Jonathan Jarry
@jonathanjarry.bsky.social
Science communicator with McGill University's Office for Science and Society. Separating sense from nonsense. Not all studies are created equal. McGill.ca/OSS
"The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose."
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose."
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Breaking news: The Trump administration plans to shift the federal government away from directly recommending most vaccines for children and suggest parents consult with doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
wapo.st
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Breaking news: The Trump administration plans to shift the federal government away from directly recommending most vaccines for children and suggest parents consult with doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
"So, what can research teach us about how children deal with the great Santa lie? And should we even be lying to children about the way in which gifts end up finding themselves at the foot of our Christmas trees?"
My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social. Merry Christmas!
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social. Merry Christmas!
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
When Kids Learn the Truth About Santa, Anything Can Happen
“My moma [sic] said the chimney was blocked.” Thus reads the letter from a 10-year-old girl in Wisconsin who was told by her mother that Santa Claus would not be dropping off gifts that year. The real...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"So, what can research teach us about how children deal with the great Santa lie? And should we even be lying to children about the way in which gifts end up finding themselves at the foot of our Christmas trees?"
My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social. Merry Christmas!
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social. Merry Christmas!
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
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Given all the recent buzz about how great ChatGPT has gotten, including its prowess with images, I figured I'd check in on its anatomical skills. Nope.
December 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Given all the recent buzz about how great ChatGPT has gotten, including its prowess with images, I figured I'd check in on its anatomical skills. Nope.
It's a thin line between a serious movie trailer and a Daily Show parody.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmaW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmaW...
JIMMY Trailer (2026) KJ Apa, James Stewart Biopic
YouTube video by ONE Media
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It's a thin line between a serious movie trailer and a Daily Show parody.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmaW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmaW...
Students at the non-university, totally non-partisan UATX just did an industry immersion at... The Boring Company!
UATX is the joke that keeps on giving.
UATX is the joke that keeps on giving.
December 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Students at the non-university, totally non-partisan UATX just did an industry immersion at... The Boring Company!
UATX is the joke that keeps on giving.
UATX is the joke that keeps on giving.
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Powerful Rest And Fluids Industry Influencing Doctors' Treatment Of Colds https://theonion.com/powerful-rest-and-fluids-industry-influencing-doctors-t-1819570463/
December 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Powerful Rest And Fluids Industry Influencing Doctors' Treatment Of Colds https://theonion.com/powerful-rest-and-fluids-industry-influencing-doctors-t-1819570463/
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Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
Trump just announced his own Hunger Games
In case you needed a reminder that we're living in a fascist hellscape.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
BREAKING: President Trump to rename the United States of America "The United Trumps of Trump."
Google Maps told reporters they would amend their website yesterday.
Google Maps told reporters they would amend their website yesterday.
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
BREAKING: President Trump to rename the United States of America "The United Trumps of Trump."
Google Maps told reporters they would amend their website yesterday.
Google Maps told reporters they would amend their website yesterday.
Given the flood of IP slop movie studios are serving us these days, I'm happy to report that the trailer for The Sheep Detectives is fantastic. Fun, original, creative. Looks really cool.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNL...
The Sheep Detectives - Official Trailer (2026) Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson, Patrick Stewart
YouTube video by IGN Movie Trailers
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Given the flood of IP slop movie studios are serving us these days, I'm happy to report that the trailer for The Sheep Detectives is fantastic. Fun, original, creative. Looks really cool.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNL...
"Plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, was shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday."
Horrifying....
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Horrifying....
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
MIT fusion-lab head shot dead: a horror 'impossible to believe'
Plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro was helping to develop clean-energy fusion devices.
www.nature.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, was shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday."
Horrifying....
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Horrifying....
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is anyone else being served the website Biology Insights more and more at the top of search results?
It appears to be AI-generated answers to a bunch of science questions.
biologyinsights.com
It appears to be AI-generated answers to a bunch of science questions.
biologyinsights.com
Biology Insights
biologyinsights.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Is anyone else being served the website Biology Insights more and more at the top of search results?
It appears to be AI-generated answers to a bunch of science questions.
biologyinsights.com
It appears to be AI-generated answers to a bunch of science questions.
biologyinsights.com
Guy Ritchie continues to puppeteer the reanimated corpse of Sherlock Holmes into a brainless action-adventure franchise, full of "I RECOGNIZE THIS!" moments for people who know the hits.
Of course Young Moriarty is in it.
Oh, and Sherlock is asked to strip.
youtu.be/R-NEi8tRC8Q?...
Of course Young Moriarty is in it.
