I have resigned as a reviewer for the Royal Society. I encourage others to do the same.

Dear editors,

Today I saw some news about the Royal Society which made me very uncomfortable. As a result, I am afraid I will withdraw my voluntary reviewing work for Royal Society. I will not after all be completing this review for Royal Society Open Science.

[The rest of the letter: mcld.co.uk/blog/2025/letter-to…]

#royalsociety #elonmusk #science #reviewing #academicchatter

It is more than just a warning sign when two experts on fascism (Snyder and Stanley) leave the US citing political developments - it's the canary fleeing the coalmine:

dailynous.com/2025/03/25/stanl…

When people like these leave, you know it's bad.

#uspol #academicchatter

Stanley from Yale to Toronto - Daily Nous

Jason Stanley, currently professor of philosophy at Yale University, will be moving to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto (with a partial appointment in Toronto's Department of Philosophy).

^{Justin Weinberg (Daily Nous)}