What to Know About ‘Gen Z Protests’ Around the World youtube.com/shorts/Eyh2V...

How this TikTok deal puts US media control into the hands of the super-rich youtube.com/shorts/lEWwp...

"If you wanted to get a paper published in Science from 2015 to 2020, your odds were 70% lower if you were in China than in the United States. But being at an elite institution anywhere in the world may have given you an edge." www.science.org/content/arti...

How can the #IPCC navigate generative AI? What does it mean for scientific assessment more broadly? New working paper looks at scenarios for AI adoption & resistance, w/ @dralaaclimate.bsky.social @shinasayama.bsky.social and Oliver Geden Reflections welcome! www.swp-berlin.org/publications...

New working paper out: "Four scenarios for an @ipcc.bsky.social navigating Artificial Intelligence" Led by @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social, with @shinasayama.bsky.social and Oliver Geden Thread 🧵 1/13

"Given all this, we are not advocating deploying geoengineering today. But if policymakers decide that it is needed, a more modest approach would be to run a small, carefully scaled program ... to compensate for the loss of cooling as sulfur pollution is eliminated." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

"Younger children are more likely than their older counterparts to judge relationally, physically & phylogenetically distant others as worthy of help or protection. These findings suggest ... that development may not widen our moral circle but may sometimes narrow it." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Hallucinations are a result of the fundamental way in which LLMs work. As statistical machines, the models make predictions by generalizing on the basis of learnt associations, leading them to produce answers that are plausible, but sometimes wrong." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Researchers are scrutinizing AI-generated sentences while implicitly enabling these systems to choose which scholars are cited ... which research directions might be promising. They are accepting the outputs even though the underlying information has been distorted." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"many academic journals .. requir[e] authors to disclose whether they had used artificial intelligence (AI) to help write their papers. But .. 4 times as many authors use AI as admit to it—and that peer reviewers are using it, too, even though they are asked not to." www.science.org/content/arti...

"One major problem is that regulatory ... requirements force researchers to spend nearly half of their research time on paperwork associated with receiving federal grants ... The administrative tasks are unnecessarily complex, duplicative, and ... contradictory." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What Counts as a ‘National Emergency’? youtube.com/shorts/IOn1e...

"Automation involves a transfer of knowledge from humans to machines. [Then], human skills are lost, perhaps irrevocably ... Every time a scientist abdicates their work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth being done by the scientist." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"We’ve built machines that sound like they care. Now, we must ensure that they don’t hurt the very people who turn to them for support. That means giving emotionally responsive AI not just more capabilities, but clearer boundaries." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Conferences today tend to be “deeply shaped by Western and European traditions” ... If they moved to a more diverse set of locations, a wider range of scientists could go, which would benefit science itself by integrating diverse knowledge and experience." @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"But progress always involves reaction and revision. Historical nostalgia may be helping a younger generation to harness the benefits of new technology while preserving the virtues of the tangible, physical experiences that remain essential to human flourishing." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

"this is not a call to revive the fatally flawed 20th-century notions of “development.” Rather, it means that we need to learn from what worked and what was poisonous ... to create a concept that actually accomplishes what “development” imagined it was about..." www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

"If reviewers typically favor submissions from their own countries, but reviewers from only some countries are well represented in the reviewer pool, this can create a “geographical representation bias” favoring authors from those well-represented countries." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Now, simulations with ... virtual users generated with [AI] may have revealed why social media tends to become so polarized ... The results suggest that just the basic functions of social media—posting, reposting, and following—inevitably produce polarization." www.science.org/content/arti...

"Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even threatening the long-term viability of peer review as an institution." arxiv.org/abs/2507.10734

"There’s an obvious fix to the problem of reviewer overwhelm: do less peer review. Some researchers have raised the prospect of more selective use of organized peer review ... there isn’t enough capacity in the system to do high-quality peer review of everything." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mike Hulme & Arthur Petersen: "The upcoming [AR7] of the IPCC has an opportunity to be better attuned to the world’s religious faiths as holders of knowledge about human meaning, ethics and behaviour, and to incorporate such knowledge explicitly in its assessments." mikehulme.org/the-ipcc-and...

"Publication rates rise sharply during the tenure-track, peaking just before tenure. However, post-tenure trajectories diverge: Researchers in lab-based fields sustain high output, while those in non-lab-based fields typically exhibit a decline." @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Conservatives consistently disfavored purchasing both Teslas and EVs, irrespective of their perceptions of Musk. Liberals showed declining intentions to purchase Teslas compared with other EVs, and, to a lesser extent, declining intentions to purchase EVs in general." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Piers Forster: "Yeah, I’m a stammerer, and I’ve done quite well in lots of really supportive environments ... If people see me doing my job and think, ‘Oh, perhaps I can do that sort of thing,’ then that would make me feel chuffed." @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

"[T]he blame may lie on “lazy author syndrome,” in which authors extract information only from abstracts or titles without digesting or even reading the full text. Authors may be more likely to skim this way—and introduce errors—when writing background sections..." www.science.org/content/arti...

