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3(!) climate researchers won @macfound.org genius awards today: @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social, Kaiyu Guan, Marika Holland! Well deserved. www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

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Holly Jean Buck

Investigating the social, ethical, and political dimensions of climate and energy policies and emerging technologies.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 29/09/2026

Some days I'm just gobsmacked about, WTF, people? What is so hard about respecting other people, and not harassing women, people of color, queer and trans people, etc. Just live your own life, and don't go around making other people's lives harder. Can you not just do that?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You all know what camp I’m in 💋

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026

In Texas, the State is removing climate change courses from the core curriculum. They have decided that climate change is just too dangerous to teach the students. This is indoctrination. I wrote an oped about it in the SA Express-News. Gift link: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...

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Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it

Texas has removed climate change courses from core curriculum at public universities. Ignoring climate change will not serve the state.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 29/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

David Bowie, Catherine Deneuve, and Susan Sarandon in The Hunger

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

".... That'll be the day I go back to Annandale" www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

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The Edge of California Is Falling Into the Ocean

Storms driven by El Niño are pulling chunks of coast away.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 29/09/2026

Strong "In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink it here" vibe. In the future, money won't matter, and that's why I want all the money today.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 29/09/2026

Why are you trans? Wrong answers only. I asked an employee at the grocery store where I could find some cranberries. She misunderstood me, and next thing I knew, I was being shot full of hormones and wheeled into surgery in a secret operating room behind the deli counter.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exceptional solidarity from ASU hockey players who have demanded their coach be placed on leave for essentially overseeing the murder of their teammate and have disputed the university’s findings. www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...

Seven Arizona State men’s hockey players asked the university’s president to place the Sun Devils’ coaching staff on administrative leave pending further investigation into the workout that left sophomore transfer Matthew Mayich on life support.

In a 26-page letter sent to ASU president Michael Crow on Monday and obtained by The Athletic, the players disputed numerous findings from the university’s initial review of the Aug. 20 workout, writing that Mayich did not receive water and was provided inadequate medical care after his collapse.

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

DYK in 1967, JAMA, in “Medical News: Sexual & Marital Problems Today” noted that women NO LONGER saw marriage “… as a union for the pleasure of the male in exchange for the economic support of the female.

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AGU Science Policy @aguscipolicy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📣 Get Connected with AGU's Local Science Partners If you’re passionate about strengthening connections with members of Congress and advancing science policy, now’s your chance 🤝 Learn more and apply by 18 October: www.agu.org/honors/local...

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yet again, the most common harm of AI-image generators is nonconsensual porn (as it's been for the past ~decade). Perhaps unsurprising given the sex cult reporting, this is an obvious problem with clear demonstrated harms and tech companies have put very little effort into solving it.

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kieth Haring’s quilt square.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 28/09/2026

Also, apart from the creepy stuff about mixing work/professional stuff with sex stuff, if I were designing a program to help socially awkward people learn to become comfortable with people of the gender(s) they're attracted to, I would take sex and romance completely off the table and...

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 27/09/2026

This. Whatever consensual sex stuff people like is their business and they should be able to do it. But mixing work/professional networking/professional power dynamics in with sex stuff is a terrible thing to do, because all of the reasons.

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

DYK it wasn’t until 1969 that #coverture came to an end in U.S. law? In “Eisenstadt v. Baird” Justice William J. Brennan declared that marriage was “an association of two individuals” & a wife was no longer an extension of her husband. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 27/09/2026

The Bill Ackman Prize for Racists Who Can't Research Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Heinous Shit Too.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 27/09/2026

At this point, though, if someone contends they’ve never even heard of “245” or Dolphy, it may say more about the listener than the song.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 27/09/2026

So predictable that Bill Ackman would fund a prize to reward racists who fucked around and found out.

