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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 8h

They say coffee fuels mathematics, but statistics was built on tea.

I was discussing this with a friend yesterday over a delicious cuppa.

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Lady tasting tea - Wikipedia

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 10h

album che mi fa impazzire

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Big Sigh

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Tonia Mastrobuoni @mastrobradipo.bsky.social · 16h

"Quanti demoni nel cielo sopra Berlino"

Ecco l'anticipazione del mio nuovo libro che esce il 14 ottobre.

"La peste. Indagine sulla destra in Germania"

Grazie di cuore a @feltrinellied per la fiducia e @dariopappa per la magnifica pagina su @repubblica

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 15h

Questa settimana su Airbuds (ho già detto che mi garba il nuovo dei Wednesday?)

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 1d

Moreover, AGI might also require social interactions to become a reality, where cultural evolution (and extended mind) play a major role. It is not by chance that brain and culture evolved together, allowing complex minds to emerge @anilseth.bsky.social @mitibennett.bsky.social

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 1d

Velleitario leggere sia "Anna Karenina" sia "Guerra e Pace" entro l'anno?

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 2d

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Macron’s Tragedy

Zaki Laïdi blames the political crisis on several factors, including an imperious president and feckless political parties.

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Lenore Beadsman @lenorebeadsman.bsky.social · 3d

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel prize in literature

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Nobel prize in literature 2025 is announced – live

Follow along as the next winner of the world’s most prestigious literature prize is announced in Stockholm

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 4d

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More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows

Report looks at White House nominees and appointees and agencies dictating energy, environment and climate policy

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 4d

arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06011

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 4d

Scrive Annie Ernaux ne Gli Anni:

“Il progresso era l’orizzonte delle esistenze. Significava benessere, salute dei bambini, case luccicanti e strade illuminate, il sapere, tutto ciò che voltava per sempre le spalle alle oscurità (...)"

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 4d

Want to build an interactive dashboard so others can explore epidemic scenarios? For COVID, @ngdavies.bsky.social spearheaded a great drag-and-drop approach, which made use of the JavaScript-based nature of RShiny... 1/

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 4d

Sul magazine di Health Mode On ho scritto del fenomeno dei giovani adulti. Si legge qui 👇🏻

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Giovani Adulti: in scena tra precarietà e performatività - Health mode on

L’adolescenza si è allungata e l’età adulta è diventata un traguardo sfocato. La nuova adultità oggi si caratterizza per la capacità di navigare tra finzione e realtà, tra obblighi performativi e auto...

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 5d

I wish I had read this earlier.

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 5d

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 5d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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pumi2017.bsky.social @pumi2017.bsky.social · 5d

Assassinata il 7 ottobre 2006 nell'ascensore del suo palazzo, mentre stava rincasando.
Regalo di compleanno per uno degli esseri più schifosamente abietti dell' universo.
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Anna Politkovskaja
#Putinmerda

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Barbara Sessini @bsessini.bsky.social · 5d

The Lancet ha pubblicato una lettera di sei medici (tre italiani) che ha suscitato un dibattito sull'opportunità o meno di una "neutralità" per Gaza. Nell'articolo di Daniele Coen si legge. "Molti osservano, soprattutto, che le società mediche non dovrebbero 'fare politica', >

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 5d

It's not just qualitative research: even theoretical models have been relegated to the back seat, even though they provide a sound and rigorous foundation for what we know about the world.

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A problem in theory - Nature Human Behaviour

Muthukrishna & Henrich argue that solving the replication crisis in psychology partly requires well-specified, overarching theoretical frameworks. They outline how dual inheritance theory provides one such example that could be adopted by the field.

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 5d

I need to take a deep breath, because the problem with this new borrowed positivism, which assumes that stacking bricks is equivalent to building a house to quote Poincare, is serious.

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 5d

My main problem with this is not so much the dominance of quantitative methods in “top-20” journals but rather the dominance of the exclusive use of quantitative methods — in many cases causality could and should have been established by a (nested) qualitative study. *

Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 5d

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 5d

Una buona notizia.

www.ilpost.it/2025/10/07/i...

Il Parlamento Europeo non ha revocato l'immunità a Ilaria Salis - Il Post

Per un solo voto di scarto e probabilmente grazie ad alcuni eurodeputati di centrodestra, che hanno votato contro la linea del loro gruppo

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Mattia Marasti @mattiamarasti.bsky.social · 5d

Every month I make a playlist. Here's the one for October 🍂

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October 2025

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