Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Majestic, well done @rickcarlsson.bsky.social

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

Oh hello it's Trans Day of Visibility and, like many trans people, I'm only visible if I say something. If you think you don't know anyone trans, you probably do. If you want to read my post about how I understand my gender, it's at daniellaurison.com/n...

Talking to some undergrads tomorrow about the why no one actually pays us to type model.fit() and asked them ahead of time to submit answers to a "trivially easy" data problem Fun to see the results come it, wild to know how many business run with a not dissimilar fog of war

How your mentions look when you offer any criticism of a canonical philosopher while black

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.

Good move! Why not go a step further and fund a shared journal infrastructure on top of that, letting editorial teams propose and launch new open-access journals with a centralized peer-review system in the back?

A selection of the best responses to this question. (from @sameyler.bsky.social @jordanw2382.bsky.social @interfluidity.com @pamherd.bsky.social)

Did a series of videos with Markus Brunnermeier on Claude Code (more to come) Video 1: Getting Started with CC open.substack.com/pub/paulgp/p...

King Croesus: And the Oracle told me, this big strong Oracle, very tough, very oracle, the Oracle told me, with tears in its eyes, “Sir, if you go to war with Iran, a great empire will fall,” and the Oracle was very powerful, very strong, and it was crying.

Kind of amazing how, thru all human history, when Western empires and hubris were broken, it was Persians who finally did it.

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Amazing responses in thread below. Grudging respect, and a dash of jealousy, for the combination of creativity and total lack of self respect that enables ppl to publish this kind of stuff.

2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court! 2025 Republicans: We run things now so

This is zuck one month after going on Rogan podcast claiming he would never takedown content based on government requests ever again

"Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" Is uite literally what you'd see if coliderbias:

mike johnson’s make work the past year has been nullifying the House, and thus Congress, as a constitutional actor

They’re cutting your healthcare to pay for a war that’s raising your gas prices.

Big men scared of sociology, but it’s illegal to research why. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails.

I'm very excited that my report on housing affordability for @groundwork.bsky.social, coauthored with @mikefellman.bsky.social, is finally out. Today is a full teaching today for me, but I will try to put a post up about it tomorrow. groundworkcollaborative.org/work/fixing-...

My most popular Sora video was “elaborate regency romance where everyone is wearing a live duck for a hat (each duck is also wearing a hat), a llama plays a flute, prestige drama” I am not sure why OpenAI has decided their compute has more valuable uses & is discontinuing Sora. Really a mystery.

New data drop from IRS useful for studying labor markets & migration www.irs.gov/statistics/s...

I’m at ICE HQ

this is out of Mad Libs

Don't outsource your reading to LLms

Had been waiting for evidence from a network of public universities on the High School GPA versus SAT scores debate. Credit to the authors Joyce, Khosroshahi, Truelsch, Gentsch, and Du. www.nber.org/system/files...

29 years of #rstats community knowledge was sitting in hard-to-search pipermail archives. So I built a more modern home for it. Introducing the R Mailing List Archives: 631,000+ messages from 32 lists, fully searchable and available as open data. r-mailing-lists.thecoatlessprofessor.com

We’re delighted to announce a tenure track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SEARCH. Fields: public management, implementation, governance, institutions & policy process. We will start reviewing applicants immediately & until position is filled. Start date is negotiable. usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

I was yesterday years old when I discovered CTRL-Shift-A in Chrome, which pops up a list of all tabs you can jump to by hitting the first letter of the title

Don't say macroeconomics is useless. #econsky #spatial 🗾📈 doi.org/10.1111/j.15...

Is there any good org theory-type writing about cases like CBS, New College, or Theory & Society where an existing institution is taken over and reoriented so completely to a distinct ideological mission? It seems to be happening *a lot* but only very recently (is that accurate?).

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Countdown to when this will become auctioned…

@startribune.com story - University of Minnesota spent 15 MILLION DOLLARS for a marketing firm to produce a terrible slogan: leave a future www.startribune.com/university-o... The U's description is some of the lowest effort ChatGPT I've seen. Pretty embarrassing. umarcomm.umn.edu/blog/2026/03...

Someone asked how the growth in working papers on SSRN compared to other websites. SSRN vs. NBER vs. ArXiv papers per month -- interesting to see the lack of "ChatGPT" response in NBER relative to Arxiv -- SSRN looks more mixed but clearly trending way up.

thanks to the new editors, SCIENCE finally arrived at Theory and Society.

The current administration is really living up to its promise of bringing back Spartan military ethos by talking loudly and losing more than winning.

To me it matters that even under the most favorable conditions presidential candidates, not House (where party brand matters) holding turnout fixed voters have knowledge of all policy positions, no media The paper finds that going moderate is half as effective as Yglesias wrote in Boston Review

Chavez story is just so upsetting. I wrote this a billion years years ago but it still applies

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

LinkedIn only posts like this about AI when in extreme distress

First, assume a strait-opener

Useful lessons in building self-efficacy. This applies to really any programming language. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Andy going thru the epstein files taking multiple killshots including at his own longtime coauthors............ incredible. posting in case you (like me) missed it statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/31/f...

Just imagine how Calvin might've used AI.

New @aeraedresearch.bsky.social article: “Bright but Poor”. Many talented students from low-income families have the grades for higher education but do not make it. We show where the missed opportunities arise across the education pipeline Low-hanging fruit for ed policy doi.org/10.3102/0002...