@traviskw.bsky.social
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Researchers at the #VirginiaTech National Security Institute used active open source intelligence techniques to gain a better understanding of how presidential campaigns use email addresses. 📧
Researchers investigate how political campaigns use and abuse email addresses
Researchers at the Virginia Tech National Security Institute recently used active open source intelligence techniques to gain a better understanding of how presidential campaigns use email addresses.
news.vt.edu
October 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Researchers at the #VirginiaTech National Security Institute used active open source intelligence techniques to gain a better understanding of how presidential campaigns use email addresses. 📧
Shouldn’t be long before folks are banned for teaching about Jan. 6
September 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Shouldn’t be long before folks are banned for teaching about Jan. 6
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Hiding the truth.
September 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Hiding the truth.
Not sure who needs to hear this, but:
It’s OK to be deeply saddened and disturbed by a totally unnecessary and evil taking of a life AND be deeply saddened and disturbed by the celebration of a person you feel has done you and/or others harm. Those feelings are not mutually exclusive.
It’s OK to be deeply saddened and disturbed by a totally unnecessary and evil taking of a life AND be deeply saddened and disturbed by the celebration of a person you feel has done you and/or others harm. Those feelings are not mutually exclusive.
September 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Not sure who needs to hear this, but:
It’s OK to be deeply saddened and disturbed by a totally unnecessary and evil taking of a life AND be deeply saddened and disturbed by the celebration of a person you feel has done you and/or others harm. Those feelings are not mutually exclusive.
It’s OK to be deeply saddened and disturbed by a totally unnecessary and evil taking of a life AND be deeply saddened and disturbed by the celebration of a person you feel has done you and/or others harm. Those feelings are not mutually exclusive.
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Some claim "Christian nationalism" is just "loving Jesus" & "being patriotic."
Lots of social scientific evidence shows the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism is much more than that.
In fact, it brings with it 5 pieces of cultural baggage.
kettering.org/five-element...
@kettering.org
Lots of social scientific evidence shows the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism is much more than that.
In fact, it brings with it 5 pieces of cultural baggage.
kettering.org/five-element...
@kettering.org
Five Elements of Christian Nationalism
Christian nationalism envisions a very particular nation: one that is ordered in such a way that only a certain group remains at the top and in charge while others have limited access to the levers of...
kettering.org
September 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Some claim "Christian nationalism" is just "loving Jesus" & "being patriotic."
Lots of social scientific evidence shows the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism is much more than that.
In fact, it brings with it 5 pieces of cultural baggage.
kettering.org/five-element...
@kettering.org
Lots of social scientific evidence shows the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism is much more than that.
In fact, it brings with it 5 pieces of cultural baggage.
kettering.org/five-element...
@kettering.org
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#VirginiaTech researchers are working to uncover the hidden paths of white sharks across the Mediterranean Sea. 🦈
eDNA testing for sharks in the Mediterranean Sea yields fin-tastic results
Virginia Tech SeaQL Lab is collaborating with the nonprofit organization International SeaKeepers Society and Virginia Tech’s Genomics Sequencing Center to detect white sharks across the Mediterranean...
news.vt.edu
July 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
#VirginiaTech researchers are working to uncover the hidden paths of white sharks across the Mediterranean Sea. 🦈
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#VirginiaTech Helmet Lab 🤝 Dick's Sporting Goods
The Virginia Tech Helmet Lab’s peer-reviewed, published 5-STAR helmet rating system is now available in all Dick’s Sporting Goods retail locations.
➡️ brnw.ch/21wUvmn
The Virginia Tech Helmet Lab’s peer-reviewed, published 5-STAR helmet rating system is now available in all Dick’s Sporting Goods retail locations.
➡️ brnw.ch/21wUvmn
July 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
#VirginiaTech Helmet Lab 🤝 Dick's Sporting Goods
The Virginia Tech Helmet Lab’s peer-reviewed, published 5-STAR helmet rating system is now available in all Dick’s Sporting Goods retail locations.
➡️ brnw.ch/21wUvmn
The Virginia Tech Helmet Lab’s peer-reviewed, published 5-STAR helmet rating system is now available in all Dick’s Sporting Goods retail locations.
➡️ brnw.ch/21wUvmn
If we’re more outraged by Christians associating with a gay couple than openly embracing a non-repentant person convicted of sexual assault, accused of it numerous other times, and caught on tape joking about it, our moral compasses are likely being swayed more by cultural wars than Christ’s love.
