Ross Andersen

Michael Jackson was so good at creating the cinema of himself that the only striking images here are direct copies of those he already made bsky.app/profile/phil...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

“For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop”

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Anthropic Is at War With Itself The AI company shouting about AI’s dangers can’t quite bring itself to slow down.

Anthropic wants to be the AI industry's superego, but is caught between the pressures to be safe and fast, rigorous while being commercially successful. I profiled the company and its leadership, who seem earnest but torn, anxious but at times hubristic:

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Preach @adamserwer.bsky.social

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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

Glad this is being discussed more. It is a big problem. I think academic publishing needs a new paradigm.

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop - Peer review has met its match www.theatlantic.com/science/2026... #AIslop #publishing #science #research #ethics

Believe Your Eyes People are risking their lives to document agents in Minneapolis.

Wrote about the observers. The people standing by and filming and the risk they are taking to let the world see what is happening. It's crucial and its the only way to combat the lies and blatant propaganda. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

The Small Stuff From popular The Atlantic columnist Ian Bogost, a lively reflection about how we’ve become disconnected from the physical world—and how to reclaim ...

If you haven't pre-ordered my new book yet, today is an amazing day to do that.

It's about the SENSORY ENCHANTMENT OF EVERYDAY LIFE, why happiness is good but not the whole story, why connection with the physical world declined, and how to reclaim it.

If you don't order I will cry.

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

AI slop is everywhere in scientific publishing, we’re only catching the easy-to-detect stuff (like when you happen to peer review a manuscript with a AI-hallucinated reference of a paper you apparently wrote)

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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

"For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop." www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture, @rossandersen.bsky.social writes—now they’re being clogged with AI slop:

One of the ironies: AI research is among the hardest hit fields

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

I wrote about the deluge of AI slop that is gushing into scientific discourse

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The Power of Private Museums The Equal Justice Initiative’s historical sites in Montgomery, Alabama, show what’s possible when history isn’t subject to federal funding cuts or executive orders.

In December, I traveled to Montgomery to visit the Legacy Museum, which traces the story of Black America from slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration. I wanted to understand how the museum & its affiliated sites were operating in a moment where so much of the history they present is under attack.

I really appreciate that, David - wish it had been a happier story to tell

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An Act of Cosmic Sabotage How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions

"The U.S. has led an unprecedented age of cosmic discovery. Now Trump is trying to bring that age to an end, and right at the moment when answers to our most profound existential questions finally seem to be within reach." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

An Act of Cosmic Sabotage How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions

It made me so sad and angry to see these scientific budget cuts. We're eating our intellectual seed corn. NASA has to operate on timelines longer than a presidential term, this feel unrecoverable.

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“The U.S. has led an unprecedented age of cosmic discovery. Now Trump is trying to bring that age to an end, and right at the moment when answers to our most profound existential questions finally seem to be within reach,” @rossandersen.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/LThKw0kY

Inside Donald Trump’s Attack on NASA’s Science Missions During his first year back in office, the president tried to bring America’s age of discovery to an end.

Even NASA's potted plants have now withered and disappeared, after money was withdrawn for watering them. This tiny detail, evoking E.T., is one of many to remember from @rossandersen.bsky.social's latest feature... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

An Act of Cosmic Sabotage How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions

"The teams of scientists and engineers that built America’s great space telescopes were being scattered. Staffers were told not to hold farewell gatherings during work hours, because they had become too numerous" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... via @theatlantic.com

An Act of Cosmic Sabotage How Donald Trump tried to ground NASA’s science missions

"On Mars, in the belly of a rover named Perseverance, a titanium tube holds a stone more precious than any diamond or ruby on Earth." — @rossandersen.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com

I’m quoted in this article by @rossandersen.bsky.social about this scary time for NASA science.
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This is an important, albeit depressing, read.

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Inside Donald Trump’s Attack on NASA’s Science Missions During his first year back in office, the president tried to bring America’s age of discovery to an end.

No one writes more beautifully about space than @rossandersen.bsky.social. And this has the benefit of being not just magisterial, but extremely important.

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This is a truly well-written, emotional, evocative, and poignant look at what is truly being lost at NASA as Trump wages war on NASA's mission of discovery.

Pairs well with news of the 1st private space telescope, a return to the era of Licks and Lowells. Turn out we've lived in a brief window where cosmic exploration was driven by the curiosity of citizens in a democracy, not rich eccentrics, insecure sovereigns, industries, or navies. It was awesome.

oh did you want to feel *better* today? (jk ross is a beautiful writer, read this)

But the kids are very much okay

Grim stuff