Reposted by Emily M. SanfordMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It’s so cool that every American elite is desperate to stop having to think for themselves or learn anything 27924134
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordPieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...forms.gleOpen letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent UniversityWe, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th... 421493642
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026op-ed columnists should have to submit to an annual quiz of some basic facts about the world and be fired if they fail 924219428
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam" 183142542639
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/08/2026Killing off the Social and Behavioral Sciences directorate for this… 59529
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I don’t really want to get into this with people who feel this way, but i don’t think this is a good thing! We don’t need to behave this way! It’s not healthy to approach academic discourse as an exercise in harshness! 2149743
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026It was inevitable that reactionary centrists would turn against harm reduction and call for a return to mass incarcerationtheatlantic.comThe Cities That Said Yes to DrugsPolicies that gave addicts clean needles and places to use drugs were intended to reduce harm. They created a “zombie apocalypse.” 953255489
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The New York Times wouldn't let me write about the Age of Diarrhea so I had to do it myself.stringinamaze.netWelcome to the Age of DiarrheaThe future is not knowing what ails you 513172659
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026"No moral panic is more unoriginal than the fear that contemporary men are no longer as manly as the heroes who preceded them."statnews.comPete Hegseth, ‘The Odyssey,’ and the testosterone mythThe poet didn’t say “sing to me, Muse, of a man with optimized endocrine panels," writes urologist Elizabeth Dray. 11939138
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordCantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Geometry is not something humans invented from scratch —congratulations to Jialin Li on her first, first author paper. More to come from this team… @spiantado.bsky.social @wenjieli.bsky.social @jialin21.bsky.social @emilymsanford.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 46723
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026It is absolutely true that Dems need to win swing voters to win elections. The misdiagnosis is that swing voters are “moderates.” They are not. They have almost entirely incoherent politics. You don’t win them from the middle. You appeal to your base with conviction and hope swings like the vibes. 663939770
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordAmy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one. 363252224862
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordMichael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇 5435861430
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Psychotic way to characterize taxing rich people to help the disadvantaged. 811991304
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordMat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad. 11112242316
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Borjas and Breznau have a recent paper in Science claiming to find that researchers’ lib ideology produced biased results in favor of immigration, but it looks like that finding was based on a coding error and strange weighting strategy osf.io/preprints/me... 4303
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2026“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.science.orgU.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaboratorsNIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication 31417259
Reposted by Emily M. Sanford🐈⬛🎃🔪 Adam Jay 🍁💀👻 @bullgooseparty.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I can’t stress enough that deciding a law is “no longer needed” is so far outside the realm of what any court should be doing 884357948
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026My latest newsletter is about how the media defines "political violence" as something that happens exclusively to politicians, and ignores its primary victims: everyone else.stringinamaze.netWhat's Political Violence?When the media talks about political violence, they're only telling part of the story 171820336
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordChenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 28/04/2026$900 million to pay companies to not do wind energy and $400 million for the ballroom, that’s $1.3 billion or ~1,300 3 to 4-year NSF awards. 014152
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordChris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Thrilled to be featured alongside a number of colleagues I admire in this beautiful piece in @theguardian.com on stunning discoveries about the minds of our closest ape relatives! @gloriadickie.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comBonobos enjoy pretend tea parties and chimps think rationally: why apes are more like us than we ever thoughtA series of stunning findings about great apes’ mental capabilities in recent years has transformed how we see our closest relatives 1529
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability 5578691927
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset. 168183446900
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not. 294460910
Reposted by Emily M. Sanfordonion person @junlper.beer · 19/03/2026it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish 728208083688
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 2785947606
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.aljazeera.comIsrael used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporateUS-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds. 374126606888
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordSam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 10/02/2026If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley. 37551
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordThe Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 10/02/2026The idea that humans sit atop an evolutionary hierarchy dates back to 1866, when a scientist drew the first tree of life with "Man" at the top. This inaccurate view still shapes how we think of the animal world, despite decades of genomic evidence proving evolution has no hierarchy. buff.ly/dpXwi1rbuff.lyNo animal alive today is ‘primitive’ – why are so many still labeled that way?All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ancestors or descendants of one another. 25217
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordAdam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 09/02/2026So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh 18670701597
Reposted by Emily M. Sanfordmechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026No Kings includes Draft Kings 178258776016
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter. 478177219054
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordChris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Koyoutu.beApes Share Human Ability to ImagineYouTube video by Johns Hopkins University 11292110
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordDan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto 8455711093
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/02/2026guy turns out to be exactly who a bunch of us Black women said he was: an American story 4515112
Reposted by Emily M. Sanfordtagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 01/02/2026 hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism 191994411
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026It's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls www.justice.gov/epsteinjustice.gov 1751699
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026And Epstein was an explicit eugenicist! Even in the (unlikely) scenario that the academics writing him chummy emails didn't know about the pedophilia charges, they were seeking funding because they thought their work aligned with his interests, which were monstrous. 171546280
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordCheryl T. @g8rgrrlcheryl.bsky.social · 31/01/2026The guy on the right is New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, photographed at the Kennedy Center premiere of “Melania.” #GoSeahawks! 157571922186
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026straight up Gestapo shit 19083236710121
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich 42113942916
Reposted by Emily M. Sanfordmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not? 6975451823
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 31/01/2026it’s a good day to be a Bari Weiss hater 975211323
Reposted by Emily M. Sanfordjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2026the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference. 228236025495
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordJonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 30/01/2026These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée 875164117
Reposted by Emily M. Sanfordderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/01/2026friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there 610418355989
Reposted by Emily M. SanfordJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026This is an important paper on social class barriers among faculty in academia. First-generation college grads earn less and are placed at lower prestige institutions despite being just as productive as other faculty. Faculty from upper class backgrounds are overplaced for their research records. 25721