July 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If we’re more outraged by Christians associating with a gay couple than openly embracing a non-repentant person convicted of sexual assault, accused of it numerous other times, and caught on tape joking about it, our moral compasses are likely being swayed more by cultural wars than Christ’s love.
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Man’s best friend could be the spotted lanternfly’s worst enemy. 🐶
#VirginiaTech researchers discovered that everyday dogs and their owners can be trained to effectively sniff out destructive agricultural pests.
Read ➡️ news.vt.edu/articles/2025/05/cals-spotted-lanternfly-dog-study
#VirginiaTech researchers discovered that everyday dogs and their owners can be trained to effectively sniff out destructive agricultural pests.
Read ➡️ news.vt.edu/articles/2025/05/cals-spotted-lanternfly-dog-study
Man’s best friend could be the spotted lanternfly’s worst enemy
Virginia Tech researchers found that everyday dog-handler teams can effectively detect spotted lanternfly egg masses, offering a community-driven tool to fight invasive agricultural pests.
news.vt.edu
July 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Man’s best friend could be the spotted lanternfly’s worst enemy. 🐶
#VirginiaTech researchers discovered that everyday dogs and their owners can be trained to effectively sniff out destructive agricultural pests.
Read ➡️ news.vt.edu/articles/2025/05/cals-spotted-lanternfly-dog-study
#VirginiaTech researchers discovered that everyday dogs and their owners can be trained to effectively sniff out destructive agricultural pests.
Read ➡️ news.vt.edu/articles/2025/05/cals-spotted-lanternfly-dog-study
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Great piece by Jes Burns on our Cascadia subsidence work. I’m so grateful for journalists like Jes who take the time to really understand complex science and then accurately and clearly communicate it to the general public. She’s the goat! 🐐🌊
An analysis out of Virginia Tech and the University of Oregon shows sea level rise could pose a greater risk to coastal communities when considering the effects of a Cascadia earthquake and climate-driven sea level rise together.
Double threat of Cascadia earthquake and sea-level rise could change Pacific Northwest coast forever
Climate-driven sea level rise not the only thing threatening a future of flooding on the Northwest Coast.
www.opb.org
May 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Great piece by Jes Burns on our Cascadia subsidence work. I’m so grateful for journalists like Jes who take the time to really understand complex science and then accurately and clearly communicate it to the general public. She’s the goat! 🐐🌊
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Always released on Fridays.
The National Science Foundation budget proposal would be a devastating blow to American science. 240,000 fewer people would be involved in federally-funded science in fiscal year 2026, according to estimates in the document.
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
May 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Always released on Fridays.
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26e. Back to NSF, we are all becoming either AI geoscientists, critical mineral geoscientists, or natural hazard geoscientists now. A bunch of climate work can be done under this umbrella, but a lot less funds overall.
May 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
26e. Back to NSF, we are all becoming either AI geoscientists, critical mineral geoscientists, or natural hazard geoscientists now. A bunch of climate work can be done under this umbrella, but a lot less funds overall.
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My friends
And colleagues
Who do the quiet work
Of gathering weather data
And writing code
So someone else
Can monetize the data
And send it to your phone
Are
not
villains.
The Villain is Vought.
And colleagues
Who do the quiet work
Of gathering weather data
And writing code
So someone else
Can monetize the data
And send it to your phone
Are
not
villains.
The Villain is Vought.
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected," said Trump budget director Russell Vought 2023. "When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains ... We want to put them in trauma.”
www.rawstory.com/trump-musk-2...
www.rawstory.com/trump-musk-2...
'Targeted to break them': Federal workers despair — and report claims that was Trump's aim
Some federal employees have reported traumatic experiences since President Donald Trump slurred them as “crooked” and “dishonest" and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency slashed their jobs...
www.rawstory.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
My friends
And colleagues
Who do the quiet work
Of gathering weather data
And writing code
So someone else
Can monetize the data
And send it to your phone
Are
not
villains.
The Villain is Vought.
And colleagues
Who do the quiet work
Of gathering weather data
And writing code
So someone else
Can monetize the data
And send it to your phone
Are
not
villains.
The Villain is Vought.
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Records show Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 and $5 million worth of Trump Media shares on April 2.
