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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 6

Framing this around “viewpoint diversity” and the supposed expediency of tracking professors’ political donations is absolutely brilliant. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

A dive into the Board of Visitors’ political donations

Here is a look at Board members’ political donations — all but one of whom has records of political donations which are overwhelmingly to Republican candidates and campaigns.

www.cavalierdaily.com

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Opportunity Wisconsin @opportunitywi.bsky.social · Jul 1

The largest transfer of wealth in history has passed the Senate- now it's being sent back to the House.

It’s time to call our Reps & tell them we need them to vote NO on the Senate version of the bill that will raise our costs to give away tax cuts to the richest 1%.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Illegal impoundment everywhere

Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · Jun 30

Email from Brown admin: government stopped payment on existing NIH grants as of April 3; in three months since, the gov't has cumulatively withheld $45 million in NIH grant reimbursements.

Whatever injunctions, court orders, etc. may exist, no resumption of payments... and no explanation either.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 25

A student doing work this shoddy for a class presentation would fail. Shouldn't the standards be even higher for people making decisions about the health of all Americans?

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · Jun 25

Slides posted for thimerosal presentation at ACIP included citation of study that appears not to exist

“I don’t have a publication in Neurotoxicology by that title,” the apparent lead author told us

Slide has since been removed

First spied by @drboulware.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/h...

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🦞🦀🦑カイ🦑🦀🦞 @rassicas.splatoonlore.ink · Jun 24

Went to take a picture of this insane bigfoot sex sign in front of someone's house and only after opening my camera did i notice the numerous little chickens chilling in the dirt. life is good again

In THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE
BIGFOOT IS REAL
I AM GOING TO KISS HIM
HE WILL BE MY LOVER
I WILL BE THE LITTLE SPOON
ME AND BIGFOOT WILL FUCK
AND YOU CANT STOP US

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · Jun 23

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · Jun 22

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · Jun 20

In April, the year-over-year export value dropped by 41.4%, worsening the 28% decline recorded in March. The three main export destinations for U.S. wine—Canada (-93%), the UK (-29%), and China (-70%)—all reported significant decreases.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · Jun 16

Opinion | Trump’s Trade School Trojan Horse

Higher ed must resist attempts to pit one sector against another, Rachel Lipson and Robert Schwartz write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kG5NI5

Don’t Fall for Trump’s Trade School Trojan Horse (opinion)

Higher ed must resist attempts to pit one sector against another, Rachel Lipson and Robert Schwartz write.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jun 3

This is a rupture, there will be a before and an after. There is no reason to believe the after will resemble the before, at all. This is a demarcation in the lives of thousands of researchers and tens of thousands of educators.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · Jun 3

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · May 27

Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · May 20

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

Regulations.gov

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · May 18

TL;DR: AI is so much dumber than you think, aka it is not actually „intelligent“ at all, it can‘t remotely do what most people seem to think it already can, it‘s just good at faking human „thinking“. There is no ghost in the machine. Please stop falling for the grift.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 16

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)

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#metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive science as a multidisciplinary field, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) as one of its contributing fields. One conception of Al in this context is as a provider of computational tools (frameworks, concepts, formalisms, models, proofs, simulations, etc.) that support theory building in cognitive science. The contemporary field of Al, however, has taken the theoretical possibility of explaining human cognition as a form of computation to imply the practical feasibility of realising human(-like or -level) cognition in factual computational systems; and, the field frames this realisation as a short-term inevitability. Yet, as we formally prove herein, creating systems with human(-like or -level) cognition is intrinsically computationally intractable.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · May 17

This is completely false. Even the largest university endowment cannot sustain large-scale scientific research.

In my 25 years at my school, the most monumental research fund drive raised $325M in *total*. Federal research here costs $200M per *every year*.

This is an extinction-level event.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · May 17

9 people were killed in a tornado last night in KY. The NWS office responsible for that area has faced some of the most extreme cuts by the Trump administration, including the loss of overnight forecasting.

Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

After Cuts, a Kentucky Weather Office Scrambles for Staffing as Severe Storms Bear Down

www.nytimes.com

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · May 17

Trump administration is terminating $2.7 billion in research funding to Harvard:

Work on breast cancer, impact of nutrition on fertility, antibiotic resistance and hundreds of other topics all dead

“It feels like the academic equivalent of nuclear war"

www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

Feds yank funds from Harvard breast cancer, fertility, antibiotics research

The Trump administration is following through on threats to terminate $2.7 billion dollars in federal grants and other funding at Harvard University, punishment for alleged antisemitism on campus. One...

www.wbur.org

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