No one knows I ran 35km today

Going out for beers tonight at the NYC Man City supporters club bar just to celebrate United winning the league in 2021

Pleased to see my pied a terre getting a nice write-up

The really cool thing about meeting note-taking apps is that now, every time I have a meeting, about six different apps ask if I want to take notes, which makes things very efficient.

Brb I'm just about to post on LinkedIn about how my broken wrist helps us understand synergies in large organizations

There are (obviously) legitimate concerns around AI capabilities. But Sky News choosing earnestly to report on an AI agent applying for a job is stupid af...

Live scenes from the APSA fourth day beers

Partisanship eh, helluva drug

Nobody knows I ran 21km today

i don't even know what to say, if you're freaked out about code requesting admin privileges i just don't know what to say.

New discussion paper led by @hroggenkamp.bsky.social and @mvreiss.bsky.social published in Nature Human Behavior: "Improving computational reproducibility in the social sciences" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Improving computational reproducibility in the social sciences - Nature Human Behaviour

Code underlying published findings in the social sciences often fails to reproduce reported results when others re-run it on the original data. This Comment proposes four recommendations to strengthen...

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Pleased to have contributed to this Comment just out in Nature Human Behaviour! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Improving computational reproducibility in the social sciences - Nature Human Behaviour

Code underlying published findings in the social sciences often fails to reproduce reported results when others re-run it on the original data. This Comment proposes four recommendations to strengthen...

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Currently setting up human annotation loop for a large scale LLM eval and some of the outputs read like avant-garde poetry:

My niece just sent me a video of an AI generated banjo song on Spotify being played from a phone to an iPad where an animated cat was listening to the song then repeating it back in a funny voice. Somebody filmed this and it has 527 thousand likes anyway I'm going to live in the woods now bye

Me too

Just an enormous cost to the US economy that is hard to communicate politically because intangible. But such utter lunacy. International scholars drawn to the US are part of what makes the sector great. It should continue

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2mo ago

There will probably be far fewer foreign students on college campuses nationwide this fall following the Trump administration’s crackdown on international visas. A new report predicts international enrollment will decrease by 9.5 percent this fall.

Who wants to play a game of spot the absolute bloody legend

If you tap the thumbs up, you get more citations FYI

Best non fiction recommendations for my holibobs?

No they didn't; no they didn't

Is there any data behind this "Gen Z are workshy and immature" stuff or is this just vibes FM stuff again?

"I've created a bluesky account for my solar panels" is about as bluesky as bluesky gets Hats off to you, @jamesomalley.co.uk

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · 3mo ago

Good news! I now have solar panels on my house so I am going to be *even more* smug and insufferable than ever. And I've started by creating a Bluesky account for my solar, ripping off @edent.tel's idea, and even re-using his code to do it.

We want to hire a new, more techy AI person in the lab. Think mechanistic interpretability, fine tuning, large-scale evals that kind of thing. If you're interested and have Qs, lmk! interfolio.com/181820

I have a new paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social w/ the briliant @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com We show that what we pay attention to online is a lot more politically diverse than what public engagement signals would suggest... sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement

Article: Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement | Sociological Science | Posted July 21, 2026

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OOO LOL XOXOXO

Absolutely gutted for Argentina. They seem like a really lovely bunch of blokes too

This is the real quiz

I'm actually something of a Who's Who myself

🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...