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Andrew Bell

@earth-andrew.bsky.social
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Schleifer Family Professor of Sustainability @CornellGlobal and @CornellPrisonEd. Agent-based modeling and behavioral experiments in water, livelihoods and migration.

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Sebastian Fiedler @sbfiedler.de · 10/04/2026
We introduce PAVE (Purpose–Assumptions–Validity–Exploration) — led by @earth-andrew.bsky.social — a practical framework to help bridge the gap between modelers and everyone else. If you've ever looked at a model and thought, “this feels like a black box”… this is for you. doi.org/10.1093/bios...
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The PAVE pathway: how to talk about models with people who built them, and people who didn’t
Abstract. Do you want your model findings to be used and have a place in academic or policy discourse? Then PAVE that place. For modelers, PAVE (Purpose, A
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
making costly choices you don't have to makes you a hero. share.google/zy559zlvgKvu...
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She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card.
After accusing governments and corporations of complicity in Gaza, the U.N. investigator for Palestine territories now finds herself in Washington’s crosshairs.
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Why do so many models fail to influence decisions? Not because they’re wrong—but because they’re hard to talk about. Our new paper introduces PAVE (Purpose–Assumptions–Validity–Exploration) as a simple way to turn models from black boxes into shared conversations.
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American Institute of Biological Sciences @aibsbiology.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The PAVE pathway: how to talk about models with people who built them, and people who didn’t. #BioScience #AIBS doi.org/10.1093/bios...
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
among the critical skills of adulthood, knowing when you are in a queue vs a channel situation.
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
what happens when jason statham cuts his way through all the baddies, gets through to the end boss ... and it's liam neeson?
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onion person @junlper.beer · 22/05/2025
one of the most insane normalized aspects of our political climate is politicians going after their own constituents in the name of anti-wokeness. what are we doing here
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She’s Paid By Hamas - defector.com/the-new-york...
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The New York Times Really Asked Ms. Rachel If She's Paid By Hamas | Defector
The house style of the New York Times is severely outdated. Depending on the topic, the newspaper’s purportedly impartial tone instead reads as smug, self-amused, and deeply lazy. The results are disa...
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Only one of these two members of Congress below have been censured by Congress for alleged bigotry. Guess which one?
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 02/05/2025
i will never forgive those who assert that to oppose the mass slaughter of tens of thousands of children in gaza is to hate jews
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NPR @npr.org · 29/04/2025
Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
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Detained on verge of U.S. citizenship, Mohsen Mahdawi speaks from Vermont prison
Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I cannot possibly convey the havoc that moving to a slightly smaller phone has wreaked on my swipe typing.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/04/2025
As the Trump administration destroys science in the United States, keep an eye on what is happening in Serbia.
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
❤️ www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations
DOJ announced the reversal in federal court after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges.
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Exclusive: Inside Trump’s First 100 days
In an interview, Trump discussed amassing power, court battles and an agenda that is transforming America
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
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Opinion | Our Foreign Students Are Terrified, and They’re Right to Be
The immigration crackdown has come to America’s campuses.
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Who among us didn't flub their first couple of war plan chats?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/04/2025
NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. By @alecmac.bsky.social
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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Bukele just posted this on X, suggesting he arranged a meeting between Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Chris Van Hollen. He then used it to mock his critics for expressing concern about Mr. Abrego. If these photos are real, it suggests diplomatic pressure worked, despite his "I'm not mad" attitude.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” & “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!🍹

Three pictures are underneath. In none of them is Mr. Abrego's face shown. They show him sitting with Van Hollen and another man on a porch.
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
listen to what 48 has to say
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Trump knows businesses won't invest in manufacturing in an environment where the courts can't protect them. He doesn't care. fortune.com/2025/04/17/t...
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The Trump administration defied the courts twice in one day, and experts say it could hurt America’s sterling reputation as an attractive place to invest
Experts say a diminished legal system could scare off investors.
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Judicial mic drop. 7 pages. Read it.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 17/04/2025
The party of "family and children" has shown no evidence of giving a damn about families and children. And I hope people are waking up to that fact.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Sometimes it is important to say things very clearly and directly, so I wrote this. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Trump Is Sending People To The Camps
“More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all...
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
practice being quietly good.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 16/04/2025
lol I hate how in academic and professional spaces, there are people who like to perform that they are "good" people.
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
picked a good week to destroy science. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
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Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. So I finally did.
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It was never about antisemitism
From abducting college students to an attack on a Jewish governor, Trump’s real motivations remain clear.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 15/04/2025
I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing. "That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done." "That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/04/2025
lol we know
0congressman from oklahoma (R) brings snowball into congress to show that cliamte change isnt real
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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
47's beef with China is personal, based on his own business dealings, and I cannot believe we gotta bear the brunt of this shit because grown ass people don't understand why addressing conflicts of interest with corporate titans who want to run the country is important.
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A funny one from this morning's misty sunrise on Glastonbury Tor. At first glance it looks like someone diving over the sun into the mist below. It is actually a bird heading straight for me and yes I did duck although I am sure it would have missed me. 😂
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Andrew Bell @earth-andrew.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Hey cool what's your research design? www.cnn.com/2025/04/10/h...
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RFK Jr. claims new research effort will find cause of ‘autism epidemic’ by September | CNN
The US Department of Health and Human Services has launched a “massive testing and research effort” involving hundreds of scientists worldwide that will determine “what has caused the autism epidemic”...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/04/2025
of all the things the administration is doing, i am a little mystified by this effort to completely destroy the science, technology and medical research sector in the united states
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11/04/2025
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/04/2025
"Someone says oh my God, we have wrongfully deported somebody and they are in prison in a foreign country, what should we do about it? And the adult in the room is not saying 'get that person back here immediately.'" @weissmann11.bsky.social talks cruelty and lawlessness with @timmiller.bsky.social
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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Of course, they’re not actually looking for antisemitism. They’re looking for brown immigrants who are critics of the United States and Israel’s policy and actions towards Palestine and they believe they’ve landed on a palatable reason to purge a lot of brown people from the United States.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/04/2025
Trump Boasts About Strong-Arming Trump Into Pausing Tariffs
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Trump Boasts About Strong-Arming Trump Into Pausing Tariffs
WASHINGTON—Bragging that he had forced the world leader into “total submission,” President Donald Trump boasted to reporters Thursday that he had strong-armed President Donald Trump into pausing his l...
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
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historianeve.bsky.social @historianeve.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Project 2025 calls for ending most federal funding to universities. Universities might as well refuse to comply with T regime directives and keep their authority over their own curriculum and policies.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The White House. The actual White House. This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
These EOs are just slightly longer social media posts from a deranged mind.
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Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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Robert Chung @rchung.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The immigrant round-ups took our minds off the pardons. DOGE took our minds off the round-ups. Signalgate took our minds off DOGE. Tariffs took our minds off Signalgate. I'm a little worried about the next thing that's supposed to take our minds off tariffs.
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