Dan de Kadt
@dandekadt.bsky.social
Social and data science at the London School of Economics
Democracy, behaviour, meta-science, 🇿🇦🇺🇲
Won't interact with anon accounts.
www.ddekadt.com
Democracy, behaviour, meta-science, 🇿🇦🇺🇲
Won't interact with anon accounts.
www.ddekadt.com
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Dan de Kadt
@dandekadt.bsky.social
· May 14
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What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description?
We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers.
Two main contributions...
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What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description?
We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers.
Two main contributions...
🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc
I know I’d be much happier if I deleted all social media but then what would I do with my time
November 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I know I’d be much happier if I deleted all social media but then what would I do with my time
V accurate in that this is a photo of an American visiting Europe spending dollars to support the local economy
November 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
V accurate in that this is a photo of an American visiting Europe spending dollars to support the local economy
This is interesting because one of these definitely does exist and the others definitely do not
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This is interesting because one of these definitely does exist and the others definitely do not
Fried seafood is, with one exception, bad.
The one exception is British fish and chips.
The one exception is British fish and chips.
my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Fried seafood is, with one exception, bad.
The one exception is British fish and chips.
The one exception is British fish and chips.
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The consultant class is droning on about Dems being too left-wing and erring on defund the police. But I think this is exactly what "defund the police" people want to defund.
Rightly so. This instance being a mild-ish example of the type of police behavior I would very specifically like to defund.
Rightly so. This instance being a mild-ish example of the type of police behavior I would very specifically like to defund.
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The consultant class is droning on about Dems being too left-wing and erring on defund the police. But I think this is exactly what "defund the police" people want to defund.
Rightly so. This instance being a mild-ish example of the type of police behavior I would very specifically like to defund.
Rightly so. This instance being a mild-ish example of the type of police behavior I would very specifically like to defund.
Not sure what’s more annoying, the AI-induced feeling of impending doom for my career, or being constantly reminded about it through endless idiotic podcast ads promising me AI enhanced pet food and AI enhanced web design and AI enhanced mattresses and AI enhanced coffee beans it’s exhausting
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Not sure what’s more annoying, the AI-induced feeling of impending doom for my career, or being constantly reminded about it through endless idiotic podcast ads promising me AI enhanced pet food and AI enhanced web design and AI enhanced mattresses and AI enhanced coffee beans it’s exhausting
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We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!
Assistant Professor in Political Science
Assistant Professor in Political Science,
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November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!
This insane policy sums up this failed Labour govt.
They lack the vision and guts to do what is needed - re-structure and rationalise the UK tax base - so instead they wander the country squeezing whatever they can find for a few drops.
No vision. No strategy. Totally unsustainable. Deranged.
They lack the vision and guts to do what is needed - re-structure and rationalise the UK tax base - so instead they wander the country squeezing whatever they can find for a few drops.
No vision. No strategy. Totally unsustainable. Deranged.
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This insane policy sums up this failed Labour govt.
They lack the vision and guts to do what is needed - re-structure and rationalise the UK tax base - so instead they wander the country squeezing whatever they can find for a few drops.
No vision. No strategy. Totally unsustainable. Deranged.
They lack the vision and guts to do what is needed - re-structure and rationalise the UK tax base - so instead they wander the country squeezing whatever they can find for a few drops.
No vision. No strategy. Totally unsustainable. Deranged.
Fascism is an aesthetic ideology
Duffy: "Trump talks about the golden age of transportation. But the golden age in transportation truly begins with you ... People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly ... so we want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season: Help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fascism is an aesthetic ideology
Is the ultimate end of enshittification that we all go back to writing physical letters with typewriters? Were the hipsters ahead of the curve?
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Is the ultimate end of enshittification that we all go back to writing physical letters with typewriters? Were the hipsters ahead of the curve?
Springboks are simply the best team on earth in any sport thank you for your attention to this matter
November 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Springboks are simply the best team on earth in any sport thank you for your attention to this matter
V thoughtful or Ireland to play the Rassie song before kickoff
November 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
V thoughtful or Ireland to play the Rassie song before kickoff
Apparently I'm "so weird" because I spend my weekend afternoons playing Two Point Campus (a comedy simulation game that involves running a university)
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Apparently I'm "so weird" because I spend my weekend afternoons playing Two Point Campus (a comedy simulation game that involves running a university)
Causal inference lost the branding battle to machine learning long ago.
