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Justin Sandefur @justsand.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Two views of US strikes in Nigeria... FT reporting: They killed nobody. In the wrong state. WaPo editorial: Kudos to Trump for engaging, More, please!

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

No one elevates subtext into text like this guy.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I feel like most of the replies here forget that you can pick who you follow there like you can here.

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Tooey @sueric.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Sure is beautiful out there right now.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

You will be visited by three agents tonight.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

So roughly what it takes to get a history doctorate and tenure. Hmmm.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

"This place sucks" is like 20% of the discourse on every social media platform.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I think we all participate in a bunch of systems that indirectly support oppression and cruelty and Bluesky's particular focus on X is, in a word, very revealing.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I really think he was looking for likes and agreement, not for a fight, but I agree that it's hard to tell the difference on here, which is, again, kind of the point.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I agree there's a moral case for boycotting Twitter, but I think whether that boycott is morally obligatory is an interesting and difficult question that is functionally off limits on Bluesky.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I think the "very revealing" comment is a perfect example of the tea-leaf mentally that jumps to conclusions about a person's character based on imagined subtext. It's a reasonable point otherwise, but it illustrates how talking politics on Bsky is a real tightrope act.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Idk, it seems reasonable for him to not enjoy the hostility that he's getting here. It's not even directed at me and I don't enjoy it.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Wasn't commenting on Twitter, just that the problems it had came with when people moved to Bluesky.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I find these responses pretty unkind, tbh. bsky.app/profile/wwwo...

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

You're totally correct there. The point is that the way ideas and discourse are expressed matters in itself. It's understandable that people are on edge about politics these days, but that does lead to left-leaning circles being uncharitable and frequently toxic.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

There's a bit of no-true-Scottsman'ing in suggesting that hostile Leftists belong on X when they're more characteristic of this app than that one.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

His point was "some people will like using Twitter more than Bluesky because the range of topics on which Bsky will allow respectful disagreement is fairly narrow" and the fact that that, in itself, is not something you can say on Bluesky without getting this much vitriol sort of proves the point.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I don't know precisely what the party lines are, but if Itai's point here falls so far outside of it l, then it's got to be a pretty narrow lane.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

The fact that Itai's very polite comments here are being received with such hostility is a perfect example.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Respectfully, the very-online Left often treats being atuned to illiberal subtext as a measure of wisdom and virtue, and thereby encourages people to assume the worst of people. It's not equivalent to bigotry by any means, but it certainly doesn't allow for a diversity of perspectives.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I meant in the academic discourse, but goodness knows this afternoon has made your point about politics clear.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Acknowledging the drawbacks of Bluesky, is the experience on X really better in those respects?

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

"Somewhat overshadowed the core of his message."

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

If I wanted to be fully caught up and have a strong opinion on what you're talking about (starting from zero), how long do you think it would take (in weeks)?

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Surely they wouldn't be in charge if they weren't very smart and competent, right?

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Best one of these I only recently processed was "space shuttle", which comes from textiles.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I think there's a general theory of good discourse somewhere in there in which we model why there's a trade-off between network-size and reply quality and make it much more transparent and salient where any given post sits.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Once again, the question is whether her blanket policy against note takers and recordings is a good one, not whether it's allowable.

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Getting negatively polarized into thinking that maybe LLMs can be useful for some stuff sometimes

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Recording meetings isn't an uncommon practice. The question isn't whether the professor *has* to agree to it. It's whether it's an inherently bad thing to do, warranting a blanket rule against it like the one being articulated here.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Should that really be required to use a basic note-taking app? Universities don't *have* to be that rigid about how students study and learn.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

This is also the logic of having an individual take notes during a meeting. If taking notes with pen and paper is always a good idea, then we should all be doing it simultaneously, rather than having one or two people do it.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Are you confident there aren't any people who benefit from giving a meeting their undivided attention? This is just my experience, but I've often found having to pause and write things down interrupts conversations.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

That seems like a good use for a meeting bot, since it provides notes while letting the student also pay attention.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

If you can mentally synthesize what a professor just said, write on paper, *and* remain fully focused & engaged in a lecture or conversation, then I'm duly impressed. But some of us will benefit from being fully engaged in the moment and getting written reminders of the major points afterwards.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

It's fashionable to hate on ML apps these days, but note-taking apps strike me as one of the few unequivocally good uses for LLMs.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

As @michelnivard.bsky.social was quick to point out, this is looking at two groups of people: top early-career and top-later career professionals. Take a moment to introspect before you use those patterns to inform your own career path.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Sometimes these threads hit at just the right time.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy Eerily good timing. But ... honestly, maybe, idk.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

If course it's your class and your student, but I could imagine wanting to take notes in a conversation like that.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Right, we want to identify risk factors among clinic residents to guide future care. It's not a selection or collider bias problem if those factors aren't directly causing the outcomes or if those same correlations don't hold in a different, irrelevant group.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

It's an app that records and transcribes conversations. It's not particularly new.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Everyone replying to you seems to agree this is bad, but are note-taking apps obviously bad? I've found them super helpful for letting me focus on what people are saying rather than trying to multitask as I write important parts down. Lots of people go so far as to record entire meetings.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

The property is already filtered on by universities and industry, not the authors. It's not an "artifact" or selection bias to study a real-world population of interest just because they aren't representative of the general population.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Those can end up being *deep* rabbit holes if you really try to find the origin of a common misconception. e.g. youtu.be/bgo7rm5Maqg?...

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We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I feel like you've done this one, but it may have just been a DH&J question. Definitely worth doing, either way.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

In this case, finding predictors (e.g. multidisciplinary focus) of late-career elite achievement among early career elites is a valid exercise. Whether it holds for the general population or is a direct causal relationship are different questions entirely.

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Elliott Collins @elliottcollins.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Filtering above a particular line is standard real-world practice. Understanding correlations within that group is worthwhile. -->

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