Cailin O’Connor

None of our other problems have gone away

Unfortunately, I was not well enough to help and my youngest had to make his sign alone. But look how well he did! He’s excited to see others out today!

If you're following me, you probably love science and know why it's so critically important. Please join Saturday for a day of action organized by

@standupforscience.bsky.social

In SoCal, if you're in the LA area this Saturday 12-2pm, Wilshire Federal Building, join us to Stand Up For Science.

Stand Up for Science plans second rally on March 7 Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

Thank you @sciam.bsky.social and @meghanbartels.bsky.social for covering the @standupforscience.bsky.social National Day of Action on March 7th!

Save Science. Protect Health. Defend Democracy.

#standupforscience

www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

I teach a course on the philosophy and science of biological sex, and often find myself in class lamenting the decisions of my past self while I describe the up-suck hypothesis or some such

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In like 2008 I was Cindi Lauper's stand-in on a music video. I ended up wearing a trash bag to stay dry while a bunch of sexy back up dancers gyrated under a huge shower behind me and Cindi Lauper looked on.

Pete Hegseth next to Werner Huntington the 3rd looking identical

Here is California the winter was alarmingly notably warm

December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. 🔥🔥🔥

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew https://theonion.com/aide-wearily-begins-5th-explanation-of-why-trump-cant-pardon-prince-andrew/

NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics:
csmapnyu.org/jobs

And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub:
uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g...

I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!

This One Matters: A "No Kings" Protest Guide Updated for March 28, 2026 Protests

Updated the Protest Guide for the March 28 actions. I’ll keep refining it as we get closer, so subscribe or bookmark. Nervous about showing? Reality is on our side: there will be millions of us, but preparation is a must. This guide is here to keep you smart, safe, and ready.
tinyurl.com/y26zxxpe

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2069...

How to stop a dictator I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.

I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward

THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...

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Some personal news—

I’ve joined @publiccitizen.bsky.social.

As research director.

Of its Trump accountability project.

Early language starts at 18 mos, by three most kids are speaking pretty expressively and getting their meanings across. In between you have super interesting speech happening

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

Nowhere is perfect, but this makes me extremely grateful for the huge changes that have happened in philosophy of science, the women who worked for them, and the allies who worked alongside.

Great news!

With the federal government poised to (illegally) kill off the EPA's climate authority, what has been an open secret is now the only game in town:

If you want to make progress on climate, you need to focus on the States.

This is our dna at @climatecabinet.org. Here's the playbook:

Scientists thought they understood global warming. Then the past three years happened. The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.

"We’re not continuing on the same path we had before. Something has changed."

A @washingtonpost.com analysis of a dataset from NASA, which it used to analyze global average surface temperatures from 1880 to 2025, shows the *fastest* global warming rate on record occurred in the last 30 years.

Oh.

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. The company said starting thi…

Like CBS, Gallup just succumbed to Trump. No more presidential approval numbers after sinking to the high 30s.
Coming soon - the new Trump-Gallup poll, with 95% approval for Trump. thehill.com/homenews/med...

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

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#OpenAccess from Politics and the Life Sciences -

Conspiracy thinking in American politics - https://cup.org/4aBsTwW

- @davinphoenix.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @davidakaye.bsky.social, @laurennross.bsky.social et al

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The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Delighted to share the news that my wonderful #HPS colleague @miguelohn.bsky.social has been appointed the next Director of the BU Center for Philosophy & History of Science, beginning July 1st. Congrats Miguel!
www.bu.edu/cphs/about/

Did you crush them though?

Jennifer Eberhardt Is Analyzing Police Bias With AI Find out why Jennifer Eberhardt is on TIME’s 2026 Closers list

Congratulations to Jennifer Eberhardt for making TIME's 2026 "Closers" list! Recognizing Black leaders who are addressing racial disparities in different fields and in different ways. #Bias #AI #Psychology

Meta’s Internal Research What The Company Learned About Social Media and Harms to Mental Health from Dozens of Internal Studies

"Meta’s internal research demonstrates clear knowledge of frequent and severe harms (e.g., increases in social comparison, body dissatisfaction, anxiety, depressive symptoms, exposure to sexual content and harassment...) at scale."
metasinternalresearch.org