My friends over at @povertycenter.bsky.social are looking for a researcher to join as their new Research Director. This is a PhD level position suitable for someone with 6 or more years of social scientific research experience. povertycenter.columbia.edu/lead-our-res...

But it didn't matter!!!!

Sarah Wieten@sarahwieten.bsky.social · 6h ago

A 9-to-1 spending disadvantge is just nuts.

I am actually infuriated by this assumption, as writers and artists of all kinds, that if our work runs up against the audience’s ignorance (vocabulary, intertexuality, &c.) this is somehow a failing, our fault and something it is our responsibility to avoid.

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 6h ago

Obviously. And the world is in any case full of references to unfamiliar things, if people are perplexed surely they can look it up?

A 9-to-1 spending disadvantge is just nuts.

Holy mother of Galen what the hell is this. Junior doctors basically paying to do a meta-analysis in just two days. Recruitment in the UK is goosed.

I have trouble seeing how a position for 24/7 ethics call can be counted as part time.

Heartening news from "the heartland" where a gathering of 1000-2000 people opposed to hate in affluent Fishers, Indiana drove a planned "Rally for Mass Deportation" (endorsed by the Lt Governor and attended by Bovino) into a secret location elsewhere in the state www.ipm.org/news/2026-08...

Public march counters pro-deportation event in central Indiana

About 1,000 Hoosiers supportive of immigrants marched through Fishers on Saturday — a counter protest to a pro-deportation event planned for the city with remarks from two statewide elected officials.

ipm.org

Stats consulting is constantly like: Them: I want you to run (complex stats) Me: OK, what's your research question though? Them: ...A (complex stat)? Me: Research question? Them: You know, like the stats in this journal article. Something reviewers will like.

Using LLMs for your dating app chat answers is just so very very sad.

Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

nature.com

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

I think we should combine philosophy BlueSky's position that "flirting can be unintentional" with the emerging Gen Z norm that "flirting outside of dating apps is immoral" to create the most neurotic generation ever before seen.

So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers.

Refused again today by Lloyd's in the branch and by phone. Accepting recs for favorite british credit card for credit building.

Sarah Wieten@sarahwieten.bsky.social · 7d ago

Also can't get a british credit card? I have excellent credit behavior. I am very boring.

Happy birthday to the #geodesist Irene Fischer. Of interest to #HPS, she studied mathematics & #philosophy under Vienna Circle members Moritz Schlick & Hans Hahn. She escaped Nazis in Austria & settled in Boston, where her son Michael Fischer became anthropology & #STS prof @ MIT.

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · last wk.

Mathematician & geodeist Dr. Irene Fischer helped guide NASA to the moon. Joining the US Army Map Service in 1952, she unified centuries of broken data to calculate the Earth’s precise size/shape. Her calculations allowed NASA to safely program Apollo moon landing trajectories. #WomenInSTEM (1/3)🧵

The average bro responding to Emily Wilson's LRB review would melt into a pile of Fallout goo upon reading the first two lines of the average academic journal peer review

hivemind: what are good books addressing problems with the "wellness" industry? Not antivaccine stuff specifically but the whole thing like Goop and Alex Jones and RFK Jr.

the Fauci hearings are not ABOUT me but I am certainly experiencing them as personal

Reading articles on the amounts HE has spent in APCs over the last 5-10 years, and slowly watching my blood pressure rise. Millions upon millions, on something WE CAN ABSOLUTELY DO OURSELVES FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST - what universities couldn't do with that kind of money now... 😠 And breathe...

I am annoyed that my UK credit score takes a hit because I cannot register to vote in the UK.

REMINDER: Call for Papers: Histories of Anti-Tourism Deadline for submission: August 3, 2026 Where and when do we see anti-tourism emerge in the historical record? What forms does it take? niche-canada.org/2026/06/24/c... #envhist #envhum #tourism

Call for Papers: Histories of Anti-Tourism

We are looking for scholars already working on this topic, as well as those who may have encountered anti-touristic attitudes, conflicts, or forms of resistance in their research without treating them...

niche-canada.org

also if I made a huge amount of money as a result of being linked in the public imagination to a piece of art that i thought was bad I would be MORE motivated to talk about it??

Help I am Getting Into Camping

At last, I AM FREE!

Tim Gill@timgill924.bsky.social · last wk.

Let’s be honest. If Philosophy hasn’t been ‘liquidated’, Sociology will not be. For all the criticisms, at least Sociologists collect data. Meanwhile the Philosophy people just make things up out of thin air. Just whatever they want. Doesn’t matter.

I do not miss the corn sweat.

All my current research reading name checks "As We Think" and "The Endless Frontier" is in the news, so check out these texts from Vannevar Bush: share.google/IFJcDcudYBvN...

One of my most pedantic takes is that it is annoying when people say Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate the Odyssey.

One more time!

Sarah Wieten@sarahwieten.bsky.social · 2w ago

Causal Inference friends: I am looking for the most up to date, interesting, cpe, short-course, in -person causal inference training currently available. I have attended a few, but seeking additional recommendations.... Please share to help me find the widest set of options. Thanks!

My PhD student Liyuan Jiao has published her very first article in Topoi, a lovely piece describing some difficulties with manipulationist approaches to causation. Congrats Liyuan! Go check it out- link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Extending Causation Beyond Manipulation: Analogical Reasoning in Two Theories of Causation - Topoi

Analogical reasoning has played an important role in philosophical theory, including manipulationist approaches to causation. Manipulationism ties causal judgments to the idea that causes function as ...

link.springer.com

My English History isn't always what it could be- did any authors of "An Agreement of the People" (thought to be Walwyn and Wildman perhaps among others) at the Putney Debates advocate for giving women the vote as well? Can you share to help me find the right historians on here?

Causal Inference friends: I am looking for the most up to date, interesting, cpe, short-course, in -person causal inference training currently available. I have attended a few, but seeking additional recommendations.... Please share to help me find the widest set of options. Thanks!