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Dan de Kadt

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Social and data science at the London School of Economics Democracy, behaviour, meta-science, 🇿🇦🇺🇲 Won't interact with anon accounts. www.ddekadt.com

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Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · May 14

🚨 “Good Description” with @annagbusse.bsky.social 🚨

What sets 'good' description apart from 'mere' description?

We develop a framework for evaluating descriptive research, whether we are doing it as scholars or assessing it as readers.

Two main contributions...

🔗📄 tinyurl.com/gooddesc

good_description/good_description_ddk_agb.pdf at main · ddekadt/good_description

Homepage of "Good Description" by Daniel de Kadt & Anna Grzymala-Busse - ddekadt/good_description

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 5h

Frog and Toad were caught in the rain. They ran to Frog’s house.

“I am all wet,” said Toad. “The day is spoiled.”

“Have some tea and cake,” said Frog. “The rain will stop. If you stand near the stove, your clothes will soon be dry.”

Frog and Toad stand in Frog's house, dripping wet. Frog has prepared a nice hot pot of tea for the pair.

From "The Corner"
In *Frog and Toad All Year*

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 19h

This is interim review. If he passes then he can go up for major review in 3-4 years

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 19h

the table isn't even round tho

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 21h

My tone deafness has made publishing quite challenging

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Mar 19

#protip for academics: try singing your own new texts before publishing. If you cannot sing it, don’t publish it. Thank me later.

#AcademicChatter

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 1d

This is inverse ted lasso

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 1d

No chance

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 1d

why…? 🫣

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 1d

These Nobel prizes and genius grants are all very well, but how about a couple of awards for being very mediocre

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 1d

10-13k

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 1d

Presume nothing

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Josef Woldense @woldense.bsky.social · 1d

Cool paper. I'm going to shamelessly plug my work here that also deals with LLMs for research

bsky.app/profile/wold...

Josef Woldense @woldense.bsky.social · Sep 8

Paper alert 📣

Rapid advances in AI has some believe that LLM agents can replace real participants in human-subject research. If true, this would be huge!

Following a growing body of research, we delve deeper into this topic and examine the merits of this claim.

🧵...

arxiv.org/abs/2509.03736

Are LLM Agents Behaviorally Coherent? Latent Profiles for Social Simulation

The impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have fueled the notion that synthetic agents can serve as substitutes for real participants in human-subject research. In an effort to evalu...

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 1d

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.”

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 1d

Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 2d

I’m old Gandalf, I know I may not look it

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 2d

Tbc someone screencapped this tweet of mine from 6 years ago and is recycling it for karma

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 2d

My best post tbf

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure my cooking circa 2010 would have done any favours to the people of Mzansi

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 2d

(And to fill promotion files)

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 2d

But this might mean fewer sweet pubs in top outlets, and what would the world be like then?? Think of the loss.

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 2d

What have you never had a meal that made you think "wow all my negative assumptions about this cultural group were unfounded?"

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel season is upon us so I am staying close to my phone so I can post without delay

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 2d

you're welcome (except my articles are poorly argued and theoretically empty)

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 3d

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland

Dan de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 3d

And the skeptics say AI won't put us all out of work