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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I just call those "meetings".

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I wish they'd have just let his firing stick and didn't feel the need to keep forcing him back in the fold. In addition to regularly saying offensive shit, he's also just not funny.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The problem is, there are people who are going to read this as primarily a call to deregulate milk.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm only surprised it's not the word Ocean he's seeking to replace.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Many said this in past weeks. Now NYT too ‘AI programs are not human; they are human creations. Their complexity does not diminish the responsibility of their creators. If the programs cannot be trusted to work within the law, the companies should not release them’ 🎯 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Companies Say They Aren’t Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don’t Believe Them.

A.I. giants must operate under our laws.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

do alluvials have the same effect? because if so, when we finally finish our book...

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.

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Bud Grant Green @boxy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Turns out, the violence wasn't the thing about gangsta rap that Republicans have a problem with.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So let me know if you want to come to a virtual talk next wk on “Reimagining Leadership.“ Time tbd. The focus is on cultivating critical, creative, and caring capacities in medicine, but I think it applies beyond that. I’m pretty sure we can do this without any leaders.

Ruha’s title slide for “Reimagining Leadership” with a quote by Saidiya Hartman: “Care is the antidote to violence.”

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I describe it as coming to terms with how far behind I am on everything, rather than continuing to think I'll catch up one day.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A comment on the pace of science - "People can no longer afford to sit and think." ...published in 1991.

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Ann Keller @annck.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wonder how many men who went on to win Nobel prizes were denied tenure. Another way to put this is to ask if women doing path breaking, innovative work have a harder time getting funded or getting published.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How often are lap dog positions passed on through genetic inheritance? Asking for a state.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am unwilling to admit the amount of time I've spent in the past week getting microsoft products to work with my macbook again.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Arithmetic in the "New Golden Age of Science" at NSF: Reduce $600M in STEM funding between FY25 and FY26 grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses... Propose to reduce NSF GRFP fellowships by $180M in FY27 nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202... Declare "success" w/a $100M "push" for US scientists.

bloomberg.com

White House Makes $100 Million Push to Train American Scientists

The Trump administration is injecting more than $100 million into education programs for American researchers in STEM fields, as federal policies stanch the flow of foreign scientists to the US and po...

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is exactly the point for the Project 2025 acolytes pushing it through, not an unfortunate side effect.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But no part was hit as hard as SBE, which went from an average of 800 new grants to just 91, a precipitous, 90% decline. SBE spent just 95 million on new grants, far less than its average of 247 million.

Chart of SBE new grants by FY shows a massive decline in FY26

Chart of obligations by SBE shows a 62% decline in FY26

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

whatever the german word is that combines a profound sense of disgust with a complete lack of surprise?

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So, apparently Mac Mail suddenly no longer works with Microsoft 365 via exchange?

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For a while I used long running old series (West Wing, Different World, Family Ties...)

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the part that a lot of people seem unable to conceive or understand.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yep. It's the shittiest, illogical extension of all the wrong understandings of "do your own research" ...

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ASA Medical Sociology @asamedsoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Meet Gabriel, Medical Sociologist on the academic job market this year! #ASA #MedicalSociology

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maryland is not Georgia. Iowa is not Atlanta.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because figure captions don't count against word counts?

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J Dierkes @dierkes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're hiring at School of Social Sciences at Univ of Mannheim Full Professorship (W-3) in Social Data Science and Social Science Methodology Apply by Oct 22 2026 www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/en/about/job... @methodsnet.bsky.social

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Job Vacancies

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whew, I'm comfortable in my initial dismissiveness then.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not if the increase is only in non healthy life years.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ok, so a naive non-demographer question: I only skimmed the abstract & it led me to interpret them as effectively not allowing for healthy life year changes in 60+ years, seemingly implausible on the face of it, so I just dismissed the rest of it as non-serious in turn. Did I miss something there?

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

jumpingrivers.github.io/datasauRus/

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Your version hits a point that I'd missed in my own read, and is less emphasized in the others - Its essential reliance on (almost exclusively) "people are saying" as though that's "evidence."

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The fancier methods I learn, the more I want to present simple correlations.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This dude managed to check damn near every single stereotypical problem with blue sky in one short post.

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