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.

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

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I don’t care how respected you are as a person, science educator, author, artist, etc. If I find out that you are using generative AI in any aspect of your work, you lose all of my respect.

AI agent activity in online surveys is far less common than assumed. Across 10 sample providers, agents showed up almost only on MTurk (11-16%), elsewhere at or below 1%. @andrewgordon.bsky.social presents findings today at Quirk's, NYC. Connect if you're there 📄 #AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity

Once upon a time, industry was powered by rivers. Once upon a time, industry was powered by coal. Things change. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Fringe infringement!

The Onion@theonion.com · 7d ago

Taylor Swift Sues Ella Langley For Bangs Infringement https://theonion.com/taylor-swift-sues-ella-langley-for-bangs-infringement/

Any time I hear the abbreviation "stat sig", I throw up in my mouth a little.

Desk art 🖼️ by @stellerarts.com

Bernie's naivete on AI talking points has been deeply frustrating to watch for the past couple years. He believes the marketing claims.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Bernie hasn't tried this on here yet but here he is doing free marketing for OpenAI. He has been captured by the worst people in AI for a few years now and has been parroting company hype talking points instead of guarding against them. It’s like the public is being assaulted from all sides.

Any news report that starts “OpenAI says…” or claims “an AI” (sic) has “broken containment” or “gone rogue” is no longer doing journalism, but PR for the #AI industry. #OpenAI used their product to hack a third-party and failed to implement adequate safeguards. That’s it. That’s the story. #AIHype

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.

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

It's World Emoji Day, so here's a friendly reminder that we have 🚷 and 🚳 but not

Having "Not sure" as a response option is almost always a bad experiment design. It conflates response with confidence.

I cannot think of anything that might incentivize students more to use AI in coursework, even against their own self-interest when it comes to learning, than putting them in a head-to-head competition for A's in a class. (Also I just think this is deeply unfair.) www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

70% of Faculty Vote to Overhaul Harvard Grading With A Cap | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard faculty voted to impose a roughly 20 percent cap on A grades beginning in fall 2027, approving the College’s most aggressive attempt to reverse grade inflation and reshape academic standards.

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I haven't watched Weekend at Bernie's in a while.

How can aesthetic pleasure be shaped by so many visual attributes: prototypicality, fluency, complexity, symmetry, and self-relevance? I argue that aesthetic pleasure emerges from a balance between categorization-based rewards and metabolic costs of neural activity. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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as genai proliferates, it has become difficult to avoid it. at @aial.ie, we're compiling a list of genai-free tools, libraries & websites to support research across tasks;grammar/spell check, coding/code review, data analysis (esp large scale text classification) & graphing/data visualisation recs?

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Given the outrage this image has caused, we can see that people do, in fact, interpret bar plots with truncated axes correctly, as research has shown for a long time. 😇 @steveharoz.com

turgut keskintürk@tkeskinturk.bsky.social · last mo.

data visualization is my passion.

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

When I explain to peeps how much we do in research labs for how few $$, they simply don’t believe me. I once explained it to a famous person from Pixar, he looked me square in the eye and said “You mean all the cancer, vision, and Alzheimer’s grants work that way? You’ve gotta be %#ing kidding me!”

Jason Rasgon@vectorgen.bsky.social · last mo.

The NIH is an ENORMOUS bargain for the American people. Do folk think that private industry will do the background slog work for drug discovery for 250K direct costs?

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

Several great colleagues published an excellent paper on multiplicity adjustment. Wish it considered that "assertions are too easy" is miscast as multiplicity. See hbiostat.org/bayes/bet/mu... @sabinehoffmann11.bsky.social @gscollins.bsky.social @georgheinze.bsky.social

Chromostereopsis and stereo kinetic effect

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com

New paper finds that cul de sacs, winding streets, and other features of suburban "Garden Cities" are terrible for emissions, loneliness, etc. IOW: Sprawled suburbs are bad because of how they're designed, not just their sprawl. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If p < 0.05, you "reject the null." That's what many stats courses teach you to do. This week's Experimentology chapter argues that this binary, dichotomous frame can sometimes be useful but is the wrong default for psych experiments — there is a broader toolkit available! 🧵 experimentology.io

People from other countries experiencing Costco, Bucees, non-Mcdonalds fast food, and other US oddities is my favorite show.

I've built a solargraph simulator using solar irradiation data. Pick a place on Earth, animate the solargraph, draw just one point per hour for analemma view, or switch to panorama mode that projects the solargraph into a virtual sky you can navigate. eagereyes.org/app/solargraph