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#SilentSunday Breakneck Pond, Bigelow Hollow State Park, Connecticut
January 4, 2026 at 2:15 PM
#SilentSunday Breakneck Pond, Bigelow Hollow State Park, Connecticut
Yes. I still read X, because I occasionally see things like this. (I’m readonly on X. I don’t post.)
January 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Yes. I still read X, because I occasionally see things like this. (I’m readonly on X. I don’t post.)
Aretha Franklin’s tribute to Carole King at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015.
Aretha Franklin's awesome tribute to Carole King: Kennedy Center Honors 2015
Absolute Legend, who thankfully is still with us.
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January 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Aretha Franklin’s tribute to Carole King at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2015.
A note on the threat to art from AI — AI won’t replace Shakespeare or Picasso, but it may replace the community of artisans from which the greatest artists emerge. crookedtimber.org/2026/01/02/a...
A note on the threat to art from AI — Crooked Timber
by Chris Bertram on January 2, 2026
crookedtimber.org
January 2, 2026 at 8:07 PM
A note on the threat to art from AI — AI won’t replace Shakespeare or Picasso, but it may replace the community of artisans from which the greatest artists emerge. crookedtimber.org/2026/01/02/a...
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My department (EEOB at Iowa State) is hiring! See isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...
Assistant Professor in Integrative Environmental and Organismal Health
Position Title: Assistant Professor in Integrative Environmental and Organismal Health Appointment Type: Faculty Job Description: Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: The Department of Ecology, Evo...
isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
January 2, 2026 at 6:04 PM
My department (EEOB at Iowa State) is hiring! See isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...
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BBC are starting to detail their process for verifying images in their reports now. I fear we have truly entered the age of 'AI until proven innocent'.
January 2, 2026 at 1:40 PM
BBC are starting to detail their process for verifying images in their reports now. I fear we have truly entered the age of 'AI until proven innocent'.
If I can stop one heart from breaking, by Emily Dickinson
January 2, 2026 at 1:38 PM
If I can stop one heart from breaking, by Emily Dickinson
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I took hundreds or more likely thousands of these types of shots on La Cumbre Peak in 2025. There were some strong contenders with more color but I love how many hills popped up that I don't normally see...so this is probably my favorite foothills shot of the year! #Photography #SantaBarbara #Sunset
December 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I took hundreds or more likely thousands of these types of shots on La Cumbre Peak in 2025. There were some strong contenders with more color but I love how many hills popped up that I don't normally see...so this is probably my favorite foothills shot of the year! #Photography #SantaBarbara #Sunset
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New footage of endangered ocelots in Arizona 🧪🌐 tucson.com/news/local/s...
Seeing spots: 2025 ends with new footage of endangered ocelots in Arizona
Recently released footage shows two different ocelots in Southern Arizona, including just the second detection in the Santa Rita Mountains and another cat that might be new to the state.
tucson.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:42 AM
New footage of endangered ocelots in Arizona 🧪🌐 tucson.com/news/local/s...
Andrew Gelman: “I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing…has softened the ground so that the seeds of more evil trees could then be planted and take root.”
I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing, schoolyard evolutionary psychology, extra-sensory perception, magic golf balls, air rage, himmicanes, subliminal smiley faces, etc etc etc, has softened the ground so that the seeds of more evil trees could then be planted and take root. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Dale Lehman sends an email with subject line “A new low in science”:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
January 1, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Andrew Gelman: “I have a horrible feeling sometimes that heavily promoted crap research on space aliens, cold showers, mind-body healing…has softened the ground so that the seeds of more evil trees could then be planted and take root.”
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Now we need a complete font set.
January 1, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Now we need a complete font set.
“The challenging thing about living in a society that values disruption is that what looks transgressive is often more of the same, just louder.”
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:38 PM
“The challenging thing about living in a society that values disruption is that what looks transgressive is often more of the same, just louder.”
