Not the outcome I would have expected.

This how you isolate and capture "the worst of the worst" of these dangerous immigrants. You show yourself to be in need of help, and the worst criminals reveal themselves and their criminality by doing whatever they can to provide you with help. Masterful law enforcement.

PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated. Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC... I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3

"Putting the past on trial is a foolish exercise. It involves flattering ourselves with an illusion of moral superiority while ignoring the obvious truth that ethical standards change over time." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Science is my Valentine? Our vlog: For the Love of Science m.youtube.com/@NAChristakis

It’s hard to be a scientist. Even Darwin.

Important study to be shared w/comms offices. If your college/department has science accounts elsewhere but not here, this study should raise questions on strategy.

Yes, love is fundamental and innate in human beings, as discussed in #BLUEPRINTbook. “Across cultures, people describe the experience of falling for someone in quite similar ways. The sensation is big; it’s overwhelming; it can feel utterly transcendent.”

Andrew McCarthy on the DHS's policy of being brutal so as to encourage self-deportation: "In terrorem policies can be very effective — they’re why the Romans crucified lawbreakers along the Appian Way. But the American way is to promote the rule of law, not to intimidate by the rule of cruelty."

This comports with my experience too.

Remember the college student who tried to fly home for Thanksgiving and then was deported to Honduras? A judge, exasperated by administration stonewalling, has given officials 2 weeks to get her back in the US and hints at contempt findings if they refuse. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Seats have opened up at Duke's Conference on Society-Centered AI today! Come join us to hear Nicholas Christakis, Ronnie Chatterji, Reggie Townsend, Kaamna Bhojwani, and many more: sites.duke.edu/scai/schedule/

‘I used to be a mountain’ by Maarten Inghels onboards.be/nl/product/m... 📷 Maarten Inghels/Onboards Biennale #urbangeology

How does the excitement of doing science shift to earlier and earlier in the process as you do it more and more? At first, you get excited to see your name in print; but in the end you get excited just having the idea. The Finish Line Moves New For the Love of Science vlog youtu.be/je_vgNlr0q4

The same story. Over and over again.

Next up, Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University, who talks about the evolution of science, moving at warp speed. But the general population is moving at geological speed and does not understand science anymore. We need to communicate in new ways. #AAASmtg @aaas.org

Ten years since the first reported observation of gravitational waves 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ok, I know promised a thread on the fascinating and important new research explaining what happened with the rare, serious side effects of AstraZeneca's and Johnson&Johnson's Covid-19 vaccines. So, @science.org story is here and 🧪🧵 is coming: www.science.org/content/arti...

How does the excitement of doing science shift as you do it more and more? The Finish Line Moves New For the Love of Science vlog youtu.be/je_vgNlr0q4

Enlightening, inspiring, and quite moving. Bravissimo.

📢 New Paper 🚨 Hadza food-sharing is egalitarian, yet offers in giving games have never matched the equitable redistribution seen in real life. In this study, we allowed people to give *or* take. Lifelike equitable distributions only appeared when people took from peers in surplus. bit.ly/4kvLOwA

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Newborn marsupials seen crawling to mother's pouch for the first time www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

The Mani Peninsula, off the southern coast of Greece, is home to a group of genetically isolated people called Deep Maniots. A new DNA analysis links them to Greece’s premedieval past. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4qrtW7k

By age 2, toddlers understand ingroup loyalty They realize that people have social identities and expert their social identity to take precedence in intergroup contexts even when it conflicts with their personal preferences www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Top-line budget numbers (and celebrations thereof) have little meaning if the Trump administration continues to cancel grants arbitrarily, targeting their perceived 'opponents' in blue states and in vulnerable communities nationwide. 👇

Only two days until #SCAI2026: our annual Conference on Society-Centered AI at Duke. Can't wait to hear amazing talks by Arvind Narayanan, Nicholas Christakis, Ronnie Chatterji, Reggie Townsend, and so many more! sites.duke.edu/scai/

As I wrote in @statnews.com with Merjan Ozisik, there is plenty of bad coming out of the federal government on health care, but the action by CMS to uplift primary care and lower exorbitant health care spending is laudable. www.statnews.com/2026/02/09/c...

Literally searching for outgroups to scare people about "That has left the G.O.P. looking for ways to address its voters’ concerns over the number of immigrants who came into the country during the Biden admin. while avoiding the increasingly unpopular policy of mass deportations under Mr. Trump."

These are letters from children detained in an ICE facility in Texas. Susej is 9 and has been detained for 50 days. Gaby is 14 and has been detained for 20 days. Their accounts are heartbreaking and should be deeply shaming to our nation. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Tent rings on remote Greenland islands reveal Early Paleo-Inuit made 50km ocean crossings 4,500 years ago—the longest journey from this period in the Arctic. #Archaeology #Arctic #PaleoInuit @antiquity.ac.uk www.anthropology.net/p/the-crossing

Advancing teaching and learning in a time of war. New For the Love of Science vlog about how students at The Kyiv School of Economics are learning while their city is under attack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbqF...

This is a good metaphor for science.

Listen up: I have been busted. Geniuses of the Left post this exact statement as a gotcha every month, so I must confess: I wrote for @theatlantic.com, making me responsible for every word the magazine ever published. I'm also a mammal & thus responsible for the Late Pleistocene Extinctions. Sorry.

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

The trip to Kyiv takes 12 hour overland from Warsaw, and it is everywhere marked by evidence of a country at war -- young people at arms, graveyards, bombed buildings. But it is worth it to see resilient Ukrainian students engaged in learning in a time of war. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbqF...

Harvard committee recommends capping A grades at 20 percent for every class, with flexibility for up to four additional As per class. Great. Solving the collective action problem by central action. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Measles is spreading rapidly in pockets of the United States and other countries. Nature looks at the risk to vaccinated people as caseloads surge. go.nature.com/4kpkqjZ

Advancing teaching and learning in a time of war. New For the Love of Science vlog about how students at The Kyiv School of Economics are learning while their city is under attack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbqF...

People often ask, is Shakespeare still relevant? Why study the humanities? Well, here is an example from the Colbert show, in which Ian McKellen spontaneously delivers an extraordinary speech -- relevant as ever. Shakespeare’s words are timeless, urgent and important. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQiw...

If you have an interest in mixing computation and experiments to understand microbial evolution (for example antibiotic resistance) and you think you might be a good fit for a postdoc in my lab, reach out. If it seems it might be a fit I’m happy to help you frame it as AI for Biology per this call

My last lecture at @harvard.edu, as a professor there, 13 years ago today. Incredible students.

From pigs to people: what is it like to perform a pig-to-human kidney xenotransplant? jmepb.bmj.com/content/2/1/...

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.” — @deardara.bsky.social deardara.com/so/adPmSCLoz...

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

The thing where ICE parks masked men in school lots is something I would not have believed unless I saw it with my own two eyes. They do it constantly. It’s purely a terror tactic and they’ve done it to schools over the region. Our schools are collapsing - often at 50% attendance or less.

🚨Job alert 🚨 I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026. If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026. 📤 Please share widely! www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

News from central Jersey: I'm running to represent New Jersey's 12th Congressional District. By entering the fray, I hope to bring ideas of repairing our frayed republic. Not only to defend it in 2026, but to build something stronger, for generations to come! samwang.substack.com/p/entering-t...

An Australian boy swam about 2½ miles in rough waters then ran about a mile to rescue his family who had been swept out to sea. “I just said ‘all right, not today, not today, not today.’ I have to keep on going,” the 13-year-old said.

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social