1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

Years ago, I heard about a “library guru” who would give keynotes at library conferences, pointing to slides of aggregated fMRI images of teenagers versus adults and say “See?! Their brains are different! So they think differently!” Thanks, genius.

This is the separatist movement that has direct access to our Premier.

It's just... it's unbelievable. They did the thing! The Morgan McSweeney strategy was what they adopted, and then lost to Reform anyway!! They're then taking that as vindication of their approach when it literally brought about the precise exact result it was supposed to prevent!!

the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable

New Open Access book edited by Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social and Wolfgang Wagner on identity and culture. Many great chapter by great folks. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

5 In terms of economic policy, the rich dictate the game as they did before. Neither have taxes on the top incomes increased, nor have taxes on capital incomes gone up, nor is there a pedagogical tax on excessive wealth.

Colleagues and I happy for any feedback. 🧪 #HBES Third-party punishment is common across human societies but varies with socioecology osf.io/preprints/ps...

The irony, of course, is that “do more with less” only ever seems to apply to the workforce, never to the management.

all these articles have this framing of the anti-public health backlash stemming from the pro-public health side being too cruel and abusive in their victory, instead reality where anti-health won the war and almost every battle since the beginning of COVID and are feeling their oats

Saw some discourse about the issue of older professors not retiring as if that’s the roadblock to younger academics securing jobs. This despite every institution I’ve worked at simply not filling lines when professors retire, which seems a much more prominent trend.

This was an FOI request from advocay group Safe Parkside - exactly the kind of information Ford wants to hide.

Shot, chaser. Gotta be honest: this feels too on the nose for 2026.

Excited to share a new article written with fantastic co-authors Towards an Integrated Understanding of Animal Weapons www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Even by Poilievre's standards this is just an absurd misrepresentation of reality. Carney left the Bank of England in early 2020. Inflation didn't take off in the UK until mid-2021 -- the same as every other economy on earth.

🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated: More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector $925 million for AI $81.8 billion over 5 years for military However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.

"You Killed a Journalist. Why Did You Photoshop Him Wearing a Hezbollah Uniform? 'It's an Illustration'." This is how Tel Aviv justifies the murder of a journalist.

As part of my efforts to combat the COVID Amnesia Project, let's accurately remember what 3 influential laptop class doctors from Stanford said 6 years ago as COVID overflowed hospitals and morgues. They won't remind you. I will. My latest.

He probably does - that seems to be a common idea. But diagnosis is not the slow part. None of these technocrats want to accept the reality that the problems are boring things like hospital staffing and health care infrastructure and poverty.

Regretfully, the story about LLMs anti-polarizing people was not real.

In case you needed any clarification where Poilievre stands on trans rights.

"Marshall McLuhan Was Right About Claude, Too" If he were still alive, here's where McLuhan would appear right behind Ezra Klein and say, "You know nothing of my work... how you ever got to become a newspaper columnist is totally amazing".

Finally watched Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, and it was everything I could have possibly hoped for. I can't say enough good things about this film

My wife tells me that I am "literally the kid who failed the marshmallow test" as I house half a bulk bag of mini marshmallows in seconds, and I feel attacked.

I don't know how to speak about being Jewish right now. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/my-only-pr...

Our paper is now out in Hormones and Behaviour. We found little evidence for group differences in 2D:4D ratios by sexual orientation when jointly modeling publication bias and heterogeneity. w/ @fbartos.bsky.social, Ben Jones & @tvpollet.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵1/9

down with slopulism youtu.be/MXZvHsem5OU

Perfect. No notes. Somebody get these guys their own show.

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

In the news release BC Gov put out announcing the switch to permanent daylight savings time, they cite a Stanford Medicine report to back up their decision, but the report actually says the opposite, that permanent standard time is better news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

In response to reporting about deaths, province has decided to no longer produce data related to deaths globalnews.ca/news/1169038...

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‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

A lot of people seem to have trouble with the idea that “cause” does not mean “the one and only thing that explains the totality of this phenomenon”.

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

Where it gets really interesting, is that while 12.5 % of the Irish population died during the Great Famine, less than 1% of the Belgian population did. Why? As soon as the failure of the potato harvest became clear, the Belgian government abolished all import tariffs on foodstuffs. The government/

These numbers are all the more shocking when you realize that the overall youth suicide rate in the UK *declined* during the same period of time.

i only feel envy if someone is better than me at something or more successful or has more stuff

This #MeetASAB features Madam President herself: Melissa Bateson (@melissabateson.bsky.social) Melissa was elected as ASAB president in 2024. In the past, she has also been on council as grants secretary and as an ordinary member. She has been an ASAB member since she was a PhD in the 90s… 1/6

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

sure they’re tear-gassing toddlers but what do the polls say