Who wants to learn about SUTVA when they could be learning about support vector machines and convolutional neural nets
Who wants to learn about SUTVA when they could be learning about support vector machines and convolutional neural nets
November 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Causal inference lost the branding battle to machine learning long ago.
Who wants to learn about SUTVA when they could be learning about support vector machines and convolutional neural nets
Who wants to learn about SUTVA when they could be learning about support vector machines and convolutional neural nets
Can u guys send Zohran over for a quick chat with Nigel pls?
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Can u guys send Zohran over for a quick chat with Nigel pls?
Man I truly hate this kind of crap. As someone who works with the next generation every day, these are brilliant young people working hard and trying to build a better future for all of us in a world that we - the olds - have systematically fucked up.
Show them some god damn respect.
Show them some god damn respect.
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Man I truly hate this kind of crap. As someone who works with the next generation every day, these are brilliant young people working hard and trying to build a better future for all of us in a world that we - the olds - have systematically fucked up.
Show them some god damn respect.
Show them some god damn respect.
Don’t like much about the current political environment but do kind of like that politicians can swear
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Don’t like much about the current political environment but do kind of like that politicians can swear
These are the shoes of an elite athlete with inhuman levels of holistic fitness
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
These are the shoes of an elite athlete with inhuman levels of holistic fitness
LeBron dominates in raw athleticism - he has explosive power and endurance on the basketball court.
But Dan edges out in holistic fitness: sustaining 80-100 hour weeks across his research, teaching, service, and social media demands relentless physical and mental grit that outlasts seasonal peaks.
But Dan edges out in holistic fitness: sustaining 80-100 hour weeks across his research, teaching, service, and social media demands relentless physical and mental grit that outlasts seasonal peaks.
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
LeBron dominates in raw athleticism - he has explosive power and endurance on the basketball court.
But Dan edges out in holistic fitness: sustaining 80-100 hour weeks across his research, teaching, service, and social media demands relentless physical and mental grit that outlasts seasonal peaks.
But Dan edges out in holistic fitness: sustaining 80-100 hour weeks across his research, teaching, service, and social media demands relentless physical and mental grit that outlasts seasonal peaks.
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A maddening double standard from Kennedy's CDC.
RFK Jr. believes that NO studies are good enough to show that vaccines do not cause autism.
But he'll cite just about *anything* showing that vaccines might cause injury.
CDC exploits sci. uncertainty when convenient, and ignores it otherwise.
RFK Jr. believes that NO studies are good enough to show that vaccines do not cause autism.
But he'll cite just about *anything* showing that vaccines might cause injury.
CDC exploits sci. uncertainty when convenient, and ignores it otherwise.
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A maddening double standard from Kennedy's CDC.
RFK Jr. believes that NO studies are good enough to show that vaccines do not cause autism.
But he'll cite just about *anything* showing that vaccines might cause injury.
CDC exploits sci. uncertainty when convenient, and ignores it otherwise.
RFK Jr. believes that NO studies are good enough to show that vaccines do not cause autism.
But he'll cite just about *anything* showing that vaccines might cause injury.
CDC exploits sci. uncertainty when convenient, and ignores it otherwise.
Been trying to articulate a “the internet destroyed humanity” take unsuccessfully for years and he’s only gone and done it in a single tweet
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Been trying to articulate a “the internet destroyed humanity” take unsuccessfully for years and he’s only gone and done it in a single tweet
Historical political economy folks going all in on AI I guess
November 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Historical political economy folks going all in on AI I guess
This recipe just rocks so much. Can be done in twenty five minutes or so, delicious every time. 10/10 weekday dinner.
Spaghetti Puttanesca (Spaghetti With Capers, Olives, and Anchovies) Recipe
Pasta puttanesca is an easy weeknight spaghetti dish that packs an aromatic punch in its tomato sauce, thanks to garlic, anchovies, capers, and olives.
www.seriouseats.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This recipe just rocks so much. Can be done in twenty five minutes or so, delicious every time. 10/10 weekday dinner.
The moral failure of the NYT editorial team for this headline when they could have used "bargaining chips" smdh, cancelling my sub
November 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The moral failure of the NYT editorial team for this headline when they could have used "bargaining chips" smdh, cancelling my sub