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30 years and I'm only figuring out *today* that Pokemon = "pocket monster" ??
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Oh, yeah? Would a dying empire do THIS?!
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On this day in 1942, mobs of local white residents threatened and harassed Black families moving into new housing in Detroit. Many of these families had fled racial violence and inequality in the rural South, in a wave known as the Great Migration.
28.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 37 🔁 37 💬 1 📌 2Congratulations, Matt!
28.02.2026 13:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Grad students: Do this. The instruction is world-class, there are great networking opportunities with your fellow attendees, and Berkeley is wonderful to visit in the summer.
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It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
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Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.
The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇
"Report researchers found that the vast majority of those changes (83%) bypassed normal channels for alterations to federal surveys and questionnaires, or the formal notice-and-comment process."
It is impossible to keep up with this administration’s illegal shit. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/remo...
Plus, no lounge 😑
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Image from the "Liar's Paradox" episode of original Star Trek.
27.02.2026 15:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On immigration: "I often am asked to speak as an economist. And what we should never lose sight of is that each of us is a moral being. And you, as I, have to decide how we feel about this form of rhetoric."
26.02.2026 23:29 — 👍 1071 🔁 378 💬 40 📌 39Congress has appropriated funds for the NIH budget, but Russell Vought, the head of OMB and co-Author of Project 2025 is only releasing funds to pay NIH staff. The money to fund new grants and continuing studies is not being released.
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Join our next Brown Bag talk on Wednesday, March 4th at 12pm PT.
@dzeltzer.bsky.social (UC Berkeley) will present, “Intergenerational Correlation in Mortality: The Role of Chronic Conditions.”
Attend in-person (310 Social Sciences Building) or via Zoom.
events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
Five-alarm fire
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I like every part of that story 😅
26.02.2026 13:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of a computer monitor showing a paper submitted to a course I am teaching that says S-300 Introduction to Theo Professor J.D. Vance & February 17,
Two options:
1. I fail the student immediately
2. I track down Vance and force him to grade it
What could go wrong? 🤷♂️
26.02.2026 12:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Maybe DORKWAD is a DORKWORD
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A bar chart reflecting crude birthrates in Philadelphia 17040-1850. There are local maxima at about 1748, 1762, 1788, and much lower local maxima at 1808 and 1830.
Did you know revolutionary-era women appear to have started intentionally reducing their lifetime fertility nearly a hundred years before most Europeans?
The idea that you are the master of your destiny is deeply American and deeply connected to fertility.
Not so much basking in glory as polluting it. Trump is an anti-Midas. Golden things that he touches turn into toxic waste.
25.02.2026 19:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After considerable local pushback from Tennesseans and officials of both parties, ICE confirms to us -- (with just one minor typo) -- that they have abandoned plans to build a new Trump prison camp in Lebanon, Tennessee:
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"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts."
massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social
paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...
This workshop is a valuable investment of time for graduate students in social sciences. Learn some demography!
(And do it in Barcelona if possible 😀)
Another way to use Kitagawa decomposition in demography:-) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Mr. Bone Spurs sure loves to bask in the valor and sacrifice of others.
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A headline I didn't see coming. Also a disturbing story about the (in)security of our internet-connected tools.
www.popsci.com/technology/r...
The most odious thing about the destruction of USAID is that the harm really fell on the most vulnerable people in the world. They wanted to terrorize the civil servants, but knowing three neighbors who worked there: they're so good and capable that they're all back doing great work elsewhere.
24.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.
If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.
If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.
“Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department Of Justice. Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes." - Rep. Robert Garcia in a new statement
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