A massive 2024 study analyzing the outcomes of 2.5 million children found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy increases the risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability once sibling comparisons are taken into account. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

we are at 99 stars :) can we make it to 100 stars? github.com/openpredicti... #OpenSource #OSS

Oh, not this shit again. The combined vaccine is safe and effective. This is just...needlessly risky.

Interesting opportunity in research policy with the EU’s research council 🔭🧪

Today feels like a "solvitur ambulando" kind of day.

Outbreaks of dengue are killing thousands in South America each year and is getting worse. Brazil hopes to turn the tide with a vaccine and an army of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria. These lower the odds mosquitoes can transmit the virus to humans. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Love this. Giotto had a great image of a comet over his adoration of the Magi which is speculated to be Halley’s Comet. www.sciencemusings.com/giottos-star/

to my astonishment, I think I am becoming a morning person as I head towards my 30s. what on earth is going on here

Reading the Asterisk Magazine piece from @stuartbuck.bsky.social and...yeah. Chaos. [skull emoji goes here]

Badenoch: "I think he was saying, if people are violent, fight back" What the leader of the opposition says is not true. Musk called for *pre-emptive* violence. He wants people to begin the violence. She says it would not "de-escalate" to reject this!

Since we're doing the discourse: D, and it's not even close

As a result I was forced to make my own IMAP launch press kit which I now share with you... (corrections welcome) planet4589.org/latest.html

Hi #AcademicSky folks, I'm one of the people who has been working on this Would love some help/advice on an elegant solution for making sure the last better here gets their position calculated and priced in Thanks in advance :)

Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Does anyone want beautiful historical depictions of celestial phenomena? Anyone? Well, here you go publicdomainreview.org/collection/f...

We Literally Didn't Start the Fire

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

This is exactly what Reform thinks of UK academia too. Vile fake othering coming to a discourse near you.

“Kirk was not an example of healthy political discourse, and we should not pretend otherwise just because he was the victim of what appears to be more senseless political violence.” www.liberalcurrents.com/not-all-vict...

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

I can't find it in me to be sad for Charlie Kirk, but I *can* find it in me to be generally concerned about the US

I for one cannot believe people are comparing textbook Nazism to Nazism! www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

"Jews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years... Until you cleanse that ideology from the hierarchy in the academic elite of the west, there will not be a safe future." - Charlie Kirk

::slowly stands while clapping::

I get right now is not the right time, but at some point we’re going to have to have a real conversation about whether or not a modern liberal democracy can actually coexist with social media as it’s currently constructed

can someone please explain to me if the great reversal of the X-odus is actually a thing, I live under a rock

[personal post] Trying to get any work done with #adenomyosis is exhausting and frustrating :(

Wow. And this is the kind of study that will likely lose funding in our current moment. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

Nicky Hindmarch returns to the #CobraQuiz and makes her official in-person debut. Will she filter out the competition like a smooth pale ale (I'm not a brewer, tell me if that makes sense). THIS THURSDAY, everyone! #Sheffield is in the Cobra's sights...

As Comet 3I/ATLAS passes Mars, European Space Agency plans to observe it using spacecraft orbiting the planet. Both Mars Express & ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will turn their instruments to gaze upon the comet.. We armchair astronauts had speculated; glad to see it become real. 🔭 #planetaryscience

Out now: 'Rocket Stars: Astrocultural Genealogies in the Global Space Age.' Seven contributions to this special BJHS issue chart the genesis, appeal and afterlives of technocelebrities in Sri Lanka, China, India, East and West Germany and Cuba. ➡️ tinyurl.com/2p5aekmu #astroculture #spacehistory

My weekend reading via the excellent @adamtooze.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8b41...

Utterly unsurprising that Rufo doesn't like Strauss tbh 🐊

Things I'd tell you as a historian of science if I weren't afraid of hurting your feelings: Everything. (I'm not afraid of hurting your feelings.)

Now available from wherever you get your books—recent poems, in translation, from 34 extraordinary poets living in Gaza (& 4 in the West Bank)—from ⁦‪@CopperCanyonPrs‬⁩

newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-war-on... I started reading this and it's fascinating #histsci #histtech

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh! I get that it’s very satisfying to think the people you dislike are stupid, but you’re going to need continually more contrived theories to explain their success if this is your base assumption.

Also catching up on some R&D policy briefs goodscience.substack.com/p/new-r-and-...

Mixed feelings on this series overall, but this final part - on ways to unbundle the university and objections - is very worth reading for people interested in articulating positive visions for the future of the university goodscience.substack.com/p/unbundling...

www.rockpapershotgun.com/somebody-has... Something to make you smile today

I made this meme and now the rest of you have to see it.

Articulating one thing that really annoys me about anti-AI discourses: They seem to be putting the burden of (change? responsibility? action?) on the individual because chatbots are marketed to individuals as end users. But the actors that can effect change aren't individual consumers

apnews.com/article/trum... Just so we are clear: this is unequivocally bad and a blatant attack on academic freedom.

Over the next couple mornings at the break of dawn go out and have a look at the Eastern sky as the two brightest planets as seen from Earth, Venus and Jupiter, pass close to each other as seen from our perspective. This morning they appeared less than a degree apart, a bit wider than the Moon.

Look what arrived! @astrosnat.bsky.social and I wrote a chapter ‘The Spoken Word is Not Neutral’ in the ‘Cripping the Archive’ collection edited by @jenbarclay.bsky.social and @stefhuntkennedy.bsky.social that was just published by @illinoispress.bsky.social! #Dishist #Neurodiveristy #OralHistory

Finished A Suitable Boy. *My entire heart* #booksky

Today I’m thinking about a group of protesters who broke into an air base and sprayed paint on a plane (1/?)

In English a cat’s paw pads can be called “toe beans.” In German, I’ve heard them referred to as Zehenbeere, or “toe berries.” In Japanese they are 肉球 (“flesh buns”). Norwegian has tredeputer, or “stepping pillows.” And a colloquial Korean name for them is 냥젤리. It essentially means “meow-gummies.”