You beat me to it. Dammit!

Tragic. Please pass this along to US Chairs and Deans, and consider it when you sit on promotion committees. This, combined with the review backlog, is dire - especially for our early career researchers.

The past and the future are both now

I'm glad they let you keep so many in!

Funny footnotes in the paper describing the ggdist package for R, by Matthew Kay.

If you've not read the ggdist package paper in IEEE, you're missing some excellent footnotes.

ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/102...

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The Slow Science Movement advocates for a more thoughtful, sustainable approach to research that values quality over quantity and depth over speed.

It sounds trivial, but if you are an active researcher you know it is not.

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Liberalism.org: An Online Magazine for Free and Open People An Online Magazine for Free & Open People

We’ve launched @liberalism.org! It’s a online journal of liberal ideas, exploring the ways liberalism points to a better future and how we can get there, from me and my @theihs.org colleagues @jkuznicki.bsky.social and @uncanonical.net, and feature essays from top scholars, podcasts, and more.

Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now The more I get into philosophical and philosophy-adjacent discussions of current-generation "artificial intelligence" (large language models and the like), the more dismayed I am not to see any discus...

Why I think, in the current A.I. moment, we should be reading Paul Churchland. #philsky #philsci

thehangedman.com/philosophy/p...

In case you ever wondered about the differences between magrittr pipe and base pipe 🤔

This table is taken from a great stackoverflow answer by @GeorgKindermann

stackoverflow.com/questions/67...

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I've found JabRef to be a pretty good interface for managing a big bibtex database. Customizable and capable of addressing many of the issues summarized here. Even still, I almost always have to make tweaks to the local .bib files I pull off for individual papers.

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

CreepyLink Make your links look as suspicious as possible

This is hilarious: creepylink.com

@gorskon.bsky.social comes to mind

The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

Welcome to the shithole.

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Beautiful bow echo!

We had a few of these squall line systems in Illinois years back. Created big derecho events. I'm happy I don't have to worry about storm season in New England!

Dunno. I think this list is pretty wack. Ferrell and Stiller belong nowhere on it. No *Life of Brian*, no *Ghostbusters*. Lebowski and others ranked way too low (below *The Waterboy*?!). Missing essential Chaplin, Anderson, Cohens. *Office Space* could replace a handful of the '90s picks.

Losing to Richard Ayoade is a great honor!

Heyo! Gemini 3 Pro actually does the tool call. gemini.google.com/share/f88a98...

The "Crafting a Fake Persona" step in Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning when creating the character of Begbie from Irvine Welsh's *Trainspotting*.

One "upgrade" in Gemini 3 Pro is that my "Asshole" gem, which I instructed to be a complete asshole to me, no longer works. Flagged as abusive and profane.

As an alternative, Gemini suggests roleplay a specific character. So I said "embody Begbie from Trainspotting".

The funniest "thinking" step:

It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr

I was opposed to the deal Brown struck with Trump over the summer, knowing full well it would probably cost me my job if the university didn't do it.

I am happy they rejected this compact, at the very least, though I would have liked a more forceful statement.

This is a good one. I've got some remedial reading to do.

New post on what happens when you can't press undo, from research and banking to cryptography and modern AI: kucharski.substack.com/p/not-going-...

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