What is the collective noun for 2379 political scientists?

I would quite like to know how many years of young economist life have been spent developing some novel new world of economics only for it not to work and then they have zero papers

Aka all AER contributions

A pleasure to be part of this committee! Alia is going to go on to great things. Watch out, world

I can humbly confirm this as an English man wondering why all baseball players wear the same number on this his first baseball game

Same

me at Faculty Meeting rn

What's a game theory

I also plan to sublet my apartment for 50 grand a month if you're interested

You can do that yes

I'm going to wear shorts to work and there's nothing ANY of you can do about it

I've been saying this for years

Tomorrow I will teach a three hour grad class on using Claude Code for iterative refinement of the whole research pipeline.

Going into this completely blind to whether it'll be a disaster or not.

But I'm excited to try!

I'll share materials if it's not terrible

To be fair, right. In two years of being a new father and tenure track faculty I've racked up 0 days of golf. I'm not sure either of these dudes come across fantastically

If I tweet about how the spacex landings looked cooler do I get banned from bluesky?

I've missed collective awe and happiness social media

I had no choice

Actually quite a good idea for a new social media. It's literally just email

So X is a cess pit
Bluesky is dying
Linkedin is AI LoveWhereYouWork slop

Am I gonna have to just shitpost on Strava now?

Totally normal country producing totally normal kids books

Literally just found myself saying to my computer "no, you push it."

Anyway it's all over

TIL that if I say the word "blimey" to a class of predominantly US grad. students they will all immediately start laughing at me

This is a good example of why you should check what's being funneled onto your restaurant website by the API

My favourite thing about Radio 6 Music is that interviewees can say things like "I've been spending more time in nocturnal contexts and expanding my horizons sonically" and the conversation continues as if that's not an absolutely absurd set of words for a human to say in earnest

Oh and Gazza was the first one to try the rap

The "Madchester" podcast on iPlayer about the rise of the Manchester music scene in the 80s and 90s is great

also includes little gems like the first version of World in Motion was called E is for England and went "E is for England, England starts with E / We'll all be smiling when we're in Italy"

The Claude Code leak makes me a feel a lot better about all the redundant code in my repos

They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?

Look I know I have skin in this game and yesterday enjoyed an expensive burger but I do struggle to see why there's such a discussion around daycare but the same debate doesnt exist when it comes to free public primary and high schools...

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

I just paid 500 dollars for a return ticket to Berlin from Greece. So yeah