Congratulations, Karl! After you published your groundbreaking papers, the Nobel Prize was only a matter of time. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“The main argument for using antidepressants in children is that they are better than nothing. The evidence shows otherwise”. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Prozac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trial

One small study in Iran swayed meta-analyses in favour of antidepressant use in children, researchers say.

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Martin Plöderl@ploederl.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨 Paper Alert 🚨 Our new study on the impact of a single small zombie trial on fluoxetine's overall efficacy estimation is out. With great colleagues @floriannaudet.bsky.social @richlyus.bsky.social and Gert van Valkenhoef 🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟 A longer 🧵 (1/n)

This is what unregulated AI and data center development is. "Microsoft-linked data center emitted...for nearly a year... about 140 tons of nitrogen oxides, chemicals that produce smog and are linked to asthma, heart attacks, and premature death." www.democracynow.org/2026/10/2/he...

New Jersey Data Center Ran Unpermitted Gas Generators for Nearly a Year, Driving Air Pollution

In New Jersey, an investigation has revealed that a Microsoft-linked data center emitted large amounts of toxic air pollution for nearly a year before state regulators stepped in. According to public ...

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Here is how AI "advances" American healthcare. "Hospitals Used AI To Inflate Medical Bills By Nearly $1,000,000,000, Report Finds" #MedSky www.aol.com/articles/hos...

Hospitals Used AI To Inflate Medical Bills By Nearly $1,000,000,000, Report Finds - AOL

Hospitals' use of artificial intelligence tools hiked healthcare spending by nearly $1 billion over a two-year period, per a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association analysis released Thursday. BCBSA's new ...

aol.com

Sorry, my former academic colleagues, but you don't deserve academic freedom if you support suppressing free speech on campus or stay silent when it happens. "Colleges Adopted ‘Systemic Suppression’ of Protesters, New Investigation Shows" #AcademicSky www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Colleges Adopted “Systemic Suppression” of Protesters

Drawing on records, media reports and surveys, the ACLU and Amnesty International USA break down how colleges have “disproportionately” violated the rights of pro-Palestinian students.

insidehighered.com

"The world needs more Canada." - Barack Obama during an address to the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa on June 29, 2016. Expanding Barack Obama's statement: The world needs more Canada now more then ever.

JackTatt 🇨🇦@jacktatttran.bsky.social · 3w ago

NavCanada is a neat example that fixes both the US ATC modernization and free rider problem. NavCanada is a private non-profit which has done significant modernization (including no more paper flight strips) but is funded purely by charges to all flights, both private and commercial.

The economic system this civilization created gives tax breaks for polluting the atmosphere and environment instead of making the main polluters pay the costs. As a psychiatrist and behavioral neuroscientist, I don't see why continuously reinforced behaviors would extinguish. #ClimateSky

Mark Gongloff@markgongloff.bsky.social · 3w ago

Private jets exemplify what economists call a free-rider problem: They crowd & pollute the airspace & environment that belongs to everyone without paying an appropriate cost. In fact, we keep giving them tax breaks Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Racing to extinction... "9 ‘boundaries’ keep Earth livable. We’ve breached 7 of them... we’re at increasing risk of moving away from the environment we’re adapted to" #ClimateSky www.scientificamerican.com/article/9-bo...

9 ‘boundaries’ keep Earth livable. We’ve breached 7 of them

Earth’s annual checkup shows that we’re at increasing risk of moving away from the environment we’re adapted to

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Politicians are starting to realize that sugar-coating the climate message is wrong "These were the hottest summer months ever – but probably the coolest of the years to come. Science is clear."- the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen #ClimateSky www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Burning forests, emptying rivers, €180bn in damage: Europe’s politicians face reckoning after ‘summer of truth’

Amid record-shattering heatwaves and popular demand for climate action, why are politicians often timid or in denial?

theguardian.com

"Healthy habits..help create..internal stability and..mental framework needed to function under stress. The transition to college brings a new environment, a changing schedule, and new intellectual, emotional, and social demands. Predictable daily routines can..make these demands more manageable."

Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠@drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · last mo.

The fall semester has only begun, and many students are already experiencing higher levels of distress. Here is how to protect your mental health in college. www.greatlakespsychiatryandpsychotherapy.com/post/college...

"Universities are vibrant places where young generations learn, and they shouldn’t be allowed to turn into gerontocracies.. These delayed retirements are stifling the process of faculty renewal and creating an imbalance with younger generations. " #AcademicSky www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Globe editorial: The grey (time) zone of academia

The growing cohort of aging professors is raising intergenerational tensions on campuses

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From the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics: "pharmaceutical market..remains compromised by conflicts of interest and institutional corruption as well as classic corruption. The current problematic practices are tolerated, but this could change..if there is the political will to do so." link below

The fall semester has only begun, and many students are already experiencing higher levels of distress. Here is how to protect your mental health in college. www.greatlakespsychiatryandpsychotherapy.com/post/college...

College Mental Health Checklist: 10 Essentials | Dr. Debiec

College is a period of exciting opportunities, but also of challenges and stressors that may cause new mental health problems or exacerbate existing ones.According to the 2024–2025 Healthy Minds Study...

greatlakespsychiatryandpsychotherapy.com

How #democracy transforms to #autocracy: lessons from the #NurembergTrials. The transcripts from the Nuremberg Trials and the defendants' statements help us understand how the democratic Weimar Republic transformed into a totalitarian Third Reich. Below is a thread with selected excerpts. 1/n

"AI could end humanity in less than five years... What we are seeing is just the beginning..." www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-tech...

