Important thread fr Dr. Daniel Swain . Quick responses: 1. The need must be framed to benefit funders, not simply be altruistic. 2. That means a funder that is brand savvy. 3. If brand-savvy places like Arizona State or MacArthur don't, no hope the others will.

Science+Story: The Fetishization of Clarity in Science Communications scienceplusstory.substack.com/p/the-fetishiz…

Science+Story: One Bad Habit Twitter Has Left Researchers scienceplusstory.substack.com/p/one-bad-habi…

A nice summary thread that would have been nicer had the articles been in front of the paywall.

It’s an exciting morning! The #TIME100 list of the Most Influential People in the world is out, and I’m deeply proud and humbled to be included. I’m so grateful to my friend Bryan Stevenson Equal Justice Initiative for the kind tribute he wrote for this issue of TIME: ti.me/406ExHV

Major congrats to Rose M. Mutiso, whose work at Mawazo Institute and Energy for Growth Hub was just recognized with the McGuire Family Prize for Societal Impact by Dartmouth 🌲! 🎉 home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023/04/r…

Question: How should research experts guarantee their authenticity in a "Zero Trust Information" environment? If almost all content is fake, how do you guarantee yours is real (& thus authoritative)? stratechery.com/2023/ai-nil-an… via Stratechery

"A policy to deny Africa the same flexibility that rich countries afford themselves simply seems obscene." Congrats Jacob Kincer & @vijramachandran foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/12/afr…

yup.

Brilliant, necessary piece. We need more of these.

A scandal that this piece hasn't gotten more attention. Among the many money quotes from Leigh Phillips 🇨🇦: "Apart from its relative novelty, A/C is morally no different from clothing and fire."

I feel this exact way about researchers sometimes.

One of the very best & most interesting science communicators is exploring self-supporting models for his content. Please feed in if interested. (I vote Substack for his platform, FWIW.)

My latest: scienceplusstory.substack.com/p/just-experti…

“I hear people talking about going on a vacation or something and I think, what is that about? I have no desire to go on a trip. My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold and anything else is just a waste of time.” --Cormac McCarthy

Well this looks great. New left print magazine that rejects the current fad for small-is-beautiful, localism, decentralization, deindustrialization, anti-extraction etc and actually wants to make stuff and build things, to produce so much more than capitalism can.

I see a of people using ChatGPT to generate recipes. Amateurs. "Code Interpreter, here are academic papers on food flavor combinations and a database of 1,200 recipes, Do analyses & generate the ultimate unique recipe." Spiced Espresso Poached Pears with Cocoa-Almond Sauce👇

Especially smart edition of Tusk on why the GOP will not turn from Trump, fr Seth Masket open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p/t…

A little late, but every day is Earth Day & every day seems to spew forth more leftist eco-austerity, degrowth, anti-nuclearism etc.

Academics: "As you will clearly observe in the following figure..." The figure: