James Holland Jones
@juemos.bsky.social
Anthropologist in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability studying human adaptation, infectious disease dynamics, and climate fiction.
https://heeh.stanford.edu
https://heeh.stanford.edu
Business leader warns business may fail if people who know about business express their concerns that the business may fail.
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 22, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Business leader warns business may fail if people who know about business express their concerns that the business may fail.
Bovino's throwing form.
January 22, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Bovino's throwing form.
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Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader
January 21, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader
Business leader warns business may fail if people don't like the business. 🤷
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Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns AI boom could falter without wider adoption
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
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January 21, 2026 at 12:26 AM
Business leader warns business may fail if people don't like the business. 🤷
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“The speed, the scope and the severity of the attacks on science are beyond anything we’ve ever seen,” says @gretchentg.bsky.social.
My @nature.com story on the human toll of the 2nd Trump presidency.
Thx to @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com & others.
My @nature.com story on the human toll of the 2nd Trump presidency.
Thx to @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com & others.
‘Shattered’: US scientists speak out about how Trump policies disrupted their careers
Researchers lay bare the human toll of lay-offs, funding cuts and attacks on science one year after the president’s return to the White House.
www.nature.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:52 PM
“The speed, the scope and the severity of the attacks on science are beyond anything we’ve ever seen,” says @gretchentg.bsky.social.
My @nature.com story on the human toll of the 2nd Trump presidency.
Thx to @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com & others.
My @nature.com story on the human toll of the 2nd Trump presidency.
Thx to @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com & others.
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Important to remember:
The reason why RFK Jr will not feel even slightly bad about these 10,000 low-income people losing access to life-saving antiviral medicines is that he is an AIDS denialist
He does not think HIV is the cause of AIDS
His conspiracy theories are killing people
The reason why RFK Jr will not feel even slightly bad about these 10,000 low-income people losing access to life-saving antiviral medicines is that he is an AIDS denialist
He does not think HIV is the cause of AIDS
His conspiracy theories are killing people
Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.
Thousands to lose access to HIV drugs with new cuts
An estimated 10,000 people are about to lose access to their HIV medication as the Florida Department of Health makes cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).
www.fox13news.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Important to remember:
The reason why RFK Jr will not feel even slightly bad about these 10,000 low-income people losing access to life-saving antiviral medicines is that he is an AIDS denialist
He does not think HIV is the cause of AIDS
His conspiracy theories are killing people
The reason why RFK Jr will not feel even slightly bad about these 10,000 low-income people losing access to life-saving antiviral medicines is that he is an AIDS denialist
He does not think HIV is the cause of AIDS
His conspiracy theories are killing people
The American political universe is fundamentally asymmetric.
An Arab Muslim man, a Black man, and a transgender woman saved this Nazi's life.
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She helped him flee a rally, then learned he was a right-wing provocateur
Jake Lang, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter, jumped into a stranger’s car after he was driven from his anti-immigrant march in Minneapolis by a large counterprotest.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:41 AM
The American political universe is fundamentally asymmetric.
Bari Weiss appears to gloss half-assed as "heterodox." They are, in fact, very different, but you need some depth to recognize that.
incredible stuff
January 19, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Bari Weiss appears to gloss half-assed as "heterodox." They are, in fact, very different, but you need some depth to recognize that.
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Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
January 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
This seems totally normal and a really good idea.
Signals "we're very serious and not at all desperate."
Signals "we're very serious and not at all desperate."
Update — Here is what the new apparent CBS News segment "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil" may look like:
January 13, 2026 at 11:31 PM
This seems totally normal and a really good idea.
Signals "we're very serious and not at all desperate."
Signals "we're very serious and not at all desperate."
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Super-awkward for the attempted resource grab that the oil companies don't want in.
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Trump threatens to block ExxonMobil from Venezuela after CEO calls country ‘uninvestable’
US president says company is ‘playing too cute’ after CEO responds sceptically to his push for oil investment after deposing Nicolás Maduro
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Super-awkward for the attempted resource grab that the oil companies don't want in.
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Very cool paper here. I'm particularly intrigued by the finding that population size negatively predicts innovation since that has a nice resonance with some of our recent work (doi.org/10.1098/rstb...).
January 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Very cool paper here. I'm particularly intrigued by the finding that population size negatively predicts innovation since that has a nice resonance with some of our recent work (doi.org/10.1098/rstb...).
I guess rule 112b was written by Tesla.
![[Cartoon strip pastiche of the Highway Code, with illustrations describing the text]
[Title panel]:
The Highway Code
Rule number 112b:
LED headlights
In recent years, many
new cars have been fitted with extra-bright LED headlights.
LED headlights increase safety by illuminating every detail of the road ahead
Including the face of the person driving a metal box towards you at a combined speed of 80mph
Whom you have just blinded with your LED headlights.
LED headlights must be fitted at eye-level on a great big murderous wall of car.
[Show a car crumpling into the front of a high-fronted SUV, bathed in light from the blinding headlamps]
They must be permanently on full beam, because you are insane.
And they should be bright enough to make other drivers think they are ascending into a blinding vortex of alien light
Like them old people in the classic Ron Howard film, Cocoon (1985).
[Show illustration of the final scene where the older people on the boat are being yoinked up into the blindingly-illuminated cloaca of the big spaceship]
So remember: you must use LED headlights
To prevent everyone from not crashing into you.
[Image shows this happening]
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January 12, 2026 at 3:56 PM
I guess rule 112b was written by Tesla.
Woke leftist rag , The Wall Street Journal, suggests that ICE is engaged in unprofessional and dangerous policing, and is generally out of control.
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Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Woke leftist rag , The Wall Street Journal, suggests that ICE is engaged in unprofessional and dangerous policing, and is generally out of control.
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
…by shooting American-citizen, mothers-of-three in the face.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Democrats who want to block DHS funding until ICE stops brutalizing and killing people: "Democrats are right now pretty much unhappy about anything, and Trump derangement syndrome is the big cause of that...obviously the ICE agents are enforcing immigration laws"
January 10, 2026 at 5:14 PM
…by shooting American-citizen, mothers-of-three in the face.
These guys do seem to be very pleased with themselves.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 3:14 PM
These guys do seem to be very pleased with themselves.
As with the pull-ups, I see zero reps.
Same with the tall blonde guy to his right. Do they not have a trainer who teaches them how to do the exercises??
Same with the tall blonde guy to his right. Do they not have a trainer who teaches them how to do the exercises??
Hegseth had cameras recording him working out with recruits today at UCLA
January 10, 2026 at 12:47 AM
As with the pull-ups, I see zero reps.
Same with the tall blonde guy to his right. Do they not have a trainer who teaches them how to do the exercises??
Same with the tall blonde guy to his right. Do they not have a trainer who teaches them how to do the exercises??
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Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."
January 8, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."
Important thread for our time.
There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n
January 8, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Important thread for our time.
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what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
January 7, 2026 at 8:54 PM
what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
Um, Judy Wajcman would like a word.
Artificial intelligence will help millions of people in ways that do not appear in traditional economic statistics, says OpenAI’s chief economist ft.trib.al/toxh1Gq
January 8, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Um, Judy Wajcman would like a word.