Jeff Grabmeier

MILAN, ITALY - FEBRUARY 19: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was captured using a remote camera positioned above the field of play.) Megan Keller #5 of Team United States scores the game winning goal in overtime against Claire Thompson #42 and Ann-Renee Desbiens #35 of Team Canada to win the gold medal during the Women's Gold Medal match between the United States and Canada on day 13 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on February 19, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

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A lone Eastern Wood Pewee looks up from a bare branch in a wooded area.

So the #BirdofTheDay theme is #BranchBirds? Here's an Eastern Wood-Pewee captured in Ohio, United States last spring.

The Atlantic’s Elizabeth Bruenig on her “hypothetical,” heavily reported measles essay "We were attracted to the idea of providing a play-by-play of the progression of measles in granular detail."

I was really troubled by this Atlantic piece. It was presented as reporting, but it seems more accurate to describe it as speculative fiction based on reporting. It seems like a bizarre choice for a journalistic institution to make. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

An Ohio State University Study Says That 27% of Parents Think it's Likely Their Child Will Become a College Scholarship Athlete Ohio State News – Many children grow up dreaming – or maybe even expecting – that they will become a star in football, basketball or whatever their favorite sport may be.Most parents have more realist...

Appropriate to see @jgrabmeier.bsky.social ride off into the sunset, with final write-up going viral (at least on @barstoolsport.bsky.social twitter feed) & prominent mention in linked article. Research by Chris McLeod & Chris Knoester in @jssisport.bsky.social www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3559396...

Why AI is never going to run the world The secret to human intelligence can’t be replicated or improved on by artificial intelligence, according to researcher Angus Fletcher.Fletcher, a professor of English at The Ohio State University’s P...

Angus Fletcher in his new book: “AI takes one feature of intelligence – logic – and accelerates it. The moment, though, that life requires commonsense or imagination, AI tumbles off its throne. This is how you know that AI is never going to run the world – or anything.” news.osu.edu/why-ai-is-ne...

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Most of us love memes. But are they a form of comics? Once upon a time—way back in the twentieth century—people got their laughs from reading comics in the newspaper.  Today, many of us get our chuckles by seeing (and sharing) humorous memes online.But a...

Comics scholar Michelle Ann Abate argues that memes are an important new type of digital comic. “Memes use a lot of the same visual and verbal elements that go into a comic, and those elements function in a very similar way, she said. news.osu.edu/most-of-us-l...

Like humans, monkeys are attracted to videos showing conflict Have you ever wondered what kind of video content would most grab the attention of monkeys?A new study of long-tailed macaques suggests the monkeys seem to like some of the same kind of content that h...

news.osu.edu/like-humans-...

Words of wisdom that we need to understand.

Most women want children – but half are unsure if they will As concern grows about America’s falling birth rate, new research suggests that about half of women who want children are unsure if they will follow through – and many won’t be that bothered if they d...

Great write-up of some my recent work with @srhayford.bsky.social! news.osu.edu/most-women-w...

Parents spending more time, resources and money on kids’ sports Parents, it is not just your imagination – you are spending more time, money and resources on your kids’ sports activities than moms and dads from previous generations.A new nationwide study found tha...

Appreciated the excellent write-up by @jgrabmeier.bsky.social of NSASS research by Chris Knoester & Chris Bjork. Evidence of increases in parental involvement in youth sports, across generations, & relevance of family SES, sports cultures, & youth sport commitments.
news.osu.edu/parents-spen...

Why AI can’t understand a flower the way humans do Even with all its training and computer power, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool like ChatGPT can’t represent the concept of a flower the way a human does, according to a new study.That’s because t...

“A large language model can’t smell a rose, touch the petals of a daisy or walk through a field of wildflowers. Without those sensory and motor experiences, it can’t truly represent what a flower is in all its richness." #AI #Science news.osu.edu/why-ai-cant-...

Change your location to jumpstart creativity, study finds If you want to do your best, most creative work, moving to a new place – or working from several places – can accelerate the process, according to a new study of Nobel Prize winners.Researchers found ...

