Paul Ward
aceprofessor.bsky.social
Paul Ward
@aceprofessor.bsky.social
Chief Scientist, Professor, Editor, Author, Empiricist, Pragmatist, Outlier, Learner, Wonderer, Dreamer, Worrier, Traveler, Husband

http://www.linkedin.com/in/aceprofessor
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If the Trump administration’s sudden assault on thousands of foreign students legally studying at Harvard seems unprecedented, it’s because it is.
A Permanent Stain on Our History
The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive.
www.thebulwark.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Federal judge temporarily halts Trump’s sweeping government overhaul at 20 agencies - NPR
May 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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"One of the primary goals of all authoritarian regimes is to make people reticent and fearful to engage in basic acts of decency and civic virtue. It’s important that we find the courage to keep doing these things."

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The courage to be decent
The Trump administration wants to make us too afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them.
open.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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We are excited about our latest paper published in Nature Reviews Psychology:

Psychological Insights for Judging Expertise and Implications for Adversarial Legal Contexts

Read & share here: rdcu.be/edUCO

@jasonchin.bsky.social @berengut.bsky.social #Law #Psychology #Expertise #Expert #psychscisky
April 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.
April 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Sagan’s warning for society! How right was he?
April 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The veteran broadcast journalist shared one simple sentence on Facebook that got nearly a million likes and more than 60,000 comments.
Dan Rather Shaded Trump With A “Turkish Proverb,” And It’s Gone Hugely Viral
The veteran broadcast journalist shared one simple sentence on Facebook that got nearly a million likes and more than 60,000 comments.
www.huffpost.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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As we try to build artificial agents that can act independently in the real world … adapting their goals as needed, we are discovering that agency is far more complex than it appears, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social in our NeuroAI series.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/neur...
NeuroAI and the hidden complexity of agency
As we attempt to build autonomous AI systems, we’re discovering that a capability we take for granted in animals may be more complex than we imagined.
www.thetransmitter.org
March 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
scienceimpacts.org Impact of cuts to NIH
SCiMaP
scienceimpacts.org
March 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM