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8 in-custody deaths in 50 days—one every 6 days. This needs to be a much larger story.

"It is beyond comprehension that the Senate confirmed this man to oversee America’s health. The risks are so immediate and constant that it can be difficult to keep track of them all." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

and once again: student-run papers are the free press now www.michigandaily.com/news/former-...

Where the teens are YouTube 92% TikTok 68% Instagram 63% Snapchat 55% Facebook 31% (down from 71%) WhatsApp 24% Reddit 17% X 16% (down from 33%) www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

Belated congrats to my Pew Research colleagues on publishing this groundbreaking study - one of the first surveys to have a probability-based sample of transgender adults large enough to reliably report their views and experiences. www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

This is actually an ESSENTIAL articulation of this admin’s immigration policy. Policymaking is about weighing equities. In normal policymaking, the rights of the people you’re going after count as an equity. It appears for all the world that this administration’s decisionmaking simply ignores them.

this is incredibly frustrating. By framing this as a policy demand Dems are aiding a disinformation campaign that is intended to confuse the public about what is constitutionally required.

Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)

literally every bad thing in this country right now is the result of Republicans saying "we'll get sued over this, but..." it's genuinely pathetic that Democrats won't do the same in order to protect people's rights

Just shitty things being done by shitty people for even shittier reasons.

@rmcelreath.bsky.social I was watching Jeopardy! today and there was a clue about Ulam—I shouted “Father of Monte Carlo computation” but apparently answer was “Father of the H-Bomb”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

I appreciate the intention but I really wish that faculty paid much less attention to these personal statements. You have no idea who wrote them (esp. in the age of LLMs) and applicants for whom English is not their primary language may be stellar but not be able to ace these types of nuances.

In the last week, states of emergency declared for kidnappings & starvation.

How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers? New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL #EconSky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Drivers kill 40,000 Americans and injure and maim hundreds of thousands every year and throw ranging temper tantrums when anyone suggests they delay arriving at their destination by five minutes to stem the bloodletting.

Python Software Foundation put their money where their mouth is. Bravo. It’s easy to be inclusive when it’s popular, but PSF chose valuing people over $1.5m in gov money.

I think my favorite planning term is “traffic calming” because it shows planners admit cars are more often problematic to cities

man, that's wild, what killed them?

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

"No vaccine was tested more extensively than the RNA vaccines, and no vaccine was given to more people than the mRNA vaccines, & they were found to be incredibly safe...and effective. They saved 20 million lives, & they stopped a pandemic that was shutting down the world." -Drew Weissman

This post is a fascinating appreciation of what makes #rstats work so well, and in a lot of ways, #CSL_citationstyles is very similar. The centralization and fierce attention to non-programmer end users is what makes these projects work.

🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”

This is the essence of it to me. If the price of groceries is a kitchen table issue, then being too afraid of masked men -- who demand to see your identification while showing none of their own -- kidnapping you or your neighbors on the grocery store surely is a kitchen table issue too

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Remember, whenever you hear that “speed wasn’t a factor” in a deadly crash, what they mean is that the car involved wasn’t technically speeding. At least “not by much.” It presumes that the speed limit wasn’t too high to begin with. When it comes to death from collisions, SPEED IS ALWAYS a factor.

as with vaccines and many other advances, the problem isn’t uncertainty about the truth — rather a willingness to deny or undermine it to humanity’s detriment

This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

Unemployment for computer science majors 2x that of art history majors www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

what's in your view the best data-visualization technique/type of plot/chart? in terms of concisely conveying information effectively and aiding substantive understanding. obviously depends hugely the use case, etc. but if you had to pick one in a vacuum?

Dotplots With good defaulta it beats the obvious alternatives, scales better than people think (like 10000+ data points) and isn't as sensitive to binwidth or bandwidth estimators Density? Nope dotplot Histogram? Nope dotplot Violin? Nope dotplot

I mentioned recently that Salem, Massachusetts is proposing the elimination of parking minimums. A city councilor did a great FAQ on the proposal and on parking minimums generally. Some great information and talking points here!

Attack on judiciary is entirely possible because SCOTUS has signaled they will give this administration what they want.

@ifbookspod.bsky.social The hurricane study is even sadder than you discussed. ICYMI, average damage is higher for women- vs men-named storms, but that’s because _all_ storms used to have women names, and response tactics have improved over time. It’s all an artifact of recent vs older storms.

New development doesn’t cause gentrification, it prevents it. Not building in high demand areas is what causes it. Proven yet again

It’s so funny that Q was right: there is an organization dedicated to defending powerful pedophiles who steal from working people on behalf of the corrupt elite. It’s called the Republican Party.

Sad to learn of the passing of Paul Vincent, co-founder of SEH Kelly. With his partner Sara, Paul ran a clothing company the way I think all should be run: a singular focus on making beautiful clothes from quality materials with no interest in expansion or business gimmicks. RIP.

Yes, you might run over a child on their way to school or crash into a cyclist in the bike path, or into the back of a bus, but the important thing is that your immediate boss received an update on that report due at the end of day

Administrative burdens are political tools. The Trump Administration is using burden to make services and benefits less accessible. All while claiming the opposite.

I remember being shocked the first time I went on the academic job market (2020–21) when I learned a few postdocs I'd applied for got 700–800 applications each...and that was 5 years ago. In this market, advice about how to make yourself more qualified is useless.

Reminder that this is illegal. The IRS has statutory rules that forbid them-except under very specific conditions-from sharing data. The reason is very practical-if people don't trust the IRS they will avoid 'voluntarily' paying taxes. The tax system falls apart otherwise.

For the third time, Vinay Prasad reportedly overrules scientists and evidence-based policies

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

I think one of the simplest ways to put it is conservative voters are people who believe in magic. It's ironic because they accuse liberals of thinking the gov should provide everything they want but they believe something much sillier, that you can get everything you want just sort of magically

I think about this constantly

The dysem hex logo is my absolute favorite!