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Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Word of mouth is important to a book's success. So, if you'd like to see the authors who wrote your favourite stories commissioned to write more, please keep talking about all the #books you love.

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

I relate to quite a bit of Ursula Le Guin's writing schedule, but it's the "very stupid after 8pm" part that seems to hit harder and deeper as the years go on.

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

AI "boring history" slop has taken over YouTube and is particularly insidious because it flattens history and drowns out the tireless work of creators who have been integral to legitimizing YouTube as a place for high-quality history videos www.404media.co/ai-generated...

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Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for the kind praise for #ScienceUnderSiege! Due out 9/9, by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly, courtesy of #PublicAffairs / @hachetteus.bsky.social/ #BasicBooks / #ScribePub: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...

🚀 Exciting news: The Peace Observatory is live! 👉 peaceobservatory.com The Peace Observatory is now the world’s largest repository of peace negotiation summaries. It covers 11,000+ rounds of negotiations and 3,000 agreements across 1,300+ armed conflicts worldwide (1989–2023).

Don't miss the concluding episode of our @EmpirePodUK #ShatteredLands Partition series THE 1971 LIBERATION WAR: HOW EAST PAKISTAN BECAME BANGLADESH

Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

I tested AI chatbots with history facts. They spewed a lot of bullshit.

Today, @grist.org is launching a new series, The Disaster Economy, looking at the chaotic, often lucrative world of disaster recovery. grist.org/series/the-d... Read, share, and importantly, let us know what you're seeing on the ground in your communities that you want us to report on.

Josh Cohen and I have a new (short) paper in @science.org! Researchers at Google built a "Habermas Machine" for democratic deliberation. We ask whether its knack for building agreement comes from genuine deliberative merit or from people over-trusting algorithms. philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=CO...

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!

I was the AEA's President Elect as the first Trump term began. We worried about government statistics then, and appointed a committee that included members (such as Google's Chief Economist) who might be in a position to help make reliable statistics available if the government went dark. #econsky

when im feeling uninspired i remember some guy invented ciabatta in 1982 because he decided italians should have their own baguette

If you’d told me a decade ago that the NYT and WaPo would roll over for a Republican president going full fascist while the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal went on the attack — and that Bill Kristol was pressing the attack harder than Nancy Pelosi — well, I’d have had you committed.

NEW: A new survey found that *over half* of US teens are regular users of unregulated AI companion chatbots. Though most teens said they prefer their real-world friends, a large number reported being just as or more satisfied by chatbots vs real-world interactions. futurism.com/teens-ai-fri...

"Is climate change causing deadly weather events?" | I spoke with @cathynewman.bsky.social of @channel4news.bsky.social earlier today: www.channel4.com/news/is-clim...

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

💥 Companies with commitments to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) "like Patagonia, Costco, and Microsoft — are actually gaining reputational strength. Their DEI efforts are resonating with employees and customers, becoming a differentiating factor" www.reuters.com/legal/legali...

A 21-year-old Norwegian was stopped at Newark airport. ICE asked to see his phone and found a picture of JD Vance (a rare Vance). Then things got nasty. “I was pushed up against a wall and was strip-searched with a lot of force. They were incredibly harsh and used physical force the whole time"

the annoying thing about “Dunning-Kruger” is that the actual paper starts with a perfect anecdote that ends with the perfect colloquial phrase for the delusion, and yet everyone still insisted on using “Dunning-Kruger” instead

We knew China's rush to install solar and wind was going to be wild but WOW😮. The solar panels & wind turbines China installed in May alone, in a single month, will generarate as much electricity as: -Poland -Sweden -Norway -the UAE -North Carolina&Maryland or -Washington&Wyoming

If you want to understand the background to the conflict in Iran, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on the history of Iran & the Iranian Revolution. From the rise of Cyrus... podcasts.apple.com/az/podcast/9... ... to the Fall of the Shah: podcasts.apple.com/az/podcast/1...

My "AI as Governance" piece is now out at @annualreviews.bsky.social of Political Science. It should be free access to everyone and I'm very happy with how it worked out (the second half is an extended spin of Applied Gopnikism to political science @alisongopnik.bsky.social @cshalizi.bsky.social

It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."

If you (like me) are pulling together a reading pile to lose yourself in this summer, let me remind you of this terrific starter pack. go.bsky.app/2LmKSDN

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

some important tesla news you may have missed on a very busy news day www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/s... swedish pension fund ap7 blacklists tesla & has sold entire stake

This is a good starter pack on Iran. I am mostly going to be reposting their work rather than making ignorant comments. go.bsky.app/585y2vc

If you’re looking for quality independent reporting on what’s happening in Los Angeles, I’ve put together a starter pack for it. If you’d like to be added or know an indie who should be added, hmu

Two short weeks until our new book CRISIS: A Global Case Primer launches! We’d love for business and society researchers to see it so we scored another 25 free preview copies. DM for a copy, and please spread the word if you can. We think it's a pretty ok summer read to boot! bit.ly/4jtY3ra

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

New, from me: A Brown student built an AI-powered harassment machine of university staff. When the university investigated (and cleared) him, he was presented as a free speech victim. He became a right-wing celebrity, which was his goal all along. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

Two short weeks until our new book CRISIS: A Global Case Primer launches! We’d love for business and society researchers to see it so we scored another 25 free preview copies. DM for a copy, and please spread the word if you can. We think it's a pretty ok summer read to boot! bit.ly/4jtY3ra

Shameless sales pitch. My and @abenewman.bsky.social Underground is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle. @pkrugman.bsky.social - "A revelatory book" Kim Stanley Robinson - "a new and startling image of the global body politic", Washington Post - "Farrell and Newman write fluidly and grippingly."

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

This @insidehighered.com website is tracking visa revocations of students across the US, >600 at >100 colleges as of today, April 10. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

1/ The Trump Administration is seeking to force foreign companies worldwide to ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes within their firms if they want to do business with the US government. It's an aggressive expansion of its anti-DEI crusade. ⬇️

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...