There is no way to stop climate change research at NCAR without doing irreparable damage to weather research. "The idea that you can just pull “vital” weather research activities out of a unique, vibrant scientific environment and expect that they will just continue to roll along is ludicrous."

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

More quality evidence is emerging that "pro-environmental behavior" is not a coherent, unitary thing. One behavior is not a proxy for all other behaviors. www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.uba.uva.nl/science/arti... Blankenberg et al. 2025 1/3

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

Lots of people are calling out the fact that X is filled with fake MAGA influencers from far away countries, but I wanted to point out that this, not "ideological censorship," is why companies have trust & safety teams that work on stopping inauthentic behavior.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Holy f@$k! “ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.” This whole video is jaw-dropping.

Important paper. So far most of the potential solutions I've seen mentioned (in-person surveys, high-quality/validated panels, address-based sampling) cost lots of money and will thus deepen divides based on resources. Something that we'll also need to grapple with. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/55uok...

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

3️⃣ We find white children exposed to academies fared worse as adults. 📉 Human capital index ↓ 0.04 SD 📉 Economic self-sufficiency ↓ 0.06 SD This evidence suggests White families may have sacrificed educational quality to maintain racial segregation. 11/12

An unfortunate effect of AI: for all the talk of it enabling “creativity,” many of us feel forced by its utility for plagiarism to move toward more restrictive and surveillant measures in the classroom. In the last few years the classroom is of necessity becoming more locked down than it ever was.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

I'm teaching a psych class to 70 first year students for the first time, ever. For some, my class will be their first college class. Does anyone have an activity you to the first day/week of class w/ first-years to help them feel connected, get to know classmates, & start on a good foot?

So I have been exploring copilot generative AI to better familiarize myself with its output to recognize it more easily when I see it in the wild. This tool falsifies results sections of papers in a way that is NOT easy to detect. wtf are we going to do in science, peer review can't catch this.

ChatGPT just wasted 5 of my hours by making up info and insisting it wasn’t lying. I was trying to see if it could actually help me find publicly available datasets with questions about politics in people’s ego networks and was thrilled when it output a long list, but things went quickly downhill…

"It’s the kind of statistic, several experts said, that is both eye-opening and likely to become more common because of climate change." www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle

I'm genuinely not sure what this is supposed to mean but now worried. The National Archives in College Park houses the public records of DOJ, the military, etc. & is used daily by scholars, students, genealogists, etc. Having govt records accessible to the public is part of what makes the govt ours.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

🚨Hiding under 6 sections of science sounding rhetoric is an edict to appoint officers at each agency that will be responsible for detecting research that isn't "Gold Standard Science" as defined by the White House🚨 Stay tuned for rapid response action! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Scientists are pushing to get their grants reinstated — and some are winning www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/r...

Please consider who benefits from you becoming complacent, doing less critical thinking, less fact checking. Who benefits from devaluing yours and other people‘s labor. From your data.

9 people were killed in a tornado last night in KY. The NWS office responsible for that area has faced some of the most extreme cuts by the Trump administration, including the loss of overnight forecasting. Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

I work in grants. From my POV, the solution is not to compete for crumbs, but to put that effort into banding together across institutions to stand up for research. We need to yell at politicians and make sure Americans know what they’ll lose if university research ends.

And in other NSF news... Take action here: www.savensf.com

After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵

This! I ranted this semester and some students said it was helpful. Many students I caught using AI said they didn’t think anyone cared.

This is heart breaking. I feel so fortunate to have studied at UF before 2020. It was such a powerhouse which seems to have made it a target.

This is a general thought, not a subtweet, but I increasingly feel like there's a lot of unintentional revisionism about US public opinion during the pandemic. Views obviously shifted, but early on there was *remarkably* broad support for a wide range of mitigation tactics

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

1/6. One thing I’ve often found interesting in research on perceptions of health disparities is the frequency with which the perspectives of the communities that bear the brunt of those disparities are omitted. In our latest @commhsp.bsky.social paper, we highlight what gets lost when that happens.

Next up from the lab is Emily Antognoli presenting work at #MPA2025 examining students’ tornado intentions. Threat perception was more predictive of tornado response for women vs. men. Whereas concerns with social disapproval was more predictive of quickly moving to a safer room for men vs women.

And finally Rebecca Sutton who’s poster won an #MPA2025 Psi Chi research award shows that anti-immigrant attitudes are linked to status threat which correlates with increased gun interest, negative behaviors toward international students and professors, and decreased civic engagement interest.

My lab is sharing our work at #MPA2025 First up is Tessa Hammond with her work on student commuters. Mediation analyses show that commuters felt more lonely on campus and this relationship was mediated by feelings of belongingness. Neither gender nor campus involvement buffered this relationship.

They do i at least one thing which is get people to not feel so alone.

People believe in progress to racial equality in educational attainment that is inconsistent with evidence, correcting these misperceptions leads to support for equity-enhancing education policy (by Browman & Miele, 2025): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Out now and open access at @polbehavior.bsky.social! Which factors do Americans use to evaluate episodes of political violence? link.springer.com/article/10.1... (with Kal Munis, @nicolehufman.bsky.social, Arif Memovic, and Jacob Ford) 🧵

Those people who think that throwing trans people under the bus is necessary to beat MAGA: you’re fucking wrong.

Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵

I just checked the homepages of Weather dot Com and Weatherunderground: neither of them have a single mention about the cuts to NOAA. If I ran a business that relies on access to free *quality* government data, I’d sure dedicate a massive portion of my business resources towards fighting NOAA cuts.

Are you attending #SPSP2025? Are you interested in the psychological study of threat and political ideology? Then you might be interested in attending our symposium session, “Advances in the Threat Politics Association” on Saturday at 3:15pm in the Bluebird Ballroom 2D!

Are you attending #SPSP2025? Are you interested in the psychological study of threat and political ideology? Then you might be interested in attending our symposium session, “Advances in the Threat Politics Association” on Saturday at 3:15pm in the Bluebird Ballroom 2D!

Most people in the US have no idea about the attacks on federally funded science or our government institutions. Many (or most!) of your family, coworkers, neighbors, and friends have no idea. My own MAGA dad thinks DOGE is just identifying waste, and that nothing has been cut. We have to tell them.

It doesn't feel entirely coincidental that last year FL (among other states) instituted post-tenure review guidelines requiring faculty to obtain federal funding to keep their jobs... and then made federal funding for certain kinds of research illegal.