Aaron Gullickson
@aarongullickson.bsky.social
Sociologist/Demographer; studies racial classification and identification; lazy Bayesian, R enthusiast, git evangelist, poisson stan.
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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The Oklahoma City Declaration, a defense of a pluralistic society.
Signed by over 40 Republican, Democratic, and Independent mayors. Led by OKC Mayor David Holt, a Republican in a red state.
www.usmayors.org/2025/09/26/a...
Signed by over 40 Republican, Democratic, and Independent mayors. Led by OKC Mayor David Holt, a Republican in a red state.
www.usmayors.org/2025/09/26/a...
At Site of Oklahoma City Bombing, Bipartisan Mayors Sign Declaration Against Political Violence
“Oklahoma City Declaration” is signed by dozens of mayors at site of deadliest domestic terror attack in U.S. history, reaffirms commitment to American values of pluralism, compromise, truth and civil...
www.usmayors.org
October 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Oklahoma City Declaration, a defense of a pluralistic society.
Signed by over 40 Republican, Democratic, and Independent mayors. Led by OKC Mayor David Holt, a Republican in a red state.
www.usmayors.org/2025/09/26/a...
Signed by over 40 Republican, Democratic, and Independent mayors. Led by OKC Mayor David Holt, a Republican in a red state.
www.usmayors.org/2025/09/26/a...
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"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)
My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
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October 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request." (Or: you keep saying these words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean)
Don't worry about PDX guys, we got this.
October 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Don't worry about PDX guys, we got this.
The right is better at cancel culture than the left, which should not be surprising. Its an authoritarian tool that is much more their natural environment, which is another way to say I remember the 1980s.
September 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The right is better at cancel culture than the left, which should not be surprising. Its an authoritarian tool that is much more their natural environment, which is another way to say I remember the 1980s.
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This reminds me of an incident during the Great Satanic Panic. Indulge me in a thread, if you will. 🧵
The phone rang. Landline back in those days, early 90s. The caller identifies herself as a reporter with a local TV station. Someone found a goat's head in a dumpster, therefore SATANISTS...
The phone rang. Landline back in those days, early 90s. The caller identifies herself as a reporter with a local TV station. Someone found a goat's head in a dumpster, therefore SATANISTS...
This Guardian quote from an anonymous person who said he knew Robinson in high school years ago, but hasn’t spoke to him in several years, who said he was supposedly a leftist, has been retracted. This single anonymous quote has been posted by thousands of right-wing accounts.
September 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This reminds me of an incident during the Great Satanic Panic. Indulge me in a thread, if you will. 🧵
The phone rang. Landline back in those days, early 90s. The caller identifies herself as a reporter with a local TV station. Someone found a goat's head in a dumpster, therefore SATANISTS...
The phone rang. Landline back in those days, early 90s. The caller identifies herself as a reporter with a local TV station. Someone found a goat's head in a dumpster, therefore SATANISTS...
I used to roll my eyes at the idea of cultural appropriation, but then Kash Patel said "I will see you in Valhalla, brother" and now I understand
September 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I used to roll my eyes at the idea of cultural appropriation, but then Kash Patel said "I will see you in Valhalla, brother" and now I understand
All the academics on here getting riled up at a milquetoast Ezra Klein op-ed is reminding me of the good old days when we used to all get collectively upset at a David Brooks piece. Bring those times back.
September 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
All the academics on here getting riled up at a milquetoast Ezra Klein op-ed is reminding me of the good old days when we used to all get collectively upset at a David Brooks piece. Bring those times back.
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Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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September 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
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There's no hatred like hating your neighbor, and while some people might not want to hear it, an America in which neighbors feel it's ok to do violence to one another based on enmity is in fact worse than what we're living in right now. It's worse, full stop.
September 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
There's no hatred like hating your neighbor, and while some people might not want to hear it, an America in which neighbors feel it's ok to do violence to one another based on enmity is in fact worse than what we're living in right now. It's worse, full stop.
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As some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
June 24, 2025 at 9:44 AM
As some of you guessed, the two models are statistically indistinguishable. The answer is Model 1, but there was no way to tell from the data. I was very surprised when I first saw this. Here we show that this confounding of heterogeneity and reinforcement is general: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I have heard this claim a couple of places now and it is idiotic. Do you really think Iran was somehow unaware of the value of nuclear deterrence until this attack? Somehow, Iran missed a fact that has been known since the beginning of the Cold War? They were just enriching uranium for kicks?
“In my technical assessment, attacking a nuclear reactor is really, really, really, really dumb,” FAS's @jonatomic.bsky.social tells @wired.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I have heard this claim a couple of places now and it is idiotic. Do you really think Iran was somehow unaware of the value of nuclear deterrence until this attack? Somehow, Iran missed a fact that has been known since the beginning of the Cold War? They were just enriching uranium for kicks?
