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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Why do Millennials have such high cynicism and low trust?" May I submit as exhibit A:

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Terrible. People should instead be stuffing json strings into cells as God intended.

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Had some fun trying to think about how to dramatize voters' choices in the 2024 election, so I pulled CES data and let you guess how respondents (validated voters) actually voted (or said they did) in 2024. profmusgrave.github.io/votergame2024/

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Who did I vote for?

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Who did I vote for? I earned 13,728 points over 20 voters on medium mode (avg 686). Model 739, base rate 719. profmusgrave.github.io/votergame2024/ @professormusgrave.bsky.social I got literally 6 "this surprised the model too" answers, this is unfair man 😭😭😭

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We live in the stupidest timeline.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I will not be at APSA, but I'll still be dressing up badly while wearing a backpack purely for the love of the game.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Every time I post survey data on here many of the replies are something to the effect of "I can't imagine how anyone could support..." and folks I'm sorry, the guy's been winning elections for ten years, if you have absolutely zero idea how that's been happening, that isn't a brag

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Look, I don't control what things my brain wants to investigate: I'm just along for the ride. I was curious about how gender neutral names evolved to be "neutral" (here 45-55% male). So I plotted the histories of the top 20 gender neutral names from 2019-2023. #databs

A grid of 20 line graphs showing historical percentage trends of male births for the top gender-neutral US names (2019–2023), titled "Most gender neutral names of kids born between 2019 and 2023 in the US started as names for boys rather than girls."

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

God being on this side of thirty sucks sometimes; how is it possible to SLEEP wrong?!

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Poppy seems to be fitting in quite well.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We have a new member of the family! Meet Poppy!

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Jon Green @jongreen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Thank you for your understanding." No, no I do not understand. This was a shitty thing to do!

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 14/08/2026

988 in the US or the Trevor Project at 1-866-488-7386

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In a free country, failing to comply with law enforcement does not give the state license to murder you

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Greek soldiers rampage out of large walled horse WHY IT MATTERS: the towers of Ilium have been toppled ZOOM IN: this is great news for MENELAUS, bad news for PRIAM SPLIT SCREEN: Cassandra vindicated but it’s Odysseus who gets the win

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm once again begging everyone to update their priors. "ChatGPT is not a search engine." Yes, yes it is. It actively searches the web based on your prompt, and returns active links relevant to your search/prompt. It's a search engine. It is. (Obvs don't use it that way if that's not your thing)

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

(Joke aside, I am actually unreasonably excited. I want there to be more professional dialogue between social scientists in academia and those in the private sector. It may not be an article on anything I've done since I've graduated, but I'm glad to contribute to that dialogue in some small way.)

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Me: "Sometimes, I miss being in academia." Monkey paw: *curls finger* My email: "We invite you to review..."

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Daughter seeing me putting up paintings: "Can I help measure?" Me: "I'm already done measuring but you can help me with a bit of the math to make things balanced." Daughter: "Hm, no. I just want to measure, not do math." Ghost of Kolmogorov: "Good luck with that."

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We've all heard of Wordle. But how about Poople? You get a start word and your goal is to try and make it, one letter at a time, to POOP. I was introduced by some friends. And in typical Peter fashion, I wondered if I could make a solver. www.peterlicari.com/posts/solvin...

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Solving Poople Using Python – Peter Licari

A serious-ish post about solving a silly word game

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

God, partisanship is one helluva drug.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

You've taken back your last Sunday

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Identification strategies based on spatially allocated resources / outcomes usually aren't actually isolating random or chance patterns. Very little is actually random when it comes to the spatial distribution of goods / services / people / outcomes.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Somehow still fails to kill kudzu.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Think of how many children we could have fed instead.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I've been thinking about why I'm so bearish about using gen AI in my work. But it clicked for me one night as I was cooking: I cook and code for many of th same reasons. So I wrote an essay about why I cook. And why I do other things too. #databs www.peterlicari.com/posts/cookin...

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Why Do I Cook? – Peter Licari

And why I do other things in the age of AI.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This week's cooking experiment: Fried donuts! Gotta monitor the oil's heat a bit better next time, but a pretty tasty first crack at it.

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

What a tremendous loss. I didn't get the privilege of meeting him personally, but he was one of the folks who made me (and many others) feel welcome as a part of the broader online poli sci community. He was so kind and generous. An inspiration and source of Light, gone too soon. Rest well.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Just deeply shocked and saddened to hear about Raúl’s passing. He was an exceptionally generous community builder in the scholarly world. He will be sorely missed.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

If your theology can be confused for the plot of a Doom game, you might need to rethink a few things.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My 6 year old just said "*actually*, 1 is the second number, 0 is the first"--- which one of you have been teaching her Python?! #databs #statsky

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I've done this with a couple of the folks in my daughter's GirlScouts troop: "Oh, you like this series---I'll lend you the next issue!" "Oh your kid was recently diagnosed with ADHD: take this book I used after I was diagnosed." Physical books foster connection in a way digital can't.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

For 12 years, my writing bios concluded with "has oddly productive one-sided conversations with his cat, Asia." Those conversations spanned anime, debugging, dissertating, parenthood, hopes, and joys... Today we said goodbye to my beloved interlocutor. I choose to believe I will see her again.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The best way to memorialize those who have fallen in war, in my opinion, is to strive for a world where war no longer exists to claim lives in the first place.

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/05/2026

New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation. What could possibly go wrong? www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...

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Friends don’t let friends run moderated cross-country regressions

Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,) Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This spring, I helped coach my daughter's U7 soccer team. Today was our last game and, in addition to some sweet cards, one of the kiddos gave me this. Got me tearing up, ngl.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The list of those before whom I quake is quite small and it sure as fuck doesn't include fascists.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I believe we are all beloved children of God. ALL. No exceptions. Trans folks all deserve the same chance at flourishing and peace as the rest of us. We all deserve life free of fear. If that makes me a radical, then I'm a radical. Arrest me mother fuckers.

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Peter Licari @peterlicari.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The latest Dungeon Crawler Carl has just arrived at my house and I apologize in advance to anyone who expected anything from me over the next 24-36 hours.

The author holding the 8th installment in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series titled "A Parade of Horribles".

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

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