Jason Radford, PhD
@jsradford.bsky.social
Sociologist. Entrepreneur. Managing Director of the National Internet Observatory at Northeastern University. Turning science into innovations that solve problems.
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We're working hard to solve the complexity/interpretability tradeoff in machine learning as it applies to misinformation detection. I'm thrilled at how well we've done it thus far at Ostrea Cultura.
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“Kid Rock” is the alternate name for Epstein’s island …. 🤣🖕
February 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
“Kid Rock” is the alternate name for Epstein’s island …. 🤣🖕
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One thing I’ve been thinking about this week:
Improving the flow of information between practitioners/policymakers and researchers, particularly in the public safety space.
Improving the flow of information between practitioners/policymakers and researchers, particularly in the public safety space.
January 25, 2026 at 12:41 PM
One thing I’ve been thinking about this week:
Improving the flow of information between practitioners/policymakers and researchers, particularly in the public safety space.
Improving the flow of information between practitioners/policymakers and researchers, particularly in the public safety space.
Surprised I haven't seen anyone try to connect the dots between Larry Ellison's new media empire and the eventual need to bail his Cisco out if the AI bubble pops.
December 14, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Surprised I haven't seen anyone try to connect the dots between Larry Ellison's new media empire and the eventual need to bail his Cisco out if the AI bubble pops.
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I’m trying to post more about what’s top of mind for me, over on LinkedIn. (I know, I can’t believe it either.)
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I’m trying to post more about what’s top of mind for me, over on LinkedIn. (I know, I can’t believe it either.)
I'm sad to say after 40 years of living I only now see the purpose of putting ornaments on a tree. Each year, we take the old ones out to revisit the memories they represent and find new ones to place among our little pantheon.
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I'm sad to say after 40 years of living I only now see the purpose of putting ornaments on a tree. Each year, we take the old ones out to revisit the memories they represent and find new ones to place among our little pantheon.
Interesting seeing UVA put a $10M/yr team together on alumni donations and go to the ACC championship the next year. Under NIL alumni donations make elite teams possible. (Not that it wasn't that way before, but $10M only went so far when you could buy coaches, staff, and facilities.)
December 7, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Interesting seeing UVA put a $10M/yr team together on alumni donations and go to the ACC championship the next year. Under NIL alumni donations make elite teams possible. (Not that it wasn't that way before, but $10M only went so far when you could buy coaches, staff, and facilities.)
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You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social
Behind the Scenes: How UC Faculty Beat Back Trump's Attacks
YouTube video by UC Faculty
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December 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social
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I’m a campus sexual violence researcher and I started thinking about this in the context of traumatized students.
Extensions are horrifically bad accommodations for survivors. They aren’t going to “get better” in a few days. And that means extensions pile up, pushing the survivor farther behind.
Extensions are horrifically bad accommodations for survivors. They aren’t going to “get better” in a few days. And that means extensions pile up, pushing the survivor farther behind.
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I’m a campus sexual violence researcher and I started thinking about this in the context of traumatized students.
Extensions are horrifically bad accommodations for survivors. They aren’t going to “get better” in a few days. And that means extensions pile up, pushing the survivor farther behind.
Extensions are horrifically bad accommodations for survivors. They aren’t going to “get better” in a few days. And that means extensions pile up, pushing the survivor farther behind.
Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey and they could imagine video calls but not the always-connected life of text messaging. Main character is telling the kid "tell Mommy I called". Tech as simple as texts shape how we stay connected moment to moment in ways people didn't imagine.
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey and they could imagine video calls but not the always-connected life of text messaging. Main character is telling the kid "tell Mommy I called". Tech as simple as texts shape how we stay connected moment to moment in ways people didn't imagine.
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How does one’s religion play into their grade? God said isn’t a good enough citation. Which one and under what context would have been my feedback? Sorry.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
How does one’s religion play into their grade? God said isn’t a good enough citation. Which one and under what context would have been my feedback? Sorry.
Status report: new Alexa does not understand 6-7
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Status report: new Alexa does not understand 6-7
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I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
Imagine the things we could do with our time if we didn’t have to do this bsky.app/profile/chan...
I did my job. And then I did a job that never should have been my responsibility afterwards, sending emails and having meetings about how this was allowed to happen in the first place. Other women scholars had to spend their time explaining to Aspen leadership why this was not ok.
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
People point to the overwhelming leverage in AI as evidence of a bubble. There is more debt than revenue can ever pay (without step function growth).
But credit has propped up failing Internet businesses for years. Tech invented the credit-financed hyperscaling-to-enshitification pipeline.
But credit has propped up failing Internet businesses for years. Tech invented the credit-financed hyperscaling-to-enshitification pipeline.
