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Jason Stockwell
@dvm-uvm.bsky.social
about 1 hour ago
Univ of Vermont Rubenstein School is hiring an Endowed Associate or Full Professorship to work at the interface of science, policy, and renewable energy systems. Details here: www.uvmjobs.com/postings/… @gundinstitute.bsky.social

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David Blittersdorf Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy

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Canterbury Centre for Policing Research
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about 2 hours ago
Cant, S. and Makinde, M. (2025). 'Keeping streets safe at night: Navigating jurisdictional boundaries between the police and the private security industry.' Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice. lnkd.in/eFMvHPub

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James Steele
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about 2 hours ago
Almost a year to the day after pre-registering we've now pre-printed it revealing much the same conclusion albeit with a bit more fancy analyses (Bayesian arm-based multiple condition comparison meta-analysis with informative priors to compare both mean REE, and between person SDs in REE). 🧵3/7
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Context: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is common in reproductive-age women, who often have higher BMI classification. This is assumed to stem from lower resting energy expenditure (REE), influencing lifestyle intervention guidelines. However, evidence for reduced REE in women with PCOS compared with those without is inconsistent. Objective: To systematically search and meta-analyse the existing literature to estimate and describe the difference in REE between women with and without PCOS. Data Sources: A systematic search was conducted using PubMed, Medline and Web of Science databases of published research from January 1990 to January 2025. Study Selection: Studies that measured REE in women living with PCOS, both with and without control arms of women without PCOS, were included. Data Extraction: Bibliometric, demographic, and REE data was extracted by one investigator and checked in triplicate. Data Synthesis: Thirteen studies were included in a Bayesian arm-based multiple condition comparison (i.e., network) type meta-analysis model with informative priors to compare both mean REE, and between person variation in REE, between women with and without PCOS. Mean REE differed between groups by 30 kcal/day [95% quantile interval: -47 to 113 kcal/day] and the contrast ratio for between person standard deviations was 0.98 [95% quantile interval: 0.71 to 1.33]. Conclusions: These findings indicate that REE does not meaningfully differ between women with and without PCOS. Group-level differences in resting energy expenditure are small, insignificant, or not physiologically relevant.
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Frontiers
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about 3 hours ago
Sir Peter Gluckman, President of the International Science Council, joins Frontiers Science House to champion evidence-based leadership and strengthen the relationship between science, policy, and global decision-making. Learn more ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/Science-House #FrontiersScienceHouse #WEFDavos
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Osteoporosis NL
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about 5 hours ago
Knowledge mapping of osteoporotic fractures: a bibliometric analysis from 2014 to 2024. Renwei Cao et al. Arch Osteoporos 4 Dec 2025 shorturl.at/aAalh ....overview of historical and current research and also highlights interdisciplinary integration and emerging hotspots
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International Network for Governmental Science Advice (INGSA)
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Next week the 2nd European #ScienceDiplomacy Conference kicks off in Copenhagen. Fuly hybrid, join all sessions online - including a session involving a Vatican Cardinal, a freelance artist, and a Director of the WHO! See the full agenda now: buff.ly/CPLWiIk #FMSTAN #INGSAEurope #FMSTAN #Scipol
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arXiv cs.DL Digital Libraries
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about 6 hours ago
Max Martin Gnewuch, Jan Philip Wahle, Terry Ruas, Bela Gipp: Big Tech-Funded AI Papers Have Higher Citation Impact, Greater Insularity, and Larger Recency Bias arxiv.org/abs/2512.05714 arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05714 arxiv.org/html/2512.05714
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@ajsdecepida.bsky.social
about 8 hours ago
🔃 {𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿} My notes about the article… ⤵
{𝗮𝙅𝙎𝘿} My notes about the article…
How realistic is Bessent’s 3% GDP boast?
Bessent’s headline claim is clear: after ❝4% GDP growth in a couple of quarters❞, the U.S. will still finish 2025 with 3% real GDP growth, shutdown or not.1
