Youth-Driven Social Media Design: Safe, Inclusive, and Publicly-Owned Social Media 🔊 Can you create it? The @ec.europa.eu is asking 📲 A call for tender is just out. Involve and co-create with youth. Make a prototype. Test and Refine. Deploy, learn and adjust ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

Yeah I really do not think people should be able to get millions of dollars if a fire starts

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

"We’ve locked ourselves in the stupidest possible version of Plato’s cave, where what looks like the spontaneous consensus of the hive mind is often just shadows..put there by marketers, political operatives, foreign-influence campaigns, or anyone else with a few hundred bucks and something to sell"

Top NIH officials have repeatedly said there's no "banned words" at the agency. But the NIH created an algorithm that checks every application for 235 "disfavoured" terms (eg 'gender', 'fossil fuel'). If it finds one, the grant is classified internally as “not clean.” We've published the list.

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

Now you can't "loiter" on the National Mall, the most public of all public land in the United States.

@yale.edu bows down to fascism. President MacInnis and the trustees show what it means to obey in advance. A sad day for my alma mater. What cowards. #VichyYale www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

“apparently, at the chalk talk, I was expected to simply... know things. From my head. Without prompting anything.”

In the face of ongoing pressures and critique (including here by many), the public reaffirmation of the core mission of the National Academy of Sciences is a much-needed signal from incoming NAS President Neil Shubin. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

This is Vinnie. He just got a new splish splash pad and literally can't contain his excitement. Thinks this is going to be the best summer ever. 13/10 (FB: Claudia Carr)

Now out in Child Dev: "If moms do it, it can't be that important: Children's reasoning about gender disparities in domestic work" academic.oup.com/chidev/advan... Kids' awareness that moms do most housework + their intrinsic explanations for this jointly predict their devaluing domestic work 🧵

CITR just submitted a request to intervene on behalf of technology researchers in the X v. European Commission case to explain the importance of the DSA’s data access rules to the CJEU. (⅓) independenttechresearch.org/citr-members...

Fantastic and important work that sheds light on how the fossil fuel industry has put its thumb on the scales of climate solutions research. What kills me is that I expect this from them. I expect better from academic researchers. Collusion just undermines trust and makes it harder to do our jobs.

Thrilled to report our study of Rogan’s audience is published! 2 datasets. 2 different years w range of socio-demog, political, trust-oriented, & epistemic predictors. (Also: Working w @stecula.bsky.social @prowag.bsky.social & @dvshah.bsky.social was stupid fun) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Really excited to see this piece out by the @standupforscience.net Director of Policy and Advocacy @colesci.bsky.social. Believe it or not, the bulk of this was written before the OMB rule proposal...and has, unfortunately, aged like a fine wine. We have some ideas on how to make science better.

I wrote a book! It's called WHY WE ASK WHY, and it's about the human drive to explain, combining psychology, philosophy, and stories. It will be released on October 6, but it's currently available for pre-order from Barnes & Noble at 25% off with code PREORDER25.

Generally speaking, polls have shown the Democratic Party's problem is not being seen as too woke, but weak and ineffective. Judging by tonight's primary results, Democratic Primary voters are intent on fixing this www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

"if you introduce a tertiary character, you must either justify their usage or consolidate them with other tertiary characters" - most books on narrative craft

"We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting...we also have reason to believe that the sale was motivated by fear within Springer Nature that our attempts to doggedly report on the crisis facing science in America today would lead to repercussions from the Trump administration."

One of my favorite experiences as a poll worker. Love celebrating the first time voters. Last election we had a new voter who came in with her mother and grandmother ❤️❤️❤️

Thousands of biomedical studies are stuck in limbo as NIH drags out renewals months after annual budgets expire. Since 2025, the rate of overdue renewals has TRIPLED. This leaves scientists unable to plan, keep staff employed, or maintain long-term research. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NIH 🧪

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How many foreign intel assets are cold-calling Trump? He clearly had no idea who was calling or who he was being asked about, but he picked up & answered Qs anyway (Many of us have elderly relatives who are vulnerable to phone-related scams but typically they don't have the nuclear codes...)

