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C. Henry
@henryhenryhenry.com
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political scientist @ University of Zürich

platforms, political violence, social media, computing

research & writing:
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sometimes land of enchantment, sometimes land of Helvetia
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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kylemeng.com
Our PhD job market candidates continues UCSB’s proud tradition in environmental and resource economics.

Here are our students on the market this year (in alphabetical order).

#econsky
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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melissaryan.bsky.social
Good stuff this morning from @vermontgmg.bsky.social. doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-border-patrol-retreat-in-failure-from-chicago
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
doomsdayscenario.co
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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socialmedialab.ca
If you are conducting research on migration and the politics of migration, here's a sneak peek at a new dashboard we're developing as part of the @bridgdivides.bsky.social initiative at @torontomet.bsky.social. The dashboard will track/analyze migration-related ads in near real time. (ETA Feb. 2026)
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
henryhenryhenry.com
is there somewhere in continental Europe I can buy a turkey for Thanksgiving?
November 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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henryhenryhenry.com
the QAA folks have managed to create an episode specifically tailored to one of my niche interests (teaching basic game theory to undergrads in a way that isn't utterly mind-numbing/conceived in the 80s)

soundcloud.com/qanonanonymo...
Arc Raider's Dilemma (Premium E312) Sample
Jake emerges from the underground city of Speranza to see whether gamers are cooperating online again. Rumors of friendly behavior and positive community vibes have brought the new videogame “Arc Rai
soundcloud.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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markabraham.bsky.social
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
By the end of the spring semester, Gwen reached a breaking point with AI. “I felt like I didn’t deserve to be a Yale student,” she said. She thought that she was throwing away her education and the scholarship paying to support it. She decided to quit using ChatGPT altogether. She didn’t ask AI to help her sentences flow or to strike the right tone. She didn’t even use it to brainstorm. “I think that’s a skill you need to have on your own. That’s the core of being original, anyway.” Gwen recalled completing her final assignments without AI, sitting in the middle of a crowded library so that she felt watched. “I struggled. And they weren’t very good.” It was only then, she said, that she started to understand just how much learning she had missed out on. ∎
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
henryhenryhenry.com
lots of folks doing great work in this area full-time, but I'll just point out that, if you're familiar with the classic "ethnic outbidding" effect, we have evidence that this sort of thing happens *within* movements, as competition drives fragmentation, identity contraction, and radicalization
cooperlund.online Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d
I do think a lot of people are underestimating the risks of the GOP civil war. I remember thinking in 2015/16 that Trump moving the the GOP further to the right was going to make it easier for Dems to win, and boy was I wrong there. The Outright Antisemitism wing beating MAGA could be Real Bad.
November 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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milobaynes.bsky.social
This is fantastic.

An extremely clear, concise, and logical summation/primer on the state of *actual* anti-semitism in the MAGA Cinematic Universe.

Kudos to @micahloewinger.bsky.social and @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social for the precision and info-density of the chat.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
The Republican Party's 'Civil War'
Podcast Episode · On the Media · 11/12/2025 · 26m
podcasts.apple.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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openmeasures.bsky.social
Recent news coverage of extremist media personality Nick Fuentes might give readers the impression his audience is booming in size. But after reviewing our data, our researchers have some serious doubts that’s the case.

openmeasures.io/nick-fuentes...
Flash Report: Claims of Nick Fuentes’ Growing Popularity Are Unsupported by Data - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
openmeasures.io
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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thehighsign.bsky.social
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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socialmedialab.ca
"Databricks co-founder argues US must go open source to beat China in AI"

He is not wrong.
techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/d...
Databricks co-founder argues US must go open source to beat China in AI | TechCrunch
VC Andy Konwinski argues that the U.S. is losing its AI research dominance to China.
techcrunch.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
henryhenryhenry.com
"directionally correct Pizzagate" the last words i see before i stroke out completely
travisview.bsky.social Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · 2d
Given how much political discourse over the past few days has been dominated by parsing emails in order to better speculate about the depraved sexual inclinations of financial and political elites, I have to admit that Pizzagaters won culturally, even if they were wrong in the specifics.
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
henryhenryhenry.com
the QAA folks have managed to create an episode specifically tailored to one of my niche interests (teaching basic game theory to undergrads in a way that isn't utterly mind-numbing/conceived in the 80s)

soundcloud.com/qanonanonymo...
Arc Raider's Dilemma (Premium E312) Sample
Jake emerges from the underground city of Speranza to see whether gamers are cooperating online again. Rumors of friendly behavior and positive community vibes have brought the new videogame “Arc Rai
soundcloud.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
henryhenryhenry.com
i remain shocked at just how badly elite higher ed admins have stewarded universities. these presidents and chancellors and provosts, supposedly accomplished people, have collectively overseen a staggering nationwide collapse in every respect.
joshuafoust.com Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 2d
One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.
Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics
The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...
www.cnn.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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polphilpod.bsky.social
states should accept people fleeing death & persecution, that's bedrock to the global order & our obligations to others

we should all happily participate in that

instead, we have to undermine it in every way we can because dipshits who've been wrong about everything think that's the smart play
November 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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jesspish.bsky.social
Remembering when people told me in late 2024 that "Trump couldn't create his own police force because federalism" mmhmm
dlknowles.bsky.social Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d
With @arynbraun.bsky.social, this week we ran this big look at what ICE/CBP has become under Donald Trump and how the agencies increasingly resemble a sort of national police force he can send to whatever city he likes to intimidate people:
www.economist.com/interactive/...
See how Donald Trump is creating his own police force
Immigration agents are operating in cities with few legal constraints
www.economist.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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alexhanna.bsky.social
Excellent short piece contesting the "technological revolution" narrative around the printing press, and how the metaphor of the tech "democracizing knowledge" is deeply flawed.
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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nicholasbednar.bsky.social
An Empirical Thread on Briefs in Trump v. Slaughter: In these big administrative law cases, I often like to see which academics are being cited the most. I don't think it tells us much. (Maybe it says something about the prominence of the scholar in a given area.) I just think it's fun. 1/8
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
henryhenryhenry.com
I just tell people I work in AI bc it’s less fraught
mcopelov.bsky.social Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d
“Oh, you’re a political scientist? These must be really interesting times for you right now.” 😬
albertsonb2.bsky.social Bethany Albertson @albertsonb2.bsky.social · 2d
When I chose to study politics for a living I had no idea that politics would get this dumb.
November 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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jameeljaffer.bsky.social
MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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grohmannrafael.bsky.social
💥 Sovereignty as a service. New article in Media, Culture & Society on how big tech companies are co-opting and redefining digital sovereignty. Co-authored by me and Alexandre Costa Barbosa

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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robin.berjon.com
Excellent @euobserver.com oped from @krisshrishak.bsky.social on how EC leadership is running high on AI fumes and immolating public money.
euobserver.com/digital/ar68...
Von der Leyen caught in AI hype trap while Tech bros cash in
Ursula von der Leyen and the EU Commission are fueling the AI hype, claiming AI could reach human-level reasoning next year. When asked for evidence, they cited tech CEOs’ essays, prompting scientists...
euobserver.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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sarahoconnorft.ft.com
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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dgrand.bsky.social
🚨Out in PNAS🚨
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM