The fantasy of university admins everywhere is becoming reality. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

American empire ending because billionaires convinced idiots into thinking that making electricity without destroying something is too gay

Hi I'm posting a 54-page PDF to the only app where when I post a 54-page PDF people sometimes read it everyone should read the ENTIRE whistleblower statement about DOGE attempting to falsely "kill off" 2.7 people through the SSA Death Master File. www.washingtonpost.com/documents/be...

NEW: The chair of the President’s Cancer Panel, Dr. Harvey Risch, is a co-author on a study touting ivermectin for cancer. The study is backed by two anti-vax orgs, including The Wellness Company, which sells the drug and with which he is affiliated. www.importantcontext.news/p/chair-of-p...

Unbelievably chilling, shameful collaborationist behavior by a medical association Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We'll come out of this. And let me tell you something: If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were.”

Some theses on #slop. A thread. Slop is automated ideology. It's content made of content, optimized for circulation, prompted, shaped, and refined through feedback loops of adaptation to platform conditions 1/

Huh. I suppose nothing screams Pride Month more than coming back from queer times with your amazing girlfriend to find you've been CENSURED FOR HERESY for criticizing the papacy. I mean, c'mon, I enjoy a little medieval re-enactment too, but this is ridiculous.

I agree with @cdelawalla.bsky.social and @standupforscience.net. @aaup.org & @aft.org will join this fight to protect our grants!!!!!

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

See how insane it sounds? But this is what she is doing at Delaney Hall. History will not be kind.

What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ

This is my hometown (it’s Sulphur Springs). There’s so much more than this nonsense too. But my biggest take away is that the residents in this R+31 county came out in force opposing the data center. I’d love to see a D party coming out strongly against them this fall but not holding out hopes.

"Misinformation from top health officials in the Trump administration has created a “crisis of public trust” – and Congress should conduct oversight hearings and possibly impeach officials such as Robert F Kennedy Jr."

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Congrats to Ezra Klein on being favorably cited by the OMB proposed rule to obliterate American science funding! 🥳 Presumably this is also part of the "Abundance" agenda, I dunno. 🤷‍♂️ ("Ditch II" there is a Heritage Foundation report.) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

🚨UPDATE: We will launch our action center on this issue tomorrow. 📣JOIN US: Emergency Science Meeting (Virtual) June 2nd at 4pm et. Details to come. Our Policy Team has read through the entire 400 page hot mess express from Russ Vought...here are the high level details. A Thread🧵 1/x

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

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To explain this for my non-science followers. Such a proposal would be to create a black box around review of scientific proposals - this reduction in transparency is what you would do if you wanted to make political or partisan decisions about funding and not scientific ones

@seligmanforag.bsky.social gets at something key here: Even if Polis thought placating Trump was wise, it’s still a betrayal of Colorado’s right to republican government. If that’s what happened, it’s the legislature’s obligation to remove him, quite apart from anything specific about Peters’s case.

It's a machine that makes you stupid, but it's also a machine that makes you *insufferable* www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pope Leo is 🔥: "So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships...nor do they have a moral conscience... a form of statistical adaptation...does not imply inner growth."

There’s so much wrong with this article — factually, tonally, & in its framing — but the most disturbing to me is the unexamined use of “unity.” Who was white Christian America united AGAINST, Ron?

The newfound Dem fondness for cutting people's taxes is profoundly shortsighted one-weird-trick thinking. What we actually need to do is to reinvigorate the idea of civic virtue, and part of that is doing our part to contribute to collective well-being. Paying taxes is good. Skin in the game.

New NIH policy demands advance approval of any foreign co-authors drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/n...

NIH published an RFA & the strike through changes to censor the RFA were somehow left in. They removed the word “diverse HFpEF cohort” & “accrual goals for women, minorities, and individuals of all ages.” Screenshots attached as they may update the link. files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

If you thought the big problem in your party was voters thinking (in this case, wrongly!) that its leaders endorsed and ran on unpopular ideological positions, why would you spend millions of $ highlighting fringe pols and their positions? RNC doesn’t run ads highlighting fringe Republicans!

Late in the afternoon on Friday (yesterday), HHS/NIH did 2 things: 1) They RIFd more employees (despite the extreme staffing shortages). 2) They sent announcements to supervisors letting them know people in their chain of command will be moved to the career/policy “at will” status. 🧵1/3

The AAUP is proud to support the Sanders/AOC AI Data Center Moratorium Act because the future of technology must be governed democratically, sustainably, & in service of working people—not corporate profit. ➡️https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-backs-data-center-moratorium

A draft environmental impact statement on the production of the trigger devices for nuclear weapons faced overwhelming public pushback Thursday evening at a Santa Fe hearing. Roughly 130 people attended and were almost all against production in their backyard. sfnm.co/4tBTvUU

Are you, like me, calling your Members of Congress tonight to ask that they push for reinstatement of the National Science Board? Need an easy, informative script to follow? @standupforscience.net has one for you in their Open Letter at www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter...

New demo featuring my friend Xenia Rubinos and L’Rain 🧡

There’s something real tough about being in the early stages of a career and seeing the adaptation of LLMs into that field. One reason I got into psychology is because it is the field that decided individuals are worth being studied as individual parts of a collective whole.

NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime. “I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”

The Gallup Poll survived its very messy breakup with CNN in 2006, but I don’t think it will survive this. No one has figured out how to remove systematic errors or increase reliability or validity of simulated aggregate results. It’s killing its most visible brand for very bad reasons; what a shame.

“The dismissal of the board might seem like a bureaucratic move, but it is a bellwether of the administration removing expertise and independence from our democracy,” Delawalla says. [SIGN YOUR SUPPORT LINKED BELOW] www.scientificamerican.com/article/nati...

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

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

wild stuff e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez won a historic sum of $375 million in a landmark child safety case against Meta earlier this year. The next stage of the fight begins today, and it could be even more consequential for Meta and the social media industry at large.

Always follow Sarah. She knows her stuff! #AgSky #ClimateSky 🌱🫘

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science

Oh right, food

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.