The real q is how you react to such education: do you a) refuse to assert a causal claim pleading absence of evidence, or b) triangulate the causal claim w/ whatever evidence is available, even if not covered in this course and communicate uncertainly? I do not like that (a) is now seen as virtuous.
Causal inference courses: here's how you estimate causal effects and these are the assumptions you rely on and by the way the assumptions are always violated kthxbye
Enjoying reading this attempt at quantifying evidence triangulation: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Shocking and devastating. He was so excited about the new chapter in Oxford…
We were grad students at UC San Diego together. Dale was honour and class incarnate. Whether he crafted philosophy (that would invariably get published in top places) or singling Purple Rain in karaoke. Leaves a partner with two young daughters, suddenly alone in new to them Oxford. Devastating
This bumper special issue was an absolute joy to co-edit. Get stuck in!
Just finished Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume I. Never been so puzzled about what I’ve read. Huh? Most importantly how did i practically inhale a novel in two days with zero understanding of it? Some dark magic … anyone can share any thoughts?
Solidarity to you, fellow loon
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Our paper was recognized as a 2024 top cited article in Social and Personality Psychology Compass. See paper 👉 doi.org/10.1111/spc3...
In this paper with Micaela Rodriguez, we addressed a problem in the solitude literature: what exactly are we studying when we study “solitude”?
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This was our one in Cambridge. Established in WWII during rationing, councils were allowed to keep them open so long as they were not subsidised. Cambridge kept going until the early 1970s! www.cambridgehistorian.co.uk/photographs/...
Or Mark Twain’s ‘golf is a good walk spoiled’
MA courses and entire departments are being closed, redundancies are sweeping the sector - and the UK Government is running a ‘Choose Canada’ marketing campaign
Much of this very long article are quotes of Altman, followed by him claiming he does ‘not recall putting it like that’. Lying clearly comes easily to Sam. Still, given his reference class, it is hard to muster moral outrage at him specifically.
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Signing my name under each and every one of your rants. Total snake oil
Thought for the Day The Revered J. C. Flannel Does God believe in William? "Well, you know, in a real sense, I think God is coming to terms with the apparent contradictions inherent in the so-called existence of Prince William. I mean, there's the Old Testament William who fought with his brother and smote him, according to Chapter 4 of the Book of Harry, which some people feel is apocryphal, and he has always been quite a vengeful Prince with his unforgiving attitude to his uncle who has admittedly followed an unrighteous path, but who one might feel has been punished enough, and then of course there is the New Testament Wills, who is much more compassionate and concerned for the future of the planet and all who dwell on it and who seems in a very real sense to embody some deep spiritual desire while his divine wife is miraculously omnipresent on all pages of all newspapers at all times which suggests... continued until the weather at 7.58am.
Exquisite @privateeyenews.bsky.social
There’s a point when you get enough citations that your work enters the literature and people don’t necessarily engage with the substance, just the received idea of what it’s about. This has a lot to do with how academics read (or don’t, I think).
The staging of Summerfolk was fantastic. The play itself is long repetitive, heavy on revolutionary agitprop. Gorky tried to parody Chekhov but kinda parodied himself. Flashes of brilliant dialogue though, which ring unsettlingly prescient today as they were in 1904
Night time view of London south bank on a warm evening. Party crowd in the foreground St Paul’s Cathedral in the background
View from the balcony of NT last night, St Paul’s gleaming in the background. On a warm evening like yesterday southbank is heavenly…
Important paper out recently in Journal of Public Economics by Claudia Senik and Alberto Prati on the existence of rescaling in life satisfaction measures.
Substantial implications, e.g. for the Easterlin Paradox:
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More photos!
Growing up reading Foucault, Velazquez has always been very present in my mind. And van Eyck is one of my favourite painters. It was the wonderful work of art historian Erwin Panofsky that made me think about what is involved in perspectival representation warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Ich wurde sagen ich ware stolz, aber eigentlich bin ich einfach nur suchtig
It is such a brilliant idea to use the two paintings. It must had been so satisfying when you stumbled upon it