Reposted by Alejandro SchulerCasey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle. 92001701
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerMelissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer. 131218253
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerAdam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute 121761293
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.curbed.comThe Look Book Goes to the First Day of PreschoolThe city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center. 12386871525
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong. 92220171
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age. 1128247
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerHackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Eerste van der Helststraat, Amsterdam, in 1982 and today. A street once dominated by parked cars to a car free place for people, with children playing, greenery and cafés making use of reclaimed outdoor space. This is what’s possible when we choose to redesign our streets for life, not storage. 39231
Reposted by Alejandro Schulerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress? 430103801921
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerSam @samd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026the fact that the NTSB is conducting a federal safety investigation of the helicopter crash, but nobody is going to do anything about the original deadly car crash, really shows just how few fucks our country gives about every day traffic violence that kills 40k people every year 1142770
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them. 5276110
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerChristopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 13/09/2026If the Speaker feels they don’t have enough expertise there’s a way to bring it back - The Office of Technology Assessment! www.liberalcurrents.com/congress-nee...liberalcurrents.comCongress Needs Its Tech Experts BackIf Congress is to tackle issues from DOGE sabotage to AI to social media, it needs to resurrect its Office of Technology Assessment. 1331183
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerJeremy Sheff @jnsheff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The first element of this strategy (external private monitors against systemic social risk) was tried in the aughts with credit rating agencies in the mortgage-backed securities market. It failed. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...darioamodei.comDario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier 111641
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question” 171996343
Reposted by Alejandro Schulerwho let the duck in @technoduck.me · 10/09/2026WE GOT ANOTHER TAO THREAD mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172441...mathstodon.xyzTerence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)"Toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants. (Mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent.)" [All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.] Antoine de Saint-Exupér... 0115
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move 963536567
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026shades of 0182
Reposted by Alejandro Schuler"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026May I politely suggest that the correct response to people voting for fascists is not, "how can we feel their pain and listen?" but "what the hell is wrong with these arrogant fools?" The latter is still a quest for understanding, but in the correct frame, I think. 15830153
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...dukechronicle.com‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraudNew evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ... 502489756
Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026These are people whose goal is to publish, not to help patients. 000
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerKent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Blue state AGs should be warning postal officials that they will face felony prosecution for election interference for any legal ballots diverted and not delivered. Separate felony counts for every single ballot mishandled and not delivered. We would expect no less if private citizens stole ballots 214538
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I can't say what I want to say, but I'm just noting the ongoing attempts to "take down" Black academics with plagiarism accusations, while *gestures* this seems to have minimal career or reputational impacts 216162
Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The argument that unions destroy this relationship misunderstands that a contract is a *backstop*, not a prescription. 120
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026If this was about electoral advantage — the thing reactionary centrists claim as their expertise — they would be writing about how this entire issue is a distraction. If you are concerned about the influence of fringe radicals over policymaking, Republicans are the bigger threat. Of course they are. 221556151
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026yeah we have departmental meetings 11018
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct 62167596
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending. 190115342180
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Muckrack search, U.S.-based high domain authority news outlets over the past seven days: “Max Miller”: 256 articles “Hasan Piker”: 1,348 articles 537097
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This chart will figure prominently in a future historian's best-seller, "Self-Destruction: The End of the American Era." 13855208
Reposted by Alejandro Schulere.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/08/2026I'd read the stories, but you really have to see it to believe it... Paris was already a great place to walk around, but now you hardly need to wait for a light, and you can look up an entire road and it will be empty for blocks when you really decide that cars and cities don't mix, it's obvious 425822
Reposted by Alejandro Schulerroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage. 7040661254
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerBRAK AND BLUE @yinkadoubledare.bsky.social · 23/08/2026why won't universities let me spout off about how diseases are caused by ghosts and goblins and witches instead of the germ theory, that's a violation of academic freedom 1205
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026If you think this can be reformed, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with you. 392204667
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The single most impactful social/cultural development over the last decade (that virtually no retrospectives of "woke" have engaged in) is the new elite consensus that moral judgement is itself inherently illegitimate. 331667355
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Meanwhile, the US was the only country in the world to oppose a recent UN declaration about the need to reduce crash deaths. The vote was 162 to 1. 7256113
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.data4democracy.substack.comWith Fear and FavorInstitutions don’t have courage. They have incentives. 11197451
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Approximately 74% - 80% of drivers ticketed by New York City's speed camera ticket do not receive a second one. Speeding dropped by 94 percent reduction in locations where cameras were installed. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm... 161004197
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Sasha Gusev has a great new blog post on faculty hiring during the DEI era. Remarkable how much backlash there has been to what was an tiny and temporary bump in hiring Black, Latino, and Native faculty of about 1 person per R1 campus theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua... 8430181
Reposted by Alejandro Schuler"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Folks are understandably taking @mattyglesias.bsky.social to task for the 'HR training' focus, but I am struck by the inability here to recognize an educational failure. It is *your* (/our) job to explain to those voters that the collapse of democracy *will* have a greater impact on their lives. 24808127
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Why I Left Academia Writing personal essays is easier than teaching, grant-writing, or getting research articles published. But nobody told me that in grad school my latest for the Chronicle 1066577
Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026idk, I proudly self-identify as an anti-car jihadi. I'm glad he's taking it seriously. 020
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/08/2026If Random DSA Guy With A Silly Opinion becomes the SecDef, I'll agree his opinions are newsworthy. I don't give a fuck right now. 1379048
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 06/08/2026My favourite thing about the atlantic is that half the articles should be weird psychosexual novels but all the writers and editors have some kind of disease that makes them think their deepest darkest thoughts in the style of marketing prose 2291
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.comeconomist.comForget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transportPedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war 10665214
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is why I remain a fan of shame and stigma if directed up rather than down. Many people who want power are bad and they should see that people like them are excluded, isolated, and face consequence for being bad 29010
Reposted by Alejandro SchulerDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I wrote about this NYC congestion pricing study earlier this year, noting that most driving time savings accrues to people who never venture into the zone at all (i.e., driving within Queens or Long Island). IOW some of the most vociferous critics of CP are among its biggest beneficiaries.bloomberg.comCongestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban DriversNYC’s controversial toll program hasn’t just sped up trips inside Manhattan, a new paper finds. It’s easing traffic in outer boroughs and neighboring counties. 18319
Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026did you know that you are allowed to simply not submit to NeurIPS? 050