NEWS: The House has passed the Ukraine Support Act, 226-195, to provide new military aid to Ukraine and impose tougher sanctions on Russia. The bill advanced through a discharge petition despite Speaker Mike Johnson's efforts to block a vote.

US House of Representatives to vote on aid for Ukraine. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/

Hungary has signalled it will drop its long-standing opposition to Ukraine’s bid for EU membership, allowing it and Moldova to begin formal negotiations to join the bloc in the coming days, four diplomats told POLITICO.

I never met Prof. Pacheco-Vega IRL & only knew him from social media. Over and over again, mostly junior scholars & people doing non-mainstream research said how kind he was. The outpouring of grief & love for him is striking tonight. In a biz full of smart people, his kindness distinguished him.

I saw this announcement with shock and sadness. Raul put his heart and soul into teaching and mentoring.

This piece by Jack Watling is as good as many of my colleagues are saying it is. And a signal that policymakers in the EU need to start considering how Putin's potential strategic failure could affect Russia's long term trajectory www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra...

Late to this, but extraordinary stuff. So Aughinish Alumina is, say its Russian owners, producing material that's definitely not for the Russian war but also somehow important enough to trigger one of the classic Russian coercive instruments: the weaponisation of energy. www.rte.ie/news/munster...

“Listen to [the Ukrainians] not the Western press” has been a pretty good guideline all along.

These accidental and not-so accidental incursions test NATO's collective defence. Failure to respond proportionately invites both repetition and escalation - what's an accident now, may not be next time.

Bringing the semester to a close by going to ASN in NYC. Looking forward to it.

In two weeks, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine will have lasted as long as the entire World War I.

An audit of 2.5 million academic papers identified 3,000 biomedical-science papers that contain fake references. The rate of fabrication in 2025 was more than 12 times greater than that in 2023! 28 clinical-trials & 79 systematic reviews contained fake references! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

Russians destroyed the Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv during an overnight missile attack. A renewed exhibition had only recently opened there to mark the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant tragedy.

May 2026 has been a month of endless humiliations for Putin. This is what the Kremlin does to try to cover up for it: engage in terrorism. A 🧵about Putin's nightmare month. bsky.app/profile/savc...

Literally dozens of cruise missiles entering Kyiv airspace right about now. More ballistic launches reported from Russia. Mass drone waves both incoming and here. It is not a pleasant night in Kyiv, unfortunately.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Amazing that people choose to assist Russia’s cognitive warfare campaign, even as Russian soldiers are busily hunting Ukrainian grandmas up-close-and-personal with FPV drones.

This is one of the most exciting pieces of science I have had the privilege to be involved in, led by @rui-xu.bsky.social‬, Bob Desimone, and Mark Richardson: the discovery of actual long-range monosynaptic connections in the human brain! For example the FFA connects to the rTPJ, how cool is that?

There has been a LOT of research on misinformation over the last decade. In a new paper (for Annual Review of Psychology), @dgrand.bsky.social and I attempt to distill the key points of consensus, highlight major disagreements, and point to future directions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A real honor to have this piece written about my work with the Monk Skin Tone Scale. My hope is that momentum keeps building and we can eventually live in a world where we can expect technology to work for everyone regardless of the color of their skin. current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/live...

Last night once again a massive attack on Kyiv, with a Russian strike package of 731 drones and missiles. Impressively, Ukrainian forces intercepted 693 but Kyivans still woke up to find a 9-storey building collapsed. More damage in other parts of the country.

After a massive attack in broad daylight, Russia struck Kyiv overnight with hundreds of drones and missiles. "In the interests of everyone seeking peace, pressure on Russia must continue," says Zelenskyy.

Horror in Kyiv: An entire section of an apartment building collapsed after a russian attack. In the middle of the night while people were sleeping at home‼️

Multiple explosions in Kyiv - ballistic missile and drone attack. More as I type this. It’s not been this loud for a while. Cruise missiles in air (~30) - ETA to Kyiv for some is five minutes Family on plaid blanket in hallway. Cat hiding under bed. More ballistic launches.

2/ More specifically, in countries with lower levels of media freedom, when you query models in the language of that country about politics in that country, you are more likely to get a pro-regime/leadership answer than if you ask in a different language.

1/ New @Nature! We study how powerful institutions shape the information environment for LLMs. Commercial LLM training is opaque, so we trace a path from state-coordinated media -> training data -> model responses.

⚡️ Breaking: Russia launches daytime mass attack with over 200 drones on Ukraine. Air raid alerts rang out across Ukraine as a massive swarm of attack drones crossed the Russian border shortly after 11:00 a.m. local time.

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

Zelensky has decided to allow Russia to have a parade in Moscow. This is top-level trolling.

From the start of Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine, too many non-specialist commentators and too many people in policymaking in the US and Europe have been unable to imagine Russian failure, even though the likelihood of it was clear from the start.

How are AI images and videos changing the world we live in? How can we even still tell what is real and what is not? In an effort to find out, I visited Hany Farid, „sort of the dean of digital forensics“, for a couple of days in Berkeley. It was eye-opening. My story in @science.org 🧪

“I wish we lived in the Tom Clancy world where analyst assessments form a decisive input into policy, but often decision makers already have strong assumptions about the situation, and know what they want to do – or don’t want to do.” — Michael Kofman responds to my critique of Ukr. war predictions.

New peer-reviewed paper w/ @mheilbron.bsky.social, @predictivebrain.bsky.social & Jakub Szewczyk! Pre-onset brain encoding has been taken as evidence that brains–like LLMs–predict upcoming words. We show that the same signatures arise in systems that cannot predict. (elifesciences.org) (1/8)

Intended to be a humanities + arts major, took Intro Psych as a college first-year only to get the science requirement out of the way. The psych profs quickly won me over to experimental psych/neuroscience.

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

Excellent news. Elections (in Hungary) have consequences. And despite JD Vance, Trump, and Putin doing their bits, the EU is leading the Free World. Russia is not winning. Ukraine is still free. And the wind is in the pro-democracy sails in the US as well as Hungary.

New post! Are you following @sketchplanations.bsky.social ? He is great at explaining complex ideas via text and images, and some of those complex ideas are statistical.

Putin signed a decree today renaming the FSB Academy in honor of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the creator of the Cheka, responsible for political terror after the 1917 revolution and a predecessor of the KGB & FSB. The decree hails Dzerzhinsky's "outstanding contribution to state security."

Huge expectations in Brussels this morning: the 27 ambassadors will try to unblock the €90 billion loan for Ukraine, vetoed by Hungary, and the 20th package of sanctions against Russia, vetoed by Hungary and Slovakia. Will it happen? Stay tuned...

🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social

Postdoc fellowship in developmental science at Wesleyan University. Joint in Barth lab (cognition & development) & Dubar lab (sleep & psychosocial adjustment). Particular focus on undergrad research mentoring. 1 year, extendable to 2 years. Pls share! wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

NEWSFLASH: US renews sanctions waiver for Russian oil. Late on Friday night – apparently to escape public notice – the Trump administration reversed their pledge, renewing lapsed sanctions waivers for Russian oil.

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Brutal night in Kyiv, Odesa, other Ukrainian cities pounded by Russian drone (and probably missile) attacks. 4 killed in Kyiv; 48 wounded; 8 killed in Odesa; 16 wounded.

a deep dive into many bad predictions, and a few good ones, and what they mean for thinking about future conflict