alisonchilla
@alisonchilla.bsky.social
science, journalism, marketing and AI.
*** Disclaimer: I am currently a marketing operations manager at the Society for Science. The postings on this platform are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Society. ***
*** Disclaimer: I am currently a marketing operations manager at the Society for Science. The postings on this platform are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Society. ***
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BREAKING‼️ @rephaleystevens.bsky.social files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. for his actions as Health Secretary endangering American lives.
This is a huge victory in our fight. Take action with us! #ImpeachRFKJR #Impeachthequack
www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
This is a huge victory in our fight. Take action with us! #ImpeachRFKJR #Impeachthequack
www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
December 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
BREAKING‼️ @rephaleystevens.bsky.social files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. for his actions as Health Secretary endangering American lives.
This is a huge victory in our fight. Take action with us! #ImpeachRFKJR #Impeachthequack
www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
This is a huge victory in our fight. Take action with us! #ImpeachRFKJR #Impeachthequack
www.standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
“The observatory is perhaps best known for its 1912 radial velocity measurements of a spiral nebula, which were the first observations of the expanding universe, and for the 1930 discovery of Pluto.”
physicstoday.aip.org/news/with-ey...
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With eye on future, Lowell Observatory shaves jobs, focuses science
As scientists scramble to land on their feet, the observatory’s mission remains to conduct science and public outreach.
physicstoday.aip.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
“The observatory is perhaps best known for its 1912 radial velocity measurements of a spiral nebula, which were the first observations of the expanding universe, and for the 1930 discovery of Pluto.”
physicstoday.aip.org/news/with-ey...
physicstoday.aip.org/news/with-ey...
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🧪 ✏️Apply for the 2026 Diverse Voices in Science Journalism Internship with
@science.org! 🧪 ✏️
This could be for you if you're a student from a community historically underrepresented in #journalism who's interested in in covering science for general audiences: recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
@science.org! 🧪 ✏️
This could be for you if you're a student from a community historically underrepresented in #journalism who's interested in in covering science for general audiences: recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
🧪 ✏️Apply for the 2026 Diverse Voices in Science Journalism Internship with
@science.org! 🧪 ✏️
This could be for you if you're a student from a community historically underrepresented in #journalism who's interested in in covering science for general audiences: recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
@science.org! 🧪 ✏️
This could be for you if you're a student from a community historically underrepresented in #journalism who's interested in in covering science for general audiences: recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
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New from me for @science.org: A major planetary science conference will require submitted abstracts to comply with Trump's anti-DEI executive orders.
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
‘This is censorship.’ Conference requires abstracts to comply with Trump anti-DEI order
NASA-funded planetary science institute previously scrubbed hundreds of records from its archive
www.science.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New from me for @science.org: A major planetary science conference will require submitted abstracts to comply with Trump's anti-DEI executive orders.
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
This conference, LPSC, is a big deal. It's been running since 1970 and is one of the biggest planetary science conferences out there. 🧪🔭
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A new study pitted Google against ChatGPT as research tools. Across 7 experiments, one pattern held: Knowledge gained from chatbot summaries was shallower compared with knowledge gained from web links.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm
Chatbots may make learning feel easy — but it’s superficial
People who use search engines develop deeper knowledge and are more invested in what they learn than those relying on AI chatbots, a study reports.
www.sciencenews.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A new study pitted Google against ChatGPT as research tools. Across 7 experiments, one pattern held: Knowledge gained from chatbot summaries was shallower compared with knowledge gained from web links.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-chatbots-learning-superficial-llm
Last one! Donate $200 to Project Monarch and name your own monarch butterfly. 🧡🦋🧡 www.capemaypointsciencecenter.org/project-mona...
Project Monarch — Cape May Point Arts and Science Center
Support novel monarch butterfly tracking research with the Cape May Point Science Center and Cellular Tracking Technologies!
www.capemaypointsciencecenter.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Last one! Donate $200 to Project Monarch and name your own monarch butterfly. 🧡🦋🧡 www.capemaypointsciencecenter.org/project-mona...
App so you can contribute data to Project Monarch and help track their migration apps.apple.com/us/app/proje...
Project Monarch Science App - App Store
Download Project Monarch Science by Cellular Tracking Technologies on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like…
apps.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
App so you can contribute data to Project Monarch and help track their migration apps.apple.com/us/app/proje...
Teeny tiny tracking devices on butterflies. Related app for citizen science in next post. (Gift article) #science #citizenscience
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Teeny tiny tracking devices on butterflies. Related app for citizen science in next post. (Gift article) #science #citizenscience
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
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AI chatbots are worse at retrieving accurate information and reasoning when trained on large amounts of low-quality content, particularly if the content is popular on social media
go.nature.com/4hBqDrB
go.nature.com/4hBqDrB
Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’
Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.
go.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
AI chatbots are worse at retrieving accurate information and reasoning when trained on large amounts of low-quality content, particularly if the content is popular on social media
go.nature.com/4hBqDrB
go.nature.com/4hBqDrB
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7 basic science discoveries that changed the world 🧪
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
www.nature.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world 🧪
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... @nature.com
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ICYMI: We recently hosted a reporter training on how to cover vaccines effectively and accurately in 2025. Reporters can request the recording to learn what research indicates are the most effective ways of sharing that information. bit.ly/4nz3sj5
#PublicHealth #SciComm #news #journalism
#PublicHealth #SciComm #news #journalism
October 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
ICYMI: We recently hosted a reporter training on how to cover vaccines effectively and accurately in 2025. Reporters can request the recording to learn what research indicates are the most effective ways of sharing that information. bit.ly/4nz3sj5
#PublicHealth #SciComm #news #journalism
#PublicHealth #SciComm #news #journalism
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President Donald Trump’s administration has terminated $352 million in grants and contracts this year to the Research Triangle Institute, the United States’s third largest independent research organization, a report estimates.
