Kristina Lerman
@kristinalerman.bsky.social
Senior Principal Scientist at USC Information Sciences Institute. Using data, networks and AI to better understand social groups.
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If anyone is interested, I've uploaded the complaint and memorandum of law to CourtListener: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72079...
Ahmed v. Rubio, 1:25-cv-10705 - CourtListener.com
Docket for Ahmed v. Rubio, 1:25-cv-10705 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
If anyone is interested, I've uploaded the complaint and memorandum of law to CourtListener: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72079...
I use the research by CCDH in my own work. This action by US government is shocking and unconstitutional. All researchers are in danger.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I use the research by CCDH in my own work. This action by US government is shocking and unconstitutional. All researchers are in danger.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
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DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
December 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
My taste in podcasts wax and wane, but Maintenance Phase podcast has consistently remained my must-listen. The latest episode on Raw Milk lives up to the standards. The politics of nutrition and public health.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Raw Milk
Podcast Episode · Maintenance Phase · 11/13/2025 · 1h 6m
podcasts.apple.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
My taste in podcasts wax and wane, but Maintenance Phase podcast has consistently remained my must-listen. The latest episode on Raw Milk lives up to the standards. The politics of nutrition and public health.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
How anyone thinks Musk is a “genius” is beyond me.
On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
How anyone thinks Musk is a “genius” is beyond me.
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BREAKING:
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
December 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
BREAKING:
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
Interesting that people get huffed about the wrong thing.
If you are an academic citing papers you did not read, you deserve shame.
It is amazing science survived people citing papers they did not read. Science will survive hallucinated titles.
If you are an academic citing papers you did not read, you deserve shame.
It is amazing science survived people citing papers they did not read. Science will survive hallucinated titles.
If you're an academic using AI for your scholarly work, you deserve shame.
If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned.
Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.
If you use AI for work that you submit, you should be banned from that forum. Whatever journal, conference, workshop series - banned.
Maybe you can appeal after a few years. Maybe.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Interesting that people get huffed about the wrong thing.
If you are an academic citing papers you did not read, you deserve shame.
It is amazing science survived people citing papers they did not read. Science will survive hallucinated titles.
If you are an academic citing papers you did not read, you deserve shame.
It is amazing science survived people citing papers they did not read. Science will survive hallucinated titles.
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Essay🧵: We've learned nothing from decades of the women's movement. It's like Nathaniel Hawthorne is writing this story:
Last summer, an American HR head, separated from her husband, attended a Coldplay concert with her married, CEO boss (whom she says she...
1/10
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
Last summer, an American HR head, separated from her husband, attended a Coldplay concert with her married, CEO boss (whom she says she...
1/10
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
The Ritual Shaming of the Woman at the Coldplay Concert
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Essay🧵: We've learned nothing from decades of the women's movement. It's like Nathaniel Hawthorne is writing this story:
Last summer, an American HR head, separated from her husband, attended a Coldplay concert with her married, CEO boss (whom she says she...
1/10
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
Last summer, an American HR head, separated from her husband, attended a Coldplay concert with her married, CEO boss (whom she says she...
1/10
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...
A couple of days ago, I posted about the generational divide in American antisemitism and got a few leftists upset. A PoliSci prof (!) said it was only a problem on the right. Here is the response-we can’t afford to make it the problem of our rivals only!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What J. D. Vance—And Many Others—Miss About American Anti-Semitism
Making anti-Semitism about your ideological enemies doesn’t help anyone understand, let alone solve, the problem.
www.theatlantic.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A couple of days ago, I posted about the generational divide in American antisemitism and got a few leftists upset. A PoliSci prof (!) said it was only a problem on the right. Here is the response-we can’t afford to make it the problem of our rivals only!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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From Australia’s Jewish community, an ex-Soviet like me. Another Jew feeling betrayed by the govt they believed would keep them safe but to whom Jewish lives do not matter.
I am seeing the same pattern in Toronto and NYC. Expect bloodshed there.
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
I am seeing the same pattern in Toronto and NYC. Expect bloodshed there.
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
Opinion | Australia Can’t Recover From This
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
From Australia’s Jewish community, an ex-Soviet like me. Another Jew feeling betrayed by the govt they believed would keep them safe but to whom Jewish lives do not matter.
I am seeing the same pattern in Toronto and NYC. Expect bloodshed there.
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
I am seeing the same pattern in Toronto and NYC. Expect bloodshed there.
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
The fact that so many of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre were Soviet Jews hits hard.
December 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The fact that so many of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre were Soviet Jews hits hard.
I am exhausted. Fighting with leftists about antisemitism online and being assaulted by antisemitism offline.
They actually went ahead with this at a moment when antisemitism is rising.
The Coast Guard “quietly” enacted a policy downgrading swastikas to “potentially divisive.” And for an extra kick in the nuts, they downgraded nooses too.
The Coast Guard “quietly” enacted a policy downgrading swastikas to “potentially divisive.” And for an extra kick in the nuts, they downgraded nooses too.
December 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I am exhausted. Fighting with leftists about antisemitism online and being assaulted by antisemitism offline.
