As always, tell the truth: science is still the best we way have to understand the world, and we need to keep doing it as much as we can without fear or favor. That mission may be harder now, but it is still the right mission.

Listening to the new Lily Allen album...painful experience so far what is thiiis :/

I love Thursdays because it's usually just a sequence of nice seminars

Super happy that my paper on modeling artist networks is out on Harvard Data Science Review. Writing it was such a fun journey (and still so much to be done, which is the best part!) hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/t4txmd81...

I think mine is that a semi-automated process is often worse than a fully manual one. The only thing worse than a manual excel data pipeline is a scheduled python script that reads in a manual excel and outputs it for a human to read ..

GM Daniel Naroditsky passed away. He was a talented chess player, commentator, and educator. FIDE extends its deepest condolences to Daniel’s family and loved ones.

I choose to live under the premise that Trader Joes just wants me to be happy

I dreamed I had to give an announcement about grocery prices in the UK during mass. Maybe I need to visit BlueSky less often

AWS is down, post hog

it's been easily 3 years since I last even thought about this (taste changing) album. Excellent reminder to revisit 🖤

A gorgeous Sunday album for those in the mood for (perfect) classical piano music.apple.com/us/album/ren...

Against *research as knowledge production*: "[A]ll those who are not ready for the work of reflection... can only regard one's research as 'positive' if something new is produced (even if it remains as 'un-understood' as the old that it replaced)." ~ Gadamer, "Reflections," tr. Palmer

Sending out a random request to the universe — If there are any Borges scholars in my network, or if anyone has a connection to a Borges scholar and could DM me their name, I would love to find such people.

Remembering the wonderful Brendan Kennelly

I think this is a common kind of scammy rhetorical construction that makes people mad, because it sets up a world in which the thing cannot fail, it can only be failed. I actually associate this most with diets, but it also appears a lot for Agile.

that post-submission deadline 3-hour zombie staring at the wall moment

Sweden is running a national experiment in AI, offering free access to AI tools at a population level in the hope of boosting its economy and tech literacy. Chris Stokel-Walker reports from Stockholm on how the country's bold bid to democratize AI is unfolding.

I find Alain Souchon's Le mystère so structurally similar to Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now . overwhelmingly beautiful songs <3

Once I realized (about 4 years ago) that if your idea is actually good you're not going to forget even a single of the essential bits that compose it, my intellectual anxiety decreased dramatically.

looking for more baby toys for my nephew and I find this utter BURN (the cause & effect part lol)

The next person who says "agentic workflow" is going to jail

Writing = heaven on Earth

"Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination." – Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891) #quote #mathematics #maths #math

Absolutely obsessed with Alain Souchon

what's the research question

Some kind of cosmic irony in the cult of productivity producing literally nothing

Figure 6, the effect sizes dwindle as you move away from the top single digit percentile of most ai heavy users. As we know some papers are *entirely* ai slop, these stricter criteria can be viewed as containing a higher abundance of slop. In other words, these gains are happening for ai slop.

Published now (after long last & 10 citations). Although tVNS does not alter food reward ratings in healthy people, it acutely improved liking ratings in patients with MDD (also correlated with anhedonia). #neuroskyence 🩺 Work w/ @akuehnel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I wish I hadn't discovered Parle-G cookies; offensively addictive

so much for the diabolical statistical properties of even a poor little simple decision tree

Radiohead's 'Kid A' hit #1 on the UK albums chart 25 years ago on October 8, 2000 album.ink/radioheadkida

I've been way too tolerant with (Americanized) Swiss cheeese in a way I haven't been with Manchego & others

states and political structures and such are there to serve humanity, not the other way around. nationalism is a lie and should be rejected. we need to be pretty clear about this.

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration" Well now is more like 40 / 60

All the human-generated CO2 in history is nothing compared to how Taylor Swift has destroyed sequoias

It's a clown connected device. Just upload it to the clown

something i try to tell the students is that the relatively nice, elegant, simple and tractable properties of expectations are not some magical gift from the universe but rather *the reason that we have retreated to studying expectations*

Time to repost this evidence pyramid from @statsepi.bsky.social again. (statsepi.substack.com/p/the-cluele...)

Oh, Mother of God (blesses himself fervently).

I’m not sure if this is internet specific, or a way for populations to handle sudden massive shifts in signal to noise ratios (like how early ads used to be written) But either way… I’m definitely feeling it. Especially in the last eight years. It’s been an increasingly piercing thrum

There is currently little incentive for developers to reduce sycophancy. Our work is a call to action: we need to learn from the social media era and actively consider long-term wellbeing in AI development and deployment. Read our preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01395

I’m gonna say something controversial: I actually don’t think chickpea anxiety is real

E-bikes are an absolute game-changer in terms of giving more people the option of going car-light or car-free, but adoption is threatened by the ongoing moral panic. As the article notes, the solution is not restrictions on e-bikes, but creating more infrastructure to support e-bike riders. 1/2

We need a Lana Del Rey cover of Billie Holiday's Gloomy Sunday

Preach 

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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