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Future generations will wonder why we did so little to prevent the next pandemic. It could come sooner than we think.
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Not an article I wanted to write.
The deadly H5N1 bird flu is spreading widely, including to mammals.
For the first time, it's now likely spreading mammal-to-mammal, among minks which are exceptionally well-suited conduits to humans.
We must act now.
nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opi
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Survey and experiment folks -- Any thoughts on the Qualtrics automated bot/"speeder" detector?
qualtrics.com/support/survey
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Temporarily breaking my Twitter boycott to share. Great opportunity! (note: rolling deadline so apply ASAP)
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Temporarily breaking my Twitter boycott to strongly recommend 's new book showing that information effects are typically parallel (i.e., roughly uniform across groups). Read the thread below!
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Persuasion in Parallel is now out from @UChicagoPress!
In this thread:
- The three key ideas from the book I want to put in people's minds
- Suggestions for how to include it on a syllabus
- Thank yous to the many scholars whose work I replicated or reanalyzed
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“Threats still remain,” says . “... most notably, from former President Trump, whom our experts identify as a serious or extraordinary threat to democracy if he is again nominated by the Republican Party.”
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From @JonLemire and @EliStokols: Biden to mark Jan. 6 anniversary by warning the Big Lie remains. politi.co/3jWKpUE
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Why you should be (somewhat) more optimistic about American democracy in 2023 - my interview with
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New podcast with talking about the latest report (brightlinewatch.org/american-democ) and the state of American democracy! open.spotify.com/episode/0WAU9H
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Talked with Dartmouth's @BrendanNyhan about an uptick in positivity around elections and democracy. open.spotify.com/episode/0WAU9H
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"Policy makers should completely abandon trying to preserve or improve property values and instead make their focus a housing market abundant with cheap and diverse housing types able to satisfy the needs of people at every income level and stage of life."
Land value tax?
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The American love affair with homeownership needs to come to an end.
theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar
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Was just reading 's book last night and it's full of horrible white supremacists who were just replatformed here.
You can find me in other places [at]BrendanNyhan.
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Follow me on sites whose owners don't re-platform white supremacists, minimize attempts to overturn American democracy, and incite mobs against public health and trust and safety officials.
Post: post.news/brendannyhan
Mastodon: mastodon.social/@brendannyhan
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Where you can find my posts
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Follow me on sites whose owners don't re-platform white supremacists, minimize attempts to overturn American democracy, and incite mobs against public health and trust and safety officials.
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NEW: report out today shows voter confidence ↑, belief in fraud ↓ after election
Experts more optimistic about future trajectory of US democracy, but continue to view Trump nomination in '24 as profound threat.
Read the full report!
brightlinewatch.org/american-democ
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Follow me on sites whose owners don't re-platform white supremacists, minimize attempts to overturn American democracy, and incite mobs against public health and trust and safety officials.
Post: post.news/brendannyhan
Mastodon: mastodon.social/@brendannyhan
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E*** M*** has become intolerable.
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Mastodon: mastodon.social/@brendannyhan
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A crowd that came out to see Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock lustily booed Elon Musk every time he tried to speak
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The fact that there is zero chance she will be expelled is searing indictment of our democracy.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s January 6th comments at last night’s New York Young Republican Club Gala:
“I got to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, it would’ve been armed.”
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. is one of the most dangerous people in the world: spreading anti-LGBTQ rhetoric along with anti-vaccine disinformation is just a horrifying combination.
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The National Ignition Facility (NIF) has achieved net energy gain from fusion! This is incredibly exciting scientifically, but what does it mean for the future of energy?
In all likelihood, very little.
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SCOOP: Net energy gain in a fusion reaction has been a holy grail in science for decades. Now I’m told US scientists have done it. A massive breakthrough with revolutionary potential for clean power. US Energy Secretary to hold a press conference Tuesday on.ft.com/3PgDdya
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SCOOP: Net energy gain in a fusion reaction has been a holy grail in science for decades. Now I’m told US scientists have done it. A massive breakthrough with revolutionary potential for clean power. US Energy Secretary to hold a press conference Tuesday
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“My life—and the lives of thousands of other teachers and professors, tutors and administrators—is about to drastically change.”
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Some thoughts on GPT3:
1. So far GPT has learned from the internet, but future GPT will learn by talking to us as we use it.
2. There will not be one AI, there will be dozens, with different personalities, safety filters, biases. It will be weird...
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There’s a scene in “JFK” when Costner’s character says it wouldn’t make sense to say his dog is dumb “because I beat him three games out of five the last time we played chess”. Lot of expert/professor critiques of GPT output sound like that right now. Technically right but cmon
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Musk does not see himself as some neutral arbiter running twitter. He professes to believe that there are two camps: one bent on destroying civilization and one which will save it, and he is playing a leading role in the latter. This is classic populist messaging.
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Does anyone remember if anything happened on Jan 6?
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At , we're launching the Arc Science Fellows program for early-career scientists to start their own lab right after grad school with $250K/year research budget + salary.
I'm running an info session next Fri (Dec 16 at 1pm PT)! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/yp8y5z8n
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Georgia SoS Raffensperger tells the NYT he'll offer three proposals to change voting, after the latest Senate runoff, including moving to instant-runoff RCV:
via: nytimes.com/2022/12/08/us/
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world's richest man going full QAnon (again) on a day when the country's most influential newspaper writes that his views "defy easy political categorization." what a time to be alive
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This is getting bad. He's leveraging right wing pedo panic to malign former employees without basis.
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Yimbys conquer Cupertino!
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At 8:05pm on 2022/12/09, we finally got the 3-2 Cupertino For All city council majority!
Ends the long reign of Better Cupertino, a group galvanized and motivated by opposition to 2.4k new units (1.2k income-restricted) at the site of a dilapidated mall. Congrats JR & Sheila!
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There seems to be little limit to Elon Musk's predatory and malevolent nature. He is now insinuating that the fmr head of Trust & Safety at Twitter, an openly gay Jewish man, is a pedophile. Just another level of this is that Roth actually stayed on for several weeks under Musk..
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Yoel Roth was talking with about how unpleasant it was to be personally targeted by the RW outrage machine. He also demurred from painting Elon as a villain. Here is Elon helping to spread the idea that Yoel is pro-child sexualisation. Elon's cosying up to QAnon.
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Why is a SCOTUS Justice hanging out Gorka, Prince, and Spicer?
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free speech means it’s okay when the boss leaks employees’ emails to reporters but it’s bad when employees do it to the boss
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NEW: Elon Musk is threatening to sue Twitter employees who leak confidential information to the press. He's asking staffers to sign a pledge indicating they've understood. Here's the email:
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Today is a good day to fix the Electoral Count Act and eliminate the debt ceiling. Let's harden our democracy.
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If Fitton had his way, the actual election results would have been overturned, but Musk continues to treat him as a legitimate and good-faith source of information. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/three-reason
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