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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3h

And 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What truly grinds my gears is that climate scientist can spend 50 years building data-grounded models and need to frame their findings to avoid being called alarmist. At the same time x-risk cranks and CEOs can just pull P(doom) > 10% out of their ass and be taken seriously.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 22h

"No robot or genetic test can determine whether a new hybrid apple is good or not. People decide whether an apple is worth cultivating...'Even with careful breeding...In the best case, we get some combination of genes we didn’t fully see in either parent, and that’s exactly what Honeycrisp was.'”

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Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This make believe "investment" would be only slightly smaller than the combined nominal GDP of the entire European Union (~$23t).

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s October and the neighbors are back with #SkeletonCrew. Strong start!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Thank you. I tell early career folks that my work was the exact same the day before and after I won a big award in our field a few years ago. You gotta be proud of your work even if nobody on these award or hiring committees can see the vision.

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

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

science.org

‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh look, US National Science Foundation-supported science won the Nobel Prize in physics.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

3/ 100+ Americans have been held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. They say they were profiled — detained because of their skin color, accents or jobs. “ICE isn’t looking for criminals. They’re looking for Latinos,” one said.

100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship

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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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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This has been on my feed all day so I'm going to give it as fair as treatment as I can. Prof. Wolfers is well meaning & I get the intuition, but he's speaking outside his area of expertise and he's just wrong. Having lunch with someone you disagree with isn't going to "cure ideological bias." 🧵

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

A new IWPR report confirms that college-educated Black women are more likely to lead in government than in companies. Which is why the DOGE cuts that slashed federal jobs have been particularly devastating for college-educated Black women. #blacksky

Figure 3. College-Educated Black Women Are More Likely to Be Hired for Management Positions in the Public Sector than the Private Sector
All women and Black women (bachelor's degree or higher) as a share of total managers in the public and private sectors, 2024

PublicPrivate
5.0%
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25.0%
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Women's share of all managers
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24.3%
Black women as a share of all college-educated women
15.9%
10.8%
Black women as a share of women managers
19.8%
9.2%
Black women as a share of all managers
8.2%
2.2%
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Source: Author's analysis of Current Population Survey microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 2026.7.8, https://microdata.epi.org
Note: Race and ethnicity are mutually exclusive; Black women are all non-Hispanic.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)

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Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools

According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Love it 👇

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Communication is not simply a courtesy. It is a core component of procedural justice...people are more likely to experience institutions as legitimate when they believe they have been heard, treated with dignity, and given meaningful information about the process." slate.com/news-and-pol...

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I Research Gender-Based Policing at Cornell. Here’s How My Campus Police Should Have Responded to Jane Doe. (Gift Article)

Gender-responsive policing recognizes people of different genders can experience crime, victimization, and interactions with law enforcement differently.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Please learn to disagree with Black women without questioning our expertise

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rare you get live visuals of state capture.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Scholars of colour described overpreparing for presentations, ruthlessly analysing their own results before exposing them to scrutiny, softening their conclusions or avoiding research on race altogether." The level of checks I go through often astounds some colleagues

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Men shouldn’t require a daughter, wife, girlfriend or sister before sexual violence against women becomes important to them. Women are enough. And condemning sexual assault shouldn’t qualify anyone for a medal. The bar is on the floor. Step over it."

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s, um…interesting that the documentation req’d by disadvantaged folks to access social safety net programs - in the interest of “accountability” to ensure no improper use - is not req’d by the very politicians who rail about the need to be responsible with taxpayer dollars.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...

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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences

Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I predict that a year from now we'll be seeing the same stories about BMW that we saw about Ford this past summer: after AI fails, they'll be trying to re-hire all of the people they fired. www.forbes.com/sites/joetos...

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Ford Hiring 350 Engineers After AI Failed Shows Human Value In AI Era

Ford rehired 350 engineers after AI systems failed to maintain quality. The decision is attributed to lead in JD Power's ranking for the first time in 16 years.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If a productivity task is easily automated, chances are good that some invisible labor is managing the work that makes the task easy to automate. bsky.app/profile/tres...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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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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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@kennyjacoby.bsky.social on X: NEW: I analyzed seven years of Cornell's sexual violence case data. Expulsions are very rare. 1,216 reports of sexual assault, DV and stalking, 2018-2024 162 formal investigations. 51 findings of fault. 14 suspensions. 7 expulsions or dismissals.

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Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive

A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

JFC. Another unsigned ruling by rank cowards. How many dead bodies will the fascist Justices be responsible for by the time the next hearing date rolls around in December?. Fascist Supreme Court Justices are an enemy of the people's rights. Pack the court, soonest. Or else lose the Republic entire.

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Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now (Gift Article)

The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Recession indicator

A box of Hamburger helper. At the top it says to try using hot dogs instead of ground beef

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

View from my classroom this morning 😊

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the investigation of alleged 'gang rape' at a Cornell University fraternity in 2024 after a civil lawsuit filed earlier this month sparked outrage about the incident." abcnews.com/US/district-...

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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 27/09/2026

Our polling average today: 60 percent disapproval ties Trump's high. 37 percent approval ties Trump's low. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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