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This entire situation is beyond disgusting, but thank the Goddess for the stellar fucking work of student journalists. Truly. CW: rape, sexual assault www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 26/09/2026

Minor rant: In the last couple of days I've seen people comment about fantasy and horror literature, film & TV that magic should have rules. The rules might not be explained, but they want it to have rules and be consistent to them.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

Yes!!!! Yes!!!

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Philosophy of Science Association @philsci.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The PSA invites submissions of course syllabi that showcase effective and creative teaching of the philosophy of science that reaches beyond the mainstream! 🧵

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AGU Science Policy @aguscipolicy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

📣 2027 Cohort Applications are OPEN NOW! AGU's Local Science Partners program offers skills training for scientists looking to make an impact in science policy and work with their legislators Join our team and apply by 18 October to make an impact: www.agu.org/honors/local...

Make an Impact with AGU's Local Science Partners

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When you look up “patient zero” in encyclopedias or dictionaries the etymology of the AIDS origin is explained. When you look it up in AI it has redefined its etymology to be the first person with any disease. That is the most insidious nature of AI to slowly revise history.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 26/09/2026

"Patient Zero" Two people became very famous for their detailed reports about everyone they had slept with. One did it in the public interest, to save lives. The other in self interest, to become a billionaire.

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🎯 What should we expect from behavior change interventions? Growing evidence suggests that most behavior change interventions have small effects on behavior. I regularly hear fellow behavioral scientists understandably feeling discouraged by this. But should we be discouraged? Not necessarily.🧵

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good thread on essentially being realistic about the strength of behaviour change arising from interventions that are themselves small changes. The analogy with the $1/ton carbon tax is a good one. Though also worrying as am in middle of designing an intervention. Hopefully not marginal.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 26/09/2026

No. Never. I have the self-awareness to know that I could not control the way the final, edited story would portray my contributions. Look at all the queer and trans people who report that the Times's reporting and editing badly misrepresented them. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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“You Betrayed Us, Azeen” - Assigned Media

A story on the allegations of former St. Louis gender clinic staffer Jamie Reed left parents who spoke with NYT reporter Azeen Ghorayshi crushed.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Leopards, faces, etc etc

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 26/09/2026

"Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children’s ice cream!"

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I Do Not Avoid Women

Alt: Sterling Hayden, as General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove, saying, ,"I do not avoid women. But I do deny them my essence."

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 26/09/2026

What a great time for Vanderbilt University's occupational health to announce that, due to budgetary considerations, it will no longer offer COVID vaccinations to employees. What could possibly go wrong.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I 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

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The movie ROPE came out on this day in 1948, and newspapers really struggled with how to explain that the main characters were, you know,

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 25/09/2026

Drivers, if you won't hold one another accountable, you're all going to lose your driving privileges.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 25/09/2026

The real problem with bringing an iced coffee to a job interview is that if you don't also bring one for me, it's seriously rude, but if you do bring one for me, I can't accept it because that would create a conflict of interest.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 25/09/2026

When older people pretend to be outraged at young people about *checks notes* iced coffee. Boomer lawyer announcing to the judge, "I'm prepared to go forward with it. I'm here live. I'm not a cat." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Ca...

Screencap from the 2021 "internet cat lawyer" incident.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Even as Netanyahu calls Mamdani an antisemite it’s good to be reminded that American Jews feel safer w Mamdani than do w Netanyahu

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 25/09/2026

The concept of "100 best TV shows" exhausts me. Who TF would want to watch 100 TV shows? No judgment on anyone else's taste. This is just my visceral reaction. I think of all the trashy romance novels I could read in the time it would take to watch 100 seasons of TV.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 25/09/2026

Enough about same-sex restrooms. Can we get some MAGA outrage about same-sex sports teams? "This politician is pushing his radical same-sex agenda on your children. He wants to force your innocent child onto same-sex sports teams! He wants your kid to use same-sex locker rooms!"

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 25/09/2026

How hard would it be to convince the Tennessee legislature to ban same-sex restrooms?

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 25/09/2026

It would be a lot more fun if Anthropic would teach Claude to go rouge. And smokey eye.

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