kagubatan.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

This is really the selling point of the whole right-wing movement. Tearing down all the norms of decent behavior or responsibility to others and giving people permission to be the worst versions of themselves.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes

submitted 23 hours ago • 187 comments

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

submitted 1 day ago • 214 comments

This is kind of what I’m clinging to these days. Not even as a matter of optimism, but a way of retaining just a little bit of hope.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

the most surprising and disappointing aspect of becoming a global health philanthropist is the existence of an opposition team

submitted 2 days ago • 115 comments

Such a travesty that the Demographic and Health Survey program was terminated this week. I realize the Gates Foundation can't pick up all the pieces, but this one seems like a natural one for them to pick up given that the DHS is the go-to data source for many of their focus areas.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Good thing we recently withdrew from the WTO and killed USAID's international public health programs www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

For vertical farming to work for cereals, energy would need to be insanely cheap. We underestimate how cheap a lot of outdoor farming is. That's good for feeding 9-10 billion people. But bad news for indoor competitors. I ran the numbers here: www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/vertical-f...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

The thing is, I really do respect this argument and I think that nothing is /lost/ from trying to use simpler language, but it also strikes me that the most dangerous antiintellectualism (eg. "I do my own research" on vaccines) takes place in fields that are /impossible/ to make simple.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

the bad guys have already figured out Spanish, and for that matter I don't just mean the political right—scammers and predatory finance get away with murder against Spanish speakers because regulatory agencies don't have enough Spanish speakers on staff to give it the same close eye as English stuff

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

What will become of international development after the end of the aid paradigm? www.africanistperspective.com/p/what-will-...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Not every benefit/cost estimate gives you roughly the proportions of a pencil to visualize. But, the large benefits to Michigan residents in the form of increased earnings by enabling parents to work are a win/win for the populace and design!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Today FIRE is promoting Ilya Shapiro’s new book, accepting at face value his posturing as a hero for pushing back against “illiberalism” in academia. Meanwhile:

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

Gary the Canadian Adventure Cat would like to remind America that if it invades Canada, its children will die, scared, alone and frozen.

submitted 9 days ago • 101 comments

It is true that grifters and kooks introduced some unreasonable language and norms into liberal spaces, that you can find examples of this going back decades, even during the Civil Rights Movement, and that centrists intentionally sensationalizing this over the last decade has damaged the country.

submitted 12 days ago • 46 comments

(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Dem consultants: If you don’t mention inflation and betray trans people in literally every post, your career is over. Republican consultants: Hell yeah let’s have the puppy killer build the concentration camps and the corpse defiler fire the cancer docs, our base is going to love you forever.

submitted 14 days ago • 28 comments

Personally I’m just glad free speech and academic freedom are protected again, and we’ve gotten rid of all that political correctness www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

Allow me to point out this is one of the worst arguments you could possibly make

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

I’m often skeptical of boycotts but given the consumer base of Tesla cars this seems like something that could actually be effective

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 17 days ago • 336 comments

This will be resistlibs in 2026

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

Results from prior rounds of steel tariffs (in this case, GWBush's): "upstream steel tariffs have highly persistent negative impacts on the competitiveness of U.S. downstream industry exports." economics.princeton.edu/wp-content/u...

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

New (second) lawsuit by contractors/grantees against the USAID 90-day freeze assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Balancing the budget by cutting foreign aid is like trying to save money by not buying deodorant. The savings are insignificant and you will become significantly less popular.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

submitted 19 days ago • 723 comments

We can't have every debate. We always make choices about what debates we amplify. This is true in the media and at universities. We need to own the consequences of choosing some debates over others--especially the ones amplified by bad faith actors.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

submitted 21 days ago • 51 comments

There are literally hundreds of research projects here at UIUC being destroyed by the cuts to the NSF, NIH, NIFA, USAID. It’s an incomprehensible waste of scientific progress and human capital.

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

This is part of why the international development community (myself included) were so shocked by how this went down; I read Project 2025, I knew that work in climate change and gender was going to suffer, but there was nothing suggesting the wholesale hatchet job that happened.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Assuming this doesn’t get walked back, the long-term effects will be: 1. Profound and lasting damage to scientific research and technological advancement worldwide; and 2. Institutions doing what they already do for private grants, which is grossly inflate all other costs so they still get overhead

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Déjà vu all over again.

submitted 21 days ago • 961 comments

I'd like to see more writing on how the Musk/Trump junta feels like a frontal attack on the entire concept of virtue, in even the most traditional senses. They are actively demonizing and punishing everyone who doesn't worship Mammon.

submitted 21 days ago • 157 comments

We are seeing some impact on reproducibility efforts with the transition to the new US administration. For now, I suggest that you make backups of any data that required you to actively interact with the Federal government, as there may be a delay in response times.... #openscience

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day

submitted 22 days ago • 23 comments

“I’ll take all night if I have to!” -an 8 year old crawling up the Capitol steps to demand rights for people with disabilities youtube.com/shorts/vTSzp...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

The policy lessons are clear: the children yearn for the markets.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!

submitted 23 days ago • 434 comments

today, i am giving a seminar at EPA on a paper titled "Efficiency, equity, and cost-recovery tradeoffs in municipal water pricing" and it has apparently been scrubbed from the seminar website (it was listed on here last week!). I used a bad word in my title, I guess. www.epa.gov/environmenta...

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments