"The corporate legal leaders from five sectors [...] overwhelmingly (83%) said that they believed that “doing the right thing” came secondary to profit in business decision-making within their organisation." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

We'll all have our favourite bits of the White Paper. Mine include the shocking revelation that 'some' universities 'link research performance to promotion opportunities and pay progression' (page 49, top paragraph). Of all the 'perverse incentives' to offer university research staff....

I'm struggling to find anything inspiring about this vision of HE, where universities are turned into mere training centres. It totally fails to understand that they're essential for democracy and the White Paper risks undermining this crucial role. Post-16 white paper: share.google/iJelQxcEOt22...

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

President Donald Trump threatened to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston, after suggesting that parts of the city had been “taken over” by unrest. https://cnn.it/4901Nze

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

The Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö is releasing a special edition of Orwell’s 1984. The book cannot be read, on account of having two spines. The “double bind” is a protest against censorship across the world: malmo.se/boundbookspr...

🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me: 📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. lnkd.in/ewajedAe 🧪

Now, we tackle in turn the issues we outlined in the abstract: First, the displacement of human participants, tracing the history of technologies to recruit real people, we end up forgetting the whole point: gathering — not fabricating! — human data. More at section 3: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 5/

Second, if we uncritically adopt AI in psychology, we outsource programming of our experiments to companies. This undoes a lot of open source: experiments are under industry capture, written without formal specifications. It deskills us: psychologists spent the last decade learning to code. 6/

Third, the peculiar idea that somehow we don't need to read, write, or perform literature reviews anymore; popping up like a satanic mushroom in almost all so-called OK uses of LLMs. Companies writing our papers via their chatbots is not scientific at all. See section 5: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 7/

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Trump posts that Sen. Blumenthal “should be allowed to speak no longer”

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06950

He's telling us what he's doing. Using the military to suppress protest. At some point the opposition needs to listen to him and adjust strategy.

As a matter of fact, the US president posted a deep-fake video with himself in it, dove into conspiracy theories and promoted an alternative reality. Wonder how the response would have been in 2023. www.rawstory.com/medbed-trump/

The more RFKJr does, the less Americans like him. CNN statistician Harry Enten revealed the health secretary scored an alarming -21 approval rating as he faces backlash over his massive cuts to medical research and moves to limit vaccine access. www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said he was conducting a "social experiment" by sporting a mustache in the style of Adolf Hitler, and claimed that it made him more attractive to women. www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-2...

So when is the FCC going to step in?

Eric Trump claims he was in the Oval Office watching his father end wars, raising national security concerns

👀 www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.18234

“We’re not Tylenol experts, of course not.” Should have stopped there Richard, because the rest of what you said was incoherent.

NSF invests in science, technology, and education in all 50 states. Cutting it this much will cause substantial losses to communities around the US

Uhhh, folks? This is real bad. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Patel is basically admitting on camera that the FBI no longer adheres to the Attorney General Guidelines, which prohibits investigating U.S. persons based solely on First Amendment activity (including membership in a group).

Wow. Let’s not blow past this. The administrator of the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY says that climate change is a hoax/con job.

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

Can We Trust AI to Save Lives? The disconnect between AI confidence and performance in critical scenarios www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/in-o...

Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Reform funded by the super rich would erode worker rights, human rights, hand the NHS to private sector, divide society, deepen inequalities and environmental crisis.

President Trump signed a proclamation on Friday that adds a $100,000 fee for new applicants for H-1B visas. Here’s what to know.

Analysis of multinational companies indicates that purchasing carbon credits does not accelerate corporate decarbonization compared to firms that do not use offsets, raising concerns about their effectiveness. doi.org/g933v9

Cambodia and Armenia woke up not knowing they’ve been fighting each other According to the president, Armenia has also been fighting Albania and Aberbaijan - not to confuse with Azerbaijan

THIS is why I get annoyed. We are three people, working out of a basement, while holding down full time jobs. It took us UNDER TWO MINUTES to sum up the framework within which the Jimmy Kimmel suspension sits, and begin the conversation *with what he actually said*. How can it be beyond BBC News?

“LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability. Students should hone their writing, thinking, and other academic skills at every opportunity.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 23/🧵

Well, what do Germans know about creeping fascism anyway?

Erosion, rising seas and churning storms have caused the collapse of a dozen homes along a stretch of the Outer Banks in North Carolina over the past five years. The latest incident came Tuesday, when an unoccupied, two-story, wood-shingled home crumbled into the surf. https://wapo.st/4pL86wL

Trump shouts out George Orwell

Look who came with

In the week since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Russia, Iran and China have spread thousands of false or incendiary claims about what happened to the conservative activist, in an effort to stoke political divisions or to portray the U.S. as a dysfunctional country.

Rep. Nancy Mace, paraphrased: "We're going to cancel everyone who celebrates Kirk's murder. We're also going to cancel everyone who fails to cancel everyone who celebrates Kirk's murder." Next up: "We're going to cancel everyone who fails to cancel everyone who fails to cancel…"

It seems the only jesters left at the American court will soon be those saying "Thank you." and "Good idea.". www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

New paper on misperceptions out in PNAS @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇

It’s difficult to put numbers on the total economic cost of an increasingly erratic water cycle but single flood events last year caused billions in damages, Stefan Uhlenbrook, a lead author of the report, said. https://cnn.it/3IhoS5E