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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 6h

China’s Cyberspace Administration (!) launches a campaign to root out negative emotions.

Yes, negative emotions are contagious but telling people to stop feeling them is not gonna work.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

Cheer Up, or Else: China Cracks Down on the Haters and Cynics

www.nytimes.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 10d

Critical point 👇🏻. Measles will come roaring back in the coming months, with ever-larger outbreaks. Other vaccine-preventable disease will too. We are at the dawn of a massive public health crisis.

World leaders don’t realize what’s coming. Didn’t even mention it at #UNGA. We’re in so much trouble.

Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social · 10d

The measles website at CDC continues to share updated data. 1514 cases reported in 2025. 3 deaths. CDC scientists working hard but have to manage vaccine attacks from @SecKennedy and his minions. This will be the year that ends US’s measles elimination status. Not one word at #UNGA.

https://cdc.gov/measles/data-r…

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 17d

I feel like I am back in the USSR. First day of school - lessons about Lenin’s life.

Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 17d

I came here to say the same. My students are worried and confused. This affects us all

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 19d

I could use some of that too. Despondent about the present.

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 20d

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The Atlantic Announces Free Digital Subscriptions for All U.S. Public High Schools

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www.theatlantic.com

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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 24d

Channel your excitement about network science to engage and educate the public!

The deadline for our annual educational video competition is two weeks away. bit.ly/nss-videos

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 24d

The trouble with GenZ boys

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6Ebo4AE/

Unfortunately I have been tracking these chuds for a long long time #fyp #storytime #fy #usa🇺🇸 #fypシ

TikTok video by forrestapollo

www.tiktok.com

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 24d

What we missed by focusing on the harms of social media to girls is how social media and gaming culture is driving boys mad. Their distress is showing up as anger and violence, instead of anxiety and self-harm.

We need to start talking about it now.

www.threads.com/@evolveu_365...

Evolve U 365 (@evolveu_365) on Threads

Wow-This is the best explanation I’ve heard so far.

www.threads.com

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 24d

This is KGB level shit

Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 27d

I think this reflects the age of your audience. I assure you GenZ know his name.

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Jevin D. West @jevinwest.bsky.social · 28d

We are hiring tenure track faculty this year:

apply.interfolio.com/171020

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28d

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you. This page verified the whisperings I lived with - and I believe they were based on oral history passed on over 300 years! - about violence against Jews. Remarkable.

“The Cossack violence during the uprising inflicted irrecoverable damage on the Commonwealth's Jewish communities.”

Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 29d

Greeks were responsible? Fascinating

Growing up in Kyiv, I heard it said that the Ukrainian nationalist hero Bogdan Khmelnitsky led pogroms against Jews, but his Wiki page does not mention it. Only rumors of conversion to Islam.

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · Sep 8

You are right. But I think he still cares to be perceived as a legitimate business.

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · Sep 8

A friend made a documentary about his family’s ancestry in Austria/Hungary. He could trace it back centuries, as any new Jewish business had to be registered in the books. I can’t trace my family (Ukraine, Belarus) pre 1900. They could not own anything in a shtetl. Jew hate was stronger in the East.

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · Sep 7

I was over on Threads and saw that video there. It turns my stomach - had to come here to detox

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · Sep 7

Watch that video of tech billionaires flattering Trump.

Remember it. We welcomed them into our homes with their apps, handing over privacy and freedom. Now we see the cost: power concentrated in the few, ruling the many.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 6

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · Sep 7

Counter point. Lueger did not invent Jew hate. It had “lain in wait” for centuries. Rather, you should explain how Austro-Hungarian empire allowed Jews to prosper and amass wealth. That is the anomaly. My own family came from farther East, where Jews had no social mobility.

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · Sep 7

Wait, what happened to Trump’s 11 day deadline? Or the 50 day deadline? Has that expired yet? Will Trump act on his threats to Putin?

Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · Sep 7

Anyone who even loads a page on X contributes to the metrics they use to convince advertisers they are still viable.

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · Sep 7

I left Twitter in November 2023, when the Jew hate became too much for me. I can’t imagine it become even more toxic and racist, but here we are.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Sep 7

Congress completely giving up its power

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why not consider birth rates a valid question. I am old enough to remember the panic about overpopulation.