Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Why shouldn’t I custom-generate all of my child’s media?” Because the point of children’s literature, music, art, and movies is not to optimize leisure time, it is to provide your children with cultural, emotional, societal, and epistemic touch points via which they can relate to the wider world. 617643
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776502128
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialMark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026“The arrangement would give Vought, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a direct role in determining how NIH distributes its $48 billion in congressionally-appropriated money.” Bypassing the many checks and balances at NIH on grant funding decisions. 8271193
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I don’t like it when outsiders say Florida is stupid but I live here, I can say this is stupid. Save us @davidjolly.bsky.social! www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...npr.orgIn Florida, textbook publishers are minimizing or removing climate change coverageThe words "climate change" are slowly being removed from textbooks in Florida and from the state's education standards. 254
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialBen Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026You will be amazed to learn that some of the people who we invite to our country to pay huge fees to cross-subsidise domestic students and prop up our entire university system also have partners and children www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auFamily visas for foreign students targeted in migration crackdownInternational students would effectively be banned from bringing family members to Australia under a long-awaited overhaul of the immigration system. 612547
gilesh.bsky.social @gilesh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is incredibly important. Honest and complete government statistics are what allow us to hold government to account. 000
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026In 1937, Stalin's census found the famine killed millions. His government suppressed the report and shot the statisticians who made it. Three weeks ago, that kind of suppression was illegal in America. Now it isn't. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…newsletter.platypuseconomics.comThe Sentence That Used to Protect American Statistics"Protection from inappropriate influence is a hallmark of scientific integrity." That line governed the Census Bureau and then the White House quietly disappeared it. 14453256
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Working on a newsletter issue about the costs of hypervigilance in every software-mediated interaction nowadays, but this pretty much sums it up 329662
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/08/2026 26361262659
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 29/08/2026Here’s a map I made a few years ago (with R and sf) of every river, stream, and waterway in the CONUS. This is freely available USGS data. I wanted a nice poster for myself and boy it looks great at wall size. Anyone can make this kind of thing. Agencies like the USGS have so much good stuff. 328232
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/08/2026There is currently a Wikipedia edit war on the Great Lakes Wikipedia pages because everything is so stupid 1215121625
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I wrote about the Reflecting Pool fiasco, and why its most important lesson isn't about corruption or weaponization or politicization. Subscribe to my new blog, it's free! michaelgrunwald.substack.com/p/reflecting...michaelgrunwald.substack.comReflecting on the Reflecting Pool, and Whether Our Government Can Manage a Two-Car FuneralCorruption, weaponization, and politicization are all bad. But don't forget incompetence! 073
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialOur World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 12/08/2026How much income would it take from the richest 10% of people in the world to match that of the poorest 10%? Our colleague Pablo Arriagada calculated the answer using data from the World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform. 24936
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is a very serious problem for libraries, archives, and knowledge-keepers of all kinds. If you don’t control access to your collections, *you do not have collections.* If we do not have permanent access to records, stories, & sources of knowledge then our histories and memories are not our own. 6790440
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026At today's UKRI board meeting, the fate of UK particle physics and astronomy will likely be decided. Have we done enough to convince the powers-that-be to halt the proposed funding cuts? 🤞 Read Prof. Hiranya Peiris in Nature today eloquently explaining why these cuts are wrong.🧪🔭⚛️ 📖: rdcu.be/friwM 520375
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialCuriousCat @felissapien.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The work we did with kākāpō is now not possible because the govt has said that our funding should go to science that makes money. Members of our current govt have said that if an endangered species is in the way of a mine or a new road then it’s goodbye #nzpol peterkdearden.substack.com/p/on-kakapopeterkdearden.substack.comon Kākāpōand extinction 12288157
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/06/2026This is such a bummer. 25882138
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialmlongfield.bsky.social @mlongfield.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Reminder that Bill 212 not only sought to rip out bike lanes, but also indemnify the province when people were killed or seriously injured as a result. 114571
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialRobin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Possibly the best way to phish academics would be to just send them email that looks like a request to review an article and embed your malware in the "decline to review" link 824941
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialStacey Ogden 🦔 @labogden.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Make some noise about this 🧪 www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...npr.orgPresident Trump seeks control of science fundingThe White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science. 8162103
