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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.

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My letter to Yale President McInnis about Yale reportedly in talks to 'bend the knee'. Text in the Alt.

It's part of a major federal court case over those cancelations. Here's what the government admitted as part of a process meant to avoid discovery (and perhaps spare it from sharing more damaging records):

Shocking revelation in court documents that the Trump administration canceled billions of dollars of grants for energy projects based solely on whether states voted for Trump. ... and this is the sanitized version they presented to avoid discovery! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

11. I don't think I have to help anyone read between the lines here. AI: good. Universities: bad. Trades: good. Academics: bad. It's a straightforward continuation of the Vought/Vance "the universities are the enemy" program.

Very important and illuminating 🧵

"The National Institutes of Health admitted to using an internal search tool to flag UC grants that mentioned 'health equity,' 'work force diversity,' 'structural racism,' and 'sexual orientation.' " apnews.com/article/cali... 1/3

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!

Bhattacharya tries to take credit for HIV advances while his policies undermine the field.

“Practitioners of analytic philosophy will be aware that the charge of absurdity or incoherence is not an uncommon or even an unjust criticism of many claims made within their own discipline.” @ramoran.bsky.social on the Boghossian report on the humanities:

The American Diabetes Association appears not to have learned their lesson the first time around (below). Now they've blocked publication of an editorial about this event that was slated for publication in the same journal, Diabetes Care, this week. But here it is. You know what to do.

This is crucial and often unmentioned. Almost every single diagnosis of declining faith in universities fails to mention that it is runs in parallel to declining faith in almost all American institutions. Any failure to recognize this means it is really flawed or not a serious effort.

The U.S. is just a few dozen measles cases away from exceeding the number of cases recorded in 2025.

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

New NSF policy essential bans all collaboration with Chinese scientists. This is another disaster for science. www.science.org/content/arti...

Nothing says "intellectual diversity" quite like a mandatory law dictating forced enrollment in a bureaucratic safe space for policed thought. Ohio lawmakers want you to think freely, or else. 👀

This is a horrifying story about the growing dangers of ubiquitous surveillance and a good reason for Stanford residents to continue to pressure the admin to get rid of the Flock cameras on campus. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...

John Ioannidis recently blasted us as SBM for criticizing supposedly "serious scientists." But were MAHA/MAGA doctors serious scientists or political propagandists using science as a shield to stave off criticism? Don't trust my answer. Just watch their videos. My latest.

The only catch is, you need to know how to pronounce "Peabody."