“I've said to a couple of my colleagues, like, man, what would it have looked like in 2024 when we're in the thick of the campaigns, if we stopped being so defensive on immigration and we went on the offensive; had we all collectively rang the alarm when we saw it start.”

From this follow simple recommendations: as a default, meta-scientific studies of published research artefacts need to include 1) a full, identifiable list of included studies, 2) the full coding instrument and decision rules, and 3) the individual ratings together with a codebook.

Our instinct to seek confirmation leads to ‘narrow’ internet search behaviour. Chatbots, trained to be helpful, tend to go along with this, but could be trained to help us update our beliefs. @olegurminsky.bsky.social researched this and explains what he found: buff.ly/0eafZ78

"It's a general issue in lots of technology that the technology is designed to try to be helpful to us and around our needs, but often it takes a simple view of what those needs are and leaves out some of the needs." - @olegurminsky.bsky.social www.chicagobooth.edu/review/podca...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Today's HotFresh recommended paper is: Pleskac, T. J., Kyung, E. J., Chapman, G. B., & Urminsky, O. (2025). Blinded versus Unblinded Review: A Field Study on the Equity of Peer-Review Processes. Management Science. doi.org/10.1287/mnsc...

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

Italy is doing something interesting with it's admission to medical school. Anybody with a high school diploma can enrol for the first semester (actually two months of intensive all day coursework). They take three course: Chemistry, Biology, and Physics. Mostly taught remotely.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."

🧠📝 New research from PBS Professor Tim Pleskac explores the pros and cons of author anonymity in peer review. 🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio. #psychology #iub #iubloomington #research

Ruby Sales, who Daniels saved, went on to get degrees at Tuskegee Institute, Manhattanville College, and Princeton University. She's still alive Daniels' murderer, who killed Daniels and wounded another activist (a Catholic priest), was never convicted and died peacefully in his late 80s

A story: 57 years ago, the Soviet Union invaded then Czechoslovakia, to stop the modest liberalization and increased tolerance for western perspectives that had been occuring. The invading soldiers were told that the country needed to be saved from Nazis who had taken over.

Now THIS is field work

Along with his text he sent me this. Ps: Dems, he’s a 21 yr old white male attending college in South Carolina. Get on this. Stat.

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

Sorting matters! @ericjjohnson.bsky.social @olegurminsky.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @angeladuckworth.bsky.social

If you are an academic institution that has a dismissed ACIP member- it is time to grow a spine. Not speaking out will not spare you from this administration, but speaking out will at least shed light on what is happening to people who are not aware.

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

The June issue of JCR is now up on consumerresearcher.com, with a special section on "Gen AI and Consumer Research".

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

Deporting a gay man to Russia is beyond horrific, and yet this admin is happy to do it. And the verbal abuse he describes is abhorrent; and not new. Guards at detention centers, jails, and prisons get away with crap like this all the time. It’s appalling, it’s not new under Trump, just worse now.

Trump administration: We’ll beat China by destroying everything that makes us competitive with China.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBUw...

now is the time for universities to announce that they collectively will not disenroll any international student who has their visa revoked, and that they will ensure remote degree completion is possible

“This cunning strategy of hiding in plain sight and constantly wandering around in remote locations by myself where I could have been easily dispatched and left for the vultures worked brilliantly.” prospect.org/world/2025-0...

Same as it ever was: "In 1927, Albert Johnson said of the act he sponsored that it protected America from 'a stream of alien blood, with all its inherent misconceptions respecting the relationships of the governing power to the governed.'"

Wow. Revoking tenure is something that Harvard has not done before it seems (though some have resigned so Harvard did not have to act). Gino is now off the HBS faculty list: www.hbs.edu/faculty/unit...

US conferences are being cancelled or relocated as speakers decline, science discourse is limited and others not allowed to attend. Certainly I would avoid going under the current regime

welp I sent an email

This is bravery.

they should invent an opposition party that exists

Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This isn't about whether you like Harvard or not. This is about whether any organization in our country has a right to exist without bending the knee to Donald Trump.

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

Crimson update on detained Harvard researcher What is missing is that her HARVARD BOSS told her to bring these items into the country (see Guardian piece) Harvard owns this & should be doing the work of defending her www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You can't report the news soberly when the news itself is wildly drunk.

Every day disproves the existince of the mythical centrists that I also wish were an actual bulwark against extremism in the US but that no amount of journalist applause can will into reality these days.

True story: When I was a contractor at a NASA facility I kept M&Ms on my desk. A civil servant I worked with ate a few one day. The next day I came in to find a pound bag on my desk. He wanted to "reimburse" me because he didn't want the few he ate to be seen as a gift. Anyway

It’s really striking how irregular the bands of mostly men conducting federal immigration enforcement are. They seem to have no particular uniform, they wear a variety of different agency initials on their tactical vests, or none at all, they’re inconsistent about displaying a badge…

🧵 Martin Diaz came to the U.S. as a toddler, fleeing cartel violence with his family. They had proof of the danger—a letter from a Michoacán official. He married a U.S. citizen & was advancing his visa. Then ICE showed up at his home in Spokane: no warrant, no ID #OnYourSide VC pslspokane

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

"There’s no excuse for letting this political cretin rise again."

In the book "Bright Sided," Barbara Ehrenreich argues that the "positive thinking" & "healthy living" philosophy inevitably leads to victim blaming of those w/ poor health when those approaches turn out not to be enough. We've turned over health policy to that philosophy, with the predicted outcome.

Excellent piece on Miller on habeas. Far superior to the surprisingly both-sides-ish coverage by some media. What Miller is claiming the power to do isn’t questionable or dubious. It would be anti-constitutional usurpation. www.stevevladeck.com/p/148-suspen...