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Wow! Here’s audio of Judith Jarvis Thomson introducing the Trolley Problem. Bonus: “The” Trolley Problem probably isn’t what you thought it was. youtu.be/V-CAEhBBTp0?...

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The Trolley Problem - Judith Jarvis Thomson (1978)

YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose

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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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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 30/09/2026

Apparently if I wait until the last day of a multi-month extension to submit an R&R to the journal you edit, you’ll get a MacArthur genius award when I do.

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Noah Kaufman @noahqkaufman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We started Resilient Energy Economies because we don't know enough about effective policies to support fossil fuel-reliant economies through a transition. Evaluating existing policies is a key way to change that. That's the topic of our webinar later today- join us! www.rff.org/events/webin...

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Resilient Energy Economies | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Local, Regional, and Federal Efforts to Support Fossil Fuel-Dependent Communities

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 28/09/2026

Happy Boston Celtics Media Day to all who celebrate.

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Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Article: Sleeping beauties in economics: Allais, Arrow, and the 75th anniversary of the 1952 Paris conference on risk, by Ivan Boldyrev, Ivan Moscati & Robert Sugden link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 27/09/2026

Gorgeous night for my first ever Forward Madison FC game.

Soccer game with a big harvest moon looming in the distance

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 26/09/2026

Wait til he looks into home insurance accounts

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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We are all lucky that the right person was in the right place at the right moment.

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Brian Weatherson @bweatherson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Among other virtues, this is probably more useful for people debating "Can AI think" than any number of social media threads.

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 25/09/2026

Gen x be like, Neverending Story rewrite?

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James Lindley Wilson @jameslwilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

[turns chair backwards, sits down]: Hey, kids! let's rap about the INJUSTICE of POVERTY and the nature of a GOOD SOCIETY! (two minutes later): Having distinguished strong from weak equalisandum claims, let us define a capability as a set of achievable functionings, or states of being or doing.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 22/09/2026

CEO sets up shell LLC, "Society of Young Women Scientist & Engineers", to funnel $ to Collins. Collins Super PAC head replies: "Very smart." Nonprofit group files complaint. Super PAC lawyer advises, Um, let start funding scholarships. CEO emails: “Whatever…just a pack of bitches getting free $”

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 22/09/2026

NEW PAPER: In a new paper, jointly published in @agu.org Earth's Future & @ametsoc.org BAMS, and co-led by Melissa Kenney, @costasamaras.com and me, 175 authors outline priorities to guide the future of scientific assessments of climate change in the United States. 🧵

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Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States

A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

12/ Here’s a crazy part: Kao told the FBI that the company’s government work was of no real value. Its research under his stewardship resulted in products Navatek knew the military would never buy, former employees said. One example: This 3D-printed boat Collins is posing with 👇

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

10/ Of all the politicians Navatek courted, Collins was its most important patron. At times, Kao and his associates cut checks to Collins’ campaign within 24 hours of the annual defense spending bill, which funds military contracts, clearing a key Senate hurdle.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

8/ Facing years in prison, Kao recounted the cafe meeting to the FBI in 2022, hoping to reduce his sentence by revealing the scheme. What he told them has never before become public.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You hate Mondays? Well, Monday had a lot to say about you at brunch this weekend.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spotted new posters around DC today

OMG.
AMERICANS ARE LOSING ACCESS
TO
LIFE-SAVING
CLINICAL TRIALS.
OMB.
UNITED SCIENCE

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My father contracted polio at age 6, was in an iron lung for weeks as a child, and walked with crutches. He had a long, fulfilling life, but he dealt with the effects of the disease until he died. I sat on his lap when I received the polio vaccine as a child. Hellfire for all of these charlatans.

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 18/09/2026

Discussing it this morning with a student and just wanna give a shout out to @tomshakespeare.bsky.social for his wonderful short piece, "Disability and equity: Should difference be welcomed?" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

bucket list item unlocked: somebody at this conference just politely gave me some literature and tried to recruit me into longtermism

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 17/09/2026

Found another sterling datum this morning in this ongoing saga. Gather round, kids, let me tell you the surprising story of the DICE model's true origins.

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 17/09/2026

If you don't like companies cooking up their own accounting rules and steamrolling all the scientists to get their way — or if you just want to understand how anyone could possibly claim that cutting down trees removes pollution from the atmosphere — please join our free webinar next week.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 17/09/2026

People who are innately and profoundly musical might as well be bona fide wizards, as far as I’m concerned. Just pure magic, it seems to me.

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 14/09/2026

🎶 How much to reduce that doggie’s mortality risk by one micromort? 🎶

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Payton Tolle Immaculate Inning alert

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Tom Slee 🇨🇦 @tomslee.net · 14/09/2026

Survivor bias

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 13/09/2026

Kiddo's first soccer game of the season this morning. And unlike for the last 4 years, I'm not the head coach! 🎉🎉🥳🥳 (Apparently I'm slated to coach bball in Nov tho.)

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 12/09/2026

Soft opening this morning on our block. A very welcome addition to the neighborhood. www.grandadsfarmstop.com

Kiddo in baseball cap perusing produce section of the new Grandad’s Farm Stop

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 11/09/2026

“literally entire best-selling books”

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 11/09/2026

The sky and weather in New York State that day were unspeakably beautiful. (I was starting my second week of grad school upstate.)

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s hard to tell us what the Hormuz war teaches us in a profound sense beyond “don’t be an absolute idiot”

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 09/09/2026

if only Anthony Fauci were on some AI boards, we could get them regulated

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 07/09/2026

As the result of this review by @bengroom.bsky.social and Mark Freeman, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer just reduced the UK Treasury's standard discount rate from 3.5% to 3%. www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 07/09/2026

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think about this line from @theonion.com more than is strictly healthy

A 'Did you know?' info box from the Onion that says "Pavlov's animal conditioning experiments were hailed as groundbreaking until follow-up research found that most dogs simply want to eat bells"

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Paul Kelleher @paulkelleher.net · 02/09/2026

Bought this on vacation and promptly went on a whale watch that rendered it 10,000% false.

Framed map of Maine with the following quote overlaid upon it:

“I would rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else” —E.B. White

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