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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 16h

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

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House on Huntered Hill (1959) @drhbus.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow is Columbo's Day, so remember to eat the traditional chili dogs, wear your best disheveled raincoat, and above all, don't let any rich assholes get away with anything

A pencil drawing of Columbo by Peter Falk himself.

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Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social · 18h

Jobs at CJARS -- U of Michigan's Crim. Justice Admin. Records System, a non-partisan, non-profit org building integrated data platforms on the US criminal legal system.

cjars.org/get-involved/

* Data Collection Liaison
* Web Scraping Programmer
* Research Associate

About Join

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 18h

also, as always, these are my views, I am by no means A Decider.

I don't think coefplots/forestplots/whatever other names plots are always the best move, but for quickly summarizing across lots of models, they're okay. Still, have the tables ready, imo.

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 18h

Works in mono, anchoring the ref category w a marker at zero is a nice touch (always at the top of section would be good, too, imo), could use an annotation abt CI/error bar meaning. But I imagine it's posted out of context a bit here. For the audience it's meant to reach (academic), fine dataviz.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 3d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 19h

i've really shifted my thinking on "carrying a canned airhorn in public spaces" in response, tbh

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 19h

This is cool stuff, Bob. Enjoy IPES, no conference like it.

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 19h

My research team is presenting a paper on US business & the trade war at the upcoming International Political Economy Society conference at UCLA.

For this paper we pre-registered a causal graph as I describe in my pre-reg WP.

And ... it really helped! 😁

soon all the kids will be doing this...

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 21h

California used to set regulations that were adopted by the world, For example, today's emissions regulatory regime complies with what CARB - the California Air Resource Board - sets. But as American hegemony comes to an end, it falls to other blocs to set global standards.

WIRED @wired.com · 21h

Now new Chinese regulations would force the door handle issue in the world’s biggest automotive market—rules that, given the size and power of China’s auto market, could soon show up in other parts of the world.

New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds

Proposed regulations in China would mean the end of flush handles on car doors, with precious little time to roll out the changes.

www.wired.com

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21h

The one and only @doinkboy.bsky.social caught a mistake in my post! I've fixed it now and also updated the code.
Actually the latent variable model here is identified just fine and returns an unbiased estimate 🪄

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 23h

New blog post!

Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis?

(I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler)

www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...

If you have two measures of the same confounder, you can just include both of them in your regression model

Sometimes, researchers worry about multicollinearity in situations where it’s actually a non-issue. Here’s one such scenario. Imagine a situation where you are interested in the effect of X on Y (X...

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20h

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social!

“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”

stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'

Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 22h

inspiring 💗💖

LinkedIn post about how a guy got a job interview at Strava by running a route that spelled HIRE ME on the map

HIRE ME written on the map (looking more like HIRE NE tbh)

commenter asks if the guy got the job and OP says “I don't think so. But his effort got him noticed and a foot in the door when so many others didn't”

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 1d

misread this as "unheal hyper-v" at least 3 times before i read it right.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

Screenshot of text:

Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 1d

Anthony is a dear friend and played no small role in me landing in Michigan for grad school and beyond. I've heard this story a thousand times, and it's fun every single one of them. I hope he writes his book...
www.jalopnik.com/1990275/asto...
and
www.designjudges.com/articles/the...

Aston Martin's V12 Isn't 2 Ford V6s Glued Together, But The FMC DNA Remains - Jalopnik

An unfortunate rumor followed the V12 that debuted in the Vantage DB7 for years. Here's how it started and why it was always wrong.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

"Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year?

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]"

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 1d

Another reason to hate OneDrive.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

bitch what

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 1d

"The Life of a Methodologist"

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 3d

help your #polisky colleagues out in this rough market year y'all

Michelangelo Landgrave @landgravephd.bsky.social · 14d

Just want to thank folks contributing to the #psjminfo job status update section of the site. It's a small thing, but I know people appreciate knowing the status of jobs.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org/status-updates

PS Jobs - Status Updates

This is a listing of job market updates. You can submit updates here.

www.politicalsciencejobs.org

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

This is why neither the companies profiting from a technology nor the agencies deploying it can be trusted to tell the full story about how it's being used. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Alton B.H. Worthington @abhw.bsky.social · 4d

never in all of my years of researching or thinking about trade and industrial policy did I ever consider "raise tariffs in response to head of state/government not winning an international award"

just never considered it. I guess a failure of imagination.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 4d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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