In Vegas for the first time in a while and only dimly familiar with the word that seems to be everywhere: Vanderpump.

Sam Ezersky should be in prison.

Spouse and I played through Mixtape the past couple nights and really enjoyed it. It’s more like movie than a game—a drama about adolescence, memory, and music. $20, about 3-4 hours, catnip in particular for anyone who knows what “shoegaze” is. annapurnainteractive.com/games/mixtap...

Patriotic cheese celebrating USA independence on sale at Safeway. Imported from the UK.

Back from #PAA2026 in time for World Donkey Day at our local park.

Huh. PAA is having its own “Fireside Chat” with Jay Bhattacharya next week with questions to be asked by another economist. www.populationassociation.org/paa2026/rela...

my thoughts on that fireside chat between Jay Bhattacharya and Emily Oster deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/04/that... #NASEM #NIH #CDC #replication #innovation #COVID

Imagine how much more powerful AI would be if it was billions of linear probability models in a trench coat.

This workshop has been going great, btw. Recordings are going to be posted afterward.

Next: Fireside Chat with John Ioannidis / Facilitator Pamela Davis-Kean. JI: We need to learn from others and always do better. People have criticized that using the term 'reproducibility crisis' can be weaponized and destroy the ecosystem. There is improvement of preregistration, sharing. #NASEM

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta

The new FY27 budget plans for NSF to dismantle the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate in FY 2027. Attend this webinar tomorrow (Tuesday, 4/14, 1pm ET) to see how you can help stop and protect the SBE.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD HE BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE THE BUS

I am one of the co-organizers of this event, and there has been some upset about it elsewhere on Bluesky. I cannot speak from anybody's perspective other than my own about this, but will express my own position briefly here. 1/X

April 23-24: Two-day online National Academies workshop on enhancing scientific integrity in the social and behavioral sciences. The program is here (bit.ly/NASprog), including links to (free) registration.

The studies are mostly fabricated by his students. Guéguen then steals a selection of them and claims to have run the study himself, even though nobody did. See steamtraen.blogspot.com/2019/05/an-u...

Who knows? It’s been like having a succession of guys in Grim Reaper costumes show up at your door. Is it really him this time?

This may be the stupidest thing I have ever posted but I believe that if enshittification had been proposed by Max Weber instead of Cory Doctorow we would be teaching it in every sociological theory class as if it had been inspired by God.

7/ The policy impact is striking: reproducibility rises from 29.6% before Data Access and Research Transpareny (DA-RT) to 79.8% after.

“A fraudulent e-mail might look like an MDPI account” let me stop you right there

This was an issue in our recent interdisciplinary search. The lack of any evidence of interest in open science by what were probably strong sociology candidates really hurt them in the committee’s view.

TFW you are renewing your passport application and realize the time is at hand to change your hair color from “brown” to “gray.”

I am on the editorial board of three religion journals. For several years, I been working to get each of them to adopt a strong data and code sharing policy. I just sent notice of my intent to resign from each editorial board as of January 1, 2027 if such a policy is not in place.

It’s not just that there is no requirement, but ASA prohibits any requirement. This is why I am no longer an ASA member and won’t serve on ASA journal editorial boards.

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

Last night I had a dream that I broke the world record in the long jump. OR WAS IT A PREMONITION? #Goals

Somehow I came to be elected to the PAA Board, which just met, and it is startling what extremely functional organization and group of people it is. The high goodwill PAA has among its members is well-deserved.

Wuthering Heights was disappointing. It had 5-6 bananas moments, where it needed 20 and I was expecting 30.

Beckie and I are at an Alamo Drafthouse waiting for Wuthering F. Heights to start and I am embarrassed at how psyched I am. If Margot Robbie gets to announce “Nellie, I *am* Heathcliff!” there is no way I will be able to stop a squee.

Sometimes academia makes me feel so jaded I could be a little elephant on sale in a Taiwanese street market. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

For numerous reasons, I could never be elected ASA President, but if I were my conference theme would be “Calling Out Bullshit.”

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.