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gdsheriff.bsky.social @gdsheriff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The fine, the meh, and the unpleasing to the eye
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 07/05/2026
wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like
A Saguaro cactus that looks as if it has two eyes and is striding through the landscape in a jaunty manner, perhaps whistling a tune
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Comic panel of Donald Duck and a wide-eyed young Mickey Mouse. Donald's speech bubble: "Democrats should do a huge middle class tax cut to address affordability." Mickey's speech bubble: "Fool that you are, for you treat taxation as a burden rather than the means by which our burdens are eased. Behold a civilization rich in private wealth yet starved of public provision, where every man owns what his grandfathers could not imagine and yet trembles at the thought of how he will weather an illness or loss of livelihood. Will you fight for an affirmative vision of broad contribution and universal benefit? Or will you perish like a dog?"
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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Exactly one year ago today:
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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
📢 What’s current in #REEP? 📢 "The Economics of Designing Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation: A Call to Integrate Pre- and Post-implementation Human Threats into Planning" by Heidi J. Albers and Kailin Kroetz. 📎Read it here: buff.ly/DQozCmt 📈📉 #Econsky
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 09/04/2026
This is catastrophic.
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
king5.com
UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran. My best summary: this war is dumb as hell. acoup.blog/2026/03/25/m...
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Miscellanea: The War in Iran
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019. Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate. Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes. Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...
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Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff, Has Breast Cancer
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...
In the last days, there has been an unprecedented attack targeting investigative journalists trying to seize their Signal accounts. This has gone largely unreported.

I have been repeatedly targeted by phishing, and I learned that also colleagues from other outlets were targeted, with the attackers unfortunately managing to compromise at least one colleague’s account. What’s worrying: this doesn’t seem like an isolated case. A broader wave is apparently hitting journalists (and some civil society actors) via Signal.

How it works: Attackers message you on Signal pretending to be “Signal Support,” warning about “suspicious activity,” and urging you to “re-verify” your account. Once you accept the chat, you receive a real Signal SMS verification code, because the attacker is actively trying to register your number on a new device. If you share that code, you’re handing them the keys. 

Signal’s extra protection is the Signal PIN. If an attacker also tricks you into giving up your PIN (or you don’t have strong protections enabled), they can see your contacts and networks, potentially join chats going forward, and lock you out by changing settings. 

Quick protections worth doing today:
- Signal will never contact you via a two-way in-app support chat. Treat those messages as hostile. 
- Never share SMS codes, Signal PIN, or anything called “registration lock.” 
- Turn on Registration Lock (Settings → Account → Registration Lock). 
- If you see a “safety number changed” alert: verify the person via a different channel (call/video), not just Signal text. 
- Report + block suspicious requests, and review linked devices. 

