Since we can now share videos on here, below is the obligatory 1-minute compilation of someone’s econ professor saying “beef” 125 times in one lecture

If your jobs are tagged with a QOSMaxJobsPerUserLimit tag on the squeue know that there is at least one person in the universe giving you side-eye.

Severely underdiscussed in harmful AI use is the fact that AI becomes most compelling and dangerous for the people whose early environment taught them that other humans are unpredictable, unsafe, or uninterested in their inner world. AI isn’t an embodied human. AI can’t scream at or hit you.

When I learned what Samuel Alito and the other Republican appointees to the Supreme Court did to the Voting Rights Act, I thought of my friend Mickey Schwerner. He and countless others sacrificed their lives fighting for the VRA. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sam-alito-and-my-friend-mickey

Not a great sign that President Trump’s judicial nominees seem incapable of stating that President Trump is ineligible to run for a third term.

Amid all the poor-farmer framing of that NYTimes story was a tell: the banker pointing out to them that the farm was losing money (colorfully calling it a "hobby"). Thing is, truly working class people don't hear a loss projection from a banker reviewing spreadsheets. They run out of money.

“Dhillon reposted a conservative lawyer’s social media comment last month that it was a good time to graduate from law school “if you are remotely rightwing” because “you can go straight . . . into DOJ”. She added: “We are hiring, y’all!” They can’t fill the openings with competent lawyers.

the uptick in American beauty norms emphasizing thinness is absolutely related to the misogynist backlash - aimed at making women smaller and weaker and less able to resist - and the way to resist is by *not* cutting calories and turning as much of what you eat as you can into muscle, IMO

Once more, with feeling, you do not “gotta hand it” to someone making obvious points about eating more whole grains or try to “find common ground with them” if the rest of what they are saying is absolutely horrifying stuff like this

This is pretty cool - published guidelines on crediting and citing Indigenous knowledges academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

It's called "constitutional collapse"

Very good stuff! Must read. I had no idea that the Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction Congress considered & actually passed some of the court curbing measures that are now being discussed more & more: stripping jurisdiction & requiring a court supermajority or unanimity to strike down laws.

Racism is not seen as enough of an insult to white people. I don’t like the idea of what I bring to the table being cheapened because I am suddenly playing on a field that structurally benefits me.

Happy May Day. They can’t kill us all.

New, in cow burps: Ciliates modulate methanogenesis in the rumen - and a new organelle has been discovered, the hydrogenobody, structurally distinct from but metabolically similar to the hydrogenosome! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Historical precedent shows that we should be skeptical of the grand claims tech CEOs are making about AI's impact on work; their sweeping statements serve to distract us from what the technology is being used for right now. #mayday disconnect.blog/sacrifice-yo...

I was today years old when I learned @samreich.bsky.social is @rbreich.bsky.social’s kid and come on now you mean my Silly Little Improv Game Shows and my Serious Politics Takes are linked by a common Y chromosome?

I'm looking to hire a postdoc. Please share if you can!

Sorry, now, what? Cancelling an election underway? Now is it time to admit what's been true all along and realize it's speak now or forever hold our peace?

the legislature is our only hope to fix this disaster of a Supreme Court

This entire series of threads underscores just how mediocre Elon Musk is/

this is very funny as well as good evidence — you know, beyond what we can see with our own eyes — that there is not some epidemic of anti-white discrimination

King Charles: "The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances."

Forget Trump. This made me cry a bit. The good of America will win.

I came here in 1975. I'm a Nobel Prize-winning scientist born in Germany during WWII, came here in 1975 thinking there was no way fascism could take hold in this country. I was wrong. I don't not want to be book-ended by two fascist regimes. We will stand up and set things right.

"If we wait for the hyperrich to finally realize that their fates are tied to ours—for their children to contract measles, or for them to get cabin fever in their apocalypse bunkers—it will be too late for many of the rest of us." - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

Y’all there is a Berkeley professor in the CA gubernatorial primary and I am dying at the idea of the highest office in the state being occupied by a guy whose main contribution to society so far has been work on computational biology, graph partitioning, and the maximum flow problem.

I remember, in grad school, Chuck Bosk telling us, re: ethnography--if you haven't pissed someone off with your research, you probably haven't done enough to interrogate systems of power.

lost in a lot of discussion about how to deal with rich people is the fact that their staff are a major leverage point. the power of rich people depends in large part on their relationships with the people they pay

Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

I would pay teachers large sums of money

he’s going to use this as an excuse to antagonize California

there is another option, which is not posting about the WHCD

If you profess to care about the climate and are also an avid eater of beef and cheese, I will give you some amount of side-eye.

If you wrote a political sit-com which featured this scene of Obama’s chief of staff intersectionality-splaining to Kimberlé Crenshaw, you’d be fired immediately and never work in show business again.

In the first eleven months of 2025, 10,109 doctoral-trained scientists left the federal government. The losses were concentrated in agencies that fund medical research, regulate environmental standards and model climate. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/more-than-...?

One of the key reasons why objections to data centres should always be strictly evidence based is that this idea that objecting to data centres is the same as being an anti-vaxxer is going to get legs and turn into its own weird, sneering pro-tech cudgel.

one manuscript beast is almost done, thank goodness

After 3 years of applications, the CCST fellowship and I have officially parted ways! I am now a *completely* free agent on the job market. I'm looking for heavyweight, structural climate policy roles to deploy my ag methane expertise. DMs are open.

I submitted an independent scientific response to California's SB 1383 livestock methane RFI. No industry funding. 12 questions, 141 citations. The science on enteric methane mitigation is more complicated and more urgent than current policy reflects. ww2.arb.ca.gov/form/public-... #GreenSky

The whole thread is worth reading, but this passage in particular is terrifying. It is literally saying that, on topics of the court's choice, judges aren't constrained by facts when making rulings.

The things that happen when your presidential administration guts your national security apparatus and replaces it with incompetents www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

If a non-tabbed former Army National Guard Captain who never even held company command revoked that many Ranger tabs in one fell swoop I honestly think we would be the closest to outright mutiny that this country has seen in 100 years.

Art of War Guys get bored when they try to actually read The Art of War so they don't internalize "soldiers need food and not to be throwing up all the time"

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

Absolutely nobody is talking about the biodefense vulnerabilities this creates. If an enemy actor wanted to waltz right in with a bioweapon they’d find sitting ducks.

Estimates show the 1918 flu epidemic killed about 45,000 US soldiers, about 38% of the total US military deaths in WWI. The flu and its secondary illnesses made up the majority of death by disease. Thousands (possibly as many as 36,000) died before making it from basic training to the battlefield.

we owe our evolutionary success to our social behavior; interdependence is our species' primary survival strategy. it's isolation that will get you killed in an apocalyptic scenario, not the other way around.

Also: "We did not include allegations against local clergy, because there are too many." sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...

The Palantir screed comes from powerful people wanting the moral language of care, grace, and inclusivity only when they are the ones asked to be accountable for the consequences of their own power. Don’t give it to them. They must face significant consequences for what they’ve done.