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this fits with my experience as a female grad student in the sciences 🧪

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The portal could potentially put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.

The U.S. government plans to create a website to host content that is banned in the EU so that European internet users can still view it.

For example, Germany bans Nazi content but now the U.S. government in the name of "free speech" will host that content so that German users can view it online. 🤦‍♂️

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

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The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪

Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.

Opinion | We’re Seeing the Weakness of a Strong State

These are tiny fractions for a movement of this historic size and geographic dispersion. This discipline is part of why clear instances of lawless brutality by govt authorities tend to backfire—a dynamic that @owasow.bsky.social recently described in the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o...

Doubling the pace of adding solar and storage in the PJM region could save $178 billion by 2035 Adding 78 GW more solar and 54 GW more battery storage in the PJM grid region than projected in a status quo scenario would drive a 20% reduction in system costs and improve reliability through 2035, ...

Increasing the rate at which we deploy renewables will save billions in energy costs in PJM alone. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/02/11/d...

It’s not nuts . They are bragging .

Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!

He is killing us...

Lots of white elite dudes. Pattern?

But what if you've never had peace? What if you are a Black person living in the white supremacist american south or apartheid south africa... And you've never experienced real peace in your life. Does that mean your research is less than?

This is soo important. We treat creativity as a beautiful anomaly while through our lifecourse- institutions in search of more profit & productivity slowly kill off all the ways we harness our imagination for inspiration. And they call it progress...

Fascists are using laws and norms against us. Stop letting them. — The McPherson Square Group There’s a reason cops don’t wait for red lights when pursuing a suspect.

My latest today on how strict adherence to the rules is killing Democrats while fascists take cities

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Thank u for teaching me my new favorite word - dullard. Using it for all of 2026 and beyond...

Want to reduce risk for dementia? Get vaccinated! 🩺
I will explain how this works...

'Learning is not a problem to be solved; it’s a process to be undertaken' #HistoryEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky

Ask for an extension. They all vaca too, they're probably not even gonna look at your revisions until january.

The chemical industry has launched a multi-million dollar lobbying blitz to influence Trump, including on regulations related to "forever chemicals."

Trump's EPA has also recently added chemical lobbyists to regulatory positions.

"Make America Healthy Again."

Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.

“An Ars review confirmed that OpenAI currently has no policy dictating what happens to a user’s data after they die.
Instead, OpenAI’s policy says that all chats—except temporary chats—must be manually deleted or else the AI firm saves them forever.”

Commercial academic publishing profit margins typically in excess of 32% ...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd
#journals #libraries #scholarship

Pete Hegseth: "The future of American warfare is here, and it's spelled AI."

He says the military has launched a new platform that  "puts the world's most powerful frontier AI models, starting with Google Gemini, directly into the hands of every American warrior."

New study explains why people fall for fake news In a world where misinformation spreads faster than fact, a new study is offering insight into why so many people fall for fake news, even when they suspect it's false.

Typically, one of the two things happened: people like being told what they want to hear, or their lizard brain is very easy to engage.

New study explains why people fall for fake news. Via @sciencex.physorg #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑‍🔬 #Psychology #sociology

Two Unrealistic Ideas That Social Media Keeps Selling Us Lifestyle myths social media pushes that don't hold up offline.

Two Unrealistic Ideas That Social Media Keeps Selling Us

1. Constant Travel
2. Quitting Your Job to Be Free

#socialmedia #psychology #sociology #society #technology #tech

Behind the scenes, there’s more evidence of a dizzyingly fast timeline. Confidential documents shared with POLITICO Magazine, public records and interviews with more than three dozen scientists, investors, legal experts and others familiar with the company reveal an organization advancing rapidly to the brink of being able to press “go” on its planet-cooling plans. Meanwhile, Stardust is seeking U.S. government contracts and quietly building an influence machine in Washington to lobby lawmakers and officials in the Trump administration on the need for a regulatory framework that it says is necessary to gain public approval for full-scale deployment.

"Stardust solutions" is a huge Israeli-US company (with massive investment from techno-fascist silicon valley funds) that seems to be frantically racing to deploy geoengineering for profit

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New vapor tool fights mosquitoes by slowly releasing insecticide in homes. Will it catch on? World Health Organization supports “spatial repellents” to prevent malaria, but it’s unclear who will pay for them

In the good news category:

After years of research and trials, the WHO this year recommended the first new tool to fight malaria in decades: spatial repellents. They last up to a year and they could help fight malaria as well as dengue and other diseases - and protect refugees.
#IDsky 🧪

Table 1 Typology of traps, how they can be avoided, and what goes wrong if not avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.

NEW paper! 💭🖥️

“Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What could possibly go wrong?”

— Brief review paper by @olivia.science & myself, highlighting traps to avoid when combining Psych with AI, and why this is so important. Check out our proposed way forward! 🌟💡

osf.io/preprints/ps...

“The sharp rise in younger women wanting to leave the US has created a large gender gap btwn them & their male counterparts.

Today’s 21-percentage-point gap btwn younger men (19%) & women (40%) wanting to leave the US is the widest Gallup has recorded on this trend.”🧪

Scientists just discovered something incredible - cosmic dust grains that act as perfect time capsules, preserving Earth's ancient atmosphere for millions of years. These 4 microscopic particles… Scientists Found Ancient Air Trapped in Space Dust!

Every day, 40,000 tons of space dust hit Earth.

Some grains survive and trap oxygen from our air inside them.

Scientists just found 4 still holding that oxygen after tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

Every shooting star writes our planet’s story.
🧪 #SciComm
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Scientists Recreate Rare Pigment Behind Octopus 'Superpowers' Octopuses and other cephalopods are masters of camouflage, thanks largely to color-changing skin that can help them seemingly vanish into the background.

“A team led by UC San Diego was able to mass-produce a key pigment, xanthommatin, that occurs in the psychedelic skin of many cephalopods. Until now, xanthommatin has proven impractical to collect from animals or make in a lab.”

#scicomm

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