jon ben-menachem

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

“I’ve decided to respond to the version of your post that I saw in a dream once”

Real. People can’t even read tweets

Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a US airstrike Satellite images and videos of an Iranian girls school damaged by large explosions at the start of a U.S.

Evidence suggests the deadly blast at an Iranian school was likely a US airstrike

Via Julia Frankel

apnews.com/article/iran...

United Academics of KU Secures Historic First Collective Bargaining Agreement for All Faculty and Academic Staff LAWRENCE, Kan.—Today, faculty and academic staff at the University of Kansas, represented by United Academics of the University of Kansas, announced that they have reached a tentative first contract a...

Great news - 1600 academic workers won their first collective bargaining contract at the University of Kansas @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org www.aft.org/press-releas...

Probably will save the event for if I get a paper accepted or the defense lol

think I just finished a first draft of my last dissertation paper? that was anticlimactic

Florida’s Board of Governors is made up of “political appointees from the business world, from insurance executives to roofing contractors, who are dictating how professors must teach their courses and even providing state-created textbooks for doing so.”

My new piece in @truthout.bsky.social

Record high support for abolishing ICE in latest YouGov/Economist data

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

"If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right." 😂

Less Theory. More Description. Besbris and Khan Sociology must worry less about theoretical innovation and more about empirical description.

In a sense we're just contributing to a long tradition of sociologists asking "Hey, why do I have to invent a name for something just to publish my empirical paper" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you have data from an empirical case, you might have reason to believe that it supports one theory more than a couple others, but we shouldn't ask for so much theoretical certainty from individual empirical contributions. Some of this problem is unique to sociology and some of it isn't

In a forthcoming paper we advocate for multiverse to be paired w/ a change to written reports--moving away from rigidly deductive hypothesis testing style of presentation (already a poor fit for actual research practice) and towards a more open-ended, uncertain interpretation osf.io/preprints/so...

I find the blog post and underlying post very useful.

“How realistic is it to expect multiverse to be used widely, given that most authors first and foremost want to convince readers they have a clear point?”

Do you happen to know where the special issue will be published?

Thanks!

Could you post an example? May need to cite in a paper lol

Is this popular? Genuinely unaware. I thought multiverse was commonly suggested for observational data, where there is not a large class of correctly specified estimators

I recently learned that a scholarly term for this is “biographical availability,” as in, a period of your life when you have time for this stuff lol

Yep in periods where I’ve actually done a lot of organizing, it has come at the direct expense of doing my job and was only possible because my work hours and deadlines are extremely flexible

I’m sad now

Yeah I found the use of Claude in that post to be very ironic

Another user already explained to you why the point is distinct

bsky.app/profile/brin...

I don’t really think *I* have to do that, no

I’ll also add that bullshit jobs is really just an adaptation of the Marxist alienated labor concept to the service economy, and subjectively all that’s needed to validate its most important thrust is that many people find their work meaningless.

For ads in particular they’re throwing money in the trash lol doi.org/10.3982/ECTA...

I used the word “often.”

My man I’ve worked in b2b and it could all disappear tomorrow and things would be just fine

It’s really quite easy: I don’t have a libidinal fantasy that I’ll be able to defeat paramilitary organizations in a shootout, and I’m aware that firearms increase the success rate of suicide attempts and fatality rate of domestic violence incidents