Is there anything nicer than turning on your out-of-office auto-reply before going on vacation?

My one grandmother (b 1911) was a cook, the other (b 1902) went to Katharine Gibbs and worked as a secretary. I could cook for sure, but would lack shorthand skills.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

📢 The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab is hiring a Research Assistant to join its project, ‘Box Breakers: Improving Organisational Data Practices for Minoritised Communities’.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

I don't mind not knowing things. I mind not knowing things I used to know. Memory loss is an ego-bruiser.

Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · last wk.

you're not stupid for not knowing everything. that's what learning is for!

Jon Schuldt and I used our two slots together to ask people at what age they would prefer to die and how important it was to the respondent to leave a legacy (beyond family)

Verasight@verasight.io · 2w ago

View the full report, findings, and methodology: reports.verasight.io/r/aapor-2026 Thank you to every researcher who contributed a question, including: @aedwardslevy.bsky.social @kathleenweldon.bsky.social /fin

I wish I could read Portuguese, because this series of reports from 66-67 has some great topics (Google translated): Religious Behavior of Rio Residents; Social Problems & the New Church Orientation; Children's Opinions About Their Parents...

When the Southern Food and Beverage Museum was relocating to their new space, they asked for volunteer researchers for the state exhibits. I was assigned Oklahoma. Spoiler alert: Oklahoma is not France. But it was the birthplace of the grocery cart

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w ago

Okay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?

"we"

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Update from Ukraine.

Insert speechless Nathan Fillion gif here

Astoundingly my uncle lived in a resident motel for most of his adult life, then when he developed health issues, in a series of boarding houses in the Plattsburgh area. As the mostly Eastern European landladies closed shop, he would move, having to relocate to Troy to find the final boarding house

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 2w ago

i think people look at homelessness as a relatively new phenomenon and reason backwards to think that in the Before Times, poor people must've all been able to afford houses/their own apartments etc. Most of the housing types the poor used were actually just outlawed (boarding houses, SROs etc)

A newly single friend of mine had a party this weekend and she cast her phone to the TV so we could all go through the guys that have liked her on a dating app and give our opinions. Every time a dude had a fish in a picture, we drank. Highly recommend.

I dont even want communism i just want a vigorous regulatory state that treats white collar financial and environmental crimes as seriously as terrorism

So glad I held onto my couple hundred cookbooks.

Davey Alba@davey.bsky.social · 8mo ago

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We're slip-sliding some non-US polls into iPoll here and there. Love this one

This was apparently a known scale for assigning class at the time. Students were told to mark each individual item and then mark the total number of yes responses. Then they asked about the number of books in the home, mother's education, and father's job.

I know the world is literally on fire right now, but I'm here to say social scientists who want a calming, distracting puzzle activity should step away from Wordle and play Column Binary Conversion. Quixotic, I know, but hear me out: solve a puzzle AND unlock data that's been unusable for decades!

This is the first Post-Ipsos poll where significantly more than half of Trump approvers support him only “somewhat,” rather than strongly. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In the age of AI slop, people would do well to remember words ascribed to Samuel Johnson: "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure"

Go, Somerville!!

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 3w ago

Good news for for Somerville— and for those tired of endless Vision Zero conversations about Hoboken

In case you're wondering, it's Gallup, Audience Research (another part of Gallup, really), the Office of Public Opinion Research at Princeton University, ORC, Benson & Benson, Public Opinion surveys (also Benson), & Princeton Research Services/NJ poll, which I was trying to find more about

Blessings be upon the Internet Archive, for stuff like this: Mark Harris (Bang the Drum Slowly) reading George Gallup for filth in the September 1948 issue of Negro Digest dn721605.ca.archive.org/0/items/sim_...

It wasn't just Washington Post! The Globe also had a polling program that started in 46 and ended abruptly after the 48 election. Methodology: their interviewers "test opinion by accepted standards of opinion-gatherers" I don't think that meets TI requirements

I can say without hesitation that to anyone interested in the history of public opinion, my storage bays are in fact like the library of Alexandria. Want poll results? Sure. Methods? I've got manuals & detailed proposals. Meta-analysis of what was asked when/where? So many questionnaires.

Doll@dollspace.gay · 3w ago

The mental image people have is some vast library of Alexandria full of suppressed wisdom, when the reality of non-digitized material is mostly things like municipal water board meeting minutes from 1974,

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

That's a charmingly bitter, petty way for framing a happy story about Santa

Have y'all been waiting with bated breath to learn more about the earliest Washington Post polls? Of course you have. Let's learn a little about "Joe Washington" I like Joe. He seems nice. @emgusk.bsky.social @sfcpoll.bsky.social (note Likert name-drop)

TOMORROW (Monday) is the LAST DAY to leave a public comment about the proposed OMB proposal that will be an absolute disaster for science if adopted. Follow the link below for instructions on leaving a good comment.

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 3w ago

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 4w ago

There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...