Gutting CSIRO is part of a broader move by Labor & Coalition govts to weaken Australia’s public sector. Labor must reverse all funding & staffing cuts, commit to increased & ongoing funding & establish an audit of CSIRO facilities to ensure its sustainability & viability.

If you use LLMs to do your data analysis, or if you listen to people who do, you should read this kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

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It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.

I'm so disappointed by this government. I was so happy when they won, but honestly it's hard to tell the difference now between them and the Howard-era LNP in actual legislative practice.

Fuck all these hateful bigots and merchants of death.

This story is using a "fiber craze" frame that feels analogous to questionable trends like "protein is in water now." But beans are actually very good and we should eat a lot of them.

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

I got excited and posted but should clarify. While we figured out the oak was a clone and likely really old, the conservation win is thanks to years of effort by a whole bunch of other folks. Attending meetings, organizing, filing lawsuits, and plain old not giving up.

LANDMAN is ripe for this because it routinely has Billy Bob Thornton go off on wholly-untrue pro-oil rants. His most famous one is about wind turbines not offsetting any carbon over their 20-year life cycle. In reality, they're fully offset within an average of 5.3 months.

Another Budget week gone &, overall, I'd say Australian research is worse off than last week. Maybe medical research is a bit better off. CSIRO's on slightly firmer footing ("but we'll sack everyone anyway"). University-based research? "Research translation"? Stuffed. No $. No plan. No research.

Nice. Let's see this bouncing down I-8 at 70 mph! 😁

Today I'm publicly releasing a paper that answers that question (download link in the comments) using data on 5.4 million local businesses across the US: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... During the first year of the current administration, ICE raids caused serious economic damage in seven ways:

My former colleague Min Chen, now at @uwmadison.bsky.social , has a great "Proposal Coauthor Tool" uw-gcrl.github.io/coauthor_tool/

🧪Though we generally perceive forest fires as a disaster, there are those that actually rely on them for prosperity. 🌳About the wondrous woody leviathans, the giant sequoias, in our latest article: www.lbscience.org/en/2026/05/1... @lbscience.org

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

best trend of 2026. boo all these fuckers.

This is an excellent profile of a Christian nationalist sociopath.

7) Real college tuition costs have been flat or declining for nearly two decades. There's an increasing disconnect between sticker prices and what people actually pay, which causes confusion on this point.

The gloomy headlines about the future of American higher ed been seemingly relentless. But the discourse is missing some basic(and surprising) facts about what’s actually happening right now. Here are 10....

Then there is what happened just last night on California's grid with the arrival of the extra SunZia wind power. Those natural gas plants that wait poised to surge at sunset ... just weren't needed. 1.5 GW of gas during the day to be ready went to 1 GW at sunset with 9 GW of batteries. Amazing.

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Simply doesn't make sense as a reconsideration of justice. This is a person who actively attempted to undermine democracy, to subvert the will of Colorado voters.

There goes Jared Polis out of my list of people who could ever be, well, anything

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"The Gestapo tactics of this president will not stand here."

no dude has ever rocked harder than this, I judge. how has this not been made into a movie

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President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”

Brace yourself This is an extraordinary thread, highlighting both the astounding work of the WHO & the Nebraska biocontainment unit, & also the sheer incompetence of—& the dangerous steps taken by—Bhattacharya, RFK Jr, & Trump, who’ve destroyed US outbreak preparedness & response Read it & weep

IMO, this isn't complicated. People just don't like the answers. We need -- Tech out of classrooms. Long-form reading. Physical books. Real math, including drilling. Testing. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

New York subway rule: dogs can only travel if they go "in a bag." New Yorkers took it very seriously... and became incredibly creative. 🐶

Please share with your trainees (will be useful for both undergrads and grad students!)

To our American friends in the medical profession, and their families. Other industries are also recruiting. Please investigate. nanaimobulletin.com/2026/05/12/t...

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Basically 'is this AI?' (a question I get from at least one reporter every productivity release) is hard to line up with the industry detail - information (includes tech) is almost exactly on trend, with gains in retail, mining, education, hotels, and restaurants.

This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Since we're all talking about dogpiles now, and I had mentioned my own experience dealing with them a few times in the last couple days, I figured I'd write a longer thread explaining my experiences with them and specifically why they're specifically worse than just "a bunch of people being mean"

Steve Wynn and Peter Buck at the Rialto Room tonight in Athens— stories, and songs, and a really great show! Photo @bertisdowns.bsky.social

Hassett, translated: Now that we have fewer immigrants, we have fewer jobs. When we said that immigrants were taking your jobs, it's because we were lying that there's a fixed pool of jobs. You rubes fell for the lump of labor fallacy.

Share it far and wide, and get AI the hell out of our kids' education ASAP.

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And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

Australia is getting faster. The curves will get steeper. They started their transition a bit later, so their BEV share may not overtake some other countries', but Australia seems to switch faster than some other countries at the moment (like USA, Korea, Germany).

I love this and I hope everyone who has the opportunity boos billionaire-owned, consumer facing "A.i." in public at every opportunity. We don't have to pretend it's cool if we don't think it's acceptable!

Play this on a loop for every enthusiast of this slop in higher ed.

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