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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It really is incredible how technological innovations that seemingly democratize information and processes are ultimately having the reverse effect.

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Planetary Research Cooperative @coop.planetary-research.org · 29/12/2025

If you are organizing a #PlanetaryScience meeting, there is no reason to pay for a service to manage abstract submissions, registrations, and program management. We are offering the use of our Indico server to the planetary science community for free. solarsystem.events

Screenshot of the https://solarsystem.events indico server landing page.

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

This fits all my priors. Insecurity and denying the expertise of others are a hand-in-glove fit.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/12/2025

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

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Dr. Lynne Elkins @ljelkins.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

They are really planning to go through with these cuts at Nebraska, despite recommendations not to. Unbelievable. If you want to hire highly qualified, very successful earth and atmospheric sciences faculty in teaching and research, quite a few are probably looking for jobs for next year.

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Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Why do childcare costs seem to endlessly rise faster than anything else? Same answer. For good reasons, we mandate classroom sizes but this means no efficiency gains and always rising prices.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

**Why does it seem like healthcare costs and teacher pay seem to always increase at rates higher than anything else?** It's not a mystery. It's called the Baumol Effect (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_...) and the world would likely be a better place if everyone understood this concept from economics.

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Baumol effect - Wikipedia

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Perhaps, I'm too influenced by Karl Popper, but I think we must recognize that *all scientific claims are wrong*. Science is a process towards truth. The scientific literature is a public record of this process and so it is filled with claims that have and will someday be shown to be wrong. 2/2

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Baumol effect - Wikipedia

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents. Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time. He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone. Houston, Texas

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 04/10/2025

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), top Democrat on Senate Commerce Cmte, is out with a Democratic staff report: "The Destruction of NASA's Mission: Whistleblowers Reveal OMB's Unconstitutional Plot to Gut the Agency." www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This is not how you reform. This is how you do damage. We've too quickly forgot how during the 2025 cycle, NSF dropped the ground out from many applicants by deeming entire paths and topics of study as ineligible after students had already spent time applying. 1/2 www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/09/2025

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Yes, this does sum up the entire current US populist moment, Trump et al.

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Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

BBC interview with one of the Korea workers who was shackled and imprisoned. This was nothing but an American own goal. Attempting to blow up the largest economic development project in Georgia history. Billions in investment, thousands of jobs for Americans. youtu.be/fcwJtWU4fn4?...

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South Korean detained in US Hyundai factory raid speaks to BBC | BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Ed Dept has pulled funding for programs in eight states aimed at supporting students who have hearing & vision loss. They got caught in Trump admin’s attacks on DEI, with Ed Dept spokesperson citing concerns about “divisive concepts” and “fairness” in acknowledging decision to withhold the funding.

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Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push

Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advoc...

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Old enough to remember when NYT couldn’t remember the word torture now they can’t remember the word murder.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I still often take cold showers in the morning because of this article: www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/b...

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The Benefits of Getting an Icy Start to the Day (Published 2016)

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Alternatively might be sed, grep, regex, etc. expressions that

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I spent the week tracing how HHS Secretary RFK Jr. canceled $500 million in mRNA research and reporting on a(nother) very chaotic week inside HHS. Let me introduce you to the fringe doctors, anti-vaccine activists, and MAHA operatives behind the mRNA “debacle.” www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

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How RFK Jr. alienated MAGA, MAHA and the White House in a single week

The botched announcement about mRNA vaccines reveals a health department full of dysfunction and infighting.

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Yes! 10x the number of congress people and have proportional representation for all parties that cross 10% threshold.

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Kevin Hardegree-Ullman @kevinkhu.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Everybody studying #exoplanets needs to be aware of this incredibly important point! 🔭

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

For whatever its worth, I disagree with the decision by Science to retract a paper because it was wrong. Retraction is a tool to identify and remove works created by willful malfeasance. When scientific claims are wrong, the reason why is important, and Science's decision muddles them. 1/2

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Retraction

The Research Article “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus” by F. Wolfe-Simon et al. (1) has been the subject of discussion and critique since its online publication in 201...

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I think a key point is that any laws that weaken tenure will be weaponized not to target famous white men at Ivy League schools but rather more vulnerable folks. That's part of the reason one should take the tenure process seriously, and why one has to accept some failure modes with tenure.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 18/07/2025

I still can’t believe that all NIH grants to my colleagues at Harvard and Harvard Medical School have been nullified. And that, as a nation, we’re somehow okay with this illegal, arbitrary, and petty act. Just think of the consequences: scientists, students, and patients will all suffer.

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Yes. The conservative politicians and business leaders that routinely denigrate higher ed and uplift blue collar tradework do so TO LOWER their labor costs and reduce competition for their children, who are still going to college (and learning art, music, literature, and languages in k-12 schools).

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Trump and Elon made massive cuts to all US weather tracking and warning systems in the spring of 2025.

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Destruction designed to end scientific discovery for public good in America.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

You can go Settings > Display, and toggle on 'asteroids'. Zoom in to see the red-green-blue streaks. That's the sky as it is, filled with the moving foreground of our Solar System! 🔭

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This photo. This is fascism. This is authoritarianism. This is not normal. Don’t forget.

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Drove side-by-side to Martin Lawrence on the Chicago Skyway for a few miles.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Maybe the real waste, fraud, and abuse was the DOGE we made along the way.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This is a good idea. Highlight the fact that law enforcement agencies that should be targeting drug trafficking and child exploitation are being used to arrest immigrant moms and workers due to Stephen Miller's twisted ideological obsession, Dems!

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It’s hard to imagine how much BS we are ultimately going to be drowning in. The money to be made is not developing an app to use AI (everyone’s doing that). The money to be made is developing an app that will guide you through the BS to the real.

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Are we living A Tale of Two Cities?

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Garrett Reisman @astro-g-dogg.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Unless these decisions are reversed, this will be remembered as a disastrous week for @NASA. First, I am not optimistic that whomever this administration nominates next for NASA Administrator will be nearly as qualified or enthusiastic about the agency’s mission as Jared. 1/

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Very little about these decisions by the Trump administration were driven by a considered effort to increase value by reducing costs. This office of NASA was closed because they studied global climate change and we’re located in a blue state. That’s all.

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mjfgates @mjfgates.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

It's just one tax cut! What can it cost, a quarter of a million scientists?

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Seth Jacobson @sethajacobson.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

In an education context, this is called meeting the student where there at. 🤦‍♂️

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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Might be a good time to re up this old PopSci piece I wrote about how dirt cheap NASA missions are. www.popsci.com/real-cost-na...

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The Real Cost Of NASA Missions

What is the price of awe and amazement?

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