Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.

Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”

Really listen to it.

Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

Congestion pricing works! Not really a surprise. Now I hope we'll do it in Barcelona too🙏 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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As I started 2026, I am reading "The Maniac" by Benjamin Labatut, and enjoying it very much! But that's for another year!
My complete 2025 reading list on @goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...

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The novel moves across times as the scholar investigates the digital traces of the main characters. A reflection on how we will see our present from the future, but also on how art and literature are anchored more in mundane life events than in grand narratives and forces.

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Several interesting novels this year, but perhaps the one I keep thinking about is Ian McEwan's latest. "What We Can Know" is set in 2119. A literature professor obsesses over a lost poem from 2014, before what the future calls "the Derangement"
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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They happen when good people become ethically blind, when organizational context overrides individual values. Corporate malfeasance is almost never a "bad apple" story, but the result of clearly identifiable organizational patterns.
I hope more corporate leaders will read it!

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Closer to my research interests: GuidoPalazzo and Ulrich Hoffrage's "The Dark Pattern"
They show how corporate scandals at Volkswagen, Wirecard, Boeing, and Theranos don't happen because of bad people.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

10/
I hope Vuillard's words will not become true, even if they do ring true:
"We never fall twice into the same abyss. But we always fall the same way, in a mixture of ridicule and dread."
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Reading about the February 20, 1933 meeting between 23 top business leaders and Hitler, and the support they pledged to the rising Nazi party should warn all conservatives of the dangerous game they are playing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_...

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Éric Vuillard's "The Order of the Day" (L'Ordine del Giorno as I read it in Italian) is a short fictionalized historical narrative on the early rise of Hitler and the role of business leaders in enabling it:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/41...

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Once you see these patterns, you can't unsee them.
Every ESG debate. Every diversity initiative. Every climate proposal.
The same three reactionary arguments, remixed endlessly.

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Hirschman noticed that every reactionary argument against progressive change follows one of three rhetorical scripts:
It will backfire and make things worse (perversity)
It won't work anyway (futility)
It will destroy what we've already won (jeopardy)

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Hirschman noticed that every reactionary argument against progressive change follows one of three rhetorical scripts:
It will backfire and make things worse (perversity)
It won't work anyway (futility)
It will destroy what we've already won (jeopardy)

4/
Hirschman's "The Rhetoric of Reaction" is required reading to inoculate readers against much of the reactionary propaganda we see today (especially on LinkedIn!).
www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

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17th-century philosophers convinced themselves that commerce would civilize humanity. The pendulum then swung in the opposite direction, framing capitalism as a destructive force. We have been living through a continuous swinging of this pendulum ever since.

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I re-read two books by the great Albert Hirschman and plan on reading more of his work this year.
Starting with "The Passions and the Interests" (1977).
www.goodreads.com/book/show/35...

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I spent 2025 reading about reactionary thought. Then I realized: the rhetoric never changes, only the target. Logged 21 books across multiple languages this year. Some reflections on the ones I keep thinking about.
Full post: bit.ly/4aPWG5P 🧵

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figure 3 from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09482-1 –c, Daily PM2.5 exposure in Canada (a), from fire sources in different source regions, anthropogenic sources and other sources (for example, biogenic, dust and sea salt). d–f, Cumulative fire-related PM2.5 exposures in Canada (d), from different source regions.

New study in Nature on the Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

'We find that 354 million (277–421 million) people in North America and Europe were exposed to daily PM2.5 air pollution caused by Canadian wildfires in 2023'

“The transition is deeply political – a struggle of competing interests over its pace, its direction, and whether it happens at all.” Laurence Tubiana Laurence Tubiana’s recent message is a powerful…... “The transition is deeply political – a struggle of competing interests over its pace, its direction, and whether it happens at all.” Laurence Tubiana Laurence Tubiana’s recent message is a powerful ...

“The (climate) transition is deeply political – a struggle of competing interests over its pace, direction, and even possibility.” — @laurencetubiana.bsky.social
Her words echo our research with Dror Etzion and @joelgehman.bsky.social on robust action.
www.linkedin.com/posts/fferra...

A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It. Nonprofits are offering cut-price apartments as a way of combating the housing affordability crisis.

Very interesting model, which I hope will grow more across Europe.

A ‘Third Way’ Between Buying or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Found It.

Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

How to Make a Functionalist Argument Article: How to Make a Functionalist Argument | Sociological Science | Posted August 14, 2025

I am a huge fan of "what is this kind of argument and how can you do it right?" papers. I collect them and I've tried to write a couple, and think they can be tremendously useful especially for teaching. A new, useful addition to this set just arrived from @sociologicalsci.bsky.social:

Thanks! Can you share the rest of the collection?

Scoop: White House hands down loyalty ratings for hundreds of companies The unusual scorecard fits this administration's habit of micromanaging companies and administering loyalty tests.

Looks like a good list to organize boycotts
www.axios.com/2025/08/15/w...

Scientists’ role in defending democracy The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...

Scientists’ role in defending democracy | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spain’s scandal-plagued prime minister should step down Pedro Sánchez needs to let his country’s democracy renew itself

The @economist.com must live in an alternative universe where the Partido Popular is “moderate” 😂 and the confrontation was caused by Pedro Sanchez (and not the PP who has mounted a lawfare campaign)! 🤬

Spain’s scandal-plagued prime minister should step down
economist.com/leaders/2025...

Chronic fatigue patients have different genes, study finds ‘Groundbreaking’ research finds ‘genetic signals’ for debilitating illness

Important findings for those with ME/CFS. Let's hope that more research might help find a cure as well 🙏https://on.ft.com/3J1vFjX

Are superstars as good when they move jobs? The AI-talent scramble raises an old question

Honored to see our research with Matteo Prato cited in @economist.com AI talent war article. We found hiring “stars” can actually hurt team performance—especially for non-stars—as stars often absorb more resources than they share.
www.economist.com/business/202...

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