Excluding health care, the U.S. economy has lost more than 140,000 jobs over the last four months

We interrupt the shooting at a college to bring you news of a shooting at a high school. This is America.

🚨 Our latest paper just came out in Science, where we report a simple, historical pattern: From 1980 to 2020, Republican lawmakers consistently funded science at a higher level than their Democratic counterparts. four years in the making. Led by Zander Furnas thread 1/n

My latest, on how using AI scribes to take clinical notes might affect the socialization of medical trainees

New from me and some colleagues: we argue that the practices required to maintain AI models in healthcare exist in a "responsibility vacuum," which has resulted in the emergence of a creative form of invisible labor to monitor and repair technical systems bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

As good as Melinda Cooper's books are, the precision and clarity of her extemporaneous speaking is somehow even more impressive? Also this is a two hour interview and it's part one of two? thedigradio.com/podcast/counte…

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Me and Mark Krotov wrote about the Nobel Prize, Laszlo Krasznahorka, the masculinity crisis, ChatGPT, going beast mode, bestie, do you ever get lonely, the moon, and what it all means for marxism newrepublic.com/article/201543…

“due to recent NIH actions, more than 4 in 5 early career researchers are considering leaving academia or relocating outside the US. When I directly pressed Bhattacharya about this exodus during our meeting, he said that if researchers did not like the way things are in the US /1

If the likelihood of a catastrophic event is > 10% then the Risks are unacceptable high. This is the point we have reached on scientific evidence for AMOC shutdown. This is the "Don't look up moment" for risks of liveability on Earth theguardian.com/environment/20…

From Kim Phillips-Fein’s brand new review of Melinda Cooper’s COUNTERREVOLUTION. thenation.com/article/societ…

Yep that’s them alright

"what if I went to grad school" eventually comes for us all

we truly live in hell

Attn NYC, we have a great event coming up New School for Social Research Econs & Capitalism Studies on Nov. 4 at 4pm, hosting Mike McCarthy and Cédric Durand in conversation about their new books from Verso Books and the future of capitalism. Open to to the public with registration: event.newschool.edu/economicssemin…

New working paper on the effects of anti-DEI laws on hiring at public colleges link in reply

“In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge they’d already walked themselves up to.”

PSA New Yorkers — today and tomorrow are the only early voting days that go to 8pm

Huge news for US literature. A new Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10 literaryartsfund.org/about/

Voted for Zohran again