Morning Droplet
This image combines 3 photos taken with a polarization filter at different angles, each assigned to a color channel:
🔴 0°
🟢 45°
🔵 90°
Unpolarized light appears #Monochrome, while refraction in the droplets disrupts this balance, revealing subtle colors.
#Blueskyartshow
This image combines 3 photos taken with a polarization filter at different angles, each assigned to a color channel:
🔴 0°
🟢 45°
🔵 90°
Unpolarized light appears #Monochrome, while refraction in the droplets disrupts this balance, revealing subtle colors.
#Blueskyartshow
February 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Morning Droplet
This image combines 3 photos taken with a polarization filter at different angles, each assigned to a color channel:
🔴 0°
🟢 45°
🔵 90°
Unpolarized light appears #Monochrome, while refraction in the droplets disrupts this balance, revealing subtle colors.
#Blueskyartshow
This image combines 3 photos taken with a polarization filter at different angles, each assigned to a color channel:
🔴 0°
🟢 45°
🔵 90°
Unpolarized light appears #Monochrome, while refraction in the droplets disrupts this balance, revealing subtle colors.
#Blueskyartshow
🚨🚨 New publication: 🚨🚨
Does affective polarization (AP) change citizens’ willingness to support democratic norms or participate?
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Full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Does affective polarization (AP) change citizens’ willingness to support democratic norms or participate?
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Full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cool Citizens? How Affectively Unpolarized Citizens View and Participate in Democracy - Political Behavior
Does affective polarization change how citizens view and participate in democracy? We posit that the answer to this crucial question depends on how affectively unpolarized citizens view and participat...
link.springer.com
August 31, 2026 at 7:00 AM
🚨🚨 New publication: 🚨🚨
Does affective polarization (AP) change citizens’ willingness to support democratic norms or participate?
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Full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Does affective polarization (AP) change citizens’ willingness to support democratic norms or participate?
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Full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
When many light waves are emitted at the same time, but they each have a different polarization, the resulting effect is “unpolarized” light. Light from the sun is unpolarized. But when the light scatters with our atmosphere, it becomes polarized and leaves a distinct pattern in the sky.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
When many light waves are emitted at the same time, but they each have a different polarization, the resulting effect is “unpolarized” light. Light from the sun is unpolarized. But when the light scatters with our atmosphere, it becomes polarized and leaves a distinct pattern in the sky.
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1. Founders didn't foresee parties, which undermine the separation of powers.
2. But with unpolarized parties, it still worked OK.
3. Even with polarized ones (1990s-) it wasn't SO bad since there was often divided govt & legislators didn't fear their party's President as much as Rs now do Trump.
2. But with unpolarized parties, it still worked OK.
3. Even with polarized ones (1990s-) it wasn't SO bad since there was often divided govt & legislators didn't fear their party's President as much as Rs now do Trump.
The Founders feared foreign influence over leaders and assumed Congress would jealously guard its prerogatives. And yet the ostensible proponents of originalism look away.
Mike Johnson: "Look, I've been a little busy on reconciliation, so I'm not following all the twists and turns of the Qatar jet. My understanding is it's not a personal gift to the president ... other nations give us gifts all the time ... it's not my lane."
May 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
1. Founders didn't foresee parties, which undermine the separation of powers.
2. But with unpolarized parties, it still worked OK.
3. Even with polarized ones (1990s-) it wasn't SO bad since there was often divided govt & legislators didn't fear their party's President as much as Rs now do Trump.
2. But with unpolarized parties, it still worked OK.
3. Even with polarized ones (1990s-) it wasn't SO bad since there was often divided govt & legislators didn't fear their party's President as much as Rs now do Trump.
The basic problem with how people talk about media ecosystems impacting views of the economy is the implicit idea that the media ecosystem was "objective" in the past. I think there's a far stronger argument that an unpolarized corporate press gave overly rosy sense of the economy in the past.
November 26, 2024 at 12:57 AM
The basic problem with how people talk about media ecosystems impacting views of the economy is the implicit idea that the media ecosystem was "objective" in the past. I think there's a far stronger argument that an unpolarized corporate press gave overly rosy sense of the economy in the past.
For example, "Cool Citizens? How Affectively Unpolarized Citizens View and Participate in Democracy", by @versteegenluca.bsky.social , Joseph B. Phillips and @lilymasonphd.bsky.social, published in Political Behavior. polarization.wiki/usecases/ver...
