As we read this about the Roberts Court let’s remember the shadow docket grievously harmed American scientific research, cancer cures, and public health over the past year. For ex, KBJ’s “Calvinball” quote was in an NIH case. More, short 🧵 1/

Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The UCP govt is rejecting the electoral map proposed 3 weeks ago. A govt motion that could come as soon as this morning outlines the new process which will be overseen by a UCP-led committee, will not allow for public input, and grow the number of MLAs from 87 to 91 #ableg #abpoli

From the DM’s… The UCP are so committed to removing bias from the education curriculum… They’ve introduced legislation to ensure pro-industry bias is introduced into the education curriculum. Complete with a text campaign. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

5 popular AI chatbots gave problematic response to nearly 50% of the questions asked about misinformation prone fields like vaccines, rarely providing disclaimers or refusing to answer. Grok was the worst, the only one partially trained on X content. I guess no shocker there.

A study in Communications Medicine finds that Long COVID’s disability burden rivals that of Alzheimer’s and asthma in the US, but Long COVID receives 14% of its years lived with disability-proportionate funding from the National Institutes of Health. go.nature.com/4v23Nzv #medsky 🧪

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

The last time I tried to engage with Jay Bhattacharya in dialogue I ended up on administrative leave. 🤷‍♀️

Bhattacharya is not a friend to science. The sooner the scientific community (and members of Congress!) realize this, the better shot we have to save science. This article positions Bhattacharya as a defender of science, pushing back against Russell Vought’s OMB. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Jay Bhattacharya, Matt Memoli and others in this admin have weaponized the term “DEI” in incoherent ways that deeply and fundamentally harm science. Was honored to work on this with Jennifer Troyer & Alice Popejoy. open.substack.com/pub/sciencea...

I have a dear friend who is trans, and from Idaho. This is why I have very little time for academics who are apologists for transphobia. And that includes a heck of a lot of philosophers who I used to respect.

And in horrifying news, Idaho's governor has signed the felony bathroom ban, with 5 year penalties for second offense bathroom usage, into law. This is the most significant criminalization of trans people to date. On trans day of visibility no less. It will require a new "Do not travel" warning.

This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect. A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI. www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...

Wow, this is frightening: 95,000 scientists and researchers, gone. Brilliant minds no longer working to protect, help, and save people and the planet. Don't take this sitting down.

A politician with the guts to say it: "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War." - Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.

A new paper in Science measured the prevalence of social sycophancy across 11 leading large language models. The model’s responses were nearly 50% more sycophantic than humans’, even when users engaged in unethical, illegal, or harmful behaviors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

NEW: The NIH has been policing language in research proposals to weed out “DEI”—a term seemingly loosely defined to mean anything relating specifically to minority groups. I spoke with an early-career researcher who says his work is being censored. www.importantcontext.news/p/rewrite-al...

The pandemic made me realize ableism is a form of discrimination that enjoys such widespread, bipartisan support, one cannot even see its edges.

The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

postdoc and PhD positions in visual cognitive computational neuroscience in my lab at the University of Cambridge kamilajozwik.com/join_lab.html

HHS used to be one of the highest ranked departments by its employees. Now it’s near the bottom. The points raised in this article hold true. Feds are not okay. And it’s really hard to convey WHY to those outside.

And it’s well-known now too that research on-campus at NIH is being slowly choked to death. Scientists are leaving and not being replaced, lecture visits blocked, people are spending more and more time not on science but on fruitless paperwork seemingly created to stop progress.

19% more deaths from Covid in the US than counted thru 2021 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I usually roll my eyes when I see a "philosophy of" collection for some popular topic. Well I just came across "The Sailing Mind" (2022) and I don't think I've ever been so professionally jealous in all my life. 😪

Module 3 of the UK COVID Inquiry is out. Encouraging to see explicit recognition of the "widespread failure" of clinical leaders to understand aerosol science, and the "clear failure" of IPC leaders to understand that they might be wrong. #medsky #scisky covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/modu....

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible

The deadline for CSBBCS abstracts has been extended to March 25: www.csbbcs.org/meetings/202... We already received a record # symposium submissions! @yorku-cian.bsky.social @erezfreud.bsky.social @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @action-brain.bsky.social @canacn.bsky.social

Hamilton Spectator: Why do progressives and justice advocates seem to not care about COVID? March is Long COVID Awareness Month & Sunday is Long COVID Awareness Day 'Events like Long COVID Awareness Month/Day help people know they are not alone..' By Andrew Wilkin www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

A heads down approach will not save science. We need to speak up, live our values, and demand integrity. www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...

If folks haven't heard the buzz around Angine de Poitrine yet, well, enjoy. Their music won't be to everyone's taste. But at a time in which GenAI slop is polluting the world and our minds, I appreciate pure expressions of human creativity all that much more. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

VANCOUVER – The family the girl critically injured in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has launched a civil court lawsuit against artificial intelligence firm OpenAI.

Perhaps an early (bad) sign of what is to come: Vinay Prasad, who helped lead a campaign against lifesaving mRNA vaccines at FDA, is being welcomed back to the University of California San Francisco, where he was prior to joining the Trump administration.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

“In summary, excising RNA vaccine research from the NIH research portfolio is antithetical to current goals of making America healthy.” Grateful to join the great @akelvinlab.bsky.social on why we need to document the impact of MAHA funding cuts to understand the grave consequences that will follow

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Thanks, @bhanlon15.bsky.social Here’s a free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I'm hiring again!! Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp - to work with me! Deadline: March 20, 2026 More info on PhilJobs

1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Our reply to 11 commentaries on our article ("Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex") is out in Cognitive Neuroscience! Thanks to @susanwardle.bsky.social @maryamvaziri.bsky.social Dwight Kravitz @cibaker.bsky.social and all who contributed! 1/x www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

the benefit from writing the paper is not having a 30-page paper as a result the benefit is the thinking that goes along with writing the paper — that is part of writing the paper. If all that's done is the pre-analysis plan and the analysis then that limits the new thinking

Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. We are urging Congress to act now to protect the American people by impeaching and convicting Vought. We invite all Americans to join us by signing on to our letter to Congress. actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

This is correct. A serious “middle power” would be investing like mad right now in advanced knowledge right across the disciplines. It is the best reaction to the world’s greatest power seeking to return to the Middle Ages.

Since coming back to Canada I've been shocked by the lack of Long Covid research funding compared to the US (eg RECOVER-TLC at NIH). LC is now the most common chronic illness amongst kids. It needs to be a Tri-Agency priority.

@altfda.altgov.info challenged us to list #5Things that each of us Alts think have caused the most damage in our agencies over the past year. Each of the five items is chock full of sub-items…adding up to far more “things.” Here goes.