A leaked Israeli military intelligence database shows that by May 2025, only 17% of Palestinians killed in Gaza were identified fighters (8,900), while 83% of the 53,000 dead were civilians. This civilian death rate is among the highest in modern conflicts, comparable only to

If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes. It's 'holistic review' and 'ban SAT' policy that allows the most wealthy and

What did family trees look like in prehistory? Ancient DNA now lets us sample hundreds of people from a site, but pedigrees have been difficult to reconstruct. Our new tool “repare” finally enables automatic ancient pedigree reconstruction… more in the replies! ⬇️

Republican Members of Congress are no longer coming from elite institutions of higher education. Elite-educated legislators are more liberal. Important manifestation of the education divide between the parties & context for the current higher ed wars cambridge.org/core/journals/…

For years, our institutions of higher learning have exhibited dwindling student tolerance for opposing viewpoints. This year is the worst yet. The good news is that in this case, the problem points directly to the solution. My first for The Argument: theargumentmag.com/p/college-stud…

Ezra Klein on Charlie Kirk: “You can dislike much of what Kirk believed and the following statement is still true: Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him. He was one of the era’s most

There is no hate speech exception to the First Amendment. Nevertheless, the attorney general says "there's free speech, and then there's hate speech," and the government will "target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech." The attorney general would be

🙋‍♂️We will! We at FIRE will step up to defend the First Amendment. But we can't do it alone. We need individuals and institutions with spines, who won't capitulate, and who are willing to go to court to vindicate their rights and protect America's founding principles.

"The Censorship You Practice Today Will Be Used Against You Tomorrow," writes @thefireorg President Greg Lukianoff Greg Lukianoff nytimes.com/2025/09/23/opi…

X urges Governor Newsom to do the right thing by vetoing CA SB 771. The bill holds social media platforms liable for penalties if their algorithms facilitate “hateful” content. The California State Senate analysis clearly states “This violates the First Amendment rights of users

This is a must read substack article Excerpt “The most honest person I've met recently was a VP at a tech company who told me: "I manage a team of twelve people who create documents for other teams who create documents for senior leadership who don't read documents. I make

"AI isn't replacing radiologists" good article Expectation: rapid progress in image recognition AI will delete radiology jobs (e.g. as famously predicted by Geoff Hinton now almost a decade ago). Reality: radiology is doing great and is growing. There are a lot of imo naive

wrote today about how even if you've heard of Mississippi's surge in reading scores, you're probably underestimating it:

Well, this time it's by Terence Tao himself: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115306424…

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/germ…

The obsession with AI transformation obscures the fact that there are a ton of small, but positive and very meaningful, use cases across many fields. In this case, AI note-taking significantly reduces burnout among doctors & increases their ability to focus on their patients.

Great #ASHG2025 meeting in Boston this year!

New ad for an independent postdoc in mathematics/statistics/machine learning for Biology in my institute at RIKEN (not my lab), ranging from 3 to 7 years. Our institute is entirely English-run, and a good mix of expertise on maths/physics/stats/bio! riken.jp/en/careers/res…