Part one of a new blog series: using the discovery of vitamins as a parable for why replication crises in science are actually good.

tibbles are fine, probably even good.

harpers.org/archive/2026... “We need to ban the word ‘agency.’ I’m a dog.”

one reason we don’t need more data centers is we have a whole lot of data and most of it is just not good. increasing the available data will only make the situation worse

I do often wonder why more people in statistics aren't bothered by the fact that, like, it's obviously all just made up and will never withstand scrutiny. Like, you know, randomness? Probability? Models? data? unbiased estimators? It's all obviously just a bit silly. I dunno.

When does associational language make sense and when does it not? Katrina Kezios and I cover this in "How and when to use causal and associational language" with 3 suggestions for which concepts require causal language and which can be described in associational language.

I am like this but for getting my grad students jobs

This is true and I agree there is too much "research". However, we shouldn't diminish the pedagogical value of papers that add nothing, and I mean pedagogical to the *writer*. 🧵

Next you're going to tell me that history isn't only about the dates?? And literature isn't only about the plots?

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

AI simply cannot stand in front of a classroom, gesticulating wildly and writing semi-illegibly on chalkboards, both of which are key to building rapport and convincing your students you are worth learning from

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

sigh

To me it's another symptom of spending 98% of our time teaching people how to answer questions and 2% of our time teaching people how to ask questions.

Perhaps you received a mysterious noreply email asking you to evaluate some publications 'for novelty'. Looked kinda dubious? Yup, that's the one. So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? 🧵

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

The other outcome that I've seen - when there are so many As students at the very top can't distinguish themselves through their classwork. Going really deep on a class and writing a truly superb paper won't change grade --> increased incentive to distinguish through extra curriculars.

And it has me thinking again about this year and a half old post by @economeager.bsky.social. Especially the line "We should teach them the best things," which has felt like a rearranging of my brain in a way I can't quite handle or live up to ever since. rottenandgood.substack.com/p/tormented-...

been getting back into LEGO now that my daughter is old enough. Couldn't find enough round pieces to do the crashes but I think it still reads :)

Counterpoint: Democrats want ICE razed more thoroughly than Carthage in 146 BC, the ideological territory in which it operates salted so thoroughly it never grows again, and every single one of these goons in front of a judge to face justice for their crimes.

fuck everything we're building digital triplets

Finally!

oh no please don't do that it would totally own us

And then finally, we need to be preparing for large-scale nation-wide protests if the election is stopped/compromised/violenced. Crucially, at that point, the groups that have been organizing need to be prepared to shift tactics from 'days of demonstrate' to 'stay in the streets until it is done.'

christopher columbus was canceled for "racism" by the woke crown of castille and the SJWs in the 15th century jesuits

I published this piece in 2015. I stand by it. As we shore up & stabilize the transit system we have, let’s continually work to make it better. Subways are a part of that vision. We used to quickly build lots of things that make people’s lives better. Let’s get back to that.

Exactly. We keep hearing ".... but mah incentives!" No, fuck you, these people made a choice to allow unashamed evil to exist in exchange for cash, prestige, or power.

made it to the @bart.gov garage sale today and was not disappointed

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

wife surprised me with tickets to see slavoj zizek

The latest from Anthropic: using Anthropic's products makes you worse at your job

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Unless you're doing some insane stupid Weather Underground shit the actual risk you face from the authorities isn't some crazy Big Brother tech shit. it's that some cop beats or shoots you from a foot away because he got angry.

Corporations are extracting billions from America’s safety net and their payday is about to be supercharged by new rules. I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it. @lpeblog.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

[AMERICAN CITIZENS EXECUTED IN THE STREET BY MASKED FEDERAL AGENTS] “Folks, I, uhh, have a podcast rec for that.”

She took a half step back and then stepped AT this dude. ICE needs 30 masked guys each with their own body armor and assault rifle to even approach this level of courage.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"The research literature is an unsafe workplace" by @jabyrnesci.bsky.social and @aidybarnett.bsky.social Really insightful framing! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Neighborism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Every soccer team I've coached, there's a mom (not usually the same mom, and never a dad, not once in a dozen seasons) who makes a spreadsheet for snack duties, often including questions about allergies and preferences: It's another great case of these guys being totally and proudly ignorant.

i keep saying this but it's insane that they've invented a type of christian who believes in nietzsche's criticism of christian morality

to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

I'm not saying CSM Waltz has to lead a brigade sized guard of honor to lay the Martyrs in state under the 1st Minnesota's standard, and above the 28th Virginia's captured standard, to show they fell in the same cause and deserve the same honors. But the thought does occur to me.