Jeff Lockhart
@jwlockhart.bsky.social
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Cat person. Sometimes sociologist of science, sex, & other stuff.
Look, I get that many substack authors are talking out of their asses. But the number of them who then confess they don't know what they're talking about and ask for people to teach them the basics... What are you doing? Why did you write a whole thing and then ask someone to teach you intro to it?
3 days ago
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I should not have to be in the apple store often enough to have the detailed feelings about it that I do. And yet.
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Donna says hello from the balcony.
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I installed Linux on 3 different computers last night in less time than the apple store can put an OS on a MacBook.
6 days ago
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"Are you able to floss twice a day?" Question wording doing a lot of work here.
6 days ago
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In awe of my paper-based colleagues who manage to produce on request copies of unpublished manuscripts they read 31 years ago.
6 days ago
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Typed "medial sociology" instead of "medical sociology" and now I wonder what a medial sociology would be.
7 days ago
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Move over sandwich discourse.
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8 days ago
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My chancellor is having a laugh with this "Nimble Strategy for Berkeley’s Future." We're the living embodiment of bureaucracy and static documents.
8 days ago
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Me: "What fool would actually be persuaded by a politician going to a diner as if he's one of the common people?" Also me: "Mamdani making a video standing on a random rooftop? He's so real and in touch with the city."
8 days ago
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Stated preference: move out of the way of a car running a red light. Revealed preference: stand my ground, arms wide, with "what do you think you're doing?" written on my face.
8 days ago
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[Picard voice] There. Are. Four. Borroughs.
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9 days ago
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Mad that my favorite question from the Kinsey sexual histories data (do you think about homosexual things while having sex with your wife?) wasn't reported in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.
11 days ago
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Sickos yes.
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11 days ago
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Power outage caused me to think about being a prepper. Lasted about 20 minutes. Went to a bar down the street instead. City boy just isn't made to live without the World Wide Web and global supply chains.
12 days ago
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Power's out. Only books I have at home are cook books. Stove is electric. Guess it's time to snuggle my cat.
12 days ago
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Perfect cat.
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spooky friday activities - hunting for a copy of an unpublished manuscript from 31 years ago.
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Scrapping my favorite section of this draft because I read a good article.
13 days ago
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"Do you have anything to add?" "No." [talks for several minutes anyway]
14 days ago
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Got my first choice teaching assignments for next year and I'm very happy about it.
14 days ago
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My zotero failed me, so history of science bsky, help! What's the book about debates over whether snakes have venom or angry spirits? 1600s era debate, I think, with one of the parties in northern Italy?
15 days ago
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Whenever I post something about public health that goes viral and turns out to be totally wrong / made up, I just add a little correction 12 skeets down in the thread and leave up the original viral post for clout. This has been a skeet about monkeys.
16 days ago
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[Whining voice] reviewerrrrrrs! Come on.
16 days ago
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Art
16 days ago
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extremely helpful. thanks.
17 days ago
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I took a picture of Donna making a silly face, and then she got embarrassed.
18 days ago
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Box living up to its name. Donna loves shreding it with her teeth.
19 days ago
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In any story about "people used AI to find out how to do something bad," replace AI with "their computer" and you'll see this story is invariably as old as the public Internet.
21 days ago
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I ended up on the absolute worst email list. Just amateurs typing up their unfiltered thoughts and firing them off to a crowd. Totally different from this site, where we... Oh.
22 days ago
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I say I have an ideal cat. And I do. She's perfect, and I love her. But also. She's staring me in the eye and yeowling while putting claw holes into a t-shirt.
23 days ago
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Sitting in a talk that is a history of something I lived through, and the talk is so good. You love to see it.
23 days ago
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Doom scrolling on here so hard that someone saw my face and asked "are you okay, honey?"
23 days ago
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Donna has decided my glasses are a toy.
24 days ago
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These people probably don't even have erdos numbers! Ugh! Signed, Someone who knows his erdos number.
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24 days ago
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I think it's a problem that we made science cool. "I solved a math problem" should have stayed a dorky activity we get bullied for genuinely liking instead of becoming a status symbol that vacuous people who have no interest in math use flex.
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24 days ago
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Even in a world of many small providers or everyone hosting their own on prem servers, there will be outages. Maybe more of them. Resilience would need more providers per service.
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24 days ago
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If this site really had the juice, people would be posting it's good the white house is being rebuilt with free, unionized labor...
24 days ago
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I'm willing to make common cause with the scorched earth science reform crowd over this kind of thing.
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26 days ago
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Smells like my neighbors are roasting 100lbs of garlic and I'm kind of in love.
27 days ago
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reposted by
Jeff Lockhart
Rafe Meager (they/them)
27 days ago
*zizek voice* there is no such thing as a gentle reminder! <sniff> all reminders are violent
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Got excited about a "combating scientific realism" starter pack before
@annaclemencia.bsky.social
revealed it was actually a "combating scientific racism" pack. Also good. Not the same. Now I need someone to make an antirealist pack.
27 days ago
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Did some tinkering with the ASA section membership data and the diversity index is 0.74 for gender and 0.63 for race/ethnicity. That's ... a fair bit of assortativity. (normalized Theil's H; 1 = total segregation, 0 = uniform distribution)
27 days ago
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Back in data collection and oof did I just run into some dark shit.
28 days ago
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We talk about the big money and now federal interests manipulating the science reform movement, but I don't think we talk enough about the ideological moves that have been going on inside retraction watch for years. It's like FIRE
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28 days ago
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The extreme intro to econ brain that says "prediction markets" are magic aggregators of information about probability and can't fathom that they are incentives to fraud, manipulation, etc.
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29 days ago
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It's not AI unless it comes from the Altman era of computers. Otherwise it's just sparkling algorithms.
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29 days ago
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Chronic pain people laugh-crying at the very notion of this.
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29 days ago
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I have thoughts for them on this, yes.
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