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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 6h

tbh this is an incredible own

i searched for "matt yglesias" and the people also searched for are Nate Silver, Richard hanania, noah smith and jesse singal

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 01/10/2026

professors who married their students

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 27/09/2026

Choosin Texas? More like Texas Choosin Talarico

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 19/09/2026

I always get country fried steak for the table. Unlocks the whole menu. Everyone who steps into a diner is thinking in their head, 'should I do country fried steak?' But you don't wanna just do country fried steak, but you'd eat country fried steak. So you get the country fried steak for the table

always get pancakes for the table. Unlocks the whole menu. It's the best. Everyone who steps into a diner is thinking in their head, 'should I do pancakes?' But you don't wanna just do pancakes, but you'd eat pancakes. So you get the pancakes for the table" -Big Cat
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might be one of the best takes I've ever heard
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 15/09/2026

how is a hispanic person supposed to answer these questions

Hispanic or Latino Origin - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race
• Not Hispanic or Latino Origin
• I do not want to answer
Race *
• White (Not Hispanic or Latino)
• Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino)
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino)
• Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino)
• Native American or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino)
• Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino)
• I do not want to answer

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 07/09/2026

professors marrying their grad students back in the day

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 03/09/2026

Beyond science: patents draw more on R-authored work; news & policy draw more on D-authored work. The clearest sorting is at ideological think tanks. Left-leaning ones cite D-authored papers more, right-leaning ones cite R-authored papers more. Congressional committees show only weak signals.

Figure 4: Political alignment and societal uptake. (A) Relative Consumption Index (RCI) for
science with at least one Democratic-aligned author (blue) and at least one Republican-aligned
author (red), across news, patents, and policy, by high-level OpenAlex research domain.
Politically mixed papers contribute to both groups. RCI is the share of papers in each party-by-
domain cell receiving any uptake of a given type, divided by the partisan author linked corpus-
wide share receiving that uptake; the dashed ring marks RCI = 1 (the corpus-wide average), with
values greater than 1 indicating over-consumption and less than 1 indicating under-consumption.
(B–E) Standardized predicted policy-document citations per 1,000 papers for papers with at least
one Democratic-aligned author (blue) versus at least one Republican-aligned author (red), from
weighted Poisson fixed-effects models with OpenAlex topic and year fixed effects; predictions
are standardized over the observed covariate distribution by G-computation, estimated separately
for (B) left-leaning think tanks, and (C) right-leaning think tanks. (D) Democratic-controlled
congressional committees, (E) Republican-controlled congressional committees, (Panel headers
report the standardized R−D difference with its delta-method 95% confidence interval; brackets
and asterisks denote significance of the R−D contrast (*** p < 0.001).

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 03/09/2026

Uptake within science. Citation rates differ modestly (R-authored papers get ~8% fewer cites) and the gap closes by ~2015. Citation direction is more patterned: in every field, same-party citation exceeds what a topic- and year-preserving null predicts, by 2-9 points.

Figure 3: Political alignment and uptake within science. (A) Standardized predicted scientific
citation counts for papers with at least one Democratic-aligned author and papers with at least
one Republican-aligned author, from a weighted Poisson fixed-effects model with OpenAlex
topic and year fixed effects; the bracket reports the standardized R − D difference with its delta-
method 95% confidence interval. (B) Standardized R − D difference in predicted citations by
publication year, from a single pooled model interacting authorship party with year; shading
shows the delta-method 95% confidence interval. (C) Observed partisan homophily in the
citation network—the share of citations joining papers that share at least one party—within each
OpenAlex field, compared to a permutation null in which paper-level party labels are reshuffled
within publication-year × topic strata.

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 03/09/2026

Content. Among scientists with strong, behaviorally observed alignments, D- and R-authored papers are semantically distinguishable in all 26 fields, even conditioning on year + fine-grained topic. The partisan axes barely correlate across fields: no one left-right vocabulary runs through science.

density plot of partisan discriminant scores by party authorship across fields.

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 03/09/2026

The workforce first. Among scientists who donate, the skew is stark: ~60/40 D-R in the early 1980s, ~95/5 by 2020. But donors aren't the whole story. Our survey + voter files show many Independents (the largest group in physical sci & engineering) and lots of mixed views beneath the party labels

scatter plot of scientists positions on social and economic ideology dimensions, faceted by party ID

kernel density estimates of ideology from an IRT-based measure by party ID and ideological self placement

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 03/09/2026

New preprint w/ Jian Gao, @yianyin.bsky.social & @dashunwang.bsky.social. We link campaign finance, faculty rosters, voter files, a ~7,000-scientist survey & bibliometrics to ask if scientists' politics show up in the science that gets made & used. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

party composition of donors from 1980-2022

voter registration (E) and partisan self identification from a survey (F)

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 30/08/2026

Brady Hoke, head coach of the Michigan football team when Abdul El-Sayed was in Medical School there, exclusivity referred to Ohio State as “Ohio” as a sign of disrespect