Oh, and Sherlock is asked to strip.
youtu.be/R-NEi8tRC8Q?...
Young Sherlock - Official Teaser Trailer | Prime Video
YouTube video by Prime Video
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Guy Ritchie continues to puppeteer the reanimated corpse of Sherlock Holmes into a brainless action-adventure franchise, full of "I RECOGNIZE THIS!" moments for people who know the hits.
Of course Young Moriarty is in it.
Oh, and Sherlock is asked to strip.
youtu.be/R-NEi8tRC8Q?...
Of course Young Moriarty is in it.
Oh, and Sherlock is asked to strip.
youtu.be/R-NEi8tRC8Q?...
... where they will be competing with a completely AI-generated broadcast of the fake Oscars, in which Mr. Beast wins the award for best actor.
Breaking news: The Oscars will begin streaming on YouTube in 2029 after more than half a century on ABC, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced.
Academy Awards to leave ABC for YouTube in 2029
The announcement upends a TV tradition almost as old as Hollywood itself.
wapo.st
December 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
... where they will be competing with a completely AI-generated broadcast of the fake Oscars, in which Mr. Beast wins the award for best actor.
The journal Psychiatry had a weird way of listing the affiliation of its authors back in the 1940s-1950s. You had to go to an earlier issue and there was a reference list at the end of a specific issue.
This is all I know of Renzo Sereno: he was in NYC in 1947! LOL.
This is all I know of Renzo Sereno: he was in NYC in 1947! LOL.
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The journal Psychiatry had a weird way of listing the affiliation of its authors back in the 1940s-1950s. You had to go to an earlier issue and there was a reference list at the end of a specific issue.
This is all I know of Renzo Sereno: he was in NYC in 1947! LOL.
This is all I know of Renzo Sereno: he was in NYC in 1947! LOL.
Well this is greeaaat news….
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Well this is greeaaat news….
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As someone that teaches cooking, please cook your rocks to an internal temperature of 25 degrees fahrenheit, and serve with a vinaigrette sauce. Finish up with 3 ciggies.
December 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As someone that teaches cooking, please cook your rocks to an internal temperature of 25 degrees fahrenheit, and serve with a vinaigrette sauce. Finish up with 3 ciggies.
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Reposted by Jonathan Jarry
Who Is: Vinay Prasad
A thread about how the FDA’s head of biologics became its biggest internal threat. Vinay Prasad, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, is known not for effective leadership, but for quietly dismantling the scientific systems he was chosen to protect.
A thread about how the FDA’s head of biologics became its biggest internal threat. Vinay Prasad, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, is known not for effective leadership, but for quietly dismantling the scientific systems he was chosen to protect.
December 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Who Is: Vinay Prasad
A thread about how the FDA’s head of biologics became its biggest internal threat. Vinay Prasad, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, is known not for effective leadership, but for quietly dismantling the scientific systems he was chosen to protect.
A thread about how the FDA’s head of biologics became its biggest internal threat. Vinay Prasad, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, is known not for effective leadership, but for quietly dismantling the scientific systems he was chosen to protect.
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"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" -Cory Doctorow.
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" -Cory Doctorow.
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this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
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Deceitful AI Videos Mislead Seniors on Important Health Issues www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social
More and more videos "are entirely made using generative AI..."
Bottomline: "Do not trust random videos online for health information"!
More and more videos "are entirely made using generative AI..."
Bottomline: "Do not trust random videos online for health information"!
Deceitful AI Videos Mislead Seniors on Important Health Issues
I had never received an email in Vietnamese before. My request for an interview had been written in English, and the channel I had reached out to made English-language videos, but the reply I received...
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December 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Deceitful AI Videos Mislead Seniors on Important Health Issues www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social
More and more videos "are entirely made using generative AI..."
Bottomline: "Do not trust random videos online for health information"!
More and more videos "are entirely made using generative AI..."
Bottomline: "Do not trust random videos online for health information"!
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Another amazing Wikipedia article written by @GSoW_team editor Robin. This article took months of research. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-va...
Anti-vaccine activism in Canada - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Another amazing Wikipedia article written by @GSoW_team editor Robin. This article took months of research. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-va...
Another superb mini-doc from fern, this one on Peter Thiel’s anti-democracy beliefs.
youtu.be/TP7Z_Eqxhxk?...
youtu.be/TP7Z_Eqxhxk?...
How Peter Thiel Is Destroying Democracy
YouTube video by fern
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December 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Another superb mini-doc from fern, this one on Peter Thiel’s anti-democracy beliefs.
youtu.be/TP7Z_Eqxhxk?...
youtu.be/TP7Z_Eqxhxk?...