I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

Interested to hear your take on either, but if it's a voting scenario, rom coms!

School Choice Has Become Involuntary Tithing States separate taxpayers from more money on behalf of churches

Vouchers mean forced tithing for taxpayers.

It is forced tithing for all of us, who benefit from strong public schools and a separation of church and state in a myriad of ways even when they don't have children in them or have any children at all.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Agreed! Also people would use it maliciously. I'm a professor and I can immediately picture male students claiming they need accommodations because their 'mental health condition' prevents them from viewing me as an authority.

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name

OAI: say no more

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

Sort of offended by the lack of ankylosaurus

Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Chicago White Sox pope hats giveaway

In the running for greatest giveaway of all time

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it:

International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Few people are aware of how much progress has been made against cancers.

Leukemia is probably the most striking example.

Before the 1970s, most children affected by leukemia would soon die from it.

Now, most children in rich countries survive.
ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

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NEWS: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

"It's an extinction-level event for science".

This would decimate the world's leading scientific system, from NASA to NIH, and eliminate social, economic and behavioral science at NSF
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

TLDR; DO NOT GET SUCKED INTO THE WEEDS. The budget is ~7% of the big picture. Republicans are supporting the broader destruction even if they “fight the cuts” to science agencies.

Vedanta Biosciences Announces the Phase 3 RESTORATiVE303 Study of VE303 for the Prevention of Recurrent C. difficile Infection Will Continue as Planned Following Protocol-Specified Interim Analysis

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

The administration's budget request would cut research funding for the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency by more than 50%.

It's hard to imagine an external enemy causing more long-term damage to this country.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Grad students & postdocs: how is funding uncertainty affecting you right now?

SSE's GSAC is collecting anonymous input to inform advocacy and conversations at Evolution.

Share your perspective by May 1, 2026 and pls RT!

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

A sign on the fence of a graveyard. It reads "No use of geiger counters on church property."

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

What systemic bottlenecks do you see in the practice of science? Astera wants to know what you think is broken and how to fix it!

Gripe now or forever hold your peace:

Great write-up!

"genAI can be used to create podcasts from a paper to teach st-"

Let me stop you right there. Before you feed somebody's paper to a slop machine, invite that somebody to talk to your students about their paper. We're right here. We academics won't shut up about our work, man. 🧪

hoping for a “CPSC Warns Consumers to Stop Inserting Four Different Bar Graphs Onto a Single Slide Due to Risk of ‘All of This’” recall thursday