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I'm currently on day two of a workshop from the NIH. We're in the middle of a presentation and we're now being told that the remainder of the workshop is cancelled. 🙃

submitted 40 days ago • 54 comments

Everybody knows what a nazi salute looks like. You can’t pretend you don’t know. It’s evil iconography. It’s a racism classic. You can’t have any remaining self respect any pussyfoot around what we saw today. We know what we saw.

submitted 42 days ago • 9 comments

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

submitted 88 days ago • 185 comments

A friend just asked me "what is the most fundamental particle in economics?" What would you say?

submitted 51 days ago • 8 comments

If NYU administrators think a sit-in at the library has a “significant disruptive impact” on the university, wait til they hear what the Israeli military has done to every single university in Gaza.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

submitted 54 days ago • 619 comments

I try to narrate this differently. The 1924 act was a triumph of a eugenic restrictionist movement that had sought tirelessly to curtail immigration to preserve/promote a white racial order. Immigration was key context, but not the cause.

submitted 82 days ago • 5 comments

two more tests, one more project, and I'm done with my first semester of my master's degree program 😤

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Some decisions are best made quickly and locally. Governance can work better as a higher-order network, not a pyramid around a central state. How should we design these networks? We looked at this with law and complexity scholars and found "effective governance" networks. arxiv.org/abs/2412.03421

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

Every time I see this man I'm going to remind everyone who will listen that his career started under Obama where he was ICE's head of deportations & innovated a policy of separating children from parents as a migration deterrent. Obama gave him a Presidential Rank Award for Distinguished Executives.

submitted 83 days ago • 28 comments

Here’s some common sense for you. If u want to or need to drive in cities, your problem isn’t people choosing walking, biking & public transit because of smart, safe infrastructure. It’s all those people being forced to drive big cars instead, stuck in traffic in front of you. #TheTRUTHaboutTraffic

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

I'm not sure if this is controversial but I don't know that reducing polarization is valuable in and of itself. Polarization between someone invested in justice and a proud bigot could be reduced by the former adopting bigoted beliefs, but I don't think that would be good for society.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Finally diving into this mind altering tome. High energy lucid rebuttal of the conquerors’ mythology.

submitted 115 days ago • 2 comments

Folks, now that @timnitgebru.bsky.social is here I want to encourage you all to check out the extended critical AI starter pack because it’s got some stellar recent additions :) go.bsky.app/B2kmVWg

submitted 89 days ago • 34 comments

submitted 89 days ago • 553 comments

Healthcare and housing are both human rights.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Using LLM-based products in warfare is now codified in OpenAI’s business model.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

claim denial company announces new pretense for denying claims

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

important day to affirm that healthcare is a human right, trans rights are human rights, and gender-affirming care is life-saving

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, hold up. This is actually pretty important because it parallels the ways a lot of anti-trans stuff that comes out of academia is grounded in "just asking questions" or "engaging in good faith inquiry," which frames transphobic "research" as anything but. That is, it isn't discrimination.

submitted 89 days ago • 4 comments

Post an Onion headline that lives in your head rent-free.

submitted 92 days ago • 14 comments

While our bodies seem static, our cells are constantly changing shape or on the move during tissue homeostasis or wound repair & even more dramatically during embryonic development, during events like gastrulation. Defining how cellular machines mediate these events is a key task for our field 1/n

submitted 93 days ago • 17 comments

I’m annoyed that AI companies have muddied the water of research exceptions. It’s so bad that a dataset of publicly available social media content could not be used for legitimate communications research without stirring up a justifiably anxious backlash against that dataset.

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app

submitted 101 days ago • 335 comments

Hey, remember when car and oil companies successfully lobbied governments to create car dependent cities and suburbs, and once we became almost completely car dependent, WE became the loudest, angriest champions of unhindered road space for cars, unnaturally cheap gas, and subsidized free parking?

submitted 101 days ago • 10 comments

@harvardcchange.bsky.social adding you to this starter pack! go.bsky.app/5kuYAhM

submitted 102 days ago • 5 comments

Sharing the Vermont Complex Systems Institute starter pack! A list of core members, alumni, and external faculty 🤝 go.bsky.app/D46bnkS

submitted 123 days ago • 2 comments

starting out on a new social media platform I recommend following others with wild abandon, having an active timeline makes a big difference and you can always trim connections later on

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Now that @jeffclune.bsky.social and @joelbot3000.bsky.social are here, time for an Open-Endedness starter pack. go.bsky.app/MdVxrtD

submitted 104 days ago • 15 comments

Infectious Disease Modelling starter pack update! Many more colleagues have joined since last post so have a look at update to welcome them. Suggestions welcome! (bio should contain experience relevant for this pack) go.bsky.app/86Ao1a5

submitted 105 days ago • 10 comments

I've just created a #Science4Policy Starter Pack that might be of interest to those looking for #SciPol opportunities, resources, tips, & initiatives! I'll gradually add #SciPol experts to it in the coming weeks so please share recommendations below! Follow along here: go.bsky.app/9Ha2WF2

submitted 102 days ago • 10 comments

I haven't come across one yet, so I ended up creating a political behavior starter pack. Let me know if you want to be added go.bsky.app/MUYzY5P

submitted 103 days ago • 114 comments

Lets fill out the multi-agent systems starter pack. RL, learning in games, certain kinds of HCI, collective intelligence, etc. go.bsky.app/9gsefkW

submitted 102 days ago • 22 comments

don't hate the player, find scientifically rigorous reasons to hate the game

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

types of network science papers

submitted 104 days ago • 5 comments

glad to see people migrating to this website, they've done a lot of good work with it (I have an older personal account)

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments