Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Absolutely surreal to read "Homelessness is rising fast among a surprising group: infants and toddlers" as Congress prepares to hand ICE another $10 billion to terrorize communities across the country.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Donald Trump wants to own Greenland. Canada might be next. One thing is certain: if he does attack Canada, there will be plenty of right-wing media figures and Conservative supporters who will happily justify and defend his decision. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...

I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump). www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

Is anyone here an expert on #rstats ellmer structured data? It works when I define the JSON schema of an object A containing an array of object B, but not when I read object B from JSON schema and use type_object and type_array to set up object A. Reprex: gist.github.com/debruine/d35...

If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream

My friends at @aclupa.org and the Hangley Aronchick law firm have filed quite a motion to intervene on behalf of the University of Pennsylvania's Jewish Law Students Association as well as faculty directly affected by the Trump EEOC's efforts to force Penn to provide, literally, "lists of Jews."

Holy fuck they actually did it

Any time I see a study about wings, I think:

This should be worth another floor crossing or two.

Very happy to share that I just published a new paper from my thesis! 🎉 We analysed 546 species of ant to understand how extreme specialisation into reproductive and non-reproductive roles evolved.  Key discoveries in thread🧵 👇 Full paper here: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have

Hoverboards are the future, segways are the future, betamax, laser disc, Google glass is the future, 3d tvs are the future, curved screens are the future. Like do we have to traipse through the whole graveyard of tech to get these people to understand just becauae you say it doesn't make it true.

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Do people judge what is going to happen in unknown situations differently depending on their socioeconomic position? Yes, if you experience lower socioeconomic position, you think the big rewards are even more unlikely to come your way: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines

The Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict is now out! Get your copy directly from @harvardpress.bsky.social

Really exciting work! (Link to paper is downthread.)

@kztwyman.bsky.social & @andygardner.bsky.social mathematically connect the dynamics of natural selection to optimisation to provide formal justification for viewing obligately eusocial colonies as adaptive individuals in their own right—that is, superorganism: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid. We went to S. Sudan to see the effects. Rubio says no one has died from the cuts. Spoiler: That's not true. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...

No question, this is the most original paper I have ever written It says that something that seems plain and obvious - humans have an intuitive sense of what is and is not grammatical - and describes how this apparent common sense is actually misleading Thread coming soon!

Um, ok... This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY. This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations. And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.

Increase tri-council funding next you cowards

Two birds loved in a flurry of red feathers like a burst cottonball, continuing while I drove over them. I am a good driver, nothing shocks me. (Michael Ondaatje, “Application for a Driving License”)

The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?

I am frustrated and enraged at the UCP and Danielle Smith, for using the most powerful constitutional hammer we have to vaporize human rights for children and their parents. I am disgusted by these Conservative MLAs. Every single one of them has taken leave of their senses and their humanity.

New paper: "A formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality", with Kalyani Twyman (@kztwyman.bsky.social) #OpenAccess academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-... #Image #GoogleGemini @jevbio.bsky.social #OA

This is THE story of US poverty: that scores of people do everything Republicans say they want them to do—hold a steady job, be married, etc—and still be poor. I recommend this paper to anyone willing to understand this: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Coding Club: Creating an R Package by Lisa DeBruine #RStats https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/package%20development.html#coding-club-creating-an-r-package

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

For my Xtra column this month, I wrote about what it's been like living as a trans person in Trump's first year and the outlook moving forward. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

And just like that, we lose our measles elimination status after 27 years. Three decades of work, gone. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

I guess Rubin choosing "Missing at Random" for the scenario in which it is evident that the data are not missing at random is a close contender.

The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)

I really don’t think people know just how widespread poverty is in the US. Brady has an excellent review of this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Causal Inference is Not Just a Statistics Problem. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... An introductory article including a primer on causal inference and DAGS , and accompanied by an r package containing simulated data to help explain concepts.

This entire thread is the stuff of nightmares.

The National Post is making a real run at the Toronto Sun’s title as the worst op-ed page in the country

In a new paper, we show from longitudinal UK and France data that income volatility (fluctatuations month to month) are bad for mental and general health. And it is much badder than you would expect given the lowness of the low months: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...