Cool Citizens? How Affectively Unpolarized Citizens View and Participate in Democracy
Abstract Does affective polarization change how citizens view and participate in democracy? We posit that the answer to this crucial question depends on how affectively unpolarized citizens view and p...
polarization.wiki
September 29, 2026 at 9:32 AM
For example, "Cool Citizens? How Affectively Unpolarized Citizens View and Participate in Democracy", by @versteegenluca.bsky.social , Joseph B. Phillips and @lilymasonphd.bsky.social, published in Political Behavior. polarization.wiki/usecases/ver...
🔬🥟 What do empanadas and #mitochondria have in common?
More than you'd think. Our "empanada-shaped" cells just helped uncover hidden subpopulations of mitochondria in your everyday, unpolarized cell lines. Curious how mitochondrial trafficking shapes network health?
More than you'd think. Our "empanada-shaped" cells just helped uncover hidden subpopulations of mitochondria in your everyday, unpolarized cell lines. Curious how mitochondrial trafficking shapes network health?
December 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🔬🥟 What do empanadas and #mitochondria have in common?
More than you'd think. Our "empanada-shaped" cells just helped uncover hidden subpopulations of mitochondria in your everyday, unpolarized cell lines. Curious how mitochondrial trafficking shapes network health?
More than you'd think. Our "empanada-shaped" cells just helped uncover hidden subpopulations of mitochondria in your everyday, unpolarized cell lines. Curious how mitochondrial trafficking shapes network health?
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🔬 Cool Citizens? How Affectively Unpolarized Citizens View and Participate in Democracy
👤 Versteegen et al., 2026
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🔬 Cool Citizens? How Affectively Unpolarized Citizens View and Participate in Democracy
👤 Versteegen et al., 2026
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Not all unpolarized citizens are alike—some feel lukewarm toward parties while others feel cold, with different effects on democratic participation. 🗳️❄️😐
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September 2, 2026 at 9:30 AM
🔥 Trending on SciLove today 🔥
🔬 Cool Citizens? How Affectively Unpolarized Citizens View and Participate in Democracy
👤 Versteegen et al., 2026
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🔗 https://www.scilove.app/article/10.1007/s11109-026-10190-3
#PoliSci #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
🔬 Cool Citizens? How Affectively Unpolarized Citizens View and Participate in Democracy
👤 Versteegen et al., 2026
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god the last time I bought some I FUCKED UP and got unpolarized, I haven't been able to bring myself to try again since haha. Why do we have subscription service eyeballs!!!
September 22, 2026 at 7:52 PM
god the last time I bought some I FUCKED UP and got unpolarized, I haven't been able to bring myself to try again since haha. Why do we have subscription service eyeballs!!!
my favorite thing about these arguments about expanding versus contracting the tent when turnout in the US has never cracked 70%. "We have to scrabble over the few dumbasses left unpolarized instead of reaching out to the disillusioned" these are the words of the people who lost last time!!!
May 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
my favorite thing about these arguments about expanding versus contracting the tent when turnout in the US has never cracked 70%. "We have to scrabble over the few dumbasses left unpolarized instead of reaching out to the disillusioned" these are the words of the people who lost last time!!!
UnPolarized glasses 😂
August 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
UnPolarized glasses 😂
Just LOOK at this absolutely beautiful eclipse! 🔭🧪
Just published — polarization of light from the Sun's corona, as observed by our Citizen CATE 2024 project during the total solar eclipse in Australia (April 2023), is mapped to colors. (More ⬇️). Stunning!
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iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
Just published — polarization of light from the Sun's corona, as observed by our Citizen CATE 2024 project during the total solar eclipse in Australia (April 2023), is mapped to colors. (More ⬇️). Stunning!
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iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
November 16, 2023 at 2:46 AM
Just LOOK at this absolutely beautiful eclipse! 🔭🧪
Just published — polarization of light from the Sun's corona, as observed by our Citizen CATE 2024 project during the total solar eclipse in Australia (April 2023), is mapped to colors. (More ⬇️). Stunning!
1/3 🧵
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
Just published — polarization of light from the Sun's corona, as observed by our Citizen CATE 2024 project during the total solar eclipse in Australia (April 2023), is mapped to colors. (More ⬇️). Stunning!
1/3 🧵
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
I am once again curious as to what era people believe it was that American politics were reasonable or civil or unpolarized or whatever the fuck
September 20, 2024 at 10:16 PM
I am once again curious as to what era people believe it was that American politics were reasonable or civil or unpolarized or whatever the fuck
Somebody make Proportional Representation happen so the US catches up to the rest of the world in unpolarized, dictator-resistant government.
March 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Somebody make Proportional Representation happen so the US catches up to the rest of the world in unpolarized, dictator-resistant government.
