People still hating on the No Kings stuff are telling on themselves. They don't *want* a popular resistance movement. They want to be little rare political flowers who get to complain about the brunch moms but oops actually the brunch moms gave up on brunch and want blood, now

In any sane world CPAC would be treated as an organised attempt to overthrow democracy and replace it with a fascist government.

Congrats to all those journal editors & peer reviewers who legitimised Lynn’s “national IQ” database by letting it into their journals. Truly, it’s a victory for academic freedom to publish papers which claim that children living in a refugee camp constitute a nationally representative sample 👏👏

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Didn’t think that they meant alt-right rants when the new editors said that they were bringing science back to “Theory and Society.” Between this and the LLM garbage article someone circulated the other day, I’d say I’m probably placing that journal along the likes of MDPI…

Scrolling through this now and it's SO good. Beyond first-year college students, this would be really good for just having conversations with like... your parents. Your colleagues. Really clearly written, nicely designed, breaks for discussion questions. Sharing this widely!

Von Papen, von Hindenburg och von Schleicher annonserar sin strategi för att tygla nazisterna (1932, färgläggd från originalet i svartvit).

If you, as a social scientist, believe that AI is now a better social scientist than you, then (a) you’re probably right, and (b) sure sounds like a skill issue, y’know?

borrowing @anthonymoser.com's template. it actually doesn't matter whether "AI" is "useful".

Funny how tech buzzwords make their way into unexpected corners of our existence. Before AI there was blockchain and before that there were apps and before that everything was .com.

In sociology this would be that one generation where we went “we are educating sociologists, not statisticians, so let’s just teach them to press the right buttons on SPSS and it will be fine.”

For the ABM and networks enthusiasts: Special Issue of Social Networks on "Agent-based Modelling for Social Network Research" - co-ed by Andreas Flache, @squazzoni.bsky.social, Károly Takács and me www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Deadlines Extended abstracts: 1 April Full papers: 15 November

“Within two hours of subscribing to NatSocToday for the purposes of this investigation, the Substack algorithm directed the Guardian’s account to 21 other profiles featuring similar content.” substack continues to be a cesspool that should be abandoned just like x

Up next: some Mark Regnerus type writes a textbook based solely on Spencer’s social evolutionism and late Werner Sombart “blut und boden” geisteswissenschaft. I bet that one will clear censorship.

We don't sample from a distribution. Meanings are not random, and they are not individually determined. Nothing means what I say it means. Meanings are culturally determined. They are arbitrary because they are constructed, but not simply by individuals.

Also because co-occurrence and embeddings are trying to measure meanings in all their complexity and (pun unintended) embeddedness within physical and social contexts. Saying that embeddings are meaning is akin to looking at a termometer and saying “that is heat/cold.”

Vi alla kommer ihåg vad sossarna gjorde efter 2015, oavsett hur förvånade och förskräckta de låtsas vara nu när konsekvenserna börjar dyka upp. Det var S som bäddade för Tidö.

Men jag läser inlägg i sociala medier där socialdemokrater nu förvånas och förskräcks över att den strama migrationspolitiken är stram 😱

Decent people resist Gestapo.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

I’m sure that somebody is already making this argument, and I’d love to read about how the current turn to fascism is partly a response to the current crisis of social reproduction. Any pointers?

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

outra distinção importante é quem é de esquerda no mundo inteiro, e quem é só da fronteira pra dentro

If he carries on like this it's going to make the FIFA Peace Prize look ridiculous

Doctorow's enshittification closing 2025 with a strong play for Word of the Year futurism.com/artificial-i...

'The fall of a prolific science journal [Science of the Total Environment] exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing' english.elpais.com/science-tech... '(It) has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin in 2024'

There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

“Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility & Segregation”: @benjarvis.bsky.social, @kchihaya.bsky.social & @eduardotapia.bsky.social examine ancestry & segregation; they find ancestry sorting effects are 3X greater than kin propinquity effects. @iasliu.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Om du vill läsa mer om hur hälsan i områden som finns på listan påverkas, kolla in vår nya artikel tillsammans med @kchihaya.bsky.social här: osf.io/preprints/so...

Äntligen en sund röst i debatten om AI i Norge.

9/🧵 What does this mean for Democratic strategy? All those debates about choosing between identity politics and economic populism? False premise. Young working-class voters with low racial resentment aren't choosing. They're ready for Medicare for All AND Black Lives Matter. Lean into the tide.

7/🧵 The loudest voices aren't the most representative. Every generation has extremists, but social media amplifies fringe movements beyond their size. A handful of young white nationalists create viral moments that crowd out broader trends. We mistake the exception for the rule.

6/🧵 Why does conventional wisdom miss this? We confuse electoral swings with attitude changes. Gen Z shifted 6 points toward Trump in 2024, suddenly pundits say they're "the most conservative generation in 50 years." Only 42% of Gen Z voted. We mistake turnout shifts for ideological transformation.

Let me fix it for you. “Oppositionen arbetar hårt för att *bli* tokhögern”

Regeringen blir skogstokig när en vänsterpartist har stått 100 meter från en Hamasflagga. Själva har de gett 100 miljoner av våra skattepengar till en Hamashyllare.

”Tio år efter flyktingkrisen 2015 har 82 procent av de ensamkommande barnen och ungdomarna som stannat i Sverige en sysselsättning, enligt SCB. Den siffran är högre än bland inrikes födda i samma ålder, där motsvarande andel är 73 procent.” www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/hog-...

yess www.ru.nl/en/research/...

“Till skillnad från för de där killarna är det dock inte AI-modellernas fel: så som systemen fungerar kan de inte bättre. De tänker inte, utan är utformade för att leverera gissningar utifrån enorma mängder data.” Bra skriven av @isobelhk.bsky.social, men jag vill lägga lite till det hon skrev 1/-

Vi redan hade en statsminister som ”bollar” med chat-GPT och nu även hans ställföreträdare använder ”AI-sökning.” Jag är inte bland deras väljare, men det måste vara frustrerande att ha röstat på denna ”chat-GPT” regeringen.

Every second AI headline right now reads to me like "Eating hot dogs might cure cancer, says owner of hot dog cart"

Jag varnar för att göra dokumenterat dumma svenska grejer i Norge (vilket norska högern är väldigt intresserade av att göra) frifagbevegelse.no/nyheter/mene...