This paper contains some good arguments about an issue that concerns me a lot when I hear my colleagues talking about LLM use in developing their research: Whose ideas are you presenting as your own? (Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)

This post (+ the one after it, but starting with this one because context is important) has gotten surprising amounts of attention from folks who think that students are necessarily lazy and malicious. >>

Black women like @angryblacklady.bsky.social and @chanda.bsky.social are speaking very clearly and objectively about why registering for a protest isn't a great idea, and white people are fighting them down. It's always "listen to Black women*" with the asterisk meaning "after the fact"

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

For years, I've tried to tell y'all what cops know, and what criminal justice reformers know, about how murders really get solved. Look at how massive the manhunt for both Luigi Mangioni and Tyler Robinson were. Then look at how they were actually caught. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Two phone calls.

1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years. Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.

Obviously a lie, since the definition of PhD-level expertise, standard across universities worldwide, is that you can produce original knowledge.

I remember once astonishing a colleague’s husband when he naively asked why we (historians) couldn’t just look something up on the internet and we had to explain that WE are the ones who find the stuff and add it to the internet

A lot of conversations I have with software developers reveal a fundamental causal reasoning fallacy around access. Their stance is frequently: "I had interest, and I succeeded, so interest is the driver of success." The real comparison is how many people had interest and didn't succeed anyway

Rümeysa Öztürk was unlawfully detained by ICE for over six weeks in retaliation for writing an op-ed. For the first time since her release, Rümeysa opens up about her experiences and advocates for dignity and justice for those still trapped in ICE detention.

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky. So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

Added alt text to the reposted image. I can get behind this. The episodes are painfully short. I wait a whole week, and then it's all over so quickly? Not fair! I am being treated very unfairly!

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

#NoKings protest in Philadelphia

Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...

"History tells us that there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists who are able and willing to do so will have to enter the public arena ... This is such a time." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

Repeat after me: Treatment for trans-youth saves lives. "The consensus of the evidence supports that the treatments are effective in terms of mental health, psychosocial outcomes, and the induction of body changes consistent with the affirmed gender in pediatric [gender dysphoria] patients."

You do NOT have to accept this! Post on the public comments to pressure them to NOT do this! www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Please use this image as the reply post to all dems who're trying to compromise right now. You have my blessing.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

The scientific news from America is grim. The Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has resigned and hundreds of existing grants are ending. NSF grant money isn't paid out in a chunk at the start - you invoice as you need it, so gov can just stop paying. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Quantum Frost xkcd.com/3076/

NEW: The number of new grants handed out by the National Science Foundation since President Donald Trump took office has fallen by nearly 50% compared with the same 2-month period 1 year ago. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Hey, yall thought I was harsh when I said this over the years. I said what I said. Do you still think it's harsh now? Some of y'all think you are somewhat safe but you are not, because you are surrounded by unreliable people. It's better to have a smaller group that will not cash you in.

My friends, let me introduce you to Tim Walz.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

Morning Bluesky.

Here’s my new McSweeney’s, It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking

Must-read book for every university president

I really wish everyone would read EMPTY PLANET, which has a few good case studies of what this attitude gets you. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545397...

standing by to detect any noises from the harper's letter "campus wokeness is stifling free speech" crowd related to mahmoud khalil's arrest

This is great.

If you think the US is getting to Mars anytime soon without NASA, the NSF, research universities, and a functioning FAA, you are not being serious. I'm not arguing with y'all on this. The European Space Agency is now closer to Mars than the US is (2040). And they might get there with our scientists

You can no longer order free COVID tests from the government. Despite still having $500 million worth of COVID tests stockpiled, covidtests.gov is closed.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

When you want to teach persuasive/argumentative writing and kids pick "Are grades a fair representation of student success?" and you can find absolutely no articles that suggest they are.

Elon Musk wants you to think Republicans, X, and the assholes wrecking the planet and crushing the vulnerable are punk rock. They’re not. The open web is punk rock. Decentralization is punk rock. Billionaire bootlicking? That’s just embarrassing. www.joanwestenberg.com/big-tech-wan...

trump: I’m going to protect women women: no thank you trump: I’m gonna do it women: please don’t trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team women: what trump: and brought back andrew tate women: why trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore

If you can't afford to pay for any journalism at all, that's fine too. 👍🏿 All I'm saying is, it's silly to pay for bad journalism and then complain about it. 🙂🙃 Just... switch. You have options.

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

Resegregation

Suggested changes: The far-right AfD, backed by JD Vance and Elon Musk, was rejected by 80 percent of voters, exit polls suggest. Mainstream parties plan to form a coalition without them because voters don't want them to govern.

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

If you called in to Target: you helped send this message. Thank you. (And if you called Costco to thank them for keeping DEIA, same!) Don't think that your voice doesn't matter. It does.

He nails it.

I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...