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Daniel Aldrich

@danielaldrich.bsky.social
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Social scientist interested in social capital, social infrastructure, energy and environmental politics. Books at www.amazon.com/stores/Daniel-P.-Ald…

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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 5h
China directs its A.I. platforms to push false claims about the treatment of Uyghurs and to censor dissent and criticism of the Party. Russia is using A.I. to generate scores of news websites to turn Americans against democracy and Western alliances. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back.
In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 9h
Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
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How to Destroy a Reputation in Hollywood, as Told in 5 Women’s Lawsuits
Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 12h
Bizarre and dystopian: Communities with high birth and marriage rates could soon gain an advantage in securing federal transit money www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding
The federal government is seeking to revamp a national program that supports rail and bus rapid transit.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 12h
A 72-foot robotic arm began squeezing into the melted down #Fukushima reactor through a 22-inch hole with months of cutting steel out of its path by water jet ahead of it, and the two grabs before it recovered less than a gram of the 880 tons in the plant share.google/cu4DgMmSKCDx...
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A 72-foot robotic arm began squeezing into a wrecked reactor in Japan through a 22-inch opening on Friday, with months of cutting steel out of its path by water jet ahead of it, and the two grabs befo...
We covered the 72-foot machine back in July, when it was fresh out of testing, and the plan still called for a first grab attempt inside Fukushima Daiichi's
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 13h
New #article from Dewi et al: Building Public Trust Through Culturally Sensitive CSR Communication TL;DR: integration of a gender perspective in climate change disaster mitigation creates a more sustainable social impact journal.student.uny.ac.id/index.php/il...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 14h
Please join us Thursday October 15th at 3:00 at @Northeastern University's Renaissance Park 310 to talk about my new book Beyond Common Ground RSVP: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 14h
Kremlin warned Lithuania’s moves toward allowing nuclear weapons and potentially hosting a permanent U.S. military base would mark a “significant escalation” of regional tensions www.cnbc.com/2026/10/06/r...
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Russia’s neighbor backs push to lift ban on nuclear weapons, prompting outcry from Moscow
Lithuania is seeking to bolster its security amid growing concerns over Russia.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 16h
New #article from Tomoe Katoh: Hybrid Governance for Arctic Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction: Reinterpreting Japan’s Disaster Pre-Recovery and Reconstruction Approach TL;DR: flexible hybrid governance framework requiring context-sensitive adaptation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 16h
New #article from Matthewman et al: Playing amongst the ruins: creative play/cemaking in recovery cities of the 21st century TL;DR: role for play in disaster recovery since it provides a non-threatening way for communities to reengage, reconnect +reimagine www.emerald.com/dpm/article-...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 16h
New #article from Sornsenee et al: From Campus to Crisis Shelter: A Case Analysis of Shelter-Based Healthcare and Disaster Preparedness during the 2025 Flood TL;DR: social cohesion + adaptive governance enabled resources and personnel to be mobilized www.jhsmr.org/index.php/jh...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 16h
New #article from Alcantara et al: Rethinking Crisis Readiness Through Network Governance for Extreme Weather Events TL;DR: crisis readiness cannot be understood solely as an organisational attribute but is enacted through networks of collaborating actors www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/7/...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 16h
Not now pneumonic plague released by a Russian biological weapons lab apnews.com/article/russ...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 18h
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Council approved a three-year ban on data centers within tribal lands www.kgou.org/indigenous-n...
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Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes institute 3-year data center ban
The Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Council approved a three-year ban on data centers within tribal lands on Saturday.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 18h
Surveillance state: The Trump administration pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau’s policies www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 19h
Output from Australia’s large-scale renewable energy assets continues to climb with the nation’s utility PV and wind power plants generating a total of 5.44 TWh of clean energy in September, delivering a 7% increase on the same time last year. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Utility solar generation reaches record highs in Australia - pv magazine Global
Output from Australia’s large-scale renewable energy assets continues to climb with the nation’s utility PV and wind power plants generating a total of 5.44 TWh of clean energy in September, deliverin...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Natural hazards, massive wave + lightning strike edition
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New #article from David MacPhee et al: Becoming resilient: Community-driven change and the Civic Capacity Index TL;DR: Few communities are “maintaining” much less “thriving,” based on a widely used measure of well‐being pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42584239/
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New #article from Xu et al: Social mobilization as adaptive infrastructure: how governance activates community co-production for urban flood resilience TL;DR: social mobilization emerged as a key condition for activating community co-production www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New #article from Savannah Moore: “Welcome to the Club”: Unpacking Administrative Burdens in Conservation Incentive Programs Supporting Natural Flood Resilience TL;DR: landowners demonstrated conservation values + a desire to manage their land accordingly onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Not now mysterious lethal plague from Siberia www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/e...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New #article from Marine Elbakidze et al: Greening in turbulent times: insights into civic ecology practices across Ukraine TL;DR: leadership, volunteer engagement, and organisational competencies interact with shared meanings of care link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New #article from Lopa et al: A Scoping Review of NGO–Donor Partnerships and Adaptation Challenges in Bangladesh Flood Governance TL;DR: challenges: donors dominance, financial constraints, misaligned priorities, weak community orgs, and participation gaps www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/14...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New #article from Guan et al: Key Factors and Interrelationships Shaping Project Organizational Resilience in Renovation Projects TL;DR: information interaction, org structural flexibility, and crisis leadership constitute the fundamental driving layer www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/16...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New #article from Tamar Meshulam and Shoshanna Saxe: Between public space and private living: social infrastructure as a demand-side strategy for compact living TL;DR: cross-metropolitan quantitative evidence linking social infrastructure with compact living iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
During shocks and disasters, we focus too much on the government side (grey infrastructure, hazard warnings) and the individual level (hoarding, insurance). We overlook the power of our connections to help us survive and thrive www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4oY...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
During Japan's 3/11 9.0 magnitude earthquake, 60+ foot tsunami, and #meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear reactors, what factors helped people survive and thrive? In my book Black Wave I argue that horizontal and vertical ties are critical www.amazon.com/Black-Wave-N...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Draining the swamp? Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
China is entering a century of demographic decline. This change will remake the country’s economy and politics just as dramatically as the last century’s demographic boom did. www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas...
