DB Krupp
@dbkrupp.bsky.social
Working on social evolution theory, kinship, inequality, and competition. Probably not the interdisciplinarian you’re looking for. https://www.saltlab.org
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DB Krupp
@dbkrupp.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Three Paths Through the Levels of Selection
ecoevorxiv.org
Have you ever wondered about individual-, group-, and multi-level selection arguments? Packed with strong opinions, vehicles and replicators, the Price equation, and causal graphs, I hope you find some answers in my new paper. Please share widely!
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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And just like that, we lose our measles elimination status after 27 years. Three decades of work, gone.
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
And just like that, we lose our measles elimination status after 27 years. Three decades of work, gone.
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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I guess Rubin choosing "Missing at Random" for the scenario in which it is evident that the data are not missing at random is a close contender.
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I guess Rubin choosing "Missing at Random" for the scenario in which it is evident that the data are not missing at random is a close contender.
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The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)
Globe & Mail reports “the budget is expected to include up to $1-billion to attract high-quality talent and researchers from the United States and elsewhere”
So far hospitals and universities have been going it alone….
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
So far hospitals and universities have been going it alone….
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)
I really don’t think people know just how widespread poverty is in the US. Brady has an excellent review of this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I really don’t think people know just how widespread poverty is in the US. Brady has an excellent review of this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Causal Inference is Not Just a Statistics Problem.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An introductory article including a primer on causal inference and DAGS , and accompanied by an r package containing simulated data to help explain concepts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An introductory article including a primer on causal inference and DAGS , and accompanied by an r package containing simulated data to help explain concepts.
www.tandfonline.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Causal Inference is Not Just a Statistics Problem.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An introductory article including a primer on causal inference and DAGS , and accompanied by an r package containing simulated data to help explain concepts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An introductory article including a primer on causal inference and DAGS , and accompanied by an r package containing simulated data to help explain concepts.
This entire thread is the stuff of nightmares.
October 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This entire thread is the stuff of nightmares.
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The National Post is making a real run at the Toronto Sun’s title as the worst op-ed page in the country
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The National Post is making a real run at the Toronto Sun’s title as the worst op-ed page in the country
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In a new paper, we show from longitudinal UK and France data that income volatility (fluctatuations month to month) are bad for mental and general health. And it is much badder than you would expect given the lowness of the low months:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Redirecting
doi.org
October 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
In a new paper, we show from longitudinal UK and France data that income volatility (fluctatuations month to month) are bad for mental and general health. And it is much badder than you would expect given the lowness of the low months:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
Paging @johnpfaff.bsky.social
How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?
Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.
To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.
Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.
To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.
October 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Paging @johnpfaff.bsky.social
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.
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Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
sites.stat.columbia.edu
October 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
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Will be a little sad forever that we got the clearest object lesson possible that each individual's health is inextricably related to every other individual's health in a society, and we seem to have come out of it with even less collective will to reshape our society relative to this knowledge.
October 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Will be a little sad forever that we got the clearest object lesson possible that each individual's health is inextricably related to every other individual's health in a society, and we seem to have come out of it with even less collective will to reshape our society relative to this knowledge.
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That ratio, in turn, is a downstream effect of decades-long defunding of higher education such that institutions cannot afford enough qualified instructors for the student populations that increased for decades as administrations attempted to replace lost funding w tuition dollars
September 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
That ratio, in turn, is a downstream effect of decades-long defunding of higher education such that institutions cannot afford enough qualified instructors for the student populations that increased for decades as administrations attempted to replace lost funding w tuition dollars
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The result is a set of mutually reinforcing trends where fewer, lower-paid instructors buckle under (until recently) a constantly expanding student population. The students themselves caught in another accelerating debt crisis to complete their educations amidst rising costs
September 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The result is a set of mutually reinforcing trends where fewer, lower-paid instructors buckle under (until recently) a constantly expanding student population. The students themselves caught in another accelerating debt crisis to complete their educations amidst rising costs
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Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.
September 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.
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Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!
Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!
Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!
ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me "
ALT: ron burgundy from parks and recreation says " you 'd be a fool not to pick me "
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September 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors!
Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!
Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk (sksakal@ilstu.edu) by Oct 31!
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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The teacher pay penalty continues to grow.
Public school teachers are paid only 73 cents for every dollar paid to similar college graduates
New data from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org and @ceprdc.bsky.social
Public school teachers are paid only 73 cents for every dollar paid to similar college graduates
New data from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org and @ceprdc.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The teacher pay penalty continues to grow.
Public school teachers are paid only 73 cents for every dollar paid to similar college graduates
New data from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org and @ceprdc.bsky.social
Public school teachers are paid only 73 cents for every dollar paid to similar college graduates
New data from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org and @ceprdc.bsky.social
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Also worth recalling bsky.app/profile/patd...
During Trump Term 1, per ABC News, Trump raised the prospect of shooting migrants with advisors on multiple occasions. abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
September 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Also worth recalling bsky.app/profile/patd...