"Here, we show a carbon perception gap, particularly among the wealthiest: Collectively, people acknowledge the presence of carbon inequality and desire a more equitable distribution, yet often perceive themselves as already contributing more than others." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why the British love their lawns youtube.com/shorts/R_Op0...

"From the age of approximately 40 y old, the typical worker endures diminishing feelings of autonomy ... Evidence on objective measures of autonomy ... suggests that these feelings are not an emotional illusion ... “Demotions” ... are apparently commonplace." @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"These results show how the pandemic-driven shift to remote work has persisted and reached a new equilibrium with implications for urban economies, workforce flexibility, and future research on labor markets." @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Every country has its myths, its memory and a set of ideals that shape its terms of belonging. But these abstractions have particular salience in the Americas where, as ... Benedict Anderson observed, national identity was a more deliberate act of invention..." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

"We study vocabulary changes in more than 15 million biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 ... and show how the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words ... at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"An analysis of over 400,000 publications shows that men and women in climate science have similar degrees of productivity, success ... and publish in high-prestige journals at similar rates. However, the analysis also shows that women have marginally shorter careers..." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"[T]hese experiments are also one of the first (if not first) to show causal evidence of morally charged attacks generating anger and subsequent social media engagement preferences likely to drive viral spread and exacerbate preexisting political polarization."@pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"The unconventional approach, called distributed peer review (DPR), has been touted for its potential to alleviate long-standing ailments with traditional reviews of grant applications ... in which a panel of invited outside experts score and debate submissions." www.science.org/content/arti...

"The agreement, known as the Falepili Union treaty, allows grantees to obtain permanent residency and move freely between the countries. But both countries have taken pains to avoid using language that implies that Tuvalu may one day cease to exist." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/c...

"There are some people who were afraid to even go into ankle-deep ocean water ... A colleague of mine coined the ‘Jaws effect’, which is now used ... to explain how fictional portrayals of real-world issues impact what voters want leaders to do about those issues." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"[D]o people behave differently when being assessed by AI? ... We propose that people emphasize their analytical characteristics and downplay their intuitive and emotional ones under AI (vs. human) assessment, a phenomenon we label “the AI assessment effect.”" @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Our experiments demonstrate that the decisions and advice of LLMs are systematically biased against doing anything, and this bias is stronger than in humans ... LLMs tend to answer “no,” thus flipping their decision/advice depending on how the question is worded." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"[A]lthough it’s important to learn what humans have in common, the differences matter, too ... “If you’re trying to get a full picture of the world, you want to have some people in the room who see circles where you only see rectangles.”" @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

"While northern European cities are well known for their superb infrastructure that supports active travel ... Osaka ... features less extensive walking & cycling infrastructure but a network of narrow streets with slow-moving traffic where different road users coexist." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Publications are ... the currency for a successful career in the academic system, creating ... immense pressure ... This has made scholarly publishing very vulnerable to publication scams ... It would require a fundamental change in the entire academic ranking system" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Israel's attack on Iran was a bold, but terrifying gamble youtu.be/NcBImh36zHE?...

Why Israel’s US-backed Gaza aid plan is so deadly youtube.com/shorts/BFbAq...

"The case for a woman to lead the UN is grounded in principles of equality and justice ... Having a woman as UN secretary-general ... would make it more likely that the unique circumstances of women ... are factored into decision-making at the highest levels." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Small-scale fisheries are practices ... the fishers ... without access to much capital who catch fish for their own food, or to sell ... [but] relevant data are often missing ... Unless that changes, the marginalization of already-vulnerable people will only worsen" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"A dominant idea has been that silence conveys ‘active forgetting’ — a way to try to cope and move on. But ... silence can also be an active communication strategy. It is a type of ‘remembering without words’ ... creating new meanings from memories of trauma and loss." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Trump has focused so much on the costs of free-riding by allies that he neglects the fact that the United States gets to drive the bus—and thus pick the destination and the route. Trump does not seem to grasp how American strength lies in interdependence." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

"There’s something familiar in the suggestion that it’s okay to build data centers that run on fossil fuels today because AI tools will help the world reduce emissions eventually. It recalls the purported promise of carbon credits..." @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/10/1...

"In a moment of .. uncertainty .. it is easier to place your hopes in a charismatic individual than in the complex institutional machine of modern democracy. The .. appeal of personalised power is a direct result .. [people] no longer understand how their democracies work" www.ft.com/content/7b53...