I dunno, this kind of hair-on-fire panicking from the International Energy Agency makes me think oil is currently very underpriced.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Me: I shouldn’t celebrate political chaos Also me: Blasts recession pop music because those DHS ads are about to get pulled from Univision

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Obsessed with this study. Do your part, return your cart!

We are in the middle of an office move and I've been tasked with sorting through our department's cache of competing books. Trading a quiet Friday for the joy of mailing textbooks to editors who are genuinely excited to get them. It’s weirdly heartwarming—like a tiny Editorial Christmas! 🎁📚

“We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore. A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself.”

And nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, physicians assistants— this is very bad and needs to be stopped.

sending the hot goss to my friend and adding DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

I just don't get professors who use AI detectors. congratulations you have arsonists doing fire inspections

Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We must put an end to the surveillance state.

A Pepsi-only airline is a reminder that we are not in control. We make our requests, and the universe smiles… and hands us a substitute.

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

The concept of “gratitude” in American politics is an insidious one that implies a caste system where betters confer largess upon lessers and where those lessers must consistently pay homage to their betters. And there is always an implied threat that without proper homage the largess will stop.

Survey of 813 scientists finds that Bluesky is the more useful social media platform for professional scientists. As anecdotal support, this journal article itself is references by 2731 Bluesky users and has 43 X posts (Altmetrics data, when posting this). #sciencesky #academicsky #science

LOVE IS REAL!

It’s humbling to realize my niece, who can just about reach the counter, can completely take me out with one cold. Right at the beginning of the semester, too. LOVE IT.

The moon is almost full, Mercury is still in retrograde, and I am but a pinwheeling spreadsheet with a meeting in five minutes.

I, too, have dramatically escalated a situation just to avoid replying to an email.

My best friend almost missed her flight to a conference this morning and didn’t get breakfast. As an act of solidarity, I went to brunch and didn’t post it on Instagram. That’s real friendship.

Today is August 1. Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

How common are earthquakes this big? Here are all of the events with a magnitude of 8.5 or larger since 1960: only ten of them!

Manuscripts are pouring in post-vacation like I opened a haunted email attachment labeled ‘final-final-FINAL.docx.' and every time I think I’ve reached the end, a new chapter appears.

I’m looking for a meme that recently crossed my feeds. Maybe a tweet or a skeet, says something like: I realized at some point that middle class white people read all the elite media for the sole purpose of debating each other about it to locate themselves in a social hierarchy.

Inbox status: still climbing the mountain. Just went to the grocery store like I was prepping for a second expedition. Up next? Cleaning up our internal systems. And then more email.

Back from vacation and I'm locked out of my computer because my password expired.

CHILDREN OF MEN is going to place “surprisingly” high on the NYT Best Movies of the Century list (like #7) and it’s going to formally occasion the Strange New Respect that we all know is coming so I just want to say I have been riding for that movie since I was a sophomore in high school

I’m never going to see precedented times

We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war. If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

This latest Middle East war will not make the US safer, more prosperous, or more respected around the world.

*taps the sign* PREVENTATIVE WAR AS A DOCTRINE DOES NOT LEAD TO MILITARY OR NATIONAL STRATEGIC SUCCESS

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

PSA: the latest COVID strain presents more like an allergy attack (sneezing, sinus congestion) than “classic” COVID. Just found out that the sinus infection I’ve been battling since Friday is, in fact, the rona.

via @fridaghitis #uspol #nokings #Indivisible

The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey. Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work. It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin

there is something quite close to unanimity among serious scholars on this point, but the Washington Post omits that in favor of highlighting one such scholar's donations to Democratic candidates

It’s been a long week.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

newsom will never be president but i see no harm in letting him believe he could be if he decides that a knock down drag out with the entire republican party might get him there

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

Seeing a massive divide online between Angelenos of all political stripes who understand that the protests in LA yesterday were mostly peaceful and any violence was ICE-initiated and East Coast establishment liberals lecturing “the left” on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.

probably recording a podcast with one of the proud boys

An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.