He is talking about real GDP, and the natural interpretation —given the way officials usually discuss these figures— is either calendar-year 2025 growth versus 2024, or the Q4-over-Q4 change. He offers no clarification, which lets a politically convenient big round number do most of the work.
On the hard data, the picture is much more uneven than his soundbite suggests. BEA figures show real GDP fell at a -0.6% annualised rate in Q1 2025, then rebounded to +3.8% in Q2.2
The Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model has been tracking Q3 in the mid-3s (around 3.5-3.8% SAAR in recent updates), implying decent but not runaway momentum.3
For Q4, the New York Fed Staff Nowcast currently points to roughly 1.7% growth (annualised), with a wide uncertainty band that runs well below 3%.4
Put together: one negative quarter, one strong quarter, one solid but not stellar quarter, and a nowcast that looks more like a soft landing than a boom.
Mainstream forecasts for full-year 2025 are nowhere near 3%. The IMF’s October 2025 World Economic Outlook projects U.S. real growth of about 2.0% in 2025.5
The OECD’s December Economic Outlook likewise pegs U.S. 2025 growth at 2.0%, even after upgrading on the back of AI-driven investment and expected Fed rate cuts.6
The Congressional Budget Office’s 2025-2035 baseline has calendar-year 2025 growth around 1.9%.7
A detailed macro forecast from the University of Michigan’s RSQE is even more downbeat, with calendar-year 2025 real GDP growth at roughly 1.7%.8
So Bessent is not just a bit above consensus; he is pitching a number roughly a full percentage point above what most serious forecasters see.
Mathematically, that gap is non-trivial. With Q1 already in the red and Q2/Q3 running in the mid-3s annualised, hitting 3% for the whole year would require both:
a Q4 growth rate far stronger than the New York Fed’s current ~1.7% nowcast; and
favourable revisions that pull the already-published quarters higher still.2
In other words, you’d need the economy to keep running hot and the statisticians to announce that it was even hotter than we thought — a possible scenario, but not the base case implied by the models.
What Bessent does have going for him is a strong cyclical rebound after a tariff-distorted Q1 and a genuine AI-and-investment tailwind that organisations like the OECD and IMF acknowledge.6
But both sets of institutions explicitly treat 2%-ish U.S. growth as ❝good given the circumstances❞, not as a springboard to 3% trend-busting expansion. They also flag downside risks from tariffs, fiscal fragility, and
global demand.6
Politically, the 3% figure does exactly what the administration needs. It lets Bessent argue that voters❛ pain is mostly ❝vibes❞ —media narrative, Democratic ❝scarcity❞, and lagging perceptions— rather than a structural squeeze on affordability.1
If he conceded a more modest 1.7-2.0% trajectory, he’d be admitting that growth under Trump’s second term is broadly in line with standard post-pandemic recoveries, not some historic boom that justifies calling ❝affordability❞ a scam.
On the evidence available as of 07-Dec-2025, the clean verdict is: Bessent’s 3% boast is optimistic political marketing, not a central forecast grounded in the data
It is not mathematically impossible, especially if Q4 surprises on the upside and earlier quarters are revised up, but it is well above what independent models and institutions currently consider likely.
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1	❝Transcript: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on ❜Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,’❞ Dec. 7, 2025 — CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-bessent-treasury-secretary-face-the-nation-transcript-12-07-2025/
2	❝Gross Domestic Product︱U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)❞ — https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product
3	❝Archive of Past GDPNow Commentaries❞ — https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow/archives
4	❝New York Fed Staff Nowcast❞ — https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/policy/nowcast
5	❝World Economic Outlook, October 2025; Chapter 1❞ — https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/weo/2025/october/english/ch1.pdf
6	❝Tariffs, AI boom could test global growth’s resilience, OECD says︱Reuters❞ — https://www.reuters.com/world/china/tariffs-ai-boom-could-test-global-growths-resilience-oecd-says-2025-12-02/
7	❝The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2025 to 2035❞ — https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60870
8	❝The U.S. Economic Outlook for 2025-2027❞ — https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/econ-assets/Econdocs/RSQE%20PDFs/RSQE_US_Forecast_August2025.pdf
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Kathy Rest
@kathyrest.bsky.social
about 15 hours ago
Science, Policy, and Other News that Caught My Eye. A shameful week in which our President called the Somali people "garbage." open.substack.com/pub/sci….
Science, Policy, and Other News that Caught My Eye

