This is what the band of the Milky Way would look like at night if your eyes could see radio waves. A hidden beauty. It's a new image created by the Murchison Widefield Array, which scanned the sky in 20 radio "colors" over frequencies from 72 to 231 megahertz. 🧪🔭 www.icrar.org/gleam-x-gala...

Absolutely shameful that, 1) folks are using AI for peer-review and that, 2) apparently enough of them are that they had to add a check box for reviewers about not using AI for this.

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” an advocate says.

Good read on parallel powers.

Sadly didn't get to all 8 of these before the winner (Rakesfall) was selected. It was a great reading list though and I really enjoyed the range of styles.

Judge: “The troubling thing about this prosecution is that everyone knew what was happening… It seems like these two [gestures to defendants Nyx and Kalicum] are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD—which before was fine—suddenly is not fine.”

The experiences of children with parents on death row are often forgotten when it comes to capital punishment. No organization tracks information on this particular group. Of the past 10 people who have faced execution in Missouri, at least six had children.

MMWR stole the show in the first round of headlines about CDC cuts but in the chaos, many missed that the NHANES mobile team remains RIF'd. This is the backbone of this key survey that contains some of the only representative anthropometric, biochemical, clinical and dietary data on the country.

Just FYI, here are my personal beliefs on the use of large scale violence. 1. Violence tends to be self-replicating, and so should be avoided as much as possible. All violence has the potential to entrench itself.

Great MacArthur award pick. www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

This books was absolutely fantastic. Tripping on Utopia by Benjamin Breen. Loved all the suggested next reads at the end too.

Quite useful

Here is NIDA They were relatively effective in maintaining R01 numbers with little or no multi-year funding, but substantially increased UG1, UG3, and U24 cooperative agreements. 11/n

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

An HIV outbreak in Maine points to a series of poor policy decisions, including ending needle-exchange programs and clearing a homeless encampment. As those policies go national, there is a risk the disease will spread, too: kffhealthnews.org/news/article... @brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Great piece on underreporting of overdose deaths in Nebraska.

This Day in Labor History: September 10, 1897. Luzerne County sheriff deputies slaughtered 19 unarmed immigrant coal miners striking outside of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Let's talk about the Lattimer Massacre, one of the many uses of state violence against striking workers!

“The rejection is at least the eighth time in the last month a grand jury has declined to charge felonies sought by US Attorney Jeannine Pirro’s office.“ Don’t try to shirk jury duty. We need you now more than ever!

Took advantage of the summer lull to run the final, official tallies of the 2024 US prez election -- including Alaska this time -- through the #AmericanNations model. Bottom line: despite the astronomical stakes, it was very much like two elections before it. www.nationhoodlab.org/the-2024-pre...

Local library had 6/8 of the Le Guin prize nominees for 2025 (they were all excellent), but now I need to figure out where to get the last two. www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.

The argument here is that, unlike Right-leaning institutions, Left-leaning institutions have put professional identity and status ahead of values and ideology, and thus failed to socialize and cultivate the next generation of Left-wing political leaders. I see a lot of truth in this, but I'd add...

I spent last week in Sydney, giving a keynote on how to reduce recidivism (that should be online soon!) and then talking with a variety of researchers, practitioners, and lawmakers about what works to improve public safety. I learned a ton and am grateful to everyone who spent time chatting with me!

We just published an excellent commentary in Vaccine by @gavinyamey.bsky.social & Chris Beyrer breaking down how the current regime is laying waste to US vaccination programs & what we can do about it: ✅Congress must withdraw support for RFK Jr ✅Speak up...loudly ✅Study anti-vax movements ✅VOTE

Recent paper basically says intramuscular naloxone is far superior to intranasal (Narcan) by reducing withdrawal symptoms with a lower dose that works faster. Sample size was small but it's in line with previous results. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas 0/n 🧵

Very good essay "Encountering a cop on the street might mean you are encountering a criminal and encountering an armed, masked man might mean you are encountering a cop. The line is blurry. This blurriness between real and fake is the defining characteristic of the moment."

By most measures (suicide, depression, anxiety), U.S. mental health is deteriorating. Bad time to demolish our mental health infrastructure. In a new preprint, @albeccia.bsky.social et al survey the damage from recent mental health grant cuts at NIH & SAMHSA. Check it out: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

AAPOR Statement on the Removal of BLS Commissioner McEntarfer aapor.org/statements/a...

PhD students working on topics related to crime & the criminal justice system in the US: Join us for a research workshop this October! We're bringing y'all together so that you can meet each other, and (selfishly) so the Arnold Ventures CJ team can meet you. Sign up by August 11! bit.ly/3GUT0De

Favorite one of these I've seen so far

Time for a quick round of "Why Do These Polls Look Different" Latest Fox has Rs and Ds essentially tied on inflation/economy; WSJ gives Rs a big lead. Think there's a fairly simple explanation that itself highlights a major dynamic. www.foxnews.com/politics/fox... www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

Vought: "We're going through the same programmatic review on the NIH that we did on Education funding" You mean - the Department you are illegally closing? That is what you are doing with NIH?

Let's talk about the risk of secondhand fentanyl smoke...a thread 🧵 First, let’s set this straight. It’s not really "smoking" because if you combust fentanyl you get noxious chemicals without opioid effect. So it's really vaporization (pyrolysis) at low temperatures (direct flame would destroy it).

There's been a spike in law enforcement shootings resulting in death and the biggest source of increased death is rural people getting killed by county sheriffs. @jesspish.bsky.social www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...

Afternoon read. Individual and srea-level incarceration and mortality. Open access led by Utsha Khatri. In US from 2008-2019, a 10% increase in county jail rates is associated with 4.6 additional all-cause deaths per 100k people. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Morning read today - Designing better drug regulation: lessons from policy design methods. Open access and new, led by Paul Kelaita. Great read. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I did not realize that the AT Proto dev community has already created alternatives to every platform I use for my community. I'm going to create this thread to explain what each one does and what it replaces. Why should you care? No ads. No corporate owner. Open source. Free, no strings attached.

Surprising findings can generate a lot of attention; counterevidence may not.

I've been using Chat GPT on real data sets that I have already analyzed to teach myself how to be a modern pollster. I have created toplines, Xtabs and visualizations, sort of the bread and butter of my work. HOLY SHIT. The mistakes it has made are so shocking that I want to shoot it into the sun

First, those cities MAGA wants you to think are on fire? Seeing murder hit historic lows; NYC heading for lowest *ever recorded.* Second, the decline has happened as the number of cops has FALLEN. Third, Jeff joins @johnkroman.bsky.social and others in pointing to SOCIAL investment as a driver

NEW poll from @kff.org shows that most of the public are worried about the impacts of federal funding cuts to Medicaid on their families and communities, including 54% who are worried that these cuts would impact their family's ability to get/pay for care. More here: www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...

I'm begging people without experience to have even an ounce of imagination. You don't have a phone or computer or even a physical address. How long does it take you to lose track of the date? What time is it, what day? How do you get to your PO's office? How do you keep track of important documents?

Good thread on medical examiners, coroners, and data

TODAY: Introducing BRAND NEW HYDRA, photographer @todseelie.bsky.social, with a photo essay on crashing the Venice Biennale with a bunch of art punks on rafts made of junk flaminghydra.com/p/f071b948-c...