Were you a Poptropica or Club Penguin girlie? Writer @emilyiszou surveyed 50 Northwestern students about their favorite childhood browser games. The top three: Cool Math Games, Poptropica and Club Penguin. bit.ly/3yNwCoG

on the contrary!

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NU Anime Club is “totally inclusive to all types of people who consider themselves to be anime fans,” providing a sense of community and camaraderie. bit.ly/38jhRiK

lets bring back poptropica

North by Northwestern @emilyiszou I'll take my hat now 💁

"female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy incites hostile behaviour from poor performing males who stand to lose the most status" 💀💀💀

This morning, my wife left Orlando, Florida aboard Southwest Airlines flight 1630 (MCO to PHX). She sat behind this man. She had been attending the Grace Hopper Conference all week and was resting her head on her tray table, trying to sleep a bit. Let me tell you what happened.

For all students who are in need of mental health support or services today, we're compiling a thread of resources. this will be updated throughout the day as new resources become available...

Our new article addresses 'service work' in Academia, revealing astonishing gender differences. We analyse the strategies many men use to minimize their involvement in 'administration' and women's difficulties in saying no to service requests. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

As this post is trending, I would like to point to our paper (2022, w/ Amy Alexander & Nicholas Charron) on *why European young men are particularly modern sexist* nowadays: lmy.de/iFzE We (basically) argue that it's about increased gender labor market competition.

I get to use this in class today to teach causation.

I tried to explain at this conference why "we're so back" and "it's so over" always already exist in a dialectical relationship. I think I got my point across but I wish I had this image handy.

Ursula K Le Guin coming in clutch like always

nothing- and I want to be clear about this, NOTHING- about how we fit statistical models to data via back propagation of gradients mimics the biological mechanisms by which humans learn

I told a grad-student co-author "try to imagine me as the guy from 'Memento' who can't remember anything & needs clues to pick-up the thread on projects" and they said "I believe you, because you already used that memento analogy"

super excited to share that I'll soon be starting a PhD in computer science at Stanford University, supported by the Stanford Graduate Fellowship and U.S. National Science Foundation fellowship!!