Amazing www.them.us/story/1000-y...

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"

I miss the Wheel of Time

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

Uncertainty is a feature of science, not a flaw. Admitting uncertainty isn't the same as pretending both sides are equal. Populists exploit this nuance to sow doubt on issues like medicine, climate and vaccines. news.sky.com/video/n... 8/10

Science thrives on openness to new evidence. But that openness isn’t a license to ignore consensus or amplify fringe claims. The burden of proof lies with challengers, not the scientific mainstream. 7/10

“Settled” doesn’t mean 100% certainty - it means overwhelming evidence. The earth is round. Vaccines save lives. These aren’t 50-50 debates. Uncertainty shouldn't be an excuse for false balance. www.livescience.com/... 6/10

“Science is never settled” sounds reasonable—but it’s often a rhetorical trick to undermine consensus on issues like vaccines or climate change. Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence. My latest for Live Science www.livescience.com/... 1/10

As someone who is doing research metric analysis right now, this is driving a lot of questions for admin. UF is changing the way it evaluates some faculty based off of this—setting up incentives for research published in Q1 journals with grad students as 1st author as an example

Quietly, many U.S. universities are shifting their evaluation of faculty research to align it with the Scopus database of Elsevier. Elsevier recently bought into the US News & World Report rankings used by students and their parents (and alumni, and *far* too many scholars). Why? In part, A.I. ...

I concur. Now more than ever I need to see an adorable baby in festive Autumn outfits—or sitting by a pumpkin. Or atop a barrel of apples. Or by a scarecrow.

AI makes effective science communication more difficult and more important than ever. More difficult because AI makes laypeople think they can bypass experts and interpret data for themselves. And more important because AI's errors threaten to further erode laypeople's trust in science itself.

More Sad news. #thereproductionofmothering

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

I say it all the time, but imma say it again: a lot of very book smart people lack the emotional education and communication skills that would allow them to generate the courage they want to embody in their work. They are incurious about their own emotional lives, and consequently, those of others.

Not something I generally post on main, but just finished this sapphic romance novel about an assistant professor who falls for her tenured mentor, and I can only describe it as delicious. Don’t read if you’re avoiding your own R&R as it gets the details about publishing/academia mostly correct lol

Symbolic violence is deadly

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity. And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

I’ve been thinking about how the white moderate think about free speech. Where calling for violence and the dehumanization of entire groups of people is merely supposed to be pluralism at work rather than an a threat to that pluralism.

Watching the “political violence has no place in America” language with interest. I’m no historian, but our whole nation is founded on political violence. And has continued to be politically violent ever since. Curious how “political violence” from a communication perspective shifts.

I just… love #OrphanBlack so much. AND it’s all about bodily autonomy, identity and found families. Rewatching it now is so intense and clarifying.

Tatiana Maslany’s performance is staggering. I keep having to remind myself that these eight (?) different characters are being performed by the same actor. And often one character ends having to pretend to be another character and it still tracks. You’re never confused.

I did interviews w/ land grant scientists last summer where they also had a problem conflating objectivity w/ neutrality. Attacks against imagined bias have shifted the way that rational actors behave as they want to be trusted by the audience that has been inundated w/ claims of ideological bias

the flip side of no one studying humanities anymore is i regularly quote philosophers and literary giants and people think i just came up with those ideas on my own

Also, why the hell would I be mad at someone for living in a rent stabilized apartment??????? Everyone should be able to live in rent stabilized housing!!!! That’s the whole point!!!!! OMG!!!!! I’m going to snap!!!!!!

What if I raise you: All apartments should be rent controlled.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

Forgive me if I haven’t seen it elsewhere, but why are we not referring to this as the Pedofiles?

I guess I just want to say that Trump has captured every single institution. You can track variation in, say, court decisions or changing positions on tariffs but even conceding those things accepts that his whims run institutions’ priorities. Not a single one of them really stood.

A lot of older adults forced a war on universities because that’s where their kids realized their parents were evil.

When times were hard, my mother liked to listen to Anne Murray. This is the song that I keep turning back to. At its heart isn’t a revulsion from being an informed global citizen, but a desire to hear about humanity’s joys and accomplishments. We need more good news. Little joys can be radical…

Let him cook.

Shut the fuck up and go fund some science. I hate rich people so much.

Universities are bastions for conservative thought. As someone who believes in human rights, dignity, and bodily autonomy for all people (not even democratic political positions), I am often on the outside from my colleagues. Moves like this demand a new political center and always favor the right

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

good day I SAID GOOD DAY

When critical race theorists point out that “neutrality” and “objectivity” are often a thin veneer for white supremacy, they mean stuff like this.

When Mahmoud Khalil said “I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear,” something shifted for me. Solidarity isn’t just for those you see yourself in the struggle with- rising tides and all that

My wife and I are driving up to NYC for Pride and as she was napping in the passenger seat, I heard her mutter my name in her sleep. My heart is so full in this moment because it’s the first time in the 9 years we’ve been together that I’ve heard that.

I find the modern use of Dworkin fascinating. Feminists pull her out to critique the patriarchy without leaving room for how Dworkin’s own theories stripped women of agency and stipulated that women’s bodies are inherently vulnerable. (She’s not who I’d turn to counteract gender segregationists)

The new Criminal Mind Evolution episode is a #BurryYourGays gut punch for those of you who might want to avoid! #CriminalMindsEvolutionSpoilers I’m am hoping Tara can pull through but even if she survives, having an episode end with a queer women of color bleeding out is incredibly upsetting!!

RT if you love boobs or if you think ICE should be abolished

So….the Republicans are now blatantly and openly against local governance. Watching the parties realign in real time is a wild experience gotta say

I came across a journal today with a completely open peer review process. Not only could I see who the reviewers were and their comments, but I could access every version of the submitted manuscript. And I understand why some might want this, I do, but I’ve never NOPED so hard

If you are a white parent of a white son, you have an obligation to do better. To be better. To work harder than you probably thought you’d have to. I have white friends who are parents and they’re doing it. If your son is listening to Charlie Kirk, you have utterly failed as a parent.