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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Blubblah, and rotary give my Mass roots away. it's not like I say these words very often, it's just that what you call the corresponding things. My kids, who score overwhelmingly San Francisco-LA assure me that I don't actually talk that differently from them.

Map of the United States colored by a scale ranging from dark blue to dark red. New England is colored dark red, indicating that this my dialect is most similar to this region (Massachusetts specifically). The darkest-blue region is the deep South centered on New Orleans. My dialect is least like this region. The place where I have actually lived for 20+ years (coastal NorCal) is grey.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The same screenshot from Apple Maps.

Screen cap of Lake Ontario from Apple Maps. The lake is labeled as "Lake Ontario".

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Maybe this will be the thing that makes me switch to Apple Maps.

Screen cap of a Google Map image showing Lake Ontario. The is labeled "Lake America".

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Earth Systems asked that I make a flyer for my Fall class. My flyers are always lame, so I asked my TA if she could help make something that will actually activate student interest. I think she really outdid herself.

Flyer for a class. Black background with lurid green/white font the gives a Tron vibe. The center of the flyer contains a tweet by Elon Musk from 2022 that reads "Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming"

The text below the tweet reads "Take this class to unpack this provocative claim and so much more!"

In white text, there is a course description that reads "Climate change is an urgent threat to human systems, and solving it means finding new energy sources, mobilizing populations to adapt, and mitigating further harm - all of which depend on collective and individual decisions made through social and political institutions. This course takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach to sustainability, covering social ecology, human population, adaptation, trust, collective action, cultural evolution, time preferences, and slow violence.

More lurid text reads "Satisfies the 'human dimensions of sustainability' requirement in Earth Systems."

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Given that we already know that homie fancies a bit of gender play, perhaps he's lashing out from fear of @rebeccasear.bsky.social 's moral suasion to turn him from the dark side? Imagine the possible lost revenue if he had to admit that empathy serves a vital function in human nature!

Concordia U professor of marketing Gad Saad wearing a blue wig, a pink spiked dog collar with a dog tag reading "SJW," (fabulous) purple lipstick, a women's liberation appliqué under his right eye, a (faux) nose ring, buttons promoting smashing capitalism and requesting that people ask him about his pronouns, all under the gaze of Che Guevara on the wall behind him.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm sorry, "Coveted schools just outside the Ivies"?? That's right, Stanford and MIT are definitely second-tier institutions 🙃

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

WSJ: Higher education is hitting a demographic cliff. The cliff:

Chart from the Wall Street Journal showing the total number of US residents ages 18-24 from 2000-2025 and the line continuing on as a projection to 2075. The peak of the curve is 2025, with modest decline (hardly a cliff) in subsequent projections. A 13% decline in college enrollment is expected by 2041. This is not insignificant, but it is hardly a cliff. It is, of course, very bad news for many of the struggling private schools of the less-competitive category. It's not a cliff though.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Study confirms that cracking down on emissions improves children's health. Cleaner air means healthier lungs means healthier kids. It's just that simple.

Scientists compared the lung capacity of children in Luton, a town about 37 miles (60 kilometers) north of London, with that of children living in London. They found that children in the UK capital had smaller lungs before London introduced its ultra-low emission zone (Ulez), but that over five years this changed so that the two groups had similar levels of lung size and health.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Apparently, it’s black cat appreciation day. So here’s Jazz, the Fizz-famous black panther of Casper Quad, who can’t wait for the students to be back.

Bald man with an asymmetric white goatee and sunglasses holding a black cat with vacant green eyes and wearing a purple collar with a big bell on it.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Rogers is way out of his league here. He’s trying to attack the masculine bona fides of a man who pushes three plates for reps. If he won’t debate El-Sayed, maybe they could just have a bench-press contest.

Twitter screenshot of Abdul El-Sayed roasting has opponentwho made up some nonsense about El-Sayed wanting to “cancel” football.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Most-recent common ancestor of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease was about 60,000 years ago, well before there were people in the Americas. I don't think the chipmunks were doing gain-of-function experiments. Figure 3 from Walter et al. (2017): doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Phylogeny (i.e., inferred evolutionary tree) of the spirochete bacterium that causes Lyme disease.

Dated phylogeny of B. burgdorferi in North America. MCC tree of
the best-fitting model inferred with BEAST (relaxed log-normal molecular clock model; Bayesian skyline population size). Tips are coloured by sampling region. Evidence of ancient midwestern ancestry (the oldest internal node in each clade with support for ancestral location in the midwest) is labelled ‘MW’. Branch lengths are in years bp. Blue bars at each interior node represent 95% credible intervals of estimated node age. Branches are labelled with posterior probability values (not shown for shallow nodes for clarity).

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Here is a line of them in the Tesla HQ lot on Hanover St. A lot of the CTs you see driving around here have markings suggesting they’re Tesla corporate vehicles.

A line of about a dozen Cybertrucks in a row parked in a lot behind Tesla HQ in Palo Alto, CA

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Atlas's understanding of the biomedical research pipeline seems about as strong as his understanding of academic regalia.