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❤️ @migration.ubc.ca for featuring my research! My project on immigrants' relationship formation is driven by my belief that calling Canada home isn’t just about work, but also about love & connection. Supporting immigrants in building meaningful relationships fosters well-being, belonging & thriving
🆕 Research Brief | Wedding season is here—but how do immigrants find love in a new country?
Prof. @yueqiansoc.bsky.social explores how online dating fosters immigrant belonging by promoting inter-nativity relationships and social integration.
🔗 Read the brief: migration.ubc.ca/publications...
Prof. @yueqiansoc.bsky.social explores how online dating fosters immigrant belonging by promoting inter-nativity relationships and social integration.
🔗 Read the brief: migration.ubc.ca/publications...
June 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
❤️ @migration.ubc.ca for featuring my research! My project on immigrants' relationship formation is driven by my belief that calling Canada home isn’t just about work, but also about love & connection. Supporting immigrants in building meaningful relationships fosters well-being, belonging & thriving
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Check all your group chats for bombing plans
June 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Check all your group chats for bombing plans
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it's not just that Hispanic voters shifted Republican since 2020, it's also the case that some of them no longer even identify as Hispanic! new @goodauth.bsky.social post from me and Caroline Soler
goodauthority.org/news/democra...
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Democrats’ losses among Hispanic voters may be larger than they look.
Conservative Hispanic Americans are ditching their Hispanic identity, surveys show.
goodauthority.org
June 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
it's not just that Hispanic voters shifted Republican since 2020, it's also the case that some of them no longer even identify as Hispanic! new @goodauth.bsky.social post from me and Caroline Soler
goodauthority.org/news/democra...
goodauthority.org/news/democra...
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New to me is the term "premature closure", where you too quickly latch on to the first solution you see. Always a danger in coding, but particularly so today when LLMs can give you a plausible fix so so quickly.
www.shayon.dev/post/2025/16...
www.shayon.dev/post/2025/16...
Pitfalls of premature closure with LLM assisted coding
When LLM models generates clean, professional-looking code, it's tempting to stop exploring alternatives. But therein lies the risks that comes with premature closure. So what is premature closure?
www.shayon.dev
June 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New to me is the term "premature closure", where you too quickly latch on to the first solution you see. Always a danger in coding, but particularly so today when LLMs can give you a plausible fix so so quickly.
www.shayon.dev/post/2025/16...
www.shayon.dev/post/2025/16...
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PSA: Don’t trust anyone who tells you that you can identify age or period or cohort effects simply by applying the right statistical model to the right type of data. This is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the age-period-cohort problem!>
May 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
PSA: Don’t trust anyone who tells you that you can identify age or period or cohort effects simply by applying the right statistical model to the right type of data. This is fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the age-period-cohort problem!>
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The Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Prof. Emeritus Richard Alba, a pathbreaking demographer who bucked conventional ideas about how immigrants assimilate into and impact mainstream U.S. culture www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Richard Alba
An eminent demographer and sociologist, he challenged conventional thinking on how immigrants integrate into U.S. society.
www.gc.cuny.edu
June 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Graduate Center community deeply mourns the passing of Prof. Emeritus Richard Alba, a pathbreaking demographer who bucked conventional ideas about how immigrants assimilate into and impact mainstream U.S. culture www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...
I can't handle all the various academic takes on effective protests right now, especially all the usual callbacks to the Civil Rights Movement. Too many people know exactly the right tactical approach here. The correct answer is you don't know; do what you think is right.
June 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I can't handle all the various academic takes on effective protests right now, especially all the usual callbacks to the Civil Rights Movement. Too many people know exactly the right tactical approach here. The correct answer is you don't know; do what you think is right.
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My first episode as a host for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social is out! It was truly a joy to discuss Burdens of Belonging with Jessica Vasquez-Tokos! We talked Du Bois, moving beyond the black white binary, methods, and the power of stories and history! Check it out : podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Sociology · 06/02/2025 · 33m
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June 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
My first episode as a host for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social is out! It was truly a joy to discuss Burdens of Belonging with Jessica Vasquez-Tokos! We talked Du Bois, moving beyond the black white binary, methods, and the power of stories and history! Check it out : podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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#phd thesis at @unibergen.bsky.social have to include a table with co authors of included articles, contributions and affiliations.
Here is a @github.com template to do this in #quarto, using the Plume R package and multibib filter.
@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no #rstats #phdLife
Here is a @github.com template to do this in #quarto, using the Plume R package and multibib filter.
@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no #rstats #phdLife
GitHub - jogaudard/phdthesis_toolbox: Some technical tricks to write a PhD thesis in Quarto
Some technical tricks to write a PhD thesis in Quarto - jogaudard/phdthesis_toolbox
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June 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
#phd thesis at @unibergen.bsky.social have to include a table with co authors of included articles, contributions and affiliations.
Here is a @github.com template to do this in #quarto, using the Plume R package and multibib filter.
@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no #rstats #phdLife
Here is a @github.com template to do this in #quarto, using the Plume R package and multibib filter.
@btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no #rstats #phdLife