Bennett / is on Nostr

HistSci / STS PhD candidate studying the politics of data sharing in the sciences. Herbivore. He/him.

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2024-06-18 20:05:19

rage, rage against the dying of the light
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2024-06-11 21:28:15

Anyone have a good resource (especially tutorials! especially in R!) that explains causal analysis using instrumental variables in an intuitive, sticky way?
I don't use them, but I read a lot of work that does, and every time I teach myself how it works, the intuition sticks for about an hour, and then I'm back at square one.
#economics #rstats #statistics

2024-05-10 19:34:57

can't get past how on-the-nose it is to cancel your Muslim valedictorian's speech in favor of an orgy of drones and pyrotechnics; pure militaristic aesthetics

2024-03-19 18:38:06

"Cyberpunk is out and solarpunk is in, according to Figma’s CEO" 🙄
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/18/24104890/figma-ceo-dylan-field-cyberpunk-solarpunk-trends-sxsw-2024 #cyberpunk #solarpunk #sxsw
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2024-02-26 00:46:51

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@npub1jrl…krkx oh dang, @npub1hks…ps44 is on masto? That rules, thanks for letting me know!

2024-02-25 19:04:11

On Twitter I knew way more than I needed to about NYC politics, on here I know way more than I need to about SF politics.
Who are some good folks & pubs to follow to keep tabs on what's happening besides #USpol and between SF and NY?
I'll start:
#Iowa - @npub1zmf…keup
#Texas - @npub1hgr…2e7r
#Colorado - @npub1ens…dar0
#wisconsin
- @npub1xp2…mr65 (investigative)
- @npub19v8…0w22 (Local paper)
#Utah - @npub1wn2…l8z9
#EnvironmentalJustice - @npub1xdl…tp2q
Local politics & power - @npub1lsf…z7mv

2024-02-16 00:49:11

so glad, in the year of scams 2024, that the tech industry is ploughing even more billions of ill-gotten gains into doing even more damage to our collective epistemology

2024-02-13 20:42:24

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@npub1pgx…636r Wyden's letter is worth reading in full, it's super damning and gives you a sense of the banal scale of the problem
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/signed_near_letter_to_ftc_and_sec.pdf

2024-02-02 00:05:51

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 there photos out there of him wearing them, from which we can gather that (1) he 100% had access, but nonetheless looked at the sun without them but also (2) that the simplest reading of the most famous photos ("lol, he thinks he's too good for sun protection") is at least partly false
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2024-01-25 19:37:28

On Thursdays, you might notice a bunch of different outlets publishing a similar science story all at once. Today, it's about how an invasive ant is changing the landscape of the savanna and, with it, lions' diets. 🦁 🐜 🦓
It's an interesting discovery -- I like @npub124v…r54v's coverage in Science News -- but I want to talk about why this happens, because it's an insider view that most folks don't have 🧵
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/invasive-ant-lion-dinner-trees-ecosystem
#Science #SciComm #Journalism #Media
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2024-01-25 18:19:43

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@npub1yyx…qa5g same energy as the "we *have* to give you this annoying cookie banner because of evil bureaucrats" instead of simply making everyone's life better and more private