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An unusual amount of empty poster boards at SFN 2025

In contrast to that NYT mess, here is a GREAT and WISE interview with Professor Dick Aslin:

“Let me begin with a larger issue that’s related to your question: When do you stand up for your values?”

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Alarming that the only president willing to say the truth in this conversation is Michael Roth of Wesleyan University 🎁

‘We Lost Our Mission’: Three University Leaders on the Future of Higher Ed www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...

If an attractive young woman a third my age didn't want to date me, then why did she ask me for feedback on an economics paper?

by Larry Summers

A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.

Alan Dershowitz redefining the semantics of "pedophile" isn't hairsplitting, according to the plain meaning of "hairsplitting"

by Steven Pinker

Science Homecoming

Please join @spiantado.bsky.social at @caltech.edu today for an in-person ScienceHomecoming event with The Caltech Y
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Steve’s invited to present Science Homecoming to the American Mathematical Association @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social

NYC will see highest turnout in decades Almost 2 million New Yorkers have already voted in the race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, and the polls are still open.

NYC is on pace to see its highest voter turnout since the 1960s.

Nearly 2 million New Yorkers have already cast their ballots in the mayoral race between Mamdani and Cuomo — and the polls are still open.

Science Homecoming Workshop. November 12, 2025. Steven T. Piantadosi, cofounder of Science Homecoming headshot.

Join this free workshop on Nov 12 with Steven T. Piantadosi of Science Homecoming and learn the how-to's and beneficial impacts of communicating the importance of scientific research to your local community through opinion pieces. Register today. Link in comments.

Student workshop, BUCLD, Jessica Cantlon, Writing to Defend American Science

Come to the workshop at BUCLD @bucld.bsky.social, and bring a pen ✍🏻

www.bu.edu/bucld/

Here's the newest piece in the @nytimes.com "Lost Science" series. @emilyanthes.bsky.social talks to a scientist who was learning about the minds of elephants--and how to use those insights to help the animals coexist with farmers. Gift link: nyti.ms/3KXVSAG

Whitney: Protecting what makes Vail great means supporting federal funding for science I am one of the lucky few to grow up in Vail. My childhood was surrounded by nature and adventure. Living in Maloit Park in Minturn meant that my backyard was essentially a forest, one...

Conservation biologist Tabor Whitney learned to value nature in Colorado’s forests. Now her federally funded work protecting the Colorado River Basin and building resilience against drought, wildfire, and water scarcity is at risk of being cut. 🧪🏠
www.vaildaily.com/opinion/whit...

Homecoming isn’t just for football. Scientists, write an article for SCIENCE HOMECOMING

Just a reminder that if you are a scientist wondering how you can communicate the value of federally-funded scientific research outside of your bubble, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is here to help you pitch and publish in your hometown newspaper
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🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly

We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!

RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...

Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain | Collège de France

💫 🧠💡This inspiring conference “Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain” has just ended, and I am very grateful for having been there among brilliant scientists connected by a common passion for the brain, and a common friendship with the great Stan Dehaene!
Talks (including mine) are online here 👇

AAUP Organize Every Campus: Core Skills Training (Oct 2025 Registration Form) Chapters are encouraged to send at least five people to the training. Please choose one person to serve as a coordinator for your chapter. *Only the coordinator should complete this registration* If...

The AAUP is doing a skills training for campus organizing. Is your school participating?

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My main question is: Can I get this book in mahogany and gold leaf?

Review | To Steven Pinker, human knowledge is just a game In ‘When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...,’ the best-selling cognitive scientist writes about an interesting subject but gets sidetracked by hobbyhorses

Full review here:
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

This is the kind of public intellectualism that makes the public hate intellectuals. Instead of showing what ideas have to teach us about life, Pinker holds a gun to life’s head and demands it conform to his thought experiments. And he does it with the patronizing tone of someone telling his readers what to think from on high. In one passage, prompting us to imagine increasingly higher-order levels of knowledge about knowledge, he virtually pats us on the head. “Now let’s try four layers,” he writes. After we’ve tackled four, he asks, encouragingly, “Think you can handle a fifth layer?”

This new book sounds interesting

@sciencehomecoming.bsky.social has tools for finding local newspapers and writing for them!

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from:

📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Published authors by career stage: Pre-doc 42%, Post-doc 18%, Faculty 39%

Participation has been outstanding at every level, across diverse science fields. We’ve published nearly 300 articles in local hometowns. 🧪🏠 Write yours today with help here:

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Researchers: Pennsylvania out nearly $40 million in NIH scientific grants after federal cuts • Pennsylvania Capital-Star Around 112 scientific grants in Pennsylvania from the National Institutes of Health have been impacted by cuts or freezes instituted by the Trump administration, according to a group of researchers an...

Have you written to your home community to tell them what’s going on? They likely are unaware of the consequences 🧪🏠

penncapital-star.com/health/resea...

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech

TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

Scientists studying how to improve human life

“Universities are the incubators of medical breakthroughs.” Long Island native Sam Cermak, now a biomedical PhD student at Northwestern, studies how chronic pain rewires the brain and fuels opioid addiction. Progress takes years, but has already saved many lives 🧪🏠

tbrnewsmedia.com/your-turn-ho...

This is gold. Emmy for Morgan Spector just for the pronunciation of "Cuomo."

ScienceSavedMe Testimonials - YouTube

Here is a link to share, to spread the news about the importance of science for healthcare

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The Dark Side of Being a Female Shark Researcher Being a scientist should not require developing the grit to continually endure misogyny, discrimination, harassment, assault or bullying

When I wrote this for SciAm, the thing that genuinely surprised me most was the number of emails I got (mostly from men) telling me that prior generations of women in science would be ashamed of me for my weakness in writing it.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...