"Jeff," the people say, "Why are you so dull and non-creative?"
Well, I've had the same job for 40 years and lived in the same city for 42. That's why! 😁 news.osu.edu/change-your-...

I don't know why you chose me, hooded warbler, but I am grateful.

A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs.

A wearable smart insole can track how you walk, run and stand A new smart insole system that monitors how people walk in real time could help users improve posture and provide early warnings for conditions from plantar fasciitis to Parkinson’s disease.Constructe...

A new smart insole system that monitors how people walk in real time could help users improve posture and provide early warnings for conditions from plantar fasciitis to Parkinson’s disease. #science #engineering news.osu.edu/a-wearable-s...

Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge | Washington Monthly Trump's blunderbuss tariff policies are a declaration of war on the half of America that didn’t vote for him.

This is a relatively short and clarifying read.

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/t...

A sign in a botanical garden in Hawaii that says "Caution: Beware of Falling Fruit."

An immature Cooper's Hawk, on the branch of a tree, grasping a dead American crow in its talons.

Murder of a crow, by a Cooper's Hawk. (Columbus, Ohio) #Birds #Nature #Photograph

Applications are now open for the Excellence in Science Communication awards from @nationalacademies.org &
@schmidtsciences.bsky.social. This great program recognizes work by journalists, independent communicators & scientists
www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel... #scicomm

New device could allow you to taste a cake in virtual reality Novel technology intends to redefine the virtual reality experience by expanding to incorporate a new sensory connection: taste.  The interface, dubbed ‘e-Taste’, uses a combination of sensors and wir...

Who wants to eat fish soup - and really taste it - in a virtual reality videogame? Ohio State researchers have your back! My colleague @tatyanazaria.bsky.social delivers all the delicious details. news.osu.edu/new-device-c...

An online review of a local clown says: “Not what I had hoped for Disappointed. We agreed he would bring balloons for $20. He showed up with 3 or 4 saying one got away from him. Spent time playing a video game. Walked on the bowling alley - and fell down (needed to have the bowling alley shoes). Clothing seemed unkept. Clown face makeup was scant.”

The Clown Paradox: the more negative the online review of a clown is, the funnier the clown sounds

EXPRESS: Are All Generic Drugs Created Equal? An Empirical Analysis of Generic Drug Manufacturing Location and Serious Drug Adverse Events - In Joon Noh, John Gray, George Ball, Zachery Wright, Hyunwo... Generic drugs provide lifesaving, affordable treatment to millions of people each day. Generic drug manufacturing has been steadily moving from advanced economi...

Study was published in Production and Operations Management. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

All generic drugs are not equal, study finds Generic drugs manufactured in India are linked to significantly more “severe adverse events” for patients who use them than equivalent drugs produced in the United States, a new study finds.These adve...

Generic drugs manufactured in India are linked to significantly more “severe adverse events” for patients who use them than equivalent drugs produced in the United States, a new study finds. news.osu.edu/all-generic-...

Place‐Based Accentedness Ratings Do Not Predict Sensitivity to Regional Features Discussions of sociolinguistic awareness are often about how patterns observed in one practice (often linguistic production) appear in others (often person perception or metalinguistic commentary). M....

Full study by @kathrynck.bsky.social available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The complicated question of how we determine who has an accent How do you tell if someone has a particular accent?  It might seem obvious: You hear someone pronounce words in a way that is different from “normal” and connect it to other people from a specific pla...

“People probably don’t learn who has an accent from hearing someone talk and thinking, ‘huh, they sound funny’ – even though sometimes it feels like that’s how we do it.” New study from Ohio State Linguistics. news.osu.edu/the-complica...

One More Time: Why Diversity Leads To Better Team Performance Discussions on diversity in the workplace can be heated and contentious. But the data still shows more diverse teams outperform their less diverse peers. Here's how.

Here’s a neat summary of evidence why diversity in the workplace is so important. TL:DR better ideas, better productivity, better retention, also just better. www.forbes.com/sites/roncar...

Photo of baseball hat declaring Texas as Cotton Bowl champs.

You can buy it...if you want to! Go Bucks!

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