I have several advisees who have chosen this route, most of whom could have landed entry level academic jobs (postdocs or better) and simply wanted something different. All of them seem extremely happy.
There is a whole section of Esping-Andersen's Social Foundations of Postindustrial Society about the distribution of laundry services across different countries. The US is a huge outlier
Are you headed to MPSA this week? Trying to figure out where to go in the city? Here is my non-comprehensive, incomplete map list of places to eat and a couple of things to do.
MPSA · Erin
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It's a typo in the QT. He actually says 'quantitative' and says value of qual will increase. The one thing he got right ;)
The weird thing is that that account is otherwise posting aggressive centrist democrat (anti Sanders, anti AOC) stuff and has "ANTIFA" in the bio... Mastodon at least has consistent purists who yell at you in German.
I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org
I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
The WCAG guidelines (which are written into relevant US laws & regulations) are very plain on this: "Color is not the only way of distinguishing information." (WCAG 1.4.1)
The only time you can use color is if the pure contrast is big enough to be discernible by itself, which is hard to do
Also, big _might_ there... the lit on digital accessible is near universal in hating on automated checks with the main difference being one of degree.
"Being a stranger who wanders into (and often quickly out of) people’s lives may have some methodological advantages vis-à-vis allowing for intimacy and distance to commingle." Aliya Rao with a super useful article for thinking about rapport in qualitative research.
Please people, I'm begging you, read the actual footnote before you post this image.
This this has been bouncing around for years now, and its a case study in deceptive data presentation.
Especially now, more of us should do this
The 2024 election had the largest Black-White turnout gap in more than three decades. It's a crisis, my friends.
goodauthority.org/news/2024-br...
It's a really nice car -- have fun with it
Right above your post in my feed: bsky.app/profile/jack...
Also, of course, Americans are more educated than at any point in history.
As were Germans in 1930, for that matter
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the idea that education provides any kind of inoculation against fascist or far-right radicalization is both misguided and dangerous.
In 2024, Trump won 46% of college graduates and 33% of those with postgraduate degrees. Those are serious numbers.
I am firming up spring and summer conference planning, and if you are too, here are a few where I will be leading or contributing to training on reproducibility (for journals and for your own research) 🧵
I don't think that's how provide is generally understood (dictionary def. is to 'make available'), and it's obviously not the one intended by OP (you can't have SLAs with 'all AI labs'), but if that's how you understand it, then no, that's not the case.
atproto is a public feed. It's being made available to everyone (including AI labs) for free
Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history
right, that's certainly not a bad life, not even at NYC prices, but it's also a long shot from trust fund baby money
I mean -- endowed chair at an ivy is also not going to be paid poorly -- 200-300k I'd guess?
Poli sci did a good job on this one. Among others, shoutout to Grimmer for demonstrating in court (twice, I believe) that Eastman’s empirical claims about the 2020 election being manipulated were false
More generally, I'm highly skeptical that an academia with lots of small payments for services is going to be more just (&it's definitely going to be more annoying)
Also, non-profits have to be able to run surpluses to survive. The Conversation also lost 1m in 2022, for example
Exactly one year ago today:
Congrats on this -- love the format with the interviews. You're aware that the data at doi.org/10.34894/XTC... isn't live yet?
I just find the switching confusing. It's easier for a teacher to be Mr. Smith consistently than to have him be Pete or Mr. Smith depending on who I talk to.
Also, yes, shaped by conservatism: The correlation of whose kids call me Mr. Karcher, Mr. Sebastian & Sebastian to political ideology is >0.7
