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Alayne Moody
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PhD student using a critical digital humanities methodology, including natural language processing and Bayesian data analysis, to study well-being in 19th century letters and diaries. #lifewriting #wellbeing #Bayes #DH
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May be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. If you want to know why it’s called a strawberry squid, watch the video
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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piskyinpresbyland.bsky.social
So long as all humanities students take a statistics course, particularly journalism students, with an emphasis on hypothesis testing, Bayes' Theorem, and statistical significance.
April 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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ldburnett.bsky.social
I’m teaching an environmental humanities course this fall and you can bet I’m going to be assigning this post (and your column) as we discuss the impact / ethics of AI use.
April 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive

Let people know, download your own copies.
Don't let this digital book burn continue.

#Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI
All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive
Here's all the information you might need. Official website: https://eotarchive.org/ Wikipedia:...
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January 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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scottsantens.com
Minneapolis Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot

Location: Minneapolis, MN
Participants: 200
Amount: $500/mo
Duration: 2 yrs
Design: RCT

EMPLOYMENT DID NOT DECEASE

Food and housing security, financial security and psychological wellness all significantly improved.

www.minneapolisfed.org/research/ins...
Our findings show that cash assistance stabilizes households’ economic lives (food security, financial security, and housing stability) and improves direct reports of well-being (subjective or psychological) with no evidence of a reduction in labor supply. This pattern of findings matches several other randomized GBI evaluations. Comparing across these studies suggests that the benefits of basic income in terms of stability and well-being are slightly larger for populations with lower baseline income and worse outcomes, and that these groups also tend to have null or slightly positive (but not statistically significant) labor supply effects. Our population is on the more disadvantaged end of this spectrum. Table 4 presents results for three measures of economic security: food security (panel A), housing stability (panel B), and financial security (panel C). We find immediate, large, and robust positive effects of basic income payments on food security. At baseline only about one-third of respondents in both groups are recorded as food secure, but after 6 months of GBI payments and in every wave thereafter, about half of the treatment group reports being food secure. The estimated average treatment effect parameter is between 15 and 20 percentage points across all specifications in all periods, and every estimate except one is statistically significantly different from zero after adjusting for multiple hypothesis testing. One clear behavioral prediction from economic models is that an increase in unearned income should reduce labor supply. This is a direct consequence of valuing leisure time. Static and dynamic models differ on the magnitude of their prediction for short-run labor supply behavior but not in their sign. We do not find evidence that GBI payments caused recipients to reduce their labor supply. In fact, panel D of Figure 3 and Table 5 show that our labor supply index—which combines extensive and intensive margin measures—is higher among treated respondents than control respondents. These results are not generally distinguishable from zero and our specifications that use baseline employment information (models 2 and 3) find smaller results than unadjusted comparisons or ones adjusted only for demographic information.
January 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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bleudeciel.bsky.social
Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”
December 24, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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On that note, there's just one more piece of news that I'm thrilled to share with you: a paper offering more technical details on Bayesian textual criticism, which I've authored with Rob Turnbull, has just been accepted for publication by Digital Scholarship in the Humanities!
"Dear Mr. McCollum: It is a pleasure to accept your manuscript entitled 'Using Bayesian Phylogenetics to Infer Manuscript Transmission History' in its current form for publication in DSH: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Thank you for your contribution. On behalf of the Editors of DSH, we look forward to your continued contributions to the Journal."
November 29, 2023 at 4:53 AM