Sebastian Karcher

@adam42smith.bsky.social

1.3K followers 790 following 2K posts

Director, Qualitative Data Repository (personal account).
Data, Zotero, Social Science Methods
https://sebastiankarcher.com

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Computer science 23%

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 8h

Musically, only performing the first couple of measures of DTMF and then moving the party outside of the stadium was my highlight of the show

WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 9h

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 8h

It wasn’t www.instagram.com/reel/DUhUaQp...

the_lincfox on Instagram: "I’ll remember this day forever! @badbunnypr - it was my truest honor 🐰🏆🏈#youngbadbunny #littlebadbunny #superbowlhalftimeshow #s…"

I’ll remember this day forever! @badbunnypr - it was my truest honor 🐰🏆🏈#youngbadbunny #littlebadbunny #superbowlhalftimeshow #superbowllx #benitobowl

www.instagram.com

Reposted by Mark Lubell, Laurent Dubois, Alan Richardson , and 3 more Mark Lubell, Laurent Dubois, Alan Richardson, Sebastian Karcher, Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Jhumka Gupta

WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 9h

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 11h

I have seen so many Bills jerseys today...

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 11h

Loving the guy sitting in the endzone with the giant Buffalo Bills flag

Gotta love the dead-enders

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 11h

Loving the guy sitting in the endzone with the giant Buffalo Bills flag

Gotta love the dead-enders

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 15h

Our local (poor but full season professional) orchestra has <18 free and college students $5 for all concerts & it doesn't do miracles, but definitely more families w kids in regular concerts.
This has to also be sth you can sell to major donors

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 16h

I think it's a thoughtful piece, but the fact that a piece on "here's a superior approach to X that everyone should be using" is published on a blog called "Haskell for All" made me chuckle

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 19h

I'm also against nullifying lawns

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 1d

There's a detailed competing interest statement at the end of the article, exactly where one would expect it.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

I have Claude Code running in VS Code and it rarely makes a difference compared to commandline (which I also have).
I suspect they are investing heavily bc IDE integration is so useful.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite romance facts is that the "Pucking Around" gay hockey romance series is written by a former polisci prof...

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Jon Green, Melanie C. Green , and 11 more Brendan Nyhan, Jon Green, Melanie C. Green, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, Scott A. Imberman, Sebastian Karcher, Josh Pasek, Daniel Rothenberg, Brooke Harrington, Fred, Seth Frey, Evan Roberts, Kristina McElheran

Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 2d

I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.

Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw

Redirecting...

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Reposted by Richard Waite, Alan Richardson, Sebastian Karcher

obnoxiously pitt girl @opg.bsky.social · 2d

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:

THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

scott b. weingart @scottbot.bsky.social · 2d

1965 founding legalistion of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Title 20 U.S. Code. Chapter 26. Section 951.

"The Congress finds and declares the following:

The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States."

(cont'd.)

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

Johnny Two Hats @johnny2hats.bsky.social · 3d

Just be a dude, right? How hard is this?

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 4d

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

simonwillison.net

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 4d

You know various versions of this exist, right?

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 4d

Given that "don't do what Larry Summers says" is pretty sound strategic advice, that was probably helpful.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 5d

Enforcing labor law seems good?

Reposted by Laia Balcells, Sebastian Karcher

American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · 5d

Our February Issue has been published! Read it at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6d

If you have examples of OA pub that Zotero (which works using Unpaywall data) misses when using Find Full Text, that should be fixable (report on the forums).

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6d

While I don't have any internal info, my understanding is that zotero is on very solid footing financially, between storage subscriptions and institutional memberships. They don't even have a way you can donate to zotero or CDS

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6d

I'm unsure on prereg, but I would def make a distinction between reg report & generic prereg. W prereg, you get added credibility of findings. You get some of that with reg report, but also get results agnostic _review_, which is unaffected by accessibility

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6d

Not everyone agrees that you can't pre-reg if you're theoretically able to see the results. Since reviewers won't see results, I'm not even sure how peeking at results would help you?

Moreover, it does seem like they're principally after new data replications, no?

The journal welcomes replication studies that include extensions, such as
testing the original study with new data and/or within a different context.

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Sam Bergman @violanorth.bsky.social · 7d

Everything is terrible, obviously, but a fantastic Mexican composer named Gabriela Ortiz just won three Grammys, and I'm really pretty happy about that. This isn't one of the pieces she won for, but you should watch this anyway because it's fucking badass and my pal Susie is the soloist.

Susie Park plays Gabriela Ortiz's Altar de Cuerda | Minnesota Orchestra | Paolo Bortolameolli

YouTube video by Minnesota Orchestra

youtu.be

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 8d

The fact that CRAN now automatically generates DOIs is really great. Trivial to slurp up via Zotero and then cite package authors like they should be.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 8d

This is the right answer. They're incredibly popular and combine everything that's wrong with American baking with nothing that's good about it.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 9d

All the cool stuff surely is film maker mom, but polisci prof dads are taking 100% of the credit for civics lessons

Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 9d

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 9d

The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.

Reposted by Mor Naaman, Cathy N. Davidson, David S. Cohen , and 6 more Mor Naaman, Cathy N. Davidson, David S. Cohen, James Goodwin, Sebastian Karcher, Jelena Subotić, Brian Doucet, Michael Larkin, Magda Teter

Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 9d

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 9d

The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.

Reposted by Sebastian Karcher

Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · 9d

Really enjoyed doing this short course on causal models for qualitative and mixed methods research @gesistraining.bsky.social; what a great group

All teaching materials are here: slides, exercises, videos, readings: integrated-inferences.github.io/short-course/

bsky.app/profile/gesi...

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