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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 1h

You'd have figured they learned about the importance of getting business names straight right in front of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, but alas...

William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 3h

It's the "Magnificent Mile"; crime in Chicago is down significantly; vacancy rates on the Magnificent Mile are improving from 34% two years ago (obviously this problem is hardly solved, of course)

Other than that, spot on.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores

You can’t make this shit up, folks

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 3h

There are some complications. E.g. for self-collected survey data (like Qualtrics), you often have to do initial cleaning for confidentiality before sharing, including removing identifying information. @larsvil.bsky.social has some guidance on that: labordynamicsinstitute.github.io/reproducibil...

Avoiding confidential data in your code — Reproducibility when data are confidential

labordynamicsinstitute.github.io

William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 3h

It's the "Magnificent Mile"; crime in Chicago is down significantly; vacancy rates on the Magnificent Mile are improving from 34% two years ago (obviously this problem is hardly solved, of course)

Other than that, spot on.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores

You can’t make this shit up, folks

The Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago, once considered our Nation’s BEST, now has a more than 28% vacancy factor, and is ready to call it quits unless something is done about the murder and crime, which is prevalent throughout the City. CALL IN THE TROOPS, FAST, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! “Just the News”

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 3h

At @apsrjournal.bsky.social we require the raw data (or links to it) whenever legally & ethically possible & always require data cleaning code. There's a lot of room for errors in data cleaning, it needs to be traceable

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 1d

I just tested with Windows Narrator and README is read as we'd speak it. I'd assume it's the same for the other standard readers, but not sure.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

This week we have a conversation between Sam and two of the leaders of the independent volunteer archiving project Save Our Signs, an effort to archive national park signs and monument placards.

Podcast: A Massive Archiving Effort at National Parks (with Jenny McBurney and Lynda Kellam)

This week we have a conversation between Sam and two of the leaders of the independent volunteer archiving project Save Our Signs, an effort to archive national park signs and monument placards.

www.404media.co

Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 2d

early career scholar and their first publication

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 3d

I'd say 1-2 presidential elections. An Orban or Erdogan government that stays in power for only four years is still bad & illiberal, but not consolidated electoral authoritarianism (see Poland, e.g.)

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 3d

I did not know this. It's still kind of surprising how many parts of US gov't that everyone assume are in the constitution are just made up by a couple of people on the spot and then everyone else was just like 🤷I guess them's the laws now?
SCOTUS judicial review, filibuster, government shutdowns...

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling?
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.

What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:

Why America’s Government Shutdowns Exist and How to End Them

One Legal Memo Created The Shutdown Era. Another Can End It.

open.substack.com

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know gov shutdowns aren’t in the Constitution, any law, or Court ruling?
They exist because of a 1980 OLC memo—a lawyer’s opinion that everyone just went along with. Before 1980, funding gaps didn’t cause shutdowns.

What one memo created, another can undo. How the next D admin can undo it:

Why America’s Government Shutdowns Exist and How to End Them

One Legal Memo Created The Shutdown Era. Another Can End It.

open.substack.com

Jan Mewes @janmewes.bsky.social · 4d

Do you happen to work with data from the Integrated World Values/European Values Study? If so beware: there is a rather influential coding error in the variable on religious denomination (F025). Go and check e.g. Spain and Germany and compare to F025_EVS and F025_WVS @gesis-dataservices.bsky.social

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 5d

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science

Duties & Responsibilities

illinois.csod.com

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 5d

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 5d

I recommend people take the time to read the (quite well written) paper. Ungated preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

My initial take is that the ethics violations are even more egregious than the abstract suggests, but the evidence more messy & mixed than exactly the obvious of what WPF claimed.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 5d

Author published an open access preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

OSF

osf.io

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 6d

In 2023, I interviewed the parents who organized this effort to oust Moms for Liberty. If you want to know more — and maybe learn from them! — check it out.

Congrats to them for getting rid of them all!

www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6d

Earth shaking is confirmed by local media (gift link):
www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6d

Sorry, looked too quickly. There's not perfect match currently available. Feminist Theory is pretty close -- it has a comma before the year in text & uses single quotation marks, but both of those are easy to fix in the style.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6d

Even more of a no brainer then! Have fun (I'll go meet a friend to play cello flute duets in a bit)

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely not -- many music teachers have adult beginner students, especially guitar & piano. You're obviously not going to become a virtuoso, but you can get to reasonable goals in not unreasonable time.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 6d

You mean the Stanford Enclopedia, yes? That's a version of Chicago author date, probably 16th edition

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 7d

The stainless steel dispersion plate is 100% worth it if you don't have it already. Ditto for the silicone gasket. I honestly haven't noticed a huge effect w the fancy screen.
(And yes, I do realize I'm proving your point)

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.

Madeleine Swann @madeleineswann.bsky.social · 7d

Recipe: the key to creamy cream free soup is hiding in your pantry
Person: OK i'm hiding in my pantry, what next?

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 7d

3/3 Theory&Society, you'll recall, was taken over ~2 years ago by a group closely associated with 'heterodox' scholarship. The piece fits my continuing impression of much of the heterodox crowd that they're very much willing to lower standards if it fits _their_ ideological predispositions.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 7d

2/3 Also, measured by its own standards, the article:
- does share data BUT didn't pre-register analyses; doesn't use counterfactual causal methods, DAGs or anything else associated w the credibility revolution, so doesn't do well either. Overall, the causal analysis is _very_ weak.

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 7d

It's a weird piece - I'm actually mentioned by name in it (based on an email w/o permission), and I did say that sociologists aren't active users of QDR, but added a caveat. This would have allowed for an interesting comparison (I don't think UK sociologists are further to the right?) 1/3

Although I largely agree with her analysis, it is worth noting that qualitative scholars in other social science fields, especially in political science, have been far more serious than sociologists about improving transparency and data sharing. For example, I have discovered in my conversations with peers that very few sociologists know about the Qualitative Data Repository – a dedicated archive for storing and sharing data generated or collected through qualitative research in the social sciences. My impression was confirmed in an email by Sebatian Karcher, the current director of the QDR. Given the prominence of qualitative research in sociology, it is worth asking why it took political scientists to spearhead this initiative to improve transparency and reproducibility in qualitative research (Elman & Kapiszewski, 2018).

Yes, that’s absolutely in line with my impression in the US (and QDR in particular) – I think it looks differently when you go to the UK.
Sebastian

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 7d

Which has the obvious Bsky meta-flame war corollary: "Good on Shapiro" vs. "You do not, in fact, gotta hand it to Shapiro"
(I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm team 'good on Shapiro' on this)

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 7d

Over on X, there's a massive flame war between the "Hitler had some good points" and "you do not in fact gotta hand it to Hitler" factions of the online right

Ben Shapiro ripping into Tucker Carlson in a video posted on X after Carlson hosted a friendly interview with white nationalist groyper Nick Fuentes

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 7d

Over on X, there's a massive flame war between the "Hitler had some good points" and "you do not in fact gotta hand it to Hitler" factions of the online right

Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 9d

Have you considered some version of the arXiv model of endorsement/registation to automatically accept a subset of papers?
info.arxiv.org/help/endorse...

Endorsement - arXiv info | arXiv e-print repository

info.arxiv.org

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