Paul Ward

A Permanent Stain on Our History The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive.

If the Trump administration’s sudden assault on thousands of foreign students legally studying at Harvard seems unprecedented, it’s because it is.

Federal judge temporarily halts Trump’s sweeping government overhaul at 20 agencies - NPR

The courage to be decent The Trump administration wants to make us too afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them.

"One of the primary goals of all authoritarian regimes is to make people reticent and fearful to engage in basic acts of decency and civic virtue. It’s important that we find the courage to keep doing these things."

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We are excited about our latest paper published in Nature Reviews Psychology:

Psychological Insights for Judging Expertise and Implications for Adversarial Legal Contexts

Read & share here: rdcu.be/edUCO

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AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

apnews.com/article/trum... AP back in the WH

I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.

Sagan’s warning for society! How right was he?

Dan Rather Shaded Trump With A “Turkish Proverb,” And It’s Gone Hugely Viral The veteran broadcast journalist shared one simple sentence on Facebook that got nearly a million likes and more than 60,000 comments.

The veteran broadcast journalist shared one simple sentence on Facebook that got nearly a million likes and more than 60,000 comments.

A liberal judge won the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Here’s what to know. Susan Crawford defeated conservative judge Brad Schimel, according to Associated Press projections, in a race that became a proxy war over President Trump’s agenda.

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NeuroAI and the hidden complexity of agency As we attempt to build autonomous AI systems, we’re discovering that a capability we take for granted in animals may be more complex than we imagined.

As we try to build artificial agents that can act independently in the real world … adapting their goals as needed, we are discovering that agency is far more complex than it appears, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social in our NeuroAI series.

#neuroskyence

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scienceimpacts.org Impact of cuts to NIH