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11/20: Coast Guard classifies swastikas as "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
11/21: Guard leader's new policy calls them "[d]ivisive or hate symbols" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Today: Back to "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
11/21: Guard leader's new policy calls them "[d]ivisive or hate symbols" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Today: Back to "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
NEWS: Coast Guard enacts policy downgrading swastikas, nooses to ‘potentially divisive’
New, from Tara Copp and me
and me
wapo.st/4540Xi5
New, from Tara Copp and me
and me
wapo.st/4540Xi5
Coast Guard enacts policy calling swastikas, nooses ‘potentially divisive’
The Coast Guard’s workplace harassment manual that downgrades the definition of swastikas and nooses quietly went into effect this week.
wapo.st
December 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
11/20: Coast Guard classifies swastikas as "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
11/21: Guard leader's new policy calls them "[d]ivisive or hate symbols" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Today: Back to "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
11/21: Guard leader's new policy calls them "[d]ivisive or hate symbols" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Today: Back to "potentially divisive" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Antisemitism is a youth problem. More evidence that GenZ will not save us.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
‘The More I’m Around Young People, the More Panicked I Am’
Anti-Jewish prejudice isn’t a partisan divide—it’s a generational one.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Antisemitism is a youth problem. More evidence that GenZ will not save us.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
No, the suspects were motivated by Jew hatred. Australian government has long ignored the rising tide of Jew hatred-from loud protests with genocidal slogans to graffiti and arson. They are still refusing to refusing to name the problem. Shameful.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Sydney Gunmen Were Motivated by ISIS, Australia’s Leader Says
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
No, the suspects were motivated by Jew hatred. Australian government has long ignored the rising tide of Jew hatred-from loud protests with genocidal slogans to graffiti and arson. They are still refusing to refusing to name the problem. Shameful.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
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WOW! This ad cuts clear to the bone. 11 years to the day after Sandy Hook massacre... and a day after Brown University shooting and... I lived just 25 miles away, and a few days before a guaranteed next mass shooting in America.
Fuck "thoughts & prayers!"
mothersfordemocracy.org/
Fuck "thoughts & prayers!"
mothersfordemocracy.org/
December 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
WOW! This ad cuts clear to the bone. 11 years to the day after Sandy Hook massacre... and a day after Brown University shooting and... I lived just 25 miles away, and a few days before a guaranteed next mass shooting in America.
Fuck "thoughts & prayers!"
mothersfordemocracy.org/
Fuck "thoughts & prayers!"
mothersfordemocracy.org/
School shootings keep happening because we are preserving the status quo that allows them to happen.
Pogroms will keep happening while we tolerate the status quo that makes it fashionable to demonize Jews.
Call out Jew hatred-do not normalize it. It is not a badge of moral superiority.
Pogroms will keep happening while we tolerate the status quo that makes it fashionable to demonize Jews.
Call out Jew hatred-do not normalize it. It is not a badge of moral superiority.
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
School shootings keep happening because we are preserving the status quo that allows them to happen.
Pogroms will keep happening while we tolerate the status quo that makes it fashionable to demonize Jews.
Call out Jew hatred-do not normalize it. It is not a badge of moral superiority.
Pogroms will keep happening while we tolerate the status quo that makes it fashionable to demonize Jews.
Call out Jew hatred-do not normalize it. It is not a badge of moral superiority.
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“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.
"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.
Unbelievable. We are not a sane society. I do not agree to live like this.
This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.
December 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Unbelievable. We are not a sane society. I do not agree to live like this.
Enough already. We can -and deserve to- live in a sane society.
"Weissman was in her dorm room at Brown when a friend called to warn her that a shooting was under way. Her initial feelings of panic soon turned to anger, she told NBC. “I’m angry that I thought I’d never have to deal with this again, and here I am eight years later,” Weissman told NBC News."
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Enough already. We can -and deserve to- live in a sane society.
If u don’t understand how scary it is to be a Jew, here is an opinion many express-even here.
“I think making genocide a Jewish trait - which Israel has done - has made Jews a target. Zionism is the most antisemitic danger to Jews.”
If you don’t see how crazy it is, you are part of the problem
“I think making genocide a Jewish trait - which Israel has done - has made Jews a target. Zionism is the most antisemitic danger to Jews.”
If you don’t see how crazy it is, you are part of the problem
December 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If u don’t understand how scary it is to be a Jew, here is an opinion many express-even here.
“I think making genocide a Jewish trait - which Israel has done - has made Jews a target. Zionism is the most antisemitic danger to Jews.”
If you don’t see how crazy it is, you are part of the problem
“I think making genocide a Jewish trait - which Israel has done - has made Jews a target. Zionism is the most antisemitic danger to Jews.”
If you don’t see how crazy it is, you are part of the problem
My thoughts with everyone at Brown University. I imagine what I would do if hunted by a gunman. This is scary beyond words. Stay safe!
December 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
My thoughts with everyone at Brown University. I imagine what I would do if hunted by a gunman. This is scary beyond words. Stay safe!
Proud of my new state. Go Hoosiers!
December 12, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Proud of my new state. Go Hoosiers!