It is *Really Annoying* that the AAA program doesn’t note when people/papers aren’t going to occur. I keep missing the talks I want to see because someone in a session is a no-show and so the entire order/timing shifts. Still seeing some cool stuff, but missing the things I really wanted to see.

I'm happy I grew up in the era of card catalogs and the dewey decimal system. Just walking into the library with a stack of index cards, a pen, and an idea.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

I spoke with @aftynbehn.bsky.social about her campaign to flip Tennessee's 7th Congressional District in the special election on December 2nd www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The first step to restoring our liberal democratic order will be sending dozens of Trump regime officials to spend the rest of their lives in prison. We cannot turn the page on this dark chapter of our history, we must tear it forcefully out from the book.

It’s a wild story, and it wouldn’t have happened without going there and talking to people about what they were concerned about — and then looking into it.

Others are more alarming: A hit-and-run where the dump truck left the scene; an 18-wheeler trying to beat an oncoming train across the railroad tracks; a driver leaving the scene, abandoning his wrecked vehicle in the median so he wouldn’t miss a morning meeting at the Meta site.

I reached out to Meta, and they told me they set strict standards about speed and safety for their drivers. Police crash records suggest that isn’t happening — many of the crashes appear to be caused by drivers in transit to the Meta construction site.

On the roads surrounding Meta’s construction site, vehicle crashes have gone up by more than 600%. There have been 64 crashes between January and mid-September this year, compared to just nine for all of 2024, according to police records.

A couple of months ago, I was out in Richland Parish, LA, talking to people about the new Meta data center being built. Everyone talked about the traffic and reckless drivers. So, I started looking into it. Their concerns were valid. 🧵 www.wwno.org/local-region...

More than 5,500 toxic sites nationwide could face coastal flooding by 2100 due to rising sea levels, according to new research.

Don’t forget Starbucks workers are on strike and there are plenty of other places to fuel your #AAA2025! ☕️

All set up for @dukepress.bsky.social at #AAA2025 in New Orleans. All books $15! Exhibit opens tomorrow morning at 10. See you there!!

Hot off the press! See our new paper: “Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research” in the journal Biology of Sex Differences. We show how sex essentialism distorts research & propose 3 ways to avoid making these mistakes. (1/12) rdcu.be/eNcRM

People prefer urban job markets and amenities while at the same time, desire maximal space at minimum price. America wrecked its urban cores to facilitate car travel from outer ring suburbs and if we made car travel more costly, people would trade space for proximity.

Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.

This is your periodic reminder that Johnson has a viable challenger for his seat. Follow (and donate to!) Conrad Cable bsky.app/profile/conr...

Why care about these Maxims? It is a waste of time & resources to prioritize sex-essentialist research when social & structural factors play significant roles in creating disparities. Robust citation practices, examining denominators, & considering alt. hypotheses make better science. (11/12)

We hope these 3 Maxims for avoiding making or reproducing errors in sex difference claims will be useful for biological and social scientists to work toward more robust science & more equitable outcomes in biomedical & health research rdcu.be/eNcRM

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

Building on our prior research on COVID-19, ACL injuries, and adverse drug events we push back against the sex essentialism trap and present three maxims to help us avoid assuming biological sex is the main underlying cause of disparities we see between women and men. (2/12)

If you're gonna be at AAA and want to meet up with me, please feel free to reach out! I'll be around :-)

“The students best prepared to evaluate AI output could very well be the ones not with specialized AI training but with deep domain knowledge in the disciplines. This, of course, is exactly the kind of knowledge and skills that colleges have been trying to nurture for centuries."

They're savvy enough not to submit something that's entirely fabricated, but it's clearly part of their workflow, which they think is ok bc the university has basically said as much. So feedback takes longer, as you're really just coaching them on where the AI has failed them. It's not sustainable.

Folks who specialize in Qual analysis (interviews)...what software are you using now? My uni stopped providing NVivo licenses. I would rather put my $ toward something cheaper if there are other good options (that *don't* require i give them my transcripts for them to use as AI training grounds)

Mainstream media loves doom, despair, and a sensational headline. But hopelessness is their tool, not ours. Meet COYOTE's First Aid Kit, our service journalism series where we'll pursue intersectional, evidence-based, and sometimes light-hearted solutions to the challenges of living in the Bay Area.

A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.

Nothing but blessings upon the interlibrary loan librarian/student/intern/volunteer who scans a book chapter clearly and squarely and includes the Notes and References in the scan. Doing the work of angels, they are.

I know it’s an automation, not an over-eager editor, but please know that if I get a review request late Friday afternoon & then wake up to a reminder that arrived in the wee hours of Monday morning—“It’s been 3 days since we asked”—I’m mentally crossing your publication off my list

I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network, etc just to make a point

🙃🙃🙃

I even made a list ! hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...

Drive these hateful fuckers as far away from our league as possible

this happened with the kavanaugh hearings as well. i had a whole trauma response? even though nothing "like that" has ever happened to me?? anyway i really really feel for survivors trying to exist in this world. you have my love ❤️

The fact that the "social psychologist who wrote a book on hormonal birth control” quoted is also 1) a consultant for 28 (Thiel-backed), Flo (data breach), CuePod (??), & Tuune; 2) a regular writer for Evie Magazine (same people as 28) but the NYT author doesn't disclose that is hot garbage.

And if that blows your mind settle in and I'll tell you a tale of how rape laws were designed to first protect *male property interests* in women

In the conservative communities I grew up around men used the term jail bait as a perceived compliment... the implied sexual availability, wanted or not, of young women for older men is baked into the cake of conservatism

Being able to see the stars at night is actually an important part of being human.

The most important argument for trans inclusion in sport has nothing to do with science.

With few exceptions, pretty much everyone knew these were bad men. They did much of their evil right out in plain sight. And what wasn’t in plain sight was loudly whispered about. But the endless “benefit of the doubt” that powerful men are freely given allows this kind of thing to keep happening.

Every data librarian I know just shuddered in horror.📚

always remember:

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”

I have a f*ing doctorate in epidemiology and I’m still so confused about how to pick a health insurance plan. Open enrollment should not be this hard!

To get more info about the environmental & health impacts of industrial pollution, citizens are taking data collection into their own hands — despite a state law restricting how their research can be used to enforce state regulations. @eplunk.bsky.social reports lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

Also broke up the GOP supermajority in *checks notes* Mississippi!!

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

PSA to just FINISH writing the damn things before tech infrastructure and corporate landscape changes on you*. * this is about more than one project, unfortunately.