Not one but TWO awesome positions available with KGI - both for early career folks. We are so excited to fill these positions, come work with us!

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

One of the apparent consequences of pervasive bullshitting is that words start to lose meaning. They stop carrying weight. The President accusing a journalist of treason - a capital offense- provokes no reaction whatsoever.

Sorry for the delayed update, but the bill has passed! 🎉🎉🎉 It will go into effect in August. this really is the first law in the US explicitly prohibiting the technology/service of AI nudification/deepfake pornography. Would love to see this as a model nationwide www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Broad-ranging expert brief by Brennan Center for Justice @brennancenter.org synthesizing work by many independent groups that reveals the costs of attacks on science in terms of economic activity, jobs, discovery, health & leadership. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

annals of book research, part one no amount of prior experience in child development can prepare you for this insane 1998 bill from the State of Florida, which REQUIRES state-funded daycares to PLAY CLASSICAL MUSIC TO INFANTS because they have ONE HUNDRED BILLION BRAIN CELLS

Now this is medieval.

just had a solid laugh at this lil baby bird's expense 😭 like it's so smol but has these size 13 feet? and a bald spot?

🚨New Bright Line Watch report on the rule of law in the US - joint w/@rickhasen.bsky.social's Strengthening Democracy Project at UCLA Law The most comprehensive expert survey to date - 21 federal judges, 113 elite lawyers, and 193 law profs brightlinewatch.org/erosion-of-t... 🧵 on findings below ⬇️

NSF is devoting a large chunk of increasingly scarce resources to people who are not affiliated with universities. My first read on this is, it's just corruption. It'll be a lot easier for grifters and politically connected dipshits to get their hands on public cash through this mechanism.

“The U.S. National Science Foundation X-Labs (NSF X-Labs) initiative is designed to launch and scale a new generation of organizations focused on independent research, development and innovation.” We have those, thanks, they’re called universities and national laboratories.

Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”

Perfect metaphor. Twitter has fully morphed into a Habermosh-pit at a neo-Nazi skinhead concert. Niche platforms like Bluesky will never match the reach of Twitter or Facebook at their peak, but that doesn't mean it can't be a pleasant place to hang out, talk about cool shit, and learn new things.

This is what happens when there's historically low trust in the Presidents of the United States of America

Or, put another way: we need the carefully crafted nonsense of the jabberwocky. We also need to be attentive to making rhythm for the sake of feeling its cadence, not because it makes technology better. bsky.app/profile/chan...

The honest version of this post would note that these are white Republicans trying to eliminate the district of the state's only Black US rep. You cannot tell this story properly without headlining the racism.

legit enjoyed this more than every baseball game i have ever been forced to watch COMBINED

There are so many Black self-liberation stories like this - just the coolest shit anyone’s done & I truly believe that if America liked stories of revolutionaries or rebels defeating elites as much as we used to act like we do we would have mined these types of stories more for film & television.

Texas is banning students from writing on LGBTQ topics and removing any references to gender identity and sexual orientation. You'll never guess what the author here hasn't covered but then immediately wrote this piece.

I don't really have much to say about the NY Times covering that NYU students don't want Jon Haidt as their graduation speaker beyond the fact that the paper has not covered this case (or more like it) which involves state censorship of faculty speech. It is monumentally more important.

1/ Excited to report we have a new paper out @nature.com today! The bottom line: training data for LLMs does not just fall from the sky - it is created in the context of existing social political institutions - and that has consequences for LLM output. nature.com/articles/s41...

New in Nature: LLMs give "the party line" in the languages of authoritarian regimes. This works when they control the media, which feeds pretraining data. We show more state control over the media means less critical LLMs. 6 studies spanning 38 languages & 13 models. Details ↓

Another example of how conspiracy theories of election fraud lead to bad laws that add chaos, confusion, and uncertainty, and this in turn will likely lead to real issues (with voting and vote counting), more rumors and conspiracy theories, and a less trustworthy election.

