Annnnd flights canceled when leaving. I jinxed it.

There is now a Gen Z slang dplyr and I might use it just so I can have ‘yeet()’ in my code. github.com/hadley/genzp...

Happy FSTL day to all who celebrate

Friends, if you have the means to donate to a local food pantry financially via online giving, I highly encourage you to do that. But I don’t want to discount the importance of actually showing up at the pantry, even if it is just to drop off food. (1/5)

First thing I saw on social media today was this headline and now I just want to ban myself from the internet but maybe it’s my own fault for knowing how to read

Trump's approval rating has fallen the most among the voters who are newest to his coalition: people of color and young people. Good article from Mary Radcliffe (who is a must-read): marywitha4.substack.com/p/trumps-app...

On one hand, I am really excited about the Texas American Behavior Conference at Texas A&M this week. On the other hand, I am watching TSA line videos from IAH this week & wondering if I will even make it to College Station. (Yes, Texas is big enough that it would be a 10+ hour drive from El Paso.)

I’m gonna need people in NYC* to post videos of reactions in the streets *except Staten Island

Clicked the button to see the borough breakdown EXTREMELY fast.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

There’s no way. & the gun range one is about unknown dangers at gun ranges. One of the craziest auto schedule release coincidences.

Hey people who are familiar with College Station, where should I eat? Getting into town early before a conference & have a couple meals to fill. Bonus points if it’s Cajun or soul food!

It’s official, Canada has to keep Drake.

Will Smith has a reading foundation and visits public schools. Just so you know the guy who hit that game winning homer has done good things for the LAUSD

Well, this is a story all about how, this game got flipped turned upside down . . . .

Me watching TRL after school in the late 90s

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

In hindsight, maybe thinking that I could recover from the stress of the Nebraska football game with game 7 of the World Series wasn’t the best logic in the world.

I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.

My whole feed is sports for the first time here and I love it

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Watching game 7 as someone who doesn’t care much about baseball but has a lot of love for the cities of Los Angeles and Toronto is conflicting.

NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today.

These dogs were spotted taking a group photo in their Halloween costumes. We're impressed by the dog walker's dedication to getting the shot, but that ghost definitely wishes he could actually disappear. 14/10 for all (TT: franklinbarkzoo)

The AI tool in Overleaf keeps trying to change all instances of "we expect" to "we hope" so, hypothesizing is going well. Gotta say, I don't think this is worth the water usage.

Counterpoint: Everyone's lives would improve if they lived next to an abuela who calls them mija when giving them homemade food with Spanglish reheating instructions as a thanks for helping her family with something. Some caldo de res & machaca might knock that racism right out of him.

Important neighborhood update: There’s a group of six cats who gather at a coffeeshop and everyone feeds them so they’ve really warmed up to people.

Not sure what is happening but it's only Tuesday morning and I've received 3 R&Rs this week. Thanks, universe. Especially nice since just last week I was telling a graduate student I was feeling a string of negative feedback and was ready for a win.

Cool thing about this year: My neighborhood pool has been hosting djs since May & the season closing party yesterday featured some orange mountains at sunset. Yesterday was Benny Benassi. Other notable shows this summer were Tiesto, Kaskade, Deorro, Afrojack, Green Velvet, & Steve Aoki.

🎶 I think the apple’s rotten right to the core 🎶

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

An email subject from a university press finally got me to open a university press email. (The book actually sounds super interesting and I am about to buy it! www.ucpress.edu/books/on-loo...)

Covid-19 vaccines, credited with saving millions of lives during the pandemic, set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study.

I just need everyone to know that over on tiktok people are posting jewelry hauls, mostly with giant & fake plastic jewelry like the game Pretty Pretty Princess, as if they are the people behind the Louvre heist. One of them even had a scooter & safety vest in the background. People are too funny.

Trying to figure out how to make the White House demo situation into a trivia team name for tonight

Just incase anybody else is like me and wondering why so many things are not working well/at all this morning: www.reuters.com/business/ret...

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Teaching a political communication class right now during *broadly and wildly gestures at world* is such an… adventure.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Important holiday information

“Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think.” Ted Chiang‘s succinct summary of the issue with using AI in education. I’m not a sports guy but the athlete metaphor he uses in this interview is pretty spot on.

Will be interesting to see how the universities that require use of onedrive/prohibit other software for data will deal with this, especially considering data collection that involves videos of people.

Politically Extreme Individuals Exhibit Similar Neural Processing Despite Ideological Differences www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Costco cashier asked if I was throwing a party when I bought snacks for my lab meeting tomorrow. I may have overdone it.

Important life update: I saw a kitten in a tree when I got to a coffeeshop this morning then later on realized another kitten had shown up & they were both watching me

This was not a sample of academics.

Working on a project on attitudes related to AI generated revenge porn, which means I am sending a graduate student documents with "porn" & "revenge porn" in the name. Really hope my institution doesn't have a keyword email monitoring system otherwise I'm going to have to answer some questions.

Every time someone has this realization online it reminds me of when I was in Canada for my postdoc and made a Santa Supreme Court joke to several Canadian political scientists. Somehow NONE of them had ever realized they dress like Santa. I was flabbergasted 😂

12 days since this post & I can’t stop making soup or finding excuses to make soup. Happy? Make soup. Stressed? Make soup. Good news? Make soup. Another day below 90 degrees? Make soup. A day back above 90 degrees? Make soup.

This is cool in general but I especially appreciate it because my mom has been taking OLLI classes for a few years now & really enjoys them! A group of people who take OLLI classes in her city have even started a political discussion affinity group. It’s super interesting to hear about.