There are a lot of Ohio Republicans in the news right now and it can get confusing. I'm here to help.
Ohio State Fan's 'O..H..I..NO!!' Football Reaction
ALT: Ohio State Fan's 'O..H..I..NO!!' Football Reaction
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James Holland Jones
@juemos.bsky.social
Anthropologist in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability studying human adaptation, infectious disease dynamics, and climate fiction. https://heeh.stanford.edu
Most-recent common ancestor of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease was about 60,000 years ago, well before there were people in the Americas. I don't think the chipmunks were doing gain-of-function experiments. Figure 3 from Walter et al. (2017): doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Damn. NSF has gone with the "real world" trope. Things are bad in DC. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USN...
NSF partners with universities and industry on pilot initiative for four-year Ph.D. programs with real-world research placements
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Last Fall quarter, Xavier Basurto and I co-taught a seminar on human ecology for our first cohort of EBS PhD students. I wrote some longish notes in the discussion section of class Canvas site. I thought about one of these yesterday and thought I might recycle them as blog posts. My first:
Tribute to Robert McC. Netting – Monkey’s Uncle
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Applications for the @sfiscience.bsky.social Santa Fe Institute's amazing Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships, including the Omidyar Fellowships, are now open. The deadline for applications is September 30th.
Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship - Santa Fe Institute
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Heads up: #EHBEA, #HBES, #BioAnth, #EvPsych, #CultEvo, #compsocsci! 🧪 cc: @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @evanthsociety.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @insna.bsky.social
James Holland Jones@juemos.bsky.social · last wk.In preparing for this position, my department solicited some faculty visions for Environmental Behavioral Sciences that we discussed in a series of faculty meetings. I reproduced my vision statement, focusing on what I see as important in prospective faculty for our department, on my blog:
In preparing for this position, my department solicited some faculty visions for Environmental Behavioral Sciences that we discussed in a series of faculty meetings. I reproduced my vision statement, focusing on what I see as important in prospective faculty for our department, on my blog:
What We Should Seek in EBS Colleagues – Monkey’s Uncle
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James Holland Jones@juemos.bsky.social · last wk.Do you study human ecology, human behavior, or human institutions? Is your work relevant to climate change, adaptation, or sustainability? Join us at Stanford! 🌲🤓🌲 My department will be running a junior search in Environmental Behavioral Sciences this year. Happy to answer any questions.
Do you study human ecology, human behavior, or human institutions? Is your work relevant to climate change, adaptation, or sustainability? Join us at Stanford! 🌲🤓🌲 My department will be running a junior search in Environmental Behavioral Sciences this year. Happy to answer any questions.
Assistant Professor in Environmental Social Sciences, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (Environmental Behavioral Sciences) - Stanford University, California, United States
Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Environmental Behavioral Sciences within the Department of Environmental Social Sciences. The scope of t...
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Tell me you are surrounded by sycophants and yes-men without telling me you are surrounded by sycophants and yes-men.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last wk.Elon has been melting down and raging nonstop since his interview with The Economist and Chef Andres is one of the best and kindest humans on planet earth.
This is reassuring. Living in Palo Alto, it's easy to miss the scale of this flop. I see them every day and, in fact, one was parked behind our house most of the day today. Palo Alto, of course, is a very strange place.™️
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2w agobloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
Barry White Sings in The Simpsons
Alt: Barry White Sings in The Simpsons (S4.E20, Whacking Day)
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Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2w agoGreat moments in the history of philosophy: In 1972 John Rawls reaches out to Lou Rawls to see if he'd be interested in translating John's recently published "Theory of Justice" into a "sexy R&B concept album" entitled "Original Position." Lou Rawls politely declines the request.
The recorded death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the DRC is about to cross 1,000 cases. In reality there have likely been a lot more deaths already. Many new cases appear to have no link to known cases, suggesting much of the spread is still happening in the dark.
It's certainly fascinating and of historic importance but also the idea that you'd look at the world of the Iliad and Odyssey: rape/pillage/plunder, wide-spread slavery, horrific misogyny, endless honor killings and say, "muh western civ!" is bizarre to me. These are bad people!
Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 2w agoThe lede is absolutely precious on this one. Human excrement entering the food system on a "surprising scale". Gives new meaning to the enshitification of life in the US under the current administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...
Cyclospora Spreads Through Human Feces. How Did It Get Into Our Food Supply? (Gift Article)
The large number of cases suggests that excrement entered the food system on a “surprising scale.”
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ICYMI ‘This is terrifying’: The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source www.latimes.com/environment/...
'This is terrifying': The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source
The source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.
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“Two courses for the fall of 2026 were canceled outright, while several more had to alter their syllabi to comply. Professors teaching those courses told The Chronicle they weren’t provided with any rationale for why their “exception requests” were partially or fully denied.”
What Texas A&M Will — and Won’t — Let You Teach
Newly obtained records reveal that two courses for the fall were canceled outright, while administrators demanded changes to others. Instructors say the deliberative process is a black box.
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A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
People are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNN
As the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained.
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The main reason for the organized assault by polluters & hired guns on the new @nationalacademies.org report on climate change & extreme event attribution (see my review here: michaelmann.net/comments-on-...) is the fact it provides a tool for holding them accountable for the damage they've done.
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 3w agoTrump, the GOP and the polluters & plutocrats they answer to are responsible for the death and damage caused by this fossil-fueled disaster: www.reuters.com/business/env...
NEW: Trump is now threatening to punish Canada for wildfire smoke blowing into the U.S., as a GOP senator intros a bill to sanction Canadian officials “responsible” for the fires driven by climate change. “Insane," says one leading Canadian enviro group. www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie...
GOP Senator Calls For Stripping Visas From Canadian Officials Because Of Wildfires
“We will not tolerate this incompetence,” vowed Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, who may not understand how climate change works.
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Is it just me or does this dude sound like a smurf?
Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 3w agoMAGA cultist Eric Metaxas was outraged by seeing an air quality alert triggered by the Canadian wildfires that suggested people limit outdoor activity: "How dare they say that. Who has the right to tell me or you or anyone anything? It's a free country. I can do whatever I want."
Cyclosporiasis Outbreak Linked To Ancient Evil Corrupting The 7 Sacred Diarrhea Crystals https://theonion.com/cyclosporiasis-outbreak-linked-to-ancient-evil-corrupting-the-7-sacred-diarrhea-crystals/
Trump seems to have once again worked his sports magic; this time, on England.