 🐻🥹💙

So here is Emily Oster at #NASEM with her last interview question to Jay Bhattacharya asking about the CDC not releasing the results of a recent study showing COVID vaccine effectiveness. She basically serves it up for him to go off on "test-negative design".