Carl Colglazier

Postdoctoral Research Opportunity – Global LLM Values Benchmarking Working Group: Postdoctoral Affairs - Northwestern University

🚨 Postdoc opening -- Come work with us at Northwestern! 🚨 This position is to work on evaluating LLMs for sociopolitical value expression: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcement... -- Please share!

Not quite as funny as the University of Alabama betting scandal getting found out by a guy going into a sports book and being like "no no I have insider information" but I am not surprised that this got revealed because the NBA actually tries to keep an eye on gambling behavior re: players/coaches.

Saw my first e-ink bus arrival time pilot at Grand & St. Clair!

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Apple Wallet is super convenient for this.

Playoff baseball hits different when the weather finally cools off

Short leash in the playoffs

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We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Stacked Bar Graph of July Red Line ridership from Wilson to Granville

Line Graph of July Red Line ridership from Wilson to Granville

Quick look at the Uptown-Edgewater July Red Line station ridership. Lawrence and Berwyn returned to service on 07/20 while Argyle and Bryn Mawr moved into their new stations.

South Shore residents returned to their ransacked apartments after an ICE raid. "It looks like hell." blockclubchi.co/4gV8ODq

Changing the default fonts on your browser is surprisingly a huge value add.

2 PM on a Tuesday 😩

I need to get out to PNC Park wow

A friendly reminder as Nobel season approaches, the Nobel Prizes are not real Sveriges Riksbank Prizes in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Bluesky is overall much better than Twitter but I do think we have the worst case of “so you hate waffles?” in the history of websites

Oh, you have criticisms of my paper? Surely you noticed the part of the paper where we already rebutted your critique, by writing “Possible criticisms: the methodology of this paper is bad. We are aware of this.”

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Kinda automatic date range Workshop dates September 29–30, 2025

Just discovered a neat little #QuartoPub trick for formatting a range of dates. Quarto doesn't support start/end dates, but you can modify the date formatting string to fake it quarto.org/docs/referen...

Kind of funny that the gap between LCD Soundsystem's breakup and "American Dream" was longer than the gap between "American Dream" and now.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Apple does a good job sending security updates to older software / hardware, so the move if you don’t want the new major version to randomly break things in your workflow is to keep using the older version and let other people figure it out

Turning off auto updates

Denmark close to wiping out leading cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out A nationwide study suggests infections with human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 have been virtually eliminated since vaccination began in 2008 – protecting even unvaccinated women.

Denmark close to wiping out leading cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

"Before vaccination, the prevalence of HPV was between 15 & 17%, which has decreased in vaccinated women to less than one percent by 2021."

#VaccinesWork

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Subversively using secret Slack commands.

IBM Plex Serif looks lovely

Setting the work slack to a serif font @dame.is

Ah cool you're at the Rizzo retirement game!

ggplot2 4.0.0 A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Prospective PhD Student Q&A – September 26th Thinking about applying to graduate school? Wonder what it’s like to pursue a PhD or M.S.? Interested in understanding relationships between technology and society? Curious about how to do research…

I am recruiting PhD students this year!

Our research group is holding an info session in a few weeks - details are at blog.communitydata.science/prospective-... , including a sign-up link.

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