The footage and title card image shows me and some other @uaw4121.bsky.social members! Washington urgently needs to fix our regressive, upside-down tax code, and this could go a long way towards making sure we can build a Washington State in which we all can thrive www.king5.com/article/news...

"...the administration is essentially saying that the vast majority of scientists around the world are wrong and that a hotter planet is not the menace that decades of research shows it to be. It’s a rejection of fact that had been accepted for decades by presidents of both parties..." Gift link.

I‘ve seen people guessing that this could backfire on the GOP by disparately impacting more conservative women (married women who change their name), but has anyone seen rigorous analysis of this question?

Thread on tech trying to run over different areas without checking on the expertise and knowledge in the area. AI is running the course laid out by other tech innovations. Probably with less good outcomes.

Maybe soon? A song for your day. youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs?...

For all that is holy Dems, run on anti-corruption. Promise to ban individual stock trading; a constitutional amendment on campaign finance and that applies the same corruption laws to low level employees to all elected or nominated + publicize how the budget is PUBLIC as is the debates about it!

Important thread on the lack of law in Minnesota DHS actions from a lawyer trying to help immigrants. Read through the whole thread. The description of failing to follow court orders is bad enough. But the conditions in which immigrants are housed is torture.

The road to authoritarianism is paved with both-sides journalism.

One week until we start reviewing applications for our faculty job in cognitive psychology! Western is a nice primarily undergrad university. We have great students. But what is Bellingham like? We are right on Puget Sound (the Salish Sea). You can sail or take a ferry to islands.

Rays of hope for neural regeneration--science for the win! news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

for a fired professor, “the university recorded four of his classes using the existing Panopto camera in the classroom.” having read Foucault is such a burden in this new world

Do you own your data, writing, and emails? Does one of the tech giants claim to own your intellectual work? Will the tech giant turn over info about you even when government agencies don’t have a judicial subpoena? Think about where you store information. Google don’t be evil challenge?

A new blog post on theory of mind and driving. On the importance of mindreading for driving and how self-driving cars may be missing it. I was inspired by something @olivia.science posted to think and write about this (link to that is in next post). 1/ www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

Rachel Moran and co-authors Jin Ha Lee and Sungha Kang’s essay “Emotional Resonance and Participatory Misinformation: Learning from a K-pop Controversy,” was published in Harvard Kennedy School’s Misinformation Review: misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/emot...

I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change

A new blog post on theory of mind and driving. On the importance of mindreading for driving and how self-driving cars may be missing it. I was inspired by something @olivia.science posted to think and write about this (link to that is in next post). 1/ www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

Todd Blanche gives away the game here. Rep. Massie nails it. The Epstein Files Transparency Act does not permit redacting the identifying information of the men involved! 1/2

It literally had a heterosexual wedding, dude

Racists just being completely racist in public. Maybe democrats could run on the value of caring about all people.

But the President and VP are so thin skinned that anything short of complete and constant praise probably leaves them feeling bad and may offend them. Facts offend them. Glad I’m not a member of the House and expected to follow such rules.

New: "Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Learning: A Meta-Meta-Analysis" by Wagenmakers and colleagues revealing evidence for "severe publication bias and extreme between-study heterogeneity" in existing meta-analyses of the effects of AI on learning: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Sharing rumors and false information is different than providing evidence. Convincing social media followers and Fox News viewers is different than convincing a judge. But which one matters for maintaining control? Will the truth eventually prevail? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Shrimp and grits for dinner tonight. Turned out fine, although sometimes I make a thicker sauce with the shrimp.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

Jeremy Wolfe’s lab at Harvard is recruiting for a postbac RA! So, if you know a graduating undergrad…

Fireworks going off in the city. I think our neighbors may be happy about the Seahawks.

Government by the Epstein class. By the elites who pretend to hate the elites. This is how progressive politicians should be talking. And if moderate democrats are uncomfortable, then maybe it’s time to retire.

So, the March for Life appears to have brought Measles to DC. www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/...

New meaning for NIMBY? No Injustice in My Back Yard It’s clear people have a variety of motivations for opposing ICE operations. But I’m glad people are standing up and speaking out. As American Views of ICE Dim, Warehouses Become a Symbol of Resistance www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/n...

I’m watching curling. Do I understand? No. Am I entertained? Sure.

I think the balcony hecklers could work perfectly: “Get new material!” Works for lots of keynotes.

Just saying that everyone in my family would probably vote for a candidate named Calvin Ball.

Read the article. Team Trump trying to hide from Epstein files while one member blabs about Epstein blackmailing people after getting their involvement in sex crimes.

That’s not how acronyms work. It should be: GAK (Or maybe they should change their name?)

Read the list of demands. The democrats could run and win on that economic platform. And if they followed through, they would improve lives and win more elections.

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

I suspect there are a lot of House Democrats in their 70s or 80s who think they're going to coast back into a comfortable leadership position by keeping their head down and riding the blue wave, but they're going to have to navigate these kinds of challenges first and most are not ready at all.

Vaccine disinformation has already led to disease outbreaks. And there will be longer term effects. Preventing these diseases prevents a variety of lasting health impacts. I focused on the fact that vaccines decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

When we get through this time (and we will), I believe some of these leaders in the Trump admin should be prosecuted for helping to cover up the crime of murdering Rene Good. I’m not a lawyer, but there need to be meaningful consequences. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

I suspect some of our neighbors are Seattle Seahawks fans. And they might be excited for the game this weekend.

"You can't un-post racism." ~ Bernice A. King

This evening’s sunset is reminding me that the world is beautiful.

New blog post on ways to lower your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Vaccines. That's the secret. Turns out many diseases have long-term consequences, including dementia risk. Bonus is that I also write about disinfo. 1/ www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

This is why we say there can be no science-as-usual now. This passage is from Peter Drucker’s essay in the Atlantic about the crossroads that science stood at during Nazism. Science doesn’t just need funding — it needs the fundamental freedoms that come with democracy. Freedom of speech. (1/3🧵)

One of the dangers in attributing the Epstein horrors only to conspiratorially networked power is the inability to confront the ways it has (and does) happen in our own communities, with comparatively much less power. As Derrick Bell and George Carlin taught us- consider interest convergence. (1/9)

My Epstein number is 1 I had a research faculty appointment at Northwestern University in the group led by Roger Schank. Schank was chummy with Epstein and reportedly visited the island. While this was years after I knew him, let me note that I wasn’t surprised to learn about their chumminess.

Research question about conspiracy theories. Does anyone have a preferred scale for measuring individual differences in the tendency to believe and adopt conspiracy theories?

We should be very worried about left wing echo chambers. Places like Twitter/X. Isn’t that where the liberal elites hang out? Oh wait, I’m hearing it has turned into a Nazi bar.

NEW: Mobile Fortify is not designed to "verify" identity, as DHS claims, and it was only approved after DHS rewrote its privacy review rules, records reviewed by @wired.com show. @dell.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social w/scoops. No paywall. www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...