$Ted Cruz Y @tedcruz What does it say that this never heard of Ohio State? .•. —who wants to represent Michigan-has Greg Price V @greg_price11 • Aug 28 'It's about to be football season...l can't wait to beat Ohio." - Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed ㅗ ++ the MOMENT BREAKING NEWS ONE-ON-ONE WITH MI DEM SENATE CANDIDATE ABDUL EL-SAYED 0:12 v09.51 19 RNCResearch OMOMENT | Katy Tur 10:39 PM • Aug 28, 2026 • 845.4K Views {7 522 3.2K ms.now FOLLOW THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS EMSNOW 648 Relevant< 71 View quotes >$

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 22/08/2026

i wonder if he is talking about me 🧐🤔

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.s... • 2m
The thing about Bluesky repliers being annoying is true but it's also kind of sad because it's usually someone with a piece of information they think they are uniquely in possession of and they are excited to share it with people as if they are fucking stupid. It's a loneliness thing.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.s... • 5m
Do you think I mean just turn it off tomorrow and let people starve? And if not what is the fucking point of this post?
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Lots of people would starve without industrialized farming
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 18/08/2026

Libby the neoliberal laguiole knife 🌐🌐

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 18/08/2026

Libby the neoliberal laguiole knife 🌐🌐

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 31/07/2026

what do they think fauci is guilty of? im serious -- what is even the accusation

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 28/07/2026

There are very strong financial incentives throughout the media to tell an unrepresentative group of highly engaged, educated, rich centrists what they want to hear. @mattyglesias.bsky.social

Matthew Yglesias • @mattyglesias • 1h There are very strong financial incentives throughout the media to tell an unrepresentative group of highly engaged, educated, younger progressives what they want to hear.
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Matt Yglesias went on Pod Save America to encourage Democrats to 'moderate' more. The listeners aren't buying it. These are the top comments.
They can stop trying to block any people running against incumbent. Is a very long list of what they could be doing. That is not just voting in the Senate.
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their donors and themselves. We need progressives.
Either you want policies that makes life better for everyone or a group of corrupt, racist, anti Igbtat, oligarchic, facists that throw black and brown people into concentration camps and kills innocent people in the streets. You either have a moral compass or you dont. Choose wisely.
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Moderating/standing for basically no movement is
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Every now and then 1 get a little hope the dem establishment might see what we really want, and then something like this podcast reminds me how utterly committed they are to ignoring us
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It's telling that Yglesias finished the sentence "trump has been so terrible, why can't Dems be undisciplined" rather than "Trump has been so terrible why can't Dems be so progressive/impactful/transformative"
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 23/07/2026

trubbish and its evolution garbodor

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 17/07/2026

most voters aren't ideological, the kind of position-taking that @mattyglesias.bsky.social is calling for here is elite signaling, not a way to win the voters that El Sayed needs

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12/07/2026

Today was king trumpet mushrooms and I had a leftover crepe from breakfast so

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 10/07/2026

Free press article from July 2024 noting El-Sayed's endorsement of Harris

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 18/06/2026

"there are no intellectuals on the left with respect to really dumb shit reactionary meme arguments" (h/t @jholbo.bsky.social for the screenshot)

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 12/06/2026

$But far more noteworthy is where S&P Dow Jones Indices didn't loosen up the rules: the S&P 500. SpaceX is only making a sliver of its overall shares available in its public offering; its float is expected to be about 4% of shares outstanding, which is well below the S&P 500's threshold. SpaceX is also deeply unprofitable, posting a net loss of $4.3 billion during Q1 2026. Add in the 12-month IPO seasoning period, and that's a clear strikeout. S&P Dow Jones Indices recently reviewed potential changes to several of its indices. It actually let through a few — it relaxed the float rules on a few products with fast-track allowances, most notably the S&P Total Market Index, which anchors the iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market ETF (ITOT). However, it kept its float, profitability and seasoning criteria in place for the S&P 500, as well as the S&P MidCap 400, S&P SmallCap 600, and S&P Composite 1500. That means if you hold any of the S&P 500 ETFs — Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO), iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV), State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF (SPYM) — you won't be holding any fraction of SpaceX stock for at least a year. The same goes if you own S&P 500 tracking index mutual funds, or even funds that are indirectly tethered to the S&P 500, such as State Street's sector funds. And we can expect similar fates for Anthropic, OpenAI and other mega-cap listings that are expected to offer small slivers of their total outstanding shares in their IPOs.$

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 06/06/2026

did it with a lineup of super bigs

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Charles Barkley
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NYK • 1990s

Wilt Chamberlain
GSW • 1960s
Can you go 82-0?
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 01/06/2026

i was responding to your words, not the article's

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 29/05/2026

trying to find the tweet about stephen miller and the AI thinks im talking to it

googled "shut up you ugly fuck"

and AI says "I can understand you might be frustrated but I am here to help, is there a specific issue bla blah bal

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