Ah fair! Ah I must have misread your bio, apologies.

Thanks for sharing! As scams go, this is quite well-done. The ones academics get are MUCH more obviously scams. If this one got a domain name that made more sense, one could easily be fooled. Have you seen an uptick in better-written scams since the widespread adoption of LLMs?

Great to see this work! Also I love this angle on how impulsivity and self-control come apart (and are not opposite ends of a spectrum).

100% agreed. So frustrating. Sometimes I’m unsure whether it’s just rhetoric or politicians truly don’t understand the ramifications.

We need this badly. Unfortunately, there's also too little attention to cold-related deaths. Way more people die of the cold in Europe, and that nearly never makes the news. Though that balance will probably flip in a few decades.

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Love to see it. Thoughtful piece too :)

I love a good traffic violation (especially if you don't operate heavy machinery for your travel), so I will grab the popcorn for this conversation. Imo if many pedestrians are crossing where/when they "shouldn't", it's a design error - they're deprioritised for automobile traffic flow.

Added it to the list! Re your point: not to mention the history of the term jaywalking!

I can hear a faint echo of: “Rotgänger, totgänger!!!”

First, that’s so valid. Second, sorry but I have to say that’s the most German complaint you could make 😂 I’m so here for it!!

That’s definitely part of it. Another point is that we get a lot of negative press about gun violence, lack of public transportation, expensive healthcare etc. From the outside, it’s difficult to see how localised some of these things are.

Oh absolutely, arguably even more so in the US! Especially in the North East and the West Coast. But the US market has a finite supply for faculty positions… Also probation is usually less intense than tenure, so that could contribute!

Great point!