NFC East winless in a week where two of its teams were playing each other

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 2d ago

All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏

My first concert (Ramones, 1982) cost $10, which is $34 in 2026 dollars. My last show (Black Country New Road, last week) cost $37. Plenty of great affordable shows out there. You don’t have to drop $100s on a stadium ticket.

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Friends, can we all block and report @scuba-diving-5.bsky.social — they are pretending to sell my stuff on merch (check their replies tab), but it’s a credit card number theft scam. Hopefully nobody got ripped off, but if you did, call your credit card company ASAP.

His intro is truly remarkable. A race scientist wrote the chapter on evolutionary psychology and anthropology because there isn’t an evolutionary anthropologist in the world who is anti-woke enough to write about ev psych

A new Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology has just been published, in which it is claimed that the human species is polytypic: not only is race biologically meaningful but the races are distinct enough to be considered subspecies. Published by Elgar. In 2026.

Had a few scammy emails today suggesting I need to verify my @bandcamp.com account or lose it. All sent via the Contact Form. Have forwarded to their team, but be on the lookout. They're fake, but some people might be concerned.

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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my wife, who found this, reports that this sells for $16, whereas peach seltzer (soft) is a mere $6. so who’s stupid now, stupids?

great news, fam—they finally found a way to make hard seltzer without the alcohol

BC,NR were terrific. And a surprise cover of Ballad of El Goodo. a great night.

Michael J. Kane@michaeljkane.bsky.social · last wk.

Woke up at 5:20 this morning, taught 2 back-to-back afternoon courses, and just washed down a brewpub smashed burger with a melon IPA. Hoping to stay awake for tonight’s Lily Seabird / Black Country, New Road show in Chapel Hill. 😊🤘

Woke up at 5:20 this morning, taught 2 back-to-back afternoon courses, and just washed down a brewpub smashed burger with a melon IPA. Hoping to stay awake for tonight’s Lily Seabird / Black Country, New Road show in Chapel Hill. 😊🤘

Holy moly. 😂

Cardinals are gonna put 48 on the Giants today. Pathetic.

The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...

Manuscript revision submitted. Happy Friday, all!

Hey all, a late reminder that it's Bandcamp Friday, so please consider purchasing music or merch from artists you care about. Today I bought the new albums by Wild Pink ("Still Coming Down") and The Tubs ("Hard Life"). bandcamp.com/profkane

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Rock • 155 collection items • 2 followers

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if the Beatles dropped Please Please Me in 2020, Abbey Road would be hitting record stores in America TODAY. it's basically over. Cold Turkey is already in the can!

📣Symposium for Individual Differences in Cognition (SIDIC)📣 If you're attending Psychonomics in San Diego in Nov, please join us for SIDIC (Thur, 11/19, 9-4). Keynote by @yukomunakata.bsky.social plus 10 talks & 10 posters. Full schedule here: caliberlab.wixsite.com/sidic/progra...

Our commentary "A Revolution in Search of an Estimand: On the Idionomic Proposal of Hayes et al. (2026)" is now available as a preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... With @rpsychologist.com, @matti.vuorre.com, and Nils Hentati Isacsson.

Magnus Johansson@pgmj.bsky.social · 4w ago

Interesting timing. I just noticed this paper: Hayes, S. C., Ciarrochi, J., Sahdra, B. K., Hofmann, S. G., Ong, C. W., & Hernández, C. (2026). One size fits none: A call for an idionomic revolution. Clinical Psychology Review, 129, 102800. doi.org/10.1016/j.cp...

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Morphine announce new album 'Cocoon', featuring recordings that Mark Sandman made before his 1999 death

Morphine Announce Posthumous Album 'Cocoon': Hear Title Track

As the years pass, it gets harder and harder to believe that Mark Sandman was a real guy — that he made the music that he did, that he looked like that, that he was actually named Mark Sandman, and th...

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I recorded a podcast with Chuck Klosterman about his great new book ROCK*, a fake history of 20th century rock with real insight! We talked about how he satirized rock criticism in the book, whether rock criticism has a future, & the future of media in general tinyurl.com/3fzzmbs6

Rock* Of Ages: Chuck Klosterman In Conversation

Watch now (65 mins) | I talk with the best-selling author about his new fake history of 20th century rock music

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So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?

I really hate football.

I hate football.

New blog post: "Cluster analysis: A skeptic’s guide". In which I ask a few questions that social scientists wishing to identify hidden classes in their data ought to address. janhove.github.io/posts/2026-0...

Patriots have latelybeen making it extremely difficult to maintain the Eagles and Cowboys as my most hated teams.

Andrew Callahan@andrewcallahan.bsky.social · 4w ago

I asked #Patriots RB TreVeyon Hendrson about a post he made on Twitter/X about a Massachusetts legal battle over an allegedly transitioning 17-year-old, who has been separated from their parents for almost 2 years following assault charges against the father. Here's what he had to say:

It's arrived! The book that will save rock 'n' roll. By @stevenhyden.bsky.social