I did not realize that a large part of The Onion buying InfoWars was about getting the Sandy Hook families the money they were supposed to have gotten from the lawsuit against Jones, and honestly that's some top-tier human decency right there?

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We've sold a LOT of rainbow InfoWars merch (with more to come!) over the last month, since we reached a deal to take over InfoWars with the estate's court appointed receiver. We're giving 100% of proceeds so far to the families via whatever mechanism the court allows.

people spend enormous amounts of time fighting online about whether to talk about epstein and corruption or affordability and, look, it’s really not that hard to do both at once

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Ossoff: "While you pay more for everything, Donald Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom."

There are a whole lot of lawyers who should not be allowed to practice law again as Americans start the second reconstruction, but the ones like this should be stripped of all assets, titles, diplomas, and honorifics. Leave them with nothing & take every cent they make away from them forever.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The same Trump-appointee who fucked with the Broadview 6 grand jury is the one going after E. Jean Carroll.

Hey, I got a shoutout on Kimmel tonight! He even pronounced my name correctly 😆

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

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as we grieve the slop-ification of Google, I want to know everyone's favorite fun niche sites from Back When The Internet Was Good. what did you visit every day on your coffee break at work? we were a big Homestar Runner household, and I also loved Cake Wrecks and Animals Talking In All Caps

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Reposting for no particular reason... ok, there is a reason.

Candice Odgers@candiceodgers.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people 3 people are producing most toxic content Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive and amplified by engagement based algorithms. The other 97 quiet voices disappear thenoisyroom.com

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

Katie Drummond is a legend. That is all.

I wrote about Kat.

Kat.

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No matter the size or number, cats are always cats

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

Another paper for frustrated methods nerds to put on the syllabus before their students' advisors strongarm them into ignoring it

Klaus Pforr@klauspforr.eurosky.social · 6mo ago

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Finally we can tell the LLM haters to back off: they *can* do cutting-edge social science.

Ryan Briggs@ryancbriggs.net · 6mo ago

While LLMs will try to follow good research practices by default, you can pretty easily convince them to p-hack for you. In one case (out of the 4 tested), the LLM moved the result from p > 0.05 to p < 0.001. github.com/janetmalzahn...

90% of the time I feel like a god as I automate my reports using #quarto The other 10% I wonder how I've managed to even turn on my computer as spend three hours trying to make the headings in my pdf bold #rstats

Recent work has shown how vulnerable online survey research is to LLMs. Motivated by this, we examined our online Posner cueing data from Prolific. It's concerning. We now must carefully consider when (or whether?) online behavioral data can be trusted. see our comment: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sean Westwood@seanjwestwood.bsky.social · 9mo ago

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

The Big 5 test is about twice as accurate as the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator for predicting life outcomes, placing the usefulness of the MBTI test halfway between science and astrology. Any psychologist will tell you, the Meyers-Briggs is mostly bullshit. powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-are-we...

Have you noticed how navigation apps include walking & waiting for public transit, but excludes parking & walking for driving? After being late a few times 😅, we finally did. We got curious: what if these apps account for parking?

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |...

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

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Almost done with my next lecture, so going back now to work on some new memes

#AcademicSky I spend 1/2 my time asking people to peer review more, & other 1/2 complaining that filthy rich publishers should pay for our labour These aren't incompatible complaints Scientists DO need to review more (especially if publishing) Publishers DO need to pay reviewers

Gordon Hodson@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#AcademicSky Next time you curse the desk rejection decision you receive, ask yourself: "But am I doing enough peer review, myself?" My point: Editors are increasingly "forced" to desk reject bc they can't find reviewers, making them overly selective. You don't want that. For yourself or field

Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇

People form beliefs not only as individual agents, but as members of social groups. Children (4-6 years old) who belonged to a group were more convinced by evidence that supported their ingroup’s belief (and were less convinced by evidence that opposed their ingroup): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Obama: "At some point, you age out. You're not connected directly to the immediate struggles that folks are going through. I'm not making a hard and fast rule here, but I think Democrats do well when we have candidates who are plugged into the moment. To the zeitgeist. To the times."

I have continued to update my Data Consultants table. It currently includes 96 businesses. So if you are looking for help with data wrangling, visualization, analysis, reporting, dashboarding, training, and more, consider checking out these consultants! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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EL PASO, Texas (AP) — FAA says it has lifted temporary closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas, and all flights to resume.

Trust in leadership is essential to success A new study found that PhD students who had greater trust in their graduate advisor finished their first year more motivated, higher in well-being, and more academically successful than those with lower advisor trust. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...