The Walking Dolbow
@jdolbow.bsky.social
Associate Vice President for Research & Innovation at Duke University, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Father to two daughters, 🏳️🌈ally. Red Sox fan, DOE CSGF alumnus.
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Buddy if this goes into 2026 there isn’t gonna be a federal government left to reopen.
GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown.
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
November 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Buddy if this goes into 2026 there isn’t gonna be a federal government left to reopen.
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Today is Thursday, Nov 6
Good morning ❤️
eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back
We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.
Good morning ❤️
eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back
We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Today is Thursday, Nov 6
Good morning ❤️
eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back
We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.
Good morning ❤️
eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back
We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.
The animals in our house do not appear to approve of daylight savings, just judging by their response today an hour before their dinner time.
November 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The animals in our house do not appear to approve of daylight savings, just judging by their response today an hour before their dinner time.
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The press doesn’t get away unscathed: “The legacy media is apparently more interested in the climate musings of an erstwhile PC mogul than a sober assessment by the world’s leading climate scientists.”
"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
thebulletin.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The press doesn’t get away unscathed: “The legacy media is apparently more interested in the climate musings of an erstwhile PC mogul than a sober assessment by the world’s leading climate scientists.”
Paging @michaelemann.bsky.social
Goddammit I just read the Gates climate memo and now I have an intense urge to write about Bjorn fuckin’ Llomborg.
It’s a Saturday. Healthy people don’t wrote about Bjorn Llomborg and the intersection between climate denial and effective altruism ON A SATURDAY, Dave.
It’s a Saturday. Healthy people don’t wrote about Bjorn Llomborg and the intersection between climate denial and effective altruism ON A SATURDAY, Dave.
November 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Paging @michaelemann.bsky.social
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“Elections are determined by (1) your message, (2) the messenger, (3) the media environment, and (4) the moment. The only thing that political campaigns control is (1). There is a long-standing bad habit among pundits of treating it as the only thing that matters.” newrepublic.com/article/2023...
Why Centrist Democrats Keep Being Wrong About Elections
A new 60-page report insists the party is too radical. But the problem isn’t the party platform. The problem is the broader environment.
newrepublic.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“Elections are determined by (1) your message, (2) the messenger, (3) the media environment, and (4) the moment. The only thing that political campaigns control is (1). There is a long-standing bad habit among pundits of treating it as the only thing that matters.” newrepublic.com/article/2023...
One assumes the US will fire a nuke into Hurricane Melissa here shortly.
Trump says we’re going to restart nuclear weapons testing. Halted in 1992.
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
One assumes the US will fire a nuke into Hurricane Melissa here shortly.
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Watching Ohtani pitch still doesn’t compute in my brain. I really don’t believe what I’m looking at
October 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Watching Ohtani pitch still doesn’t compute in my brain. I really don’t believe what I’m looking at
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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"What I need you to know is we are organized.
What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.
What I need you to know is they are coming.
What I need you to know is you can stop them...
This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family"
What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.
What I need you to know is they are coming.
What I need you to know is you can stop them...
This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family"
What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"What I need you to know is we are organized.
What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.
What I need you to know is they are coming.
What I need you to know is you can stop them...
This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family"
What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.
What I need you to know is they are coming.
What I need you to know is you can stop them...
This is how it works: We protect each other, period. These are our neighbors, our friends, our family"
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
I can’t imagine the freedom to arbitrarily redraw district lines to favor one party over another is what Washington had in mind as he was crossing the Potomac.
October 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I can’t imagine the freedom to arbitrarily redraw district lines to favor one party over another is what Washington had in mind as he was crossing the Potomac.
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the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
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Vanderbilt has arrived, late to the chat, with this shambles of a response. While technically true, this is a clear abdication of any moral responsibility. They even work in a mention of their commitment to "institutional neutrality" later in the email.
October 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Vanderbilt has arrived, late to the chat, with this shambles of a response. While technically true, this is a clear abdication of any moral responsibility. They even work in a mention of their commitment to "institutional neutrality" later in the email.
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More people marched today than at any time in the history of the United States.
For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.
They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.
This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.
For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.
They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.
This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.
October 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
More people marched today than at any time in the history of the United States.
For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.
They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.
This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.
For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.
They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.
This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.
At the Delta Rae show in Raleigh
October 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
At the Delta Rae show in Raleigh
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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
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A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks. www.wired.com/story/new-me...
A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths
A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.
www.wired.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks. www.wired.com/story/new-me...
Watched “One Battle After Another” tonight with a friend. If you’re not a fan of the US military in the streets right now, this is a movie for you. I thought it was great.
October 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Watched “One Battle After Another” tonight with a friend. If you’re not a fan of the US military in the streets right now, this is a movie for you. I thought it was great.
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
Andy Reid looks like the principal who’s been called in to explain to the boys that you can’t wear costumes in class until it’s actually Halloween
October 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Andy Reid looks like the principal who’s been called in to explain to the boys that you can’t wear costumes in class until it’s actually Halloween
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Dean of the UC Berkeley Law School has seen the Trump Administration’s “compact” for universities to receive preferable consideration for federal funding and says it amounts to First Amendment violations in blistering op-ed — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Dean of the UC Berkeley Law School has seen the Trump Administration’s “compact” for universities to receive preferable consideration for federal funding and says it amounts to First Amendment violations in blistering op-ed — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report
Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...
www.mediaite.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
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"i just use it to generate ideas"
October 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"i just use it to generate ideas"