Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

2026 off to an interesting start. I was lifting on our patio. As I was prepping for my last set, a Cybertruck drove into the lot across Escondido Rd. This affront hyped me to complete a bench-press PB in what was otherwise gonna be a compromise top set.

Given the way that we are ignoring actual data in favor of vibes in every other domain, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised that the Lost-Generation backlash is purely vibes-based with no basis in empirical reality. Nonetheless, good to see what that empirical reality is.

This is a really great article that has lessons for our current tech moment. When it launched in 1990, the Human Genome Project largely foreclosed on all environmental research into the causes of Parkinson's disease. How much important science is going to be lost because of the LLM fad?

Genius at work

This is fantastic. I'm glad to get some real professional expertise on this important topic that is generating so much ill-informed hysteria. www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-we...

There's something almost awe-inspiring about a sense of entitlement so extreme that you think you're not only entitled to a faculty job in the worst academic job market in history, but entitled to an *Ivy League* job, AFTER HAVING YOUR HIGHEST-PROFILE PUBLICATIONS RETRACTED FOR FRAUD

The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.

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This is lovely. All can be true -There is a real need for internal change in higher ed to counter tendencies toward groupthink & monoculture -The Fox/MAGA caricature is absurd and unrecognizable from the inside -The authoritarian assault would make things vastly worse by destroying academic freedom

This is a pretty cool resource. Claude Opus 4.5 is best at generating R code, but it's still correct on 70% of the time. So beware! skaltman-model-eval-app.share.connect.posit.cloud

What a sad state of affairs. Mary Bassett is a national treasure.

The U.S. *was* feeding poor people then Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance illegally killed off USAID.

EUROPE IS IN CIVILIZATI... oh wait... maybe its fine.

Five words: The Lifecycle of Software Objects.

Homie may be old and in need of a put of forbearance in matters of judgement-of-quality of his workouts, but I'm still gonna have to call this what it is: no rep.

Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.

He’s still going on about lockdowns and vaccines mandates too! He really misses 2020 and 2021.

“This irresponsible and purposely misleading guidance will lead to more hepatitis B infections in infants and children.” Read our full statement by AAP President Dr. Susan J. Kressly: www.aap.org/en/news-room...

Short 🧵 In the last meeting of my social science of sustainability class yesterday, we talked about @dsquareddigest.bsky.social and the relevance of the viable systems model for sustainability. Level 5 of that model is Identity of Purpose, basically, vision and judgement for your organization. 1/3

Teaching using R (and other free software) helps continue this amazing legacy by providing tools that scholars from the Global South (and poor people in otherwise affluent countries) and take back to their communities after they finish their training at American/European universities. #rstats

Wow, this is some 🧵

LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?

Man, I sure coulda used this as a lad. I mean, I still have deficits in traditional manly knowledge…

Just keeps getting better and better...

"The most stirring contemporary defenses of liberalism, like Elizabeth Anderson’s 𝘏𝘪𝘫𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥, demonstrate a combined commitment to liberalism’s merits along with an honest understanding of where we have gone wrong. Unfortunately, many others adopt a small-c conservative defensiveness."

Nightmare.

My post today is a reminder that we need to spend a ton of money on adaptation for our new climate, based on a report issued in March on U.S. infrastructure needs. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/u-s-...

Latest comic: Climate Silence

Ideological engineering is expensive! It costs a lot to change an ideology and produce worse educational outcomes. Apparently, it costs about $70M to drop 60 spots in the college rankings. wapo.st/49mrPgl

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Important essay by @stanfordaaup.bsky.social colleague Jessica Riskin. The three lessons that universities must learn: 1. Solidarity 2. Integrity, not Neutrality 3. Student Speech stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...

Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been <totally absent from the public square> on this issue. It’s maddening: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

AMOC collapse >50%. This is really not something we want. But will we actually do anything about it?

Another good 🧵 on the crazy talk coming from NIH leadership re COVID response.

A lot of progress is being made at COP. Too bad the US isn’t part of it.

Important 🧵. Truly astounding how much misinformation is coming from the masthead of NIH.

Jenna Norton, a vocal critic of Trump administration actions at the NIH, was abruptly placed on administrative leave this week. www.statnews.com/2025/11/14/n...

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland. How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president. www.propublica.org/article/port...

The coldest air on the planet - relative to normal - is over FL now! The cold pool is being forced south by overwhelming Arctic warmth. While FL won’t bear the brunt for much longer, the Arctic will become even more off-kilter over the coming weeks. That means weather shenanigans will abound!

Trump: “It’s not a big deal….”

This is an amazing (and infuriating) story, complete with Github repos of their analysis!

New College is paying more for worse educational outcomes. Hard to not see this as a potentially existential threat in the current higher-education environment. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

When did the norm become the Speaker of the House only addresses the press surrounded by a posse of awkward-looking white people in ill-fitting suits? Do you think R congress people have to draw straws to stand behind him as he professes to not know anything or dismiss clear red flags?

All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Nobody likes Andrew Cuomo. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Et tu, Rande?

The ICE boys must be soft af if a barefoot woman being dragged out of her car can injure two of them decked out in full tactical.

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

Devastating. Teen Vogue has been doing excellent work in political journalism the last few years, better than some major newspapers.