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)}

Chess masters and physicists show how expertise, not innate talent, enables flexible thinking. For evaluating online info, that means knowing #history and civics.

A scholar explains: theconversation.com/why-histor…
@academicchatter #academicchatter @psychology

Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation

Critical thinking involves specific skills for assessing evidence, but background knowledge about the subject is also essential.

^{The Conversation}

That Nature - hardly a radical rag - is publishing this sort of piece speaks volumes. The Trump regime is coming for universities regardless of whether they push back, so why not resist?

nature.com/articles/d41586-025…

#HigherEd #academia #AcademicChatter #uspol

‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown

Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.

^{Calisi Rodríguez, Rebecca}