Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDMicah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing 222089430
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDRebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading." 18821
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026no amnesty 7887198
Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Oh interesting! I haven't used them as a survey panel in a long long time but end of an era indeed 000
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDs. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/08/2026We need to bring back the hatchback. The people don't want sedans. They don't want stationwagons. They don't want SUVs and crossovers. They want indestructible sporty little hatchbacks with carrying capacity that feels like a bag of holding. 771749193
Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I won the PhD cohort all time lottery man. I’m so grateful to be able to still work and be such good friends with both of you after all this time 061
Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@whysharksmatter.bsky.social, @sarahmackattack.bsky.social & I are working on a paper about the field of sci comm right now based on a survey of practitioners. Can't wait to get it out (publishing is a slow process), but let me tell you the mix of passion/hope/despair in the responses is a wild ride 250
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce 484117902
Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Well one of the ads was from Meta, so I’m going with propaganda 110
Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Anyone else notice an uptick in ads from AI companies taking a “no really! We love people. go humanity! We’re not trying to do evil. All in this together” tone? I’ve heard commercials to that effect from two different companies in less than 24 hours. 120
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026So @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I wrote a paper about changing patterns in online science communication It's been shared 300-ish times on Twitter. And 6,300+ times on Bluesky. I've never had a paper prove it's own point so quickly! doi.org/10.1093/icb/...doi.orgValidate User 1248
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDlastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Sorry but the crudest parody of a Woke 1 feminist was basically just correct about powerful men and their insecurities and how disastrous that was. Everyday Feminism 101 article on Toxic Masculinity basically the book of Nostradamus. 1458488
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDJess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Some day, two people are going to go on the Joe Rogan show. The first person will say, "Everything Person #2 tells you is a lie." Person #2 will say, "I am lying." And Joe Rogan will spend the rest of the show spluttering and eventually have a stroke. This will happen to Ezra Klein someday as well. 812813
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDKeith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026"So, we evoked a demon that can sit between you and all objective knowledge, and it's really useful but you can never quite trust it. And then we made it paranoid it might have it's own demons intermediating access to objective truth." Descartes: "mon ami, I am too fucking high for zis" 4799133
Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I'm reading a bunch of papers on the integration of social sciences into conservation science and practice. I am sad to say that from what I can tell all of this is also gender. 100
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhD👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 02/07/2026In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls 382218532
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...english.elpais.comIn the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator AlcatrazThe community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce... 2888354109
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDAndy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 22/06/2026📢Super important new work led by #ECR @clemencywhite.bsky.social driving towards more positive, inclusive, safer #fieldwork experiences for all. doi.org/10.1093/ices... @profstevesimpson.bsky.social @drcatmac.bsky.social @drmjwitt.bsky.social @drjuliawester.bsky.social 🙏Please read & sharedoi.orgPast experiences can inform better practice for marine fieldworkAbstract. Field-based research is a common component of marine science and many researchers cite field opportunities as a reason for pursuing a career in t 154
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play. 181196328
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Worth noting that they are clearly “allowed” to be as racist as they want they are just also demanding a right to be liked despite being racist. No sorry people can draw conclusions that you’re a miserable person they don’t want to associate with. 14739115
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDEctoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 27/05/2026so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me. 126102062676
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 08/05/2026Repost this if you’ve gone to the doctor or you’ve seen a dog. I’m a teacher trying to show my students that it’s possible to repost stuff under certain circumstances like if a post asks you to and you’ve gone to something or seen something 56807425
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people." 664344863
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2026it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter 10181432745
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDJames Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 20/04/2026the penne opticon 13646849
Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I’m trying to find the tweet/skeet about someone saying they are going to organize an uprising of the people but they are one of the most personally off putting people you’ve ever met. Anyone got it? 000
Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I teach a weekend workshop on Excel for undergraduates every year. Excel is always a little persnickety but this year had way more instances of just buggy nonsense (e.g., functions just not showing up for some students). I sort of instinctual blame vibecoding for this? Is that right? 010
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism 336104742198
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/04/2026calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...aaup.orgSeven Theses Against Viewpoint DiversityDemands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth. 582821582
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists. We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't. Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding 13607165
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 13/04/2026You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!! 12651771209
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better? Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence. Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”. Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it. Crazy! 26932288
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/04/2026A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.canarymedia.comIn a first, renewables beat natural gas on US grid last monthIt’s just one month, but it’s a sign of where the U.S. is headed as renewable energy — namely solar — surges onto the grid. 272691743
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew! 3253161413
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 11/04/2026It represents the best of us. It was a peaceful mission that constituted an international effort; the ESA was involved and built the service module, there was a Canadian astronaut onboard... It's a glimpse, even in dark times, of all we *can* be both as a nation and, more importantly, as a species. 131482
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDthank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 10/04/2026me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all 123265755
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow 151514281
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 08/04/2026I’m old enough to remember when Wisconsin was lost forever, doomed to be run by Scott Walker for all eternity 2164180
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDKatherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/04/2026"This is not who we are" should always be understood as an aspirational statement that carries forward the legacy of countless Americans who fought and died to make it as true as possible, to create the space for you and I to take up the rallying cry. 81090181
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Tomorrow is the last day to take our science communication survey! 1119
Julia Wester, PhD @drjuliawester.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I love this as the original “I don’t care for Gob” 0330
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDJill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Ok step one is to make them look less delicious 168126901615
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Cities can now achieve “what was once thought impossible”: cutting air pollution by 20–45% in little more than a decade. 19 cities, including London, San Francisco and Beijing, cut levels of both PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by more than 20% since 2010. buff.ly/hsm3JlY #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyLondon, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollutionCycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20% 4819254
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/03/2026And formally, according to our law, Depose him 102923686
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 27/03/2026coffee just hit my hand....media.tenor.coma cartoon character is standing in front of a castle with a lightning bolt coming out of it .ALT: a cartoon character is standing in front of a castle with a lightning bolt coming out of it . 6754
Reposted by Julia Wester, PhDJohn Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 26/03/202612.7M acres of solar is is about 82% of the solar required to decarbonize the US in the Net Zero America E+ scenario (there's wind and existing nuclear and stuff in there too, but that's the solar portion). Or we can have 5% of our gasoline displaced. 372550721