Andrew Blum
@ablum.bsky.social
Project Director at the Burnham Center for Community Advancement, burnhamcenter.org. Leading the OneSD initiative, www.onesd.org
Fan of 🚴♀️, ⚾️ and good 🥃.
Fan of 🚴♀️, ⚾️ and good 🥃.
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Andrew Blum
@ablum.bsky.social
· Apr 26
It is easier to break things than to build them.
Another one of my most “woke” opinions is that college athletics shouldn’t exist.
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Another one of my most “woke” opinions is that college athletics shouldn’t exist.
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Nearly every mechanism that made my career possible—Ford, NSF, Harvard BiGS—is gone or on the way to the chopping block.
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Nearly every mechanism that made my career possible—Ford, NSF, Harvard BiGS—is gone or on the way to the chopping block.
I’m going to be fine.
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I’m going to be fine.
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Bruno says Happy Thanksgiving y’all!
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Bruno says Happy Thanksgiving y’all!
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Really bad stuff here
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Really bad stuff here
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Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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“It’s only going to get worse…just continue to breathe.”
Great advice from maybe my favorite baseball video of all time.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=APzK...
Great advice from maybe my favorite baseball video of all time.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=APzK...
Anthony Rizzo to David Ross: "I'm in a glass case of emotion!"
YouTube video by Justin Albers Official
m.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
“It’s only going to get worse…just continue to breathe.”
Great advice from maybe my favorite baseball video of all time.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=APzK...
Great advice from maybe my favorite baseball video of all time.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=APzK...
Best analysis I’ve seen of the pros and cons and design challenges of 32in wheels. #bikesky www.mbr.co.uk/news/why-i-t...
We've been here before, and I've been wrong in the past, but here's why I think 32in wheels will never roll in MTB - MBR
I’ve been around long enough to bear the emotional scars of the last wheel size war in mountain biking, but while we’ve enjoyed peace and harmony on the trails recently, I fear a new wheel size clash ...
www.mbr.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Best analysis I’ve seen of the pros and cons and design challenges of 32in wheels. #bikesky www.mbr.co.uk/news/why-i-t...
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Reading LinkedIn and just wanting to comment Charlie Brown didn’t have hoes on half the posts.
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Reading LinkedIn and just wanting to comment Charlie Brown didn’t have hoes on half the posts.
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Accountability. Justice. They’re possible.
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Accountability. Justice. They’re possible.
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love when college football players get to wear non-Latin lettering on the back of their jerseys, here's Western Michigan defensive tackle Mustafi al-Garawi
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
love when college football players get to wear non-Latin lettering on the back of their jerseys, here's Western Michigan defensive tackle Mustafi al-Garawi
“It’s only going to get worse…just continue to breathe.”
Great advice from maybe my favorite baseball video of all time.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=APzK...
Great advice from maybe my favorite baseball video of all time.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=APzK...
Anthony Rizzo to David Ross: "I'm in a glass case of emotion!"
YouTube video by Justin Albers Official
m.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
“It’s only going to get worse…just continue to breathe.”
Great advice from maybe my favorite baseball video of all time.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=APzK...
Great advice from maybe my favorite baseball video of all time.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=APzK...
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The thing I wish people like Carville et al would realize is that you cannot have ‘pure populist economic rage’ if you leave out the ‘woke’ bits. It doesn’t work like that.
It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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It’s weird to me they don’t see this, so let’s see if we can walk it out.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Aside from all the very obvious problems with the idea that consumers are to blame for not wanting or needing your product, there's a reasonable chance I would buy a new phone if it wasn't stuffed to the gills with un-turnoffable AI bloat
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Aside from all the very obvious problems with the idea that consumers are to blame for not wanting or needing your product, there's a reasonable chance I would buy a new phone if it wasn't stuffed to the gills with un-turnoffable AI bloat
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My best story was the guy insisting to the world’s leading expert on prehistoric sharks that megalodons might exist.
Him: How can really we know they’re not out there?
Her: Whales exist.
Him: How can really we know they’re not out there?
Her: Whales exist.
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
My best story was the guy insisting to the world’s leading expert on prehistoric sharks that megalodons might exist.
Him: How can really we know they’re not out there?
Her: Whales exist.
Him: How can really we know they’re not out there?
Her: Whales exist.
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The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The only correct pie take is that pies are like dogs—they’re all good, we just have stronger personal attachments to some than others.
Not sure why I didn't think of this earlier, but just realized I could turn off the animation effect in Windows emojis. Hallelujah.
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Not sure why I didn't think of this earlier, but just realized I could turn off the animation effect in Windows emojis. Hallelujah.
Warriors remake.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Warriors remake.