This should be of great concern to all social science professors as well

Maria Ressa won a Nobel prize in 2021 for her efforts to support free expression against the authoritarian regime of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines.

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”

Good to see this kind of work. More will be needed. Follow @climate.us

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This is a great opportunity!

More important than ever for scientific societies to work together for advocacy and connection. Great to see this!

Super helpful thread.

No UGA students were suspended or expelled for protesting Vietnam. Students who OCCUPIED A BUILDING to protest our ban on undocumented students were disciplined by... wait for it... being required to write an essay.

Yay for promoting student free speech! (eye roll)

Sad news from UGA Psychology, former faculty and later Principal Deputy Director at the CDC, Dr. Ileana Arias, passed away. She was a member of our faculty from 1985-2000 and was a beloved mentor to many students in our Clinical program. She will be missed. www.lordandstephens.com/obituaries/i...

History lesson: Before and during the Civil Rights Movement, folks actually made religious arguments against integration and interracial marriage. Indeed, in the decision that gave rise to Loving v VA, the VA trial court said that God put the races on different continents to prevent race mixing.

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

"This should be obvious, but let’s be clear: Neither the White House nor the U.S. Department of Justice has the authority to hire or fire university presidents. But if you claim a power and everyone acts like you really have power, you totally have that power."

This part. Fighting is the *only* way forward.

In Tommy Tuberville's home state of Alabama, 23% of all personal income comes from transfer payments from the federal government. Alabama is the tenth most dependent on federal funding, getting $1.80 in spending back for every $1 its citizens pay in taxes. www.al.com/politics/202...

In her dissent from today's decision—Mahmoud v. Taylor—Justice Sotomayor says that the court's holding "threatens the very essence of public education," and that its "reverberations" will be felt "for generations." This is a very heartfelt and mournful dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Basic science is essential. "Most drugs don’t begin with research intended to make that drug. In fact, the results of their study showed that 80% of the medicines on their list led back to a discovery from basic research without any intention of creating a new drug" www.chronicle.com/article/in-d...

Hi developmental psychopathology friends– I'm going to be taking over and completely revamping my departments old "disorders of childhood" course into a sleek, modern, developmental psychopathology course. Mixed grad/undergrad. Pretty please share syllabi, fav readings +assignments, etc? 🙏

Wrote about something I found striking during Wednesday's oral argument in US v. Skrmetti--a Supreme Court case that has huge implications for trans people's rights: The sum total of the conservative justices' knowledge about trans people is roughly jack shit ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

It feels like a good time to reflect on the wonder of how maternal #vaccination during pregnancy (including for COVID) protects newborns during their most vulnerable first months. open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...? #medsky #episky #idsky #immunosky

In this op-ed, Alondra Nelson provides dramatic new facts about the current federal science crisis and gives a cogent argument for transparent administration of federally mandated science and information institutions and for protecting congressionally mandated procedures:

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News we can use! 🙌🏼 ☕️

Hope to see friends and colleagues around #srcd25! My lab started off with 3 posters in the first session, with another Thursday afternoon and the an undergrad led poster Friday morning! 🥳 Super proud of these students!

Very excited to be at #srcd25! Not excited to stand in line for an hour to get my registration badge this morning, through a giant open space convention center with NO seating. At least I got to catch up with friends in line! 🤦🏼‍♀️ Planning for accessibility includes ample seating.

"In just the first three months of his second term, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science." TRUTH

Excellent work, all. Now show these to anyone you know who consults LLMs/generative AI for factual information, explain why that is a terrible idea (that's not what it does; horrific environmental impact; ethical issues regarding its stolen training material).

When the open letter from univ prez against Trump over-reach was released on Tues morning, it had 180 signers. By Tues evening, over 270. Through the day Wed (yesterday) it went into mid-300s. This morning, Thurs, starts at more than 400. This is significant. (Point of my post.)

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”

"We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree. If scientists are censored, we can't have excellent science." -NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. 9 days ago on Fox and Friends.

The important thing here is that some brave people said NO and they WALKED AWAY

Higher ed leaders: Do Not Capitulate. They will not stop coming for you. We must fight to defend American higher education. We must resist.

This was an excellent interview and I can't wait to read the book. I was not as familiar with Dr. Schulman's work as I need to be but I am correcting that asap.

So, the disciplinary process was a sham to begin with, but much like its decision to appoint a non-academic trustee as President, the Board is throwing procedural legitimacy out the window to crack down on Palestine activism. None of this will stop the Trump admin's assault on higher ed.

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

It’s stunning to me that the New York Times did not put the story on the bloodbath at the NIH, CDC, and FDA on its front page this morning.

Outstanding thread.

One of many impressive aspects of Sen Booker’s speech is that he did not vilify Thurmond as he neared the record. At the same time, he centered John Lewis. Rightly.

NEW: Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.)& Trump's former NatSec Advisor Matt Pottinger make the case that funding for scientific R&D isn't a gift to academia. It's vital to U.S. national security, as China, the United States' primary strategic adversary, is already investing heavily in R&D. shorturl.at/PgUK0

I had legit completely forgotten this.

When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.

I cannot emphasize this enough: no one will remember the shutdown even happened when it’s time to vote next year. One way or the other!

This was an excellent, thoughtful and substantive conversation. What are Republicans doing for veterans?

UGA is barely doing better than this, at 7.5%, in a state where almost 1/3 of residents are Black. flagpole.com/news/news-fe...