Nothing to see here. This is a test post from #Surf. I want to see whether it shows up in #Bluesky.

the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has more All-In podcast hosts than professors

Artemis looks back at the home planet. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

“When cultural heritage is destroyed, a part of a nation’s identity+memory is lost forever…By documenting these damages, we are not ignoring the human suffering, but trying to preserve the history, the identity & the memory of our ppl for future generations.” www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/25/w...

Remember when Joni Ernst said she was concerned about voting to confirm Hegseth because of his writings & statements which indicated hostility to women serving in non-support military roles, but said she decided to vote for him after he privately assured her that wasn’t the case?

#CancerResearchUK will stop paying #APCs for funded researchers. Good. Unfortunately its announcement is marred by false assertions and assumptions about #OpenAccess. news.cancerresearchuk.org/2026/04/01/w... I say more on Mastodon. fediscience.org/@petersuber/...

jesus christ

A federal judge just ruled that #Trump can face civil liability for inciting violence in the #Jan6 #insurrection. His incendiary speeches that day were "unofficial" acts not covered by presidential #immunity. Decision by the DC district court. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show... #USlaw #USPol

Iran-Contra showed something important: a president could ignore Congress on foreign policy, break the rules, and survive politically. Decades later, presidents launch wars without Congress — or avoid calling them wars so they don’t even have to ask. They’re not even bothering to hide it anymore.

BREAKING: Judge Leon finds Trump likely lacks the authority to build the ballroom, blocks Trump admin from building unless Congress actually gives that authority. "[N]o statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Disturbing case study in censorship and self-censorship: climate scientists trying to do their work without using the word "climate". talkingpointsmemo.com/news/to-keep... #BannedWords #Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

@johanrooryck.bsky.social just wrote an excellent reply to a range of objections and misunderstandings about #DiamondOA. doi.org/10.58079/15yxa #APCs #OpenAccess #ScholComm

U.S. average retail gasoline prices for the last 18 months.

Guess which continent.

Europeans are not different from us, aside from the good fortune of different political institutions & multiparty systems:

It’s hard to believe something I loved was riddled with failure. I hope my book prompts other small colleges to asses themselves critically before it’s too late. #selfpromosaturday #selfpromotionsaturday #academicsky #writer

Total loss for the Trump admin on its attack against Anthropic.

An unnamed school in the UK used #AI to decide which books to ban from the library. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/uk-s... #BookBans #Censorship #DefendResearch #Libraries #Librarysky

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Nicole Ozer, @nicoleozer.bsky.social, has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1! Who is EFF's new ED? 🧵 (1/5)

Bernie Sanders has pulled one out for the books. He has suggested a reading of the Epstein files as a filibuster to the Save Act.

💎 Introducing AEGIS-OA: A New Shield for #DiamondOA in Europe AEGIS-OA, a new Horizon Europe project, brings together 24 partners from 16 countries to strengthen a sustainable, high-quality #DiamondOA publishing ecosystem. ➡️Read more: edch.eu/new-shield-d... #OpenAccess #OpenScience

I'm proud to be one of more than 75 academics and advocacy groups who signed this letter calling out FCC chair Brendan Carr's flagrantly unconstitutional threats against media institutions who accurately report news about the Iran war in ways Donald Trump doesn't like techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

See this call by members of the global math community to move their upcoming meeting out of the U.S. for the sake of participant safety in light of the many aggressive acts against immigrants on the part of the U.S.

Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct: dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and... #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #Retractions #PaperMills #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Conflating criticism of Israel with genuine bigotry only makes it more difficult to assess and address this serious problem.

Also, Fox never publicly apologized for spreading lies about the 2020 election, even though it paid out the dough.

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

lying on Gold Star families your mob just created is the lowest form of trash www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

#TFW the head of the Maine Hospital Association retires after 40 years of service and says that affordable health care is "not a solvable problem." www.pressherald.com/2026/03/15/i... #Affordability #Healthcare #Medicine

Great news! We have a new co-editor at the Open Access Directory. @sufyanism.com has jumped in and is doing amazing work updating OAD's lists. Really grateful for the effort he's putting in to keep this resource current and comprehensive 🙌 oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main...

Big news from #arXiv: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678... 1. It's becoming an independent #nonprofit organization. 2. It's leaving #CornellU and moving to NYC. 3. It's hiring a CEO, with a salary in the range of $300k. #OpenAccess #Preprints #ScholComm

Our Advocacy Organisations for Open Access list now includes new entries and we are continuing to expand it thanks to @sufyanism.com. This is a live, evolving resource, so watch this space as more organisations are added. oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Advo... #OpenAccess #OAAdvocacy #ScholComm

The #Trump #memecoin is down 96% from its high. futurism.com/future-socie... #USPol #USPolitics

#DOGE terminated an #NEH grant to replace the HVAC system at a museum, acting on this #ChatGPT rationale: "Improving HVAC systems enhances preservation conditions for collections, aligning with the goal of providing greater access to diverse audiences." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... #USPol

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

I don't know whether #AI played a role in targeting the school. But it could have played a role even with guardrails against use in mass surveillance & autonomous lethal weapons. If we want to prevent the use of AI tools in atrocities, we need to go a lot further than #Anthropic did. #IranWar #War

Here's another article that made it through peer review (at #Elsevier) with the false claim that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs. www.journalofsurgicalresearch.com/article/S002... #ScholComm

"The #DocumentFoundation [maker of #LibreOffice] has called on the European Commission in an open letter not to rely solely on #Microsoft's proprietary #XLSX format in the ongoing consultation on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)." www.heise.de/en/news/Libr... #FOSS #Interoperability #OpenSource

Thanks for upping this, John. #BurningtheBooks keeps being an authoritarian priority across the globe ...

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

"Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper." retractionwatch.com/2026/03/05/p... PS: Here's hoping that publicity about this shakedown costs the publisher -- Walsh Medical Media -- more than $500. #ScholComm

There's a special sting in being fired by #Trump right now when he's keeping so many other stupid and wicked people. #KristiNoem will have to live with the fact that Trump fired her before firing #PeteHegseth, #PamBondi, #RFKJr.... #USPol #USPolitics

As we prepare to celebrate the 61st anniversary of Selma on Saturday, don't forget that it's also another anniversary date: the 60th of South Carolina v Katzenbach, in which SCOTUS unanimously and emphatically upheld the Voting Rights Act. It took the movement and it took the Court to make it real

FYI, there is still time to register for the March 5th #DefendResearch webinar with Nina Jankowicz of the American Sunlight Project on " #Censorship, #Disinformation, and the Fight for Academic Freedom" and how we can resist censorship and its consequences. www.defendresearch.org/events/webin...

#Trump projection squared: "The US on Friday designated #Iran as a 'state sponsor of wrongful detention'." thehill.com/homenews/adm... #USPol #USPolitics

In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication. We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #CodeSharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.

It's no mystery why major US newspapers are not covering this story as forthrightly as #TheGuardian. Big part of the problem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Epstein #Journalism #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Betty Lachgar was unjustly imprisoned in her home country, Morocco, last August for uploading a photo of her wearing a t-shirt that read "Allah is lesbian" while on a trip in London. We are awarding the 2026 Avijit Roy Courage Award to Betty. Read more ➡️ ffrf.us/3ZTVAPL

Please read Hillary Clinton's opening statement in today's meeting of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. x.com/HillaryClint... #Epstein #HillaryClinton #Republicans #SexTrafficking #Trump #USPol #USPolitics @hillaryclinton.bsky.social ky.social