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This lecture was today, I was terrified with what I have heard on his lecture and then read on his website

How I didn't check before that he is the author of THE "umbrella review", oh good god

"Antidepressants are not more effective than placebo"

"Treatment-resistant depression is a depression that doesn't not react on antidepressants treatment. <...> Treatment-resistant depression is marketing"

(not literal, but almost literal citation)
Mark Horowitz, King's Open Research School

the 'hunger games' continue

Today I got to know about the case of Vera Rubin

Tbh, I cannot consider the Nobel Prize award as a serious one anymore: to systematically ignore real geniuses, just because they are women is not serious, it is infantile and incompetent

"Figure 1. A research agenda for the neuroscience of misinformation" Included categories are susceptibility to misinformation, sharing of misinformation, and interventions to counter misinformation.

Cool new paper in Neuron discussing how neuroscience can help us study misinformation.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Я, кстати, согласна. Понятно что ИИ имеет цели создать секту шатателей реальности, она вообще не имеет целей. Но тот факт что довольно несложным алгоритмом (привычка к неформальному общению с ИИ + долгие разговоры про обретение им самосознания), могут привести к ТАКОМУ лагу - пугающий.

If you work in women's health, or you're a woman, or you're a doctor to women, please read the new World Economic Forum report, Prescription for Change, which lays out the problem of women's exclusion from research. Impressive suggestions. So much work to do!
www.weforum.org/publications...

We, members of the academic and administrative staff in institutions of higher education in Israel, call on you to act immediately to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza. Israeli higher education institutions play a central role in the struggle against the judicial overhaul. It is precisely against this backdrop that their silence in the face of the killing, starvation, and destruction in Gaza, and in the face of the complete elimination of the educational system there, its people, and its structures, is so striking. Since Israel violated the ceasefire on March 18, almost 3,000 people have been killed in Gaza. The vast majority of them were civilians. Since the start of the war, at least 53,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including at least 15,000 children and at least 41 Israeli hostages. At the same time, many international bodies are warning of acute starvation – the result of intentional and openly declared Israeli government policy – as well as of the rendering of Gaza into an area unfit for human habitation. Israel continues to bomb hospitals, schools, and other institutions. Among the war’s declared goals, as defined in the orders for the current military operation “Gideon’s Chariots,” is the “concentration and displacement of the population.” This is a horrifying litany of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, all of our own doing. As academics, we recognize our own role in these crimes. It is human societies, not governments, that commit crimes against humanity. Some do so by means of direct violence. Others do so by sanctioning the crimes and justifying them, before and after the fact, and by keeping quiet and silencing voices in the halls of learning. It is this bond of silence that allows clearly evident crimes to continue unabated without penetrating the barriers of recognition. We cannot claim that we did not know. We have been silent for too long.

The Black Flag Group of some 800 academics in Israel is calling upon the heads of Israeli universities and colleges to mobilize the full weight of Israeli academia to stop the Israeli war in Gaza

Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI. Now its eyes are set on schools.

If you’re still using Duolingo, this is what you’re supporting.

“Duolingo’s founder and CEO Luis von Ahn believes there’s nothing a computer can’t teach—but says schools won’t go extinct because people need childcare.”

The "big, beautiful" federal budget bill passed in the House while you were sleeping includes 1 trillion dollars - that's ONE TRILLION - in cuts to health and human service programs, including Medicaid and SNAP, so they can offer $1 trillion in tax cuts for those who make more than $500,000.

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🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.

This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

academic folks: Harvard international students may need to begin immediately transferring out in order to avoid having to leave the country

If it sounds insane, that's because it is

what will your institutions do to help?

🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨
NYU is withholding Logan Rozos’s diploma for speaking out at commencement about the genocide in Palestine. Commencement is a space for moral clarity—not censorship.

Silencing students is NOT academic freedom - write to NYU now.

tinyurl.com/standupforlo...

What a cool guy, I admire this a lot!!!

In Gaza, where Israel has imposed a total blockade on food and other aid for over 10 weeks, "rations are getting low, and the poorest and most vulnerable are beginning to starve and die," says Alex de Waal from @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social.

My goal is to stare at a wall

Trump just granted asylum to a man who posted Jews are 'dangerous’ Charl Kleinhaus is a refugee from South Africa whose X feed is populated with antisemitic comments as well as with prayers for Israel.

Trump just granted asylum to a South African refugee, Charl Kleinhaus, who accused Jews of being “dangerous” and promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories.

forward.com/fast-forward...

World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.

After serving 130 million meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.
WCK trucks loaded with food and cooking fuel have been ready at the Gaza border since early March.
wck.org/news/gaza-up...

every day I wake up feeling grateful for the fact that I'm not calling myself an alpha male while falling for obvious crypto scams

Yep.

don’t give them their freedom, because they’re not going to give you yours

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
t.co/lg46ijHLDF

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Saying that "autism is preventable" is essentially saying that autistic people should not be born.

It's a eugenicist claim.

So, the crisis is not about "science is BS, scientists are all doing fake research, we are all gonna die", it is about "our knowledge is limited, our methodologies should be (and can be!) improved, so we have a lot of work to do, let's study hard, work hard and help the situation!"

Yes, it is sad that we have such a situation, but as we acknowledge the existence of the problem we can do better! This is very inspiring and motivating: we still have so many things to do, to discover in science

not the end of the world (and science), it is actually a sign for us that we are actually needed in science, because we as a future generation of scientists should accept this challenge and try to find a proper solution for this crisis

If it is okay, I would like to share my experience as a student that went through such a course. I think that it was one of the most important classes, and even if I felt quite confused and even sad, the professor did a great job explaining to us that it is okay and this replicability crisis is

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A group of students holding signs saying Jews against ice and free Mahmoud now sitting inside a university gate

A close-up of a student whose hands are changed to a gate. Next to a sign that says release Mahmoud Khalil now

Students holding signs that say “Jews against ICE”

Jewish students at Columbia have chained themselves to a gate (already locked) to protest ICE detentions of student protestors. They accuse members of our board of trustees of providing information about students to ICE and are demanding accountability.