That same day, after the market closed, Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, sending the stock market plunging.
www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
That same day, after the market closed, Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, sending the stock market plunging.
www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs
Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...
www.propublica.org
May 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Records show Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 and $5 million worth of Trump Media shares on April 2.
That same day, after the market closed, Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, sending the stock market plunging.
www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
That same day, after the market closed, Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, sending the stock market plunging.
www.propublica.org/article/pam-...
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Same in the NBA
NEW with @simonkuper.bsky.social:
The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong.
Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play.
Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.
The prevailing narrative around increased injuries and player workload in elite football is wrong.
Players don’t play any more football than in the past. What has changed is a sharp rise in intensity of play.
Not more minutes, but each minute exerts more load.
May 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Same in the NBA
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Inspired by the symmetry of the dogwood fruit, #VirginiaTech graduate student Braden Perryman led a cross-disciplinary team to design and build “Emergence,” an 8-foot public sculpture now installed outside Academic Building One in Alexandria.
Students create nature-inspired sculpture to welcome visitors to Alexandria
Inspired by the symmetry of the dogwood fruit and the idea of connection and complexity, Master of Fine Arts candidate Braden Perryman led a team of Virginia Tech students to design and build "Emergen...
news.vt.edu
May 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Inspired by the symmetry of the dogwood fruit, #VirginiaTech graduate student Braden Perryman led a cross-disciplinary team to design and build “Emergence,” an 8-foot public sculpture now installed outside Academic Building One in Alexandria.
This is about professors/teachers, but I think also translates very well to journalists/writers. Leaning into AI to make sense of and engage readers with a topic means you aren't using your own muscles to do so. Do that enough and you'll end up on the writers' version of the WALL-E planet.
2. But the more pernicious risk may be what I call "self-alienation" that is you gradually remove yourself from the experience of your job until you've entirely lost touch with what is and meaningful about this work. Processing student writing with an LLM is not the same thing as reading it...
May 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is about professors/teachers, but I think also translates very well to journalists/writers. Leaning into AI to make sense of and engage readers with a topic means you aren't using your own muscles to do so. Do that enough and you'll end up on the writers' version of the WALL-E planet.
Agreed. Come visit.
All props to Harvard for what they're doing, but I've been at LSU, Virginia Tech, and UIC the last 10 days. They're definitely doing the work - such inspiration. People need to get out of Cambridge and go to Blacksburg and Baton Rouge if you want some hope. news.vt.edu/articles/202...
Editor-in-chief of Science encourages researchers to communicate
Holden Thorp visited Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg and Roanoke campuses as part of the Research Integrity and Consultation Program’s Research Integrity and Scholarly Excellence Lecture Series.
news.vt.edu
April 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Agreed. Come visit.
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New from me & @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social at @sfjournal.bsky.social. Timely given our current economic crisis. How does Christian nationalism support plutocracy? Among the many ways is through opposing taxation for the rich. We show this using 3 national surveys. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
April 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
New from me & @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social at @sfjournal.bsky.social. Timely given our current economic crisis. How does Christian nationalism support plutocracy? Among the many ways is through opposing taxation for the rich. We show this using 3 national surveys. 1/ academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
There's no shortage of church folks trying to telling folks how to live. There's a shortage of church folks showing others how they're loved no matter how they are living.
April 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
There's no shortage of church folks trying to telling folks how to live. There's a shortage of church folks showing others how they're loved no matter how they are living.
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We gave a short survey to White Christians & asked them to pick between our govt prioritizing economic prosperity with more immigrants or reducing immigration even if it hurts prosperity.
Majorities of White Christian nationalists would tank our economy if it meant preserving the ethnic status quo.
Majorities of White Christian nationalists would tank our economy if it meant preserving the ethnic status quo.
March 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We gave a short survey to White Christians & asked them to pick between our govt prioritizing economic prosperity with more immigrants or reducing immigration even if it hurts prosperity.
Majorities of White Christian nationalists would tank our economy if it meant preserving the ethnic status quo.
Majorities of White Christian nationalists would tank our economy if it meant preserving the ethnic status quo.
Truth. We just love having written a tad bit more than we hate writing.
I don't trust writers who say they love writing. Sounds fake. I spend 99.9% of the time dragging words from my soul in a mood of disgruntled suffering and discontent.
March 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Truth. We just love having written a tad bit more than we hate writing.
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