Sam Wang
@samwang.bsky.social
Neurosciencer, democracy reform studier, plotter of data by hand as first step. At Princeton too. Long-form essays at samwang.substack.com.
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Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Jay Bhattacharya and Matthew Memoli aren't bringing "gold standard science" to the #NIH, they are gutting research slowly but surely. When this time is over, they should be hauled before Congress, and shunned for the rest of their lives. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Holy moly, this is good. The technical details are (chef’s kiss).
Gerrymander a l’oignon: theonion.com/earth-rumble...
Gerrymander a l’oignon: theonion.com/earth-rumble...
Earth Rumbles, Dishes Crash To Floor As Gerrymandering Rips Through House
SAN ANTONIO—With the GOP’s redrawn congressional maps taking effect across Texas, a local family reported Friday that the earth rumbled and dishes crashed to the floor as gerrymandering ripped through...
theonion.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Holy moly, this is good. The technical details are (chef’s kiss).
Gerrymander a l’oignon: theonion.com/earth-rumble...
Gerrymander a l’oignon: theonion.com/earth-rumble...
This is a lie. Impeachment resolutions can be brought to the floor at any time.
Tell your Congresscritter this. Call the US Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Tell your Congresscritter this. Call the US Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This is a lie. Impeachment resolutions can be brought to the floor at any time.
Tell your Congresscritter this. Call the US Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Tell your Congresscritter this. Call the US Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Holy moly, this is good. The technical details are (chef’s kiss).
Gerrymander a l’oignon: theonion.com/earth-rumble...
Gerrymander a l’oignon: theonion.com/earth-rumble...
Earth Rumbles, Dishes Crash To Floor As Gerrymandering Rips Through House
SAN ANTONIO—With the GOP’s redrawn congressional maps taking effect across Texas, a local family reported Friday that the earth rumbled and dishes crashed to the floor as gerrymandering ripped through...
theonion.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Holy moly, this is good. The technical details are (chef’s kiss).
Gerrymander a l’oignon: theonion.com/earth-rumble...
Gerrymander a l’oignon: theonion.com/earth-rumble...
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Grading standards are under the discretion of the instructor. Even if we try to be consistent, there is variation that leads to exceptional cases.
What we *don't* do is open our grade books to the Internet. It is totally out of line for any of us, or the president of OU, to go after this person.
What we *don't* do is open our grade books to the Internet. It is totally out of line for any of us, or the president of OU, to go after this person.
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Grading standards are under the discretion of the instructor. Even if we try to be consistent, there is variation that leads to exceptional cases.
What we *don't* do is open our grade books to the Internet. It is totally out of line for any of us, or the president of OU, to go after this person.
What we *don't* do is open our grade books to the Internet. It is totally out of line for any of us, or the president of OU, to go after this person.
Grading standards are under the discretion of the instructor. Even if we try to be consistent, there is variation that leads to exceptional cases.
What we *don't* do is open our grade books to the Internet. It is totally out of line for any of us, or the president of OU, to go after this person.
What we *don't* do is open our grade books to the Internet. It is totally out of line for any of us, or the president of OU, to go after this person.
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Grading standards are under the discretion of the instructor. Even if we try to be consistent, there is variation that leads to exceptional cases.
What we *don't* do is open our grade books to the Internet. It is totally out of line for any of us, or the president of OU, to go after this person.
What we *don't* do is open our grade books to the Internet. It is totally out of line for any of us, or the president of OU, to go after this person.
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The fact that the OU Psychology department gave the grad student a teaching award a day or so before the suspension is another tell. I’m surprised the social posts about it were up long enough to get cached by Google
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The fact that the OU Psychology department gave the grad student a teaching award a day or so before the suspension is another tell. I’m surprised the social posts about it were up long enough to get cached by Google
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New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
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Roosevelt and Truman defeated fascism, remade the world in America’s image, and renovated the White House, but they just weren’t up to making a ballroom. Skill issue.
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Roosevelt and Truman defeated fascism, remade the world in America’s image, and renovated the White House, but they just weren’t up to making a ballroom. Skill issue.
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This is a strategy for assaulting education, science, & other institutions:
1) Make a legitimate-sounding complaint (anti-semitism, anti-religious freedom);
2) Use complaint as cover to attack a broad category (academic freedom, vaccines, intellectual standards, trans people);
3) broaden the attack.
1) Make a legitimate-sounding complaint (anti-semitism, anti-religious freedom);
2) Use complaint as cover to attack a broad category (academic freedom, vaccines, intellectual standards, trans people);
3) broaden the attack.
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is a strategy for assaulting education, science, & other institutions:
1) Make a legitimate-sounding complaint (anti-semitism, anti-religious freedom);
2) Use complaint as cover to attack a broad category (academic freedom, vaccines, intellectual standards, trans people);
3) broaden the attack.
1) Make a legitimate-sounding complaint (anti-semitism, anti-religious freedom);
2) Use complaint as cover to attack a broad category (academic freedom, vaccines, intellectual standards, trans people);
3) broaden the attack.
This is a strategy for assaulting education, science, & other institutions:
1) Make a legitimate-sounding complaint (anti-semitism, anti-religious freedom);
2) Use complaint as cover to attack a broad category (academic freedom, vaccines, intellectual standards, trans people);
3) broaden the attack.
