Adam Pollack
@crispapoll.bsky.social
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Policy analysis for problems defined by pluralistic values and deep uncertainties. Research scientist @ Dartmouth College. https://abpoll.github.io/
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New publication on federal funding rules that promote equity in climate adaptation outcomes, with particular attention to the Justice40 Initiative and a few simple funding rules that may better achieve the policy's intentions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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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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johnbrownstan.bsky.social
Sam Alito thinks you can have standing to sue over any law that results in more votes for Democrats
crispapoll.bsky.social
So funny, I literally just read one of your papers on continuous corn and conservation compliance.
crispapoll.bsky.social
Short and explicit better than short and ambiguous though. bsky.app/profile/kate...
katestarbird.bsky.social
Colleagues have pointed out that the Dartmouth response is strategically ambiguous. If I were faculty or alumni, I would provide feedback that: 1) you interpret this to mean that the unviersity is refusing to sign a corrupt contract; and 2) you are proud of the university for taking that stance.
katestarbird.bsky.social
Dartmouth’s response to the Trump admin’s corrupt contract, short and sweet: “You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.”
crispapoll.bsky.social
What's weird is how ubiquitous this take is on a researcher-to-researcher level, but because of what many published studies do you'd expect the complete opposite. Probably because the data/tools available - hammers looking for nails
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Sounds like America may have committed a serious war crime that VP Vance laughed about, joking about “not going finishing.” This is why we do not permit extrajudicial executions by the United States military against civilians— not in peacetime, not in war, not ever.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...
crispapoll.bsky.social
What happened to gold standard science!? No peer review!
crispapoll.bsky.social
To estimate future flood risks, it's important to capture how people respond to risk and interventions. In this new study, we show that many behavioral pathways can produce the levee effect, but most studies only consider one onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @vsrikrish.bsky.social
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
Rarely are the corruption documents made public by the perpetrators.
crispapoll.bsky.social
If we go light on the salsa part, I wouldn't complain, because it could dwarf everything else.
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atherton.bsky.social
The "Tacos Chotiner" tweet remains undefeated
Druthers Haver
@6thgrade4ever
CHOTINER: So how many tacos did you eat?
ME: About four, I think.
CHOTINER: Ok. On Instagram--
ME: Or six, maybe.
CHOTINER: Yeah. Do you think some people might call that a lot?
ME: Well, that's why I got the small chips.
CHOTINER: Right. It's about discipline.
ME: Exactly.
12:02 PM · Apr 11, 2019
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justinwolfers.bsky.social
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
crispapoll.bsky.social
A year ago I never thought I'd be so happy to read a typo!
crispapoll.bsky.social
I haven't worked with SSPx or SSPx-y so I don't know a lot. it just seems like these are far less interoperable/reusable than (at least high-res) impact studies suggest
crispapoll.bsky.social
So if the SSPs are narratives characterizing those spatial/temporal emission pathways, social scientists probably shouldn't overintrpret them (e.g., to downscale) www.nature.com/articles/sda...? Likewise, use a simple climate model to downscale for extremes and impacts instead of fixing to CMIP?
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I personally would love that guidance. When to use the RFF bounds? When to use Bayesian calibration (doi.org/10.1007/s105...), etc?