Trust in science is falling, but: - it remains high - the drop is no larger than for other institutions - the reduction is concentrated amongst the political right www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story

Some say there’s a global crisis of trust — but research reveals where the real problems lie.

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Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers

What we're getting wrong about teens and tech

For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...

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wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...

What are the risks of using #DigitalMedia as a regulating tool for addressing the big emotions of young children? Find out from panelist Peter Reschke, PhD, at the next #AskTheExperts webinar “Meltdowns to Mindfulness" on April 22 at 12pm ET via Zoom ➡️ https://bit.ly/4txsUc1

This study demonstrates the importance of long-term & stable investments in science. Having funding today can be just as important as knowing if it will be around tomorrow because the science that helps us understand our world in meaningful ways can often require a lot of time and a lot of patience.

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Results from a large 20-year study show that halving a person’s intake of arsenic in drinking water reduces their risk of dying from any chronic disease, including cancer or heart disease, by 54% cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

“We fundamentally believe that publishing less – but better – is essential for the health of the entire research system worldwide,” the authors of the report state.

Less is more: academic publishing needs ‘radical change,’ Cambridge press report concludes

Academic publishing needs “renewed focus and collective action” to embrace new approaches and ensure the future of the industry, concludes a report from Cambridge University Press, released last we…

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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public" - Theodore Roosevelt

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

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A bittersweet series about what we have lost, but also what we could regain if we lived in a country that supported basic research again.

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 12mo ago

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

In grad school someone asked if I was "learning how to lie with statistics" in class. Which... no 😭 My secret agenda as a scientist is to make people's lives better. Being science literate is more than understanding correlations, it's also understanding the ethics and training behind the science.

ReproducibiliTea@reproducibilitea.org · 12mo ago

Lying increases trust in science doi.org/10.1007/s111... “a better way forward (and the real solution to the transparency paradox) would be to resolve the problem of the public overidealizing science through science education and communication to eliminate the naïve view of science as infallible.”

Our need to belong increases our dependence on social media feedback.

Brandon C Davidson@bcdavidson.bsky.social · last yr.

In a preregistered study of 535 US Twitter users, we found that people learn more from social rewards during periods of high isolation. That is, when isolated, they weigh 'Likes' more heavily in deciding how often to post.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

OSU Comm is hiring an Assoc. or Full Prof. We are seeking someone to provide leadership for our undergrad journ program. The research focus includes journ, public opinion, audience analytics, science comm, or media economics, or other related topics. osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Associate Professor or Professor in Journalism - School of Communication

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I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

Excited to share my new work aimed at making algorithmic bias easier to study w/3 key contributions • Clear overview of how/where algorithmic bias arises • Workarounds as a concept for user adaptation • Framework for analyzing bias that is real, perceived, or absent 1/5 🧵🧪 doi.org/10.1007/s001...

✨NEW PREPRINT✨ Led by the fantastic ‪@hnxue.bsky.social‬, this study looked at shorts recommended to children on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Unsafe shorts had darker visuals, harmful content was framed as entertainment and harm-triggering content as ordinary. arxiv.org/abs/2507.12571

Catching Dark Signals in Algorithms: Unveiling Audiovisual and Thematic Markers of Unsafe Content Recommended for Children and Teenagers

The prevalence of short form video platforms, combined with the ineffectiveness of age verification mechanisms, raises concerns about the potential harms facing children and teenagers in an algorithm-...

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Who is most at risk for body esteem problems after being on social media? Our recent study found 36% of teens experience negative associations between social media use and body esteem (17% positive) - and high perfectionism was among the identified risk factors. doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

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After 22 years of school, I am now the kind of doctor that isn't particularly handy in a medical emergency - but will talk your ear off about kids and tech. But really, a huge thank you to the family, friends, and teachers who nurtured and supported me along the way. Next stop is Columbus Ohio!