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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 24/09/2026

i'm one of the most blocked people on here so it hasn't been an issue lately. plus anyone who follows me gets instantly blocked by everyone who dislikes me, making things quieter for them. but i honestly don't use this platform much and it seems moribund anyway bsky.jazco.dev/stats

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Atlas - Engagement-Based Social Graph for Bluesky by Jaz (jaz.bsky.social)

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 24/09/2026

jfc i'm sorry that's insane. and i'm sure, like, random people targeted by libsoftiktok would find it nuts that i view X as gentler, but that's just been my experience

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 23/09/2026

www.thefp.com/p/jesse-sing... it was unpleasant! so i mostly stay off here. x has nazis but they're honestly less interpersonally disturbed and aggressive in my experience. you can just ignore them or ridicule them at your discretion

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Jesse Singal: Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem

It was supposed to be a gentler, left-wing alternative to X. My grim experience proves that just isn’t the case.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 23/09/2026

probably from all the people who threatened to kill me

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just listened to an ep. of Jesse's podcast and was surprised to hear him mention Bluesky within the first few minutes, then again a few more times. You would think he spends a lot of time on here or gets harassed a lot but it looks like he barely posts and they mostly get no engagement. Weird

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 03/09/2026

this is a fixation. just tell me yes or no whether you were venting or plan on acting on those fantasies, for real. i take this shit seriously bsky.app/search?q=fro...

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 03/09/2026

do i have anything to worry about on this front or are you just venting in a general way? i have to admit it concerns me a little

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 03/09/2026

I find this maddening. People on Bluesky are caping for the most insanely condescending, transparent, cynical form of neoliberal benevolent racism. And getting mad at the journalists who helped uncovered it! jessesingal.substack.com/p/nature-you...

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Nature, You Need To Figure Out What You Do

You had allllllllll summer to think of it

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 28/08/2026

I propose a 24-hour Christmas Truce of sorts between X and Bluesky to celebrate the lawful detention of Milo Yiannopoulos

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 28/08/2026

shouldn't your anger be directed at the people trying to destroy bakare? why would i "move on" from an asinine, ongoing attack on journalists who did nothing wrong?

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 28/08/2026

*Jason Arday* approached a Guardian journalist to try to get him to cover claims like him receiving a severed pig's head in the mail. The journalist looked into those claims, found them to not be credible, and published an investigation. Now idiots are accusing The Guardian of murder. It's sick.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 28/08/2026

Because so many of the horrible people trying to destroy the career of a black Guardian journalist are based on this site, just want to cross-post this. You are all being insane. You should stop.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 25/08/2026

this is really compelling stuff you should be a content creator

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 24/08/2026

there's a subset of people who are deeply disingenuous on this, who are more in it for being anti-woke than pro-free-speech, and who are particularly willing to discard their ostensible principles when it comes to anyone who is threatened with punishment for criticizing israel

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think if Twitter/Bluesky bifurcation has accomplished anything for the world it’s been breaking the illusion that whatever is trending on some app represents anything other than the dynamics of that specific app.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 23/08/2026

This sounds like something that would happen. I attacked black women and then I went to a listserv and was like "Check it out -- I attacked black women." It makes too much sense to not be true. The one thing she's leaving out is that after that, we high-fived and ate ice cream.

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Kyle Saunders @kylesaunders.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cheers Jesse. I thought about it all summer, and this is where I landed. More about how I got there in this substack of mine if anyone's interested. kylesaunders.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...

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Let’s Talk Course AI Policy

I’ll show you mine too...

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 23/08/2026

This strikes me as a good and levelheaded way of handling AI in education. No blanket bans but clear communication that: 1) end of the day you will not be able to rely on it in the highest-stakes evaluations 2) its errors are *your* errors, full-stop 3) you need to be thoroughly transparent

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 23/08/2026

I'd genuinely want to know *misconduct* Cofnas has been charged with. I plan on looking more into his work when I turn my book in. In my experience people often claim that scientific work they strongly disagree with/are disgusted by -- and no argument here on that -- constitutes misconduct.

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Kyle Saunders @kylesaunders.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Here's my AI policy for Parties and Elections this semester, plus a link to my substack where I explain how I came to it in the next reply. Every assignment in my course is AI-encouraged with required disclosure or AI-prohibited (the in-person exams). Disclosure of use is never penalized.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 23/08/2026

X is a shitshow. X has never sparked potentially genuine security concerns for me the way Bluesky did as soon as I joined, including during c2015 periods when I was being featured by Breitbart. This place has a different, more concentrated type of psychological disorder.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 23/08/2026

I genuinely don't care what Cofnas's motivations are. If a Literal Nazi posted material showing a Jewish professor was an academic fraudster, and that material was convincing, what do we do -- ignore its existence? The messenger doesn't *automatically* taint the message.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 23/08/2026

It didn't originate with Cofnas. That's the whole point! The issues were pointed out in 2023, Cambridge ignored then, and they were subsequently deemed serious enough that Times Higher Ed initiated a major investigation. Arday then strangled that investigation in the crib with a legal threat.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 22/08/2026

