Happy Sunday, good people. The hounding of Jason Arday was deliberate, but the rabbit hole goes even deeper. It was coordinated. Turns out that all foul roads lead to technofascists. Direct line. There's a lot to read here, but this may be a page worth bookmarking. www.reddit.com/r/cognitives...

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"If anything, discovering that we made the guacamole you never knew we made should inspire awe at our operational scale, not suspicion about your sudden need to lie naked on the bathroom tile."

When You Really Think About It, Everything Makes You Poop (by Taylor Farms)

“Today, everyone sees the name Taylor Farms and suddenly becomes the Hercule Poirot of the commode. You had our guacamole at noon. You experienced what you d...

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New blogpost deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/08/acce... inspired by recent depressing experience as a peer reviewer. AI-generated #fraud is getting very hard to detect. #peerreview

This is a case study in pro-AI propaganda, and annoying enough to inspire a Saturday thread: bsky.app/profile/bren... 🧵>>

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Interesting @jeremiahdjohns.bsky.social piece on the dogmatism of the "Believe Science" crew who publicly proclaim their fidelity to science while not practicing what they preach, including falling victim to the anti-AI moral panic www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-heresy...

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

With respect to Cofnas, why is nobody talking about this in the MSM? > We find it [improbably] that [he] was the best out of 14 candidates for this job[. His boss] repeatedly stated in the press that [he] published in highly ranked journals and had been affiliated with leading institutions. 1/n

Pieter T. L. Beck@ptrbck.bsky.social · 2d ago

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t47r5... Statement of the department. Has been taken offline due to complaint of the prof who hired Cofnas

Last Thursday, the far-right student organization KVHV organized a public lecture by Nathan Cofnas. The lecture was an absolute train wreck. It will take a while to analyze everything, but here are some first impressions. /1

It's even stranger to see 10+ papers in the format of XXX: a narrative review in a single year, often published in the same journal. med.miami.edu/faculty/tiff...

Odd(!) article: Senior researcher in infant devel., who's never published on the topic, writes narrative review on mind-wandering research, 2024-26. Like a bad undergrad paper, each successive paragraph summarizes 1 article (often including its title), over&over www.scivisionpub.com/pdfs/mind-wa...

“There are very few people less qualified than Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be making decisions about vaccine policy,” said CFI President and CEO Robyn Blumner. “Donald Trump is at the top of that very short list.” centerforinquiry.org/news/complet...

Blog post from a friend of mine. brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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The most noticeable and probably most consequential shift I’ve noticed in my lifetime is from the news being about things that happened to the news being about things someone said.

Leonard Pierce@leonardpierce.bsky.social · 6d ago

If we’re going to talk about these ‘threats to Air Force One’ - or, really, anything - the discussion should begin with the assumption that literally everything the government says about it is a lie

Special issue at Psych Science on psychological science in the real world! Send us your best work looking at whether effects from the lab (or from theories) hold up in ecologically valid settings. Submission deadline: 15 January 2027 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Special Issue Call for Submissions: “From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World”

Editors: Roni Porat and Vishnu SreekumarPsychological Science invites submissions presenting innovative research that brings psychological science “into the wild,” whether to strengthen its ecological...

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We just published an official working paper of this work! Baum, Micah, Joaquín Endara, and Annaliese Paulson. (2026). Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?. (EdWorkingPaper: 26-1538). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: doi.org/10.26300/8ej...

Do Faculty Affect Student Partisanship?

We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...

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Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 7d ago

Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that: -faculty partisanship has no effect on students -students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship -faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...

"The conclusion that emerges from all these events is that the United States’ food-safety system is in deep trouble—and it’s just one of the many serious public-health crises we are facing..." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Explosive Failures Fueling the Cyclospora Outbreak

We're getting a stark reminder of what happens when you gut a public-health system.

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Poi Dog Pondering Taste Of Chicago 1995 WXRT https://archive.org/details/poi-dog-pondering-taste-of-chicago-1995-wxrt

Poi Dog Pondering Taste Of Chicago 1995 WXRT : Poi Dog Pondering / WXRT : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Poi Dog Pondering at the Taste of Chicago at the Petrillo Music Shell in Grant Park, Chicago, IL on 6/27/1995. Poi Dog Pondering was touring to promote their...

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many professors are calling it 'the least surprising result of all time'

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New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

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Attention early career methodologists and quantitative psychologists: Berkeley Psychology is hiring! This is an assistant teaching professor position with potential for security of employment (equivalent to tenure). Please share widely! Thank you! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05480

Assistant Teaching Professor Quantitative Methods-Psychology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Hey all, it's Bandcamp Friday today, so consider supporting artists you love by purchasing music or merch. Today I'm in a rootsy/Americana mood, so purchased Mildred's "Fenceline," Cut Worms' "Transmitter," Mikaela Davis' "Graceland Way," & twisted teens' "Florida Water Blues." Links in replies.

I arrive 20 min before class to play tunes from my collection; class begins when I stop music & talk about it. Each semester has a theme. This Fall it's "20th century albums by artists of color." Always brutal narrowing it down w/some diversity in genres/decades (60s-90s); many greats don't make it.

The Grateful Dead understood the importance of recording its legacy. A number of archivists and historians are dedicated to maintaining the band's immense collection of music and memorabilia. n.pr/4wbmboW

The keepers of the Grateful Dead's history

The Grateful Dead understood the importance of recording its legacy. A number of archivists and historians are dedicated to maintaining the band's immense collection of music and memorabilia.

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Only a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...

I arrive 20 min before class to play tunes from my collection; class begins when I stop music & talk about it. Each semester has a theme. This Fall it's "20th century albums by artists of color." Always brutal narrowing it down w/some diversity in genres/decades (60s-90s); many greats don't make it.

With @remyfurrer.bsky.social, a new piece in Nature Human Behavior. The standard description of a polygenic score as a "genetic predisposition" essentializes a statistical construct. It's not language policing: PGS are a new kind of entity; now is the time to think carefully about what they are.

Polygenic risk scores are not genetic predispositions - Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - Polygenic risk scores are not genetic predispositions

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I appreciate how this piece highlights the key issue: these "restructurings" are not about student learning. This failure of attention has been eroding for quite some time, if it ever was at the center. I'm grateful to @biblioracle.bsky.social for this framing. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Harvard Administrators Don’t Care About Student Learning

I know, news flash, right?

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Vocal harmonies are the best thing that human beings have ever done.

My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...

Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology

The Carleton Psychology Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Developmental Psychology (preferably with a focus on social, personality, and/or identity de...

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From: Sloppy/lazy vocals ruin a lot of indie rock for me. Unlistenable. To: Sloppy/lazy vocals are fine actually & this stuff is outstanding.

Dave Moore@otherdavemoore.com · 2w ago

Hot takes are annoying, tell me a strong opinion you had about music at some point in your life that changed