Every year the BLS does a benchmark revision which incorporates new and more detailed information. This year's revision suggests that 2025 was a far worse year than earlier estimates suggested, and total job growth was less than half that suggested by the initial estimates.

The wedding dress worn by the (real) bride in the halftime show was designed by a Cornell alumna! Yes, Cornell offers program in fiber science & design. Faculty/students there create some amazing things, both in fashion and in fabrics for elite sports, space, military, & biomedical applications.

"racial disparities persist even under explicit disclosure, while gender-related differences are more pronounced under name-based cues" I've worried for decades that "bias" has become entirely about gender at a cost to race – it's certainly where the guardrails are. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ukrainian athlete has pictures of 21 athletes killed by Russia on his helmet. He may be (has been?) expelled from the games because it's "too political". Mr. Heraskevych, hai il mio rispetto.

This is troubling for multiple reasons, but one big one is companies won’t want to invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

Neat, a map of where women are safer.

This school district super relied on "an AI service" to generate data on homeschool funding for Galena, Alaska. The AI tool gave him data for Galena, Illinois. He didn't notice. Consider any data on Springfield, of which there are 31 in the US, immediately suspect. (ht @alaska.bsky.social)

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Had a blast speaking to curler and geologist Derek Leung about the geology of curling rocks. 🥌 🧪

Fortune: "Neither [Trump] nor Clinton has ever been accused of wrongdoing by Epstein's victims" Absolute lie by @fortune.com. Publicly available court records allege that Trump and Epstein raped "Katie Johnson"; this was widely reported in mainstream outlets. And both men accused in the new files.

One week after Granger’s protest, UAF’s student government, ASUAF, unanimously passed a resolution against the use of AI art in UAF’s art department.

Pretty sure Netflix is trolling us by bringing The American President (1995) back into the catalog.

My new piece is up and it requires your URGENT ATTENTION! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

That feeling when all your friends and mutuals are posting about where they are in the network and your account isn't even listed. Yeah, I didn't get the ILOVEYOU virus in 2000, either.

You can’t have it both ways: report scores “adjusted for demographics” (which includes poverty), rank MS #1, and claim skeptics said “nothing can be done until poverty is addressed” The regression adjustment already addressed it. (Also, tell me who said “nothing can be done.” Nobody, ever.)

Today's superb owls are far, far more interesting than the world's longest gambling ad interrupted by punts.

Curling is the only Winter Olympic sport I can watch and think, "I could do that." (Alas, it's harder than it looks.)

"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt." #climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...

Our theory of victory is emphatically NOT one involving “a tent big enough for bigots but too small for critical race theorists,” to quote @victorerikray.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

The authentic sounds of musical instruments used in ancient times 🎶 #saturdayvibe 📹 Bilimtüel

The kids at the Mamdani presser ARE cute. But notice how the blond boy gets/takes more than his share of airtime w/ "woo woo woo" and a long description of the golden snake with a super duper tail. The girl says one word ("goat") and is shushed when she laughs into mic. It starts early, folks.

Gendered administrative burdens academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

Related: the epidemic of "I didn't know," which has reached Mike Johnson levels of implausibility. Between 2006 and 2011, the NYT published 6 articles about Epstein's sex crimes and legal troubles, not including short mentions in weekly news roundups or op-eds. Not exactly a secret, even back then.

The aurora just now stretching out over the Yukon River with the moon rising in the distance… 158 am AKST

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

🧵 The entire Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and much of the Western Arctic is at risk!

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.

In the first two months of 2025, ICE raids in the Central Valley increased absentee rates by 22%. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Alaska’s state ferry system is at risk of a partial or total shutdown this summer due a $78 million shortfall with the failure of the Trump administration to issue a key annual grant in 2025. “Right now, we have a federal chaos problem” - Sen Jesse Kiehl, D-Juneau alaskabeacon.com/2026/02/03/a...

Gosh, maybe C. Wright Mills & Bill Domhoff were onto something. Murray Gell-mann: Nobel physicist Robert Pirie: lawyer Paul Volcker: economist, Fed Chair Tom Brokaw: news anchor Stuyvesant "Howdy" Wainwright: yachtsman & member of social elite None of those pesky wimmin or minorities, naturally.

The Trump administration has transformed how the government collects data, cut access to previously-public data and stopped collecting some altogether, leaving significant holes in everything from substance use to maternal mortality. https://bit.ly/4tib2mc

I dunno, I think 10,000-person detention camps with moldy food, measles, violent guards, and incinerators could be bad, but that black lady had a funny laugh and that hilary woman, well, there was something about her that I just didn't like.

Alaska Native group sues Trump administration for nixing North Slope caribou protections, writes @yjrosen.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/02/02/a...

Excited to share the findings from Therese Christensen's and my article! In a nutshell: living in Denmark doesn't prevent you from experiencing a motherhood earnings penalty, but it does give you access to government benefits that help offset those financial losses.

The Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year's field test of the 2030 census and added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff. n.pr/4brWDNL

Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process. bit.ly/4cikrkp

At one point in American history, government agents who put kids in cages were widely reviled.

Bunch of uni admins are thanking their lucky stars today that their faculty's research was beneath Epstein's notice. Still, I hope JE prompts all universities to reflect on how to fund research w/o compromising values, particularly as federal & state funding shrinks and donors play larger role.

Another journalist feeding "great man" myth & ignoring role of gvt in Musk's successes. Tesla received a $465M gvt loan at a critical point. It also benefited from tax breaks/subsidies, direct and to EV buyers. In total, Musk cos have had ≈$38B in gvt backing. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

So, one of our cats just tried to steal a bit of my breakfast while my back was turned and ended up with a face full of cinnamon and now he's alternating between sneezing and shooting me death glares. If my account goes silent, you'll know what happened.

Not the most important piece of the story, but Dan Ariely signing his emails to Epstein with "honestly*" and "irrationally yours", both references to Ariely's own research, is a dead giveaway of an outsized ego. It'd be like me signing my emails from that era, "yours in microclasses,".

People are worried about ICE or military activity suppressing Dem votes in midterms but I think SAVE Act is greater threat. If it passes, millions of women & poorer Americans will be unable to vote. Voting will be slower, depressing participation and widening race & income-based wait time gaps.

Turns out, "donor relations" involves emailing a sex trafficker the day after Christmas to drop in some random racism. Mark Tramo is a UCLA neurologist. More here, although this email isn't mentioned: dailybruin.com/2025/12/23/u...

The population in this part of Alaska is predominantly Alaska Native, and usually votes Dem. In fact, Mary Peltola, who is a viable challenger to Trump lackey Dan Sullivan for Alaska's second Senate seat, is from the region's hub town (≈6300). I'm sure it's just a coincidence, though.

Trump administration denies full disaster funding for Western Alaska storms, state files appeal, writes @corinne-smith.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/30/t...

Has anyone constructed a network graph from the Epstein files yet? Ties could be defined by shared membership in the same organization, attendance at the same parties, appearance in the same testimony/set of accusations by a victim, etc.

The massive dump of Epstein files offers new, if unsurprising, evidence of the sexual perversion, violent misogyny, and corruption infesting major political, cultural, and intellectual institutions in America. It also amply demonstrates both why we need gender scholarship and why the GOP hates it.