"Information Shock: How AI Demands An Evolution Of Information Science" Essay links to SocArXiv paper:

R. David Lankes@rdlankes.bsky.social · 5d ago

I've been doing a lot of thinking about how generative AI impacts information science and libraries. Also, trying to figure out why AI literacy is not a satisfying approach. I'd love your thoughts. informationmatters.org/2026/07/ai-i...

How do we feel about music sound quality? Definitely *more* music available, but is quality down for some casual listening (compressed mp3s at home < vinyl) while up for some (satellite radio > cassettes in the car)?

I would add to Gelman's take: this is the kind of very low quality fraud you can only imagine getting away with in a research culture where no one ever checks the data.

Cambridge University fraud scandal reminds me of Theranos.

It's not just plagiarism, it's fraud.

statmodeling.substack.com

If you're attending #ASA2026 in NYC later this week/next week, please join us bright & early on Monday for a session on pronatalism.

No, they are not "locked in a tight battle." The campaign is over and now election officials are just counting the votes.

Today everyone — EVERYONE — should take a moment and read Ray Bradbury's four-page short story from 1950.

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 21h ago

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

Look what came in the mail today! Congrats @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social !

This is why I turned off threaded view. Now every message is ... a message

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · yesterday

I have a confession. Once Gmail collapses more than three emails in an exchange? I stop reading the emails.

I said: “The 1950s family could not even reproduce itself for one generation. They couldn’t even convince their children that this was the right way to arrange their lives. So it failed immediately.”

The Great Romance Slump

Why are so few young people finding love?

theatlantic.com

In our information ecosystem accuracy is a liability that constrains your ability to garner attention much more than it rewards you for being trustworthy.

Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · 2d ago

🧪 Medical professionals are losing the attention war on YouTube. In a 3,958-video sample, independent creators produced the lowest quality content but captured the highest viewership using exaggeration. #MedSky

Baldwin could write bone-clean sentences from the start. For me it's concocting a giant stew with bone-in meat and eventually cooking off all that flesh.

Joe Okonkwo@joeokonkwo.bsky.social · 3d ago

"You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal." — James Baldwin, born on this day in 1924 #AmWriting

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

West Coast cities are caught in a doom loop where the problem keeps growing but political elites refuse to admit that solving it requires more funding. Every few years someone comes along promising to "finally" crack down, gets elected and fails to deliver. That would have been worth writing about.

It's impossible to update the slogan. As soon as they let slip that America is not always already in catastrophic decline - with them its perennial left behind victims - the movement will suddenly, silently evaporate.

TrumpReposter@trumpreposter.bsky.social · 4d ago

MAGA may be pronatalist, but it is anti-child to the core. Larger classes, shorter hours, less family support

Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It

The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

nytimes.com

One admirably reliable thing about the Mourning Dove: excellent posture 🪶

I was not reviewer 2. But I am so annoyed by Americans pretending the whole open science movement is funded by John Arnold. His investments are absolutely dwarfed by what the European Union and European science funders have invested in Open science. Only incredibly biased people would ignore this.

Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

You can find the other papers from my dissertation in this thread bsky.app/profile/jben...

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last wk.

Now that all of my dissertation papers have been accepted, I'm making a thread that puts all the papers in the same place! I interviewed local crime journalists to learn more about how the decline of local news, digital publishing, and changing attitudes towards criminal justice affect their work.

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Reuters@reuters.com · 5d ago

Spain estimates some 49,000 migrants crossed into the enclave of ‌Ceuta in North Africa over the past 24 hours, as they rushed by sea and land from Morocco reut.rs/4fNM8F6

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

Small and mighty. 🪶

Well, @asanews.bsky.social has canceled contexts.org, the website of @contexts.org magazine (which still exists and is good!). Back when, editors @skyed.bsky.social, @lettapage.bsky.social & I posted blog essays there that ASA does not seem to have preserved (though @archive.org has, of course) /1

Opening up You Will Not Replace Us! by Renaud Camus -- me, sociologist, skimming along, following this commonplace logic, waiting for the point, and then... Is that not something of a leap? Did I miss some underlying racism in the 183 words?

Eighty years of US income inequality All based on official annual population income surveys (with different definitions of income). Gross income is before taxes. Disposable income is after taxes & social transfers.

"You lied to your own diary." Really getting to the bottom of things now.

Is bell hooks on the best seller list because jd vance used the same title for his book and his readers are not ... careful shoppers? Does the best seller list account for returns?

Ross Douthat has been very successful at convincing fascists they have nothing to fear from a sit-down interview.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · last wk.

has ross douthat ever done investigative journalism of any sort?

Is bell hooks on the best seller list because jd vance used the same title for his book and his readers are not ... careful shoppers? Does the best seller list account for returns?