From releasing pathogens to nuclear weapons: How AI could end humanity in five years

As tech insiders sound fresh alarms about artificial superintelligence, Chris Stokel-Walker and Anthony Cuthbertson examine who is warning us, what they know and whether it’s finally time to pay atten...

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Isn't the development of AI disdain for rules? Pirating published texts to train LLMs, data mining in violation of privacy rules, etc...? "Students’ use of AI is teaching them to cut corners, disdain rules, and believe that integrity is for suckers and wimps." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A Society of Cheats

Students’ use of AI is teaching them to cut corners, disdain rules, and believe that integrity is for suckers and wimps.

theatlantic.com

There is yet another category of informed climate denial. It specifically refers to climate experts sugar-coating the findings of climate science. @kevinclimate.bsky.social recently referred to it as "we are selling the soft story". It is denying the public the truth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFo...

Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 2mo ago

I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories? 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not bad 4. We can't fix it 5. You can't trust the info/experts Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human civilization is built on false reassurances. Evolution endowed us in the capability to buffer each other's fears. It is stronger than reason. #ClimateSky

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Not "it could happen more often," but "it will happen more often." Sound science shows that global warming increases the frequency and intensity of catastrophic events, such as devastating flooding. The media distort the climate message. #ClimateSky www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

What probably triggered the Nepal flood, and why it could happen more often

Before-and-after satellite images show a glacier shrinking and a river swelling.

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Associated Press: "We are heading towards truly catastrophic extreme weather events. Imagine a heat wave that kills a million people or a tropical storm and subsequent flooding that batters and washes away entire cities... Are countries prepared?" #ClimateSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMB4...

The world inches toward catastrophic climate events

YouTube video by Associated Press

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There is yet another category of informed climate denial. It specifically refers to climate experts sugar-coating the findings of climate science. @kevinclimate.bsky.social recently referred to it as "we are selling the soft story". It is denying the public the truth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFo...

Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson

YouTube video by Novara Media

youtube.com

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 2mo ago

I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories? 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not bad 4. We can't fix it 5. You can't trust the info/experts Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Drawing on Earth's history, a climate scientist and natural disaster expert, @profbillmcguire.bsky.social explains why referring to #globalwarming and #climatechange is inappropriate because it obscures the message about #globalheating and #climatebreakdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee9f...

Natural Disaster Expert: Elites Have NO PLAN for Climate Collapse | Aaron Bastani meets Bill McGuire

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Drawing on Earth's history, a climate scientist and natural disaster expert, @profbillmcguire.bsky.social explains why referring to #globalwarming and #climatechange is inappropriate because it obscures the message about #globalheating and #climatebreakdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee9f...

Natural Disaster Expert: Elites Have NO PLAN for Climate Collapse | Aaron Bastani meets Bill McGuire

YouTube video by Novara Media

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#GlobalWarming will drastically change the human diet. "Climate change could triple the price of wheat... Wheat is one of the world's most important food crops, which means climate-related production problems can quickly have global consequences." #ClimateSky phys.org/news/2026-08...

Climate change could triple the price of wheat

Bread, pasta and breakfast cereals may seem far removed from dry fields in North America, Europe or Asia. Yet when water shortages hit several of the world's most important wheat-growing regions simul...

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"The sea is not a wilderness to be tamed for the benefit of humanity — we will benefit from it most if we leave it wild." #GreenSky #ClimateSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Powerful and horrifying’ — David Attenborough’s latest film is a cry to protect our oceans

The seas could save us from climate change, but only if we save them first, legendary naturalist and broadcaster argues in a vivid film.

nature.com

"Once globally preeminent, U.S. universities are sliding into decline... It does feel like a tipping point..." #AcademicSky washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/17/u...

Once Globally Preeminent, U.S. Universities Are Sliding Into Decline

U.S. colleges are losing their edge as cuts, high costs, fewer international students, and departing scholars weaken American universities.

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"Once globally preeminent, U.S. universities are sliding into decline... It does feel like a tipping point..." #AcademicSky washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/17/u...

Once Globally Preeminent, U.S. Universities Are Sliding Into Decline

U.S. colleges are losing their edge as cuts, high costs, fewer international students, and departing scholars weaken American universities.

washingtonmonthly.com

"America is choosing to self-destruct, and it will only get worse... Someone should have been able to persuade the president..." But who is this "someone" if "We all have a life. We have families. We have mortgages to pay"? Mechanisms of self-destruction are simple. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOZV...

Ex-CIA Analyst: America Is Choosing to Self-Destruct. And It Will Only Get Worse

YouTube video by Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl

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European Green Deal pledged to counter droughts, but Europe was not ready... "The Rhine and Danube have reached historic lows. Dwindling water levels are affecting shipping, agriculture and ecosystems — and raising concerns about the future of drinking water supplies." www.dw.com/en/europes-r...

Europe's rivers are drying up. Can they be saved?

The Rhine and Danube have reached historic lows. Dwindling water levels are affecting shipping, agriculture and ecosystems — and raising concerns about the future of drinking water supplies.

dw.com

European Green Deal pledged to counter droughts, but Europe was not ready... "The Rhine and Danube have reached historic lows. Dwindling water levels are affecting shipping, agriculture and ecosystems — and raising concerns about the future of drinking water supplies." www.dw.com/en/europes-r...

Europe's rivers are drying up. Can they be saved?

The Rhine and Danube have reached historic lows. Dwindling water levels are affecting shipping, agriculture and ecosystems — and raising concerns about the future of drinking water supplies.

dw.com