Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the ULP strike.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

Analysing submissions to 60 Institute of Physics journals, @jamesmzd.bsky.social & Misha Teplitskiy find that #PeerReviewers tend to favour submissions from their own countries, meaning authors from countries with few reviewers face a major structural barrier. @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

🗃️ From the archive: "When implemented without democratic oversight, global performance metrics risk becoming tools of centralisation" #Bibliometrics #ResearchAssessment

Austerity measures all over the place but the university has $50 million for… whatever this is

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

💥New: Lack of geographic diversity in peer review skews “publishable” research ✍️ @jamesmzd.bsky.social & Misha Teplitskiy #PeerReview #PeerReviewWeek #PRW25 #AcademicSky

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

After the lunch break, the next session will be 'Open Science and Data Sharing' The first of three talks will be by Vincent Yuan, with 'Researcher Adherence to Journal Data Sharing Policies: A Meta-Research Study' VY: Science runs on trust - but we need evidence. #PRC10

Proud of my union coworkers ( @geo3550.bsky.social ) for pushing to bring graduate research back under contractual protections. All grad workers were in unit when we started 50 years ago, it’s time we get back to that. www.michigandaily.com/news/adminis...

Nothing like good ‘ol Michigan football straight to the face

Reflexive Reflexivity “We advocate for *robust reflexivity,* a practice that critically reflects on reflexivity itself.” ‪By @catherinetrundle.bsky.social and colleagues Open Access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The future of AI superintelligence is already here, it is just not evenly distributed yet #genai #llms #cogsci #chess https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/superhuman-intelligence-already-exists

Congratulations @jamesmzd.bsky.social , USF MS-IDEC class of 2020!! Excellent and timely research on the structural forces working against international researchers with science of science superstar @innovation.bsky.social . #econsky #polisky #socsky

Now published at PNAS ‼️ w/ @innovation.bsky.social How does peer reviewer diversity affect fairness in peer review and the direction of published science? We find a "geographical representation bias" in 60 STEM journals published by @ioppublishing.bsky.social. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This paper explores academic peer review as a source of knowledge transfer and learning for the reviewers themselves. spkl.io/63328A1crC @innovation.bsky.social @jamesmzd.bsky.social

Had a great time presenting these findings at #metascience2025 and looking forward to getting even more eyes on it at the #NBERSummerInstitute2025 session on Science of Science Funding (July 17-18)! Catch in online July 17, 3:30pm at www.youtube.com/nbervideos

🏮NEW WORKING PAPER ALERT🏮 Scientists collectively spend tens of millions of hours peer reviewing each year, mostly for no $$. Why?? In new work w/ Charles Ayoubi and @innovation.bsky.social, we observe a private benefit for participating in evaluation: 💡💡Learning💡💡

1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts: NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy. h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social

In a letter dictated over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil said that his arrest "was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine." "It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."

New preprint! Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard. We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3 #NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci 🐦🐦

On the last flight on a Sunday night LAX to DTL got me like open.spotify.com/track/1qiJlt...

I’m officially an STSer!! Very excited to continue engaging w the work here at #4SHonolulu and creating/bridging convos w/in #ScienceofScience

Brandon nails it: Karikó's story and the Nobel Prize for her incredible science highlight the flawed foundation of academia's claim to meritocracy. It's an ideal that we can and should aspire to! But we have a lot of hard introspection and institutional work to do to get there...

HELMET CATCH #GOBLUE

Academic productivity is so mysterious to me. Everything I do is angled to get a few high quality working hours each day (or even each week). Hitting that flow state feels unpredictable (could be 9am or 9pm). But once it hits, just 2-4 hours can make the whole day worth it

Wifi was down on campus for 4 days and I was ready to embrace tradition, return to monke, etc. No need! Modernity is back 🤠

“Hello darkness my old friend” -me first night back in Munger

Flying back to Ann Arbor today after 3.5 months in the Bay. It was a joy and a pleasure but I’m ready to get back to the grind 😤

It’s been a long road with GEO to come to a tentative agreement, but I’m so proud to vote YES to ratify this historic contract. Our wins will change the lives of thousands of current and future grad workers. RATIFICATION IMMINENT!