College admission essay content has a stronger correlation with household income (R2 = 16%) than SAT scores. This explains how removing standardized tests can increase inequality. Based on 240,000 admission essays to the University of California. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

1. Where do superstar scientists come from? Other superstar scientists. Even when you control for everything resume-wise, protégés of soon-to-be-famous scientific mentors (orange) had way more future research impact than their IQ-matched peers (blue)

New Blog: What to do with age? Linear, Discrete, Both, or Spline? arelbundock.com/posts/age_line…

The more PhDs you know, the less impressive this headline.

I'll be impressed with AI when it can benchmark a battle with Eyedea (RIP). ...the RAM required for that 'backup dancer' lyric is just mind blowing. youtu.be/9skyrhrhHpA?si…

Would love to talk to anyone interested in applying that is interested in urban ecology / evolution projects! My lab will be relocating to Philadelphia next month, and will have postdoc funding if a Smith application doesn't work out

I am the only member of my family to finish college, and this paper really resonates with me. Well the figure summaries really resonate with me. Gotta find time to sit down with it and go through the details

Two paths diverged in a yellow wood, and I— Knew it was Brownian motion; so, why ask 'Why?', I took a coin flip, with a shrug and a grin, In a Markov process, each path’s a win.

Absolutely brilliant causal research pathway! ...also, first-gen kids, get the hell out and join me on the dark (non-profit) side!

This is a really cool development. A Nat Lab integrating and testing multimodal models for research assistance.

Spoken like a f*cking birder. SMDH

Don’t have a repeat of same vote splitting that allowed her to be elected with 37.1% to begin with. (Give us ranked choice voting!). I really wish I’d started recording a couple/few minutes sooner. Wild how willing she is to argue so endlessly when she’s objectively wrong. 7/

This kind of tech is going to make benchwork reproducible for the first time in history.

It doesn't fit the narrative of there being so much discrimination by voters? This is bad news for democracy, because this assumed discrimination is what is hurting woman politicians and politicians of colour, even when voters aren't that old-fashioned anymore.

I'll go second: I try always use 666 as my seed value in any public code.

"Everything is political" is a classic deepity. On one reading, it's true but trivial. On another, it's interesting but obviously false. These different interpretations create a misleading sense of profundity. It's Deepak Chopra but for people with PhDs in the humanities.

Correlation does not imply causation, but...

Either you saw zero theory of change behind the DEI movement, or you have to see that the DEI movement is succeeding. In neither case is surprise a legitimate response...if you are surprised, it means that you didn't take DEI efforts seriously.

Jacobin called it way back in 2021 jacobin.com/2021/02/everyo…

As an actual Marxist, the most frustrating element of Trump's new rhetoric is that he incessantly uses the term to label weak-sauce spineless liberal positions.