Megan Chong

I had fun reading this one, Jackie! reminded me of this lil anecdote about how good humans are at imagining objects are conscious bsky.app/profile/greg...

find it remarkable that folks upload the unpublished, confidential work of others to those sites.

Some good advice in here but one critical piece I always give is this:

Get a hobby. Preferably a mildly social one. One that has NOTHING TO DO WITH SCIENCE. NOTHING.

You need friends. Not colleagues. FRIENDS. Friends who will love you no matter your research prospects...

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

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Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.

The Trump administration’s pressure on universities echoes past authoritarian efforts in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

A comparative and international education expert explains: buff.ly/zSTmtwz By @isilova.bsky.social, Arizona State 🗃️ #highered #edusky

A group of middle school girls playing with a Ouija board is more interesting than anything people have typed into ChatGPT.

What Denying Science Cost the Soviet Union  | Essay | Zócalo Public Square How scientific repression in the Soviet era impacted discovery, innovation, and individual scientists’ lives.

Trofim Lysenko's work was junk. But the promises he made about crop yields and his broad criticism of Western thought won over Stalin’s government. @mkchong.bsky.social, on the dangers of politicizing science. zps.la/4n2KceN

Headshots of the 2025 AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellows

This news is hot off the press! We are so excited to present the 2025 #MassMediaFellows! These 17 scientists will spend their summer writing, reporting, and working on their #SciComm skills in news outlets across the country! Learn more about the #MMF50th class here: www.aaas.org/news/aaas-ma...

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

It’s time to organize: “The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information.”

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Latest report from a highly credible source. An SRO issuing study section guidance to not address the Diversity Plan or include it in the impact score for a mechanism that required the plan to be included.

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing

Wadman and Kaiser are on it, over at ScienceInsider at the glam mag

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...