Because of my relatively common name, I’ve always gotten stray emails and text messages meant for other people. Now, I’m also getting the joy of receiving a slew of messages related to the legal entities (e.g., LLCs, trusts) created by my name-sharers. Thanks, Franken-data brokers!

Today in newspaper headlines about fictional crises

My father never said “have a good day.” He said “make it a great day.” Let’s head into 2026 knowing we are stronger together & hold the power to make change. As K-Pop demon hunters taught us: “That's the funny thing about hope. Nobody else gets to decide if you feel it. That choice belongs to you."

Perhaps the most British thing about the TV show Industry is that they have a company named Rican that they insist on pronouncing “RYE-can” as if Puerto Rico doesn’t exist

*cracks knuckles* Well, looks like it’s time to break out this classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAA...

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Is this the look Rob Schneider was going for?!??

They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have

it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do

And one of them is throwing the horns in slo-mo! No notes, Bull City

Steph Curry always seems like he’s just days away from doing a live-action remake of the Jordan v. Bird “Nothin’ but Net” ad from the ‘90s

I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback

"Our analysis shows that in the aftermath of extreme weather events, lower-income neighbourhoods are less likely to rebuild and do not return to their pre-disaster state, whereas higher-income areas rebuild and tend to improve...highlighting increasing disparities in their built environments."

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine -Lucille Clifton, “why some people be mad at me sometimes”

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

In case you missed it, Vanderbilt is over on LinkedIn posting embarrassing itself by quoting someone who says “maybe [Vandy] should be ranked as high as 6th” for the College Football Playoff. Be serious.

One of the most astounding streaks in any sport. Nearly 50% higher than the second-longest run of double-digit scoring (Michael Jordan at 866 games).

Letter below is by surgical oncologist and professor Dr. Michael Baum about how a character explaining chaos theory in a Tom Stoppard play sparked an expansion in his understanding of breast cancer, leading to exploration of adjuvant therapy that protects distant organs. This is what art can do.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Have any NCES data users gotten a disclosure review approved for a paper/report since spring? I've been waiting for 6+ months 😞

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

Oreoboros

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This Veterans Day I want to acknowledge the Black veterans of WWII who fought fascism and nazism and came home to fight for civil rights and democracy here. New research shows Black veterans were critical in securing the voting rights currently under attack. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨 For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse! www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

Slides from my @mit.edu IDSS Distinguished Speaker seminar "Networks untangle gender differences in productivity and prominence among scientists" this week I argue that collaboration networks act like unequally distributed (and gendered) social capital aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

Even winning this year’s Halloween costume prize couldn’t ease Carol’s existential ennui. “Another October, another ghost, another shiny prize. Maybe a pig’s ear would cheer me. Ah nuts, who am I kidding.”

🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/

I remain fascinated at Google’s insistence on showing two significant digits for the daily percent change in the stock market.

Change one letter, ruin a candy: Spittles

Food relief orgs can do a LOT with a little. $50 to the Atlanta Food Bank provides 150 meals. $100 to the Greater Cleveland Food Bank provides 250 meals. Anything you can share will go a long way. Never feel like your efforts are too small to make a difference.

🚨 NEW from @PEERResearch.bsky.social: New graduate, parent loan limits will curtail borrowing for about one-third of borrowers. About $10 billion/yr will no longer be available to grad students (more when including new limits for part-time students), parents. www.american.edu/spa/peer/imp...

Research firms continue to shed talented staff—even after the far-reaching cuts earlier this year. Just this week, there have been announcements of significant layoffs at RAND and Mathematica.

Postdoc at the Minnesota Population Center, @minnpop.bsky.social Applications open now and being evaluated on a rolling basis. Pass on to demographers you know! (This one requires folks to relocate to the Twin Cities, because it involves work in the restricted data center)

Ryan Coogler says he’s rebooting ‘The X-Files’ for his mom, a major fan of the show, and she’s already read some pages: ‘She’s fired up.’

“Over the past two decades, the number of news desert counties – areas that lack consistent local reporting – has grown steadily. This past year was no exception: in this report, we are tracking 213 U.S. counties without any local news source, up from 206 last year.”

Oak leaf hydrangeas deserve more credit for their contributions to fall foliage

One of my favorite parts about learning Latin was discovering the various meanings of a word. For instance, “hope” and “trust” are translations of the same word, which is awfully poetic.

Shoutout to the radio stations still clinging to their tagline “the best of the 80s, 90s, and today”—a phrase that now covers…<checks notes>…five decades

NEW from @PEERResearch.bsky.social: We estimated how #highered programs measure up against the accountability standard in the reconciliation law. Overall, few programs fall short, but low-earning programs are concentrated in some schools, fields. www.american.edu/spa/peer/one...

Here's a fun way to make words out of letters that appear in satellite images science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

She was hilarious! Don't call her Mrs. Bucket! It's Bouquet, accent on the second syllable, dear! 😂

🚨The PEER Center is hiring! We currently have two positions posted (details below). We're a #highered research center (led by @srcellini.bsky.social @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social) focused on generating actionable research for state, federal policy. Put your data skills to work for an important purpose!

twenty five years ago today, on September 25, 2000, the United States men's basketball team was playing France in the Sydney Olympics with sixteen minutes left in the second half and the USA up 69-54, Vince Carter stole the ball between him and the rim was 7'2" Frederic Weis then he did this