"Even when results are ultimately reproducible, they require substantial effort: instead of being ‘push-button’ reproducible, analyses often require sifting through authors’ code, reorganizing files, deciphering opaque datasets and fixing coding errors."

I ran a simple model with new public data then used 1 prompt to make ChatGPT guess what the model would produce. With 10 seconds of "thinking," it was very close. The implications of this are catastrophic. The American Sociological Association should do something about this but it doesn't care to /1

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

The Oklahoma City Declaration, a defense of a pluralistic society. Signed by over 40 Republican, Democratic, and Independent mayors. Led by OKC Mayor David Holt, a Republican in a red state. www.usmayors.org/2025/09/26/a...

Feeling mixed up on this unusual day. Normally, I am all in for #RCTID, but also My Oh My, My City, My Life. Go Mariners!

"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)

Don't worry about PDX guys, we got this.

The right is better at cancel culture than the left, which should not be surprising. Its an authoritarian tool that is much more their natural environment, which is another way to say I remember the 1980s.

This reminds me of an incident during the Great Satanic Panic. Indulge me in a thread, if you will. 🧵 The phone rang. Landline back in those days, early 90s. The caller identifies herself as a reporter with a local TV station. Someone found a goat's head in a dumpster, therefore SATANISTS...

I used to roll my eyes at the idea of cultural appropriation, but then Kash Patel said "I will see you in Valhalla, brother" and now I understand

All the academics on here getting riled up at a milquetoast Ezra Klein op-ed is reminding me of the good old days when we used to all get collectively upset at a David Brooks piece. Bring those times back.

Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

There's no hatred like hating your neighbor, and while some people might not want to hear it, an America in which neighbors feel it's ok to do violence to one another based on enmity is in fact worse than what we're living in right now. It's worse, full stop.

What students think working with data looks like. #EconSky

As some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I have heard this claim a couple of places now and it is idiotic. Do you really think Iran was somehow unaware of the value of nuclear deterrence until this attack? Somehow, Iran missed a fact that has been known since the beginning of the Cold War? They were just enriching uranium for kicks?

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Check all your group chats for bombing plans

it's not just that Hispanic voters shifted Republican since 2020, it's also the case that some of them no longer even identify as Hispanic! new @goodauth.bsky.social post from me and Caroline Soler goodauthority.org/news/democra...

New to me is the term "premature closure", where you too quickly latch on to the first solution you see. Always a danger in coding, but particularly so today when LLMs can give you a plausible fix so so quickly. www.shayon.dev/post/2025/16...

PSA: Don’t trust anyone who tells you that you can identify age or period or cohort effects simply by applying the right statistical model to the right type of data. This is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the age-period-cohort problem!>

The Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Prof. Emeritus Richard Alba, a pathbreaking demographer who bucked conventional ideas about how immigrants assimilate into and impact mainstream U.S. culture www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...

I can't handle all the various academic takes on effective protests right now, especially all the usual callbacks to the Civil Rights Movement. Too many people know exactly the right tactical approach here. The correct answer is you don't know; do what you think is right.

My first episode as a host for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social is out! It was truly a joy to discuss Burdens of Belonging with Jessica Vasquez-Tokos! We talked Du Bois, moving beyond the black white binary, methods, and the power of stories and history! Check it out : podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

#phd thesis at @unibergen.bsky.social have to include a table with co authors of included articles, contributions and affiliations. Here is a @github.com template to do this in #quarto, using the Plume R package and multibib filter. @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no #rstats #phdLife

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Not my best data viz, but this is my favorite exercise in undergrad stats class. I ask students to guess what the gender gap is in abortion support and then we all calculate it in class. Its an excellent demonstration of why good data analysis matters, and we shouldn't believe everything we think.

Please just block me if you think setting Jewish civilians on fire is good praxis. Save us both the trouble.

Spillover or consolidation? We tested 2 models of cultural polarization w/ ~2,000 Americans. The data support consolidation: once we accounted for networks and dispositions, partisanship lost its explanatory power. 📄 Childress, Rawlings, & Maghbouleh (2025) 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/zpe8y_v

Important paper by Bleemer and Quincy: Since 1960, the college wage premium has become less equal. Lower-income students now get far less out of college than their higher-income peers. www.nber.org/papers/w33797

If valedictorian addresses had a strong tradition of being apolitical, that would be one thing. But they're routinely characterized by conventional center-left political pieties presented as obviously shared, we-all-love-apple-pie, aspirations for the future. And that's OK! 1/

I am excited to share a new version of svglite for #rstats with the world. It includes support for all the new features in the graphics engine as well as providing a more powerful and polished experience for embedding web fonts in the file. Read all about it her:

If you use Demographic and Health Survey data...

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RIP Mad Martigan. You were indeed the greatest.

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Saw a lot of people suggesting multiple test corrections (e.g., Bonferroni) for this. Multiple test corrections drive me bananas; a test for Statement X should not depend on the number of other tests conducted! The definitive statement on this is here, IMO: jcsites.juniata.edu/faculty/mero...

'Did you even say thank you?'

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

They just opened up a can of Stupid Evil and slathered it all over the government. You might be able to fix this website one day but the stain is forever.

The passing of Michael Buroway is hitting me much harder than I would have expected. I wouldn't say our politics particularly aligned but he was an incredible teacher and an absolute force of nature w endless energy and enthusiasm. World seems a bit less bright w/o him.

Students went all in on fonts today when I taught them how to use ggplot. #Rstats