Me? Yes I am something of an artist. What does it mean? I don't know

Chapter on AI and Research Methods!

Really pleased with my new AI headshots. Let me know what you think

We're hiring a Post-Doc (3 years) at the @hertieschool.bsky.social for a @scripts-berlin.eu project on authoritarian influence in the video games industry (I am soooo excited about this project)! More details here (deadline 31 May): hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

There is a guy in the airport lounge with two Mac Minis hooked up to his laptop

Planning to start live streaming my Claude Code sessions on Twitch for any economists who want to follow

I am doing my first half marathon on Sunday and I am nervous

*Shenaniganing…*

A pleasure to be part of this committee! Alia is going to go on to great things. Watch out, world

I can humbly confirm this as an English man wondering why all baseball players wear the same number on this his first baseball game

Same

me at Faculty Meeting rn

I also plan to sublet my apartment for 50 grand a month if you're interested

I'm going to wear shorts to work and there's nothing ANY of you can do about it

I've been saying this for years

Tomorrow I will teach a three hour grad class on using Claude Code for iterative refinement of the whole research pipeline. Going into this completely blind to whether it'll be a disaster or not. But I'm excited to try! I'll share materials if it's not terrible

To be fair, right. In two years of being a new father and tenure track faculty I've racked up 0 days of golf. I'm not sure either of these dudes come across fantastically

If I tweet about how the spacex landings looked cooler do I get banned from bluesky?

I've missed collective awe and happiness social media

I had no choice

So X is a cess pit Bluesky is dying Linkedin is AI LoveWhereYouWork slop Am I gonna have to just shitpost on Strava now?

Totally normal country producing totally normal kids books

Literally just found myself saying to my computer "no, you push it." Anyway it's all over

TIL that if I say the word "blimey" to a class of predominantly US grad. students they will all immediately start laughing at me

This is a good example of why you should check what's being funneled onto your restaurant website by the API

My favourite thing about Radio 6 Music is that interviewees can say things like "I've been spending more time in nocturnal contexts and expanding my horizons sonically" and the conversation continues as if that's not an absolutely absurd set of words for a human to say in earnest

The "Madchester" podcast on iPlayer about the rise of the Manchester music scene in the 80s and 90s is great also includes little gems like the first version of World in Motion was called E is for England and went "E is for England, England starts with E / We'll all be smiling when we're in Italy"

The Claude Code leak makes me a feel a lot better about all the redundant code in my repos

Look I know I have skin in this game and yesterday enjoyed an expensive burger but I do struggle to see why there's such a discussion around daycare but the same debate doesnt exist when it comes to free public primary and high schools... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

I just paid 500 dollars for a return ticket to Berlin from Greece. So yeah

The really good thing about using LinkedIn for sharing work is that all my high school friends are on there too and relentlessly take the piss out of me on WhatsApp every time I post a paper

Hearing it's being renamed the Trump Mega Fire Tube next week

Oh so you all think this is a real launch? Cool story, guys. I'm not someone who gets prank'd so easily

Sociology absolutely killing it once again

The very interesting thing about Claude Code is that it remains quite pants at statistics. Which tracks with why economists are so keen on it AMIRITE

🚨New paper alert🚨 What happens when a polarized democracy bans a social media platform? New work with @cbarrie.bsky.social, Molly Roberts, Chris Schwarz, and @jatucker.bsky.social. We study Brazil's 2024 ban on X and find it created what we define as a "partisan sorting ratchet ." 1/

Do editors ever send April fools article reviews? Afaf

There is a fascinating cottage industry of economists doing YouTube videos about Claude code as if it's like an underground second coming no one has heard of. Like yeah it's great but can we chill t f out a bit

Can we just make a new ASA at this point?

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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

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