Some people think ChatGPT has a place writing things like news briefs, stuff written to a specific style and tone and, y'know, kinda boring. So Science did a study. ChatGPT failed. Why? It got stuff wrong. "Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was needed." www.science.org/content/blog...

A bit of good news! The pressure worked!

"Trad influencers gloss this unjust workload as a homage to homesteading (and leverage it to market unsubstantiated remedies) instead of calling it what it is: picking up the state’s slack. Cuts to education seem less threatening when you are convinced your role is to homeschool your children" #NCEd

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Cross’s work bucks an idea that has fundamentally shaped government policy since the Moynihan Report in 1965 through welfare reform and contemporary marriage promotion initiatives: that if Black families just got married and stayed together, racial inequality would largely disappear."

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

So much free speech

Wildly irresponsible writing here: “Officials have been reviewing previous research — including an August review by Mount Sinai and Harvard researchers — that suggests a possible link between Tylenol use early on in pregnancy and an increased risk of autism in children.” 🧪 #scicomm

Last year a study of >2.4 million kids born in Sweden looked at Tylenol exposure and autism At first, it seemed like there was a small association. But then they compared siblings where one was exposed in utero and the other wasn’t and found no increased risk jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This is the way. Re-pledged to PBS, as well.

Trump, at the memorial, says where he disagrees with Charlie Kirk is that he hates his opponent and doesn’t want the best for them

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

A Professor of *checks notes* German literature, at UC-Santa Cruz, has a few thoughts on the "radicals who dominate college campuses" and are "poisoning America.. When will we take our campuses back from the destructive radicals who now control them?" www.wsj.com/opinion/amer...

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

Lemme be absolutely clear *every* H-1B visa employee at my (large cap) US firm was summoned back to the office from wherever they were in the world today for this crap. For some, it was utter panic. Appalling.

One thing to understand about most “Disney Adults” is that the parks have only gotten more expensive and crowded while offering less ever since they reopened in 2020 so it doesn’t take that much more to make people stop going. And the theme park forums are rightfully pissed about Kimmel

This is bananas. Florida State ranks 17th on their list—excellent free speech! Meanwhile, an actual student weighs in on how FL state law is censoring speech at Florida State.

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)

Always interesting who people are willing to sacrifice

Seattle Children’s is laying off over 150 staff and slashing hundreds of open positions. Why? Because of Trump and the Republicans' health care cuts. Republicans chose tax breaks for billionaires over care for our kids. This is Trump’s America.

this is wild - i was aware of Mary-Claire King's absurdly important discoveries on BRCA / inherited breast cancer but I had no idea that her first PhD paper (King & Wilson 1975, Science, not bad lol) is the "99% of protein coding shared btwn chimps and humans" result www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment is searching for a senior fellow in California Climate and Energy Policy. www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?... #PAJobMarket

The Department of Political Science and Public Administration (PSPA) seeks applications for a tenure-track faculty position in public administration and policy. www.publicservicecareers.org/jobs/view/as... #PAJobMarket

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Speaking of canceling your Disney+ subscription, my students occasionally think I’m going some sort of “Irish people invented everything” bit when I first tell them where the word “boycott” comes from.

I’m delighted to share that link to my PBS interview about INHERITED INEQUALITY is now available! Follow the link below: youtu.be/w1P79Ryy50w?...

ADD YOUR THOUGHTS ON LIMITING STUDENT VISA TO FOUR YEARS Comment period ends September 29th www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/2

This is a nice opinion by Michigan Court of Claims Judge Brock Swartzle on the importance of the University of Michigan's Diag as a forum for speech: www.courts.michigan.gov/4a6a6f/sitea...

We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch. The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

H1-Bs are how international students transition to US university jobs, right?

We now have Dr. Kuperwasser presenting misleading and unsupported claims that COVID19 vaccines may cause cancer. She is doing so by throwing up vague assertions in the complete absence of any credible evidence of a link between COVID19 vaccines and cancer. This is a disgrace.

“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.” https://to.pbs.org/46AYg7U

nothing is the "whole ball game." Every fight is a fight. We're going to lose a lot of them. None of us can fight every fight. All of us can fight some of the fights. When we lose, we move to the next fight, building community and opposition as we go.

fortunately our corporations are rising to the moment

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

President of Texas A&M resigns. This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

As states around the country are mandated by HR1 to rush to implement Medicaid work requirements by HR 1 the risk for waste of taxpayer $$ to corporate vendors is huge. Federal watchdog report on Georgia's Medicaid program raises concerns about administrative costs apnews.com/article/geor...

Fresh off his apology!

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

This is probably not going to kill children — 85% of kids get MMR and varicella separately anyway. The issue is that it’s a decision that is contrary to the evidence presented.

Despite no significant difference between the combined and separate vaccines according to their own data. That part is important to understand.

Comedians are far quieter today than I would have hoped.

Appalling. We have so much evidence that Medicaid protects peoples’ health and financial well-being. And she knows this.

You are literally, constitutionally and biblically allowed to do this.

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

HAPPENING NOW: 11 lawmakers have been arrested by DHS on the tenth floor of 26 Federal Plaza after trying to gain access for over an hour.