Reposted by Lee Ladettceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time 653168484 3.2K
Reposted by Lee LadettKyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Someone should check in on the rational actor assumption. Seems like it has had a hell of a week/month/year/decade. 2237 23
Reposted by Lee LadettBrian Dusablon | Duce | Drifter Life @drifterlife.com · 30/01/2026"The night before, Ebeling and other Morton Thiokol engineers tried to convince NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, that launching in cold weather could be disastrous." www.npr.org/2026/01/25/g...npr.org40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learnedForty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades of guilt and the vital lessons that remain critical for NASA today. 52839258 839
Reposted by Lee LadettRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Felix Klein lectured “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics" at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. He included excerpts from letters in which he and Hilbert give priority to Emmy Noether’s results on conservation of energy in general relativity. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬 14680191 680
Reposted by Lee LadettOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10/01/2026And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷 12477922080 7.8K
Reposted by Lee LadettBrian Highsmith @bhighsmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2025🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16] 10446183 446
Reposted by Lee LadettTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain? 181818371 1.8K
Reposted by Lee LadettAuthor Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Watch /listen to Boston’s mayor Michelle Wu live her dream.. Playing with Yo Yo Ma.. 🥰 2021662 216
Reposted by Lee LadettAndy Moore @aaandmoore.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Attempt number seven at uploading this video of intermediate filaments in an enormous COS7 cell. I have a feeling the BlueSky compression will not do it any favors. 9592781 927
Reposted by Lee LadettWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11/09/2025The evil that men do lives after them 4156901628 5.7K
Reposted by Lee LadettJosh Luke Davis 🏳️🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 03/09/2025woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.com‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a motherAnt queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding. 18887337 887
Reposted by Lee LadettSteven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 03/08/2025What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...quantamagazine.orgAt 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta MagazineAfter finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. 631191 311
Reposted by Lee LadettEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Killing MIT seems dumb to me 701471327 1.5K
Reposted by Lee LadettWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/06/2025A plague a’ both houses! 282579513 2.6K
Reposted by Lee LadettJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 03/06/2025"The magnitude of [the stakes of new technology], taken together with the insufficiency of our predictive knowledge, leads to the pragmatic rule to give the prophecy of doom priority over the prophecy of bliss." Hans Jonas 2102 10
Reposted by Lee LadettDani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more. 296113443719 11.3K
Reposted by Lee LadettJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Heinrich Heine says good morning. 1412532 125
Reposted by Lee Ladettlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/05/2025watching other anglosphere nations elect uninspiring technocrats 243448333 3.4K
Reposted by Lee LadettSatan @thedevil.bsky.social · 04/04/2025The road to fascism is paved with bitches telling you “it’s not that serious” 196140622826 14.1K
Reposted by Lee LadettMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/04/2025elder millennial here. just checking in for my annual “unprecedented times” 27947110 947
Reposted by Lee LadettBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Americans are in denial about the implications here because they wish it wasn't happening. But this is the behavior of a dictator. It's the sort of thing that warrants secession or revolution. The Republic is over the second federal funding is withheld pending a governor's personal apology. 942713927 2.7K
Reposted by Lee LadettDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23/03/2025The Tower of Babel, rising ever higher above the city, 1580. Giant Nimrod at right criticizing architect: it needs to be taller! Taller! By Hendrick van Cleve, whose day is today. 19113 91
Reposted by Lee LadettScott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 19/02/2025US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that poisoning your rival is an official act. 825827870 5.8K
Reposted by Lee LadettYilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂 4574641572 7.5K
Reposted by Lee LadettPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 17/02/2025@juliusgoat.bsky.social 6755609014765 56.1K
Reposted by Lee LadettRick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are. 963287166179 28.7K
Reposted by Lee LadettCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/20251. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost RatesNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD 25469974076 7K
Reposted by Lee LadettSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 03/02/2025As someone who speaks “far right wingnut,” I feel obligated to point out that the creation of the federal income tax in 1913 has been an obsession with such folks since the1950s. They mark it as the moment America went off track and started careening toward socialism, and they want to get rid of it. 37638157 638
Reposted by Lee LadettJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless. 71116602638 11.7K
Reposted by Lee LadettJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/02/2025This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m... 913213408147 21.3K
Reposted by Lee LadettHolger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Spiegel reports that Musk now also has access to sensitive data of competitors with regard to their financial dealings with the government. 8132631162 3.3K
Reposted by Lee LadettBen Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025A new analysis from the Tax Policy Center estimates that imposing a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico would reduce after-tax incomes by nearly 1% in 2026, costing the average household the equivalent of $930 in lost income. taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/25-pe... 1217059 170
Reposted by Lee LadettBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/xnytimes.comElon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments SystemTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending. 16048122470 4.8K
Reposted by Lee LadettSean Gailmard @sean-gailmard.bsky.social · 31/01/2025This is as good a time as any to post a paper I've been working on with @LindseyGailmard: The Persistence and Fragility of Bureaucratic Capacity. We ask: what makes bureaucratic capacity persist, and what makes *threats* to bureaucratic capacity hard to reverse? 34211 42
Reposted by Lee LadettJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Sometimes you use a pen that turns out to write way better than you thought it would and oh man that’s the good stuff 2507853490 7.9K
Reposted by Lee LadettJRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh) @www.jrrjokien.com · 11/01/2025me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing: 2492202848 9.2K
Reposted by Lee LadettRaffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Whatever you’re imagining, it’s going to be 4x dumber that that. 1054443433 4.4K
Reposted by Lee LadettJaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025It’s cool that humans have been eating bread so long that when we touch a loaf for a moment we can sense ah this is going to be awful bread. Like badgers sensing vibrations underground through their claws. 168103631062 10.4K
Reposted by Lee LadettJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311 21626253 626
Reposted by Lee LadettBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Please forgive a little earnest-posting. I’m finding the start of 2025 kind of hard and while there are obvious reasons to dread what’s coming, I think it’s more than the new administration. A lot of my ground truths have been unsettled in a way that makes it hard to know what to do next. 2860172 601
Reposted by Lee LadettMatt Salomone @matthematics.com · 01/01/2025Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:celestemdavis.substack.comWhy aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?We would rather talk about literally everything else. 17133451022 3.3K
Reposted by Lee LadettOla Olsson @oolsson.bsky.social · 30/12/2024In a new wp "The Political Economy of Bread and Circuses", we examine the tradeoff in early states between productivity-enhancing infrastructure (like irrigation systems) and non-productive architecture (stelae, altars, etc) by studying the Classic Maya (250-950 CE). 1/5 dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... 12512 25
Reposted by Lee LadettMaggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Lucille Clifton, always. 614083856 4.1K
Reposted by Lee LadettThe New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 24/12/2024Growing up in the Caribbean, C.L.R. James told Stuart Hall in 1976, “you get a certain comprehensive view...a microcosm of society on the whole. We—not me alone—Fanon had it, Césaire had it, Padmore had it.”buff.lyA Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe BraithwaiteIn May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual 315957 159
Reposted by Lee LadettEvan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 24/12/2024"you'll be visited by three spirits" The three spirits 683338440 3.3K
Reposted by Lee LadettAndrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Since 1983, we’ve developed new vaccines for more diseases. Since then, we also developed: Antiretroviral therapy Statins First cancer immunotherapy Laparoscopic surgery tools Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) & more. 1/ 21373931098 7.4K