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
People point to the overwhelming leverage in AI as evidence of a bubble. There is more debt than revenue can ever pay (without step function growth).
But credit has propped up failing Internet businesses for years. Tech invented the credit-financed hyperscaling-to-enshitification pipeline.
But credit has propped up failing Internet businesses for years. Tech invented the credit-financed hyperscaling-to-enshitification pipeline.
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NYTimes was also aware a staff writer was a close friend of Epstein - who had been offered incriminating photos of a Presidential candidate - and chose instead to spend the next decade on totally unjustified, frankly delusional, propagandized coverage of trans people and their doctors as “predators”
I'm sorry, I'm still having a hard time getting over that the owner of the NY Times is in the Epstein files thing and they haven't even acknowledged this in any reporting.
November 16, 2025 at 4:30 AM
NYTimes was also aware a staff writer was a close friend of Epstein - who had been offered incriminating photos of a Presidential candidate - and chose instead to spend the next decade on totally unjustified, frankly delusional, propagandized coverage of trans people and their doctors as “predators”
We know we're in an AI bubble and it will burst. So policy makers should start planning for it.
Ask electeds for their bubble resiliency plan. How many people will be impacted in our area? What will the unemployment look like? What will we do with unused data centers? All the energy infra?
Ask electeds for their bubble resiliency plan. How many people will be impacted in our area? What will the unemployment look like? What will we do with unused data centers? All the energy infra?
November 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We know we're in an AI bubble and it will burst. So policy makers should start planning for it.
Ask electeds for their bubble resiliency plan. How many people will be impacted in our area? What will the unemployment look like? What will we do with unused data centers? All the energy infra?
Ask electeds for their bubble resiliency plan. How many people will be impacted in our area? What will the unemployment look like? What will we do with unused data centers? All the energy infra?
Getting out at the top of the bubble like...
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Getting out at the top of the bubble like...
"In 1950, Davis turned down an offer from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) due to loyalty oath requirements ... [He] refused to cooperate with the House Unamerican Activities Committee and was subsequently dismissed from the University of Michigan."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandle...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandle...
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"In 1950, Davis turned down an offer from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) due to loyalty oath requirements ... [He] refused to cooperate with the House Unamerican Activities Committee and was subsequently dismissed from the University of Michigan."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandle...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandle...
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As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:
October 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:
Held a No Kings for the kidoos 😎
October 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Held a No Kings for the kidoos 😎
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If you attend a No Kings Day event, please record the number of people in attendance in our crowdsourced crowd-counting sheet. We prefer official estimates above ad-hoc counts — if you count yourself, pls be conservative (people are bad at estimating crowd sizes). docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
20251018_No Kings Day 2 Protests Unofficial Attendance Crowdsourcing
docs.google.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If you attend a No Kings Day event, please record the number of people in attendance in our crowdsourced crowd-counting sheet. We prefer official estimates above ad-hoc counts — if you count yourself, pls be conservative (people are bad at estimating crowd sizes). docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Overheard on the way to #nokings
"This is the first thing we've done together. And we've been neighbors for 22 years"
"This is the first thing we've done together. And we've been neighbors for 22 years"
Dana Fisher, a professor & author at American University in Washington, D.C., said, “The main point of this day of action is to create a sense of collective identity... It’s not going to change Trump’s policies. But it might embolden elected officials at all levels who are in opposition to Trump.”
Happy to explain what people get out of peaceful protests like No Kings day and what we should expect from today's day-of-action to @reuters.com: www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...
October 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Overheard on the way to #nokings
"This is the first thing we've done together. And we've been neighbors for 22 years"
"This is the first thing we've done together. And we've been neighbors for 22 years"
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If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc
30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.
October 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc
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Join Jason Radford (@jsradford.bsky.social)on Thursday, Sep. 25th, for a virtual session on how to translate your research into a new venture and find the right path to address real-world problems through your work.
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September 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Join Jason Radford (@jsradford.bsky.social)on Thursday, Sep. 25th, for a virtual session on how to translate your research into a new venture and find the right path to address real-world problems through your work.
Register here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mfn9bpcd
Register here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mfn9bpcd
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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.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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.
Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
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“FBI reported that fully 43 cities in those 3 states had higher rates of violent crime in 2024 than did DC. More than 1.2 million live in those cities, including more than 900,000 in Ohio alone. Yet that state’s National Guard is being deployed to DC to protect the capital’s 700,000-odd residents”
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C.
Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...
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August 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“FBI reported that fully 43 cities in those 3 states had higher rates of violent crime in 2024 than did DC. More than 1.2 million live in those cities, including more than 900,000 in Ohio alone. Yet that state’s National Guard is being deployed to DC to protect the capital’s 700,000-odd residents”