Reposted by Dan SeelMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 19hAs I’ve asked many times now, what constituencies does a university president represent? Because too often, the answer seems to not include anyone who works or studies at the university, and that seems like a problem. 454595
Reposted by Dan SeelBrian Schaffner @bfschaffner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026we’re hiring an assistant professor in American politics 🐘 apply.interfolio.com/194599 14024
Reposted by Dan Seelmika @autophagy.io · 28/09/2026Insiders within OpenAI have told me that they halted training because an internal model went rogue during an eval and completed the system of German idealism 0145
Reposted by Dan Seelmechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 15/11/2024Verlander. Je verlande, tu verlandes, il verlande, nous verlandons, vous verlandez, ils verlandent 1037866
Reposted by Dan SeelClimatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 16/09/2026First half of September. 97828
Reposted by Dan Seelghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026ez mode solidarity opportunity you might not have been aware of. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract. 231010261
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026it seems a little contradictory that the AI labs are trying to develop LLMs as a purely instrumental object while also developing enough subjectivity to understand and carry out increasingly complex human processes, but I guess that's what you get with rationalism as a philosophy of engineering 1163
Reposted by Dan SeelDan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Science writ large is under assault. I hope folks in the social sciences keep this in mind as we sort through competing explanations of “what went wrong” - it’s got to be more than something specific to any one field, or even to the social sciences as a whole. 79432
Reposted by Dan Seelryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 31/08/2026my sense for why data centers have become heinously unpopular in the space of one year prospect.org/2026/08/31/d... 2632879
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Archival pamphlets flip-flop between micromanaged corporate briefs and unhinged artistic fever dreams. Did someone actually request a creepy knowledge-foundry, or is this someone who just really wanted to draw something weird? 111
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Every once in a while bluesky decides to resend me every notif I've gotten in months, all at once, and it always makes me jump 000
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I guess the are enough Iain M. Banks novels in the training data for the agents to imagine themselves as the ROU Killing Time 021
Reposted by Dan SeelProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/202623% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... 271255475
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This story drives me crazy. Everyone knows the rust belt version but Southern textile decline barely registers. The role manufacturers played in botching that transition is wild, they really did crash-land the Southern economy trying to bail themselves out. Hoping to have a paper on this out soon. 310625
Reposted by Dan SeelHenry Snow @henrys.now · 21/08/2026In 1825 the radical labor writer Thomas Single argued that mechanization was "humbug" meant to "trick" workers. Unfortunately for artisans it wasn't! A bubble was not going to save them! Successful responses to mechanization understood new machines and tried to regulate the conditions of their use 38114
Reposted by Dan SeelCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15/08/2026guy who has a 1.0 batting average in the majors 1512419
Reposted by Dan SeelDaily Union Elections @unionelections.bsky.social · 14/08/2026NEW: 1,200 manufacturing workers in Michigan are unionizing with @steelworkers.bsky.social. 13213
Reposted by Dan SeelZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026Here is a version in Fahrenheit my American compatriots: 4448103
Reposted by Dan SeelM.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This is more than the NSF social sciences division - now on the chopping block - awarded in grants last year. Think about that: a single AI company has the money to fund more social science research than the US govt. 614077
Reposted by Dan SeelIsaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 29/07/2026In the 1600s, some 21,000 runaway slaves in Brazil founded an independent kingdom in the interior that lasted nearly a century (1612-1694) It had a capital of 5,000, its own king, provincial chiefs, judges, priests, and an army that raided Dutch and Portuguese plantations 529087
Reposted by Dan SeelStephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Four days of smoke. I did this by stringing together the initial state of the HRRR model, so these are model estimations, not measurements. But given HRRR's initialization is, in part, based on real measurements, should be pretty close to reality. 25125
Reposted by Dan SeelShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/07/2026So far only one football superpower that Spain could not defeat at this world cup- Cabo Verde 322998385
Reposted by Dan SeelThe Athletic @theathletic.com · 05/07/2026Folarin Balogun will be available to play the USMNT’s round of 16 match against Belgium, with his one-game red-card ban that he received against Bosnia and Herzegovina suspended. 170862178
Reposted by Dan SeelSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 01/07/2026happy July 1 to all the academics whose main reaction to the day is “oh no the summer is almost over already” 614033
Reposted by Dan SeelGary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 30/06/2026rip "usa just beat paraguay who cares" takes, jun 12-jun 29 2026 2221
Reposted by Dan SeelPeter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026The NSF just eliminated geoscience postdocs, is trying to destroy NCAR, and is now dismantling the world's best array of ocean observatories for no reason, just uncomprehending childlike spite towards anyone who wants to learn anything about this planet www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...nytimes.comTrump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System 27283129
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Area Newspaper Compares Apples and Pears-Per-Year, Triggers Media Panic 010
