Have they checked for autism though

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

I recommend vibe-counting

For anyone looking for postdocs for their students, over the next few months LSE “fellow” positions will start being listed. Research + teaching but 2-3 year runway.

The new Global School of Sustainability has 5 new ones posted now! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺

1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment

on repdata.com

3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study

details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_...
applications open Feb 1

please repost!

Ansell comes out against snitching

NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”

mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent

Yes I have! Amazingly, every journal has its own long, idiosyncratic, and self-contradictory checklist spread across three web pages

Thank you

Tonight we're gonna rock you (tonight)

Excellent either way, thanks

If you have any ideas of how to accomplish that, I'd love to hear them.

Right. In practice this might require either delaying publication of the critique (with costs to critique authors and maybe the community) or foregoing peer review of the authors' "last word" rejoinder. In our standard procedure the original authors get to weigh in on the critique during our review.

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What do you think we should be doing better/differently? I'm not directly involved in these cases, and I think some who were involved are not on the team anymore. In general our policy has been to welcome productive critiques/replications in the journal.

A friend texted me a few days ago that ”They are actually cutting down the trees, apparently at the request of neighbors. And repairing the retaining wall they accidentally knocked down earlier this year while pruning."

Saint Olaf College is making a tenure track hire in feminist philosophy. We have great students, a lively, collegial department, and are near the vibrant twin cities metro area. Great job! Drop me a line with any questions. philjobs.org/job/show/29582

Mediocre religion

Mrs. Gaga

The Sobbing Sobbers

A Band

Dukes of Leon

Guns 'n carnations

Thump!

The K Street Band

Evanston

Penny Creek

Tony? Toni? Toné?

Local anesthesia

Taylor Moderately Fast