Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

Repairing trust in science requires a more inclusive understanding of innovation These are extraordinarily challenging times for university researchers across the United States. After decades of government largess based on the idea that a large and well-financed research ecosystem...

Public trust in science and technology is a serious, growing problem, especially now. Instead of trying to solve it with better communication, we should adopt a more inclusive approach to innovation that takes low-tech, incremental, and system-wide solutions seriously. My new piece @science.org 👇🏽🧵

New nuclear requires strong governance to avoid making old mistakes University of Michigan researchers call for policies to ensure that small modular reactors serve the public interest without creating and worsening familiar problems.

Nice summary of @stpp-um.bsky.social's new report on small modular #nuclear reactors, often touted as an unproblematic solution to the energy thirst of #AI and data centers.

We'll be hosting a webinar on the report on December 11th at noon Eastern. Sign up here! umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Honored to have co-authored this @stpp-um.bsky.social report, a technology assessment of advanced nuclear reactors and their systemic implications based on what we learned from analogous technologies in society. Webinar on Dec. 11 at 12-1pm ET! myumi.ch/2rp9w

I am so proud of this 🚨new report🚨, and its analysis of the environmental, social, economic, and justice impacts of advanced nuclear reactors, frequently touted as simple solutions to the problems of climate change, energy needs, and data centers. Learn more at our Dec 11th webinar! myumi.ch/2rp9w

I learned so much about nuclear energy and the history of an incredible assortment of technologies (dynamite! cook stoves! sewers!) working on this project, and I am so glad that it is finally out in the world.

Czech Dam Project Was Stalled by Bureaucracy. Beavers Built Their Own. The dam project, drafted in 2018 and based on a former military training site south of Prague, had been delayed by land negotiations. Local beavers built several dams, saving the government more than ...

For years, officials in the Czech Republic had pushed a dam project to protect a river south of Prague, and the critically endangered species living in it. But the project stalled.

In the meantime, the beavers of Prague simply built dams themselves, saving the government some 1.2 million euros.

I Vow to Fight Autocracy with Unprecedented Levels of Finger Wagging “Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate, has reportedly been criticized by some of the party’s state governors for not resisting Donald...

"To the conservatives who might underestimate me—you have no idea what I’m capable of fitting into a slideshow about the value of norms."

“Our university is pleased to present this updated org chart that most accurately captures our system of governance (which management scientists term “Kafkaesque bureaucracy meets Lord of the Files,” though no one understands these references since we cut our literature requirements).”

‘Chemists fought no battles for Jews,’ historian Helmut Maier has said. ‘They fought no battles for immigrants. They only fought … a battle for their professional interests.’