Once they go fash, it's true they're in a separate information sphere you can't control.
But it's about the fresh pseudoscience seeds people are attempting to plant in unpolarized soil right now. That's just sowing future problems if left unopposed.
But it's about the fresh pseudoscience seeds people are attempting to plant in unpolarized soil right now. That's just sowing future problems if left unopposed.
April 24, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Once they go fash, it's true they're in a separate information sphere you can't control.
But it's about the fresh pseudoscience seeds people are attempting to plant in unpolarized soil right now. That's just sowing future problems if left unopposed.
But it's about the fresh pseudoscience seeds people are attempting to plant in unpolarized soil right now. That's just sowing future problems if left unopposed.
In a new paper, @polpsychjoe.bsky.social , @lilymasonphd.bsky.social, and I argue that such questions assume homogenous levels of norm support and participation among affectively UNpolarized citizens. That is, we tend to treat all affectively unpolarized citizens as one
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August 31, 2026 at 7:00 AM
In a new paper, @polpsychjoe.bsky.social , @lilymasonphd.bsky.social, and I argue that such questions assume homogenous levels of norm support and participation among affectively UNpolarized citizens. That is, we tend to treat all affectively unpolarized citizens as one
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Also unpolarized/ungrounded plugs are still distressingly common
August 5, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Also unpolarized/ungrounded plugs are still distressingly common
In this image, the polarization angle is mapped to color — some animals (like bees, fish, birds, and more) can actually see polarization, so this gives us some analogy of how humans might perceive polarized light if our eyes were sensitive to it. White = unpolarized.
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November 16, 2023 at 2:52 AM
In this image, the polarization angle is mapped to color — some animals (like bees, fish, birds, and more) can actually see polarization, so this gives us some analogy of how humans might perceive polarized light if our eyes were sensitive to it. White = unpolarized.
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The weirdest thing about Texas's primary is that it appears ideologically unpolarized. We see the demographics that historically vote moderate in Democratic primaries voting for the more progressive candidate and vice versa.
February 27, 2026 at 11:23 PM
The weirdest thing about Texas's primary is that it appears ideologically unpolarized. We see the demographics that historically vote moderate in Democratic primaries voting for the more progressive candidate and vice versa.
Christopher Monahan, Tobias Neumann: Unpolarized quasi- and pseudo-distributions at one loop: gluon correlator decomposition, matching, and the region $|x|>1$ https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40205 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.40205 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.40205
October 1, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Christopher Monahan, Tobias Neumann: Unpolarized quasi- and pseudo-distributions at one loop: gluon correlator decomposition, matching, and the region $|x|>1$ https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40205 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.40205 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.40205
They are usually more central, but this is a particularly extreme case! Maybe a strong centripetal flow of the cytoplasm in this round (unpolarized) cell
January 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
They are usually more central, but this is a particularly extreme case! Maybe a strong centripetal flow of the cytoplasm in this round (unpolarized) cell
The proportion of light that gets through a polarizer is cos^2(angle between light polarization and filter polarization).
If the filters point the same direction they act like a single filter, and 1/2 of unpolarized light gets through (average value of cos^2 across all light polarization angles).
If the filters point the same direction they act like a single filter, and 1/2 of unpolarized light gets through (average value of cos^2 across all light polarization angles).
February 27, 2026 at 1:38 AM
The proportion of light that gets through a polarizer is cos^2(angle between light polarization and filter polarization).
If the filters point the same direction they act like a single filter, and 1/2 of unpolarized light gets through (average value of cos^2 across all light polarization angles).
If the filters point the same direction they act like a single filter, and 1/2 of unpolarized light gets through (average value of cos^2 across all light polarization angles).
Tikinas Chabour, Guillem Dom\`enech, Alexander Ganz, Jan Tr\"ankle
Unpolarized Low-Frequency Tail of Causal Chiral Gravitational Waves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28828
Unpolarized Low-Frequency Tail of Causal Chiral Gravitational Waves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28828
September 26, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Tikinas Chabour, Guillem Dom\`enech, Alexander Ganz, Jan Tr\"ankle
Unpolarized Low-Frequency Tail of Causal Chiral Gravitational Waves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28828
Unpolarized Low-Frequency Tail of Causal Chiral Gravitational Waves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28828
Yesterday I learned that fiddler crabs can distinguish between polarized and unpolarized light, which helps them see other crabs at a distance.
Does that count?
Does that count?
September 3, 2023 at 5:08 PM
Yesterday I learned that fiddler crabs can distinguish between polarized and unpolarized light, which helps them see other crabs at a distance.
Does that count?
Does that count?