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marcseg.bsky.social
Working on innovation in #scholcomm @AIPP by day; obsessed with history, cultural criticism, food, and music by night; family work throughout
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I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅

submitted 14 days ago • 49 comments

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

submitted 21 days ago • 31 comments

I would trade a big beautiful golden dome for cancer research, seriously

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 29 days ago • 40 comments

So tired of the disruption metaphor in tech and startups. Solutions, service, addressing needs so much better and less bro culture.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

David Thomas, anarchic Pere Ubu bandleader, dies aged 71

submitted 57 days ago • 8 comments

In fact, it is offensively ridiculous to think that any but a handful of people disappeared by ICE will be able to file habeas corpus, because it relies on them having informed families with connections to available knowledgeable lawyers with time and resources to act instantly.

submitted 73 days ago • 164 comments

with apologies to @xkcd.com

submitted 77 days ago • 23 comments

Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

submitted 90 days ago • 95 comments

To be clear: this is both economically and physically suicidal. More later.

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

@adambonica.bsky.social showed ideology predicts which agencies experience DOGE layoffs. But what other factors could be driving this? Using a generative LLM-derived measure, I find agencies perceived as knowledge institutions are more likely to experience layoffs, even controlling for ideology. 🧵

submitted 106 days ago • 6 comments

honestly it is like picking up money off the ground -- everyplace should be doing this

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

Key findings: persuasion can happen (30% changed minds) through perspective taking, personal narratives, highlighting common ground.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

When we see GOP hypocrisy it’s a unilateral power grab.

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

This from my old friend Jim Martin.

submitted 133 days ago • 58 comments

Jersey.

submitted 135 days ago • 361 comments