If you work with sensitive sources: this isn’t just about losing an account, it’s about exposing networks. Please share this with colleagues who rely on Signal day-to-day.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/01/2026
Explanation Of Board Game Rules Peppered With Reassurances That It Will Be Fun theonion.com/explanation-of-board-g…
Explanation Of Board Game Rules Peppered With Reassurances That It Will Be Fun
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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📢 Out now in the 🍁November 2025 issue🍁of #JAERE! 📢 "The Distributional Consequences of Incomplete Regulation" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes ( @hernandezcortes.bsky.social ). Read it here: buff.ly/TGLGRAC 📈📉 #Econsky
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gdsheriff.bsky.social @gdsheriff.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Haha I vaguely remember using a combination of paper maps, road atlases, and instructions from whomever I was visiting eg,“turn left at the Denny’s then it will be 2 miles on the right ” If lost I had to pull over and use a pay phone to call the destination or ask a gas station attendant for help
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America Needs Public Schools @noeygriff.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
@50501movement.bsky.social #Phoenix50501
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JAERE @jaereaere.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🆕 Just accepted 🆕 in JAERE: "The Distributional Consequences of Incomplete Regulation" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes (@hernandezcortes.bsky.social) Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #EconSky 📈 📉
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JAERE @jaereaere.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🌬️ Just accepted 🇧🇷 in JAERE: "The Effects of Renewable Energy Projects on Employment: Evidence from Brazil" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes (@hernandezcortes.bsky.social) and Sophie Mathes (@s-mathes.bsky.social) Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #EconSky 📈 📉
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...
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U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
History speaks. Europe’s lessons from a century ago can wake up and inspire our democracy…in 2025 America. Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
What to know about Saturday's nationwide "Hands Off!" anti-Trump protestshttps://www.axios.com/2025/04/03/hands-off-protest-trump-musk-april-5
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What to know about Saturday's nationwide "Hands Off!" anti-Trump protests
More than 1,100 rallies, visibility events and meetings were scheduled.
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gdsheriff.bsky.social @gdsheriff.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Welp “no pain, no pain” as I like to say
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
3, maybe 4, people will get this joke
Distracted Guy meme with EPA, Corporate Polluters, OIRA
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gdsheriff.bsky.social @gdsheriff.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/c...
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E.P.A. Offers a Way to Avoid Clean-Air Rules: Send an Email
Referring to a little-known provision, it said power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other restrictions and that “the president will make a decision.”
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gdsheriff.bsky.social @gdsheriff.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"It's a trap!" meme relabeled "We are currently clean on OPSEC"
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
AAUP and Middle East Studies Association sue to block the Administration from targeting students and faculty for deportation based on their political views. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-al...
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AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech
The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests,...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Circulate this widely! We need to know which NIH grants have been terminated. It goes beyond the list that HHS has released. Send to every scientist you know. @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
literally nothing can prepare you for this EPA press release www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
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EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars
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gdsheriff.bsky.social @gdsheriff.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Anyone know why dems didn’t filibuster?
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gdsheriff.bsky.social @gdsheriff.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Difficult for my 1990s-era brain to wrap itself around the concept that "conservative" justices come out in favor of inefficient, cumbersome, intrusive, bureaucratic, command-and-control technology requirements versus flexible, cost effective, outcome-based pollution limits
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Spirit from Montgomery @amarcklynn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Updates on forms and please share with your other accounts and multipliers so we can reach out all over the country at town halls Stand Up and Share Information
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Arizona AG Kris Mayes, New Mexico AG Raul Torrez, and Oregon AG Dan Rayfield will begin holding Community Impact Hearings — a national series of townhalls "to hear from the public about the impact of federal firings and DOGE funding freezes across the country." The first will be in Phoenix March 5.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is potentially a huge deal, since it is an internal appeals board laying out criteria saying some probationary firings were illegal, e.g. for citing performance rationales with no evidence. Could rippled out to include many more employees. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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Oversight agency finds Trump’s federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated
The findings could have sweeping impacts for the tens of thousands of recently dismissed workers.
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Rory Truex @rorytruex.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I'm going to try to do more writing about how universities and researchers are being affected by recent policy changes from the Trump Administration. If you are an academic or researcher willing to share your experience, you can do so here: forms.gle/oyhXivWMJeno... Please share/repost.
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Academic/Research Disruption Survey
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Scott Selisker @sselisker.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Mark Greif with the piece of writing I’d been hoping someone could write: clear-eyed analysis, historical comparison, practical advice www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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The Fork in the Road | Mark Greif
There may well be normalcy again. But it lies on the other side—not in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads. The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
spotted on fb
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gdsheriff.bsky.social @gdsheriff.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Spare a moment to shed a tear for all the finance folks working on debt/equity swaps
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/02/2025
"We're pleased to present this updated org chart that captures our system of governance (which management scientists term “Kafkaesque bureaucracy meets Lord of the Files,” though no one understands these references since we cut our literature requirements)."
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An Accurate Organizational Chart of Your University
In accordance with our informal tradition of updating documents every thirty years, whether they need it or not, our university is pleased to prese...
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gdsheriff.bsky.social @gdsheriff.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Wait, I thought government ownership of the means of production was literally ... socialism www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 31/01/2025
From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.
ICE On Your Campus
Questions to Ask Your Administration
1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities?
2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents?
3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant?
4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant.
5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance?
6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE?
What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now
1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact.
2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night.
3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan
4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney.
Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus
Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators:
1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so.
2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It was Trump who launched the air controller diversity program that he blamed for the D.C. crash.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."
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Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 25/10/2024
The premier conference on the economics of migration in Latin America Submissions due Dec. 15 — held in April 2025 at ITAM in CDMX From the all-stars Ana María Ibáñez, Sandra Rozo, Anna Maria Mayda, Felipe Gomez, Patricia Cortés, Cynthia van der Werf, @hlarreguy.bsky.social, Marcela Melendez
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gdsheriff.bsky.social @gdsheriff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Not a study but there’s a Heinlein short story from the 1950s imagining replacement of automobiles with an intercity network of moving walkways “The Roads Must Roll”
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
A class action suit against academic publishers I’m the new chair of the publication committee for the American Sociological Association, whose operating budget is heavily subsidized by Sage in return for Sage profiting off our journals, & we must confront this www.highereddive.com/news/6-major...
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6 major academic publishers face antitrust lawsuit
The defendants, including Elsevier and Wiley, have done "tremendous damage to science and the public interest,” the complaint alleged.
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gdsheriff.bsky.social @gdsheriff.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for, lmao”
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