Joshua Noble
@fctry2.bsky.social
Person, person, and oxford comma lover
Sometimes I remember that a lot of Americans simply cannot read and fully comprehend sentences written in English. www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Sometimes I remember that a lot of Americans simply cannot read and fully comprehend sentences written in English. www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
Where's the reputable place to chip in money for US govt federal workers?
October 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Where's the reputable place to chip in money for US govt federal workers?
it is incomprensible what a waste of time and money and erosion of public confidence it is to have governmental departments create social media account simply to harass and troll. Utterly embarrassing.
October 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
it is incomprensible what a waste of time and money and erosion of public confidence it is to have governmental departments create social media account simply to harass and troll. Utterly embarrassing.
I wish I was at a protest today. However, I am in the middle of nowhere. But know that I'd be at one if it was close.
October 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I wish I was at a protest today. However, I am in the middle of nowhere. But know that I'd be at one if it was close.
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Countries with more economic inequality have higher homicide rates. But for any given country, the relationship isn't as strong. This poses a multilevel modelling problem that it's easy to trip over. I tripped, righted (I hope), and blogged about it with #rstats. freerangestats.info/blog/2025/10...
October 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Countries with more economic inequality have higher homicide rates. But for any given country, the relationship isn't as strong. This poses a multilevel modelling problem that it's easy to trip over. I tripped, righted (I hope), and blogged about it with #rstats. freerangestats.info/blog/2025/10...
Maximal LinkedIn experience right here:
October 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Maximal LinkedIn experience right here:
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This week on Counting Stuff. Layoffs! I'm in search for a job now! It sucks but here we are!
Now's the ideal time to give me money in exchange for time or a project. Or if you just have leads in quantitative/data/researchy positions across NYC or remotely
www.counting-stuff.com/looking-for-...
Now's the ideal time to give me money in exchange for time or a project. Or if you just have leads in quantitative/data/researchy positions across NYC or remotely
www.counting-stuff.com/looking-for-...
Looking for work, surprise edition
I always told my wife this newsletter was my backup plan...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This week on Counting Stuff. Layoffs! I'm in search for a job now! It sucks but here we are!
Now's the ideal time to give me money in exchange for time or a project. Or if you just have leads in quantitative/data/researchy positions across NYC or remotely
www.counting-stuff.com/looking-for-...
Now's the ideal time to give me money in exchange for time or a project. Or if you just have leads in quantitative/data/researchy positions across NYC or remotely
www.counting-stuff.com/looking-for-...
The kids down the block have a band and I can hear everything when they practice and they have, over the last 5 years, gotten way way better.
September 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The kids down the block have a band and I can hear everything when they practice and they have, over the last 5 years, gotten way way better.
I think the US Supreme Court might seriously be about to overturn the right to marriage www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Clarence Thomas says precedent might not determine cases on upcoming supreme court docket
The court is expected to weigh in on same-sex marriage next session, which it legalized in 2015
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I think the US Supreme Court might seriously be about to overturn the right to marriage www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Had a lovely time giving a small talk at Data Behind the Scenes yesterday, I think (hope?) folks found the talk interesting, and I really enjoyed the other talks that I could catch! Thanks to @randyau.com for organizing!
September 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Had a lovely time giving a small talk at Data Behind the Scenes yesterday, I think (hope?) folks found the talk interesting, and I really enjoyed the other talks that I could catch! Thanks to @randyau.com for organizing!
Seems as though the debate on age verification for social media is: do we treat social media like cigarettes or do we treat it like books? There's no similar debate for video games, alcohol, movies, driving, etc. There is a related debate about GDPR, right to be forgotten, etc.
September 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Seems as though the debate on age verification for social media is: do we treat social media like cigarettes or do we treat it like books? There's no similar debate for video games, alcohol, movies, driving, etc. There is a related debate about GDPR, right to be forgotten, etc.
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now that I'm alive again after a bad cold...
WE ARE ONE WEEK AWAY FROM #DataBS Conf!!!!
Sign up (free) for Wed Sept 24, 10am-5pm EDT, online-only data nerdery talks! Do it now before you forget! Let your data friends know!
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WE ARE ONE WEEK AWAY FROM #DataBS Conf!!!!
