Sean Kross
@seankross.com
Staff Scientist at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center seankross.com
The miracle of America is kosher eggnog.
December 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The miracle of America is kosher eggnog.
Growing up we would refer to December 23rd as Erev Christmas Eve.
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Growing up we would refer to December 23rd as Erev Christmas Eve.
Aluminum foil is the jingle bells of Hanukkah.
December 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Aluminum foil is the jingle bells of Hanukkah.
I was this intern! If you’re an interested applicant and I would be happy to talk to you about working with Jake and Dan.
Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein)
Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish!
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Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish!
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
Research Intern - Computational Social Science | Microsoft Careers
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I was this intern! If you’re an interested applicant and I would be happy to talk to you about working with Jake and Dan.
The best argument that I have heard to not choose the bear is that you would feel remorse if you had to kill the bear.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The best argument that I have heard to not choose the bear is that you would feel remorse if you had to kill the bear.
Em dashes from works written before 2022 are the grammatical equivalent of pre-war steel.
November 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Em dashes from works written before 2022 are the grammatical equivalent of pre-war steel.
The way cryptographers feel about cryptocurrency is the same way statisticians feel about gambling.
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The way cryptographers feel about cryptocurrency is the same way statisticians feel about gambling.
Nobody thinks about all of the visual representations of survivorship bias that didn't become popular.
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Nobody thinks about all of the visual representations of survivorship bias that didn't become popular.
Is there more history to this icon or is this just the Vitruvian Man?
October 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Is there more history to this icon or is this just the Vitruvian Man?
Something I love about working at @fredhutch.org is the space that @jtleek.bsky.social @vortexing.bsky.social and @tladeras.bsky.social have carved out for us to develop all of our content and software as open source by default.
Speaking as someone who has created a lot of content, this industry is absolutely full of people who want to ride your content to their own ends and drop you as soon as it's convenient. You need to either retain agency or be willing to completely let it go. Don't give it over and then trust.
October 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Something I love about working at @fredhutch.org is the space that @jtleek.bsky.social @vortexing.bsky.social and @tladeras.bsky.social have carved out for us to develop all of our content and software as open source by default.
There is only thing you cannot procrastinate.
October 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
There is only thing you cannot procrastinate.
“People should learn what selection bias is.”
“Would you Quintus? Would I?”
“Would you Quintus? Would I?”
October 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“People should learn what selection bias is.”
“Would you Quintus? Would I?”
“Would you Quintus? Would I?”
With the score tied at the end of regulation in this matchup between Juilliard and Cal Arts, this game is headed for oeuvretime.
October 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
With the score tied at the end of regulation in this matchup between Juilliard and Cal Arts, this game is headed for oeuvretime.
If you understand how 9/11 led to the Ellen DeGeneres Show getting cancelled then you understand causal inference.
October 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If you understand how 9/11 led to the Ellen DeGeneres Show getting cancelled then you understand causal inference.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications is Infinite Jest for software engineers.
October 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Designing Data-Intensive Applications is Infinite Jest for software engineers.
I wonder if ChatGPT wrote The Plan.
September 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I wonder if ChatGPT wrote The Plan.
There’s a Cardi B lyric that’s codified in federal law.
September 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
There’s a Cardi B lyric that’s codified in federal law.
Ten years of pizza rat
September 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Ten years of pizza rat
This is a cognitive science joke
September 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
This is a cognitive science joke
Shiny for Python for Humans for America
September 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Shiny for Python for Humans for America
True terror is to wake up one morning and realize that ChatGPT is running the country.
September 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
True terror is to wake up one morning and realize that ChatGPT is running the country.
Love Island is the inverse of the Gulag Archipelago.
August 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Love Island is the inverse of the Gulag Archipelago.
The good news is your Jekyll site is now building successfully. The bad news is every time you built it, your computer requires a tiny little drop of blood.
August 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The good news is your Jekyll site is now building successfully. The bad news is every time you built it, your computer requires a tiny little drop of blood.