Elrond Halfelven sounds like a real asshole

it's easy to think that academia is outdated, worthless etc but the fact that we are consistently the first targets for repression by dicators and wannabe dictators suggests we are still doing something useful and good for free societies despite our best efforts to fucking suck super bad

Great job everyone, we did it

On the way to #Berlin to present at the Digital Economy Workshop @diw.de @bsoeberlin.bsky.social On the agenda: ``Digitization and Community Participation'' w/@jmtroos.bsky.social, now featuring a new dataset covering 600K+ events, 400K+ individuals in 12K local communities in 2024 (200M+ rows...)

@shire-reckoning.bsky.social hasn't posted in the last day and now I'm worried Sauron found the one ring

Our latest paper on #Neuroforecasting is out at @pnasnexus.org (w/ Brian Knutson and Lester Tong) A short 🧵 tinyurl.com/e4279exp

I'm checking this every day, great deals on heavy (5+ lbs) ashtrays

* All authors contributed equally and are listed in order of emotional neediness.

Same

I often find myself arguing for why I do impact-driven research on climate adaptation and sustainable behavior. These projects are often long, messy and with unclear outlets that not always count for career progression in my field.

god “black cow” is such a groove

Here are the first five sets of slides: 01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro... 02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b... 03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust... 04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct... 05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

The area of Andorra is 470 square kilometers (180 square miles). To put it in perspective, the area of San Jose, CA is 180 square miles. So Andorra is about 2.5 times bigger than Lichtenstein or DC. Lichtenstein has about 40,000 people, Andorra has about 80,000.

Skeletor torments He-Man with powerful intuition about Bayesian reasoning and the nature of information

I've decided I'm now the Monte Hall problem meme guy, this is a Monte Hall meme account now

Friends, this site has the juice.

Prague's Kafka International Named Most Alienating Airport

Man I cannot endorse this abstract more

We are #hiring a #predoctoral fellow in "Artificial intelligence, digital environments, polarization and echo chambers of opinion" in our marketing research group at Esade, with opportunity to join our #PhD program. Send your CV and academic record to: [email protected]

I’ve officially given up X and am reengaging here. Academic Twitter is dead and I can’t in good conscience support that platform. All the marketing, management, psych, econ, and JDM folks, let me know where you are!

This post just brought to mind Randee of the Redwoods, so I guess my long-term memory still works?

Everybody's gonna need to up their cosplay game, this is unbelievably good

I'm so fucking sick of everyone's bullshit. Seriously, ENOUGH.

CALL FOR PAPERS 📈📉 The Behavioral IO and Marketing Symposium (biomsymposium.org) will be held on 5/15-16 at UMichigan. This is an opportunity for IO and Quantitative Marketing researchers working on behavioral economics topics to interact. Submit to [email protected] by *December 15, 2024*.

generate random draws from a cauchy just to feel something

Sup econsky. I recently started a blog, and have a new post about how we should be doing more sci-fi economics. open.substack.com/pub/empiricr...

New batch of Monte Hall memes, pipin' hot, straight outta the oven 🧵

Join the protest in Utrecht, nov 14, 13.00-15.00. www.aob.nl/actueel/camp...

Johnny Somali, the nuisance streamer who travels the world committing the most culturally offensive felonies he can for views, is now in Korea. Mock-assaulting memorials to sex crime victims, Actual-harassing women, spraying rotten fish juice on subway strangers. And he is absolutely screwed. 🧵

Escape to the shag carpeted, analog world of Golden Sands with Programme 4 and Easy AM 66, now broadcasting from Programme4.tv (and more of both coming soon)

Aaand it’s time for a platform switch — Hello 💙☁️, it’s still me, your neighbourly researcher who talks a lot about digital marketing, social networks and user-generated content. The cat content will be, as usual, abundant and adorable.

🎇 PhD student internships in Computational Social Science at Microsoft Research NYC 🎇 These are 12 week, in person internships with some combo of Dan Goldstein, Jake Hofman, & David Rothschild Early (January - April) start dates somewhat preferred jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

A List of Things People Blamed on Flappers 🧵

NYT tech workers are on strike for a fair contract. We are asking you to #BreakYourStreak on NYT games in solidarity. You can also support our strike fund to keep us going. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

I love everything about this

The comments on the article at the Wapo site are devastating. I hope Alexa reads every one to him.

New from me https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/25/news-election-endorsements-washington-post-la-times

Ok, somehow I only just realized that this is a fanfic account

Timeline cleanser

I joined a labor union today! www.aob.nl/en/ Unions negotiate my contract terms and cost of living increases; might as well send 'em my dues as thanks (especially now that the government is run by people who fear an informed public)

Prediction: By the end of this week, a broad swathe of younger voters will finally learn who Milton Berle is

Small mindedness is my number 1 enemy in this business. It's also the number 1 enemy of all academic institutions imo.

He’s not going to show up for his shift at the fryer, is he?

🚨Postdoc Alert 🚨 The Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein) is hiring a postdoc! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... Deadline: December 20, 2024

Looking for a #postdoc Starting date is soon!! Here‘s a broad description of the project www.rsm.nl/news/detail/.... The postdoc will be mainly involved in designing and testing the label in lab and field studies! @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social

OMFG had a BLT for lunch, didn't he

sorry, you're what now?

I wrote about two New York Times headlines https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/about-those-new-york-times-headlines?publication_id=1186548&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=x9iw&utm_medium=email