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Alejandro Schuler

@aschuler.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Biostatistics UC Berkeley semiparametric statistics, machine learning, causal inference, stats/ML pedagogy, social justice Modern Causal Inference Book: alejandroschuler.github.io/mci/

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.
curbed.com
The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool
The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026
It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age.
john calvin thinks you're the elect of the machine god probably
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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eerste van der Helststraat, Amsterdam, in 1982 and today. A street once dominated by parked cars to a car free place for people, with children playing, greenery and cafés making use of reclaimed outdoor space. This is what’s possible when we choose to redesign our streets for life, not storage.
Split-screen comparison of Eerste van der Helststraat in Amsterdam in 1982 and today. The historical black-and-white photo shows the street with parked cars on both sides of the street, a cyclist and pedestrians. The modern colour photo shows the same street transformed into a car-free public space, with trees, plants, outdoor seating, pedestrians and children playing hopscotch.
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tapping the sign
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the fact that the NTSB is conducting a federal safety investigation of the helicopter crash, but nobody is going to do anything about the original deadly car crash, really shows just how few fucks our country gives about every day traffic violence that kills 40k people every year
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026
Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.
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Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 13/09/2026
If the Speaker feels they don’t have enough expertise there’s a way to bring it back - The Office of Technology Assessment! www.liberalcurrents.com/congress-nee...
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Congress Needs Its Tech Experts Back
If Congress is to tackle issues from DOGE sabotage to AI to social media, it needs to resurrect its Office of Technology Assessment.
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Jeremy Sheff @jnsheff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The first element of this strategy (external private monitors against systemic social risk) was tried in the aughts with credit rating agencies in the mortgage-backed securities market. It failed. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
darioamodei.com
Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”
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who let the duck in @technoduck.me · 10/09/2026
WE GOT ANOTHER TAO THREAD mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172441...
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Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
"Toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants. (Mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent.)" [All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.] Antoine de Saint-Exupér...
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ok but "the future" they are promising is "we destroy your jobs and maybe build a dark god of genocide" so perhaps winning these people back is not the wisest electoral move
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
shades of
Batman interrogating Joker meme. Batman in top panel saying "Why would you ruin your career?" Joker in bottom panel saying "I'm an academic".
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
May I politely suggest that the correct response to people voting for fascists is not, "how can we feel their pain and listen?" but "what the hell is wrong with these arrogant fools?" The latter is still a quest for understanding, but in the correct frame, I think.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/09/2026
Who would like to guess why UK, US and European media outlets are not publishing 3,000 articles per minute about this www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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‘Insane data’: Duke professor Dan Ariely accused of additional research fraud
New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...
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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
These are people whose goal is to publish, not to help patients.
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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Blue state AGs should be warning postal officials that they will face felony prosecution for election interference for any legal ballots diverted and not delivered. Separate felony counts for every single ballot mishandled and not delivered. We would expect no less if private citizens stole ballots
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I can't say what I want to say, but I'm just noting the ongoing attempts to "take down" Black academics with plagiarism accusations, while *gestures* this seems to have minimal career or reputational impacts
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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The argument that unions destroy this relationship misunderstands that a contract is a *backstop*, not a prescription.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If this was about electoral advantage — the thing reactionary centrists claim as their expertise — they would be writing about how this entire issue is a distraction. If you are concerned about the influence of fringe radicals over policymaking, Republicans are the bigger threat. Of course they are.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
yeah we have departmental meetings
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Muckrack search, U.S.-based high domain authority news outlets over the past seven days: “Max Miller”: 256 articles “Hasan Piker”: 1,348 articles
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This chart will figure prominently in a future historian's best-seller, "Self-Destruction: The End of the American Era."
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/08/2026
I'd read the stories, but you really have to see it to believe it... Paris was already a great place to walk around, but now you hardly need to wait for a light, and you can look up an entire road and it will be empty for blocks when you really decide that cars and cities don't mix, it's obvious
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.
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BRAK AND BLUE @yinkadoubledare.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
why won't universities let me spout off about how diseases are caused by ghosts and goblins and witches instead of the germ theory, that's a violation of academic freedom
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026
If you think this can be reformed, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with you.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The single most impactful social/cultural development over the last decade (that virtually no retrospectives of "woke" have engaged in) is the new elite consensus that moral judgement is itself inherently illegitimate.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Meanwhile, the US was the only country in the world to oppose a recent UN declaration about the need to reduce crash deaths. The vote was 162 to 1.
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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Amidala talking to Anakin meme. 
1st panel, Anakin asks 'do you like plums?'
2nd panel, Amidala says 'yeah, I'm actually saving some for breakfast'
3rd panel, Anakin stares
4th panel, Amidala looks horrified
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.
data4democracy.substack.com
With Fear and Favor
Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Approximately 74% - 80% of drivers ticketed by New York City's speed camera ticket do not receive a second one. Speeding dropped by 94 percent reduction in locations where cameras were installed. www.nyc.gov/html/dot/htm...
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sasha Gusev has a great new blog post on faculty hiring during the DEI era. Remarkable how much backlash there has been to what was an tiny and temporary bump in hiring Black, Latino, and Native faculty of about 1 person per R1 campus theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua...
Demographics of R1 university faculty, 2001-2024
84.5% 80%
White 69.8%
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3.4%
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'10
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— Asian/PI 17.1%
lispanic 6.4%
Black 4.8%
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4,000 hires
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• Non-URM 3,753
3,000
2,000
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1,000
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623
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→ URM 788
Black 348
2018
2019
2020
322
2021
2022
2023
2024
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Folks are understandably taking @mattyglesias.bsky.social to task for the 'HR training' focus, but I am struck by the inability here to recognize an educational failure. It is *your* (/our) job to explain to those voters that the collapse of democracy *will* have a greater impact on their lives.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why I Left Academia Writing personal essays is easier than teaching, grant-writing, or getting research articles published. But nobody told me that in grad school my latest for the Chronicle
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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
idk, I proudly self-identify as an anti-car jihadi. I'm glad he's taking it seriously.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If Random DSA Guy With A Silly Opinion becomes the SecDef, I'll agree his opinions are newsworthy. I don't give a fuck right now.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My favourite thing about the atlantic is that half the articles should be weird psychosexual novels but all the writers and editors have some kind of disease that makes them think their deepest darkest thoughts in the style of marketing prose
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
economist.com
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is why I remain a fan of shame and stigma if directed up rather than down. Many people who want power are bad and they should see that people like them are excluded, isolated, and face consequence for being bad
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I wrote about this NYC congestion pricing study earlier this year, noting that most driving time savings accrues to people who never venture into the zone at all (i.e., driving within Queens or Long Island). IOW some of the most vociferous critics of CP are among its biggest beneficiaries.
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Congestion Pricing’s Unexpected Winners: Suburban Drivers
NYC’s controversial toll program hasn’t just sped up trips inside Manhattan, a new paper finds. It’s easing traffic in outer boroughs and neighboring counties.
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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
did you know that you are allowed to simply not submit to NeurIPS?
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