James Holland Jones

Things going great for SBE/NSF so far this year 😐

Indeed. It's no wonder he can't actually do a full rep wearing those bindy things.

No video on Bluesky, but I can attest:

once again, zero reps

Image of a driver display in a Toyota Highlander Hybrid showing outside temperature of 80 degrees F.

This is totally normal for February, right?

"Some feminists have long contested this view, often using political discourse rather than the scientific method. If gender is socially constructed, they argue, it is “mutable” and can be reshaped through political and social reforms. Feminists often refer to “biological determinism” in a pejorative sense, as they seek to reform society into a genderless one by eliminating what they perceive to be constructed gender traits."

Alas, I have other responsibilities that keep me from reading this clearly very serious, very scientific study, but I will simply note that, I dunno, it scans as pretty discursive in its style and I hear that's bad...

There are real issues higher ed needs to address, but the outrage porn that you see on social media, Fox, etc. is just not at all typical

Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Monsters.

This is such an important point!

Dear Director Bhattacharya and Deputy Director Lorsch: I saw a post Director Bhattacharya retweeted about replication in economics. This begins with: Between 1974 and 2014, only 0.1% of publications in the top 50 economics journals were replication studies. That's 40 years. Thousands of papers. Almost none replicated. We've built careers on findings no one has verified. When economists finally replicate studies, 40-67% fail depending on the study.

A second email, this with a more substantial insight about "The Replication Crisis"...

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Let’s Talk About RFK Jr.’s Workout Pants Our health secretary is a jeans guy, and he knows it.

If I'm being completely honest, I'm a bit of a jeans guy myself.

I would never wear jeans to the gym, but when I bench at home, I totally rock jeans & crocs. Yes, it's about not wanting to interrupt my day and being able to pick right up where I left off.

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

When the higher education sector is organized, we have the power to stop the Trump administration's campaigns against American universities

We are proud of our members and allies at UCLA who successfully blocked Trump from extracting $1.2 billion from UCLA over alleged civil rights violations.

Monsters.

Noem more concerned with hate for the other than for love of Americans.

Power out across the whole Stanford campus for going on 2 hours now. One of the most intense storms I’ve experienced in >20 years in California and, apparently, we’ve got another week of this!

Hopefully, knowledge of this hormone comes from biology class and not from Looksmaxxing and related cultures besetting young men these days, as in "Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels"

A CITY ON MARS Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no war, no Twitter—beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critica...

Hey friends, have you by any chance seen the book by Kelly & @zachweinersmith.bsky.social? Their description of the specific challenges of parturition in particular haunts me to this day 😬 I talk about this in my Adaptation class and my Human Extinction Sophomore College!

www.acityonmars.com

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

Monsters.

'A good way of dealing with overpopulation': Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism Jeffrey Epstein and his vast network of elite figures routinely traded in myths that undermine climate progress. Experts say it's not an accident.

‘A good way of dealing with overpopulation’: Epstein files reveal how the rich fuel climate denialism | Article by @ktoussaint.bsky.social for @fastcompany.com: www.fastcompany.com/91490280/eps...

Elon Musk Will Be Deposed Over What He Did With DOGE The former DOGE head will have to answer for what happened at USAID.

A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID

Our case now moves into discovery

As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN

I mean, c'mon, dude's totally going to hell and he knows it.

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation

May your children and your children's children curse you.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue Entertainment about or made with artificial intelligence has been missing the mark with viewers over the past year.

"The result is a necrotic ode to brand synergy."

Well done, Xfinity.

www.wired.com/story/hollyw...

Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever.

This is the country we live in now.

Narrator: "And they're BOTH in the Epstein Files"

Lisa Blunt Rochester: How many fewer children are you projecting to be vaccinated due to this change (to the childhood vaccine schedule)? Jay Bhattacharya: I expect MORE children to be vaccinated due to this change, not fewer.

Lisa Blunt Rochester: And how many children in this study will be diagnosed with meningitis, hepatitis, or the flu? Jay Bhattacharya: ... again, I think more children will be vaccinated due to this change, not fewer.

Bhattacharya cited no studies, no analysis, except his belief that vaccination rates will go up as they paradoxically remove vaccines from the childhood schedule.
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Kansas GOP House members renew attacks on DEI, CRT at public universities • Kansas Reflector Critics of DEI launch a broadside against curriculum at Kansas public colleges and universities by pressing for passage of a mandate-laden bill.

Kansas Republicans introduced a bill banning DEI & Critical Race Theory in state schools.

“HB 2428 treats Kansas college & university students as though they were thoroughly unable to handle opposing viewpoints, controversial theories or to make up their own minds.”

— Eugene Rice, AAUP Kansas