“You can’t define a woman?” Party becomes “What is a child?” Party

wow

I wonder if it’s just genes or that’s what you get from a lifelong exposure to bad vibes

Every single administrative dataset in the world has a covid effect.

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All, I am organizing an @asanews.bsky.social paper session for NYC '26 on neuroscience and cognition in #sociology. Please spread the word.

There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.

One nice thing about being able to give this talk was that I was able to say a little bit—in the context of “data science” and also the use of LLMs in research—about the philosophical ideas of the late Katherine Hawley on trust and commitment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZamP...

lol

This is the first time I catch myself thinking about how the aspect ratio of plots changes our perception of what's going on.

truly insane

It seems that SCOTUS is rehearsing all that stuff about “no taxation without representation”

Outstanding. This entry is a journey.

Lo más lindo de Rodrigo es que siempre usa la palabra "alucinante" cada vez que habla de la guerra contra las drogas.

vibe coding vibes are: "Excellent catch — you’re absolutely right."

Joseph Raz:

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I don’t know, maybe Law Schools are to blame for teaching students how to be clever about searching for loopholes, instead of doing their jobs with integrity.

Why are people freaking out about Sting giving a concert two days before the Super Bowl?

Good morning Bluesky, lol.

The New York Post is giving these vibes.

Oh, this is good. youtu.be/tRatITQUPCo

hear hear www.constitucioncolombia.com/titulo-2/cap...

Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility. Inclusion is essential to science, and science is only worthwhile if it lifts everyone up together. ropensci.org/blog/2025/02... #OpenSource #OpenScience

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

If we really cared about other disciplines not reinventing our concepts, we wouldn’t reward doing essentially the same thing with our own “theoretical contributions.”

Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more: adventofcode.com/2025/about#f... adventofcode.com/2025/about#f...

hear hear

ohhhh, so that's why everyone's talking about AWS

insane amounts of self-censorship on display here regarding latest geopolitical... stuff

My friend @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social just published the first Marxist take on LLMs, check it out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

microeconomics is one hell of a drug... using the word "externality" to describe every social interaction not mediated through the market is very weird

DIY fringe science is going to become a huge problem in the following years. I just asked ChatGPT if it would help me cure cancer and it wrote a 12-week plan.

NEW: Jaemin Lee, David Lazer, Christoph Riedl, "Complex Contagion in Social Networks: Causal Evidence from a Country-Scale Field Experiment" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

The only bad self-censorship I ever see in sociology is people obfuscating their causal claims with hedge words like "influence," "shape," or "affect." Just say what you mean and learn to live with people disagreeing with you.

Data available upon request

This is pure teenager shit. "Ratio me. Please." Yeah, no, go away.

I love the 1990s, but the mistakes made by sociologists during this time are quite something... We haven't recovered yet.

very funny stuff on the creation of the NATO phonetic alphabet youtu.be/UAT-eOzeY4M?

Three days of editing have resulted in deleting a whole section. This is literally how I approach writing these days 😭 youtu.be/9VDvgL58h_Y?...

Has anyone gotten an H-1B since that Executive Order? Has anyone been asked for the $100k?

The single strongest endorsement of Bayesian estimation is that we don't have any of those cursed "which statistical test should you use" flow charts.

Meanwhile in #Portland

wonderful youtu.be/UGm3t1KgIHw

chapó

Habeas Corpus is Latinx, obviously

The best version of this song is not in Spotify. You're welcomed. youtu.be/OQKyMZ8gsPI?...

It's fine that universities ask for research statements, but they should also ask to see the folder of random half-baked projects that everyone has. That's were the real potential is 😉

"The guts of institutions is that somebody somewhere really cares to hold an organization to the standards and is often paid to do that."