Cuts in global health and climate hit Research Triangle Institute hard
“Financial drubbing” underscores reliance of some independent research organizations on federal funding
www.science.org
October 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
President Donald Trump’s administration has terminated $352 million in grants and contracts this year to the Research Triangle Institute, the United States’s third largest independent research organization, a report estimates.
Just because I find this charming and uplifting.
A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?
October 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Just because I find this charming and uplifting.
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Juno is an AMAZING mission. The camera onboard was never supposed to last this long (the radiation around Big J should've zapped it a while back) but it just keeps on ticking. Killing this mission while it's still working and producing great science is a crime.
NEW: The White House wants to kill off Juno, NASA's mission to uncover Jupiter's secrets. Fortunately, its legacy is clear.
Juno's a scientist, but also an artist: it revealed Jupiter as a living van Gogh painting hanging in the sky.
Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
Juno's a scientist, but also an artist: it revealed Jupiter as a living van Gogh painting hanging in the sky.
Me @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
Say Goodbye to Juno, NASA’s Groundbreaking Mission to Jupiter
The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight
www.scientificamerican.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Juno is an AMAZING mission. The camera onboard was never supposed to last this long (the radiation around Big J should've zapped it a while back) but it just keeps on ticking. Killing this mission while it's still working and producing great science is a crime.
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Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
August 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.
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In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Why AI chatbots lie to us
A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...
www.science.org
July 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
From the NYTimes “The Morning” newsletter: “Media: The F.C.C. approved the $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance. As part of the deal, the company will install an official to monitor bias at CBS’s news division.”
ick. reminiscent of state-sponsored censorship…
ick. reminiscent of state-sponsored censorship…
July 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
From the NYTimes “The Morning” newsletter: “Media: The F.C.C. approved the $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance. As part of the deal, the company will install an official to monitor bias at CBS’s news division.”
ick. reminiscent of state-sponsored censorship…
ick. reminiscent of state-sponsored censorship…
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Brave #EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent are now facing administrative leave after speaking out.
NOW MORE THAN EVER THESE EPA EMPLOYEES NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY!
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Brave #EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent are now facing administrative leave after speaking out.
NOW MORE THAN EVER THESE EPA EMPLOYEES NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY!
stand with them publicly now by adding your name here ➡️ zurl.co/6MReq
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EPA places staffers who signed ‘dissent’ letter on leave
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is placing staffers who signed a letter of dissent against the Trump administration’s actions and policies on leave. The EPA says it has placed 1…
thehill.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Brave #EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent are now facing administrative leave after speaking out.
NOW MORE THAN EVER THESE EPA EMPLOYEES NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY!
stand with them publicly now by adding your name here ➡️ zurl.co/6MReq
zurl.co/XiAxu
Brave #EPA employees who signed the #DeclarationofDissent are now facing administrative leave after speaking out.
NOW MORE THAN EVER THESE EPA EMPLOYEES NEED YOUR SUPPORT & SOLIDARITY!
stand with them publicly now by adding your name here ➡️ zurl.co/6MReq
zurl.co/XiAxu
Look, long protracted legal battles are no fun and cost tons of money, but it’s disappointing to not see a fight for journalistic freedom here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Look, long protracted legal battles are no fun and cost tons of money, but it’s disappointing to not see a fight for journalistic freedom here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...
Eight tools that investigative and data journalists are using and recommending latamjournalismreview.org/articles/eig...
Eight tools that investigative and data journalists are using and recommending
Eight tools that investigative and data journalists are using and recommending Innovation. Latin American Journalism Review by The Knight Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
latamjournalismreview.org
June 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Eight tools that investigative and data journalists are using and recommending latamjournalismreview.org/articles/eig...
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Lots of misinformation in the comments. The science shows that COVID vaccines reduce transmission, including for recent variants. A 2024 CDC study showed that people who received the updated COVID vaccine were 54% less likely to get COVID-19.
COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness
New data show the updated COVID-19 vaccines were effective against COVID-19.
www.cdc.gov
May 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Lots of misinformation in the comments. The science shows that COVID vaccines reduce transmission, including for recent variants. A 2024 CDC study showed that people who received the updated COVID vaccine were 54% less likely to get COVID-19.
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NSF funding for STEM education is ⬇️ 80% in 2025.
“You can’t have science without scientists.”
#SciEd #EduSky #SciComm
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“You can’t have science without scientists.”
#SciEd #EduSky #SciComm
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
NSF funding for STEM education is ⬇️ 80% in 2025.
“You can’t have science without scientists.”
#SciEd #EduSky #SciComm
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“You can’t have science without scientists.”
#SciEd #EduSky #SciComm
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...
Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.
www.wired.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Had a great conversation with @jay.bsky.team about the future of Bluesky, which she hopes is a future where Bluesky becomes one small part of a much larger ecosystem: www.wired.com/story/big-in...
We need more local journalism, not less. They’ll be fighting against the tide, but I hope Maryland’s Prince George’s County CTV news gets funding somehow. wapo.st/3H3fHVy
This news station is the ‘voice of a community.’ Budget cuts may silence it.
Prince George’s County’s CTV News, a community television station, is facing a significant budget cut that could impact its operations and ability to provide local news coverage.
wapo.st
May 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We need more local journalism, not less. They’ll be fighting against the tide, but I hope Maryland’s Prince George’s County CTV news gets funding somehow. wapo.st/3H3fHVy