"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

I think I can safely speak for all psychologists when I say that no we don't.

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

“if everything is all in one place then it would use less energy” Some work that didn't get enough attention is when we explored laypeople's ideas about sustainable urban design by having them play SimCity and build the best and worst cities they could imagine www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

A decade on, the message is still the same: “…the person operating the giant machine on public roads needs to be responsible for not killing people with it.”

No, I am not worried about 'declining' birth rates, I accept them as post-modern birth rates, the birth rates that naturally happen once the conditions are set that children can be expected to survive to adulthood reliably and that women are allowed to be educated and become full citizens.

A PUBLIC GOOD

"...pathocracy is a system of government 'wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people'."

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

Of course they're going to tell you in polls that they prefer the things they have, rely on, and are familiar with over abstract benefits they have never seen or experienced! You learn nothing from that. Most people simply do not have informed, stable preferences beyond "what I already know."

The job title "farmer" has always been intentionally slippery in how most Americans use it. But in the occupational stats, it's people who own the farm. (They may own all the land, rent some, or event rent all of it, but the farm is still their business that they own & operate.)

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

It would all be very unpopular if you could convince people it was happening

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE. Literally, "abolishing." yougov.com/en-us/articl...

New post! Many Americans hold contradictory opinions on the same policies. Question wording effects can swing opinions by 20+ points on immigration, the budget, and transgender rights. That's a problem for people who interpret polls for a living. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-ameri...

I would have thought the people with Ph.Ds in Math and Statistics and Economics might have accounted for this externality.

21% @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

the Mamdani $30/hr snow shovel thing is so mindblowing. your tax dollars at work, to enrich your fellow citizens who need it most and immediately improve safety & living conditions for all. and THAT'S what the billionaire class wants you to fear?

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

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.

Fascism is here and yet we insist on continuing to make things. Keep creating. It's so important. Do not let the fascists colonize your imagination or curtail your creativity.

Authors say it could be reverse causation (but also it's moderated by age of first use, so brain development is another likely story)

The tariffs will continue until morale improves.

Some may be saying, “yes, we knew this”, but we don’t really know know until we see data like these. And something we may not have known that this paper shows is that once a person gets into the right wing silo, we’ve lost them. Changing to the chronological feed does not bring them back.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Babbage, 1830, discussing the problem that scientists selectively report findings that they want to be true. Confirmation bias is a strong human tendency. This is why we need to design science in a way that prevents conformation bias from leading us away from the truth.

Don’t reflexively let your AI do your thinking for you (similar to Fabrizio Dell'Acqua’s finding about falling asleep at the wheel) Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

AI is the exact opposite of Woody Guthrie's guitar

I bet if you just did a simple survey, not one American in 10K would be able to accurately tell you the current level of immigration to the US, whether that level is up or down from the previous decade, what countries are most represented among immigrants, or what current US immigration policy is.

Just a reminder that even if you can't get a refund, destroying the camera is free

The person who did this broke the law and should be brought to justice

Similar with education as well: teachers need to ask questions of their students to explore where misunderstandings lie, and not just depend on the student to ask the right question

The thing about LLMs is that answers that are correct and answers that are wildly wrong are presented with *exactly the same level of confidence* If you're informed enough to know the difference you don't need the answer If you aren't you can't trust what you get

Watched the halftime show. I guess where I fundamentally depart from MAGA is that, when I see something like this, celebrating a culture that's not quite mine, with some references I don't get, something that's not For Me ... I *like* it. I like seeing inside other worlds. Why wouldn't you?

How nonviolent protest can break autocratic rule! Minneapolis has become the scene of various forms of protest. To counter violent attacks & murders by ICE-Gestapo officials, residents protests are becoming very creative. #StopAmericanFascism #TrumpIsaNAZI #Wrldpoli🌐 www.dw.com/en/how-nonvi...

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

Genuinely wondering where the crime is (until you click past the headline and find out this also involved meth)

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3