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Zillow stopped showing First Street risk scores after complaints from the California MLS. “Displaying the probability of a specific home flooding this year or within the next five years can have a significant impact on the perceived desirability of that property” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries. Here's what we found: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Trump is invading American cities to nominally address crime, and I think the scale of his pardon-sprees should be given more political salience

Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.

Mediterranean drying by a positive North Atlantic Oscillation trend over the last 65 years is an extreme outlier in the CMIP6 multimodel ensemble journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal... 'observed Mediterranean drying and NAO trends are at the very limit of what climate model simulations can do'

Who could have seen this coming except literally everyone share.google/GFaMy3K2Jjlo...

Just in case you're wondering , this is considerably worse than what Trump did you get impeached the first time.

The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.

This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.

Right out of the textbooks. Literally "Them."

The media treated Biden's pardon of Hunter for trumped-up gun possession charges as more scandalous - far more scandalous - than Trump's pardon of war criminal serial killer Eddie Gallagher. And here we are:

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

Insulting to have to point this out, but if you have spent even 30 minutes reading US history, you realize that every decade has been dominated by racist hysteria that the "new" people won't ever fit in. This exact prejudice would have been applied to Miller's forebears, when they fled pogroms.

Where we see confirmed that what is being described as an American peace plan was written by Russians and learn that Witkoff advises the Kremlin on how to fool Trump

"when adjusted for inflation, College Board data shows that the average, inflation-adjusted cost of public four-year college tuition for in-state students has doubled since 1995. Tuition at private, four-year colleges is up 75% over the same period."

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Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” has been named the second in command at the CDC. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...

The National Park Service is introducing a digital annual pass that charges foreign visitors $170 more than United States residents across the federal recreation system.

NEW: We cannot continue to pump CO2 into the Atmosphere without re-arranging the Biosphere. Ellen Welti and I analyze datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research site at Konza Prairie and reveal wholesale reorganization of plant biomass and biogeochemistry, with implications for its food web.

“Heartbreaking scenes from Elit, Iran, where wildfire is damaging parts of the ancient Hyrcanian forests — a @unesco.org World Heritage treasure and one of Earth’s last temperate rainforests" Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health #Iran 🇮🇷

Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY

Leicester's Palaeontology program has a long track record including discovery that conodonts were vertebrates, graduates who are Fellows of the Royal Society, innovative researchers, and a growing body of undergraduate students. c.org/HJW7FVxPwv

5 immigration judges were summarily fired in San Francisco today, the largest such firing in the city all year. It continues a trend of the Trump admin. targeting immigration judges nationwide. In San Francisco, at least 12 have been sacked this year. missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Grim reading. People buy a lot of stuff and send it back. But, it doesn't get restocked necessarily. Maybe it gets resold. But free shipping and overbuying has made people careless in their purchases. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

An incredibly important issue. Read it

Just gave feedback on a student research paper draft that referred to "mixed-defects models" and I will never call them anything else from now on.

One day we’ll look back on this as one of the stupidest things we’ve done.

When California banned the sale of gas-only cars starting in 2035, Gavin Newsom called it “the most impactful step our state can take to fight climate change.” Now CA will “rethink” the ban: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/so-much-fo...

This entire administration is a national security risk

Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence! It gets even darker than that. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2032...

Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.

This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...

The Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville seeks a new Invertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager! www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/nhdept/inver...

My department at UT Austin is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology, broadly defined. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions you may have. apply.interfolio.com/177547

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

🔔 When Trump posted a video of budget director Russell Vought as the grim reaper, public health workers recognized a kernel of truth. My latest piece @kffhealthnews.org couldn't be more important. Art by the incredible @oonazenda.bsky.social 🧵 kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

A PhD opportunity to work with me, @spissatella.bsky.social and our friends through CENTA - biogeography and vulnerability of exploited bivalves, with possible spin-offs about fishery sustainability and environmental economics: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

too big to fail speedrun

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Trump Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview—And They Listened newrepublic.com/post/202618/...

Our federal government is attacking the states its GOP leaders do not like. Because of the politics they do not like. Any other framing by the media is feckless, quisling dishonesty.

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

Three examples in one 24-hour period of people threatening to use the power of the state against those holding them to account. www.pbump.net/o/these-are-...

Loosing the PRI would devastate US science. Any level donation, spreading the word helps. #FossilFriday #SaveScience priweb.donorsupport.co/page/FUNWALK...

"Local authorities apprehend immigrants. Private contractors deliver them to either a local jail...or a detention site run by a private corporation... turning immigration enforcement into ... a continuous, privatized, and largely unseen system capable of moving detainees hundreds of miles overnight"

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.