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.
Ran into Mitt Romney on the Sky Tram at the Dallas airport.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Ran into Mitt Romney on the Sky Tram at the Dallas airport.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”
December 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”
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If you are in the LGBTQ+ community and spending the holidays with your chosen family, embrace it and shed any guilt you might be feeling. Building a life for yourself, thriving, surviving...It's what every parent should want for their children. Celebrate where you feel safe and loved.
December 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
If you are in the LGBTQ+ community and spending the holidays with your chosen family, embrace it and shed any guilt you might be feeling. Building a life for yourself, thriving, surviving...It's what every parent should want for their children. Celebrate where you feel safe and loved.
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Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
December 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Read this. Merry Christmas indeed
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Thank you Flight Attendants and aviation workers who spend the holidays bringing family and friends together. We do this year ‘round to ensure safe passage of those in our care.
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Thank you Flight Attendants and aviation workers who spend the holidays bringing family and friends together. We do this year ‘round to ensure safe passage of those in our care.
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A public database of ice, ice agents, DHS, etc. Has now been built and it's entirely outside of the US and US government reach.
We Built a Public Record of ICE Because They Refuse to Keep One
Tracking Immigration Enforcement as It Accelerates Under Authoritarian Rule
open.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A public database of ice, ice agents, DHS, etc. Has now been built and it's entirely outside of the US and US government reach.
Ooof this is bad.
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Ooof this is bad.
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🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share!
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Launch of new Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards
As announced in Budget 2025 -
nserc-crsng.canada.ca
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
🚨Extremely short notice: Looking for prospective PhD or postdoc w/ geological engineering or modelling experience, w/ interests in mountain geohazards for project focused on landslide-triggered tsunamis in subarctic w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social 🧵 🧪⚒️ Pls share!
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60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
www.filemail.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts.
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
At MSG for the Duke-Texas Tech game
December 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
At MSG for the Duke-Texas Tech game
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So the Trump FBI has let a serial killer get away
December 18, 2025 at 10:15 PM
So the Trump FBI has let a serial killer get away
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very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
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This wouldn't just be a national tragedy but a global one. Just mind-boggling vandalism.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This wouldn't just be a national tragedy but a global one. Just mind-boggling vandalism.
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These are understandable concerns, given all that has happened at NSF, so I think it's worth addressing. Here is the exact language about internal reviews: "in those rare circumstances when an ad hoc or panel review request process fails to produce the minimum of two external reviews."
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
These are understandable concerns, given all that has happened at NSF, so I think it's worth addressing. Here is the exact language about internal reviews: "in those rare circumstances when an ad hoc or panel review request process fails to produce the minimum of two external reviews."
Absolutely maddening framing from the Washington Post here. The vast majority of universities do not keep the doors locked on academic buildings while classes (or exams) are in session. The idea that they should reconsider that approach in response to campus shootings is just bonkers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Absolutely maddening framing from the Washington Post here. The vast majority of universities do not keep the doors locked on academic buildings while classes (or exams) are in session. The idea that they should reconsider that approach in response to campus shootings is just bonkers.
Just a remarkable career. Reiner will be sadly missed.
Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
Us: Across your entire career?
Reiner: In a 6 year period.
Us: That sounds-
Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.
December 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Just a remarkable career. Reiner will be sadly missed.
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A deeply sad morning, with heartbreaking mass killings in Providence & Sydney.
Innocent students killed in a classroom. At least 11 people by gunmen at a Hanukkah celebration.
Too many guns here. Frightening levels of antisemitism globally. So much senseless violence & hate.
Innocent students killed in a classroom. At least 11 people by gunmen at a Hanukkah celebration.
Too many guns here. Frightening levels of antisemitism globally. So much senseless violence & hate.
December 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A deeply sad morning, with heartbreaking mass killings in Providence & Sydney.
Innocent students killed in a classroom. At least 11 people by gunmen at a Hanukkah celebration.
Too many guns here. Frightening levels of antisemitism globally. So much senseless violence & hate.
Innocent students killed in a classroom. At least 11 people by gunmen at a Hanukkah celebration.
Too many guns here. Frightening levels of antisemitism globally. So much senseless violence & hate.
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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
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This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.
April 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.
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The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans.
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Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans.
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NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.