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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 · 13d
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".

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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 · 2h
He needs this coat.
Melania Trump getting into an SUV, on her way to visit immigrant children being detained at the US-Mexican border. She is wearing an olive coat with the words, "I really don't care, do U?" printed on the back.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 2h
I didn't just go to college to become a good worker in a profession. I went to prepare myself to have a rich life of the mind and to be a good and well-informed citizen.

That sounds super corny, but it was and remains a worthy reason to get a liberal arts education.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 2h
Also, it's not just about preparing you for your career.

The classes in religious studies, film studies, and art history that I took to fulfill Gen. Ed. distribution requirements aren't immediately relevant to my professional work, but they continue to enrich my life outside work.

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ᴄʏᴄʟᴏᴢ @cyclozparis.bsky.social · 6h
Yes, but we can't see the cyclists...
We're really wondering what you see!
#bikesky #security 🚲 #bike #bancars #murderer 🚗 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 6h
Actual Bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
Umberto Boccioni, "La città che sale" (The city rises)

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 6h
A gem from Roger Ebert's review of John Waters's _Hairspray_:

"If nothing else is worth the price of admission to this movie, perhaps you will be persuaded by the prospect of [Pia] Zadora reading from Allen Ginsberg's Howl."

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Pia Zadora - Wikipedia
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 7h
He also sued successfully to have his name removed from the first film, so they couldn't call it "Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man."

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Stephen King wins lawsuit
If you think Stephen King’s novels are scary, try facing him in court. For the last two years, King has waged a lonely legal battle against New...
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 8h
On his cushion at R'lyeh, good boy lies dreaming.
mplsnightmayor.bsky.social Ian @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 20h
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
A golden retriever holding an octopus in its mouth, so it looks like tentacles

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 16h
Nothing says "utter professionalism" like showing up "very late" to a public event.

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 19h
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.

Reposted by Steven French, Jonathan M. Gilligan

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Ian @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 20h
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
A golden retriever holding an octopus in its mouth, so it looks like tentacles

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
The Cashing of the Bribes

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
"They said you was high class. But that was just a lie."

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
eew!

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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 2d
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 · 2d
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 · 3d
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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