My book is coming out in October and will be available open access! However, for those who prefer physical copies, Barnes & Noble is currently running a preorder sale for members. Use code PREORDER25 to get 25% off the paperback! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in-referee...

Thank you to the people of NY-10. To everyone who knocked a door, made a call, or donated a dollar: this win is only possible because of your belief in a people’s movement. (1/3)

Presenting…NY10’s next Congressmember, @bradlander.bsky.social!!

Congratulations @bradlander.bsky.social !

NEW: Eight protesters who the DOJ accused of having connections to antifa were sentenced to decades in prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that left one police officer wounded. Activists who didn’t plan the protest and left when asked still received 50-year terms.

Some new work on AI & science: A reporting checklist for LLMs in behavioral science Thanks to @sfeuerriegel.bsky.social for spearheading. As LLMs become more common in research, transparency is essential. We developed a reporting checklist for reporting how LLMs were used - please share! 1/4

I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...

‘I immersed myself in the fact that women not only participated in but saw real political possibility against patriarchal nationalism in the promise of UN internationalism.’ A wonderful interview with @durba.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social, about her fascinating new book:

My Juneteenth interview with Alice Jackson-Jolley at @Forbes on the magnitude of, origins of, and policies to eliminate the racial wealth gap in the United States: www.forbes.com/sites/ali-ja...

Sorry I missed Sandy Darity is on Bluesky but I have big news: Sandy Darity is on Bluesky

I don’t know if he intended it to be this way, but Brian Goldstone wrote a book that every education policy person and every educator needs to read. This is why: 1) This is a book about children. They are there in nearly every scene, and every setback in their families’ quest for a home is…

Today, Amy Kapczynski (@akapczynski.bsky.social) takes on two ideas that have been making the rounds in law and economics circles: that LPE is anti-empirical, and that contemporary L&E has shed its earlier normative commitments. A must-read for anyone following the L&E vs. LPE debate🔥

"Amphifa" 😂

"NSF is trimming budgets for basic science programs by 20-30% even though overall budget is down just 3% ... the goal is to free up funds for a new $1.5 billion initiative ... meant to turn NSF-funded discoveries into new products and industries." The private sector should fund this initiative.

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They look like they're winning big on prediction markets. But it's just fake advertising. Great investigation from the WSJ: www.wsj.com/business/med...

More than half of Americans say they can't afford healthcare. For the 1st time the majority of Americans told Gallup healthcare has become unaffordable to them. Over the last year 3 million more people fell into being unable to afford access to quality care or pay for visits and prescriptions.

Joined the great @joycewhitevance.bsky.social for a wide-ranging interview about our new book ON COURAGE. We talked the “dark magic of authoritarianism,” and the surprising lessons we learned from 100+ dissidents on how to fight back. Pre-order ON COURAGE: www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...

Peer Review in 2026: check refs first. I pull three random claims and related citations, go to the paper. If it’s real, see if the paper looks like it connects to the claim. If 2/3 don’t align, check 7 more, or until I hit 5 that don’t connect. At that point; AI or not; the paper is uncredible.

Renato Rosaldo, Anthropologist Who Disrupted His Discipline, Dies at 85 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/s...

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Historic!

This is a wonderful coincidence and a surprising succession. I totally get it. But can we talk about what a gorgeous chubby baby Lamine Yamal was...

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Given the growing evidence on cognitive offloading and skills erosion, this may be very prudent policy. And it will make for an informative social experiment, with much of the US serving as an counterexample

"Right now, in some underfunded lab, a scientist is chasing a question that sounds pointless, and a team somewhere else is a decade into a problem that may take another decade to crack... If we stop making that bet, we will pay for it in cures no one will know to miss."

"Soon Mr. Hegseth was pulling officers from nearly every active duty and reserve officer promotion list. Officers who had spoken publicly about the importance of diversity in the ranks were removed from lists. So too were those who had strongly urged their troops to get the Covid vaccine."

Some Mexican Americans have connections to Juneteenth. Here's mine. Wrote about it 2 years ago. Happy Juneteenth www.axios.com/2024/06/18/j...

Happy Juneteenth! To the descendants of enslaved Africans like me and to everyone who shares in the truth of #freedom.

“We can’t live a full dignified life — with the ability to question authority, have different relationships with people, test ideas [and] blow off steam — if we don’t have private communication.”

Want some summer reading? How about a "book about books about computing"?? I have a new book out via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

A chatbot refused my request to fake a passport. I wrote the same request on a piece of paper and asked again. It worked. We explain three AI jailbreak techniques -> 🎁 wapo.st/43HqXyY (w/ @nitasha.bsky.social)

this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan

Mamdani's speech at the Knicks parade was easily the best I've ever heard at an event of that sort. I posted the whole thing on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Highly recommended.

You can tune in to the Knicks Championship Parade, live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/aSdXxKl...

Unable to make it to the Knicks parade in person? @wired.com has found an alternative for you: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

The crowds are growing. By 6 a.m. fans were already filling sections of the parade route in Lower Manhattan as New York prepares to celebrate the champion Knicks.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

This is cool! A different kind of Night at the Museum

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"we are in a deeply partisan age. Just by doing our work, we will be viewed in a partisan light no matter what. So our job is to double down on the science. We need to be a trusted source of data." 🧪

OMB nominee touts plan to give Trump appointees power to kill grants

I wanted to embrace this op-ed, but it largely ignores the Silicon Valley AI hype and magical thinking of the last 2-3 years, and then concludes by expressing relief at the prospect of returning to it. That hype, which at times borders on dishonesty, also sowed distrust and anxiety in the public.

AI Use by the US Government On 14 April, the Trump administration quietly acknowledged the widespread use of AI to automate government processes.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-use-by-the-us-government.html

Digging into the apportionment data seems to corroborate that Trump is indeed using taxpayer dollars — from the "Big Beautiful Bill" — to at least partially pay for the ballroom. Four days ago, $352 million of the OBBBA Secret Service money moved from unallocated to "White House Security Measures."

“…mental health professionals are required to obtain patients’ consent before using the tool. However, as shared by multiple providers, that consent process does not include explanations about how the information is handled.”

Thanks for listening.

For the curious, here's the podcast link - lots of interesting stuff about AI and regulation: 99percentinvisible.org/episode/cons...