Cameo appearance by Bayes Theorem in a Super Bowl ad.

Has anyone who was rumored to maybe still be alive ever turned out to still be alive?

Los Altos has a pop-up Dark Romance bookstore.

I wonder if there are any folks at Harvard who do ungrading (a practice where students get to assign their own grades).

Got tickets to see Australia play Paraguay in the World Cup. I’ve started the lobbying for us to attend in Raygun costumes.

Every so often these days I hear someone randomly squawking the phrase “stochastic parrot.”

Not sure how we are supposed to trust Ariely’s word on this unless he signed the statement at the top.

Here at Stanford, profs are allowed to state whatever policy they want on the syllabus, but profs aren’t allowed to enforce anything about violations themselves and the only guidance about detection is a combination of discouragement and prohibition.

This is an awesome idea as long as nobody on the upper floors gets old.

I see this “If there’s money for a parade, there’s money for Medicaid!” slogan, and, while I appreciate the sentiment, logically it feels equivalent to “If you can afford a pet, you can afford a jet!”

Hard numbers on the Bluesky death spiral.

"In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor" Francesca Gino

The hounds have been released at the annual Hoppin’ Hounds Easter Treat Hunt.

Interesting review paper on nonprob online samples by @jeremyfreese.bsky.social and Olivia Jin www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

*raises hand*

No greater condescension.

If trends continue, it won’t be that long until the proportion of students with disability accommodations at schools like Stanford passes 50%. I feel like when it does the school should just shift to formally assuming the most common accommodations are universal.

If you have a loved one and a PS5, I cannot recommend Split Fiction highly enough if you want a fun distraction from everything else. (Does not require significant thumb capital to play successfully.)

Sure, a lot of bad stuff going on so it’s fortunate that I’m still riding this high from a couple days ago.

“Three or four land acknowledgements in ten years”? Huh. Is that others’ experience? Whether Bay Area or academia, I certainly have experienced them far more than that.

Finally exasperated enough by Google’s search engine that i am going to give going all-in on DuckDuckGo a whirl for awhile.

This is not a time for weakness. Looking at the theme when you do the NYT’s Strands puzzle is weakness. Be strong.

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God help me, I have caught myself several times about to use the word “features” instead of “variables.”

Donald Trump, 2016: “Real power is — I don’t even want to use the word — fear.”

Would you still watch the halftime show if another network was simulcasting a Drake struggle session?

Western Iowans rejoice as it is revealed that Cooper DeJean’s shoes celebrate growing up in the 712.

Cooper DeJean is as small-town Iowa as it gets. Watch clips of his HS highlights—it’s like a Marvel movie.

The NFL is my main reminder the Microsoft Surface still exists.

If you are playing that drinking game where you drink every time they show Taylor Swift, you are stone cold sober.

But, Snoop: is hating Tom Brady really that irrational?

Granted, a Super Bowl halftime show focused on dissing Drake would be timely giving the impending war against Canada.

Nothing knocks out cancer like gutting NIH.

Your university could get its lost money back by picking the right parlay for this game with DraftKings.

Mark Cuban gets it. Makes me feel even worse that the NBA team he used to own got fleeced.

If I were to write a novel about academia, this is a good outline for the meeting between the protagonist junior facility member and his senior faculty mentor.

Fun fact: an animating conceit of constructivist sociology of science, back in the day, was that public faith in science was too strong and it was worth taking down a peg.

A $4B cut to NIH, if that’s what this is, is the devastating thing for universities and for science. Charging the government 4-6x more than a billionaire’s foundation for overhead was always a head-scratcher.

This book about fraud in AD research is great and harrowing. As one interviewee says, “You can cheat to get a paper. You can cheat to get degree. You can cheat to get a grant. You can’t cheat to cure a disease. Biology doesn’t care.”

Aside: if government events have distracted your attention from cultural developments, the top podcast right now is about how telepathy is real and powered by mothers’ love.

Speaking of atrocities, the NYT Spelling Bee does not accept DYADIC as a word.

Interrupting your sadfeed to inform you that raspberry potato chips are surprisingly delicious.

About as dreary of a day weather-wise as one gets here. Fortunately one can always open up this site and scroll around for a jaunty pick-me-up.

Stanford bookstore. Both these racks at the front and both side displays—ALL Rebecca Yarros.

Data sleuths’ work is thankless. They must get credit for retractions. Our Ivan Oransky, along with David Allison, in @timeshighered.bsky.social

Customers end up on the table for hours on end even though the massseuse changes every 30 seconds.

I do love me some lorikeets.

🎶 He sings a love song, as we go along, walking in a summer wonderland 🎶

Tiny temporary stop sign is such a sensation that it gets the headline and a half-page photo in my hometown newspaper.

Do you need educational and psychological item response data to do your research? The IRW has 600 item response datasets (more coming!), distributed in a standardized format and ready for analysis.