Richard Corcoran, the political appointee who serves as the president of New College (a small liberal arts college without a graduate program), tries to hood Scott Atlas for his honorary doctorate in 2023. The hood is backwards and neither man seems to know the difference. As apt a visual metaphor for the war on higher education would be hard to find.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

That's a good line. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/o...

Think of this from the graduates’ perspective: Wealthy old people telling you your future is being pulped by acres and acres of electricity-sucking, water-guzzling data centers feels dystopian because it is. Companies are trying to automate your future away. No wonder you’re furious.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Read this opinion piece on petro-masculinity other day. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... In the process of working on a grant today, I made a very important scholarly contribution. Please clap.

Fan vs. enjoyer meme. Left panel (the incel/dork) reads "Average Petro-State Fan", while the right panel (ridiculous Chad) reads "Average Sustainable-Energy Enjoyer".

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Oh, and what do you know, there it is. I had only read snippets of the piece on my phone in the gym before.

"But the offensiveness may be a distraction from the destructiveness. A whole sector of mainstream media now functions as spirit mediums attempting to interpret Trump’s actions to try to fit them into the context of competent leadership and coherent and consistent agendas. If there was a coherent agenda, it would be a destructive one, a malevolent one. The newly popular slogan “the purpose of a system is what it does” is useful here, because what this system does is weaken, damage, corrupt and harm. The idea that there’s a coherent agenda driven by Vladimir Putin works in the sense that most of what Trump has done is good for the ageing Russian dictator while also bad for the US."

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Chevron on Flea Street in Menlo Park this evening.

Photograph of a Chevron gas station sign with prices of $7.69, 7.89, and 8.09 for regular, plus, and premium gasoline.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Been thinking about this quote for some reason. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

still image of Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides (a.k.a., Muad'Dib) with the caption "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." From David Lynch's (1984) Dune.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

No video on Bluesky, but I can attest: once again, zero reps

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is totally normal for February, right?

Image of a driver display in a Toyota Highlander Hybrid showing outside temperature of 80 degrees F.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Alas, I have other responsibilities that keep me from reading this clearly very serious, very scientific study, but I will simply note that, I dunno, it scans as pretty discursive in its style and I hear that's bad...

"Some feminists have long contested this view, often using political discourse rather than the scientific method. If gender is socially constructed, they argue, it is “mutable” and can be reshaped through political and social reforms. Feminists often refer to “biological determinism” in a pejorative sense, as they seek to reform society into a genderless one by eliminating what they perceive to be constructed gender traits."

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The murdered man in Minneapolis this morning was an RN who worked at the VA. Saw this on reddit. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

Screencap of a social media post with two pictures of Alex Pretti (one full length, the other zoomed in to frame his face). The text reads: "On August 16th at approximately 10:00 pm I received a call from the ICU at the VA saying my Dad had sepsis and needed to be intubated to stay alive so Josh and I headed in. We were greeted by the kindest, most calming and warm soul who helped us understand what was happening and showed deep care for us and my Dad. He continued to show utmost patience and kindness over the next few days as my Dad remained in the ICU and we were there continually. It was Alex Pretti, the man shot today by ICE. If you see this video and don't think it's murder, I don't understand your thinking and ask you to question your heart. He was out there trying to help and protect and from the little we knew of him, it doesn't surprise me he was not afraid to be on the front lines of this horrible scene in our Minneapolis. Weeping for his family and all those at the VA who no longer get to work with him or receive his care."

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I wish I had more pics from Downing’s. So many lovely people there always happy to help anyone learn how to lift well.

White vinyl sign hung on the wall reading “Downings World Famous Gym“ a picture of a red, highly loaded barbell in the middle.

A shot of the interior of Downing’s gym in Corvallis, Oregon showing the tangle of funky old equipment used by the grunting mutants.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Shoutout to my favorite den of grunting mutants, the place where I learned how to squat and deadlift: Downing's Gym in Corvallis, Oregon. Video of my then-18-year-old son learning to deadlift on the aforementioned plywood platforms with funky mismatched plates.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I'm afraid it's exactly what the name suggests. I take the perspective of a conservation biologist thinking about a vulnerable critter. Primary focus on climate change. We make math/computer models of population decline and extinction and read mostly novels/essays. Critical of Longtermism.

Screen cap of an outline slide with a collection of images to the right. The title of the slide is "Outline of the Course" and the outline includes the following topics:

The Human Organism
Population Biology of Extinction
Climate Change
Complex Systems
Rationality, Risk, and Uncertainty
Eschatology
Sustainability, Actually

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Unfortunately, the first premise is simply false. Emissions were at a record high last year. The "current pathway" is really wishful thinking and contingent on a lot of things happening that are seeming less likely given our current context.

