@dapeterson.bsky.social
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I might never visit the US again, if no one reserses this nightmarish folly. Overall, they'll not miss me, individually. But there are many me's.
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I might never visit the US again, if no one reserses this nightmarish folly. Overall, they'll not miss me, individually. But there are many me's.
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"Science is not broken, and it most certainly is not dying. It is an inefficient human activity....When we catastrophize, we feed a disillusionment which political actors can weaponize to get rid of scientific evidence they find inconvenient."
#AcademicSky 🧪
#AcademicSky 🧪
Difficult for me to put into words how disappointed I am in Sabine Hossenfelder. Many years back when she was just blogging about physics I was a huge fan, and she published a lot of intriguing papers. Now she makes money as a social media arsonist. 🧪
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
Sabine Hossenfelder Asks If Science Is Dying. It’s Not.
Physics is dying. It’s mathematical fiction. Science is failing. Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit. I don’t trust scientists. Would you believe me if I tol...
www.mcgill.ca
September 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"Science is not broken, and it most certainly is not dying. It is an inefficient human activity....When we catastrophize, we feed a disillusionment which political actors can weaponize to get rid of scientific evidence they find inconvenient."
#AcademicSky 🧪
#AcademicSky 🧪
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I'll abstract it away from that case (bec I don't remember who/what). But science could legit be interested in such findings. Not everything interesting will be robust from the getgo. The problem in social sciences is that we often treat that as a discovery instead of an entry point for exploration.
Still thinking about that scholar who implied replicators just weren't skilled enough to reproduce the effects he uncovered. Sure, lab and field experiments are incredibly hard to set up well. But if our findings are that fragile, what are we even doing?
September 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I'll abstract it away from that case (bec I don't remember who/what). But science could legit be interested in such findings. Not everything interesting will be robust from the getgo. The problem in social sciences is that we often treat that as a discovery instead of an entry point for exploration.
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@carlbergstrom.com and I have a piece on how to think the risks and benefits of LLMs for things like peer review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI, peer review and the human activity of science
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
www.nature.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
@carlbergstrom.com and I have a piece on how to think the risks and benefits of LLMs for things like peer review.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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It has come my attention that, thanks to a reddit post on r/science, this article with @drmann.bsky.social on the quasi-religious characteristics of right-wing news media is trending. A temporary open access link from Sage below for anyone interested in digging into the argument and framework.
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August 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It has come my attention that, thanks to a reddit post on r/science, this article with @drmann.bsky.social on the quasi-religious characteristics of right-wing news media is trending. A temporary open access link from Sage below for anyone interested in digging into the argument and framework.
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It’s come to my attention that this has come to Dan’s attention. Please proceed accordingly.
It has come my attention that, thanks to a reddit post on r/science, this article with @drmann.bsky.social on the quasi-religious characteristics of right-wing news media is trending. A temporary open access link from Sage below for anyone interested in digging into the argument and framework.
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journals.sagepub.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It’s come to my attention that this has come to Dan’s attention. Please proceed accordingly.
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Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration”
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
NSF board member resigns in protest of Trump policies at agency
Alondra Nelson fingers DOGE in taking an unprecedented step
www.science.org
May 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
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We argue RW news is (1) epistemically religious in favoring worldview maintenance/sacred truths over 'mere facts,' (2) functionally religious because it privileges moral community over informing individuals, and (3) ecologically religious because competition and change resemble schismatic dynamics.
March 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We argue RW news is (1) epistemically religious in favoring worldview maintenance/sacred truths over 'mere facts,' (2) functionally religious because it privileges moral community over informing individuals, and (3) ecologically religious because competition and change resemble schismatic dynamics.