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Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 15/05/2025

Boston is such an academic city that Stroop tasks are part of the public transportation system

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

'many experts told me "no, that's stupid", but i ignored them' uh, okay, cool man

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

blasting jimi hendrix writing about generalized quantifiers. feel like I'm richard montague in his prime

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

It's so nice to have an adult as Canadian PM after all those terrible years of Justin

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

HD Cooke is an elementary school in northwest DC.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

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Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

So Columbia is basically saying, It’s interesting that you were trying to hit me, because it just so happens I was planning to fall down in the same direction.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 19/03/2025

One thing I don't think people get is that Advanced Politics Knowers - people who read the NYT and listen to NPR - are probably more stupid than people who don't

Critics Say Musk Has Revealed Himself as a Conservative. It’s Not So Simple.

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

*actively destroying millions of people's livelihoods* "why does everyone want me dead? I'm just a smol bean..."

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Call me not impressed at all: if you keep feeding the lie that there is an antisemitism crisis on campus rather than the plain truth that some students are objecting to a genocide supported by their own government, you are conceding the game.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/03/2025

i take him at his word that he wants to win, the interesting thing to me is when his strategy fails — and it has failed, multiple times — he just pretends it was never tried

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13/03/2025

The CR passed in the House will provide a blank check for Trump and Musk to continue their savage war against working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor in order to lay the groundwork for massive tax breaks for billionaires. This is a bill I cannot support.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

1/🧵 Following up on our study featured in NYT today, this figure provides a macro-level view: Dem vote shares rise with turnout parity (left) but fall with party-level ideological moderation (right). This suggests mobilizing base voters > persuading swing voters by moving to the center.

Two-panel graph analyzing U.S. House Elections from 2006-2024. Left panel shows Democratic vote share increases as turnout gap with Republicans narrows, with a positive trend line (46-56% on y-axis). Right panel shows Democratic vote share decreases as party positioning moves from liberal to conservative, with a negative trend line. Election years are plotted as dots, with blue dots (2006, 2008, 2018) indicating Democratic House majorities and red dots indicating Republican majorities. Both graphs demonstrate that Democrats perform better with higher turnout and more liberal positioning.

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I think your general point that universities can decide what questions are worth studying is correct, but I guess my worry is that, in the future, universities will only hire people who arrive at the answers the university/admin want.

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

What if a department decided to only hire conservatives? To me, that sort of litmus test seems like a flagrant violation of academic freedom, which would be functionally identical to the Hochul's decision.

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sadie 🇵🇸 @sadie.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

discovered that Little Caesar’s has an Apple Watch app and it’s just this image that you can’t interact with in any way

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It is very funny that Trump is telling a 77-year old, term-limited governor that this will be the end of her political career.

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I think I should be able to have one binturong

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Elon is about to stop a fifth of Social Security payments, because his Zoomer coders who've taken one web development class don't know how dates work in COBOL

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

all these pricks got rich by profiting off ideas from the academy! if it wasn't for hinton, lecunn, etc. (all academics!), their precious AI bullshit wouldn't even exist

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Harvey Lederman @harveylederman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I just had a chance to watch this fantastic talk. I really recommend it for anyone interested in how LLMs can help us understand language: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBor...

youtube.com

Finding linguistic structure in large language models

YouTube video by Chris Potts

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

yeah, having grown up in Oklahoma, this is like red state governance on steroids. in OK, the GOP didn't gut core parts of the government for the hell of it, they just underfunded everything so they could reduce income taxes on the wealthy

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

if there are any newspaper editors reading this, think of it like, the Saturday Night Massacre was considered the "Harvard administrator cited sources improperly in their college thesis" of the 1970s in terms of how big a scandal it was.

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Robin Vos: thank you to UW-Madison for inviting me to speak about how people like me are not allowed to speak at universities

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Luckily she didn't, she was working on her PhD at the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and drove down to the suburbs

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It's wild that Bill De Blasio is the least bad mayor of NYC in the last 50 years, really does feel like NYC is cursed.

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

thinking about a new research project: the pragmatics of proto-indo-european

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

No fan of popularism, but the Harris campaign did a pretty terrible job of articulating its positions. If Harris had emphasized a living wage and free healthcare instead of the Cheney's endorsements, she likely would have won.

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

while I agree that the courts won't save us, I think the comparison with Russiagate is unfair: Russiagate was wild speculation about *possible* illegality, DOGE is *actually* breaking laws.

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I love Jame McCawley's "Everything that Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know about Logic," but why on earth does he use reverse Polish notation and call conditional antecedents "protases"

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

someone needs to medivac matzoh ball soup to new hampshire before I pass away from the flu

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/01/2025

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I reply “hell yeah” to a lot of mushroom photos because when I see a picture of a mushroom a little voice in my head goes “hell yeah” and then I type that and hit send

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Two days after this monstrous institution did this:

Per the settlements, Harvard will clarify that its non-discrimination policies protect Israeli and Jewish students and adopt the widely-used but controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Association definition of antisemitism.

The definition — which a group of pro-Israel affiliates urged Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 to adopt in a May letter — classifies certain criticisms of Israel as antisemitic. The definition could allow Harvard to crack down on pro-Palestine student protesters who have condemned Israel’s war in Gaza and policies toward Palestinians, often in harsh terms.

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Its actually a fabulous article. I love these guys, they were prescient, and while they never actually *wanted* to be listened to, I think the Democrats would be in a better place today if they had, even just a little.

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

very normal father-son relationship where you drink your son's blood and track his erections

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Scrambling after defending the loudest Nazi on the planet:

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, tweet:

We've said it hundreds of times before and we will say it again: the Holocaust was a singularly evil event, and it is inappropriate and offensive to make light of it.

@elonmusk, the Holocaust is not a joke.

With embedded Musk tweet:
Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations!

Some people will Goebbels anything down!

Stop Gőring your enemies!

His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler!

Bet you did nazi that coming 😂
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I stitched them together manually because the Greenblatt tweet screenshot only included part of the embedded Musk tweet.

https://x.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1882477385804919159

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deniz @denizrudin.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

just got cited for the idea that predicates denote sets of entities. that's right: that was me. finally I'm getting credit for my most underappreciated ideas. don't say "Gottlob Frege" to me, made-up-looking-ass name

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caleb @calebkendrick.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

the masculine urge to buy a banjo

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