Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.
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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.
@brianckeegan.com

{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info

Visiting Scientist, @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social AY25-26

High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science

https://www.brianckeegan.com/

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Computer science 36%
Communication & Media Studies 30%
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ICYMI, I’m on sabbatical this AY at @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social:

popcenter.harvard.edu/blog/directo...

I’ll be working on a STS-flavored book project about ecofascist data science that combines critical demography and data studies.

Let me know if you’re in Boston this year and want to meet up!
Brian Keegan – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
A Harvard University cross-school, interfaculty initiative administered by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
popcenter.harvard.edu

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Katie Wilson, Seattle’s newly elected mayor, has embraced a city-owned startup designed to emulate Vienna’s social housing model, which involves a public developer building housing designed to be permanently affordable.
Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety
Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
boltsmag.org
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

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This aged like milk

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Faith Winter is why Colorado has a paid family leave program. My enduring memory: breaking the news to her that the AP had called it and the measure had passed, five years ago this month.

She was killed in a car crash today. I wish her loved ones solace and comfort. coloradosun.com/2025/11/26/f...
After 30 years in prison and 25 years on Louisiana's death row, Chris Duncan walked out of Angola today a free man.

"I'm cruising down a highway," he texted me. "Most glaring emotion is shock."
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. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com

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This Day in Labor History: November 26, 1910.A factory in Newark, New Jersey caught on fire, killing 25 workers. This should have been led to workplace safety reform, but because wealthy people did not see the people making their clothing die, nothing happened. Triangle would be next year!!!

The shift away from gmail is hard: a conscious and ongoing process of changing every account linked to an email for the past 15 years and realizing many systems frustratingly won’t let you change email. Proton’s Gmail import and forwarding is still a helpful bridge, but the search is worse.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com

Started maybe 18 months ago as a part of de-Googling my life with Firefox and Proton.

Need to do a bit with setting preferences and changing default search preferences, but I’m using Google Search less than once a week now.

Uptime is good, results are fine outside of niche stalking or ecommerce.

Another reason to pay for your search with @kagi.com
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

“What do you call your act?”

“The Pro-Natalists!”

Who said electeds aren’t in a cult? two-for-one Black Friday sale

If you're allergic to championships and enjoy arctic weather for several weeks a year.

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Making sure developers don’t make a dime is more important than building homes for people

*led

Don't get me started now on lead-210 as the underappreciated kid brother of radiocarbon.

Somebody save this nerd: I've fallen into a fixation on bomb pulse chronology which has now lead me down the garden paths of trying to find social history about chronostratigraphy and radiopurity.

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Based on #Debian survey results, new @dcpcouncil.bsky.social report examines how #FLOSS #FOSS #opensource can foster sustainable production. Findings include community rejection of restrictive licences as incentives and workplace obstacles to reducing environmental impacts. dcpc.info/publications...
If you are interested in the methodology behind the Data Workers' Inquiry Project (@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social), this is the paper for you.

Research doesn't have to be exploitative.👇🏽
📣New paper!
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social

👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

The actuarial countdown on Biden dying would’ve received wall-to-wall coverage and a hundred different visualizations.
Oh how sad.

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Oh how sad.

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New from me @theintercept.com: the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s legacy will always be that of a tool of Israeli occupation and genocide, instrumental in the killings of 1000s of Palestinians and worsening a manufactured famine. Not whatever “success” GHF claims.

theintercept.com/2025/11/25/g...
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Thousands Die Seeking Its Aid
The aid group GHF oversaw relief in Gaza during a period defined by the killings of Palestinians seeking food during famine.
theintercept.com

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From a few days ago, but this moving piece by @karenattiah.bsky.social for The Guardian is cogent, illuminating, and infuriating.

Fuck Trump, and fuck all the fascist collaborators, including Bezos and his monsters corrupting the Washington Post. MBS murdered their reporter.
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
Another baby has just died of whooping cough in Kentucky, thanks to RFK Jr. and his merry band of anti-vaxxers.

My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
Third Kentucky infant dies from whooping cough as statewide cases surge
A third Kentucky infant has died from whooping cough in the last 12 months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health said Monday.
www.wlwt.com

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Bluesky: “Obviously the housing crisis is the only reason anyone would choose to live outside of NYC”

Actual Americans: “Vegas, baby!”

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AI threatens to liberate the rich from their age-old dependence on ordinary people's labor -- thereby entrenching a permanent oligarchy.

My essay on that grim hypothetical is now out from behind the paywall www.vox.com/the-highligh...
The most likely AI apocalypse
How artificial intelligence could be leading most humans into an inescapable trap.
www.vox.com

Reconstruction and Gilded Age
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.