Texting daily with a random human peer is more effective at reducing loneliness than texting with a highly supportive chatbot.
Next time you feel lonely reach out to a human, any human.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The NIH budget was basically the same in 2025 vs. 2024. This massive decline in health research funding was driven by *administrative* choices.
I second this motion! Disclosure: I am a credited science advisor to this film, though my contributions were pretty minimal, so I’m not an unbiased reviewer. But if someone wants to run a full-throated endorsement of the most ecologically intelligent animated movie since WALL-E, I’m your guy. 🦫 🫡
It’s not all that difficult to imagine a dystopia where people (employers?) could buy background checks that include “health profiles” if these data remain unregulated
On this day in 2020, Louisville police officers shot and killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor during a no-knock raid in the middle of the night in Louisville, Kentucky.
What an incredible + RARE sky around 8:30a.
These photos by Chris Hager and Luke Fisher show super impressive display of atmospheric optics, including bright sun dogs on either side of the sun along with halos and arcs above. They form as sunlight passes thru ice crystals in high clouds.
Abruptly switching to multiyear funding means the same annual budget gets allocated to far fewer projects, making it even harder to get grants. Congress may have shot down the drastic budget cuts proposed by the White House, but the NIH is finding other ways to award fewer grants. Fight’s not over.
New polling from @pewresearch.org finds 60% of Americans say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, down slightly from the last few years but on par with views right before the Dobbs decision
"Some 1,700 Kansans had their driver’s licenses invalidated last month. It wasn’t for racking up speeding tickets or a DUI charge, but because they are transgender."
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
*taps internet microphone*
After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...
We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...
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In the spring of 1851, eight women were the first graduates of the school’s trailblazing three-year program. Students paid $10 — roughly $417 in today’s money — per class.
[10/x] The SAVE America Act is deliberately designed to make it difficulty to impossible for anyone who has had their name changed—for whatever reason—to get the documents they would need to vote. It is designed not to root out fraud, but to keep us, especially us women, from voting.
[8/x] Now throw in the so-called SAVE America Act. If I, with all my resources, can't prove what my name was at birth without a court order plus my two official IDs aren't a perfect match with my marriage license, how are other women with fewer resources going to prove their own name changes?
A lot of the discussion around the eviction crisis in Minnesota is focused on lost wages from families needing to shelter in place.
But another huge part of the problem is that ICE detention is expensive. ICE illegally abducts and detains people and makes them pay their way out.
A buoy off Tybee Island, GA, picked up the sound of a North Atlantic right whale! In partnership with CMA CGM, WHOI maintains this acoustic monitoring system that detects whales in busy shipping lanes, reducing the risk of vessel strikes.
Learn more from @gpbmedia.bsky.social: go.whoi.edu/gpb-buoy
If you find the assault on USAID and accountability infuriating, please join me today at 4.30 EST as I interview the former Inspector General of USAID, Paul Martin today, either in person (in Ann Arbor) or live streaming. Details:
fordschool.umich.edu/event/2026/t...
A study of the landscape of data center organizing covering a one year period. This is fast. Data center organizing is local because politics is local. But local doesn’t mean small.
www.datacenterwatch.org/report
In more than half of US states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. Canary Media buff.ly/5B79fOA #ShareGoodNewsToo
Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.
"Every day since the Dobbs decision, pregnant people have undergone financially, physically, and psychologically strenuous journeys for basic health care." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The official NOAA stats out this week confirm that winter 2025-26 was the warmest on record across a huge portion of the western and central U.S., which has contributed to extremely low mountain snowpack & worsened the CO River crisis. Meanwhile, record March heat is in forecast.
i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI
in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period
The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.
What does it mean to protect a girl’s future? In northern Benin, conversations about protection are changing.
Survivor and community advocate Sanny Taïbatou works with families to challenge female genital mutilation while also building confidence in childhood vaccination: bit.ly/4aXWfG6
They warn that the detention of these children is causing severe and lasting harm to their mental and physical health, and say that emerging reports of kids allegedly facing delayed and inadequate medical care demands urgency and transparency.
Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.
