This Wednesday, 19 November 2025, noon (EST) on Zoom - utoronto.zoom.us/j/4784708970 - I'm hosting Mellissa Meisels, Yale, on "Strategic Campaign Attention to Abortion Before and After Dobbs". All welcome! Sign-up/details: rohanalexander.com/tdw.html

Allowing billionaires to collude is the most Canadian thing that could happen to the Hudson's Bay charter

Given the topic, I'm not sure that Elliott would want me to post this, but it was an interesting read so sharing it nonetheless: open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Very useful!

I’m quoted in @theguardian.com today on the forms, impacts, and gendered differences in the violence faced by politicians and why it matters for democracy. Read more: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... @utoronto.ca #VAWIP #gendersky #polsky

There are three Toronto Data Workshop online talks coming up 12, 19, and 26 November, noon EST. This first is this Wednesday at noon on Zoom: utoronto.zoom.us/j/4784708970. All welcome.

One of the recommendations: @rohanalexander.bsky.social ‘s book

Happy new Helen DeWitt book day for those who celebrate (which in a just world would be everyone)!!!

Teaching stream faculty searches are great because you get all sorts of ideas for your own teaching/assessment!

Job Opportunity Alert Instructional Professor (open rank) in Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/176416 EOE/Vet/Disability

Amazing pol sci post doc.

Vale Brian Cantwell Smith ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...

Wake up babe, new Helen DeWitt profile just dropped! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...

Excited to see our Bluesky paper featured in @davidakin.bsky.social’s daily roundup newsletter. Read more about our results here: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Enjoying these graphs.

It's of course not great that Lily Allen had horrid marriage, but wow what an album and so great to have her back in our lives.

Got my own office coffee set-up (staff at L'Espresso were rude one too many times!)

Number of unique speakers in the Australian parliament, by gender, 1998-2025. By Lindsay Katz and @inessadeangelis.bsky.social.

GitHub Actions is my passion.

IDK why but the second espresso just always pours better.

Looks great @vincentab.bsky.social !

Setting up a MCQ mid-term and reminded of the time one of my professors made every answer d, apart from one question, "to see who has confidence in their answers".

Absolutely wonderful from @vickiboykis.com - newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/i-wa...

Today I got to do Fisher's tea tasting experiment in class and both student groups got the grouping completely right!

Funny that Dan Wang's book came out the same year Mokyr got the Nobel; while the one phrase review of Wang is engineers vs lawyers, the similarities between what he ways about US manufacturing and Mokyr on the industrial revolution is striking. (Mokyr in the 4th image is from Anton Howes).

Submitted with an hour and 3 minutes to spare.

Remarkable: historyofparliament.com/2025/10/15/m...

Sunday morning trifecta: espresso, croissant, and NSERC.

Nothing better than a new Nick Crocker issue "What's seldom is wonderful": open.substack.com/pub/nickcroc...

Amen

A mature and rigorous approach to version control is really important before you start messing around with AI agents (ask me how I know lol).

UVA school of data science is hiring this year—searches are open to folks from all disciplines. We need humanists & social scientists to teach ethics/data & society courses + do research that supports school’s mission to be holistic in the study of data science: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs

Yay, a Nobel partly for econ history! (implicitly just a lot of careful data work)!

Sure it's just one word in the README, but still did something to help ghostty - ghostty.org - the best terminal emulator out there!

“People should learn what selection bias is.” “Would you Quintus? Would I?”

Great book 🇨🇦🥅🍁

Fall's here

The Toronto Population Network is holding a conference on 6 November at Hart House at UofT. Keynote from @ridhikashyap.bsky.social! If you're in Toronto come along and help us build the community of demographers and population researchers here! Registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/toronto-po...

There is one week left to apply to join us at Rutgers! We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Sociology as part of a cluster of new hires in data science and AI. Applications are due next Wednesday, 10/15.

October baseball and the jays won!

Hilariously the senate and the reps disagree on when Richard Hartley Smith Abbott died! And you people wonder why I have data trust issues.

Updated Australian Hansard data (1998-2025) thanks to the incredible work of Lindsay Katz! zenodo.org/records/1729...

Sure you might be a pedant, but are you a "finds mistakes in Hansard" level of pedant? (Feeney wasn't in parliament on this day). Lindsay Katz FTW!

"Overcome Imposterism" "Manage Procrastination" "Tame Perfectionism". Real "tag yourself" moment in terms of which workshop you sign up to.

Rowing is very much the best sport!

Data scientists: “OMG we had to learn a new programming language for this project” Anthropologists: “We literally learnt two languages”

Some nice examples for data science ethics classes: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/asked-to-do-...

OMG it's @statisticalsam.bsky.social on BlueSky!

I was against this policy 20 years ago - rohanalexander.com/blog/blog-20... - and I remain against it. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... (Sadly, I don't have a photo of the print original, although I'm sure Mum does.)

Two more days to submit! 🚨 Please share if you can! 🙏 #CDSM2025