Name a more iconic duo

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One is a word embedding and one is made from flesh and bones and stuff

If you ever feel intimidated but the raft of methods employed in contemporary quantitative social science, just know that pretty much everything we do is: "what is bigger this or that?" OR "what came first this or that?". Some do what is bigger AND what came first but no one likes those guys

Pleased to be a part of this!

Good morning and welcome to how to teach Intro Sociology Methods in 2026

I also love how this rails against postmodernism and its associated inscrutable jargon and also proposes a "quest for consilience via the evolutionary lens" Ah yes, the old quest for consilience, you say. That's what we should all be working on. A central quest. A quest as old as time.

For those of who don't know aka have actual lives, there was a whole bunch of internal politics and machination at a prestigious theoretical journal in Sociology, Theory and Society, which resulted in a political takeover and anyway the new contents seem completely normal so nothing to worry about

Who do I know who has got an ERC Starter? Feel free to DM. A brilliant postdoc is asking for advice

Can someone explain to me Meta acquiring moltbook? In what world does this make sense? Is there a value add I'm missing? It's a bunch of LLMs talking to each other... Connected to a DB... That's it? I swear an engineer at Meta could make that in a weekend

The year is 2026 and this is how we file our taxes in the United States of America. One contains a paper check you know like those pieces of paper we used to pay for things in 1982

When reviewing something for a scholarly journal please ask self if reviewing it bc you're being asked to judge its scholarly merit or reviewing it bc you like to impose arbitrary gatekeeper judgments of taste. Can we all please get over ourselves and move things forward? Posting for a friend obv

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

My most viral post ever was on LinkedIn and I'm not sure I'm dealing well with what that says about me

brings me no pleasure

If Labour ducks tough, necessary action, and instead hides under a cache-misère of its own mythology, it too will become..." PARKLIFE

We (@lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social) have data on this stretching back to 2012 for a forthcoming report on the current academic job market in Politics - and let me just say it's unprecedentedly bad at the moment!

Just generated this method summary of the paper w/ Nano Banana 2. Crazy good

Omg I've unintentionally become a New York yoga mom

Hearing that Matt Goodwin has joined the Green Party saying it's all actually been a big misunderstanding

Now on @socarxiv.bsky.social ! osf.io/preprints/so...

Hyped to see this featured in the FT today!

Anthropic: we hired philosophers as part of our team because arguments Counterpoint: maybe don't do that "The welfare of the models"

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

What's the opposite of a sleep-in and also when your kid repeatedly kicks you in the face in their sleep? Kick-out?

Does England get to go to State of the Union when we win the World Cup?

I've had something on hold @arxiv-stat-me.bsky.social for 12 days now. Is this a common experience?

Insane reach from this guy on a serious overhang. And soloing it too 💯💪

The thing about this is that the % of adopters of this lunacy is currently no doubt ~ .0001 of the young male population and by reporting on this weirdness we are most likely to just increase that %

Can't work out why no one is using this cycle lane

What's the name for a snow day when the daycare says it's a snow day but your employer does not say it's a snow day

Counterpoint: it probably doesn't

Yes yes it's briefly beautiful now let's stop this nonsense

Do the people behind all these snow warnings know I'm training for a half marathon because like guys I'm trying to have an early mid life crisis here?

My dude just say it's less than streaming. Don't go with this weird stuff

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Someone just described running OpenClaw as like the thrill of running Linux versus Windows 20 years ago so anyway yes I'm going to give it a miss for now at least

Don't disagree w sentiment (I'm no longer on X) But interesting takeaway from this paper (and a finding we see again and again) are the null partisanship and affective polarization effects... Issue priorities and stance can change but affect and partisanship are a helluva drug as they say

They could also employ people instead I'm just saying

Everyone needs to know that in NYC when it snows people take their dog out for a shit and then cover it up with snow and when it melts it uncovers this sea of fossilized shit and I must say this is simultaneously a laudable attempt at committing the perfect crime and also absolutely f disgusting

My whole social media now is just an English man aghast at fact public services don't exist in America apologies

It snowed three weeks ago in NYC. Here is the crossing next to my apartment

The year is 2026. NYC Subway boasts

Overhead in NYC: "so you remember that guy in Vietnam who set himself on fire? It's like that but yoga"

me too

Paging NYC subway