Student journalists have been heroes over the past ten years and the fact that we have allowed the world to reach a state where hardly any of them will be able to serve communities as journalists after they graduate is something we should all feel shame about

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2w ago

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #MetaScience Article worth reading, & sharing w/ your student researchers. Can't get this out of my head: "Bishop’s law: The better designed a study is, the more likely it is to obtain a null result" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Meimoun & @lakens.bsky.social

Research units from across government have been gutted. More than 10,000 PhDs have left government. For example the research arm of the Department of Education lost 90% of their staff and the research office for the Secretary of Health and Human Services lost an estimated 60% of their staff.

>The PR narrative is spiraling out of control and people are freaking out, how do we fix this? >Quick, deploy Sam Altman to reveal he was intimately involved in the entire process and to personally reassure everyone they acted with all the integrity and generosity he’s famous for

Hilarious stuff from hypocrite-in-chief Bill Ackman, currently bankrolling Francesca Gino, who has *check notes* sued three brave scholars for telling the truth.

"Honest AI-editing results in a higher sanction risk than humanizer-assisted evasion." arxiv.org/abs/2608.11256

Why AI Detection Fails for Academic Integrity

Institutions use commercial AI detectors for academic integrity, yet detectors cannot distinguish AI editing from full LLM drafts and may treat both as misconduct. In a controlled study of published E...

arxiv.org

Just got a really weird mass-email from the new Chancellor of Syracuse University. What's especially weird about it, is that I have never had any affiliation with SU whatsoever, beyond a bunch of rejected job applications (I presume that's how they had my email).

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Now with alt text! 23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

brb, adding these figures to my first day of class slides

The Economist@economist.com · 2mo ago

In a recent study, pupils using AI saw their average homework score rise by 18% across all subjects after six months. But come exam time, the same students scored 20% below their classmates who had not called on AI’s help. We analyse the data: bit.ly/4xQYpQt

Good satire always nearly indistinguishable from truth.

In Preparation@inprep.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this is a dead kennedys album cover

OSINTRadar@osintradar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump was guarded by an Avenger air defense system while playing golf.

I expect to see Saul Goodman as lead counsel for the State of New Mexico.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New Mexico court issues decision in State of New Mexico v. Meta Platforms Inc. Says Meta contributing to teen mental health crisis in the state, orders the creation of a $567 million abatement fund (on top of the $375 million jury penalty), amid other remedies. nmcourts.gov/wp-content/u...

gonna start talking like this to my boss

Not only is this sage advice, Obama is also helping CC not become MAGA-coded, through no fault of her own.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3mo ago

During a surprise visit to the WNBA All-Star weekend, Barack Obama delivered a personal message to Caitlin Clark, picked up on a hot mic. The encounter was a “heartening reminder of what ‘presidential’ can look like,” @sallyjenx.bsky.social argues.

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

apnews.com

Time travel in MDPI journals!

Student 22 with a very noble C-minus.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Friends don't let friends continue to give exams and papers that are not adapted to the current AI landscape www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... (this is AFTER 27 bailed so the reality is even worse) PS Props to students 1, 22, and 31

More smoking guns than a spaghetti western.

Data Colada@datacolada.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Cover-Up in Gino v Harvard datacolada.org/136

The Uncle Phil/Aunt Viv Effect:

Soumaya Keynes@soumayakeynes.ft.com · 3mo ago

Most people know that richer people tend to be thinner. Less appreciated is that this divide is largely driven by women. My column: The economics of women's weight 300 free clicks: as.ft.com/r/feaaaacf-8...

Stephanie M. Lee@stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: Should scholars be activists? My latest @chronicle.com story is on the debate fracturing the American Sociological Association, as told through one professor's effort to chart a path forward. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Do scientific careers have to be like this? "The prevalence of depressive symptoms was approximately two to three times higher and anxiety symptoms three to five times higher than in age-matched general-population samples."

Nature Human Behaviour@nathumbehav.nature.com · 3mo ago

Prevalence and severity of mental health problems in early-career researchers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

I think we just passed oops.

If you're hosting an international sporting event, you should be required to actually host all of the competitors. This isn't hard.

Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians)@mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

apnews.com/article/worl...

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

Fun detail about this article: I didn't notice until it was published, but writing about AI really changed the citation structure of my bibliography. Simply put, most of my references were super-recent. One-quarter came in the first quarter of 2026 alone. Over 50% since 2025.

Kyle Siler@kylesiler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New article in @pnas.org: We all know ChatGPT loves to delve, bolster, leverage, encompass, showcase, underscore, et cetera. I analyzed full text of 7.3 million journal articles published 2020-2025, hunting for 228 words that spiked after ChatGPT launched in late 2022. 🧵⬇️

The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...