Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.
{Social, Data, Network, Information} Scientist, @cuboulder.info
Visiting Scientist, @harvardpopcenter.bsky.social AY25-26
High-tempo collaboration, information commons, public interest data science
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- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.like, this story is insane—letting a 92-year-old obviously incapable of driving keep his license while leaving pedestrians/cyclists with no protection from cars has killed more people than every waymo crash ever. It will be forgotten next week. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.
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- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association. Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Charles Murray, famous racist, is very mad that Lupita Nyong’o is going to play Helen of Troy. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
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- I'm no economist, but I thought currencies were supposed to be a store of value
- NYTimes after using Chris Rufo as an assignment editor for a decade
- “Faculty are walking on eggshells. Administrators are walking on eggshells. Students are walking on eggshells. And what you get is the opposite of free speech.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D."In his final drive for power Hitler had considerable financial backing from a fairly large chunk of the German business world...What good [that] eventually did these politically childish men of the business world will be seen later in this narrative." Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 242
- Brad Karp, the chairman of the Paul Weiss law firm who brokered that deal with Trump last year & agreed to provide $40 million of pro bono services for Trump's causes, resigns due to fallout over his emails with Epstein: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
- Musk is going to make your retirement fund underwrite his CSAM machine without ceding any voting control—and there’s nothing you can do about it, suckers.
- The point for SpaceX is once it's in mainstream indexes, index investors functionally are forced to buy. They cannot sell. And since Musk will control voting, they will have no rights at all. Functionally forced to supply capital. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
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- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.our open model proving out specialized rag LMs over scientific literature has been published in nature ✌🏻 congrats to our lead @akariasai.bsky.social & team of students and Ai2 researchers/engineers www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.1. Shame on Jeff Bezos. 2. Donate to @51st.news today if you can. DC is starving for good local journalism and it’s not going to pay for itself.
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.hate to see Bezos run the Post into the ground. but you can support billionaire free DC News: @51st.news @streetsensedc.bsky.social @washingtoninformer.com @wcp.bsky.social @ethiopique202.bsky.social
- News: The Washington Post is preparing to slash upwards of 300 staffers, incl sports, metro and foreign desks @nataliekorach.bsky.social reports. “The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...
- Wishing Bezos and his maga-fied Washington Post the swiftest possible crash into irrelevance and every reporter and editor being laid off a rapid path to an employer who takes journalism's role in democracy seriously.
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
- The “immigrant impact statement” is a distinctive genre of agitprop originating in unapologetically racist networks beginning in the 1980s and strategically laundered by think tanks, lobbyists, and columnists into justifications for CA Prop 187 and everything since. They’ve always been bullshit.
- The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
- The NSF should just end the farce of expecting students 4 weeks into their PhD program to be able to write competitive grant applications. The GRFP is nothing more than a public subsidy to elite private schools and a time suck and disappointment for everyone else. www.science.org/content/arti...
- NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.No we don’t you worthless lump of campaign bribes, we want ICE abolished and every person who committed crimes, as well as those who allowed it to happen, prosecuted. Go fucking retire, you’ve done enough damage already.
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- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.
- "As America’s culture wars unfolded, one side harnessed the power of the judiciary to impose its agenda, abetted by judges scornful of constitutional constraints and untroubled by doubts about their own infallibility."
- I nearly spit out my chocolate-peanut butter protein shake. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/justi...
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.What a strange coincidence that Harlan Crow, the billionaire with the collection of Nazi memorabilia, is also the patron of Charles Murray, the guy who thinks Black people are not a part of "western civilization."
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Trump to Harvard: 2 billion $ NYT: Harvard to pay 2B$ Harvard: no Trump: 1B Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations intensify Trump: 200 million NYT: Harvard-Trump reach deal Harvard: no Trump: 0$ Harvard: ok NYT: Harvard not paying! Trump loses. Trump: How about 1B$ Harvard: no NYT: Negotiations resume!
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- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.There is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it
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- Golly, it’s almost like universities could’ve told TACO Trump and his roving magastapo goons to fuck off from Day 1.
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- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.SpaceX now runs a right-wing CSAM social media website
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.
- University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...
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- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.
- University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
- Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.The right way to get into the Epstein files.
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Bring all our stolen neighbors home
- 5 year old Liam is home, according to @ilhanmn.bsky.social and @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.I was curious about whether this was just named after somebody named “White” but no they literally called it this because it was a settlement of white people
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EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h... - Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.8. Weiss's project is creating an Operation Paperclip for Epstein's cronies. Taking a group of discredited men and rehabilitating them as necessary pillars of system. Dershowitz and Peter Attia are the Wernher von Brauns of reactionary centrism.
- I was today years old when I learned that the Ben Horowitz of a16z is the son of far-right extremist David Horowitz whose worst legacy might be mentoring Stephen Miller.
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
- Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Discovered @patrickmineault.bsky.social's excellent Good Research Code Handbook today, which was always awesome, but is even more necessary as more scientists consider integrating coding agents into their workflows. goodresearch.dev
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.When you look at the Wikipedia of an old white guy whose books you read in college there is an unfortunately high probability it will look like this
- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.
- CBS News: Concealing Billionaires from Scrutiny News
- One of the “everything is contagious” guys soliciting support from a convicted child sex trafficker without the slightest self-awareness about the reproduction of deviance is just too on the nose.
- The author disabled quotes.I guess the best-available defense to this sort of thing—lots of friendly emails and visits with someone recently convicted of procuring a child for the purposes of prostitution, I mean—is something like “He seemed to have lots of money and connections and I would have liked a little piece of that”
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- Reposted by Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage. Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.