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
A damage assessment of the President’s first year back in the White House.
www.newyorker.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Power to the people? - It appears that over the last 80 years “people have become less inclined to assume that the authorities know better than ordinary people do. Moreover, this change has been stronger among people in higher social positions.”
Power to the people?
In 1946, a short-lived survey organization called the Psychological Corporation (which seems to have been connected to the Gallup Poll) ask...
justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Power to the people? - It appears that over the last 80 years “people have become less inclined to assume that the authorities know better than ordinary people do. Moreover, this change has been stronger among people in higher social positions.”
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“I'll rid the world of bad things. But first, I need to get more coffee.”
—Liza Donnelly, “A Day in the Life of Woman Cartoonist”
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—Liza Donnelly, “A Day in the Life of Woman Cartoonist”
@lizadonnelly.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“I'll rid the world of bad things. But first, I need to get more coffee.”
—Liza Donnelly, “A Day in the Life of Woman Cartoonist”
@lizadonnelly.bsky.social
—Liza Donnelly, “A Day in the Life of Woman Cartoonist”
@lizadonnelly.bsky.social
Via The Economist
December 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Via The Economist
Keep earth’s temperature at less than 1.5ºC below pre-industrial depends on knowing what the pre-industrial baseline is, and that is more complicated than you might think. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
RealClimate: 1.5ºC and all that
RealClimate: The Paris Agreement temperature limits are a little ambiguous and knowing where we are is tricky. The desire to keep global temperature rises since the pre-industrial, ideally below…
www.realclimate.org
December 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Keep earth’s temperature at less than 1.5ºC below pre-industrial depends on knowing what the pre-industrial baseline is, and that is more complicated than you might think. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
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Semiotic paradox alert!
December 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Semiotic paradox alert!
#SilentSunday Northwest Park, Manchester, CT
December 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
#SilentSunday Northwest Park, Manchester, CT
The Sacramento Mountains butterfly is critically endangered. Only one caterpillar left.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Sacramento Mountains butterfly is critically endangered. Only one caterpillar left.
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My quote of the day
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
John Wooden
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
John Wooden
December 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My quote of the day
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
John Wooden
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
John Wooden
Economics and/or politics? - Presidential forms of government may have a higher risk of backsliding from democracy than parliamentary ones.
Economics and/or politics?
In recent decades, there have been a number of cases of "democratic erosion" or "backsliding"--elected leaders changing the rules to make i...
justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Economics and/or politics? - Presidential forms of government may have a higher risk of backsliding from democracy than parliamentary ones.
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Botanists x word nerds having fun with today’s NYT Connections:
Things associated with angiosperms: flowers, Solti.
Things associated with Florida: retire, melodramatic, Solti.
Things that famously come in pairs: musical notes, cherry, Solti.
(Alas! None the correct answer.)
Things associated with angiosperms: flowers, Solti.
Things associated with Florida: retire, melodramatic, Solti.
Things that famously come in pairs: musical notes, cherry, Solti.
(Alas! None the correct answer.)
December 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Botanists x word nerds having fun with today’s NYT Connections:
Things associated with angiosperms: flowers, Solti.
Things associated with Florida: retire, melodramatic, Solti.
Things that famously come in pairs: musical notes, cherry, Solti.
(Alas! None the correct answer.)
Things associated with angiosperms: flowers, Solti.
Things associated with Florida: retire, melodramatic, Solti.
Things that famously come in pairs: musical notes, cherry, Solti.
(Alas! None the correct answer.)
Slop is not distinguishable by its attributes. It is an attitude of production
Slop is not distinguishable by its attributes. It is an attitude of production | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Since it’s dictionary week here on the blog, why not discuss Merriam-Webster’s word of the year: slop. They define it as:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
December 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Slop is not distinguishable by its attributes. It is an attitude of production
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On the first day of Christmas (in about 2014), @duckswabber.bsky.social gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Happy Christmas everyone!
December 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
On the first day of Christmas (in about 2014), @duckswabber.bsky.social gave to me - a partridge in a pear tree.
Happy Christmas everyone!
Happy Christmas everyone!