Here are some numbers, if anyone is interested:

Mental Disorders and Suicidality in Transgender and Gender-Diverse People

This cross-sectional study examines the prevalence and risk of mental disorders, substance use disorders, and suicidal behaviors among transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) and cisgender Canadians.

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FYI Science Policy News: More U.S.-trained physicists are leaving the country, an exodus that adds to fears of a U.S. "brain drain" www.aip.org/fyi/physics-... a near-doubling of non-US citizens left the US after receiving their PhD, around 29%, in 2025 @aip.bsky.social

Physics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high Rate

The exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says.

aip.org

My term for what Google's new feature threatened to unleash: epistemic terrorism. Per Wikipedia, "Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge." "Epistemic terrorism" attacks & undermines the possibility of shared knowledge, facts, and truths.

Okay genuinely asking— what does accountability look like for Holden Thorp and Hank Green? What I’d like to see: I’d love if @holdenthorp.bsky.social set a clear journalistic standard at SCIENCE and prohibited the use of LLMs for researching, writing, and editing publications at SCIENCE.

Debbie Gale Mitchell@heydebigale.bsky.social · 4d ago

So in the last two weeks EIC of Science and a famous science communicator have lost massive amounts of credibility because of their reliance on LLMs... Some examples of how to lose trust with your audience to share with my students I guess.

Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor

Universities “are increasingly acting like other employers, finding “complicated and sometimes pretextual reasons” to fire employees, even those with tenure. “What we’re seeing at the New School is emblematic of the rising pressures on higher education as a labor market and as an industry”

He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway.

The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.

nytimes.com

Other things you can do as a cis ally: -use "prefer not to say" when orgs/employers want to collect your demographic data. -nab some trans flag merch - pins, patches, etc. Flood the market with false positives -ask orgs that ARE enforcing this, HOW they are doing so. Make it awkward af

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 21h ago

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

Join the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network! We’re looking for a Doctoral Candidate (m/f/d) for Electrochemical Interfaces in Energy Storage. Apply now: jobs.mpikg.mpg.de/jobposting/e...

“The tragic implication of Plümper and Neumayer’s analysis is not that individual scientists are unusually dishonest, but that a system designed to incentivise truth-seeking has been incrementally transformed into one that often rewards its distortion” blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Is publication, not truth, now the driving pursuit of science? - LSE Review of Books

The Credibility Crisis in Science by Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumayer explores how researcher incentives and publication bias distort scientific knowledge

blogs.lse.ac.uk

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

trib.al

Has your research ever been called “too descriptive?” My co-authors & I got so fed up we wrote 10k words on why descriptive research matters, how it differs from critical research, & why it’s no accident that “critique” is being levied in mass comm at this moment. academic.oup.com/ct/advance-a...

In defense of qualitative description: reclaiming “little t” theory as a site of knowledge advancement

Abstract. This article problematizes post-positivism’s stronghold on the mass communication canon and defends the use of qualitative description as a legit

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Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

This place was built by trans folks, sex workers, and their various pals.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Two things that can be true at once: the virulent attacks on Jason Arday are motivated by rancid racism with which we should have absolutely no truck; but there is absolutely pretty compelling evidence of fabulism and academic misconduct which it discredits all of us to minimise and ignore.

this boils down to "the pandemic didn't actually happen but they still closed the applebees" which frankly i think is a trauma response by a lot of people that buy it - lot easier to be in denial that things were that bad instead of reckoning with 1.3m dead people [in this country]

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Major #Botany2026 FOMO, but the drive MA->OR starts this week. So, sharing from afar: I’m recruiting grad students for my new lab at OSU! Info: www.mckenzie-lab.org . We're going to have FUN with systematics, speciation genomics, methods, natural history, and more in North Am angiosperms. Reach out!

"Our role as academics is to protect this one institution. This is why we receive tax money; why we're basically civil servants. The role of the university is even lost on many, so bears repeating: produce knowledge and educate at the highest level. AI destroys both at their core"

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 4d ago

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

Cuba’s ageing power grid collapsed on Sunday after a weekend of outages and amid US-imposed fuel shortages.

Grid failure plunges Cuba into nationwide blackout

Cuba's ageing power grid collapsed on Sunday after a weekend of outages and amid US-imposed fuel shortages.

aljazeera.com

Very early in the pandemic, I spent 2 terrible weeks in isolation, unable to breathe or walk across the room. Waiting my temp. to spike. Worrying about my kids. Fighting against dying. In the middle of this covid revisionist, anti-vax bullshit, it was worth saying what that felt like:

"How can anybody in their right mind notice the growing damage to universities and instead of stand against this, facilitate the destruction of expertise, of learning skills, and of academic integrity?" Thank you for keeping it real @olivia.science 🙏 olivia.science/anxiety/

Anxiety

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

olivia.science

New preprint 🚀 : How can features learned by pre-trained machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) be used for both materials generation and the evaluation of generative models? arxiv.org/abs/2607.287... #CompChem

Representations from Pretrained Machine-Learning Interatomic Potentials as Coarse Coordinates for Material Generation and Evaluation

Generative machine learning is increasingly used for inorganic crystal structure generation. Most models and the corresponding evaluation approaches rely on simple forms of crystal structure represent...

arxiv.org

I've been seeing references to some anti-trans changes coming to English schools in September. Now found out what it's about. Really not good. What it boils down to is making trans children's school time miserable, in the apparent hope it's just a phase and they'll stop all this trans stuff.

Natacha@natacha.bsky.social · 2w ago

Upping again my article about Labour’s anti-trans “guidance” for schools, it is producing Ambient Conversion Therapy; a firm of psychological torture targeting trans kids. This is now Burnham’s responsibility. He either rescinds or gets the blame when thousands of children are harmed, and some die…

If this is what happens to a scientific field as a whole when LLMs dominate the workflows of researchers, I can only imagine that the outlook is even worse for any individual researcher who is soldiering on without using them. 😞

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

I wrote about how nuclear weapons are still a problem and it's a problem if the people who have the nuclear codes can't be trusted not to use them "And importantly, scientists need to understand then, who it is we make a deal with when we compromise on our values in order to get funding." ⚛️🧪🔭

We can't have metaphors anymore because everything is literal

or How I'm still worried about nuclear weapons

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I apologize for interrupting your regular consumption of shitposts and angry retweets from this supposedly serious scientific account of a VERY SERIOUS SCIENTIST to post something important. A former MSc grad from my lab, Dr. Xiao Yu from my group is running a network for Asian women in STEM.

“That could be me" event RSVP

That Could Be Me is a virtual conversation series that brings together Asian women in STEM across different career stages through meaningful 1:1 conversations. Whether you're a student exploring what'...

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The Journal of Mathematical Philosophy is now open for submissions! It is fully open access, with no fees for authors or readers. Please help spread the word, and do consider sending us your work. Very happy to be part of the inaugural editorial board. mathematicalphilosophy.org/mathphil

New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

A quarter of respondents to a survey by the German Chemical Society’s Young Chemists Network experienced or witnessed discrimination in the working environment – around two-thirds based on gender, while around a fifth related to nationality or ethnicity. www.chemistryworld.com/news/61-of-g...

61% of Germany’s chemistry PhD students consider quitting their degrees

Unhealthy supervisor-student relationships driving poor mental health outcomes among chemistry researchers

chemistryworld.com