Headline: CHATBOTS ARE TAKING OVER Reality: Almost everybody used a chatbot one time and never again

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

NYT doing fine work posting these two stories right next to each other

I remember when you asked a professor for a *strong* letter of recommendation Now I guess you need to ask them if they will write you a letter without using AI

Mark Hyman is a man that is willing to claim that drinking milk causes cancer

I kept reading EMA studies claiming to test etiological theories of AUD, but I realized they never actually measured how people experience AUD in their daily lives. So we set out to see what we could learn with existing data. 1/19 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Unconscionable.

This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!” But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling. If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.” No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true. This is journalism. Well done, @people.com

"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

Damn, and here I've been eating imaginary food this entire time

Just listened to the Maintenance Phase episode on ultraprocessed foods. I highly recommend. It is nutrient rich and dense in scientific fact, just like an all-natural, homemade, whole-food podcast should be maintenancephase.buzzsprout.com/1411126/epis...

So as RFK ends annual flu vaccine recommendations for children, hospitalizations and deaths among children are rapidly accelerating--with prior data showing that nearly all the mortality is among those not vaccinated. www.vice.com/en/article/a...

Today’s announcement that HHS is drastically altering the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule without a transparent process or clear scientific justification represents the latest reckless step in Secretary Kennedy’s assault on the national vaccine infrastructure. Our statement: https://bit.ly/497Tj8V

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

This is the energy I want to bring to 2026 (Full article: variety.com/2026/film/ne...)

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

🎆🎇🎆2025 HEADLINE OF THE YEAR🎆🎇🎆 🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆GRAND FINAL🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆 After a seeding round and three rounds of voting, we have our finalists: Top seed Pretty Obvious will be facing off against 3rd seed Police Are Scrambling. A reminder of how we got here:

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

So... yeah, this sucks But I think it sucks in a very specific way, one that I haven't seen people talk about much (probably because academic social media is a soulless LinkedIn shell of itself) It sucks that some non-native English speakers are now using generative AI for peer review.

Gutsy #ProBowlVote    + @MicahhParsons11

College football has always been, and will always be, a bad product.

Confirmation of the new triage line at 65-70% of proposals. Introduction of a new “competitive but ND” class to permit exception pay pickups.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

RIP office phones of Notre Dame

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

There's so much being researched and published about GenAI that I update the 'Against Generative AI' resource list almost every day. Check it out catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Gonna stake a pole here and say that you should not be allowed to drive your kids around on your golf cart for trick or treating

Last night I had the best pizza in Columbia, MO. It was good to be home again.

We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

In compelling fashion, I've discovered that ribs are much better off unbruised. (Getting too old for soccer, I guess)

Did anyone at Amazon try asking AI how to fix their servers?

My goodness, what an article. I mean, it might have made a bit more sense if they had taken the time to define what "ultraprocessed" is, but that would dilute the emotional impact. I look forward to dissecting this with my next Health Psychology class in the spring www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm interviewing applicants for clinical psych for this next cycle! Come to South Bend to study how and why people use substances in their everyday lives Learn more about the lab: spiel-lab.nd.edu Learn more about our program: psychology.nd.edu/graduate/are...

Happy for y’all, Milwaukee. It’s been a bit.

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Just heard a @springernature.com journal is requiring authors to pay for open access (~$5k) to submit an invited paper if they want to be compliant with the new NIH policy. If that's how Springer is planning to handle things going forward, I know of a number of journals I will no longer submit to.

my favourite thing about the APS Rising Star programme is that you only get to be a former APS Rising Star if you currently pay APS dues I don't, so I'm not on the list anymore. god-tier level of pettiness, i respect it

All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available... jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists. Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Now with comments... Lots of comments (A long thread) 1/n

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

The 90s.

A child in LA County has died from a complication following measles. subacute sclerosing panencephalitis can occur from 2-10 years after acute infection. This is why we vaccinate. The child was too young to receive the vaccine, but if everyone else does their part we all but eradicate the disease

If you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.

Extremely proud of @melissanance.bsky.social and glad to see her hard work pay off Surreal to think that it's been 10 years since I received my F31, all thanks to the support of amazing sponsors. And now, somehow, I'm the (co)sponsor, all thanks to having an amazing mentee

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

No people on the planet will ever be AI. This is Orwellian bullshit. Zero people will ever be AI. This is no different from saying half the people in the country are television characters. Do not let anybody convince you that you don’t know the difference between a human being and a machine.