Reposted by Dan SeelAaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 30/04/2026My colleague Ryan Lee and I been working for the past 6 months on a microeconomic theory that could serve as the foundation for a new, multidimensional economics. Our first working paper, "Choice under value pluralism," is below. Please read, share, and comment! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comChoice under Value PluralismClassical rational choice theory assumes preferences are complete, presupposing that an agent's evaluative considerations have a common scale. We drop completen 14821
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I'm not imagining that windows file search has gotten much worse over the last several years, right? I can type an exact filename in the search and it'll still bury the result. I don't remember it being this bad... 220
Reposted by Dan SeelHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 07/04/2026"Croesus then asked if he should make war on the Persians and if he should take to himself any allied force. The oracles to whom he sent this question included those at Delphi and Thebes. Both oracles gave the same response, that if Croesus made war on the Persians he would destroy a mighty empire."en.wikipedia.orgList of oracular statements from Delphi - Wikipedia 617373
Reposted by Dan SeelPatrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026 3133284
Reposted by Dan SeelNick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 27/03/2026new publication alert: a little commentary I wrote about 🔎 clues 🔎 and the detection of AI-generated material is out in American Ethnologist (paywalled at the moment, but hit me up if you can't access it): doi.org/10.1111/amet... 57127
Reposted by Dan SeelNtina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 24/03/2026This has been a LONG time in works: my paper on how dollar hegemony is a form of international law-making power. It includes a long methodological/theoretical section on why strong versions of the 'law constitutes political economy' aren't convincing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comDollar Hegemony as International Law-making PowerThe so-called weaponisation of the dollar as part of the escalating geopolitical competition has drawn attention to dollar hegemony within the fields of interna 310851
Reposted by Dan SeelNico Rascovan @nrascovan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026How did farming reach the Southern Andes? Through migration or cultural transmission? Our new paper in @nature.com combines ancient DNA, isotopes, archaeology & paleoclimate to reconstruct 2,000+ years of history in Uspallata, Mendoza. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A Thread🧵 (1/25+)nature.comLocal agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes - NatureIn the Uspallata Valley, agriculture was adopted by local populations, as evidenced by genetic continuity from earlier hunter-gatherers to farmers; maize-dependent groups from the same regional p... 66732
Reposted by Dan SeelMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Perhaps this existential threat to scientific research & education at the country’s research universities was something the presidents & chancellors of those universities thought was worthy of loudly & collectively speaking out against in the public square at some point in the last year or so? 🤷♂️ 07328
Reposted by Dan SeelMichael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Strike has begun, 3,800 meat packing workers in Colorado have walked off the job 131744611
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Let's return to this Weber piece from the inflation debate for a second and think about whether price increases in oil are likely to stay narrowly concentrated. Assuming a shock will be transitory and narrow does not make it so! academic.oup.com/icc/article/...academic.oup.comInflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspectiveAbstract. In the overlapping global emergencies of the pandemic, climate change and geopolitical confrontations, supply shocks have become frequent and inf 112
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 11/03/2026And with that, the tariff question was forever put to bed, never to disrupt politics or trade again. 110
Reposted by Dan SeelTim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 11/03/2026Of honey bees, long shots, and the usefulness of useless knowledge as.ft.com/r/80525f53-e...as.ft.comThe usefulness of useless knowledge[FREE TO READ] Politicians aren’t the best judges of the merits of scientific research 0278
Reposted by Dan SeelKean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Postdoc job! I'm looking to recruit a postdoc to work on a project about research evaluation & metadata. More info here: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... Salary: CDN$70,000 (+ benefits) Location: Toronto, ON (can be remote in ON) Length: 18 months Deadline: 31 March 2026 Start date: 1 July 2026yorku.ca 21621
Reposted by Dan SeelYusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 04/03/2026Well that is just bait to make a chart for @neilwarner.bsky.social observablehq.com/@yusuf-imaad... 33614
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Running rm -rf was at least your own fault. giving local agents root access is you signing a waiver so someone else can do it. It's the year of living --dangerously-skip-permissions, folks! 010
Reposted by Dan SeelErica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018 12957339
Reposted by Dan SeelBen Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 05/02/2026I wrote something about my friend Asad Haider for the new issue of @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...nybooks.comPeople Think | Ben TarnoffAsad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free. 05118
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 03/02/2026By its stated goals, DOGE failed. By its actual goals (shrinking parts of the state the Trump-Musk coalition opposed) it worked pretty much as planned. The deficit talk was just the sales pitch. 160
Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Inflatable Public Sculpture 2. Century of the Gene 3. Drugs in History 4. Food, Farms, and Famine 5. Science Fictions We may not have had a lot of humanities at RPI, but we had a great STS dept and a great Arts dept 130