We should ban all social media for under-18s except for text based hobbyists forums (video games, cars, decorative topiary, etc.). It’s good to have the experience of being arbitrarily banned by a 35-year old basement dwelling moderator for posting a point by point refutation of their arguments

While the media reports obsessively on "trans-issues", I'm on my 19,010th consecutive day of not being negatively impacted by any trans-person. "Four UK newspapers published 17,000 articles on ‘trans issues’ in five years, averaging 9 articles a day. www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/new-u...

lol, what!? One of the weirder Social Forces book reviews ever I've seen. Going out on a limb and guessing Wimer has a negative view of Kenworthy's book?

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

@yiqingxu.bsky.social, Jens Hainmueller and Avi Acharya have a cool paper to get political scientists to just fit structural choice models to their choice survey experiments! yiqingxu.org/papers/2026_...

how it started: how it’s going:

Graeber was wrong and jobs in the bureaucracy can be spiritually enriching, actually dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

It’s so funny (it’s not actually funny) how the commodities guys and economists and IR scholars and military analyst are all passing a communal bottle of bleach around while the equity dipshits are universally like “hrm, I might have to delay my Lamborghini purchase by a few weeks”

my social science masters degree was not a waste of money and has in fact made my life better and easier

One thing growing into my middle age has done has made me much less sympathetic to humanities Takes like this. A pathetic thrill of pseudo-provocation which inevitably backfires when a non trivial proportion of the audience actually just adopt and endorse the stupid read the author was winking at.

I'm not saying you can't possibly generate a worthwhile hypothesis from your data. I'm just saying that generating a hypothesis from the entirety of human knowledge that preceded your data is a much safer bet.

I do actually think it's a bad thing to cause a bunch of death and destruction for no clear reason and in the process bring about a global economic shock. I realise the Israeli and American governments feel differently, but this is my opinion.

if you dont have nukes and give us everything we want in negotiation, we might still kill you as late night television entertainment for the demented emperor

An essential article 👇

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Can't wait to use it

Don't you f**king dare.

perry anderson dunking on adam tooze on the new left review over his takes on ukraine is the socialist version lowkey of when hans hermann hoppe quit the mises institute for giving milei some stupid made up award because milei is pro israel

We are at the point this week where IR scholars are mentioning things like "WWIII"

I was wondering how this might all turn out to have been my fault

Holy crap chart from Gallup

I love this

Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...

As an aside, I just noticed that if you google a font, google displays the entire results page in that font. Which is neat.

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership. What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

The central place of the bogeyman ‘positivism’ in how social scientists caricature each other’s work is nicely captured here by @adrianblau.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

%notin% coming soon to an #rstats environment near you 🤩 developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/...

there's a lot of dumb shit that you can pin on media and how Americans perceive the world but it is a little unfair that Sicario became the "cool badass operators taking out cartel guys" movie for morons because the very explicit text of both movies is that none of that shit works

Many Gen AI tools are free now. If you do not train yourself (e.g. you never learn how to program without them) you will be dependent on them. In the future they will increase their prices drastically, and you will have to pay, because you can't do without them anymore.

💍Attitudes toward marriage in Europe have changed - some countries saw a rise in neutral or negative views, while attitudes became more positive in Czechia and Estonia. 🇨🇿 Czechia stands out as the most traditional. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @soc-muni.bsky.social @ggp-cz.bsky.social

Last week, the Czech GGP team presented at the 8th GGP User Conference in Tallinn, Estonia! We shared our research on 🎓 education and marriage, 🤱 fertility, and 💻 the analytical use of para-data. Many thanks to the organizers and participants for an inspiring conference! @ggp.bsky.social

We just published this open access review paper on SES inequality in family formation and dissolution in Central and Eastern Europe. We identified several promising RQ and hypotheses for others to examine. Especially with the new @ggp.bsky.social data. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....