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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 9h

How fucked update is it that US policy is dictated via niche social media app?

Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 9h

This requires shedding the myth of juristocracy, which paralyzes us.”

Say it louder for the folks at the back!

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 14h

This is good, actually. This is the kind of thing we need to build a pro-court expansion majority.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 17h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 1d

Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964

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Job Summary:

The Interdisciplinary Program in Organizational Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for a full time Lecturer III position to begin August 25, 2026. Organizational Studies is a small but growing selective undergraduate major in the arts and sciences. This is a non-tenure track position with a university year appointment. The initial appointment period will be four (4) years, and the appointment may be renewed (based on programmatic need, funding, and performance). The appointment is subject to final approval by the college.

Responsibilities:

Duties and responsibilities for this Lecturer III position are expected to include four (4) undergraduate courses per year, including both lectures and seminars, as well as departmental service, including undergraduate advising and mentoring equivalent to a third class per semester, and service on appropriate committees. Candidates may also contribute to our core class rotation (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods), depending on program needs and candidate background. A typical full-time (100% effort) load for a Lecturer III in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts is three courses per semester, or the equivalent in administrative and/or service duties.
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Qualifications:

Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D. in a relevant social/behavioral science or professional discipline prior to the start date of the position and a range of instructional expertise. Candidates must be able to teach lower- and upper-level classes relevant to the study of organizations that are grounded in social/behavioral science and appeal to students looking to develop practical, transferable skills. Candidates must also be capable of teaching at least one and preferably two of our core classes (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods). We espec…

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 1d

Where have you gone, Hindenburg Research? Our nation turns its bubble-watching to you. Woo, woo, woo

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mr Halloween @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 2d

Spirit Halloween costume named "Guy Javking Off In The Bushes," with the picture of a young Conservative UK activist who looks like an old pervert

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Sydney Sweeney Desperately Fishing For Pet Names To Avoid Calling Grown Man ‘Scooter’

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

Today’s mandatory faculty mental health slideshow, “Going Through the Motions: How to Function Despite the Fact Your Supervisors Hate You and Your Job Is Destroying You Spiritually,” has been postponed again.

The Faculty Mental Health Fair Has Been Postponed Again

Dear Faculty: Due to concerns expressed by the students, parents, and staff, you are invited to attend a mandatory emergency mental health fair in ...

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 2d

He said he’d been getting many sales calls on his phone recently and so he “answered the phone in a bad mood.”

Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m quite old now, and handling all the nonsense that’s going to happen is going to be hard work,” he said.

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 2d

The winner interviews are always the best part of the Nobel prizes.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Architects of Metal-Organic Frameworks

www.nytimes.com

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 2d

Been thinking a lot about corporate capitulation to authoritarian demands. And this is an interesting piece on the paradox of concentration.

Under democratic regimes concentration coveys political power. Under authoritarians it lowers the cost of political pressure.

www.promarket.org

Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 3d

Looked it up and yikes!

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 3d

I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.

Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 3d

Shout out to the two guys hanging out by the station every day drinking a single serve bottle of red and having a smoke.

A lesson for us all.

Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly thought this was some weird variation on a Chicago hotdog!

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 3d

It’s wild to me how low-stakes syllabus decisions can have such large, long-term impacts.

Read Lee Clarke’s “Acceptable Risk in an undergrad sociology of orgs class. It basically shaped what I’ve done and how I’ve understood the world for the next 30-ish years.

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Jeff Roberts @reliablyjeff.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely love reading papers on stuff I was obsessed with during my PhD (some 25 years ago). Maybe I was ahead of my time (chokes laughing)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Nobel Prize In Medicine Awarded To Tums https://theonion.com/nobel-prize-in-medicine-awarded-to-tums/

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 5d

If it doesn’t survive the washing machine or the dish washer, maybe it was never meant to be part of your household in the first place.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 8d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 5d

Tron gives an inaccurate impression of how many guys live in your computer. It makes it seem like thousands of guys are in there. In reality only about 10 guys live in your computer and less than half of them ride motorcycles

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 5d

A must-read ftom economist Servaas Storm... www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy: How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last?

This paper argues that (i) we have reached “peak GenAI” in terms of current Large Language Models (LLMs); scaling (building more data centers and using more chips) will not take us further to the goal...

www.ineteconomics.org

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 5d

Bonus for all you Bsky haters

NOBEL PRIZES TO BE AWARDED THIS MONTH
Physiology OR Medicine
Physiology AND Medicine
Physiology XOR Medicine
Physiology NOR Medicine
Physiology NAND Medicine
Physiology XNAND Medicine
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

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