Step 1: Hire overpriced consulting firm. 2: CF recommends centralizing services, eliminating mid-level jobs in local units, & buying new systems software. 3: New software doesn't work. Centralized services unpopular. Promised cost savings never realized. 4: Local staff jobs return. 5: Go to step 1.

Yeah, fuck this. Our public money is essentially being diverted from science to supporting the stock prices of ruling party donors.

In case you didn't think Polymarket was sketchy enough. It paid influencers to use a fake site (poiymarket) to make fake bets that would then look like they won, and then to post viral videos to social media pretending they had won money. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Did I walk 30 minutes in the DC heat just to see and laugh at the reflecting pool? Yes, and it was worth every second!!

Thanks to @bsky.app, I met @solomonrdavid.bsky.social, visited his lab, read some journal articles, went out and did some fieldwork with him on a boat, and now have written this article. Takeaway: Ancient fish are cool. Science is cool. Public institutions should do cool ancient fish science. (gift)

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

"Lalas’s ubiquitousness every World Cup is American TV’s answer to the Iran war: no one wants it, everyone hates it, and as it drags on, it inevitably becomes a face-saving exercise in damage limitation"

Went to the aquarium today! I wish you all: The whimsy of the leopard shark The boldness of the starfish The peace of the harbor seal

Grants flagged by the NIH (still) include “African American,” “Hispanic American,” “Asian American,” “gender,” and “health disparities.” Despite the Bhattacharya’s protestations otherwise, discrimination continues on at the NIH. open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...

Open Mind, the free OA competitor to Cognition (El$evier) founded by Richard Aslin, has nearly caught up to it impact-factor-wise Submit your best work! It's a great journal with fast and constructive review, a great ed board, and lots of cool work Open Mind is the future of cogsci journals!

Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo

I'm sorry, but this is corporate villain in a 1980s kids movie, and he would be 100% guaranteed to end up in green, slimy pool by the end of the film.

the business is called what a what now sorry

My great grandchild: grand papa, how did you celebrate the semiquincentennial? Me (92 years old): well, mostly by learning the chemical processes involving pool painting and the phosphate cycles of algae blooms

Fascinating thread on the green reflecting pool by a scientist who works with cyanobacteria. Very cool.

News: The Onion is launching the new Infowars July 2. After years of legal wrangling and months of maneuvering by Alex Jones's lawyers to block its takeover, the Sandy Hook families are finally getting their first check... from The Onion. www.ms.now/news/onion-s...

Real full-circle moment loading- First semester of college I took "Introduction to the mind-brain: psychological, biological, & philosophical perspectives" & fell in love w cognitive psychology. I vividly remember learning about PDP connectionist models & thinking that they were so freaking cool 1/

there’s a woman on insta experiencing her sixth miscarriage and this time her body didn’t expel on its own so she’s live-blogging the three (3) ultrasounds over two (2) weeks that Florida is requiring her to have to see that her baby is really dead before she can have a D & C

My newest book, "The Elephants in the Room: How Trump Voters Seized the Party from Republican Leaders," hits bookshelves today. If you want to understand the modern GOP, and especially how it saw nominating Trump for a third consecutive time in 2024 as a good idea, this is the book for you. (1/6)

"While MAHA associates gain power and money from sowing distrust in science and spreading misinformation, they are also hobbling research efforts to effectively communicate science to the public. The consequence is that falsehoods remain sticky and mistrust grows."

"What began as relatively benign guidance for university administrators during the Vietnam campus protests of the 1960s has now evolved into nonsensical, ridiculous dogma by UNC system administrators concerned that even a whiff of an opinion on any topic might ruffle feathers."

This is true and honestly I appreciate it when colleagues highlight their work on social media or even email it over if they think it’s relevant or if we’re in the same ‘conversation’. There’s a lot of stuff out there and it’s hard to keep up as a reader so tell people about your publications!

Listen to Batman (and Musgrave)

The jackasses are always going to self promote, so if the good people don’t then only jackasses will be promoted