AI & robotics right now is mostly being touted as a way of decimating labor markets, or streamlining war and crowd control. Why would anyone be excited? Why wouldn’t people react to this as the threat they’re bragging it poses? I don’t distrust technology, I don’t trust corporations. Not the same.

convincing myself to apply for a position i'm wildly under-qualified for

An image of the article "Desistance": A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth

New publication alert! After four years of analysis, synthesis, and careful writing, I am pleased to announce a brand-new article, “Desistance”: A Multimethod Review of the Literature on Gender Identity Variability in Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth (1) 🧵
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not to gatekeep catholicism but the reason jd vance can't be catholic is he lacks the ability to feel guilt which is like 50% of the vibe (the other 50% is stained glass and relics)

I don't know it seems reasonable:

University-age
Maybe still in university / clinging onto their 20s
The only valid age group
Mid-life crisis era
Post mid-life crisis
Retired (if they can afford it)

these are the fun quips you'll get if you hire me

not to be reviewer 2 but if you argue Newsom is both a hater and an asshole then these should be represented as separate axes and not ends on a single dimension

getting rage-baited by the national post...

Terry Newman: Tech exec pitches Liberal convention on $500K exit tax for educated Canadians "You want to go to the U.S.? Give me back my money," Patrick Pichette, who built his career at Microsoft and Google, tells Liberal faithful.

Reading this headline while applying for multiple jobs abroad, as the Canadian government invests money to attract tenured American professors while providing no money to retain Canadian-trained PhDs

The first few articles in this collection are now published, including ours. I look forward to reading all. Our piece is not open access because of the ridiculous fees but the preprint linked at the end of the quoted thread (will link again below) is the accepted version of our commentary.

You should take note when analysts are sephiroth posting and the Pope is telling you to call your representatives.

#AcademicSky

Meta-analysis on media portrayals of minority groups.

Finding equal sized effects for positive & negative portrayals.

And little moderation.

Even if nothing happens tonight, the President of the United States of America has already threatened to use the Armed Forces to end a civilization in order to secure policy and regime change. That ketchup doesn't go back in the bottle.

We further conceptualize ‘algorithmic bias’ as a novel form of implicit prejudice—in which human prejudices are 'laundered' via the opacity of AI—and introduce the idea of a computational level of prejudice that interacts with systemic and individual levels of analysis.

i'm gonna be brave and say immigration attitudes

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

sometimes I feel so far behind on my writing career but I try to tell myself ok whatever I'm like one google doc away from being where I want to be

@bendouglas.bsky.social in case you were also interested in the answer

Thank you!

The author of this article was getting piled on in the QTs. They made a thread urging academics to leave bluesky (and go to LinkedIn) because people are not willing to have civil discussions. Which is an ironic statement to make while being fully active on X.

A collaborator just flagged this for me because I did the vibe-based way on one scale, and followed an actual recommendation based on simulations (for a particular scale) in another and was hoping there was a real reason lol

Ok so in grad school (or undergrad) I was taught to just compute an average score for participants in a scale if they complete at least X% of items (like 70-80%?).

Is there like...a rationale to that or is it vibe-based?

I've seen colleagues post about their work on things like LGBTQI+ identity, with no advocacy, and get called homophobic slurs.

I locked my account on twitter years ahead of it becoming what it is today, because of the growing right-wing trolling of academics who do anything related to diversity, regardless of whether it was political.

I'd take this call to leave Bluesky, a place I already don't like posting at in an academic capacity, more seriously from someone who wasn't actively posting on Twitter.

...I don't believe in American exceptionalism enough to think that *their* xenophobia is uniquely caused by the left.

I had some thoughts regarding the Canadian context, but I'm implementing my "don't tweet more than you write" rule about my work

If anyone can drop a link I'd like to read this, but blaming this on "the left's" stance on illegal vs legal immigration doesn't really explain the global right-wing shift in anti-immigrant attitudes and...

can you all keep your controversial opinions on the NYT so i can at least read it through a university subscription

This makes sense if you think that being born to immigrant parents is an unforgivable sin that not even patriotic martyrdom could ever atone for.

And that’s how these people and their families will be treated once they’re in as well.

Despicable.

Hey, @mark-carney.bsky.social, there's DECADES of high-quality research documenting the value of public spaces as public health determinants. (And you appreciate Value(s), don't you??) Toronto's lakefront should be a resource for ALL Torontonians and visitors to Toronto, not just people on planes.