“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

🚨 We’re hiring! Yale Sociology is searching for a Senior Quantitative Sociologist to join our department. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/174709

The Jane Goodall Institute threatened to sue Gary Larson over this cartoon. Goodall told them not to be so stupid, sold it on a tshirt, and wrote the introduction to The Far Side Gallery 5. Absolute legend.

A giant of a scientist, Jane Goodall, has died. www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/e...

📌 Save the Date! The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science. Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MAGA is embracing the kind of tactics it once deplored, Idrees Kahloon argues. "A culture of self-censorship is destructive. But prescribing state ideology as a cure is like treating a migraine with a lobotomy."

#SpreadtheWord We are looking for #PhD candidates passionate about using large-scale data analysis, quantitative models, and complexity science to study the complex interactions within #epidemiology, #OneHealth, and #publichealthsystems. More info: csh.ac.at/education/gr...

If 90 percent of the field adores you and 10 percent will describe you as “difficult,” you’re likely screwed, career-wise. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Yesterday Curiosity took pix of jagged peaks in the distance with its ChemCam. I stitched them together, did some work on them, and... just look at that view... I've been doing this since Sojourner landed & this is one of my fave images ever... Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/S Atkinson

The rise in cancellations that began around 2014 was initially celebrated by the left... as “consequence culture.” Now comes the inevitable role reversal. Vice President JD Vance urged those who saw people celebrating Kirk’s assassination to “call them out,” including by calling “their employer.”

I wrote something up for AI people who want to get into bluesky and either couldn't assemble an exciting feed or gave up doomscrolling when their Following feed switched to talking politics 24/7.

I was honored to visit the Kyiv School of Economics #KSE this past week, and to talk about social AI and social network interventions. The energy and intelligence of the students was extraordinary — at times crammed into bomb shelters for their classes. And the faculty were creative and devoted.

Did Maya rulers encode dates in their hand gestures? A new study of Copán’s Altar Q argues its hand signs represent Long Count calendar numbers — a hidden script alongside hieroglyphs. #Maya #Archaeology #Epigraphy www.anthropology.net/p/hands-that...

“Since June, the share of adults who say the country is on the wrong track increased 13 percentage points from 62% to 75%. The shift occurred primarily among Republicans.” apnorc.org/projects/pes...

At one point, Hillary Blackburn, a pharmacist and daughter-in-law of Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), noted that her mother developed lung cancer two years after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, suggesting, without any evidence, that there could be a link.

The inexperienced, questionably qualified group that has espoused anti-vaccine rhetoric started its second day of deliberations by reversing a vote taken the previous day on federal coverage for the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) vaccine. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Republicans want to prosecute the left for incendiary words that could lead to violence. They should read Kirk’s own incendiary words first. | @saletan.bsky.social It’s hard for people to avoid hypocrisy and defend free expression. But it still so jarring to see senior officials failing miserably.

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

Not only are they allowed to do it … It is absolutely essential to a free society that they have that freedom.

He couldn't save himself by firing professors. The cultural revolution marches on. You won't escape it by cowardice. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

By his own logic (and folksy example of children who lie) which was articulated in this very hearing, Senator Markwayne Mullin should no longer be trusted, because he lied. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

I think Yale students should be allowed to spontaneously peaceably assemble without permission. But that’s just me. NB @thefireorg.bsky.social yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/09...

I seem to remember that the (correct) argument used to be that a person could refuse to make a “gay wedding cake”?

When I worked at UT, the campus hosted Nazi speakers (twice, I think), and a professor called for cars to "run down" protestors. He wasn't disciplined.

In the African desert, wild mice ‘sing’ tunes that don’t travel far but help the animals to tell neighbours from strangers go.nature.com/3K0SGDZ

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

We will arrest you in chains & keep you in jail while we ask if you’re willing to stick around to help us out? Keystone cops harming the US in so many ways. “President Trump ordered the pause to check whether the workers were willing to remain in the US to continue working and training Americans.”

A computational model of the early-to-present-day Universe predicts that some of the first stars formed in structures that challenge conventional classification. go.nature.com/3KhajiQ

I don’t know all the details, and I do think course descriptions should be accurate and that faculty should be transparent about syllabi &readings. But a university president cannot say that they “support, academic freedom“ while firing someone for what they teach or an erroneous course description.

Some people call it a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences. My love letter to social science genetics: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...

Social networks have intricate internal structures, including “motifs.” A little-studied motif is geodesic loops or cycles, where a sequence of nodes in a network returns to itself: Tom–Dick–Suzy–Jane–Tom. Cycles are important for the flow of information, money, cryptocurrency, or germs. 1/

This “ver are your papers” ruling, regarding a practice that I had always thought so un-American, will go down with Korematsu, I think, in SCOTUS infamy.

🌍 We have just released a NEW global top 100 list of scientist and science communicators on Bluesky. @lassehjorthmadsen.bsky.social and I map out the new emerging community: How are the research fields clustered? All likes, reshares, and love 😍 is appreciated! mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

The migration of scientists and serious scientific conversation to bluesky is closer to the finish line.

The truth is most people don’t give a shit about the rule of law, or due process, or laws of war, or freedom of unpopular speech or unpopular religion. Just about every modern civilizational advancement out of barbarism gets only occasional lip service and is unpopular in particular instances. /1

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

“Authoritarian governments keep their populations in check by visiting consequences on a small portion of their population and watching the effects reverberate; a single arrest might chill the speech of millions. By the end of 2023, the UK had accomplished nearly 66,000 arrests for speech.”

Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496

Super excited about our new paper on mobility that's out in Nature Human Behavior www.nature.com/articles/s41... I love this paper for many reasons, but one is that we find beautiful 1/x power-law that spans 6 orders of magnitude hidden within the "ugly" distribution raw mobility data.

Judge Strikes Down Trump Administration Funding Freeze to Harvard as Unconstitutional

The Trump war on science is in a new, evermore dangerous phase. The pretense of rationality or even conspiratorial reason is gone. RFK Jr's mediaeval rejection of objective science makes him the most influential medical charlatan in U.S. history.

A nasal spray reduced the risk of Covid infections in a double blind, placebo controlled randomized trial jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years? Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Why Consensus AI is Better Than ChatGPT and Google Scholar for Academic Research medium.com/@Vugar_Ibrah...

AI can profoundly enhance our sense of agency (as @reidhoffman.bsky.social argued in Superagency).This op-ed in today's @wsj.com, echoing writing of Carey Goldberg, Zak Kohane, & Peter Lee offers specific egs of how it can help patients+improve care: wsj.com/opinion/a-ch... @euanashley.bsky.social

Happy Skynet day to all who celebrate!

A rare cosmic event, in which a star reveals its inner structure as it explodes as a supernova, is reported in Nature. The observations offer insights into the evolution of stars and may confirm predictions about the structure of stars nearing the end of their lives. go.nature.com/4mp6I0q 🧪 🔭

Long-distance transport of raw materials began at least 2.6 million years ago.