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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

and funded by a program (and a whole division) of the National Science Foundation that has been shut down by the Trump administration while NSF pivots to only funding topics aligned with administration priorities (read: AI).

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey, I've got an idea: why don't you not punch down on a graduate student publishing a study from his dissertation? Not a good look, my man. I actually think that understanding the roots of human cooperation might matter more right now than at any point in human history.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've made a huge mistake

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

c'mon, man, someone's gotta pick up the slack in funding the salons!

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

💯 people should read more children's fiction. then we might understand the world better!

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"If Rubin were actually sincere about not having sufficient evidence to make sweeping claims about the discipline, then she would not make such sweeping claims about the discipline. Yet she does. Over and over again." @juliango.bsky.social on the U Chicago responses to the Rubin report on sociology.

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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology

The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's at times like this that it's good to remind ourselves that 20-25% of Americans don't believe that the Earth revolves around the Sun. This is about as unanimous as an opinion can be in the US.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lollipop man in a zebra crossing.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It pains me to admit that I understand this

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Survey results indicate that more than a third of Texas professors are applying to jobs out of state and 70% encourage graduate students or faculty colleagues to apply to Texas schools, threatening a catastrophic brain drain. Republican officials: hanfordsentinel.com/news/nationa...

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Patrick Star Says Nuh Uh

Alt: Patrick Star Says Nuh Uh

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

😳 that puts Menlo Park to shame

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thing is, I can understand why gas is so expensive on pretty much the only station in Big Sur. What I can't figure out is why it's so high on the Alameda in Menlo Park!

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yeah, that one and the Sharon Park Shell station have gotta be the most expensive in the Bay Area. I don’t believe I’ve ever gotten gas at the Chevron on Alameda.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

New blog post on my latest attempt to plot climate data. For lectures, I always try to make the plots in my slides. It ensures that I understand what I'm presenting and keeps my data-visualization skills sharp. #rstats eehh-stanford.github.io/monkeys_uncl...

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Experiments in Plotting Climate Data – Monkey’s Uncle

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DeFlock @deflock.org · 11/09/2026

"given 20 billion monthly plate reads, that 4% error rate equates to 800 million potential nonsense traffic tickets, wrongful stolen car arrests, and, in the worst case, dangerous and unnecessary police encounters every single month." 🤬 www.jalopnik.com/2255575/unim... #Surveillance

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Here's The Unimaginably Huge Number Of Pictures Taken By Flock Cameras Every Month - Jalopnik

Flock is taking over 20 billion photos per day across 49 states, and reading license plates without permission at a rate of 157 photos per second.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Forget planting trees for a second. Let's talk about BOGS. Did you know that peatlands cover a tiny 3% of Earth’s land, but store MORE CARBON than all the world's forests combined?They are an ultimate MVP of our climate system and it’s time we start hyping them. Join me! 🧵 1/

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

Certainly horrible acoustics. The spaces are literally designed to be buzzy (and thus seem more hip) Means you can't have a conversation with the people at your table. For visiting-speaker/job-talk dinners, we have a secret list of restaurants where you at least have a chance of conversation.

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

It's fancier than it used to be. Almost all the rug merchants have been replaced by trendy restaurants that serve middling food.

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

That seems like a lot even for here. I was wondering if it might be adjacent to the Zuck-Chan compound, but it's not particularly. One thing about houses in the area is that they are often much bigger than their street profile would suggest. However, it's hard to imagine this being $10M big!

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's been a week & I keep thinking about this. Laughing like it's some gotcha that infants cannot get vaccinated against measles & are entirely dependent on community protection, which they lacked in an outbreak that took off while Bhattacharya led CDC. He also gets the vaccine schedule wrong.

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

Depicted on the eastern part of the plot

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

We need to think of a different metaphor than "hell freezing over"

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In #ScienceUnderSiege, my co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I emphasize that legacy outlets like the @nytimes.com are a big part of the problem. Actual statement by editorial board in today's paper: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... could have been written by a fossil fuel industry PR flack:

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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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Jessica Kutz @jkutzie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I spoke to three moms who lost all of the food in their fridge and freezer during the blackout in Gary Indiana. They all had their replacement SNAP benefits denied. Experts told me they are concerned about how the state is operating the program after the disaster. 19thnews.org/2026/09/gary...

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Families lost weeks of food they couldn't afford to replace. Then their SNAP claims were denied.

As the city of Gary recovers from a devastating power outage, advocates say Indiana has a simple fix at its fingertips that could get parents the help they need.

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 04/09/2026

A psychology journal has retracted a seminal 2002 paper on deadlines and procrastination coauthored by behavioral scientist Dan Ariely of Duke University just days after a team of sleuths published analyses of the original study data, finding it had been tampered with.

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Procrastination study by Duke’s Dan Ariely retracted after sleuths find signs of data tampering

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

For sure. Couch logistics + time restriction meant I had to be focused yesterday, but am hoping to be over there a bit more this Fall.

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Used newly-downloaded @mapquest.com to help me get around Berkeley today as I helped my son with furniture for his apartment. It was great -- all bodies of water accurately labeled!

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

CE Job Alert! 🚨 Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology at Stanford University: culturalevolutionsociety.org/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Cultural Evolution Society

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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Welp, that lasted less than 2 days.

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