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US Science has been under sustained attack for the last month. I've been thinking about the vulnerabilities in UK science. In a new post, I've imagined a dystopian but possible future for UK science - as a way for prompting discussions on how we can protect it. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

submitted 21 hours ago • 20 comments

Know your history.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

We're getting dangerously close to 50% of Trump supporters saying they want a strong leader who does not have to bother with Congress OR ELECTIONS! There is no sugar-coating what to call that.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Why Labour and Trump will both fail www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCnI...

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 7 days ago • 258 comments

🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

submitted 9 days ago • 92 comments

I am hiring: PhD students, postdocs, admin personnel. Email me if you know somebody that may be interested in joining us in Cologne! 👇👇 Please RT for reach! 🙏🙏

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Mass redundancies in Dutch universities are not only the direct consequence of short-sighted austerity policy but also a strategy to reduce the influence of potentially critical voices backed by sound knowledge: academics will keep quiet while they're struggling to keep their job or find new a one.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Most of those points are probably true for every single "revelation" by the code kiddies that is amplified by Musk.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

If any of my esteemed author colleagues thought that they were only gonna ban stuff with sex or LGBTQ themes…actually, if you thought that you probably don’t follow me anyway. Heh.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

The Netherlands is now coming for HE possibly even more brutally than the UK - entire research groups summarily fired (from one day to the next during term!) at Twente. Researching nanotech no less! Here again the increasingly less rare combo of worrying and stupid: www.utoday.nl/news/75196/d...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

How Dunning-Kruger works... and travels.

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

submitted 14 days ago • 55 comments

Grimly brilliant.

submitted 14 days ago • 32 comments

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

submitted 19 days ago • 157 comments

ALL OF THIS. Trump and Musk “are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government.…And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place.” @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

Auspuffrohre mit Bauschaum verklebt, Robert-Habeck-Sticker auf Scheiben gepappt: Was wie das Werk radikaler Klimaaktivisten aussieht, soll nach SPIEGEL-Recherchen auf das Konto russischer Auftraggeber gehen. www.spiegel.de/panor...

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 23 days ago • 1328 comments

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

submitted 26 days ago • 166 comments

This is not just breaking a taboo on a day where the Bundestag was supposed to remember the Holocaust, it will backfire for the Conservatives as the pandering to the far right has backfired for the Tories in Britain. A huge victory for the AfD. A dark day for Germany. Why do people never learn.

submitted 28 days ago • 47 comments

📉📈 GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation … 1/6

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

🌟🧠💪📝 #BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology. PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025 For more: scienceofboosting.org @arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social #policy #behavioralscience 1/ 🧵👇

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

"It was a good day, though, for the fossil fuel executives who poured tens of millions of dollars into Trump’s election campaign." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"There is a sadness in this world, for we are ignorant of many things. Yes, we are ignorant of many beautiful things — things like the truth." - Log Lady www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

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A simple warning about Musk from people at Tesla. “Wear the right clothes, do not make suggestions and be sure to gauge his mood before you meet him…. Do not to wear any patterned clothing, suede shoes or fragrance. Such attire, they said, could send Musk into a rage.” apple.news/A52ofrnY2QmW...

submitted 46 days ago • 171 comments

My very last issue (on ♿️) has now come out with BMJ Medical Humanities: I have stepped down from my role as Editor in Chief. There are a lot of factors—after 17 years editing two consecutive journals, it was time. But there’s more, and I feel we should talk about the climate of #academic publishing

submitted 48 days ago • 18 comments

Alice Weidel nennt Universitäten "queer-woke Kaderschmieden" und sagt: "Wir schließen alle Gender Studies und schmeißen alle diese Professoren raus". Die Naturwissenschafts-Community muss sich hier klar auf die Seite der Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaft stellen. Das ist ein Angriff auf alle. (Thread)

submitted 46 days ago • 82 comments

A thoughtful piece on AI and education from @emollick.bsky.social "The integration of AI in education is not a future possibility—it's our present reality... It requires a fundamental reimagining of how we teach, learn, and assess knowledge." www.oneusefulthing.org/p/post-apoca...

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2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency

submitted 46 days ago • 168 comments

I wish universities would 'start to ask questions' about how many academic 'leadership' roles they can afford! The proliferation of vice/deputy/pro/associate 'leadership roles' over the last 10-20 years has been quite extraordinary.

submitted 77 days ago • 23 comments

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits. The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.

submitted 47 days ago • 540 comments

Meta terminates its DEI programs days before Trump inauguration

submitted 47 days ago • 67 comments

We use a new machine learning technique to identify the most cost-effective policies to boost immunization demand in India. We evaluated 75 combos of reminders, incentives, and local community ambassadors. The most effective increased immunization by 44%. https://buff.ly/4j0v3IF

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Liz Truss threatens to sue Keir Starmer unless he "ceases and desists" from alleging she crashed the economy. In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown

submitted 48 days ago • 236 comments

I see three distinct phases. Pre-Fox, when opinion was diverse but actual facts were indisputable. Fox/Trump, where objective truth was subjected to the false equivalence of ‘alternative facts’ (ie lies). And now, where media & tech platform owners collude with him to drown out the truth altogether.

submitted 49 days ago • 119 comments

I began making a starter pack for Experimental Philosophers. But then I wondered, “Is there already an #xPhi starter pack?” If this is the first, then let’s fill out the list of all the people I’m missing. Recommendations and self-nominations welcome! go.bsky.app/ombTiW

submitted 71 days ago • 8 comments

6,000 stories about Trump's fake invasion of canada 4 stories about Trump's concrete, court-approved plan to dismantle the entirety of U.S. consumer protection

submitted 49 days ago • 53 comments

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

submitted 50 days ago • 679 comments

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

submitted 49 days ago • 619 comments

looks directly at U.S. universities and their comms people

submitted 49 days ago • 23 comments

Since January 1st, we have had attacks that have used several new technologies and novel implementation methods. New Orleans: Used Meta Glasses for recon, Turo to book a vehicle (used peer-to-peer sharing for book lodging and weapon of attack), used and EV.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Surprise!

submitted 64 days ago • 455 comments

Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).

submitted 68 days ago • 152 comments

The metaphors of artificial intelligence. "Something is beginning to happen that was not expected even a few years ago. A threshold was reached, as if a space alien suddenly appeared that could communicate with us in an eerily human way.…" Open access www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment