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Causal inference iceberg! What's missing?

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 1 day ago • 471 comments

Full-on eugenics, in its most rabid, racist form is oozing its way back into mainstream discourse.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Shots fired: "the minority of researchers who used the R programming language were more likely to report outlier estimates than researchers who used Stata."

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Insurrectionists at the helm of the American government.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is extremely, extremely bad. Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Have read a lot of powerful analysis on the harm Trump is doing to Europe with recent moves, not enough on the self-harm his foreign policy is bringing on the US.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

Oh boy

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I know it's overdone, but imagine if Soros was invited to a Biden Cabinet Meeting

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

No words. This is absolutely horrendous news

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The data doesn’t lie unless it’s entered incorrectly. But it does reflect your values, or even biases. First it depends on what you’ve chosen to measure and second how you weigh one parameter against another. It all needs debate from diverse perspectives.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

There comes a time when sociology must defend society, when STS must remind us of the importance of science, when the humanities must teach us about dehumanization in history.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Decoupling of euro tech systems is gonna be a thing if current political trends hold.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Variable names should be relatively short, ideally an abbreviatio you haven't seen before, not refer to their actual purpose and stylistically inconsistent!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Fair Or Not, Churchill’s “Never Surrender” Rhetoric Is Angering Hitler. Is His Style Hurting Britain?

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Trump is allied with Putin. The press keeps acting like that's some kind of mystery or that Trump has some unspoken principled reason for his geopolitical actions. He doesn't.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Truly disgusting. Never thought that US will join the cool kids’ club: Russia, Belarus, Haiti, Hungary…

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

In this trying times for the Academy, can we afford for-profit publishers? The APCs and other fees are avoiable. We have the tools, we have the manpower -- let's just move to non-profit publishing models now.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

En meget god idé å støtte forskermigrasjon fra USA til Norge. Åpne stipender som gir forutsigbarhet over litt tid (a la ERC) kan kanskje være en mulighet?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

American and Russian shares…

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Should you sell your Tesla? Should you stop using “X?” Should gov'ts stop supporting Starlink or Space X? Yes. Failing to do so empowers those who are actively trying to destroy our democracy & who are hurting the most vulnerable in our society and around the world. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

This is a deeply concerning (and frankly, mystifying) development at the CDC that has totally flown under the radar. PRAMS provides basic public health surveillance of maternal-child health outcomes and they have quietly shut it down.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

This is a good summary of what the rats are chewing on

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

State media watch

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Anything that Trusk dislikes must be wrong? What an idiot and/or hypocrite this Musk type must be.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Åkesson påstår nu att han har varit ett föredöme i sin tydlighet mot Ryssland. Han som 99 av 100 dagar lyckades med detta:

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Make this @OfficialUoM press release viral “Trump … echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming …Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%…polling…puts his approval rating at 63% - making him the most popular politician in the country.” www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/t...

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Never forget, never forgive

submitted 8 days ago • 93 comments

Quote of the day: The Soviet Foreign Minister, speaking on October 31st 1939, chastising the UK/France as warmongers because they were continuing to prepare for war against Nazi Germany, even after the invasion of Poland had ended in Polish defeat and the cessation of fighting. Plus ca change...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

They wasted all that tea for this?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

submitted 9 days ago • 295 comments

“The leaders of 500 millions Europeans are waiting for 340 million Americans to protect them from 140 million russians who haven’t been able to win against 30 million Ukrainians for 3 years.” -Kateryna Yushchenko former First Lady of Ukraine

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

A practical, feasible and important way forward for Europe in Ukraine when the US is selling out to Russia:

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Jahas

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

This was Donalds plan all along. Take Ukraine, a country under invasion, fighting for their lives and freedom and has suffered so much, and blackmail them so hard he'll bleed out any chance of them ever getting back on their feet. America no longer stands for freedom and democracy.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck off, Kemi. We can’t even get the students to read the module handbook.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

PoliSci types I know have frequently said over the last few years that dramatic regime collapse can be swift and difficult to predict. I just thought they were talking about Russia.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Trump declared himself above the law today. Literally announced it. Pinned it to his feed for emphasis. The White House reposted it. All to underscore it’s not some passing thought, which would be bad enough. It’s not the top story on any news site that I can find. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

submitted 12 days ago • 103 comments

What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. This is how democracy dies.

submitted 10 days ago • 869 comments

On the US naturalization test, one of the questions you're asked is "What is the 'rule of law'?" The acceptable answers are: "Everyone must follow the law." "No one is above the law." "The government must follow the law." And variations thereof. Just felt compelled to mention that.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing its own history.

submitted 11 days ago • 129 comments

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 11 days ago • 494 comments

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments

Keep thinking about how the Nazis had to physically go to Hirschfeld’s clinic & loot it & burn the books themselves. Meanwhile proud American organisations preemptively delete and fire because the king told them to.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments