Torkild Hovde Lyngstad
@torkildl.bsky.social
Master procrastinator. UiO wage slave as sociology professor.
Filling out the intake form for a new doctor's office, and I'm just gonna go out on a limb and guess that their patient portal was at least partially coded by AI... This does not inspire confidence in their HIPAA compliance.
This is not actually very surprising. The sad part is that it needs to be proven empirically.
Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social · 5d agoNew study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching
New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...
A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution
observer.co.uk
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Great piece from @ghostpanther.bsky.social. I was particularly struck by this graph, which contains so much information about the past five years in it.
Adam McKay@ghostpanther.bsky.social · 7d agoPiece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
The reality is that this is exactly what Trump wants. He wants to force Ukrainian capitulation and this is how he wants to do it.
By the way, three lions died in a Tokyo Zoo because of the heat. LIONS!!!
Ten of thousands of people are dying because of high heat. Tens of thousands of people make a one-day trip to Cueta. Guess what European politicians are identifying as the main problem?
Looking forward to the announcement that OpenAI's new model has solved ten long-standing issues in sociology.
"2024 global temperature record is consistent with model-predicted warming" | Our new article in @pnas.org (open access): www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
2024 global temperature record is consistent with model-predicted warming | PNAS
We employ a semiempirical approach combining climate model simulations and observational temperatures to assess the likelihood of recent global tem...
pnas.org
A first year above 2C in the mid-2030s now looks plausible. 0.5C was first passed in 1980, 1.0C in 2010 and 1.5C in 2024. The 15-year trend runs at 0.42C per decade. The 2026 and 2027 points for the current El Nino are estimates. We're not remotely ready!
I remember when right wing media regularly used to play the clip of Al Gore saying "the planet has a fever" during his Congressional testimony in 2007 to make fun of him. But the planet has a fever, and it keeps getting worse
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 2w agoI'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
Totally wild! A sociology prof left an estate of US$5.2M!
Bloomberg Law@bloomberglaw.com · 2w agoA deceased New York University sociology professor’s $5.2 million retirement account will go to the Democratic Socialists of America based on his 50-year-old beneficiary designation favoring the leftist New American Movement.
Håper nordmenn skjønner at offentlig redningstjeneste har noe for seg. «Hiker impaled by pole treks ten miles to avoid helicopter fee». www.thetimes.com/article/2d46...
I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
Family research often looks at effects of parents on children, but it's a two-way street! Check out our new paper in @pnas.org on evocative effects on family demographic outcomes in MoBa. Kids with much ADHD genes influence their parents' dissolution risk. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1/x
When children shape their families: Evocative effects analysis of 40,000 trios from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study | PNAS
Family demographic behavior is often studied as a response to structural conditions or parental characteristics, yet children may themselves shape ...
pnas.org
Tourists on a beach in Lacanau watch the fire in Gironde July 24th. Photo: MAXIMILIEN LAMY / AFP.
"Even modest annual reductions in (MMR) vaccine coverage among young children generate a nonlinear increase in cases & hospitalizations, with costs totaling $7.77 billion over a 5-y period." 🛟😷📈🧪 health policy sociology polisky
The health and economic repercussions of declining MMR coverage in the United States | PNAS
The resurgence of measles in the United States, driven by declining childhood vaccination coverage, poses a substantial public health and economic ...
pnas.org
😡📚🇺🇦 Russia destroyed 1.5 million Ukrainian books in just one incomplete month of July, — Budanov Enemy missiles destroyed printing houses, burned warehouses of publishing houses and hundreds of thousands of textbooks that were supposed to reach Ukrainian schoolchildren. 1/2
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
Aftenposten må passe på så leserne ikke starter en regelrett hatkampanje mot de som ikke vet at det heter "EDDER og galle" 🤬
Daft. Sociology (and economics) are plenty more than activist dogma. This is a vacant reading of real problems in a discipline (which have analogous problems in all other disciplines) Just a daft piece. The qualitative-quantitative rift is far more interesting www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Essay | Is It Time to ‘Liquidate’ the Study of Sociology?
Sociology has long been tasked with investigating society’s most pressing challenges. But these days, sociologists’ greatest obstacle may be themselves.
wsj.com
You ever think about how all this is happening after Orban lost in Hungary
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3w agoI guess Russian transfers stopped?
