The US has sanctioned European researchers and policymakers studying misinformation, framing independent inquiry as a free speech violation. The Trump admin's refusal to allow regulation of platforms is US tech policy by other means—now being enforced through sanctions. Scholars must pay attention.

The reality for the other students is that they are no longer enrolled in a psychology class. It is a Psychology plus My Personal Christian Beliefs class. Every class at OU is now a My Personal Christian Beliefs class. Every time any student raises such beliefs, instructors have to accept them.

Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”

#academiclife goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...

“When so much of our ability to communicate out facts to the world is concentrated in a small number of people, and there’s a squeezing of independent media ... I think we’re working with an information ecosystem that is highly dangerous.”

One of the most pleasant surprises of the past 20 years was the transformation of Wikipedia into arguably the most reliable general information source freely accessible to the public. It’s not perfect — I’ve certainly seen errors — but it’s kind of shockingly good. One might consider a donation.

Sigh www.news9.com/ou-essay-rem...

You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.

It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too. Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.

If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.

Curator of Education job (tenure-track Assistant Professor) at the Museum of Natural History, University of Colorado Boulder! Salary $90-$100K, 9 month full time position. Apply by Jan 21. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband

Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Mirrored here for when that gets taken down: archive.org/details/3mam...

yep.

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking. We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."

The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE. www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...

New preprint w/ @fbartos.bsky.social , Ben Jones, and @tvpollet.bsky.social . Our reanalyses found *little* evidence that sexual orientation is associated with 2D:4D ratios after accounting for publication bias. 🧵1/7 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Digit ratio was the topic that really helped me understand publication bias, and the warping effect it has on our science. Imagine trying to publish this null result if it didn't have the word Hadza in the title. Which journal would take it?

There's also little evidence it has anything to do with hunting success would you beleive it. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I'm so far behind! ICYMI, here's my December #Reads for the Rest of Us with @msmagazine.com, featuring titles by @allynwalker.bsky.social @angelafrederick.bsky.social @wordsiren.bsky.social @bnwosu.bsky.social and more! msmagazine.com/2025/12/09/b...

➡️New article out⬅️ The Fate of Behavioral Modernity by Andra Meneganzin @andrameneganzin.bsky.social Free reading link: rdcu.be/eUOUH

2025: an annus horribilis for health in the USA - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Got hate-mail about this today; someone insists the art is AI-generated. The art was drawn by a scientific illustrator (credited in our piece) & provided to the press. Live Science does not use generative AI for writing or illustrating stories. For more, see: www.livescience.com/editorial-st...

Another incredible case of white racial grievance about the academic job market. He reveals at the end that he wouldn’t provide the necessary application materials!

There is also the fact that all of Colin Wright's highly-cited articles were co-authored with Jonathan N. Pruitt, whose scientific career was ended by findings of widespread fraud, calling into question the entire body of work. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...

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The AAUP is seeking transparency & accountability on the extent of Palantir’s role with the Department of Education. Higher ed should not be treated as a security threat to be monitored by Palantir. Rather, it should be treated as a public good that strengthens our democratic values.

The velocity of my eye rolling right now. What is Liz Plank thinking here?

wait...we have a USA Hunger Games (called Patriot Games) now?

It has been a remarkable year of discoveries. From ancient Pompeii, to the medieval Avars, to the American Southwest. Plus some advances in 3D organization of ancient genomes and an ancient disease with unexpected roots. And lots about Denisovans! www.johnhawks.net/p/top-10-dis...

Our Favorite Books of 2025: Nonfiction! open.substack.com/pub/epicurea...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD

“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia. It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”

Will an anthropologist be able to identify your sex and gender from your bones 100 years from now? I sure hope so! Read my essay on the limited and limiting methods we currently have for sex estimation to learn where the science has room to improve. www.prosocial.world/posts/an-ant...

Three D's defected to vote for this disgusting bill. If they hadn't, it wouldn't have moved forward. *Don't come into my mentions to "explain" to me that "this will fail in the Senate." Spend that time calling your reps, donating to causes, and doing literally anything for trans folks.

Hear @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social's Savala Nolan '11, Exec Dir of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, on @kqedforum.bsky.social with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social @roxanegay.bsky.social & @irincarmon.bsky.social tomorrow at 9am www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

Also, recall that I examined grant title changes for evidence of “remediation” and found 777 grants with titles changed from 2024 to 2025. Here is a word cloud of the removed words.

Love this news, my time at Università Roma Tre as an Erasmus student was an amazing and transformational experience 🇮🇹

Congratulations, Julia!

It’s not every book that makes my breath catch in my throat. This is one of those books. @milleridriss.bsky.social shows how misogyny acts as a catalyst for violence and how patriarchy drives anti-scientific thinking, racism, and conspiracy movements @princetonupress.bsky.social #manup #patriarchy

The full open access paper of Baab et al: