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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 17/09/2026

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 01/09/2026

There's a very pretty and interesting new issue of Aperture guest edited by Hiroshi Sugimoto and I have a little essay on light and science in it

A magazine is opened to an article called "Light Years". On left side of the page is a reprinted photograph by Sugimoto shifting color from black to yellow from top to bottom

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 13/08/2026

Thinking again about this essay aworkinglibrary.com/writing/umyazu

Dark background, grey text that says: Every contribution to the reading economy—every dollar snatched from anesthetizing streaming services, from platforms that siphon money away from artists in order to fuel machines of war; every dollar given in exchange for a book or zine or illustration made with hand and heart and eye; every gaze diverted from the slop and turned instead to the gifts of the artist and the writer and the painter and so on—is not only a contribution taken from the attention economy but a repudiation of it, whole and entire. Every contribution to the reading economy is two less for its nemesis: once in cash, a second time in the resurrection of attention, in the art of reading, in the gift paid in return for the gift. A fair bargain, and payment on the spot

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 22/07/2026

"Feels like" hell outside

Image with text confirming that New Orleans is hell in late-July

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 19/07/2026

This was an especially good game on the Le Monde liveblog which posts this GIF after every goal

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 11/07/2026

Love this bit from the Guardian live chat about how most of the Norwegian player names are about farming

List of a number of Norwegian names that are all more or less directions relative to a farm proving the country to be very goofy

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 09/06/2026

I’ve enjoyed following the NBA playoffs through Le Monde coverage while I’m in France, which kind of gives you the impression one man named Wembanyama is taking on a scurrilous horde known as “the Knicks”

Search results in Le Monde app which display various articles about Victor Wembanyama defeating or not defeating the Knicks

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 03/06/2026

Every day I cycle in New Orleans, a city once imagined to rationally improve on Paris, I think

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 26/05/2026

It's kind of beautiful to have something I wrote reviewed by someone across the world in a language I can't read at all www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/la...

A paragraph of Korean text with a few English words "beagling" "the Beagle" and "beagles"

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 11/04/2026

Pretty unbelievable watching this live

The landing Artemis II as it hit water, orange and white parachutes

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 28/03/2026

In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/985884

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 26/03/2026

At least 13 ICE agents doing absolutely nothing at New Orleans airport today, glad to see our tax dollars hard at work

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 04/02/2026

Did not have "Epstein talked into watching Karen Barad lecture by Deepak Chopra and compares her to will.i. am" on my government dump bingo card but here we are

Email from Epstein to Chopra explaining he watched a Karen Barad lecture on YouTube and describing her as "a science rapper" "like a lesbian scientist will i am"

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 19/01/2026

This MLK quote feels, somehow, more relevant than ever

King describes the need for a radical revolution of values, away from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. Machines and computers as well as profit motives were threatening humanity.

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 15/01/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

NYT text including the sentence “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them”

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 12/01/2026

Such an unreal, death cult headline

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 10/01/2026

The new food pyramid is bonkers

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 06/01/2026

www.chronicle.com/article/facu...

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 05/01/2026

Just finished work on an article that returns to this period, so quite enjoyed this reflection on the survival of Social Text after the Sokal hoax and the clear-eyed defense of student protestors

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 22/12/2025

Absolute apotheosis of sports gambling culture in this offer the Pelicans sent: gamble on sports for a gamble to gamble more

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 10/12/2025

I’m extremely jazzed to be officially working on this book. Although it’s history first and foremost, I’d love to hear from more folks in fungal biology about their exciting new findings, so please reach out!

Announcement for a new book called Rotten Beauty with a mushroom image in background

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 17/11/2025

Kind of losing it over the idea of the "Betrayal index" in football

Screenshot shows a listing of NFL qbs and their betrayal index score

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 24/09/2025

The new Meta facility in Louisiana uses double the energy of the entire New Orleans area (chart from the Hullabaloo)

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 23/09/2025

An all-time Chotiner ending

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 23/09/2025

I remember being amazed when I first learned how active US actors were in deposing foreign governments in Latin America, but looking back it's kind of remarkable how open people were about it at the time (image is NYT in 1911)

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 15/09/2025

People without smart glasses will never be able to light money on fire to create this

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 20/08/2025

I wanted an example for students of the limits of tools like ChatGPT and why it matters to do your own work, so I asked what sources were missing from my book. I found the answer revealing about the limitations of the model, not least because it just recommended things in the book

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 01/08/2025

Love to visit my local news website

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 24/06/2025

Tough to pick absolute favorites, but I felt solid about these

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 19/06/2025

Extremely concerning for prospective travelers to the US

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 15/06/2025

Pretty remarkable: close to 2% of the American population was at a #NoKings event yesterday

Quote text showing 1.2-1.8% of the population out protesting yesterday

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 30/04/2025

Sorry in advance for this, but www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 27/04/2025

The added irony of this essay is that it’s exactly the kind of text ChatGPT can put together relatively easily

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 15/04/2025

When I was little, I used to say to my parents, as I drifted off to sleep, "I hope I can someday crack the top 500 in the Amazon Emergency Medicine (books) category," so this has been a huge week for me

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 10/04/2025

Early copies of Lab Dog are trickling out into the world, including this one I found in the grass in Princeton. My sincere thanks to everyone who ordered this little book I spent many many years on!

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 07/04/2025

Today I remembered "Operation Elster," my favorite piece of espionage history. Colepaugh and Gimpel are first ballot grift Hall of Famers

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 07/04/2025

This Getty image of a worried trader with Trump “Take America Back” stickers behind him as the market whipsaws is almost too much

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 03/04/2025

Concerned about tariffs? Well let me tell you about a tariff-ic new book from UChicago Press: Lab Dog: What Global Science Owes American Beagles, by Brad Bolman. Fresh copies are arriving just in time to avoid the trade war and you can preorder one now! www.amazon.com/Lab-Dog-Scie...

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 23/03/2025

This movie was so stunningly beautiful, can’t recommend it enough

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 22/03/2025

In the early 1900s, when my Slovak great-grandparents came to the US, newspapers and politicians spoke about them in virtually identical terms to those of the modern anti-immigrant right. I wish more people recognized that their relatives, too, were once poor "burdens" & seen as unfit to live here

Newspaper with headline "The Alien Invasion" about European immigrants

Newspaper headline "Trying to check the alien flood" about Congressional debates to restrict immigration

Newspaper headline "1,000,000 immigrants in a year: Can the country assimilate them?"

Newspaper headline "Shall the invasion of America by Aliens be Checked?"

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 01/03/2025

Mind-blowing not just that the NYT gives needless space to some ghoulish opinion providers but that anyone with a moral conscience could chart the persecution of minorities as some kind of net-positive

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