Senior writer @Chronicle, writing about scholarship, scholars, and society / stephanie.lee@chronicle.com / on Signal: stephaniemlee.07 / stephaniemlee.com
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NEW: I talked to Joseph Henrich about why he wanted to tackle the issue of politicization in anthropology for the Vanderbilt humanities commission, what he found out, and what he thought of my Q&A with the head of the American Anthropological Association. chronicle.com/article/the-ha…
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SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham.
I spent the last month investigating a massive academic scam, for @Nature
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Please everyone stop paying attention to the lesbian bar because … the final installment of Street Fight is out!
You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts!
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Please everyone stop paying attention to how AI might kill us because ... my first audio story is out!
The miniseries is called Street Fight. It's about a debate roiling American cities, especially on the West Coast: what do you do about a person who has nowhere to go and no intention of leaving?
Episode 1 covers the surprisingly modern history of homelessness in America, and tells the story of one woman who once fought for her right to live on a New York City sidewalk.
Give it a listen — and if you subscribe to Longview, you can get all three episodes right now:
open.spotify.com/episode/5oO…
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NEW: It’s hard enough to discourage students from using AI. It’s harder when the provost does it in his published work, faculty members said.
A look inside Dartmouth’s campus firestorm over its chief academic officer’s AI use. @chronicle @garrettshanley chronicle.com/article/dartmo…
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Remarkable reporting by @stephaniemlee:
A forthcoming book claims that a Smithsonian study has settled the debate about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. But a relative has dropped out of the research, concerned that the book is leapfrogging peer review by a scientific journal. chroni.cl/4yKiAA3
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SCOOP: A book out next week from the Smithsonian claims to settle the debate about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. But at the 11th hour, a Hemings relative who gave DNA to the study has dropped out. Her worry: the science in the book hasn't been vetted chronicle.com/article/the-sm…
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Sally Hemings’s Oldest Descendant Gave the Smithsonian Her DNA. She Says It Lost Her Trust. Another fascinating story by @stephaniemlee chronicle.com/article/the-sm…
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SCOOP: A book out next week from the Smithsonian claims to settle the debate about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. But at the 11th hour, a Hemings relative who gave DNA to the study has dropped out. Her worry: the science in the book hasn't been vetted chronicle.com/article/the-sm…
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HISTORY BY A HAIR will be published by Crown/Penguin Random House on 9/22. Praised by Jon Meacham and Annette Gordon-Reed, it claims to have "the first conclusive, scientifically validated answer" to the question of whether Jefferson had children w/Hemings penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
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Mary Brady-Atkins, Hemings’ great-great-great-granddaughter, told me she’s worried the book is being pushed out before its findings go through peer review — a big gamble for a family that’s already endured two centuries of speculation. Full story here: chronicle.com/article/the-sm…
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Please everyone stop paying attention to how AI might kill us because ... my first audio story is out!
The miniseries is called Street Fight. It's about a debate roiling American cities, especially on the West Coast: what do you do about a person who has nowhere to go and no intention of leaving?
Episode 1 covers the surprisingly modern history of homelessness in America, and tells the story of one woman who once fought for her right to live on a New York City sidewalk.
Give it a listen — and if you subscribe to Longview, you can get all three episodes right now:
open.spotify.com/episode/5oO…
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🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact.
Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Within days of Data Colada finding evidence of fraud in another Dan Ariely study, it's being retracted from Psychological Science chronicle.com/article/data-s…
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According to new documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, an undergraduate working with DOGE requested that his work for HUD count towards his University of Chicago degree. wired.com/story/doge-affilia…
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Incredible reporting: People are being held at SFO for a week or longer, with no access to attorneys, a bed or medical care. Some were driven in from other airports more than 100 miles away. Many are legal permanent residents. sfchronicle.com/politics/art…
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Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2
Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination (Ariely & Wertenbroch 2002)
datacolada.org/139
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Scoop: Records from one of the three public universities that received the compact last fall show communications between federal relations personnel at all nine recipients. chronicle.com/article/after-…
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An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data.
Post 1 of 2.
datacolada.org/138
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Scoop at @washingtonpost
A new coalition of 600-plus organizations — including preservationists, architects, Tribal nations and more — has formed to fight Trump's efforts to weaken protections for historic sites.
They say Congress has not done enough to resist planned changes.
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The University of Puerto Rico has spent a decade answering to a financial board appointed by the U.S. president.
Tensions are now coming to a head — and no one can agree on the solution.
My last as a summer intern for @chronicle :
chronicle.com/article/the-un…
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