1) Make a legitimate-sounding complaint (anti-semitism, anti-religious freedom);
2) Use complaint as cover to attack a broad category (academic freedom, vaccines, intellectual standards, trans people);
3) broaden the attack.
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is a strategy for assaulting education, science, & other institutions:
1) Make a legitimate-sounding complaint (anti-semitism, anti-religious freedom);
2) Use complaint as cover to attack a broad category (academic freedom, vaccines, intellectual standards, trans people);
3) broaden the attack.
1) Make a legitimate-sounding complaint (anti-semitism, anti-religious freedom);
2) Use complaint as cover to attack a broad category (academic freedom, vaccines, intellectual standards, trans people);
3) broaden the attack.
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'Not to try to stop the reckless criminality of this administration is to collude in it. It is to accept the collapse of our experiment in republican self-government into rule by a lawless gang."
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
'Not to try to stop the reckless criminality of this administration is to collude in it. It is to accept the collapse of our experiment in republican self-government into rule by a lawless gang."
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The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
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The U.S. president speaks and relates information like a mentally disabled person or a person with a head injury. I will never understand how this is not front-page, top-of-the-hour news.
Reporter: Governor Walz called for the release of your MRI results
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
Trump: They were perfect like my phone call where I got impeached.
Reporter: Can you tell us what they were looking at?
Trump: I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain because I took a cognitive test and aced it.
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The U.S. president speaks and relates information like a mentally disabled person or a person with a head injury. I will never understand how this is not front-page, top-of-the-hour news.
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BTW: Everyone who orders anything from our store gets a free whistle. Comes in handy this winter. Because ice is everywhere.
Perfect gift for sci-fi film buffs. Tech Noir focuses on James Cameron's development as a visual artist, from childhood sketches to designs for Roger Corman to his own work as a Hollywood director. Huge book, BTW. You might even say it's...titanic. mzs.press/Tech-Noir-Th...
Tech Noir: The Art of James Cameron by James Cameron (Hardcover, NEW)
Explore the creative evolution of James Cameron through this exclusive journey into his personal art archives, showcasing a range of rare and never-before-seen works from the acclaimed director’s priv...
mzs.press
December 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
BTW: Everyone who orders anything from our store gets a free whistle. Comes in handy this winter. Because ice is everywhere.
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BTW: Everyone who orders anything from our store gets a free whistle. Comes in handy this winter. Because ice is everywhere.
We are down to our last 5 copies of Worlds Beyond Time, a gorgeous coffee table book that collects paintings commissioned for the covers of 1970s sci-fi paperbacks. Categories include spaceships, alien landscapes, fantasy realms, cryptozoology, and heavy machinery.
mzs.press/Worlds-Beyon...
mzs.press/Worlds-Beyon...
Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s by Adam Rowe (Hardcover, NEW)
Worlds Beyond Time is the definitive visual history of the spaceships, alien landscapes, cryptozoology, and imagined industrial machinery of 1970s paperback sci-fi art and the artists who created thes...
mzs.press
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
BTW: Everyone who orders anything from our store gets a free whistle. Comes in handy this winter. Because ice is everywhere.
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Pope Leo XIV calls creation of Palestinian state “the only solution” to Israeli–Palestinian conflict
youtu.be/pTSUl6BW_3k
youtu.be/pTSUl6BW_3k
Pope Leo XIV calls creation of Palestinian state “the only solution” to Israeli–Palestinian conflict
YouTube video by ONEST
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Pope Leo XIV calls creation of Palestinian state “the only solution” to Israeli–Palestinian conflict
youtu.be/pTSUl6BW_3k
youtu.be/pTSUl6BW_3k
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The next Dem president is going to need to sign on to the Rome statute and accept some international warrants
If Trump pardons him, the next Dem president should just Kavanaugh Stop him and drop him off in The Hague.
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The next Dem president is going to need to sign on to the Rome statute and accept some international warrants
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2028: "Strong rope, no floor"
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
2028: "Strong rope, no floor"
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If you need a ride to the polls in Tennessee on Tuesday to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social , you can contact RideShare2Vote by calling 888-977-2250 or go to booking.rides2vote.com
Indivisible TN will also be helping with rides, and you can email them here: [email protected]
Indivisible TN will also be helping with rides, and you can email them here: [email protected]
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 AM
If you need a ride to the polls in Tennessee on Tuesday to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social , you can contact RideShare2Vote by calling 888-977-2250 or go to booking.rides2vote.com
Indivisible TN will also be helping with rides, and you can email them here: [email protected]
Indivisible TN will also be helping with rides, and you can email them here: [email protected]
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Both taken this weekend:
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Both taken this weekend:
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*Leading Parkinson's Doctor visits Biden WH to discuss policy* Media: AAAAAAAHAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
*Trump's Doctor's keep sticking his head in an MRI and asking him dementia screening questions* Media: I sleep.
*Trump's Doctor's keep sticking his head in an MRI and asking him dementia screening questions* Media: I sleep.
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
*Leading Parkinson's Doctor visits Biden WH to discuss policy* Media: AAAAAAAHAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
*Trump's Doctor's keep sticking his head in an MRI and asking him dementia screening questions* Media: I sleep.
*Trump's Doctor's keep sticking his head in an MRI and asking him dementia screening questions* Media: I sleep.