Sander Wagner
@sanderwagner.bsky.social
US politics will enter into and polarize every aspect of life and culture: premier league edition
November 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
US politics will enter into and polarize every aspect of life and culture: premier league edition
As a general rule, making films that are also good art about the current moment in history is pretty hard.
But seeing "one battle after another" and "bugonia" back to back convinced me that the moment we are living through is absurd enough that it has suddenly become much more possible.
But seeing "one battle after another" and "bugonia" back to back convinced me that the moment we are living through is absurd enough that it has suddenly become much more possible.
November 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As a general rule, making films that are also good art about the current moment in history is pretty hard.
But seeing "one battle after another" and "bugonia" back to back convinced me that the moment we are living through is absurd enough that it has suddenly become much more possible.
But seeing "one battle after another" and "bugonia" back to back convinced me that the moment we are living through is absurd enough that it has suddenly become much more possible.
With a little extra effort this analysis of dynasties in football (or "intergenerational occupational persistence in elite sports" if you prefer academiaspeak) could probably be turned into a sociology paper.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/footba...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/footba...
Are football's family dynasties the future of elite player development?
Hello and welcome back to PITCHSIDE MONITOR, your ultimate source for exclusive club management insights! Football Family Legacies: A Data-Driven Analysis Several weeks ago in Huddersfield, on a pitch...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
With a little extra effort this analysis of dynasties in football (or "intergenerational occupational persistence in elite sports" if you prefer academiaspeak) could probably be turned into a sociology paper.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/footba...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/footba...
Early and late diagnosed autism are quite different, also genetically www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Early and late diagnosed autism are quite different, also genetically www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Has Christopher Nolan ever done a good movie before Oppenheimer?
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Has Christopher Nolan ever done a good movie before Oppenheimer?
Come and be our colleague!!!
Job Alert:
Apply for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026 by December 15.
You will become a part of our fantastic interdisciplinary team at LCDS and help us push the boundaries of demographic research.
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www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/call-ex...
Apply for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026 by December 15.
You will become a part of our fantastic interdisciplinary team at LCDS and help us push the boundaries of demographic research.
cc @leverhulme.ac.uk
www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/call-ex...
Call for Expressions of Interest: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026
The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS), Oxford Population Health, invites expressions of interest from outstanding early-career researchers who wish to apply for the Leverhulme Trust Ear...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Come and be our colleague!!!
As Food Stamps for 40 million Americans are now stopping, here is a classic results of the positive effects that the availability of food stamps has for the birthweights of newborns and for neonatal infant mortality.
www.irp.wisc.edu/publications...
www.irp.wisc.edu/publications...
October 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
As Food Stamps for 40 million Americans are now stopping, here is a classic results of the positive effects that the availability of food stamps has for the birthweights of newborns and for neonatal infant mortality.
www.irp.wisc.edu/publications...
www.irp.wisc.edu/publications...
That thing you thought was random, it's actually not!
Edition 35,867:
"The offspring of longer whale mothers are more likely to be female than those of shorter mums"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Edition 35,867:
"The offspring of longer whale mothers are more likely to be female than those of shorter mums"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Big mother whales have more daughters than sons
Archival whaling data reveal a sex bias in the offspring of long female whales.
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
That thing you thought was random, it's actually not!
Edition 35,867:
"The offspring of longer whale mothers are more likely to be female than those of shorter mums"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Edition 35,867:
"The offspring of longer whale mothers are more likely to be female than those of shorter mums"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Sander Wagner
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
I have now changed my football opinion to "only setpiece goals feel like real goals." Maybe goals out of play should only count 1/2 or 3/4 points.
October 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I have now changed my football opinion to "only setpiece goals feel like real goals." Maybe goals out of play should only count 1/2 or 3/4 points.
Teorema (Pasolini, 1968)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Teorema (Pasolini, 1968)
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Thames Water doing its magic in the Champions League now, I see onefootball.com/en/news/atle...
Atletico Madrid angry after leaving Emirates Stadium without showering after training for Arsenal game this evening due to unavailability of hot water
Read this news on OneFootball.
onefootball.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Thames Water doing its magic in the Champions League now, I see onefootball.com/en/news/atle...
NEW DID paper coming in 1..2...3...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...
Disney+ Cancellations Jump After Kimmel Suspension
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
NEW DID paper coming in 1..2...3...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...
October 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
As Marie Antoinut said: "Let them eat peanuts"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
October 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
As Marie Antoinut said: "Let them eat peanuts"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
There was another China shock and it exported people into the USs higher ed system (and mostly had positive consequences)
www.nber.org/papers/w3439...
www.nber.org/papers/w3439...
October 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
There was another China shock and it exported people into the USs higher ed system (and mostly had positive consequences)
www.nber.org/papers/w3439...
www.nber.org/papers/w3439...
A whole mixed bag of consequences being described here, but overall this reads like a W for cell-phone bans in school www.nber.org/papers/w3438...
October 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A whole mixed bag of consequences being described here, but overall this reads like a W for cell-phone bans in school www.nber.org/papers/w3438...
Universities are (so far) actually faring better than many other institutions in how much they succumb to power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
All but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Universities are (so far) actually faring better than many other institutions in how much they succumb to power. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/u...
If you search hard there is still good news to be found (like, really good in this case) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/h...
October 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If you search hard there is still good news to be found (like, really good in this case) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/h...
Reposted by Sander Wagner
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
October 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only
Still not 100% sure how relevant the effects are and most studies we have are correlational, but the medical literature is slowly "micro-plastic-pilling" me (as in I think its much more of an issue than i did two years ago). jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Microplastics and Human Health
This JAMA Insights discusses rising detection of microplastics in human tissue and the importance of international cooperation to limit plastic pollution.
jamanetwork.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Still not 100% sure how relevant the effects are and most studies we have are correlational, but the medical literature is slowly "micro-plastic-pilling" me (as in I think its much more of an issue than i did two years ago). jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
a thing we don't fully understand creating a thing we don't fully understand. cool. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
October 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
a thing we don't fully understand creating a thing we don't fully understand. cool. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
May he who never parked a furniture van in front of the louvre, throw the first stone.
October 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
May he who never parked a furniture van in front of the louvre, throw the first stone.
The past 10 years have been good for the relative earnings of poor-income US households. That seems to be coming to an end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
October 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The past 10 years have been good for the relative earnings of poor-income US households. That seems to be coming to an end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
“Measuring itself is a political act with political consequences” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
“Measuring itself is a political act with political consequences” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...