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Opinion | This Is What Will Ruin Public Opinion Polling for Good
Instead of navigating the obstacles to conduct polls with human respondents, pollsters are running A.I. simulations instead. Why?

Brandon Yates on Twitter / X
I wrote a cosmology paper that's under peer review.I can't post it to arXiv because I don't have a university affiliation.If any of you happen to have published in astro-ph. CO, gr-qc, or hep-ph and can endorse me, I'd owe you one.#AcademicTwitter #PhysicsTwitter #Cosmology…— Brandon Yates (@bmichaelyates) March 13, 2026
The case for a validity layer in life science research
When OpenAI recently announced that one of its models had disproved a long-standing conjecture in discrete geometry, the scientific community took notice...

Quantum Leap: Google Claims Its New Quantum Computer Provides Evidence That We Live In A Multiverse
Google's quantum computer, Willow, suggests evidence for a multiverse by leveraging computations across parallel universes.
Polls For ActivityPub
Fediverse compatible polls. The development of this plugin was funded by the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet.

Polls (/c/Polls) - OddsRabbit
This community is just for polls - polls on literally anything your heart desires! Ask all the multiple choice questions you can think of!

Do AI and bogus respondents threaten polling’s future?
Courtney Kennedy, vice president of methods and innovation, answers some common questions about the current polling landscape in the U.S.

Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it
Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…

poll.blue — polls for the Atmosphere
Create polls on Bluesky. Sign in with your account, post a poll, and watch the results roll in.
poll.blue — polls for the Atmosphere
Create polls on Bluesky. Sign in with your account, post a poll, and watch the results roll in.
The Ambidextrous Universe
The Ambidextrous Universe is a popular science book by Martin Gardner, covering aspects of symmetry and asymmetry in human culture, science and the wider universe. It culminates in a discussion of whether nature's conservation of parity is ever violated, which had been proven experimentally in 1956.

Is the Multiverse in the Mind or is the Mind in the Multiverse? with Bernard Carr
Plaudit — How to Give More Than One Like to a Scientific Article | Challenges and Issues of Modern Science
Is it possible to give more than one like on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other social networks? Have you ever wanted, just once, to “like with both hands”? If so — your wish has come true on the platform of our journal Challenges and Issues of Modern Science.
Why do people trust physicists and biologists more than economists or sociologists? In a new paper out in Public Understanding of Science, @hugoreasoning.bsky.social and I argue that it has to do with perceived precision and consensus. doi.org/10.1177/09636625261471051
Sciences perceived as precise and consensual are more trusted - Jan Pfänder, Hugo Mercier, 2026
doi.orgDo we have a standard poll lexicon? Feel like I saw a @lexicon.community one floated?