Reposted by Matt GonnermanOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18hraise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this) 71252390
Reposted by Matt GonnermanJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq... 492760779
Reposted by Matt GonnermanMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/10/2026surprise surprise he’s a climate change denier and doesn’t seem to understand basic reality futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comYou Know That Anthropic Employee Who Quit Citing Risks to Humankind? These Strongly Appear to Be His Bizarre Old TweetsOld tweets that appear to belong to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon have resurfaced, and they contain questionable assertions. 1130988
Reposted by Matt GonnermanRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old. 75634732218
Reposted by Matt GonnermanAnil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it. 171756473
Reposted by Matt GonnermanDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.nytimes.comNational Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants. 201844915
Reposted by Matt GonnermanHisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Pew tested AI synthetic surveys against actual survey data. Conclusion: “This experiment taught us that, at this time, AI models are not an adequate replacement for traditional polling on topics of broad public importance.” This is an all time bad idea. No need to hedge with “at this time.”pewresearch.orgCan AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not ReallySynthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults. 1123680
Reposted by Matt GonnermanEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 13972416
Reposted by Matt GonnermanRandolph Potts @rpotts-sawubona.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026Timnit Gebru, 2026 Right Livelihood Laureate & pioneering AI researcher challenges the concentration of power in the tech industry, argues that behind "autonomous" AI systems are humans deciding whose data is used, what resources consumed, who owns the technology-and are responsible when harm occurs 15123
Reposted by Matt GonnermanPolitics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...nytimes.com‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. 11030641222
Reposted by Matt GonnermanDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6838751540
Reposted by Matt GonnermanEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On two fronts—WH press access and third-country removals—the administration appears to be ignoring court orders. 23401208
Reposted by Matt GonnermanScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982253350
Reposted by Matt GonnermanMichael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026These allegations are a bombshell: the FBI informant claims Collins was in a pay-to-play scheme where donors to her Super-PAC were rewarded with government contracts. Trump stopped the investigation when he came into his office second term. As Collins would say, "concerning" 411594529
Reposted by Matt GonnermanNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.nytimes.comOpinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with. 251171310
Reposted by Matt GonnermanRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year 10632601548
Reposted by Matt GonnermanJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...404media.coA Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. 461285797
Reposted by Matt GonnermanDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.subscriber.politicopro.comPOLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governorsNew York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm. 651412606
Reposted by Matt GonnermanMax Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🚨 The NIH is moving to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in infectious-disease research projects to the DOD under a secret 10-year pact. Here’s what’s happening inside “Operation Prevailing Edge” 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comRevealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIHAn agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense. 26444377
Reposted by Matt GonnermanStars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.stripes.comWest Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit saysAdam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says. 48977423702
Reposted by Matt GonnermanGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“In Arizona, many areas of the border will soon have two 30-foot walls right next to each other. This barrier is poised to cut off three of the four most important remaining wildlife corridors between Mexico and Arizona, threatening the jaguar’s re-expansion despite all the positive recent signs.”nytimes.comJaguars Are Ready to Come Back. The Border Wall Might Stop Them.A lone male roves the Arizona mountains, and a female has been spotted just across the border in Mexico. The sightings raise hopes for the species, despite serious threats. 319571
Reposted by Matt GonnermanRoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac... 7562602703
Reposted by Matt GonnermanMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 10/08/2026If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of our future innovation capacity, prosperity, and national security crumbling. Shattering our university research system and international student pipeline will harm all Conservative & Liberal Americans. From the American Institute of Physics—>aip.orgPhysics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high RateThe exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says. 0429184
Reposted by Matt GonnermanSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026My goodness please *listen* to this extremely wholesome storynpr.orgWe asked a first grader to interview his hero: A bird scientistNPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in conservation science. 241928500
Reposted by Matt GonnermanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The Senate is important, but state legislatures are just as big and, as the post notes, these races are a lot more effective use of your dollar. 27992290
Reposted by Matt Gonnermanthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/08/2026can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed 573653549
Reposted by Matt GonnermanJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose... 6936571216
Reposted by Matt GonnermanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/07/2026This is a massive scandal. Not "should be," but "is." 652519745
Reposted by Matt GonnermanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Wow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway. 311392697
Reposted by Matt GonnermanDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.nytimes.comOpinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there? 342497571
Reposted by Matt GonnermanAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’ 731718904
Reposted by Matt GonnermanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support. 15657502501
Reposted by Matt GonnermanBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is a 1938-level story from Nazi Germany 121829671
Reposted by Matt GonnermanProPublica @propublica.org · 27/07/2026NEW: A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” explains how the move would’ve stifled that breakthrough:propublica.orgHow Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy DiscoveryA proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th... 911198597
Reposted by Matt GonnermanRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026forest service plans $10m worth of work to create fire breaks in superior national forest in minnesota. trump allows his top donor -- a self-proclaimed expert on everything -- to ixnay that funding because... reasons! superior national forest now on fire. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...washingtonpost.com‘We were shovel-ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablazeOfficials said losing out on the ability to do vital prevention work at a perilous time for the region hindered them from being as prepared as they could have been. 15328661498
Reposted by Matt GonnermanTom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 26/07/2026Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now. 211351410
Matt Gonnerman @mattgonnerman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Excited to share a huge collaborative effort exploring differences in wild bird hosts of Avian Influenza, and where we need to go from here to better understand transmission and spillover. doi.org/10.1002/wmon...doi.orgTWS JournalsWe describe the host response continuum for highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIV), including the continuum of host responses to HPAIV infection and exposure based on the primary axis of h... 030
Reposted by Matt GonnermanPaul Bleicher @pbleic.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.nytimes.comFDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago. 16328291509
Reposted by Matt GonnermanAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This is a blunt assessment of what the Trump regime is proposing for US science: they plan to take all the funding, essentially collapsing university-based research, in order to give that money to themselves, and they are lying about it. 218698
Reposted by Matt GonnermanNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what? 20746321579
Reposted by Matt GonnermanKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too. 1173356865
Reposted by Matt GonnermanCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/07/2026Trump / Miller are now limiting student visas to 4 years. PhD programs typically run 5-6 years in many disciplines.bbc.comTrump administration tightens visa rules for foreign studentsStudents will need federal permission to stay longer than four years in the US and universities will lose the power to extend visas. 15447161
Reposted by Matt GonnermanDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...wired.comThe CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED. 5040651766
Reposted by Matt GonnermanNPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMnn.prICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with PalantirThe revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. 17456683147
Reposted by Matt GonnermanAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..." 360133005452
Reposted by Matt GonnermanTyler King @tyleraking.com · 16/07/2026Ninety percent of the 71 detainees contacted in the concentration camp on Fort Bliss say they were beaten by guards are witnessed beatings, in addition to inedible meals and lack of access to medication or lawyers.apnews.comReport: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abusesA new report from human rights advocates says 90% of detainees interviewed at a sprawling ICE facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten. 211505791
Reposted by Matt Gonnermanrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 15/07/2026if i were a man who was, you know, normal, well i'd be mad as hell every time some guy got on a microphone to talk about what a big stupid lunkheaded alcoholic rapist i am 591954333
Reposted by Matt GonnermanRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling. 391044675