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Atticus Murphy

@atticusmurphy.bsky.social

postdoc @ Virginia Tech; sea level rise, pollinator gardening, social contagion / postdoc @ UC Davis, phd @ TuftsUniversity, he/him, all smart & funny opinions courtesy of my beautiful fiancée atticuswmurphy.com

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Working with address data is always an adventure. There are inevitably weird one off conventions apparently used a single time in an entire city -- maybe just on the whim of some anonymous official ~100 years ago! (also, the absolutely classic Massachusetts move of one short street having 3 names)

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Always interesting to see how group discourse can align and not align with actual behaviors...evidence from Hungary of right-wing neighborhoods recycling _better_ (nb social context is obv important and who knows if this exact result is transferable to U.S.) journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Screenshot of quote from a paper reading as follows: We concentrate on one particular environmental practice: waste separation. Surprisingly, we find that districts with a higher left-wing vote
share engage less in waste separation on average. This result, although surprising, is
consistent with previous survey-based evidence. We provide suggestions on how to
interpret and explain our findings.

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Can you imagine??? 😳😱

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

who knew! bad luck to pay money for your bees! (all the more reason to conserve our wild pollinators 😉). -- Lupton, 'A thousand notable things' 1748

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Atticus Murphy @atticusmurphy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Fascinating to see people grapple with the Information Age when it was really starting to rev up -- what do we do with all this information? what should we be allowed to do? it all seems very quaint now, though I'm not sure we ever answered these questions... (Bowker & Star 1999)

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