Eric Nelson
@commodorenelson.bsky.social
Neuroscience international research program management 🔬🇨🇭🇩🇪🇪🇸 🇮🇳 Responsible AI pragmatist. 🤖📚
Vaccination is collective action: Vaccination helps others by hindering disease-spread But there is an incentive free-ride: if enough others vaccinate, you don't need to pay those costs In a new paper, we provide new evidence with data from 6+ mil covid-vaccinations: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵1/7
"Italy’s Giorgia Meloni bets big on nuclear power revival Rural backlash against renewables that ‘spoil the landscape’ fuels support for atomic energy decades after reactor shutdowns" www.ft.com/content/6a98...
New commentary at @natrevpsychol.nature.com with Alexis Palmer, @natematias.bsky.social, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social: Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility - Nature Reviews Psychology
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming the methods of psychological research, but the use of proprietary models poses risks to transparency and reproducibility. Prioritizing open models...
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BREAKING via AP U.S. government withdraws subpoenas for NY Times reporters in investigation of sources related to new Air Force One jet
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Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 3w agoKlein asks Allen what liberals should prioritize if they win the trifecta in 2028. Allen suggests the following: 1) Putting an end to Citizens United; 2) Creation of national service; 3) Ending gerrymandering
Odysseus Wasn’t Real. But He Had Real Worshipers in Ancient Ithaca. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/s...
Archaeologists Unearth a 2,400-Year-Old Sanctuary for the Worship of Odysseus (Gift Article)
The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer’s protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.
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A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a policy that targets foreign nationals who study disinformation and hate speech on social media for visa denials and deportation. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
US judge blocks Trump administration's visa limits for social media researchers
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from enforcing a policy that targets foreign nationals who study disinformation and hate speech on social media for vis...
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I came perilously close to accidentally printing that Pat Oliphant had already passed away in my review of this documentary last fall. (Thankfully we caught the error in time.) But now he has, a giant in political cartooning. I recommend the doc: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/m...
Fighting the Power, One Political Cartoon at a Time
“A Savage Art” looks at the life of the prizewinning Pat Oliphant and argues such work is “a serious expression of a political thought.”
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MS NOW: Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump admin's investigation of Georgia's 2020 election. The analysts told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and DOJ policies.
FBI analysts fired after refusing to join Georgia 2020 election probe
The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the Trump administration’s investigation was justified, sources told MS NOW.
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Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America
But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.
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‘Who is the most overrated person in history? #HenryVIII. Nasty piece of work and not as clever as he thought he was.’ 🎯 #Historian Alec Ryrie answers our quickfire questions www.historytoday.com/archive/inte...
On the Spot: Alec Ryrie
‘Who is the most overrated person in history? Henry VIII. Nasty piece of work and not as clever as he thought he was.’
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Trump Administration Rolls Back Part of Anthropic Model Ban Gift WSJ link: www.wsj.com/tech/ai/trum...
Trump Administration Rolls Back Part of Anthropic Model Ban
The government is allowing trusted partners to access the Mythos 5 model following a two-week restriction that rattled the tech industry.
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www.bloomberg.com/features/202... Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Signal's Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass Surveillance
The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.
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As we approach America250, I wish to point out that if not for woke George Washington mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox, we probably wouldn’t have made it to America001.
Who gets to assess frontier AI, on what terms, and who finds out the results? Merve Hickok, president of the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), warns that Trump’s new executive order on AI buries those answers inside the NSA.
Transparency and Accountability Gaps in Trump's New AI Executive Order
The order, "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security," should attract substantial scrutiny, writes CAIDP president Merve Hickock.
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“In a union built to make war unthinkable, the first supranational weapon was issued not for defence against armies, but for keeping unarmed people out.” 🎁🔗
Europe has reduced illegal immigration without goon tactics
But that is just the easy half of its migration battle
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A state party severed from the fundamentals of being American. I could hardly believe what I was reading.
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 2mo ago"Mohamed Hussein...made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP....What he found was a party that didn’t want him. He arrived with hope but left in tears after being told explicitly that he should leave the country."
This essay by @joelsimonsays.bsky.social about interviewing authoritarians is a good read and helps put that Welker/Trump interview in broader context. via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/feature/shou...
Should journalists interview dictators?
Encounters on the line between control and conditions.
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Armenia’s Prime Minister Declares Victory in Race Shadowed by Russia www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...
Armenia’s Prime Minister Declares Victory in Race Shadowed by Russia
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Between July 1942 and June 1945, the U.S. fast-tracked citizenship for 109,382 foreign-born service members under the Second War Powers Act. 400,000 to 500,000 Hispanic Americans served. Thousands of Japanese Americans served etc, etc
Xavier Becerra Advances in California Governor Race www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/u...
Xavier Becerra Advances in California Governor Race
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The Pope’s Encyclical on A.I. Is Disappointingly Mild www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...
Opinion | The Pope’s Encyclical on A.I. Is Disappointingly Mild
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The margin between Hilton (currently 2nd place in vote count) and Steyer (3rd) keeps narrowing It dropped from 6 pts to 5 pts today, and will probably tighten more That said, Steyer hasn't been hitting the numbers he needs in these late batches to catch up with top two candidates Stay tuned! 2/2
As part of the Data, Power and the Ethics of Knowledge series by the UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Summer Program, Prof. @roopikarisam.bsky.social examines how information became a technology of governance, classification, & control across different periods. 📅 June 12, 6 - 7 PM Reg. required.
Who Counts: The Long History of Data and Power (Roopika Risam)
Friday, June 12 2026 6 - 7 PM Zoom Registrants will be sent the Zoom link 24 hours in advance. Full Series Information Learn more about the Summer Program in Digital Humanities From clay tablets i...
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