Daniel Aldrich
danielaldrich.bsky.social
Daniel Aldrich
@danielaldrich.bsky.social

Social scientist interested in social capital, social infrastructure, energy and environmental politics. Books at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Daniel-P.-Aldrich/author/B001JSDHPW

Daniel P. Aldrich is an academic in the fields of political science, public policy and Asian studies. He is currently full professor of political science and public policy at Northeastern University. Aldrich has held several Fulbright fellowships, including a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy at Flinders University in Australia in 2023, a Fulbright Specialist in Trinidad-Tobago in 2018, a Fulbright research fellowship at the University of Tokyo's Economic's Department for the 2012–2013 academic year, and a IIE Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship in Tokyo in 2002–2003. His research, prompted in part by his own family's experience of Hurricane Katrina, explores how communities around the world respond to and recover from disaster. .. more

Political science 31%
Sociology 29%

This is the kind of anti Semitic garbage that passed for learned commentary these days
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As Trump's agenda has increasingly encountered resistance, he has turned to a familiar con: invoking national security.
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As resistance mounts, Trump reaches for a familiar shield: national security
The president is using national security concerns to justify presidential actions in the face of legal roadblocks, political defiance and popular opposition.
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Steamrolling opposition: Canada's first deep geological repository (DGR) for nuclear waste may be designated as a project of national interest, meaning possible streamlining of federal approvals for the $26-billion endeavour.
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Canada issues notice about nuclear waste repository as possible national interest project
Canada’s first deep geological repository (DGR) for nuclear waste may be designated as a project of national interest, meaning federal approvals for the $26-billion endeavour may be streamlined. The s...
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Few see OpenAI's announcement, which came as human mathematicians were closing in on a solution, as an example of how AI and mathematicians can work together
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AI solved one of math's hardest problems. Humanity learned nothing (so far)
OpenAI beat humans to solving the Navier-Stokes problem, but mathematicians say the AI's solution isn't telling them much.
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District Court judge rules the Trump administration acted unlawfully when terminating congressionally authorized clean energy grants designed to lower energy costs for low-income households.
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Federal court strikes down EPA cancellation of $7 billion Solar for All program - pv magazine USA
A U.S. District Court judge rules the Trump administration acted unlawfully when terminating congressionally authorized clean energy grants designed to lower energy costs for low-income households.
pv-magazine-usa.com

New #article from Su Aw et al: Towards Community and Individual Resilience in Older Ages: the ‘Heart, Head, Hands’
TL;DR: Mutual aid, disaster preparedness, and collaboration between grassroots and institutional actors were critical for coordinated action
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New #article from Arkaprabha Bhattacharyya et al: Bridging the gap between damaged infrastructures and
disaster mortality
TL;DR: damaged infrastructures exponentially increase disaster mortality
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New #article from Toshio Miyazawa: Organizational barriers in Japan’s public crisis management: a comparative analysis of operational inhibitors
TL;DR: pathologies: culture of avoidance + rigid sectionalism, passive information-gathering practices
www.emerald.com/dpm/article-...

New #article from Stumpf-Biro et al: Community ecology foundations of social-ecological collapse
TL;DR: Resilience emerges from wider cooperative-network architecture, of which connectance is one dimension w redundancy, modularity, nestedness, and strength
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The containers were not intended to hold anything permanently, only to carry the waste to the bottom, where currents were expected to dilute it until it stopped mattering. Between 1946 and 1970, roughly 47,800 of them went over the side.
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Between 1946 and 1970, the United States dumped roughly 47,800 containers of radioactive waste into the ocean west of San Francisco — many missed the designated sites, and the drums now lie scattered ...
Nobody expected the barrels to last.
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Very proud of our work with Resilient Ready: Building a connected and resilient Australia by measuring our invisible infrastructure
TL;DR: brings social systems into disaster planning, making social capital + infrastructure visible, measurable+actionable
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Compared to anxiety about rising prices, data centers are hardly top of mind for voters heading into the midterm elections — but they have become one of the most potent weapons in politics
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Poll: Voters recoil at candidates who back data center construction
Only a handful of voters see data centers as their top issue, according to the NBC News poll. But accusing an opponent of favoring data center construction is a potent campaign attack.
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Attacks on science continue: Trump is moving to put political appointees in charge of billions of dollars in federal health research grants in another attempt to cut Harvard’s funding and politicize the process
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Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.
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Disinformation sinks ships? US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report share.google/1OyreqVkwCY6...
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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New #article from Nowakowska et al: Moral foundations and volunteers’ trust in institutions and organisations during social crises: evidence from Poland and Italy
TL;DR: Individualising moral foundations positively related to trust in NGOs
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New #article from Hafiz et al: Strengthening disaster resilience in coastal Bangladesh: The roles of disaster knowledge, government support, social capital, + community risk perception
TL;DR: social capital significantly enhances community preparedness
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The brain is a composite organ emanating from two lineage-restricted progenitors; these dual progenitors may be evolutionarily conserved across 550 million years from hemichordates to mammals.
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Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain - Nature Neuroscience
This study shows that the brain arises from two distinct progenitors: one forms the forebrain and midbrain, whereas the other generates the hindbrain. These insights enable the generation of human hin...
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