Angus Fletcher in his new book: “AI takes one feature of intelligence – logic – and accelerates it. The moment, though, that life requires commonsense or imagination, AI tumbles off its throne. This is how you know that AI is never going to run the world – or anything.” news.osu.edu/why-ai-is-ne...

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Comics scholar Michelle Ann Abate argues that memes are an important new type of digital comic. “Memes use a lot of the same visual and verbal elements that go into a comic, and those elements function in a very similar way, she said. news.osu.edu/most-of-us-l...

Words of wisdom that we need to understand.

Great write-up of some my recent work with @srhayford.bsky.social! news.osu.edu/most-women-w...

Appreciated the excellent write-up by @jgrabmeier.bsky.social of NSASS research by Chris Knoester & Chris Bjork. Evidence of increases in parental involvement in youth sports, across generations, & relevance of family SES, sports cultures, & youth sport commitments. news.osu.edu/parents-spen...

“A large language model can’t smell a rose, touch the petals of a daisy or walk through a field of wildflowers. Without those sensory and motor experiences, it can’t truly represent what a flower is in all its richness." #AI #Science news.osu.edu/why-ai-cant-...

"Jeff," the people say, "Why are you so dull and non-creative?" Well, I've had the same job for 40 years and lived in the same city for 42. That's why! 😁 news.osu.edu/change-your-...

I don't know why you chose me, hooded warbler, but I am grateful.

A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs.

A new smart insole system that monitors how people walk in real time could help users improve posture and provide early warnings for conditions from plantar fasciitis to Parkinson’s disease. #science #engineering news.osu.edu/a-wearable-s...

This is a relatively short and clarifying read. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/t...

Murder of a crow, by a Cooper's Hawk. (Columbus, Ohio) #Birds #Nature #Photograph

Applications are now open for the Excellence in Science Communication awards from @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. This great program recognizes work by journalists, independent communicators & scientists www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel... #scicomm

Who wants to eat fish soup - and really taste it - in a virtual reality videogame? Ohio State researchers have your back! My colleague @tatyanazaria.bsky.social delivers all the delicious details. news.osu.edu/new-device-c...

The Clown Paradox: the more negative the online review of a clown is, the funnier the clown sounds

Generic drugs manufactured in India are linked to significantly more “severe adverse events” for patients who use them than equivalent drugs produced in the United States, a new study finds. news.osu.edu/all-generic-...

“People probably don’t learn who has an accent from hearing someone talk and thinking, ‘huh, they sound funny’ – even though sometimes it feels like that’s how we do it.” New study from Ohio State Linguistics. news.osu.edu/the-complica...

Here’s a neat summary of evidence why diversity in the workplace is so important. TL:DR better ideas, better productivity, better retention, also just better. www.forbes.com/sites/roncar...

You can buy it...if you want to! Go Bucks!

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

"How should an individual's brain activity data be protected?" Never a question I thought would be asked in my lifetime.

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. A magical thing And sweet to remember. "We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,” I heard a bird sing In the dark of December. Oliver Herford

The best way to deal with narcissistic people in your personal life may be the hardest advice to take, according to an expert who has studied narcissism for more than 20 years. What you should do is to identify narcissistic people early on and get them out of your life, says Dr. Amy Brunell.

Every second, our senses take in billions of bits of information, but the speed of thought is agonizingly slow -- just about 10 bits per second. A new paper tries to make sense of this basic disconnect at the heart of the human experience. 🧪 www.caltech.edu/about/news/t...

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

The job of media commentators is to respond thoughtfully to how people feel, not to tell them how to feel. Which is why the editorials deploring the reaction to the healthcare CEO slaying are such failures of curiosity and understanding, such triumphs of obliviousness and elite panic.

Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

Unfortunately, I am not a short sleeper. But I still had fun writing about them for @knowablemag.bsky.social

This will take you two minutes to read to the end and is well worth your two minutes www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/upd...

I…really need more information.

if you like christmas so much why don’t you merry it

Did you miss our #SciWri24 national meeting this year? Read a recap of our "Best Practices for Working With Journalists as a PIO" workshop in Raleigh filed by NASW conference travel fellow Emily Payne (@epayne.bsky.social): www.nasw.org/article...#SciWri24💚🧪📝

NEW EVENT THIS THURSDAY: The NASW PIO Committee is back! Join new co-chairs Lauren Quinn (@lquinnphd.bsky.social) and Gary Werner (@garywerner.bsky.social) for a #SciWriSocial for PIOs and other institutional comms professionals. See you online December 12: www.nasw.org/events/...#SciWriSocial💚🧪📝

Sunset over Columbus.

I'd listen to someone who came to my front door evangelizing for the Church of the AI Jesus. theconversation.com/ai-jesus-mig...

Oh man, this really got me. 😭❤️

A fascinating thread for "old" journalists and comms professionals

I'm reading this book on burnout and it says a study done on college students where they pretended to be mice found that the students who were running towards cheese outperformed the students who were being chased by an owl. I've been thinking about that a lot.

Everything is better with bunnies.

New research that backs up something you might know intuitively: evoking anger and outrage is how misinformation spreads. So stop resharing outrage bait without at least reading the content. Hmm… maybe we should have a mandatory “cooling off”/RTFA pause before being allowed to reshare links?

I recently had the opportunity to pick the brains of two historians about working life in ancient Rome and how things have (and haven't) changed for the working classes. I think it's pretty interesting. news.ncsu.edu/2024/12/work...

For all of my friends in the eastern US, rest assured that we're taking good care of your Golden-winged Warblers at @casabentbill.bsky.social as they escape the cold up north. These migrants show up here in October and will eat up the insects in my garden so they can visit you next spring. #birds

Alcohol’s ability to increase people’s pain threshold is 1 reason that drinking leads to more aggressive behavior, a new study suggests. The less pain that study participants felt after drinking alcohol, the more pain they were willing to inflict. news.osu.edu/i-dont-feel-...

The intersection of Thanksgiving leftovers and anti-obesity drugs like Ozempic. news.osu.edu/how-anti-obe...

Better said…🤪

A heartfelt thank you to the person who made this #birds

For Thanksgiving Eve, one of my favorite poems ever, by Joy Harjo. Click the link to hear her read it. Perhaps the World Ends Here The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.