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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 10h

That is what the discussion section is for.

andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 10h

You can do whatever you want. But if you use near synonyms with the intention to obfuscate, I will bark at you haha

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 11h

The only bad self-censorship I ever see in sociology is people obfuscating their causal claims with hedge words like "influence," "shape," or "affect."

Just say what you mean and learn to live with people disagreeing with you.

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 12h

The way you use the scales pkg is also *chef's kiss*

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 1d

Data available upon request

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 2d

This is pure teenager shit.

"Ratio me. Please."

Yeah, no, go away.

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 2d

I love the 1990s, but the mistakes made by sociologists during this time are quite something...

We haven't recovered yet.

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 2d

very funny stuff on the creation of the NATO phonetic alphabet
youtu.be/UAT-eOzeY4M?

andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 2d

Three days of editing have resulted in deleting a whole section.

This is literally how I approach writing these days 😭
youtu.be/9VDvgL58h_Y?...

The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon by Richard Gale

YouTube video by RichardGaleFilms

youtu.be

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Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 3d

Has anyone gotten an H-1B since that Executive Order? Has anyone been asked for the $100k?

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Jordan Nafa @jordannafa.bsky.social · 4d

The single strongest endorsement of Bayesian estimation is that we don't have any of those cursed "which statistical test should you use" flow charts.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 4d

😍

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 4d

wonderful
youtu.be/UGm3t1KgIHw

Charly García, Sting - In the City (Official Video)

YouTube video by CharlyGarciaVEVO

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 4d

chapó

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 5d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 5d

big JLM vibes here

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 5d

I'm thinking something like this

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 5d

This should be relatively straightforward with the new purrr, right?

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 6d

Habeas Corpus is Latinx, obviously

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 7d

The best version of this song is not in Spotify. You're welcomed.
youtu.be/OQKyMZ8gsPI?...

The Damned - Jet Boy Jet Girl

YouTube video by whammo64

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 7d

There’s always gonna be the temptation to rely on some kind of visual prop that does the thinking for us.

The “stargazing” stuff with statistical tables is another example!

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 7d

That’s not what the word book means

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 8d

It's fine that universities ask for research statements, but they should also ask to see the folder of random half-baked projects that everyone has.

That's were the real potential is 😉

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 8d

This besides the point, but there is too much hot dog energy in this title: "Harvard students skip class and still get high grades, faculty say"

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andrés castro araújo @acastroaraujo.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah, no, you're right. I'm just using "iconic" in the more narrow sense implied by John Mohr in 1998, which I think carries over to "cultural cartography."

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