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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

George Michael releases “Faith” as a single 38 yrs ago today.

Asked why he chose it as a title, he said: “I believe that the forces of Good and Evil are real things. … I do not have a religion, but I believe that one can influence one’s life, one’s future, through faith and decency towards others.”

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Dr. Katherine Haenschen @drkath.bsky.social · 5h

True story: I had a field experiment that was just racking up brutal desk rejects from various political science journals so I used the formatting to make a Word doc look like LaTeX and it got accepted on my next try.

I figure the reviewers assumed a dude wrote it.

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 9h

This is your periodic reminder that you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents.

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Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 2d

Happening today.

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Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't know this level of cruelty was possible but someone at my office stole my bottle of Sriracha.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 3d

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 4d

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jul 6

Have you considered using LLMs to code open-ended survey responses?

This looks like a must read for you!

"An Empirical Investigation into the Utility of Large Language Models in Open-Ended Survey Data Categorization"

osf.io/preprints/so...

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Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 5d

This still leaves the question of Indian American success. It's plausible that the introduction of British civil service exams created enough of a meritocratic culture to differentiate the Indian subcontinent.

Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 5d

This finding is important because scholars who push the hyper-selectivity argument, like Jennifer Lee, receive plaudits for their work. Moreover, people who bring up the culture argument are often maligned.

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Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 5d

by ChangHwan Kim shows strong evidence in favor of the hypothesis. It shows that Asian American achievement was high in the 1940s when there was no hyperselective immigration.

Utilizing the full-count 1940 Census linked to the full-count 1930 Census, this study investigates the Asian American Achievement Paradox in 1940. This is the first systematic test of competing AAAP hypotheses using data prior to the 1965 Act. Our results reveal that, contrary to conventional wisdom in this area of research (Lee and Zhou 2015), the AAAP is not a new phenomenon originating from the influx of hyper-selected Asian immigrants in the late twentieth century. Instead, the AAAP is a century-old phenomenon with a previously unknown rich complexity. This study provides several important empirical findings. First, the contextual selectivity of Asian immigrants accounts for the AAAP to varying degrees depending on how educational outcomes are measured. In terms of average years of schooling and high school graduation, contextual selectivity accounts for a third of the Asian American advantage over 3+ generation Whites. As for attainment of a bachelor’s degree, contextual selectivity explains most of the advantages. One caveat is that Asian Americans’ educational advantage compared to other immigrant groups remains unchanged or becomes even stronger after controlling for contextual selectivity.

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Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 5d

Does Asian American success emerge from Confucian values in Japan/Korea/China? This hypothesis has been controversial, and sociologists are rewarded for "falsifying" it, but a new paper (1/n)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Abstract: Asian Americans, even those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, achieve extraordinary educational outcomes, defying the expectations of the well-established status attainment theory that family background is strongly associated with educational attainments. This phenomenon is known as the Asian American Achievement Paradox (AAAP). Positive selectivity of Asian immigrants and cultural accounts are two competing explanations, but they are rarely disentangled empirically due to the high collinearity between immigrant selectivity and culture. This study offers a modified version of cultural explanations, clarifies the distinctions between competing explanations based on the same criteria, and tests them by investigating the educational achievements of second-generation Asian Americans using the full-count 1940 Census matched to the 1930 Census. During this period, Asian immigrants were not hyper-selected, so the entanglement of immigrant selectivity and culture is less of a concern. The results are largely consistent with the cultural explanation, revealing the AAAP to be a century-old phenomenon with a previously unknown complexity. The transmission of culture from the society of origin is further evident in that the AAAP is limited to East Asians and does not apply to Filipino Americans, even though contextual selectivity in education is similar across Asian ethnic groups in 1940.

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Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 5d

But it’s also true that now it’s like Mussolini

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Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 5d

They are historical in the sense that’s it’s always a Republican president and Republican staff who who commit multiple felonies. Except George HW Bush who was relatively clean.

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Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 5d

Is machine learning just a bunch of regressions in a trench coat?

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17d

Venetian Vespers by John Banville review – a haunting honeymoon

This brooding tale of an Englishman’s downfall in fin-de-siècle Venice is memorably eerie – but it’s hard to care about such a pompous protagonist

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 6d

Me trying to care about who wins the Nobel Prize in this political environment.

a close up of a man with the words i 'm tryin ' ringo written on his face

ALT: a close up of a man with the words i 'm tryin ' ringo written on his face

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 6d

It’s very bad to turn any major news organization into a branch of The Bari Weiss Press, but even after the last eight months it turns out I’ve still got some anger available for the defilement of CBS news in particular.

Conservatives were supposed to care about, you know, conserving great things.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 6d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...