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Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com
Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...
University of Washington researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and....
A $1B shakedown of UCLA. Columbia and Harvard weren't the end; they were the beginning.
"Extortion" is the right word for these requests.
University of California President James Milliken said President Donald Trump’s proposal would “completely devastate” the system.
Murderbot really wants Verbal to be his BFF
If you think cuts to funding science is somehow caught up in the “culture wars that have nothing to do with science,” you are missing the point. The entire project of education as a public good is under threat, and a threat to one university is a threat to all. We have to stand together #UCLAResist
Headline writer finally gets it right: ‘Extortion’: Newsom Threatens to Sue After Trump Fines UCLA $1 Billion www.kqed.org/news/1205152...
University of California President James Milliken said President Donald Trump’s proposal would “completely devastate” the system.
What the FUCK?!
A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.
This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
The media needs to stop calling these “settlements.” They are extortion payments. UCLA did not do any damage to the federal government it doesn’t have to “settle” shit.
Huh? It's almost like if you payoff an illegal extortionist, they just keep asking for more... www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...
The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...
You may have noticed that I did not upload pika photos from my last trip to Rainier.
I want to assure you, my dedicated public, that this was not because I didn't take pika photos.
I remain committed to documenting North America's roundest boi.
I wonder what he refused to do.
President Trump is removing Billy Long from his job leading the Internal Revenue Service just two months after he was confirmed as commissioner.
Long, a former Republican congressman and staunch ally of Mr. Trump, is expected to be nominated to an ambassadorship.
The change comes just two months into the former Republican congressman’s tenure leading the tax agency.
🚨 New ep! We talk w/ Professor Kiley Hamlin (@jkileyhamlin.bsky.social) about her dev sci path, training w/ legends (Woodward, Wynn, Bloom, Santos), & her Nature Comms paper showing 5-day-olds prefer helpers over hinderers. Plus: reconciling ManyBabies & replication woes.
Only funding pet hypotheses favored by the government is how you end up with Lysenkoism.
(If you’re unfamiliar, it’s essentially a set of disproven ideas about plant growth that led to poor agriculture, famine, and the deaths of maybe 50 million people: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_...)
Further consolidating control over federal research funding under Russell Vought and a cadre of apparatchiks.
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