More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

The Shingles vaccine is linked w/ reduced risk of Alzheimer's in 4 large natural experiments Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort for less Alzheimer’s. More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccines) neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

As an alum, I love seeing this.

More money spent on education does indeed lead to better outcomes for students.

This open letter to students at Georgetown university is extremely good medium.com/center-on-pr...

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

People often talk about the autism spectrum as if it's a simple sliding scale from "more autistic" to "less." This isn't true — the spectrum is dizzyingly complex, and @unamandita.bsky.social and I set out to visualize this in SciAm's April issue: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

my most recent academic pet peeve is the injection of mind-and-brain jargon into everything. like recently someone crossed out "unconscious bias" and replaced it with "cognitive bias". what other kind of bias could there be than a cognitive one? do they think it could instead be from the pancreas?

Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019. Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate. Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes. Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

OpenAI’s push to become crucial infrastructure in education should not and cannot be separated from its broader entanglements with the US military and mass surveillance that includes students and teachers.

Disability accommodations are a rare thing that actually trickles down. You like curb cutouts? Auto-opening doors? Jar openers? Ramps? Hand rails? YOU’RE WELCOME Even as an abled person you use disability accommodations every single day. Supporting accommodations actually helps everyone.

move slow and repair things

Absolutely unreal how so much time, capital, energy, etc. is being put into these companies and this is what they come up with. Like, this is such a stupid and horrifyingly dystopian way to frame learning that I don’t even know where to start.

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

Not an AI expert, but it seems much more likely to me that the language prediction algorithm is just replicating the increasing anxiety in humans' language because of all the awful things happening on our planet. You know, principle of parsimony and all that.

Under no circumstances should we allow OpenAI to become the self-authorized educational research evidenve source that it is trying to be. Vendors must not be research authorities. openai.com/index/unders...

Time to re-share this piece I made a year ago today about neurodiversity and neurodivergence, and why the important distinctions between them is not about grammar/linguistics.

In non-election-related news, researchers at Hopkins recently found empirical evidence for the plausibility of the panspermia hypothesis: hub.jhu.edu/2026/03/03/l...

But since we are there, having some uses for accessibility does not make it accessibility tech because accessibility includes thoughtful, transparent affordances for safety, wellbeing, privacy, and autonomy.

Writing is thinking.

And specifically faith in *quantitative* social science. There's a wealth of insight from *qualitative* research in fields like sociology that gets very little attention politics- and policy-wise.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

No new science is behind this push to resurrect chromosome tests. These tests are just as discriminatory and confused as they were three decades ago. defector.com/chromosome-t...

I'm SO tired of people looking for "the neuroscience of X" (meaning uninformative neuroimaging pictures) when *the psychology of X* is right there, doing a perfectly good job...

Yes and, those letters can help demonstrate impact in the promotion/tenure/post tenure review dossier!

If you want a heartbreaking example of what this looks like when it happens... And it does happen... Read this very good work from Dr. Ng and team. doi.org/10.1177/0161...

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

If we've learned anything from the part of our history where we created the extremely powerful, world-changing, uncontrollable new technology of a social internet, it should be that whatever is about to happen with AI will, if nothing else, be extremely dumb.

Who among us hasn't felt languid and bedeviled, especially lately?

In other words, perception hits fast, but personal knowledge shapes more sustained processing. This suggests impression formation isn’t a single moment. It’s a layered neural process unfolding over time.

Increasing autism rates over the last 25 years may just be kids with mild forms getting diagnosed. Rates of moderate to severe impairment due to autism have actually fallen slightly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Do you wanna make sure you didn’t miss a single second of symbolism from Bad Bunny’s halftime show? This thread gotchu!

If you are new to Bad Bunny, you need to check out @beckyhammer.bsky.social's crash course on Benito, Reggaeton, the culture that shaped him and (por supuesto) Perreo

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Need a mood boost? Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

This is why they must be challenged every single time. Not accommodated. Not bargained with. Just challenged.

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!

We live in a moment of both continuity with the past, and rupture from it. Insisting that it’s only one or the other does not make for clear analysis.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The thing that a lot of these guys have in common is that for them science is about personal brand-building and advancement of the self. Their norms serve their status competition, not a greater good.

Setting aside elementary curriculum & instruction for the moment, we've known for decades much of what it takes to encourage reading in and out of school by secondary students regardless of gender, and instead of doing this, we've plied them with edtech, apps, test prep, and devices they carry 24/7.

And in case anyone is wondering whether I only took science courses in college, here are five more: 1. Music Appreciation (I & II) 2. French Language (I & II) 3. Italian Language I 4. Readings in Modern Literature 5. Vocal Performance I

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Gross Human Anatomy 2. Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiology 3. Cellular Exercise Physiology 4. Drugs and Behavior 5. Neuropsychology

What an enormously talented woman. I'm shocked by her passing (much too young!) and grateful we have so many iconic performances through which we can remember her.

As someone who taught human anatomy and physiology for about a decade, can confirm.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

And even before the incontrovertible video evidence appears, maybe consider that the current administration has a documented history of lying, and remind your audience of that track record as context for the "conflicting accounts."