Absolute banger from @davekarpf.bsky.social today. Given the fines Musk would have been subject to, it was cheaper for him to buy the government (to the record-breaking tune of $290 million) than face the law. So much corruption. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/a-story-of...

I went to go look, and this time last year, NSF SBE had funded 216 awards. This year, they have funded 2.

Between Makary's resignation and this investigation into NASEM we can learn a valuable lesson: CAPITULATION WILL ONLY GET YOU SO FAR. The face eating leopard party will eventually eat your face. Might as well go down with your integrity and character in tact! burlison.house.gov/media/press-...

Spot on - "our concerns are not about whether one grant or another gets funded, but instead about the independence of science, and the dangers of politicized advice" Thanks to authors @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social, Richard Aslin and Lynn Nadel thebulletin.org/2026/05/nati...

Breaking: Congress is pushing back on the Trump administration's termination of National Science Board members, with the House calling for their reinstatement and the Senate asking pointed questions about OMB's political interference. My reporting for @science.org:

I have bought so so so many books on the basis of Bluesky.

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

"Democratic erosion is rarely a single dramatic break; it’s a series of plausibly deniable moves that normalize power over principle." I wrote that last December in our CHOKEHOLD report for @freepress.bsky.social. And it's my favorite line I revisit often lately. www.freepress.net/attack-on-fr...

Very good reporting and interviewing from Sargent here

Joins a depressingly long list of people who should have known better, including Mitch McConnell after January 6

"I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot, or wasting my time reading something that a real person couldn’t be bothered to write."

National Academy of Sciences experts denounce Trump’s NSF board purge In an open letter, thousands of researchers criticized the White House’s firing of the research agency’s board as ‘an alarming attack’ on U.S. science

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Open letter calling for the reinstatement of the National Science Board. This letter is from leaders of the National Academies Note: This does not refer to the leaders on paper such as presidents of the NAS, NAM, and NAE. www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter... @standupforscience.net

From the Fort Worth Zoo (@fortworthzoo.bsky.social) FB & just in time for Mother's Day, freshly-hatched masked lapwing chicks (Vanellus miles). Native to Australia, NZ, NG, they're fierce parents, willing to charge/swoop at animals that threaten their babies.

This is an interesting piece and connects to a convo i was having with friends yesterday, about how one of my challenges recently is persuading students that I want *their* thoughts and analysis about things, and that it coming *from them* is the entire point. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The “free speech champions” are at it again

The approach described by McNutt in these slides IS partisan and political. It‘s changing behavior based not on science—but on how the political parties act. Scientists and scientific institutions should stand up for facts and good science. But this is rejecting those for political reasons.

From Free Press: “ABC Learns from Past Mistakes, Takes Stronger Stance Against Carr and Trump's Censorship Campaign” www.freepress.net/news/abc-lea...

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

One year later - my reflections on what's happened to US science since the National Science Foundation grant terminations last year. The problem of misinformation isn't going away, but our ability to study and understand it is under attack. 1/ 🧪 www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Well done article from @us.theguardian.com on how the Trump administration's war on science and data is harming the American public. "Experts warn that Trump’s destruction of the country’s data infrastructure will have lasting impacts on all aspects of life..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

By 4 p.m., the NAACP filed in Davidson County Chancery Court for an emergency injuction against the maps. A link to the full filing has been added to our story.

This is a big decision! Mass termination of National Endowment for the Humanities grants (remember DOGE doing this?) "unlawful, unconstitutional... and without legal effect." Terminations violate 1st Amendment & equal protection component of 5th Amendment, "and without statutory authority."

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

So, remember how I was inspired to write an op-ed by reading @lollardfish.bsky.social's new book? Here's the resulting piece. I really do recommend the book - quick read full of actionable tips both both experienced and new public scholars tinyurl.com/2uj47sa7 @hopkinspress.bsky.social

One year later - my reflections on what's happened to US science since the National Science Foundation grant terminations last year. The problem of misinformation isn't going away, but our ability to study and understand it is under attack. 1/ 🧪 www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...