As soon as Cofnas was hired at Ghent there was an attempt to oust him. His vews were not news to the administration. It doesn't make sense that he's an acceptable hire until he blows the whistle on a case of academic fraud, and *then* he requires investigating. The timeline, at least, is fucked.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 22/08/2026

sure, if you think he shouldn't have been hired that's fine. but suspending him for accurately calling attention to a serious case of fraud is not a good approach.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 22/08/2026

I implore the good people of Bluesky to actually look at the timeline here. The basic facts are nowhere in dispute. They're in my NYT column, and I'll even include an archive link because I know you guys think the Times is basically Der Stürmer (also crazy, but another story.) archive.is/6JXOH 4/4

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 22/08/2026

3/ including Times Higher Ed, by siccing a notorious defamation firm on them and *calling the cops* on them. A bunch of police-abolition, we-must-protect-journos-from-Trump types are now *caping for the guy who called the cops on a journalist*! It boggles the mind; it deep-fries the brain. FML etc.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 22/08/2026

2/ that the truth came out, even if the results were tragic. Fabulists, plagiarists, and scam artists should be exposed. The reason Cofnas was in position to do the exposing here is because since 2023, multiple institutions covered for Arday, and because Arday threatened his would-be exposers,

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 22/08/2026

1/ Getting mad at Bluesky for being crazy is like getting mad at a toddler for not knowing which sppon to use at a fancy dinner party, but to be clear: This is really crazy. Cofnas is obviously being investigated in relation to the Arday thing, and that is obviously bad, because it's obviously good

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 11/08/2026

Arday appears to be a serial plagiarist and fabulist, though. I don't think he should be 'hounded' but can anyone honestly dispute he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near academia? If you have time to email me links that'll let me dive deeper into Cofnas debate I'll read them -- jesse.r.singal@gmail

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 09/08/2026

i mean cofnas will be bouncing around at the fringes of academia forever (ghent is a lovely town but no american scholar's preferred destination), whereas arday was appointed to a position that made him an international star. different problems and incentives exists in different corners of academia

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 08/08/2026

Just as a matter of how the editing process works there, they weren't gonna let me litigate a potentially in-the-weeds fraud claim anyway -- they edit very tightly, wordcountwise, and the whole piece got lawyered, I was told. I think I presented it fine, the jarring quote is to prevent soft-pedaling

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dachte @dachte.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It's up to you to decide whether to try to convince others that your concerns and beliefs are worth adopting. Showing up doesn't mean you'll win, but not showing up means you'll be fringe. There are no awards handed out for telling the world you're exhausted that most people disagree with you

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 07/05/2026

people on this site need to calm down so badly. it's just such an unhealthy way to be

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 03/03/2026

I don't think Matt Yglesias is a Nazi collaborator

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 26/02/2026

New from me: Elon Musk, Standpoint Epistemologist (on his claim that if you don't have kids you can't do AI alignment) jessesingal.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

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Elon Musk, Standpoint Epistemologist

It’s all the same nonsense

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 26/02/2026

it's publicly listed! jesse.r.singal@gmail.com

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 26/02/2026

with respect, i've been a science journalist for a while. if you want to catch up on my work and you still have qualms you can email me and i'll answer your questions

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 26/02/2026

This is groundhog day medical misinformation hell. Not OP's fault: 1. Most science journos have been laid off 2. Mainstream outlets rarely touch this meaningfully 3. This leaves a gap that's filled with partisans chanting TORDOFF 2022! TORDOFF 2022! etc jessesingal.substack.com/p/researcher...

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Researchers Found Puberty Blockers And Hormones Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health At Their Clinic. Then They Published A Study Claiming The Opposite. (Updated)

A critique of Tordoff et al. (2022)

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 26/02/2026

i mean they 'explained' it as quoted in the piece i linked to but the explanation makes no sense and involves a pretty severe misunderstanding of donor-advised funds

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 26/02/2026

I'm baffled by the designation of SEGM as a hate group. I reached out to the SPLC repeatedly to try to get them to explain it to no avail. I've never seen anything that would justify that label and the SPLC's written claims were truly bonkers. jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-disast...

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The Disaster At McMaster, Part 1

Scholars are being “traumatized,” a long-running collaboration is being torched. . . what is going on?

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 25/02/2026

i'm saying the meme that 1% of american youth regret transitioning is effectively made up, in the sense that that stat doesn't map onto anything we know.

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 25/02/2026

The 1% quote is made-up in the context of youth gender medicine, unfortunately. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... See also Kinnon MacKinnon There's also a broader point here about using regret/detrans in the absence of more robust measures. But we don't even know the regret/detrans %.

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The Detransition Rate Is Unknown

An official website of the United States government

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Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com · 07/02/2026

I wrote about Dr. Jonathan Howard's view that to ask the question "What is a man?" is to put people in physical danger. I also questioned doctors who are unfamiliar with the bare basics of research methods can provide good care to their patients. jessesingal.substack.com/p/how-can-do...

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How Can Doctors Like This Provide Competent Care To Their Patients?

Some beef with Dr. Jonathan Howard

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