It’s Stanford time, baby: 8-hour time-restricted press releases linked to a 91% higher risk of hype

You and the blog readers might find this interesting: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/8-hour-time-restricted-eating-linked-to-a-91-higher-risk-of-cardiovascular-death.

W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data

W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own promise.

Trust Conference - Thomson Reuters Foundation

Trust Conference is a global forum dedicated to tackling critical issues at the intersection of media, law and business. Apply for your free ticket today.

Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026)

A pilot assessment of rogue deployment risk at frontier AI companies. Starting in February 2026, METR conducted a pilot exercise to assess misalignment risks from AI agents used inside frontier AI developers, with participation from Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI.

STAT

Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine

Can we measure trust in scientific publications? - LSE Impact

Jonathon Alexis Coates outlines how a constellation of static and dynamic indicators could provide a means for assessing the trustworthiness of published research

The Maple (@readthemaple.com)

Canadian news & opinion that confronts the status quo. 100% reader-funded & independent. Edited by @alex.readthemaple.com & @davide.readthemaple.com Website: https://www.readthemaple.com/ Email list: http://www.readthemaple.com/signup-bluesky/

The Four Big Risks | Silicon Valley Product Group

In the first edition of my book, INSPIRED, I discussed how successful products are valuable, usable and feasible, where I defined “valuable” as both valuable to customers and valuable to your business.  While it’s easy to remember these three attributes, over the years I’ve come to believe that it was obscuring some pretty serious risks and...

Community newsletters rating | Notion

Here is where you can read some great stuff about community 🤩

Media Influence Matrix – The World's Most Reliable Influence Tracker

This week’s edition reads five FY2025 reports against each other: Dnevnik (Slovenia), Delfi Latvia, Phoenix New Media (China), Hanza Media (Croatia) and Digi Communications (Romania). It finds two publishers separating their journalism from their balance sheets, a Croatian publisher closing a 35-year-old political weekly on a 1.1% net margin, a Chinese state-linked digital news group whose financial centre has quietly shifted from advertising to mini-program reading apps, and a Romanian telecom giant’s having its news channel walk off the must-carry list.

The Art of Taking Smart Risks

Good risk can bring joy to life, but Americans are up against forces that profit from the reckless kind.

The Realization Effect: Risk-Taking after Realized versus Paper Losses

Understanding how prior outcomes affect risk attitudes is critical for the study of choice under uncertainty. A large literature documents the significant influence of prior losses on risk attitudes. The findings appear contradictory: some studies find greater risk-taking after a loss, whereas others show the opposite—that people take on less risk. I reconcile these seemingly inconsistent findings by distinguishing between realized versus paper losses. Using new and existing data, I replicate prior findings and demonstrate that following a realized loss, individuals avoid risk; if the same loss is not realized, a paper loss, individuals take on greater risk.