This makes me so happy. Abbas is one of the most intelligent, kind, funny, and just all-around decent people I‘ve ever been fortunate to know.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · yesterday

Under-discussed Michigan politics story is that a co-founder of Uncommitted is about to become the Democratic nominee for a seat to the State Senate with the backing of Governor Whitmer

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

wxyz.com

Fun to start the day with @vincentab.bsky.social and refreshing my knowledge of {marginaleffects}!

I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

nbcnews.com

This is why I won’t read your Substack, people.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3w ago

And as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.

Societies rightly spend a lot of money on regulating drug trials. Allowing large scale betting on these trial outcomes just creates incentives to distort findings. This should be immediately legislated out of existence.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 3w ago

Prediction market platform Kalshi will start taking bets on the outcomes of clinical trials and FDA regulatory reviews, it said on Thursday, making drug-development odds public for the first time.

emily oster is one of the main conduits mainstreaming rfk jr.’s fake science. she’s laundering it for wealthy white liberals. unfortunately a lot of them like it, including the times, which has a contract with her 😬

there is infinite money for weapons, non-educator vice chancellors of nothingness, and tech-grift corporate welfare but zero money for teachers, libraries, tuition

profchander@profchander.bsky.social · 4w ago

i quit.

I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.

FanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addiction

Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel. The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' All-Star first baseman.

inquirer.com

Guys I can’t keep doing this independently. I need a job. If you know of a place—advocacy, OSINT org, think tank, left media, etc—where I could take this work in-house, pls let me know. I admire the folks making independent work for them, but I am collapsing under the weight and the lack of impact.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4w ago

A few minutes ago, two ICE flights operated by Journey Aviation landed in Eswatini, likely another third-country removal of immigrants to a maximum security prison there. Nineteen people have already been sent there on previous ICE flights in the last nine months. Only two have been released.

New article in the Conversation on what continues to be done to CDC data and what it means for public health.

From maternal health to influenza rates, gaps in CDC’s public health data are creating dangerous blind spots for disease tracking and prevention

By interfering with how communities collect data and how researchers access it, the CDC risks undermining the hard-won trust needed for effective public health.

theconversation.com

I am giving away a free copy of the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al!! Please like, repost, and follow to enter. I will randomly draw the winner next Weds July 8. 😀 routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

NEW: Researchers & data advocates @apduorg.bsky.social, @copafs.bsky.social, @icpsr.bsky.social, @popassocamerica.bsky.social call for the Trump admin to rescind a ban on “noise infusion” as a way to protect people’s privacy in Census Bureau statistics or allow for public input before data changes

"This order subverts processes developed over decades to foster transparency and public trust and creates a scenario in which there will either be less privacy for our personal information, or less usable data, or both." Read the full joint statement: apdu.org/joint-statem...

I think many of us thought this was likely to happen, but it’s still awful to hear. Hard to think of many faster ways to torch institutional credibility. I really feel for the UCSF students, faculty, and staff whose good work may be undermined by this.

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

it’s disgusting that UCSF welcomed back vinay prasad with open arms to teach public health after what he did at the FDA

I’m not sure people realize how huge this problem is. During Trump 1.0, ~5,000 kids were separated from parents at the border. During Trump 2.0, the Brookings Institution estimates *145,000* US citizen kids have been separated, mostly in the country's interior www.brookings.edu/articles/how... 5/x

For all the talk of genocide elsewhere, this is going to end up as the largest scale mass killing event in modern history. A crime against humanity & the rule of law of almost unimaginable proportions for which Musk must be marched in chains to the courthouse & then to jail for the rest of his life.

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is just unreal. Read the summary if you get a chance…and do everything in your power to prevent this from becoming reality. 🙄😑

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2mo ago

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

The Trump admin is bragging about starving children. Don't take my word from it, hear it from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/05/food...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Brooke Rollins: "As we've moved about 4 million off SNAP, we don't have the exact data of how much of that is fraud, how much of that is people moving into the American dream and off of welfare."

So happy to see @bradytwest.bsky.social get this recognition. I am incredibly fortunate to count him as a mentor and a colleague.

UM SRC@um-src.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congratulations to @bradytwest.bsky.social! West was named a Collegiate Research Professor by @umich.edu OVPR. This is one of the highest honors bestowed on research faculty. West's work includes measurement error, selection bias, interviewer variance & regression models myumi.ch/NX18G

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

🍕 Fresh data, delivered! ICPSR is serving up new & updated data to fuel your next research project. Check out this week’s specials at myumi.ch/ICPSR-new-releases #ICPSRdata #ResearchData #DiscoverData #NewDataReleases #DataUpdate

@publichealthguy1.bsky.social what is the name of that subscription search engine you've mentioned really liking?

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...

techcrunch.com

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Cuba’s government said the country has completely run out of fuel oil and diesel needed to keep the lights on, with extensive blackouts sparking protests for the third day in a row this week. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Peltola gets on the "no tax" train that Cory Booker, Chris Van Hollen and Katie Porter are hawking, calling to axe "federal income tax entirely for working Alaskans earning less than $92,000 per year." #AKSen

Really nice talk from @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social today on problems with "associational" language. Such a nice job highlighting some logical inconsistencies that are inherent to using associational language and a great discussion of what researchers can/should do instead.

Georgia Tomova@georgiatomova.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Do you ever claim to be interested in the "association" between variables? This talk may be for you! @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social will explain when and why such associational language is not appropriate and why causal language should be used instead. Register here: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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