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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan
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Integrating social & natural sciences & modeling to study impacts & responses to climate change | Behavioral approaches to climate policy | Nashville TN | They/them 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ genderqueer | Jew | urban cyclist 🚲 | https://jonathangilligan.org .. more

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 11d
I have a new paper in Nature Climate Change (co-authored with many colleagues and led by Bishwajit Mallick): "Future-making beyond (Im)mobility through tethered resilience".

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Future-making beyond (im)mobility through tethered resilience - Nature Climate Change
Adaptation to climate change goes beyond the migration–non-migration divide. Families and communities combine mobility with rootedness, drawing on cultural ties, intergenerational learning, and lived ...
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 18h
OMFG! I started reading @emilystjams.bsky.social's _Woodworking_ and it is SO GOOD!

It's warm, human, and hilarious. And such a great ear for tone in the characters' dialogues and inner monologues.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 18h
Also check out Davis's _Late Victorian Holocausts_ and _Planet of Slums_.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 19h
My teen, who had dreamt of being an astrophysicist, just told me he wants to go to law school because, “Science isn’t going to be a priority in the US in the future…I don’t want a job where I’ll be constantly worried my funding will be taken away.”

Gutting. How many future scientists have we lost?

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 23h
"the name of North Dakota’s bill—into which legislators slipped another term they wanted to define—captures the arbitrariness involved: 'The Definition of Female, Male, Sex, and Scrap Metal Dealer.'"

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 23h
So next, they're going to lose tens to hundreds of billions gambling on "AI wearables" because that's what the cool kids are hyping this year.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
news.vanderbilt.edu/2024/04/15/u...
U.S. Cabinet official leads seminar on transgender health and policy
Adm. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary of health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, addressed transgender health and policy during a recent visit to Vanderbilt. The event was part o...
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
This petty cruelty is disgraceful.

I felt so fortunate, a year and a half ago, to get to meet Admiral Levine when she visited Vanderbilt's LGBTQ+ Policy Lab and Center for Research on Inequality and Health. She is such a thoughtful, knowledgeable, and insightful expert on public health.
A group photo from Admiral Rachel Levine's visit to Vanderbilt's LGBTQ+ Policy Lab and Center for Research on and Health. Adm. Levine is front and center. I am standing behind her, to the left, in an olive top. Behind Adm. Levine and to the right, in a navy suit is Christopher "Kitt" Carpenter, the director of the Lab and Center, To Adm. Levine's immediate left, in jeans and a white jacket, is Tara McKay, associate director of the Lab and Center. Many other student and faculty affiliates of the center appear in the photo.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
If I were FIFA and I were making a trophy, I would definitely not feature lots of hands touching a ball and no feet.

Just saying...

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d
This is just some petty and cruel shit. I was very proud to serve alongside Rachel Levine. She has more leadership, integrity, and expertise in her little finger than the entire RFK HHS crew does all together. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
www.npr.org

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 1d
New Jersey's legislature is considering clarifying E-bikes as motorized vehicles requiring license, registration and insurance. That is nuts and would deny a huge range of people an ideal and affordable mobility solution. A terrible idea. share.google/HGvRZ77w9SqE... 🔌💡
Critics oppose plan for new e-bike regulations in NJ • New Jersey Monitor
Bike enthusiasts oppose a bill that would do away with the state's three-tier system for classifying electric and motorized bikes.
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
I deserve a prize for bringing peace to the world.

Sir, this is a Wendy's

Oh. OK, give me a peace prize combo, with diet Coke.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
At long last, we have created a game-changing generative AI engine, and it's powered by the child from the classic science fiction story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas."

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 2d
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d
IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked.

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Where Did Anti-Trans Laws Start? How a Forgotten Houston Ordinance Turned Into a Massive, Nationwide Culture War
In fighting for bathroom bills in Houston, Texas conservatives provided a blueprint for the rest of the country.
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 2d
Federal agents in Memphis randomly stopping Black people and accusing them of being illegal immigrants from arbitrary countries in Africa.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d
“I really believe that if I didn’t have [my] birth certificate, I would be somewhere in a facility,” one resident said, recalling that one of the armed federal agents who stopped him on the street aggressively asked if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana.

With @mlk50.com
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d
“I really believe that if I didn’t have [my] birth certificate, I would be somewhere in a facility,” one resident said, recalling that one of the armed federal agents who stopped him on the street aggressively asked if he was from Ethiopia or Ghana.

With @mlk50.com
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
www.propublica.org

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 2d
As Kagan observes, the Purcell "principle" (which has become such a joke the Court won't cite it by name) is "it is always too close to the next election to intervene in a way that would advantage Democrats and it is never too close to the election to intervene in a way that would help Republicans"

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 2d
We only have the president's assertion that the boat was carrying drugs. There is no actual evidence.

That said, even if it were, and even if we were at war, the doctrine of proportionality would prohibit this kind of missile attack.

www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Portals/207/...
www.trngcmd.marines.mil

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d
Canada has a stake calling out Pete Hegseth's murder on the seas.
In June 1918 the hospital ship Llandovery Castle was sunk. The U boat murdered survivors in the water including 14 Canadian nurses.
Canada never forgot or forgave.
We have prosecuted war crimes ever since. Sucks to be you Pete.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d
According to this Supreme Court:

❌ Using race conscious admissions in college to give minorities a fair shot

✅ Using race to profile people on the street to detain for immigration sweeps

✅ Using race to disenfranchise minorities in elecciones

The only consistency is white supremacy.

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Prism @prismreports.org · 2d
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 3d
Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 4d
"[C]ar dealers are not only one of the richest demographics in the United States. They’re also one of the most organized political factions.... They lobby through NADA, the organization staging the weekend’s festivities, and donate to Republicans at a rate of 6-to-1"

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At a Blowout Party for Unsung Republican Heavyweights, the Men Were Drunk—and Anxious
A journey into the Republican soul in 2023.
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 4d
The greatest trick J.D. Vance ever pulled was convincing the world that the couches didn't exist.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 4d
I usually learn a lot from hearing about what other people do in their jobs, even if it doesn't apply directly to mine. Many things inspire me to try to be creative in the SPIRIT of what they're doing, even if the DETAILS of how they IMPLEMENT it wouldn't work for me.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 4d
Could also apply to Ghost, which isn't Nazi.