A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates. Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty.

References: Comparing companion open access journals to their traditional journal counterparts buff.ly/sErc72g

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

We will be writing more of these. If you’re a scientist and your science has been disrupted, we want to hear from you: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

Well, that’ll solve the problem

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

Wanna know more about Einstein's anti-racist work, usually in collaboration with the great actor/singer Paul Robeson? I wrote about it for Smithsonian! (don't tell the White House) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Pleased to share my inaugural editorial for Archives of Sexual Behavior, sharing my vision for the journal as the incoming Editor-in-Chief (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pleased to share my inaugural editorial for Archives of Sexual Behavior, sharing my vision for the journal as the incoming Editor-in-Chief (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you talk to queer and trans kids about the internet they will tell you that it’s full of issues and causes issues for people in general, not just young people—and that they probably wouldn’t be here today without it. It’s a lifeline. It’s the only LGBTQ resource and community many of them have.

They also investigate dose-dependence -- greater time interacting with the map = greater intervention effectiveness Based on this research they've created a public website: scienceimpacts.org

🧪 New study: Learning about economic impact of NIH funding motivates action to oppose funding cuts. Evidence from two preregistered, randomized experiments with >5,000 U.S. adults. Similar change for liberals and conservatives. Preprint from @asinclair.bsky.social et al: osf.io/preprints/ps...

PSA: go apply the urgent security update to your Apple devices. Don’t wait. Do it right now

The media is completely ignoring that Brown University just agreed to a full bathroom ban and defining trans people out of existence. Even worse, when they mention it, they're describing it as a sports ban. This is not just a sports ban. The media is hiding what's happening here.

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... Critical read: As noted by a colleague, from the examples in this article, it is amazing how quickly German physics collapsed (and US exploded) after 1934. #academicsky, #neuroskyence , is there time and a route to prevent the collapse of research in the US?

This is a historic horror that the United States government allows to get worse every day.

From my own academic research, even pre LLMs there was a huge danger of zombie factoids that begin in a respectable publication by mistake and then get reprinted for decades because no one is backtracing to the original source. Once bad info gets into the system it can take years to clear it out.

How getting tenure changes researchers’ publication habits — and citations www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The age-gated internet is here reason.com/2025/07/28/t... Social platforms in the UK — including @bsky.app — have started verifying user ages. Consider it a glimpse into our inevitable surveillance-mad future here in the US

I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.

Education does not protect against age-related cognitive decline, brain aging; it is associated with better memory From >170,000 participants, age 50+, 33 countries www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In several of the hospitals still functioning in Gaza, nurses are fainting from hunger and dehydration. After restrictions on aid imposed by Israel, medical institutions and staff, already struggling to treat war wounds and illness, are now grappling with rising cases of malnourishment.

people are still getting deported or denied diplomas or fired from jobs for saying that this is happening

The era of climate migration is upon us. Residents of Tuvalu are slowly resettling in Australia. This is only the beginning… www.wired.com/story/the-fi...

Great discussion of two recent systematic reviews on the relationship between personality disorders and criminal behavior/recidivism by @mcseto.bsky.social - content overlap needs to be considered for antisocial personality disorder (and psychopathy): shorturl.at/DenrE

"Japanese officials said there was no written agreement with Washington — and no legally binding one would be drawn up", and surprise surprise, they deny giving Trump $550b to arbitrarily spend however he wants. www.ft.com/content/c118...

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

Scientists overwhelmingly recognize the value of sharing null results, but rarely publish them in the research literature go.nature.com/450KElr

A third of UK universities have now ceased posting on X. I've updated my data to see whether they are adopting Threads and/or Bluesky as a microblogging alternative. The simple answer is that they are, slowly. 1/9

Instagram announced today that it's adding increased protections to so-called "mom-run accounts," which are run by adults but primarily feature children too young to be on Instagram themselves. Before, these protections only applied to accounts run by teens. about.fb.com/news/2025/07...

🧪 Win for NIH researchers: An appeals court just effectively upheld an earlier order to reinstate terminated NIH grants. Full opinion here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... SCOTUS may be next (see next post) 1/3

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

In February, the US gov shut down the Demographic & Health Surveys. It was the only data source on maternal & child health, births, household structure in many countries – making it crucial for research. In a new article I explain why it should be rescued. ourworldindata.org/demographic-...

Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire

404 Media continues to punch waaaay above its weight: www.404media.co/flight-manif...

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

I cited this in my talk last weekend as further evidence that academics are abandoning twitter and joining Bluesky

Please share! Amazing opportunity at @mcgill.ca We are looking to recruit an internationally recognized, interdisciplinary scientist with a strong track record in innovation and research to direct a new program in climate, environment, and health mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."

I was intrigued by the fact that CBC Kids was willing to cover a story as sensitive and complex as the Sean Combs (Diddy) trial for young news readers when they contacted me for input. I thought they did a great job. www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/pos...

“The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

Our paper led by Emily Doyle (@mcseto.bsky.social, Adelle Forth) published in the #InternationalJournalofForensicMentalHealth (@iafmhs.bsky.social) found that a brief educational intervention may positively impact #publicstigma towards #forensicpatients. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Nature and Science are two behemoths where Nobel-level scientists publish their latest research and discoveries. The Trump administration is revealing its rage at people who are simply better and smarter that they are.