I am pleased to report that the sea lion hating, ICE-funding-but-didn't-mean-it voting, bright headlight regulating, college fetish party throwing Democrat that Bluesky loves to hate, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, is winning her primary
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Hot take but the biggest problem with Francesca Hong's Thanksgiving tweet is that it reeks of 1.0. She doesn't need to tack to the center, she just needs to embrace the Second Coming of Woke
I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing
The social construction of social construction is not going well
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d agothere are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
Over a million Americans died and we hardly talk about that
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
I walked through the Seattle Center on my way to work this morning. My usual route takes me right through the site of Sunday’s mass shooting. There was a memorial, and a news crew was recording a segment 1/
“Doesn’t the classicist want to sell a lot of books?” My brother in Christ no, that’s why she became a classicist
I opened that Emily Wilson review and it said right at the top it's over 4000 words. I'm just in it for the drama so I think I'll stick to the discourse on Bluesky, The Sports and Literary Criticism App
SEATTLE friends: Cat-in-real-life alert! I am in Seattle this week and decided to host a small (limited spots) Psychology of Software Teams happy hour this thursday July 30th, 4-6pm. RSVP here for location & to secure a spot: luma.com/lxcmtn68
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Let's talk about being more human in tech! Join a small group for a happy hour meetup talking about getting better psychology in our software and technical…
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Horrific news of a mass shooting at Bite of Seattle. Ban guns now www.kuow.org/live-updates...
Live updates: 2 dead, 4 injured in Seattle Center shooting
Two suspects are in custody following a mass shooting at the Seattle Center on Sunday that left two victims dead and four others injured. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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I usually watch videos and move on. This one with Ed Yong I re-watched every few months. It's about why he quit his job (burnout) and how he moved away from defining his self-worth as based only on what he produced at work. For burnout, see esp. 28:28 forward.
Ed Yong · Videos · XOXO
Avid birder and Pulitzer-winning science journalist Ed Yong built a devoted audience for his deeply empathetic coverage of the pandemic for The Atlantic, while his two New York Times bestsellers, I Co...
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Imagine that in pre-publication peer review, the reliability of a 3-reviewer composite is .70. The journal accepts the top 10% of papers according to average review score. What is the reliability of the original reviewers in the subset of published papers? (Answer in alt text)
I'm a fan of Matthias Mehl's work, this is a really neat writeup of the EAR method and what it's uncovered over the years. (paywalled, and I don't have a gift link to give unfortunately)
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4w agoA device that listens when we speak—and records our words in real time—gives us the chance to hear our lives from the outside in, a psychologist says. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
Since I'm seeing this paper popping up in my feed: This doesn't mean what people seem to think it means. H1 Connect is a post-pub recommendation service. Low paper variance is exactly what you'd expect if peer review is *very good* at translating expert consensus into publication decisions
Alejandro Montenegro@aemonten.bsky.social · 2w ago"Here we show, in a large post-publication peer review database, that research assessment is driven more by differences between evaluators than by difference in the evaluated research. " arxiv.org/abs/2607.09783
ok confession time, I thought the Jacobian conjecture was "Bernie would have won in the general"
[shakes fist at sky] YAAAAAATTTTEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!
American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 2w agoFew statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.
I've been in Scotland for a week and it hasn't rained once. I mean I'll take it, but I kind of wonder if I'm missing out on an important part of the experience?
Guy who knows population growth is good for the economy but he hates immigrants
Not me injecting "sudo makemeasandwich" into your clipboard
molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 4w agoI take it back, give me the pictures of crosswalks and motorcycles. the captchas are evolving and I can't solve this one.
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