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a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

It's hard to still be shocked after all this time, and yet I am shocked.

The business case for biodiversity In Manchester this week, governments endorsed a report that tries to do something business has long resisted: treat biodiversity as economically material. The new assessment from the…

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IPBES warns biodiversity loss is a systemic economic risk. Yet $7.3T a year still funds nature-harming activities — far more than conservation.

Without reform, profit stays misaligned with the ecosystems the economy depends on.

another year of us not running a super bowl ad

Being interdisciplinary mostly means everyone agrees your work is interesting but not for their journal.

Pretty extraordinary to think about how much cardiovascular researchers figured out, and how that turned into public health campaigns, medicines, surgeries, and emergency care that changed millions of people's lives.
ourworldindata.org/cardiovascul...

📢now forthcoming in ECMA!

The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia

Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations.

Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

Which is why I’m strictly staying on my “Following” tab

Maybe it’s just because I follow the right people, but I’ve both learned about the awful ICE shooting before it’s covered in media outlets, and have been spared coming across the video. Bluesky really is the happy medium

This incredibly influential AI progress graph uses estimates for how long it takes for human to complete a task from an unrepresentative sample of ~3 people per task. 3! arachnemag.substack.com/p/the-metr-g...

We're spending untold billions on AI. Can't we spend millions on rigorous evaluation?

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

He’s shown no inclination toward it and I hope I’m not speaking it into existence, but Joe Rogan is the one possible exception I can think of

What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.

One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.

Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors.

He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on.

Inhuman.

I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

Why was this also our dog, so rude

Allegations of a double standard here miss the point: Weiss has followed a simple journalistic principle - comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.

Until the end of my days I will harbor a burning rage toward anyone who entertained the slightest inkling of defunding American aid programs

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology At its core, "artificial intelligence" is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.

"Pluralistic visions of liberal democratic market societies will lose out to AI-driven ones unless we reimagine the role of technology in human affairs."

Glen Weyl has a fascinating and prescient piece at @wired.com —> www.wired.com/story/opinio...

Um, ok...

This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.

This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.

And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.

Me when I cite myself:

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics

so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?

As a Midwesterner married to someone from the tropics this is deeply relatable

Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️

In Defence of Bird Conservation in a Broken World In a world torn by wars and crises, bird conservation can seem irrelevant. Yet to protect life itself is not indulgence – it’s resistance.

Bird conservation is often framed as optional, yet evidence shows it underpins ecosystem stability and human wellbeing.
This editorial explores why defending conservation is not idealism but necessity.

theornithologist.org/in-defence-o...

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