Spurs are SO bad they're making me feel bad for a Spurs player
10.03.2026 20:24
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Spurs are SO bad they're making me feel bad for a Spurs player
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
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#envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist
Useful thread! COVID-19 led to the largest decline in life expectancy since WWII. Recovery is incomplete altho countries differ a lot. US had the largest life expectancy deficit of any studied. Deficits in countries that delayed widespread infection ( eg Norway Japan) had lower cumulative mortality
Two weeks until Trump claims the Iran war would never have happened if he’d been president.
This entire post is a very good read. And also depressing/disorienting. Unrelatedly, I also just ate an entire container of supermarket boneless buffalo wings.
causalinf.substack.com/p/claude-cod...
A starfield is shown with a large circular blue ring in the center. In the ring's center is a bright blue spot. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
🔭 Shapley 1: An Annular Planetary Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Bresseler; Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26030...
📽️ "Seven points clear - WHAT A NIGHT!" - Brighton 0-1 Arsenal | On the Whistle
youtu.be/9DRB36bqMPE
I love that the first guy Googled him and then the second guy asked his mom for advice and SHE Googled him.
Believe in your work. Stop ending papers with “More research is needed” and start concluding with “No more research on this topic is needed.”
Wow.
New vocabulary word just dropped. From the Washington post—“The storm will undergo a rapid intensification process called bombogenesis on Sunday night…”.
So, walking around my house and this sticky note was stuck on the bottom of my shoe. I think good things are happening here…
NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act.
The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."
This means that Trump is giving himself as the Head of the Board of Corruption, $10 billion to spend however he wants, with no oversight from the US government and without congressional approval. It’s outright thievery.
“Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords kiki & bouba with spiky & round shapes, respectively...We tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby chickens. Similar to humans, they spontaneously chose a spiky shape when hearing a kiki sound & a round shape when hearing a bouba.”😲🧪
the only place this should happen is academic conferences
New data paper out!
Oh Editorial Manager... thank you for keeping me honest with my login credentials.
Also, does anybody want to do some referee reports for username noeldjohnson? DM me for the password.
Something new: A short video responding to the Trump administration saying that economists whose studies aren’t what they want to hear should be “disciplined” www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzZd...
How about if instead of onerous ID requirements on voters we institute constitutional literacy tests for members of Congress?
This is the opposite of what is about as close as you get to an objective fact in economics.
Lunar new year dumpling making!
For those of you interested, the image on the right has a lot of history behind it…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Ne...
i love technological progress. I just got back into astronomy. Took these using a 50 mm apo triplet from my front yard in a bortle 8 area.
Things are getting weird guys. This ad just popped up for me while reading The Economist.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Black Lines by Vasily Kandinsky, 1913
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137402
It‘s cold outside!
For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
Here are some presentation slides for the research.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/360j3...
