Jay D. Aronson

Federal funding for science ensures that scientific agendas respond to the wants and needs of scientists and the public. We do not want to live in a society where the scientific agenda is set by a handful of billionaires.

Bottom line: scientific knowledge ought to be understood as a PUBLIC GOOD and treated it as such!! Let’s not (re)privatize science!

Quite the gut punch from Tressie McMillan Cottom: I Believed in the Promise of Hillman College. What Happened? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/o...

I wrote a response in Everything is Political to Dr. Dre's and Jimmy Iovine's recent New York Times interview about their views on generative artificial intelligence. Gen AI is not like a beat machine! everythingispolitical.com/readings/don...

The Ethicist | As part of a feud with my neighbor, I reported her Guatamalan gardener to ICE. I've since learned they shipped him to Central African Republic—not what I'd intended. Given my anguish, can I now claim my Pomeranian as an emotional support dog that can sit with me in First Class?

attracting media attention with "stunts" was literally the entire core of the civil rights movement. visuals of cops and other officials harassing, beating, killing organizers was pivotal. the civil rights movement would have gone wild for selfies and tweets.

After controversy and national headlines, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation walked away from a $29.9 million ICE contract. Reflecting on the decision, Tribal Chairman Rupnick said “Indian reservations were the United States government's first attempt at a detention center."

PACER is stupidly expensive when it doesn't need to be, and now the per-page fees are increasing by 20%. free.law/2026/10/21/p...

Red light cameras and speed enforcement cameras are good technologies so long as they are well-regulated and privacy protecting.

✨Your Daily Reminder✨: We don't have to build technology to surveil and kill. We can build technology that helps us fight for a better future.

Reminder that Burrow has good politics.

BREAKING: Another person has died in ICE custody, the 27th such death in 2026 and the 60th since Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are under scrutiny for copyright and human rights violations, unjust labor practices, unsustainable energy and water use, and the deployment of AI hacking systems. Can an academic use such a tool without breaching the Transparency and Responsibility principles?

This means that when a university recommends a GenAI tool or even licenses it to their researchers or students (aspiring researchers), they need to show that the tool does not infringe on academic integrity principles by design. Will tools like ChatGPT and Claude pass that test? ⬇️

In the duty of care section of the Code, universities are not only urged to make clear guidelines on how researchers can use AI in alignment with the Code but also what technologies align with it. ⬇️

The new Dutch Code of Conduct for Research Integrity has launched and it includes new sections about AI in research. These could have big consequences for how Dutch universities adopt GenAI in research and education. www.knaw.nl/en/publicati... ⬇️

Book launch - 17th November 5pm, Belfast I will be launching my new book - Algorithms of War: The Human Cost of AI in Conflict (Bristol) with No Alibis selling discounted copies! @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social @qublaw.bsky.social www.qub.ac.uk/events/whats...

SCOTUS making its first move to go after race-neutral high school admissions standards:

El-Sayed must listen to Obama speeches when he lifts. They sound so similar.

17 octobre : Perpignan

[writing an op-ed in the campus paper about the importance of keeping compressed air thrusters human-centered]

I’m thrilled to announce three new professorships in compressed air thruster ethics, compressed air thruster policy, and social impact of compressed air thrusters. we are also headhunting a Vice Provost of Thrust

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

Time for an era of tech trust-busting?

The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history. No Kings. No Courtiers.

A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months in protest. This week, she was arrested for disorderly conduct

Ysabel Yates'... I mean Cookie Monster's superb takedown of why GenAI in the workplace sucks.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

The ACLU, Protect Democracy, and other organizations are representing researchers in a class action lawsuit alleging the NIH is infringing on their freedom of speech by screening grants for certain words and viewpoints when making funding decisions. We hear from one of the plaintiffs. #STATSummit

Thinking still more about the AI booster discourse that tries to undermine critical work on the topic by saying "They don't even use it, how can they possibly know what they're talking about." >>

This whole thread is amazing on so many levels!

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

REVEALED: The Trump administration gave almost $13 million in family planning grants to anti-abortion physicians. More than $8 million went to projects led by a Pennsylvania doctor who recently said girls should think about future pregnancies as young as 8 years old. scoop by @garnethenderson.com

CATO has a “Government Ownership Dashboard”: “.. 35 equity-stake deals since last June.” @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cato.org/restoring-fr...

I recently reviewed the excellent book, Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement by @chriswblackwell.bsky.social & Deborah Zalesne, with contributions from Terry Kuypers & Kwaneta Harris, for @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social. @plutopress.bsky.social pghrev.com/ending-solit...

Do this and more. More! prospect.org/2026/10/13/t...

The administration has targeted hundreds of thousands of immigrants with arrests, detention, and deportations, often openly defying court orders and even constitutional safeguards to wreak havoc and invoke fear.

At least eight people have been killed on the streets by DHS agents since the beginning of Trump’s second term, at least 57 have died in immigration detention, and thousands have been “disappeared” within the shadowy detention network or to places abroad.