This project is trying to raise science awareness by doing short videos about cancelled research — including mine.

A new video in the What We'll Never Know series, featuring Jessica Cantlon's groundbreaking research on improving spatial intelligence 🧪@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social @cantlonlab.bsky.social

The Handbasket's independent journalism holiday gift guide is LIVE! If you want to support indie media *and* give someone a unique gift, consider a paid subscription from this [by no means exhaustive] list of awesome outlets doing the work and doing it right:

An unusual amount of empty poster boards at SFN 2025

In contrast to that NYT mess, here is a GREAT and WISE interview with Professor Dick Aslin: “Let me begin with a larger issue that’s related to your question: When do you stand up for your values?” www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Alarming that the only president willing to say the truth in this conversation is Michael Roth of Wesleyan University 🎁 ‘We Lost Our Mission’: Three University Leaders on the Future of Higher Ed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper? by Larry Summers

A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.

Alan Dershowitz redefining the semantics of "pedophile" isn't hairsplitting, according to the plain meaning of "hairsplitting" by Steven Pinker

Please join @spiantado.bsky.social at @caltech.edu today for an in-person ScienceHomecoming event with The Caltech Y www.caltechy.org/programs/sas...

Steve’s invited to present Science Homecoming to the American Mathematical Association @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

NYC is on pace to see its highest voter turnout since the 1960s. Nearly 2 million New Yorkers have already cast their ballots in the mayoral race between Mamdani and Cuomo — and the polls are still open.

Join this free workshop on Nov 12 with Steven T. Piantadosi of Science Homecoming and learn the how-to's and beneficial impacts of communicating the importance of scientific research to your local community through opinion pieces. Register today. Link in comments.

Come to the workshop at BUCLD @bucld.bsky.social, and bring a pen ✍🏻 www.bu.edu/bucld/

Here's the newest piece in the @nytimes.com "Lost Science" series. @emilyanthes.bsky.social talks to a scientist who was learning about the minds of elephants--and how to use those insights to help the animals coexist with farmers. Gift link: nyti.ms/3KXVSAG

Conservation biologist Tabor Whitney learned to value nature in Colorado’s forests. Now her federally funded work protecting the Colorado River Basin and building resilience against drought, wildfire, and water scarcity is at risk of being cut. 🧪🏠 www.vaildaily.com/opinion/whit...

Just a reminder that if you are a scientist wondering how you can communicate the value of federally-funded scientific research outside of your bubble, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is here to help you pitch and publish in your hometown newspaper sciencehomecoming.com

🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually! RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...

💫 🧠💡This inspiring conference “Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain” has just ended, and I am very grateful for having been there among brilliant scientists connected by a common passion for the brain, and a common friendship with the great Stan Dehaene! Talks (including mine) are online here 👇

The AAUP is doing a skills training for campus organizing. Is your school participating? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This new book sounds interesting

@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has tools for finding local newspapers and writing for them!

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

Participation has been outstanding at every level, across diverse science fields. We’ve published nearly 300 articles in local hometowns. 🧪🏠 Write yours today with help here: sciencehomecoming.com

Have you written to your home community to tell them what’s going on? They likely are unaware of the consequences 🧪🏠 penncapital-star.com/health/resea...

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

“Universities are the incubators of medical breakthroughs.” Long Island native Sam Cermak, now a biomedical PhD student at Northwestern, studies how chronic pain rewires the brain and fuels opioid addiction. Progress takes years, but has already saved many lives 🧪🏠 tbrnewsmedia.com/your-turn-ho...

This is gold. Emmy for Morgan Spector just for the pronunciation of "Cuomo."

Here is a link to share, to spread the news about the importance of science for healthcare nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

When I wrote this for SciAm, the thing that genuinely surprised me most was the number of emails I got (mostly from men) telling me that prior generations of women in science would be ashamed of me for my weakness in writing it. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

🧵 I know it's ridiculous, but when he's talking mitochondrial challenges & inflammation, he's again referring to his idea of vaccine-induced autism. Let me explain.

Where the Science Homecoming authors are from…so far 🧪🏠

🚨 Major shake-up in NSF funding for K-12 STEM ed: Caps proposals at $750K max for 3 years. Prior cap used to be $5M up to 5 years for some programs. Archives several existing programs (DRK-12, AISL, CSforAll, TD, parts of ECR:Core). Combines into broad program with much lower expected # of awards.

I signed. I am a member of the National Academy of Medicine, but more importantly, I am someone who cares about my health and the health of my fellow human beings. Sign! Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho RFK, Jr. has got to go...

Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value. rdcu.be/eCGr7

One reason scientists should WRITE ✍🏻 to small towns and suburbs is that people FORGOT what all science does for them. Interview with @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

The heartbreaking thing about this is that there’s already a proven way to invest lots of money in a knowledge machine that produces unforeseeable results that include fantastically profitable ideas (and some life-saving ones) and generally benefit society and this machine is called a university

The FT has been consistently good on this stuff, the only outlet to really take coreweave seriously, had great reporting, probably my fav business outlet. The Altman oil piece by bryce elder is one of the most devastating things I've ever read www.ft.com/content/b180...

Children build math skills on a “cognitive bridge” between space & number. But where does it come from? Our new study finds monkeys transfer learning and abstractions across geometry & numerosity, revealing the evolutionary roots of basic math development. 🧪🧠 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A clear message about the value of science for Pennsylvania 🧪🏠

i identify liberalism as a product of the enlightenment, which i characterize as the idea that i should continue to be listened to and be paid lots and lots of money for the rest of my life

Science belongs to all of us! Check out this piece Clarissa Thompson and I wrote for a small town paper in southwestern PA as part of the brilliant Science Homecoming @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social series by @cantlonlab.bsky.social and @spiantado.bsky.social. www.dailycourier.com/opinion/why-...

We safely returned to Majuro a week ago after a successful research expedition to the atoll of Aur. View here of Majuro just after sunset on our last day. An incredible experience. Hard to put into words. Next comes the data analysis after a family holiday.

Find me in Colorado Medicine talking about the importance of ALL of us standing up for science and innovation! Read here 👉 issuu.com/colomedsoc/d... Big thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, @thebalelab.bsky.social and Dr. Steven Lowenstein!

Going on TV to announce that you’re an enormous baby who is scared to go out in public has become a core tenet of the Republican Party.

Seeing this again and thinking of all the MAGA men whining that they're afraid to walk down the street.