eagles, bears, and republicans all winning in the same 48 hours is the literal definition of the worst this country has to offer

Millions of Democratic voters on Tuesday: Fight these guys. Fight them. Senate Democrats: We heard you loud and clear and we will give in

spatial opportunity analysis as an input to policy is extremely important (and obviously very close to my heart). But it's stunning to me that these are still the methods employed, the methods doc is sooo sparse, and there's no open-source infrastructure driving any of this

So, what does our study find? The RxKids program is a program that started in Flint, which provides universal benefits during pregnancy & the first year of a child's life. We find that the "demand-side" effects of the program are sufficient to provide sizable spillover benefits.

oh silly WaPo, an interactive chart wont change anything. I explain this intro stats problem to my gambling buddies at least once a month and they all still think they're smarter than the laws of probability

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

i interviewed remotely at UCL during the pandemic (with several faculty that i *deeply* admire). They had to stop me halfway through my opening spiel to let me know i was sharing the screen with my notes instead of slides. Mortifying. ...this feels dramatically worse bsky.app/profile/patt...

weighted results are also simple (70k observations this time). The histogram is still different from the original graph though (and the median rent actually drops a bit to 2270) @besttrousers.bsky.social are you doing something i'm missing? bsky.app/profile/knaa...

Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970

oh man that was awesome. reid sucks, maholmes sucks, kelce sucks. lets all get trevor lawrence tattoos watching the chiefs implode > waching the bears implode > watching the eagles implode

International student arrivals to the US dropped 19% this year, the biggest drop on record aside from the 2020 pandemic low.

Yeah. Fuck Penn State.

every single year i'm confident baseball is finally over. And every single year you losers disappoint me bsky.app/profile/lowr...

the new ios design is ridiculous. But it's so incredibly useful (and overdue) to have Preview that syncs with icloud and dropbox

weird choice. must be cheap and widely disliked bsky.app/profile/chri...

one thing i do miss from twitter is having people like Gillies around (he's not here, right?) also: it's bullshit.

completely agree (which is why geosnap was serializing WKT and writing to parquet before conversations on the spec even started :P) every blockgroup boundary in the country with 100 ACS variables, clocking under 1gb, without hitting the census server? yes please. bsky.app/profile/pale...

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

two blocks from my old place when i was a visiting assistant professor at UIC. Went to rico fresh about 4 times a week. note the guy on the scooter eating the tear gas and refusing to move. Proud of you, Logan Square bsky.app/profile/clan...

opened zed for the first time in ages, and it seems lovely with many more features/extensions than i last checked but do people just live without latex equation preview? tough pill to swallow

Among so many other examples, this is just not how governing works

More people should use @resist.bot

casual reminder that sports stadiums are non-basic, don't generate revenue for the region, and are not a viable economic development strategy (least of all *the bears* ffs :P) bsky.app/profile/chic...

self promo makes me a little queasy, but @ucisocialecology.bsky.social has an outstanding comms team, so i'm compelled to share this :P. thrilled to be part of UP3 and SSE socialecology.uci.edu/news/up3-rea... note to self: keep that chin down when taking photos, big man 🙄

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

genuinely nothing worse than someone filming themselves talking into a camera in lieu of writing three sentences bsky.app/profile/ragn...

This isn't generational. It's one of those divides that crosses all demos. People Who Would Rather Read vs People Who Are Wrong

This is true, & backed by the best peer-reviewed research. @kevinshih.bsky.social of @ucrchass.bsky.social uses large shocks to international student supply in the past to test the hypothesis that they crowd out natives. They crowd *in* natives, via tuition revenue—> doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

A very efficient, distilled and to me pretty persuasive version of the bear case against AI economics.

esda v2.8 is live this morning :) bsky.app/profile/knaa...

Can’t get this quote out of my head, because it rings so true. “Welcome to Black America. That’s our history. The line we have drawn in general has not been majoritarian politics, unfortunately. That’s just been what it is.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates

i think if you have an uncritical take on New Towns--and who they were explicitly designed for--you have a poor understanding of american cities bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

this man has a bachelor's degree in philosophy, zero training in social science **of any kind,** and his entire career is based on espousing opinions on topics in which he has not a single credential. definitely the authority on academia, expertise, and credibility bsky.app/profile/matt...

weird, how come nobody told Irvine it's been annexed into LA? bsky.app/profile/pale...

if you're on a mac and upgrade to Tahoe, my experience is you probably need to update libgfortran in all your conda environments

I'm very proud of the work I've done with the mapgl R package. But you have to know R to use it. What if you could have the power of mapgl - but in a minimal, easy-to-use SaaS? Claude and I hacked together a prototype, and it feels like we're getting somewhere:

cool news from PySAL world: the (imminent) next release of the `esda` module will have (1) spatial correlograms and (2) (more importantly) @levijohnwolf.bsky.social's partial Moran's I estimator described in www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... (both already in main if you can't wait 😎)

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Transportation research is under threat. The Transportation Research Board is canceling contracts, restructuring committees, and signaling that it will censor work presented at its annual meeting. Read out new commentary in Transport Policy for more: 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lluT,L-HR...

South side. bsky.app/profile/weeg...

not to mention that it's incoherent english. "we will try to want to pray" ?? sounds devout! bsky.app/profile/sahi...

from Corey Robin on FB:

A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well. This is insane.

At least seven historically Black colleges and universities across the South received threats Thursday that caused lockdowns and closures. via @wwno.org

misread as surprise David Duke appearance

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked