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Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.)

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Me: I shouldn’t celebrate political chaos
Also me: Blasts recession pop music because those DHS ads are about to get pulled from Univision

Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

Finallyyyyy someone on BlueSky + academia who uses Notion. I've been a power user for several years now - I use it as my bullet journal and I follow David Allen's GTD method, with the goal of not keeping ANYTHING work related in my brain. Happy to answer questions!

Obsessed with this study. Do your part, return your cart!

We are in the middle of an office move and I've been tasked with sorting through our department's cache of competing books. Trading a quiet Friday for the joy of mailing textbooks to editors who are genuinely excited to get them. It’s weirdly heartwarming—like a tiny Editorial Christmas! 🎁📚

“We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore. A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself.”

And nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, physicians assistants— this is very bad and needs to be stopped.

sending the hot goss to my friend and adding DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

I just don't get professors who use AI detectors. congratulations you have arsonists doing fire inspections

ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...

Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My browser suggesting "ways to reduce stress", "how to avoid proofreading mistakes", and "help me create a budget"

We must put an end to the surveillance state.

A Pepsi-only airline is a reminder that we are not in control. We make our requests, and the universe smiles… and hands us a substitute.

The concept of “gratitude” in American politics is an insidious one that implies a caste system where betters confer largess upon lessers and where those lessers must consistently pay homage to their betters.

And there is always an implied threat that without proper homage the largess will stop.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Survey of 813 scientists finds that Bluesky is the more useful social media platform for professional scientists.

As anecdotal support, this journal article itself is references by 2731 Bluesky users and has 43 X posts (Altmetrics data, when posting this).

#sciencesky #academicsky #science

LOVE IS REAL!

Strongest life advice I can give right now: always keep nasal spray in the house.

It’s humbling to realize my niece, who can just about reach the counter, can completely take me out with one cold. Right at the beginning of the semester, too. LOVE IT.

The moon is almost full, Mercury is still in retrograde, and I am but a pinwheeling spreadsheet with a meeting in five minutes.

I, too, have dramatically escalated a situation just to avoid replying to an email.

I respect the hustle!

I went to brunch for her. I drank the cappuccino she deserved. I ate the soft scramble in her honor.

My best friend almost missed her flight to a conference this morning and didn’t get breakfast. As an act of solidarity, I went to brunch and didn’t post it on Instagram. That’s real friendship.

Today is August 1.

Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Screencap of USGS earthquake search results, showing a map and the following earthquakes: 2025 8.8 Kamchatka 2012 8.6 Sumatra 2011 9.1 Japan 2010 8.8 Chile 2005 8.6 Indonesia 2004 9.1 Sumatra 1965 8.7 Aleutians 1964 9.2 Alaska 1963 8.5 Kamchatka 1960 9.5 Chile

How common are earthquakes this big? Here are all of the events with a magnitude of 8.5 or larger since 1960: only ten of them!

Manuscripts are pouring in post-vacation like I opened a haunted email attachment labeled ‘final-final-FINAL.docx.' and every time I think I’ve reached the end, a new chapter appears.