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🚨 WOW — UT Knoxville college republicans oppose Trump’s war with Iran

The impacts of Trump's attacks on science can be found in every nook and cranny of the discovery pipeline. This chart from @joshuasweitz.bsky.social shows that even with a funding INCREASE in 2026, LESS SCIENCE is being funded.

That means fewer cures and treatments.

#standupforscience

It's our turn.

10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.

Love Dolly Parton!

we dont have the money for universal health care but we have tons of money for concentration camps and a surveillance society

Great goals

In 2015 the Open Science Collaboration (OSC) (Nosek et al 2015) published a highly influential paper which claimed that a large fraction of published results in the psychological sciences were not reproducible. In this article we review this claim from several points of view. We first offer an extended analysis of the methods used in that study. We show that the OSC methodology induces a bias that is able by itself to explain the discrepancy between the OSC estimates of reproducibility and other more optimistic estimates made by similar studies. The article also offers a more general literature review and discussion of reproducibility in experimental science. We argue, for both scientific and ethical reasons, that a considered balance of false positive and false negative rates is preferable to a single-minded concentration on false positive rates alone.

Overestimated effect sizes and underestimated power explain the Open Science Collaboration's (2015) low reproducibility rates.

Preprint by Almudevar & Almudevar (2026): arxiv.org/abs/2602.15697

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”

You can’t trust chatbots.

So true

Couldn’t agree more. Ms. Hart doesn’t understand what a book is.

Oh APA, I hope one day you will learn there are things more important than money

Thanks for posting

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

Awesome

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread

#KirbyFraming

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nursesonja • 7h & Threads Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control. This is about total control. O240 Q5 G34 → 21

The nurses are pissed

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

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This is a great list! I'm impressed with how much independent, nonprofit journalism that Minnesota has!

They want you to stop being community. Go community harder.

Josh Johnson thoughtfully explains how change happens when people do something and don’t simply comply.

Grateful Dead – One More Saturday Night (Tivoli Concert Hall 4/17/72) | Meet Up At The Movies 2022 YouTube video by Grateful Dead

RIP to one of the greatest American rock musicians of all time, Bob Weir. One more Saturday night, my friend.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing.

You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics.

That is all.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Donate to Anishnaabe elder Strong Heart Bear find accessible housing, organized by Daphne Dean For the past 35 years, Anishinaabe elder Strong Heart Bear has … Daphne Dean needs your support for Anishnaabe elder Strong Heart Bear find accessible housing

My friend, Daniel Hull, a respected Anishnaabe elder, is losing his housing in a few days because his rental property has been sold. I hope you will consider donating to his Gofundme.
Thank you 🙏

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There are dozens of reasons other than “not good enough” that one person is selected/succeeds in a very competitive field. There’s often almost no difference between #1 and #4 or even #34. On a different day…different results. In many spaces, what we need is more room for more people to succeed.