Proud to have been part of this submission to SCOTUS to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their decade-long disinformation about climate change. With @naomioreskes.bsky.social @geoffreysupran.bsky.social and others www.ucs.org/about/news/a...

Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Suncor v Boulder Documenting Companies’ Climate Deception

Experts File Friend-of-the-Court Brief in Supreme Court Case Documenting Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil Decades of Climate Deception

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The Center for Scientific Integrity is proud to announce the inaugural winners of the 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Named for the universal keyboard shortcut for “undo,” the Ctrl-Z Award this year honors @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social and @katelaskowski.bsky.social for choosing transparency over reputation.

ScienceAdviser Exclusive: Meet the inaugural winners of the Ctrl Z Award

Today in Science and science: Ice age hunters’ penchant for female mammoths, a detailed vagal map, and more

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“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

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A globally invasive fish (actually a group of congeners) distributed through the pet trade and long established in North America continues to spread - and is becoming superabundant in various waterbodies on the continent. Its impacts have likely been underestimated. academic.oup.com/fisheries/ar...

The rise of goldfishes in North America

ABSTRACT. Goldfish Carassius auratus is a longstanding global invader that has entered a new phase in its invasion history, spreading into new geographical

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A Demographic Theory of Similarity-Biased Social Learning. Now out in PNAS, led by the incomparable @apvelilla.bsky.social . We use modeling to explore conditions for the (cultural) evolution of parochial (and anti-parochial) learning biases. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Who's up for a good old fashioned (but short, bc I'm tired) paper thread? Thrilled to be in this special issue of Gender & Society (an absolute dream!), where we propose a feminist-inspired extension of how to theorize and model the spread of ideas in science + journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Introduction to a special issue on feminist metascience and open science by Christin Munsch and @divreyes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Demographers —The PAA call for papers is now open! There are TWO qualitative sessions this year, including one that I’m organizing. If you do any qualitative demography or demography-adjacent work, please submit an extended abstract! paa_acgi.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT...

This is simply wonderful news for the Migration Museum and its ongoing project to create the UK's first permanent museum exploring migration to and from the UK. The new Museum will be in the City of London, but is already working with collaborators outside London and outside England. 1/3

The Wolfson Foundation commits £600,000 to the UK’s ‘Missing Museum’

The Migration Museum is delighted to announce that The Wolfson Foundation has become a Founding Partner of the UK’s first permanent museum dedicated to exploring how the movement of people to and from...

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🚨New post🚨 Three brain myths that need to die nicholaraihani.substack.com/p/three-brai...

Three brain myths that need to die

Did you know that your blood passes through your kidneys roughly 300 times per day?

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"Promoting a lifestyle and belief system that align with right-wing populist attacks on women’s rights and cultural diversity carries consequences that extend beyond the personal sphere" theconversation.com/the-historic...

The historic German housewives who laid the groundwork for today’s tradwives

Today’s tradwives rework the ideals of the early 20th-century German housewives’ movement.

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A review of an important book on the history of racism in Romania."Cristian Cercel provides an in-depth reflection on Marius Turda’s new book În căutarea românului perfect...Turda aims to reveal the centrality of racialized thinking for the eugenics movement." ceureviewofbooks.com/longread/the...

The past and present of the history of racism in Romania - CEU Review of Books

Cristian Cercel provides an in-depth reflection on Marius Turda’s new book În căutarea românului perfect. Specific național, degenerare rasială și selecție socială în România modernă, published by Pol...

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“These findings highlight the complex expression of women’s empowerment and illustrate how it unfolds unevenly across public and private domains, as well as across diverse sociocultural contexts” www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

A new study finds that audiences connect with scientists less through credentials or demographic similarity and more through human qualities like curiosity, authenticity, and clear communication.

Forming Relationships With Scientists Through Film: A Qualitative Study of Viewers’ Trust, Identification, and Value Alignment - Nicole M. Krause, Emily L. Howell, Sarah S. Goodwin, 2026

Drawing on open-ended responses from a national U.S. survey (N = 630) of viewers of Observer, a documentary film featuring scientists engaged in practices of ob...

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"Drawing on an analysis of over 100000 articles in ecology-related disciplines [...], we show that the shift to pay-to-publish OA has already reduced participation by researchers from many middle-income countries." nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Payment‐based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology

Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...

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“Contrary to the common assumption that journals reject null results, we found that most projects halt during early data analysis or presentation stages.”   New work by @bartekmacka.bsky.social et al.   Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

This is both useful guidance (how to turn off AI summaries in Google), and also an important way to think. "it’s worth pushing past what you think you can accomplish. If something’s not working, don’t give up—try to figure out why. You might just fix it." buttondown.com/justinpot/ar...

How to turn off those AI summaries (and other thoughts)

Hi! This week I’m going to show you how to turn off Google’s AI feature, then talk a bit about why it’s fun to make things working How to get the old Google...

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I really need to turn off AI search in Chrome (which I never asked for in the first place). Did a quick search to find the link to a paper and it came up with this complete & utter nonsense. The paper in question was retracted because it used data which contain "substantial inaccuracies and biases"

Another addition to our EHS special collection on scientific racism! @reubenfakoyabrooks.bsky.social Jordan O. Lafayette Tasmin Alexander & Bushra Abu-Helil assess the work of @reednetwork.bsky.social & outline a framework for institutional allyship: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

A Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences

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Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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My paper on the "Pig in the Python" is now available with no paywall from NIH. I argue that the demand for young workers will grow dramatically over the coming decades, likely leading to rising wages, stronger unions, and lower inequality. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

> On March 17, 1929, the Black sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois faced off against the white supremacist historian Lothrop Stoddard. The question under consideration: “Has the Negro the Same Intellectual Possibility as Other Races?” 1/n

The Men Who Believed Some Men Are More Equal Than Others (Gift Article)

In a new book, the historian Kim Phillips-Fein chronicles a “shadow tradition” of anti-egalitarians who fought against America’s founding ideals.

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This fall, the Dept of Ecology and Evolution @ the Univ of Lausanne will be looking for an associate professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution. If that sounds like you, please apply. CH is an outstanding place to live and work. ⛰️🚄🔥 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Thinking through the unedifying, un-evidence-based rush to an undefined, apparently unmodelled paradigm of 'specialisation, what's being lost/threatened? Herts History was an excellent example of performing to a top standard in REF, but also much more than that. Questions to think with include: 1/4

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

New paper out in our special collection on scientific racism: "Using the REED (Racial & Ethnic Equality & Diversity) Ecological Network as a case study, this paper examines how grassroots initiatives can advance racial and ethnic inclusion in academic and professional institutions"

A Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

A Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences

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Good to see pushback about the political neglect of UK universities, pushback about increasing regulatory requirements such as those around “free speech” and support for the importance of social sciences and humanities all in one interview

Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · 4d ago

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

“As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

Reviewer notes: Odds ratios are really odd

When psychological researchers investigate binary outcomes, they routinely report odds ratios to quantify the strength of an effect or an association. This is quite understandable given that psycholog...

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Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

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

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Informa of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges.

Federal lawsuit accuses four major publishers of extorting article processing charges

iStock A lawsuit filed under the U.S. False Claims Act accuses four major publishers of perpetrating a decade-long scheme to defraud the government by charging exorbitant article processing charges…

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"And so Arnold began reaching out to other people who said science was untrustworthy and giving them money." A MUST-READ post about open sci/metasci funding, philanthropist agendas, and academic censorship in the name of scientific reform. There's so much I want to quote. Better read it yourself!

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...