Dean Shamess
@deanshamess.ca
deanshamess.ca
Ph.D. Candidate at JSGS USask // Science Policy, Science of Science, Science and Power and Populism // econ, policy, polisci… whatever works
Ph.D. Candidate at JSGS USask // Science Policy, Science of Science, Science and Power and Populism // econ, policy, polisci… whatever works
Re: Summers, Sahm and econ’s many other problems.
I’m a pretty average PhD student, and I didn’t pursue an Econ PhD because of its issues with race, gender, hierarchy etc etc etc
1) in the minds of some - I know this first hand - it’s “just a women’s issue” … the “just” being absurd even
I’m a pretty average PhD student, and I didn’t pursue an Econ PhD because of its issues with race, gender, hierarchy etc etc etc
1) in the minds of some - I know this first hand - it’s “just a women’s issue” … the “just” being absurd even
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Re: Summers, Sahm and econ’s many other problems.
I’m a pretty average PhD student, and I didn’t pursue an Econ PhD because of its issues with race, gender, hierarchy etc etc etc
1) in the minds of some - I know this first hand - it’s “just a women’s issue” … the “just” being absurd even
I’m a pretty average PhD student, and I didn’t pursue an Econ PhD because of its issues with race, gender, hierarchy etc etc etc
1) in the minds of some - I know this first hand - it’s “just a women’s issue” … the “just” being absurd even
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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W O W
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 AM
W O W
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Gross. Meta is running advertorials in The Hub - and you wouldn’t know unless you read the byline. For shame, @thehubcanada.bsky.social
omg.
Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Gross. Meta is running advertorials in The Hub - and you wouldn’t know unless you read the byline. For shame, @thehubcanada.bsky.social
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"The multiyear spending plan also calls for a 2% cut to the nation’s three major research funding councils. But that reduction is far smaller than the 15% cut researchers had feared was coming, and science advocacy groups generally welcomed the budget."
Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Canada’s new budget aims to lure U.S. researchers to relocate
Spending plan also calls for smaller research spending cut than feared
www.science.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"The multiyear spending plan also calls for a 2% cut to the nation’s three major research funding councils. But that reduction is far smaller than the 15% cut researchers had feared was coming, and science advocacy groups generally welcomed the budget."
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It has been a great day at @stemcellnetwork.ca's #TMM2025!
And I'm looking forward to more tomorrow, including joining @jsnyder.bsky.social, @lr-bg.bsky.social, & @deanshamess.ca first thing, for a discussion on public trust in science and policy decisions.
And I'm looking forward to more tomorrow, including joining @jsnyder.bsky.social, @lr-bg.bsky.social, & @deanshamess.ca first thing, for a discussion on public trust in science and policy decisions.
Looking forward to presenting - bright and early - tomorrow at #TMM2025. I'll be talking about how how markers of legitimacy can be sticky - that is, hard to get out of the public domain and imagination - once they are in circulation. @stemcellnetwork.ca
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It has been a great day at @stemcellnetwork.ca's #TMM2025!
And I'm looking forward to more tomorrow, including joining @jsnyder.bsky.social, @lr-bg.bsky.social, & @deanshamess.ca first thing, for a discussion on public trust in science and policy decisions.
And I'm looking forward to more tomorrow, including joining @jsnyder.bsky.social, @lr-bg.bsky.social, & @deanshamess.ca first thing, for a discussion on public trust in science and policy decisions.
Incredibly excited to be presenting some (preliminary) results from my dissertation at Till & McCulloch 2025 @stemcellnetwork.ca tomorrow.
Bigger thread to follow but, we launched an experiment in Canada and the US exploring some timely questions about the public funding of science (PFS).
(1/2)
Bigger thread to follow but, we launched an experiment in Canada and the US exploring some timely questions about the public funding of science (PFS).
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November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Incredibly excited to be presenting some (preliminary) results from my dissertation at Till & McCulloch 2025 @stemcellnetwork.ca tomorrow.
Bigger thread to follow but, we launched an experiment in Canada and the US exploring some timely questions about the public funding of science (PFS).
(1/2)
Bigger thread to follow but, we launched an experiment in Canada and the US exploring some timely questions about the public funding of science (PFS).
(1/2)
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How do people around the world encounter science, and what shapes those encounters?
Our new global study found that social media now carries much of the world’s science content, but local culture, infrastructure, and curiosity still determine how people engage. #ScienceSky #scicomm
Our new global study found that social media now carries much of the world’s science content, but local culture, infrastructure, and curiosity still determine how people engage. #ScienceSky #scicomm
How the World Talks About Science
Our new international study finds that science communication looks very different depending on culture, media systems, and access to technology.
matthewfacciani.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
How do people around the world encounter science, and what shapes those encounters?