Sign up (free) for Wed Sept 24, 10am-5pm EDT, online-only data nerdery talks! Do it now before you forget! Let your data friends know!
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DataBS Conf
"Data, Behind the Scenes" is a free-to-attend online-only, single track conference centered on the real stories of data work from the folks in the trenches. We’re not here for the latest AI hype, perf...
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September 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
now that I'm alive again after a bad cold...
WE ARE ONE WEEK AWAY FROM #DataBS Conf!!!!
Sign up (free) for Wed Sept 24, 10am-5pm EDT, online-only data nerdery talks! Do it now before you forget! Let your data friends know!
ti.to/databsconf/d... <-tickets
databsconf.com/schedule/ <- schedule
WE ARE ONE WEEK AWAY FROM #DataBS Conf!!!!
Sign up (free) for Wed Sept 24, 10am-5pm EDT, online-only data nerdery talks! Do it now before you forget! Let your data friends know!
ti.to/databsconf/d... <-tickets
databsconf.com/schedule/ <- schedule
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For the record.
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
September 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
For the record.
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.
I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."
Q: are there cats in all the lodges at Mt Baker ski resort?
A: yes indeed, and you can pet them.
Follow-up Q: is this the best calendar ever?
A: yes it is
A: yes indeed, and you can pet them.
Follow-up Q: is this the best calendar ever?
A: yes it is
September 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Q: are there cats in all the lodges at Mt Baker ski resort?
A: yes indeed, and you can pet them.
Follow-up Q: is this the best calendar ever?
A: yes it is
A: yes indeed, and you can pet them.
Follow-up Q: is this the best calendar ever?
A: yes it is
I don't believe in the death penalty but that doesn't mean I have to valorize folks on death row im order to do so.
September 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I don't believe in the death penalty but that doesn't mean I have to valorize folks on death row im order to do so.
I thought I might hate this take but I actually do not.
As opposed to America, which is ruled by lawyers
A new theory of China’s rise: rule by engineers
As opposed to America, which is ruled by lawyers
econ.st
September 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I thought I might hate this take but I actually do not.
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There's a standing tradition among the editorial elite that only the Democrats must ever be scolded, or held to any kind of standard. Any Republican saying anything represents the salt of the earth that "elites" must adjust to in order to gain "heartland" votes.
Meanwhile the sitting vice president talks about “Cultural Marxism” and “the Cathedral” and uses esoteric White Power jargon all the time but his language is not a liability
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
August 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
There's a standing tradition among the editorial elite that only the Democrats must ever be scolded, or held to any kind of standard. Any Republican saying anything represents the salt of the earth that "elites" must adjust to in order to gain "heartland" votes.
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I don’t really think that there’s any difference between calling human beings “NPCs” or calling them cockroaches or “human animals” or any other classic rhetoric of dehumanization and I find it pretty worrying that people who are otherwise concerned with respectability have adopted its use
August 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I don’t really think that there’s any difference between calling human beings “NPCs” or calling them cockroaches or “human animals” or any other classic rhetoric of dehumanization and I find it pretty worrying that people who are otherwise concerned with respectability have adopted its use
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"And satellite images show just how far the Israeli military has gone to raze the city of Rafah to the ground, with excavators brought in to level bombed out buildings targeted repeatedly during the war."
www.instagram.com/reel/DNp49sw...
www.instagram.com/reel/DNp49sw...
August 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"And satellite images show just how far the Israeli military has gone to raze the city of Rafah to the ground, with excavators brought in to level bombed out buildings targeted repeatedly during the war."
www.instagram.com/reel/DNp49sw...
www.instagram.com/reel/DNp49sw...
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Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of a brave man dying for what was right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...
Jonathan Daniels - Wikipedia
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August 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of a brave man dying for what was right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...
Oh neat my Atlantic byline is still up, even if my article is not:
August 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Oh neat my Atlantic byline is still up, even if my article is not:
Everyone always compares Trump to Mussolini but he's got a fair bit of Idi Amin in there as well. Less murderous, but just as buffoonishly delusional.
August 15, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Everyone always compares Trump to Mussolini but he's got a fair bit of Idi Amin in there as well. Less murderous, but just as buffoonishly delusional.