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Nature Editorial Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere. US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Sounds a lot like Gerd Gigerenzer... Decision biases are not flaws, they are adaptations that work well in the environment they were designed for, but not when applied to new domains. Great to see that people are adjusting their use of these Fast-and-Frugal heuristics to the environment though!

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So, I study racial #equity in #academia. How about if I say it like this: I study whether White faculty face bias in promotion and #tenure. But, to my "shock and surprise" I find that it is Black and Hispanic individuals who face bias: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Groundbreaking right!

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

“Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times.”

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

Completely agree, in times of uncertainty focus on evidence. Our Center is trying to do this for racial inequities in promotion and tenure. We have evidence identifying the problem: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We have two papers under review examining solutions: [Preprints Soon]

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This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

submitted 28 days ago • 80 comments

One thing critics of diversity initiatives (including DEI) fail to understand is that the goal is NOT to support minorities at the cost of majority group members. Very often it is about improving a SYSTEM in ways that benefits minorities without influencing outcomes for non-minorities.

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Buttigieg’s response to Trump vis Twitter, on multiple levels:

submitted 28 days ago • 99 comments

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

submitted 29 days ago • 42 comments

Posting this update since a lot of researchers follow me here. As to what this actually means for NSF grants, I have no clue yet. Source: new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

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I wrote a very topline overview of what's happened with America's public lands and wildlife in the past week -- and about what I plan to be looking at and writing about moving forward. 🌎🧪

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Those poor #tenure-track faculty who had #COVID and this... A lot of considerations to take into account in those tenure decisions... From my research on over 2,000 promotion and tenure decisions my guess is it will only harm their chances.

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This is my favorite picture of Stonewall. They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+. Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them. I think about it a lot in moments like this.

submitted 29 days ago • 383 comments

Just outrageous! I hope the @bsky.app academic community can be the catalyst for an academic revolt against these journals. We hold all the power, we just fail to coordinate. Can't we just create our own public-domain journals called [JournalName]_1 and mentally transfer the prestige??

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Polarization has become a serious threat to shared reality, democracy, and even health "Thousands of people were dying needlessly because they didn’t trust medical advice, or their government, or mainstream media” Reducing partisan animosity is doable, but tricky: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct https://go.nature.com/4h78aSw

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Al Sharpton, on why we have DEI www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

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Is this for real? Native Americans are not citizens by birth ... because ... 19th century? Did they really really argue that? Where do they find lawyers like that? www.yahoo.com/news/excludi...

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Article focuses on corporations but the Trump anti-DEI directive applies to universities w large endowments as well each agency is being instructed to find 9 entities to investigate IMHO universities and faculty are not prepared for this - it could get very ugly! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/b...

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

Conversations with others around DEI often result in them asking: "What's your agenda" There is no agenda and no opinion. Racial bias is an evidence-based scientific phenomenon that has major ramifications for the social world. We all need to understand it and we all need to combat it.

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i have to assume that “pursuing DEI efforts” means hiring anyone who isn’t a white man?

submitted 35 days ago • 169 comments

Important context for the NASA anti-DEI email that is circulating (and perhaps other agency emails).

submitted 35 days ago • 32 comments

Do monkeys recognize themselves in the mirror? Depends on if they're captive or wild, a study suggests. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🙈

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Now that I’ve finally got a woke mob I really want to unleash them on the for-profit academic journal industry 😅. #openscience yall

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

This is the first time a Blizzard Warning has been issued along the Gulf Coast

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So wait. They defended the Nazi salute on inclusion grounds the same day they are dismantling federal DEI programs? What a time.

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Well, the policy makers and department chairs believe that academics can. But when those faculty members on the committee walk into a P&T meeting faced with a tough decision, I bet they resort back to counting citation and grant $$. That's the easy way out!

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Look at this! Apparently academics can think more deeply about our values than just counting citation and grant $$.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

This is a great initiative. However, our research on over 2,000 P&T decisions at the Center for Equity in Faculty Advancement (CEFA) shows it is extremely hard to align committee's decisions with policy. As long as decisions are anonymous, decision maker are only accountable to their own whims.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

The US federal government can harness science to secure the health, prosperity and safety of Americans and the world https://go.nature.com/4gbgsrg

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

Great article. This will be a loss to the US but more importantly a loss to the world as #science when do right is for the global good. I guess the #resistance starts tomorrow!

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With less than 24 hours until the Inauguration, I justed want to re-share something I wrote recently about how Trump's future immigration policy could impact folks in chem. #ChemSky cen.acs.org/policy/Trump...

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A survey of #Tiktok users found that most of them would literally pay money to have the platform deactivated. People feel socially compelled to use these addictive platforms, despite how awful it makes them feel. A TikTok ban prove surprisingly popular once it’s gone. www.nber.org/system/files...

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Latest from the Nature Careers Podcast 🔊 How to be a brilliant ally to your neurodivergent lab mate https://go.nature.com/40doFFu

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rewatching FIGHT CLUB this week i was very struck by how a movie that is very plainly a critique of this vision of masculinity was taken up as a valorization of it

submitted 42 days ago • 511 comments

I think as scientists and researchers we need to be mindful of who we give our great ideas to. One of my favourite things about academics is that they could probably all be earning more money working for a company, but they don't. All hail intrinsic motivation.

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Open science is efficient: reusable code, data, results, and educational materials saves unnecessary work. Wen facing cutbacks, it's a bad idea to cut back on practices that increase efficiency! universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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Many people here probably know this, but I'm now posting almost daily on Substack: paulkrugman.substack.com The response has been pretty good so far

submitted 42 days ago • 77 comments

My first paper with @erichehman.bsky.social and @acceb.bsky.social is out! We tested intergroup contact across many different types of groups: doi.org/10.1525/coll...

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The world has passed “peak child”

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