yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 18/09/2026nothing competes with Carrie and Lowell, and then there’s Mercury 010
Reposted by yijingAlex Engler @alexengler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026 Friends, countrymen, lend me your shares! We are hiring a *𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫* to lead a *𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦* as we build Penn MEDIATED into the first† public-facing data science institute for the information ecosystem (think the Urban Institute or CSET, but for media and information technology). 166
Reposted by yijingSandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A short essay I wrote for Daedalus was just published in a special issue on how to renovate American Democracy. The gist of it: breakthroughs happen, information architectures are designed, and we should claim authority over whose priorities these architectures serve www.amacad.org/daedalus/how... 143
Reposted by yijingCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/08/2026My previous tutorial was on how to befriend crows. (bsky.app/profile/did:...) But Amanda is right. What I really need to do is write a tutorial about how to befriend exactly one crow. 817516
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 01/04/2026spent too much of my life digging out choco chips from mint chip eis 020
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026a moment I keep reliving: I mispronounce a word; a native speaker kindly repeats the word with the correct pronunciation; I instantly adopt it; the conversation continues with neither of us verbalizing what has happened and half of my brain going completely insane spelling out the word 100
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 10/02/2026slowly coming to the realization that I described the temperature in celsius and exaggerated my tolerance for cold weather at a meeting (and there was no question raised), hmm 010
Reposted by yijingSarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 06/12/2025This, on Hannah Arendt and the perils of making her an icon rather than wrestling with what she thought and wrote, is very good.nytimes.comHannah Arendt Is Not Your Icon 14611
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 29/11/2025anyways I’m serious considering subscribing to his french learning app for solidarity. 030
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 29/11/2025to my outcry of recent news a friend shared a post on X roasting German bureaucracy. had to download X back. found this entrepreneur guy who’s spent one year in Germany. within two-min scrolling I saw posts asking for a competent tax lawyer. 110
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 27/11/2025postdoc is probably not the best stage in life to sue an insurance company 120
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I’m in the (so far) luckier situation that no actual vehicle physically t-boned me and threw me into the air; but understanding that there are cases where YOU HAVE TO GO NUTS alone is what comedies in general have helped with my mental health, really 010
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 27/11/2025I recall these lines from Birbiglia’s earlier standup twelve times per day now 110
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 27/11/2025very tired of the fact that some data imputation error coupled with Austrian bureaucracy would take months to fix (if lucky) and that not a single individual is immediately accountable for this systematic failure 100
Reposted by yijingyijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I had no idea thanksgiving was such a party-heavy holiday 001
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 02/10/2025one great part of my day job is that I can let things run in the background (which is work) and read the wildest posts from other internet corners (which is also work) and feel good about myself multitasking 010
Reposted by yijingBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024(pulling up the ladder behind me) This is an opportunity for you to succeed through hard work and determination 283326395
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025I mean yes the background playlist I need for paper revision is Succession Music to Feel Like Logan Roy 010
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 17/01/2025finally gave in to my algorithms and started binging content of Tiktok migrants being overwhelmed by how wholesome Rednote is. I want to study and forget about it at the same time (so I’m the ideal candidate for severance????) 020
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 09/12/2024chatgpt has a running memory of everything I struggle with so far and today I got this profound piece of advice, “it’s okay to sit with the discomfort”. I’m rooting for machine. 000
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I had no idea thanksgiving was such a party-heavy holiday 001
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 18/09/2024overleaf is the best device to visualize that while many of me are working on this I just need to figure out which pdf tab can respond to my recompiling request 030
yijing @yijingch.bsky.social · 22/05/2024„Als wir noch Lemminge waren, schwuren / wir das, von dem Abgrund innezuhalten.“ (G Kunert) 000
