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When OMB head Russ Vought talks about deliberate efforts to put federal employees "in trauma" and make them quit their jobs, he's talking about people like Michelle, recently fired by Musk/Trump. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

submitted 14 hours ago • 71 comments

so exactly right. @benevans.bsky.social on measurement mysteries in LLMs, great example on iOS/Android market share www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

We are hiring Closing soon but still time! Associate/Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel! How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Proud to be a member of @aaup.bsky.social !

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

good time for academics to join AAUP

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Very concerned by the teacher who thinks AI is ok for brainstorming and editing, and that only writing is where individual thinking needs to be expressed. Ofc another teacher slams this fantasy, noting that students are using it for every stage.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 3 days ago • 83 comments

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

The Constitution gives Congress power to establish the U.S. Postal Service. It did, by law, during the Washington administration. Its status as an independent agency was established by Congress in law. USPS is wildly popular with the American people and its service is essential and irreplaceable.

submitted 3 days ago • 80 comments

I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

I rarely dunk, but this is exactly why @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I write about /illusions/ of understanding in our paper about AI and knowledge production.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

“For us, critique is service. We critique because we care.” — @abeba.bsky.social & @rajiinio.bsky.social (2022) irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01/29/c...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 4 days ago • 81 comments

People often assume the emotions associated with cruelty are hatred and anger, but it’s actually pleasure and joy. Fascists relish their cruelty. They roll it around on their tongue like a mouthful of full-bodied wine. They laugh as they harm.

submitted 5 days ago • 115 comments

If you haven’t ordered your last round of free Covid home tests, get ‘em now before they’re destroyed. special.usps.com/testkits

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Pitched a piece to my hometown paper and they responded within like 10 minutes saying they definitely want to see it. So yeah, I think this has potential

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

The other website is pretty much done

submitted 5 days ago • 710 comments

Reyes is cooking.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

They screwed this all up.

submitted 5 days ago • 43 comments

Planes are crashing because Trump and Musk wanted to cut their own taxes even more. Say it over and over and over again until it sinks into people's brains and they correctly associate every crash with two billionaires who never fly commercial.

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 6 days ago • 846 comments

Can't fly safely (b/c FAA cuts) can't visit parks anymore (closed b/c rangers are fired). So the line could / should be "Middle class punished: Musk/Trump steals American freedom to have a vacation"

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

wow I do not like those Reddit lines

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

ACTION THIS WEDNESDAY: Researchers from New York universities are holding a rally to protest the funding cuts at Washington Square Park at 4 pm. This will be part of a national day of action, with rallies at HHS in DC and all around the country. RSVP HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

not stoked to be getting on a plane on Wednesday...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

In case it's not obvious: one of the most important voices in political science today is saying this.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

"AI summaries do very little to help us learn how to listen. Skim and speed-read, no physical discomfort of sitting through a tedious conversation... the summary of the meeting so you don’t have to go, and in the process, you don’t have to engage with the mess that is a bigger set of relations."

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments