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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 · 12d
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 · 6h
Nothing says "utter professionalism" like showing up "very late" to a public event.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 9h
I'd explain it to you, but then I'd have to generate entropy and hasten the universe toward its inexorable heat death, so I'll just let the mystery of refrigeration be.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14h
One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.

It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 17h
The Cashing of the Bribes

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 18h
Straight from Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte:

Tragedy: Marquess of Queensberry v. Oscar Wilde
Farce: Milo Yiannopoulos v. Benny Johnson
newrepublic.com The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18h
The online MAGA-verse were at each other’s throats more than usual this weekend, as right-wing commentators Benny Johnson, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Tucker Carlson were all points of controversy.

Here's what happened: trib.al/UcjcHOn
MAGA Straight Up Imploded This Weekend—And It’s Beyond Messy
Tucker Carlson, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Benny Johnson are just more proof that the MAGA base is fraying at the seams.
trib.al

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18h
The online MAGA-verse were at each other’s throats more than usual this weekend, as right-wing commentators Benny Johnson, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Tucker Carlson were all points of controversy.

Here's what happened: trib.al/UcjcHOn
MAGA Straight Up Imploded This Weekend—And It’s Beyond Messy
Tucker Carlson, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Benny Johnson are just more proof that the MAGA base is fraying at the seams.
trib.al

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 19h
When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it.

No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 21h
"They said you was high class. But that was just a lie."

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 21h
eew!

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 22h
Indeed. My grandson is a junior in high school and the Doors and Pink Floyd date back to when I was in kindergarten.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 23h
Jillette did a lot of harm for about 20 years, encouraging people to reject the scientific basis of climate change.

His position was largely, I don't trust experts, so if the science is too complicated for me to understand every detail, then I don't trust it and you shouldn't either.
timgrierson.bsky.social Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social · 1d
Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.

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Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social · 1d
Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
I am happy for them to all out themselves and get consequences.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d
Fascinating things happening on Econ Twitter

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
Yes it is!

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
Same.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
"I am Spartacus" but for sex pests
jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d
Fascinating things happening on Econ Twitter
Harald Uhlig @haralduhlig X.com Dear AEA: you imposed a lifelong ban on @LHSummers, see aeaweb.org/news/aea- state.... Please impose one on me too. I probably have sinned at some point in my life. I do not deserve to walk among such holy folks as you are. I deserve to be banned too. Last edited 2:28 PM • 12/7/25 • 68K Views

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 2d
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 · 2d
Also check out Davis's _Late Victorian Holocausts_ and _Planet of Slums_.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d
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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WKRN News 2 @wkrnnews2.bsky.social · 2d
'ICE was here': Massachusetts church displays message in Nativity scene
‘ICE was here’: Massachusetts church displays message in Nativity scene
A nativity display at a church in Dedham, Massachusetts, is sparking a debate.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d
the leader of a college republican group at OU says that the quality of Samantha Fulnecky's essay was "indefensible" and that the trans grad student who graded it graded it correctly: www.kswo.com/2025/12/05/p...
‘The professor was right’: Oklahoma Republican college leader criticizes essay controversy
The chairman of the Oklahoma Federation of College Republicans is weighing in on controversy surrounding a failed essay submitted by a University of Oklahoma student.
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 2d
"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 · 2d
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 · 3d
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 2d
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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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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 · 3d
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.