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"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

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Not a good sign for overall scientific research integrity in the US - but hopefully publishers, with the support of partners like @stmassoc.bsky.social Integrity Hub, @clearskiesadam.bsky.social, @dataseerai.bsky.social and more can, step up, and step forward! retractionwatch.com/2025/02/27/e...

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NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

submitted 6 days ago • 3403 comments

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

submitted 10 days ago • 222 comments

NATO can't protect Europe from Russia because the US has defected. The EU can't because UK is no longer a member. The UN can't because of Russia & US. We need a body with Europe + UK but not Russia + US, with existing admin infrastructure. What I'm saying is: arm the Eurovision Song Contest.

submitted 9 days ago • 68 comments

COPE’s position on banned terms in scholarly publications and restrictions on researchers' activities. It is monitoring the situation closely to understand what additional guidance will be needed, and encourages its communities to approach it directly with questions or concerns #PublicationEthics

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

twitter ended up being very corrosive for expertise….not by empowering know-nothings, but rather by making specialized people self-destruct

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

🧵 How bad science fuels vaccine misinformation – and what happens when the data doesn't fit the narrative. You might remember Christine Stabell Benn & Peter Aaby, whose terrible study on COVID-19 vaccines my team and I debunked: 📌 osf.io/preprints/j8ykx

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Trust in science, and the status of science as a public good, has relied on public institutions as a foundation for providing resources and infrastructure and for adopting policies that promote research integrity. The last few weeks suggest that we could lose some of that foundation in the US. 1/

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One thing that I'm increasingly coming to believe is that stories are going to be central to what comes next. Stories of the harm done. Stories of the great things achieved by government in the past. Stories of valor kindness and quotidian simple resistance.

submitted 19 days ago • 134 comments

At first I didn’t fully realize why these incompetents and mediocrities get nominated into positions of great responsibility. I thought it was just about their demonstrated loyalty but I think it’s more than that. If you elevate such a person they know on some level that they’re very lucky and…

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

"A cornerstone of SSP’s strategic plan is to foster DEIA in our community" Really happy to see my "home" org @scholarlypub.bsky.social come out strongly in support of #diversity #equity #inclusion #accessibility - recommitting to our values in this Board statement www.sspnet.org/community/ne...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

“Posting is currently turned off.” Shame on you Alphabet. Shame.

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I had a much needed chat with a friend today who reminded me of one of the things institutional betrayal researchers say a lot: It’s the whistleblowers who love the institution. Those who defend an institution’s bad acts are protecting themselves.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Well done @apnews.com for not obeying this ludicrous jingoistic relabeling. It makes Freedom Fries seem like reasonable policy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I have never cared less about the Super Bowl than this year.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

For altering, read diminishing. A multitude of perspectives strengthens science.

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submitted 27 days ago • 1541 comments

I remain fascinated by the expanded child tax credit case study & the implications for leftist policymaking. People received REAL financial benefit from it. It drastically cut child poverty rates and it was rescinded without a real fight. I think about this at least once a week.

submitted 28 days ago • 202 comments

Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals? This is not how it works, Mr President. Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words" www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 29 days ago • 73 comments

It is ironic that Elon Musk is in many ways is the immigrant the GOP has been warning us about, coming over here, taking government money, and taking away American jobs.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

submitted 30 days ago • 15 comments

Just received this email (received 3:25 pm ET), from the NSF director, informing that DOJ has interpreted the temporary restraining order on the funding freeze as applying to “all NSF award recipients.” Again, I’ll shout it from the rooftops: lawsuits matter!!!!

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

Another nail in the coffin of federally-sponsored research. It was nice to know you. Terrible.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The Republican party wants to kill us. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

@statnews.com I’m a specialist an internal medicine and I use the CDC’s website frequently to look up the latest flu data and to check on guidelines for things like the latest sexually transmitted disease, treatment guidelines. It appears these are no longer available.

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Shameful and murderous www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 32 days ago • 273 comments

A great short thread on trauma, triggering, and Trump. Very insightful and a good read on reaction to the current horror. I also think it’s important to remember that part of the horror is because we have been hurt by this man before.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 32 days ago • 502 comments

NYC parents: Want to do something about climate change? To teach your kids that their actions as democratic citizens matter? Climate Families has a gathering this Sunday 3-5pm at Three’s Brewing to talk about what we can do now together. RSVP link here: bit.ly/CFGathering #greensky #climatejustice

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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge for the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island granted a temporary restraining order to block President Donald Trump’s freeze on all agency grants and loans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 32 days ago • 158 comments

i covered the entirety of Trump's first term and things are getting much darker much quicker than they did last time around.

submitted 32 days ago • 258 comments

Welcome to Georgia Tech! Can I interest you in one of our exciting fields of study, such as: * Law without justice * Business without equity * Biology without diversity We also have many extracurricular activities, however please understand you can only be excluded from them, not included.

submitted 33 days ago • 11 comments

Scientists are losing their salaries because the government is simultaneously racist and incompetent.

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments

Musk is the culmination of a slow-moving corporate coup by the oligarch class that has been decades in the making. But that doesn't change the fact that this marks a new and unspeakably dangerous chapter.

submitted 32 days ago • 67 comments

I've heard a number of people say, "I live in a safe blue district/state--there's no point in calling my reps since they're already on the right side." Yes, there is: You can call and insist that they be among the loudest voices on the issues you care about, since they can afford to be.

submitted 33 days ago • 61 comments

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

submitted 33 days ago • 328 comments

1) This is egregious and immoral. 2) It's also more low-hanging fruit for Dems if Schumer and Jeffries would stop telling their members to let this stuff slide. The Trump admin is again trying to get people killed in a pandemic for no reason beyond "too-online conservative brain rot."

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”

submitted 34 days ago • 229 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 32 days ago • 1823 comments