Our new global study found that social media now carries much of the world’s science content, but local culture, infrastructure, and curiosity still determine how people engage. #ScienceSky #scicomm
Our new global study found that social media now carries much of the world’s science content, but local culture, infrastructure, and curiosity still determine how people engage. #ScienceSky #scicomm
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Anti-elitism is so effective today that campaigns against populist candidates can *increase* support for them. www.nber.org/papers/w34430
Political Information and Network Effects
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Anti-elitism is so effective today that campaigns against populist candidates can *increase* support for them. www.nber.org/papers/w34430
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to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
NEW: I reviewed a text chain provided by an acquaintance of Graham Platner where the person discussed with others Platner’s Nazi-like tattoo months before the story became public, undercutting claims Platner only recently learned of it.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Graham Platner’s claims that he didn’t know tattoo was Nazi-linked undercut by new evidence | CNN Politics
A KFile investigation has uncovered mounting evidence that Platner — a Marine veteran— was aware of and defended the use of Nazi symbolism that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.
www.cnn.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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One tactic these data guys use online is to dismiss academic work they don’t like by calling it “overly complex” or “disconnected from reality.” I call this anti-rigor propaganda. It’s a move to sour people on serious scholarship when you don’t have better evidence.
Adam addresses it in the piece.
Adam addresses it in the piece.
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
One tactic these data guys use online is to dismiss academic work they don’t like by calling it “overly complex” or “disconnected from reality.” I call this anti-rigor propaganda. It’s a move to sour people on serious scholarship when you don’t have better evidence.
Adam addresses it in the piece.
Adam addresses it in the piece.
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Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...
Wars on Science, Real and Otherwise
The War on Science, ed. Lawrence Krauss, documents an imaginary "war on science" from the left in order to justify an entirely real war on science from the right.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...
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humans ARE NOT built for this 9-5 shit
In hunter gatherer times I would’ve raced cars
In hunter gatherer times I would’ve raced cars
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 AM
humans ARE NOT built for this 9-5 shit
In hunter gatherer times I would’ve raced cars
In hunter gatherer times I would’ve raced cars
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This is why we need a public inquiry (as even Wyant seems to imply).
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is why we need a public inquiry (as even Wyant seems to imply).
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Transparency helps innovation ... until it doesn't.
My new paper with Cunningham, Hodgson, and Wang (on the JM!) studies the 2017 FDA Final Rule, which required drug firms to publicly disclose all clinical trial results.
Disclosure increased, but innovation slowed.
cowles.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
My new paper with Cunningham, Hodgson, and Wang (on the JM!) studies the 2017 FDA Final Rule, which required drug firms to publicly disclose all clinical trial results.
Disclosure increased, but innovation slowed.
cowles.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Transparency helps innovation ... until it doesn't.
My new paper with Cunningham, Hodgson, and Wang (on the JM!) studies the 2017 FDA Final Rule, which required drug firms to publicly disclose all clinical trial results.
Disclosure increased, but innovation slowed.
cowles.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
My new paper with Cunningham, Hodgson, and Wang (on the JM!) studies the 2017 FDA Final Rule, which required drug firms to publicly disclose all clinical trial results.
Disclosure increased, but innovation slowed.
cowles.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
They took my undergrad thesis and just tweeted it out…
(I’m kidding (obviously!) but it’s very cool to see this and think about the unbelievable struggles I had with Stata + statscan trying to think about what was going on with stem earnings and willingness/ability to move to Alberta mattered…)
(I’m kidding (obviously!) but it’s very cool to see this and think about the unbelievable struggles I had with Stata + statscan trying to think about what was going on with stem earnings and willingness/ability to move to Alberta mattered…)
We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."
Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.
Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.
October 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
They took my undergrad thesis and just tweeted it out…
(I’m kidding (obviously!) but it’s very cool to see this and think about the unbelievable struggles I had with Stata + statscan trying to think about what was going on with stem earnings and willingness/ability to move to Alberta mattered…)
(I’m kidding (obviously!) but it’s very cool to see this and think about the unbelievable struggles I had with Stata + statscan trying to think about what was going on with stem earnings and willingness/ability to move to Alberta mattered…)
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Realizing that I posted these Deadwood shitposts about 15k followers ago so a repost can’t hurt
September 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Realizing that I posted these Deadwood shitposts about 15k followers ago so a repost can’t hurt
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And, I won't wade into this debate any longer, but statistical research often focuses on edge cases. It's a question of consistency and efficiency of estimators and procedures. That's how we have vetted methods for the entirety of mathematical statistics.
September 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
And, I won't wade into this debate any longer, but statistical research often focuses on edge cases. It's a question of consistency and efficiency of estimators and procedures. That's how we have vetted methods for the entirety of mathematical statistics.
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Millennials are the chosen people, the only ones who can redeem the world
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Millennials are the chosen people, the only ones who can redeem the world
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I wrote up my thoughts about Abundance Conference publiccomment.blog/p/when-is-a-...
When is a tent too big?
Regarding Abundance Conference 2025
publiccomment.blog
September 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I wrote up my thoughts about Abundance Conference publiccomment.blog/p/when-is-a-...
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On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."
Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;
We really need more papers on this issue
Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;
We really need more papers on this issue
August 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."
Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;
We really need more papers on this issue
Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;
We really need more papers on this issue