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/2026Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says. 331657977
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialMichael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s... 447188346434
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026quite a headline (and it’s right)theguardian.comUS is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts sayHundreds of cases reported in the DRC after USAID has been dismantled and key scientific research canceled 18860366
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I made a really really long chart -- longer than a CVS receipt -- but I did it for a reason. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comHow to Lie with a Chart, by the U.S. GovernmentCharts are a beautiful language. Which is why this kind of cherry-picking is such a betrayal. 29474151
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026There is no way to do anything interesting in any sustained way in any field without immersion in that field. That's just a fundamental fact of being human, and there's no getting around it. 24525112
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialDr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 29/04/2026As a Pluto scientist, it's wild to "make Pluto a planet again" while decimating the careers of those of us that study it! The idea of dominance in space and planetary science supersedes the actual practice of planetary science. 11547127
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/04/20261) There's no reason an administrator at NASA should care how a Solar System body is categorized. 2) NASA isn't the org that makes classification determinations for Solar System objects. 3) If Isaacman wants Pluto reclassified again, he can lobby the International Astronomical Union on his own time. 902408459
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialBarbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Sustained underfunding of CSIRO is degrading Australia’s scientific workforce & sovereign capability. CSIRO workers are highly skilled & essential. Specialised scientific expertise takes years, often decades, to build. Losing their expertise would be a serious blow. 1176
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/04/2026When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research. 5362831669
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 22/04/2026A reminder that the 🌎 is an excellent planet, the only one we've discovered with reliable wi-fi and breathable air; we should really try to stop eating it. Happy 🌎 Day! The book-length version is here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Are...simonandschuster.comWe Are Eating the EarthFrom the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the f... 1143
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialBenjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Redirecting funding from basic science to applied science isn't just wrong because you need to start with basics - because products are assembled out of *many* ideas. It's like asking farmers to pivot from making tomatoes, cheese, grains, mushrooms, herbs, and focus on making pizzas. 2337
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialAndrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026“The FTC does not have our backs, that much is clear” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/04/11/t...statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu 061
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2026We need your help please. Please share. Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico is a UNESCO World Heritage Site containing over a thousand years of Indigenous history ancient ruins, sacred sites, and cultural landmarks built by the ancestors of today’s Pueblo peoples. 6831521796
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Here is the plan to stop it slow it down in court, then win the 2026 midterms and elect a Congress that will block it. But we need pressure and we need it now. These companies built their entire business on these lands. It’s time they said so out loud. Contact them today. Use this message: 4378155
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialBenjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The Australian government have decided not to pursue membership of the European Southern Observatory, the world’s largest astronomy organisation and one where membership was the main request of the decadal review. What are we going to do? 9296
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialMichael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Trump is paying a foreign company $1B not to produce clean energy. I think this might be the most insane public policy I’ve ever seen. www.eenews.net/articles/int...eenews.netInterior, TotalEnergies strike deal ending US offshore wind projectsThe agreement marks the latest blow by the Trump administration against the U.S. offshore wind industry. 48634
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Things are not okay. 1196149234993
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 26/02/2026On immigration: "I often am asked to speak as an economist. And what we should never lose sight of is that each of us is a moral being. And you, as I, have to decide how we feel about this form of rhetoric." 401086377
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialTamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Can't say this often enough! An acre of solar produces 50-300 times more energy than an acre of biofuels. Stop using food for fuel. 16129
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialTamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I did not know this and I think it's important. If you see a problem with a paper published in The Lancet, a high-status journal, you have to catch it within 2 weeks of publication of the paper, and your letter must be less than 250 words. WTF @thelancet.com?? 1123
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialTamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Roses are red Let's be realistic The key to nutrition Is biostatistic. 0122
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this" 22109681911
Reposted by @gilesh.bsky.socialRuth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.social · 30/12/2025We absolutely should be competing in renewables. Instead we are stuck wasting tax dollars propping up antiquated industries because they are propping up our antiquated leaders. 26112