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HAKAN YILMAZKUDAY
@yilmazkuday.bsky.social
about 15 hours ago
"Welfare costs of travel reductions within the United States due to COVID‐19" is available at the Regional Science Policy & Practice: doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12440
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The American Association of Immunologists
@aai.org
about 20 hours ago
Are you passionate about immunology and ready to gain hands-on advocacy experience? The AAI PPFP 2026-27 is about more than understanding science policy—it's about making scientists heard. www.aai.org/Public-Affair….
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michael ◉●○•°
@ontopunk.bsky.social
about 21 hours ago
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem services (IPBES): “the rate of global change in nature during the past 50 years is unprecedented in human history”
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Peldrigal
@peldrigal.bsky.social
about 23 hours ago
Around 2005 IBM Italy people tried to persuade us, a group of visiting SciPol students , that Second Life was the future, and a "Second Life strike" of their employees was somehow relevant. We told them to their faces that they were wrong. Happy of having been right.
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UCL Institute of Education
@ioe.bsky.social
about 24 hours ago
Why do science-policy organisations (SPOs) matter in policymaking? SPOs can • act as a bridge between research and policy • translate evidence into actionable insights • ensure policies are rooted in robust research Jessica Ko reflects on the IOE blog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/….
Bridging research and policy: the role of science-policy organisations in evidence-informed policymaking

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Bridging research and policy: the role of science-policy organisations in evidence-informed policymaking

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Opportunities For Youth(OFY)
@ofygh.bsky.social
1 day ago
Democracy Fellowship in Sudan 9-month program for young Sudanese public figures to build research & policy-writing skills. Grants up to $1,600 available. Deadline: Dec 14, 2025 👉 Apply: wp.me/p23f03-hMa
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Philip Williams
@philipwilliams.bsky.social
1 day ago
Who is shaping the discourse on presence in virtual reality, and what have they been saying? Interact with the information maps here: www.presenceinvr.com . Mapping 6636 articles from over 30 years of Presence in VR research. Download: www.frontiersin.org/journ…. #VRcademicSky #bibliometrics
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Matt Hodgkinson
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1 day ago
Publish or perish has become publish and we all perish. The silver lining of generative AI has been to show up our broken research evaluation systems. www.theguardian.com/techn…
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Shahan Ali Memon
@shahanmemon.bsky.social
1 day ago
Absolutely crazy but not surprising at all on how GenAI is affecting our information ecosystem. A year ago, I came across a similar example of a preprint that was full of hallu-citations (linking it in the thread) #SciSci

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

The Psychological Impact of Digital Isolation: How AI-Driven Social Interactions Shape Human Behavior and Mental Well-Being
Felix Eling
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Apr 30, 2025
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The Psychological Impact of Digital Isolation: How AI-Driven Social Interactions Shape Human Behavior and Mental Well-Being

Felix Eling

Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Gulu College of Health Sciences, Gulu City, Northern Uganda

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.47772/IJRISS.2025.90400265

Received: 13 March 2025; Revised: 22 March 2025; Accepted: 25 March 2025; Published: 30 April 2025

ABSTRACT
The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in social interactions has transformed how humans experience companionship, communication, and mental well-being. This review examines the psychological impact of AI-driven social interactions, focusing on virtual assistants, AI chatbots, and digital companions. It explores the benefits, risks, and ethical concerns associated with AI companionship. A systematic review methodology was employed, detailing inclusion criteria, databases searched, and analysis techniques. Findings suggest that while AI can offer emotional relief and support, over-reliance may disrupt real-world social bonding. Ethical concerns such as data privacy, emotional manipulation, and regulatory gaps are highlighted. The study underscores the need for balanced AI integration in human socialization. The study also addresses gaps in previous literature by examining AI’s influence on different demographic groups and cultural contexts.
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CCR Feline Research Center
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1 day ago
Do you have experience with VOSviewer (or similar) and are you interested in helping us visualize citation networks as part of our systematic review? Please get in touch with Sebastiaan via [email protected]. Co-authorship is possible. #VOSviewer #citationnetworks #bibliometrics
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Dr. Katharine Dickson
@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social
2 days ago
I’m trying to do more networking and outreach, and get my work seen by more people. I need strategies, routines, or scaffolding that let me stay visible without burning out. If you’ve figured out how to maintain consistent presence online without exhausting yourself, I’d love to hear how. #scipol
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