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China’s Long Twilight
Demographic decline, political paralysis, and the fate of great powers.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Amazon’s data center commitments don’t mention the power plant and scarcely address pollution, apart from promising to exclusively rely on back-up generators that use the lowest possible emissions. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please join me for a discussion of my new book Beyond Common Ground: How Everyday Places Solve Big Social Challenges at the Lehrhaus Tavern in Cambridge Monday November 2nd at 7:00 pm EST events.humanitix.com/beyond-commo...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New #article from Marine Elbakidze Oksana Pelyukh et al: Greening in turbulent times: insights into civic ecology practices across UkraineTL;DR: civic ecology practices persist through interaction of leadership, volunteer engagement, and org competencies lnkd.in/gmfdX5bH
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New #article from Tamar Meshulam + Shoshanna Saxe: Between public space and private living: social infrastructure as a demand-side strategy for compact living TL;DR: greater access to social infrastructure was associated with smaller dwellings iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New #article from Dong et al: Community-based sport-leisure participation and perceived community psychological resilience: a study of identification andefficacy TL;DR: residents’ sport-leisure participation links w community psychological resilience www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump interfering in scientific process: the White House is holding back 1/5 of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New #article from Tomoki Iizuka : Japan’s Energy Policy: Achievements and ChallengesTL;DR: focus on how Japan has responded to a series of major shocks over time, including the Oil Shock and the #Fukushima nuclear meltdownshttps://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4529-1
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New #book from Ewa Więcek-Janka and Alicja Hadryś: Resilience in Family Business: Strategic Adaptation and Crisis Management in a Turbulent World TL;DR: framework built on preparedness, organisational maturity, and adaptive capacity www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New #article from Arvin Domier et al: Building community resilience during energy loss: insights from wildfire safety events in California TL;DR: current event formats and channels may not equitably engage populations facing barriers during energy loss www.emerald.com/dpm/article-...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New #chapter from Manda et al: Third Places, Social Capital, and Urban Belonging in Contemporary Cities TL;DR: physical form of these spaces is important, as is fostering familiarity, routine, and recognition over time www.igi-global.com/gateway/chap...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As the leading American companies tightly control how their systems are used the top Chinese companies are releasing their technologies as “open weight” software, which means people are free to use these systems however they want. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/s...
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A Hacking Competition Shows the Power of China’s Approach to A.I.
The winner of a cybersecurity contest prevailed by relying on an ‘open weight’ Chinese model — another sign that available A.I. systems could already be too powerful to easily regulate.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New #article from Guo et al: Socioeconomic status and community resilience: A multilevel analysis from Suzhou, China TL;DR: Residents with low socioeconomic status reported lower perceptions of community resilience. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New #article from Yutaka TSUJINAKA: Civil Society and Social Capital in Japan TL;DR: 1998 NPO Law and the 2008 Public-Interest Corporations System reforms led to the creation of more than a hundred thousand independent, private voluntary organizations link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New #article from Shannon McNamee: Beyond incident command: Strategic coordination for disaster consequence management TL;DR: offering emergency mgmt a pathway to transform a sophisticated but strategically underdeveloped system into a integrated approach wmpllc.org/ojs/index.ph...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New #article from Li et al: How job-housing relocations reshape mobility? Evidence from smartphone positioning data TL;DR: Built environment exposure changes explain a modest share of mobility change. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excited to be quoted in new article on #pandadiplomacy news.northeastern.edu/2026/09/29/a...
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Coming to America - pandas and international politics at a zoo
Zoo Atlanta’s new pandas are part of China’s panda diplomacy. Northeastern political scientists explain what Beijing gains from the loan.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fantastic new book from Andrew Littlejohn on how the Japanese government envisioned seawalls as a critical part of tsunami protection but overlooked the importance of native and social systems in these communities
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump attacks on migration hurting the US economy: There has been a significant drop in visitors from US allies like Canada and several European countries, which have been a target of Washington’s trade war and taunts. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Decline in tourism hits US economy
Overseas visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
China’s latest expansion of its overseas military footprint was carved from a patch of farmland in Laos over the past year www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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China carves new military presence in Southeast Asian neighbour
China’s latest expansion of its overseas military footprint was carved from a patch of farmland in Laos over the past year, satellite imagery showed, as analysts said the ​new support centre could dee...
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Depopulation: Japan’s total population, including foreign residents, was 122.9 million as of Oct. 1, 2025, shrinking by 3.17 million, or 2.5%, from five years before www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09...
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Japan’s population fell 2.5% between 2020 and 2025, census shows
This was the third consecutive decline in the five-year survey that dates back to 1920.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A record number of Japanese companies have closed their China businesses under the triple pressure of slowing momentum in the Chinese economy, US tariffs and a diplomatic tiff over Taiwan www.ft.com/content/3d58...
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Japanese companies exit China in record numbers
Diplomatic tensions, slowing Chinese growth and US tariff pressure spur rebalancing of supply chain
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