Screenshot of press release from the World Meteorological Organization reading, "Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024"

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It's wild to look back at these artifacts. The people we had participating is just amazing. This doesn't even include everyone who actually participated, though some of them may have come to the more biodemography-focused workshops: Ken Wachter, Noreen Goldman, Jane Menken...

Flyer advertising the 2005 Stanford Workshop in Formal Demography. The listed faculty includes many luminaries from the field of demography including:

Shripad Tuljapurkar
Joel E. Cohen
Marcus W. Feldman
Joshua Goldstein
Shiro Horiuchi
Hans-Peter Kohler
Ronald D. Lee
Nan Li
Robert D. Mare
Thomas Pullum
Robert Schoen
Anatoli Yashin
John Wilmoth

Flyer advertising the 2006 Stanford Workshop in Formal Demography. The listed faculty includes many luminaries from the field of demography including:

Shripad Tuljapurkar
John Bongaarts
Elizabeth Bruch
Marcia Castro
Marcus Feldman
Joshua Goldstein
Steven Goodreau
Michel Guillot
Mark Hayward
Hans-Peter Kohler
Ronald Lee
Robert Mare
Samuel Preston
David Staeinsaltz
John Wilmoth

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Well, this is a reassuring plot 😬 Concentration index of the S&P 500: average market value of top 10% of stocks compared with the median stock. Now at record highs, comparable to the Great Depression and Dot-com bubble peak. www.ft.com/content/d5d4...

Time series plot ranging from 1926-2025 showing the concentration index for the S&P 500. There are 3 notable peaks in the 100-year span: the Great depression trough, Dot-com bubble peak, and the current value, which hasn't yet peaked and is already equal to or greater than the previous peaks.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Well, this fills me with confidence in their algorithms! I'm no AI researcher, but "James P. Hughes" doesn't even seem very close to "James H. Jones".

Screenshot of an author page from Clarivate's Web of Science with the main heading "Hughes, James P" and text immediately under it warning that "This is an algorithmically generated author record" followed by a line that reads "(Jones, James H.) Stanford University - STANFORD, CA, USA". The next line is "Published names" which is a mix of my name and variants on J.P. Hughes, followed by a list of organizations where I (and presumably Hughes) have been affiliated, and a bunch of subject categories, mostly related to infectious disease, and then "Anthropology".

One wonders how an algorithm could mistake James H. Jones (me) James P. Hughes (some other dude, possibly at the Hutch).

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Hell, yeah. Possibly the coolest thing I’ve ever seen at the Stanford Shopping Center. Admittedly, a low bar, but this was actually cool.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability seeks assistant professor in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Home dept is open. Happy to talk to anyone interested in ESoS. #EHBEA #HBES #BioAnth #CultEvo #anthrosky 🌍 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

We seek applicants for a tenure-track appointment at the assistant professor level in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability in the field of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (also referred to as Indigenous and local knowledge, Indigenous science, Native science, and other similar terms) and its relevance to social and environmental sustainability. Topical research areas of interest include, but are not limited to: the role of fire and other aspects of Indigenous land stewardship in the changing climate; establishment and management of natural protected areas; conservation and application of the wild relatives of crops and animals; the ethical and responsible collection and use of socio-ecological data; environmental governance; the role of tribal food and land sovereignty and cultural revitalization for environmental sustainability; and two-eyed seeing, the multicultural approach to understanding the natural world using both Indigenous and Western sciences as independent, but complementary, ways of knowing.

The range of expertise and facilities across Stanford University’s main campus, as well as Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve ('Ootchamin 'Ooyakma) and Hopkins Marine Station, provide opportunities to develop a research program that bridges Indigenous and Western knowledge systems.

Application materials should be submitted online at this LINK. The application deadline is September 30, 2025, 11:00pm PST. Late applications will not be accepted.

Applications must include:

1. Cover letter

2. Curriculum vitae

3. Contact information for three reference letter writers

4. Research statement (maximum 2 pages)

5. Teaching statement (maximum 1 page)

The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford University value faculty who will help foster an open and respectful academic environment for colleagues, students, and staff with a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Candidates may choose to include as part of their research and teaching statements …

based on factors including, but not limited to, the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate including years since terminal degree, training, and field or discipline; departmental budget availability; internal equity; and external market pay for comparable jobs.

For questions regarding this position, please contact Haley Mees at hmees@stanford.edu.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The heat index is 106F today in Baltimore and IKEA is running on auxiliary power. V post-apocalyptic welcome for us.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

America, I am confusion! Seen in Baltimore.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Doing the sensible, patriotic thing this Independence Day: getting tacos. It’s a family tradition.

Colorful plate of salsa-drenched soft tacos, with lime wedges, radish, and a pickled jalapeño

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Truly inspirational stuff for this year's West Point grads 🫡 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Yeah, that's right (I just remember talking to Brian and Kim about it). There's also this. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Serious question: was this actually "law enforcement" or were these simply Noem's security (even if they work for a law-enforcement agency). The distinction seems like it matters. For example, what law did Senator Padilla break that warranted the man-handling and hand-cuffing?

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