This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

📚New in [LAT-STS Library]! "Latin American Breakthroughs in STS Theory", edited by Noela Invernizzi & Leandro Rodriguez Medina showcases original contributions from the region, bridging Global North-South dialogues. A must-read for diversifying STS. 🔗 tapuya.org/category/lat-sts-library/ #STS

The Home Office doesn't lose as many asylum & deportation cases as it does because of some supposed marginal differences between the application of Art 8 in UK courts and the ECtHR view, it loses so many cases because it's caseload has long been woefully mismanaged... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In 2000, tobacco was the leading preventable cause of death among New Yorkers. In an excerpt from his new book "The Formula for Better Health," @drtomfrieden.bsky.social details how public health initiatives helped city residents quit smoking and saved countless lives. Read at @time.com:

‘What is Drug Policy For?’ by Julia Buxton looks at how our current #DrugControl regime came about, the evolution of today’s drug market and what should replace our current strategy.

I'm so tired of Starmer's Labour government pretending to take a moral stance about ILR and simultaneously undermining it, by agreeing with the most cruel positions held by Reform.

The politics of cruelty are well underway yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A brilliant chapter by a former colleague #Latinamerica #legalstudies #selfdetermination academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Sandra Harding’s legacy: A force of nature who built Tapuya in dialogue, reshaping STS through standpoint theory, decolonial friendship, and fierce care for Latin American voices. 🕯️doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2025.2536961 #Obituary #SandraHarding #STS #TapuyaLASTS @tapuya.org

The United States will impose a 100 per cent tariff on imports of branded or patented pharmaceutical products from October 1, unless a pharmaceutical company is building a manufacturing plant in the US.

"How universities came to be — and why they are in trouble now"

The anti-trans right heavily praised Gordon Guyatt as the “godfather” of evidence based medicine. He worked for SEGM and was responsible for their GRADE reviews. Now he disavows them, says evidence supports transgender youth care. Great coverage from Henry carnell.

$10,000 fine for Californian lawyer with 20+ fake citations in their work, as a result of using ChatGPT for legal research. 21 of the 23 quotations in the opening brief were false. Always double check any AI outputs!! calmatters.org/economy/tech...

Join us online on 29 Sept for an expert analysis of Ukraine + the Netherlands v. Russia, one of the most significant #humanrights judgments in recent times. Register now: bit.ly/4n67TCp @stevepeers.bsky.social @humanrightsindex.bsky.social @factforce.bsky.social @antongerashchenko.bsky.social

"The spectacle of overt repression serves as a warning to others. Equally powerful, though, are economic carrots and sticks that have been used to discipline the media."

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities on.ft.com/46ILa9z

So many examples from the US & UK of right-wing hatred & violence being normalized & accommodated rather than challenged by politicians & media. Ordinary folks want the people who represent them to confront this hatred & violence for what it is, aggressively regressive, not act as though it is okay.

This is award winning journalism. A reportage that shows the threads of history running through the contemporary crises, and an enigmatic hotelier who reads like a character from Stefan Zweig's novels. www.ft.com/content/7068...

Starmer as it happens hasn't made a public speech outside chamber since mid-July. Hard to think of a PM who has made so little use of the normative power of his office. Unlike eg Cameron who really did think No 10 had the capacity and obligation to attempt to frame debate on all manner of issues

"Vance didn't even try to claim a rationale for bombing that boat...he effectively asserted that the existence of drug smuggling anywhere authorizes the president to kill anyone he wants to." Excellent @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social piece on Trump drug boat bombing: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/09/u...

A shocking story this morning. Made even more shocking by reports that there was no consultation with campus unions and no heads up to colleagues at either university prior to this story breaking in the BBC. Solidarity to our all friends and comrades at Greenwich and Kent - we stand with you!

This!

'Historical collapses often result from a small elite class extracting resources and power from the broader population until societies are hollowed out and vulnerable to shocks like war, disease, or environmental disaster.' #climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So... More Luigis, then?

What a day for Mexico. History returns with a vengeance.

Still can’t believe cutting skilled and experienced frontline admin, hiring a billion Dean level overseers, and passing tasks down to academics who will either do them grumpily or not at all isn’t working? Maybe rolling out a new IT project can smooth this one over

The Witteveen Memorial Fellowship is a wonderful opportunity for early career scholars in law and humanities. The vacancy closes on the 23 of September. As a former fellow, I thoroughly recommend this opportunity to spend time Tilburg Uni' vibrant Law School. www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3542...

Our open review letter "States, law, and the regulation of controversial health-related claims: consolidating a research agenda between disciplines and contexts" is up. It outlines the aims of "Beyond Misinformation" & stakes of regulating contested claims. wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...

The BBC has footage of masked Israeli settlers attacking a Palestinian farm and burning vehicles and cars. "Locals say this is happening almost every day now, and these are the tactics settlers are using to take the land, field by field." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

An interesting and important straw in the wind from the National Centre for Universities and Business, before the submissions made to the House of Commons Education Committee's consultation go live. The NCUB blog summarising their submission is open access and available here.

This is a horrific possibility. But, if true, neither the IT fail or the cover-up would surprise anybody with regular dealings with the court system. Indeed, it is hardly now a 'system' - just constant improvisations in an under-funded process, not fit for purpose. www.bbc.com/news/article...

International student fee levy ‘will cut funding for research’ Higher Education Policy Institute finds research-intensive universities would lose most cash if measure goes ahead. Here's who could be most affected. Full story: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Some union, please make this demand at the next contract bargaining!

‘In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier.’ Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Massacres at food distribution sites in Gaza are occurring near-daily. As of July 13, the UN confirmed 875 Palestinians were killed while seeking food, 201 on aid routes and the rest at distribution points", says 100+ aid organizations. @cafod.bsky.social @msf.org @paxchristiusa.bsky.social #Gaza

"This kind of wholesale suppression of an entire field of federally sponsored research, to my knowledge, is historically unprecedented." grist.org/language/tru...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Join us for our launch event in September. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-mis...

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

" Any complete epistemology must include a study of ignorance, not just knowledge." Nancy Tuana's powerful conclusion on this must read edited collection.

‘many medical staff entering Gaza are filling their bags with calorie-dense foods such as protein bars and nuts, rather than medical supplies.’ ‘Israeli authorities confiscated 10 cans of infant formula from the luggage of an American doctor recently entering Gaza for a medical mission.’

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

Two exciting postdoc research opportunities in our Wellcome Trust Discovery Award project 'Between Deception and Dissent: Regulating Unproven, Disproven and Misleading Health-Related Claims.' Deadline 14/08/25. More info: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118725-...

Staff Pick. 📚✨ "If you’ve ever wondered why thin white conservative women have co-opted the aesthetics of 1950s housewives to glamorise subservience to men, this book is for you." - Ginny Mills, Senior Commissioning Editor #OnlineMisogyny #Tradwives buff.ly/P8nZq26