I keep a folder in my password manager specifically dedicated to the growing number of accounts I have to create for various journals.

I love when a Netflix production rolls through town and uses UBC as a stand in for some other university.

I chose neutral for most of the AI questions because I thought the premise of the questions was wrong. :(

Contributed to this new Contexts piece on Indigenous cultural practices and COVID vaccination. We found that participation in some Indigenous cultural activities was associated with higher vaccine uptake, suggesting that cultural participation may shape health behaviour.

Decided to write my dissertation in LaTeX. Thought it'd be fun to learn something new. Now, some days, what gets me to sit down and write is wanting to try a new formatting trick I found. "I should write another paragraph so I can test this" turns out to be a surprisingly effective motivator.

1. Static word embeddings might model culture. But they're fixed. Boo. 2. Dynamic embeddings are contextual! 3. But encoding is computationally expensive. Boo. 4. Decoder only models are efficient! 5. But they seem to collapse all perspectives. Boo. What, then, ought the sociology of culture do? 👇

New essay with @lauraknelson.bsky.social on AI and cultural sociology. Revisiting what made word embeddings so useful for cultural sociology, we argue that contemporary LLMs risk collapsing perspectival differences and discuss provisional solutions that might help recover cultural variation.

I get that Mia is estranged from her paternal relations. Fine. But how could the media have no clue that the heir to the Genovian throne is a teenager living in San Francisco? That makes no sense.

This incredible West End production of Next to Normal is available on YouTube until June 30 and everyone has to watch it. Use a VPN if outside the US.

My favorite thing about the annual ASA elections is voting for members of the Committee on Committees. It feels wonderfully bureaucratic.

Dr. Robby they could never make me hate you #ThePitt

That #hucklerobby scene on #thepitt tonight was for the fans.

My favorite thing is discovering a new podcast, binging the entire back catalog in a few days, and then never listening to it again.

Without fail, there will always be one completely unhinged reviewer and one perfectly reasonable reviewer. How do they know to be this way? It's like reviewer quantum entanglement. The minute one of them decides to go off the rails, the other one somehow senses it and knows to be reasonable.

איני יודע דבר על מה שקורה בוונצואלה אבל יש לי שפע של תיאוריות קונספירציה נאות וכנראה שגויות לכל המעוניין לשמוע.

At a cafe today I heard someone tell their friend that if they don't like Life of a Showgirl it just isn't for them and that they probably don't understand the references.

My favorite part of a new #BakeOff season is picking which homosexual is going to become my ride or die for this season.

"A Cotillion of Divorceés" - name of my next novel. #thegildedage

משתתפת בכנס סיפרה לה שאחיה, שעשה עליה, מתגורר בפתח תקווה והוסיפה "לא הייתי אבל אני בטוחה שמאוד יפה שם." המלצתי על ביקור בכיכר המייסדים.

Agnes silently going through realization, shock, grief, and acceptance as everyone is arguing about Oscar was my favorite part of tonight's episode. Christine Baranski is so good. #thegildedage

At some point we need to have a conversation about how Julian Fellowes treats his gay characters. #TheGildedAge

A HOUSE OF ILL REPUTE???? #TheGildedAge

Bertha eating her feelings at the start of today's episode is the most I ever identified with a character. #TheGildedAge

I hate that the marketing for Superman works so well on me.

Aunt Monica is my new favorite. #TheGildedAge

That Mrs. Kirkland comment about the children had me like #TheGildedAge

Me talking myself into submitting this paper

Aunt Agnes about Mr. Fane tonight. #thegildedage

The most Canadian headline doesn't exi-

The academic urge to coin a neologism is strong today.

Oscar, tonight. #TheGildedAge

When a big name journal asks me to review a paper.

Once rode in an elevator with Chris Martin. Asked for a selfie but his security guard said no.

חלמתי הלילה שאני תקוע על קו 66 ברמת גן.

Honestly they should protest Lululemon next door as well.

Has anyone ever talked about how Bare Necessities and Hakuna Matata are thematically quite similar songs?

Just read a tweet justifying the trade war with the fact that Canadians supposedly have "free" healthcare and it being time to "make [Canadians] pay up." Imagine spending all this energy improving your own healthcare system instead.

Allison Williams is a revelation on Fellow Travelers and I'm glad they gave her more to do in this week's episode other than being the dutiful girlfriend/wife. Also her hair journey on that show is truly something to behold.

Listening to recordings of my interviews for the transcripts, I noticed one of my interviewees finishes every sentence with a "right?" and that I echo every "right?" with a "yeah". I wish I could go back in time and remind myself the "right?" is rhetorical. No need to affirm every single one.

Was tired of having my notes scattered across different platforms so spent two days setting up and migrating notes to Obsidian. Can't wait to forget all my hotkey combinations in two days and never use any of the features Obsidian offers again.

Not too proud to admit that I wept watching the first episode of Fellow Travelers.

I might be in the minority here but the level of detail in which Diana's last few months are rendered in this season of The Crown is truly agonizing and also feels excessive. Can't bring myself to finish the car crash episode.

Having read The Woman In Me, this Britney guest appearance on Sabrina the Teenage Witch hits very different.

Listening to my interviews and hearing myself use the word "bro" in one of them. I was trying something and it didn't work.

don't have a photo of an out of control housing market so here's a photo of a lambo with a ski box parked in front of a timmie's