i’m blue da boo dee da boo da john cho please save us

the state of media right now has me feeling like frankie muniz in big fat liar

calling him a "conservative activist" is... a fascinating framing

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police.

Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

“Jimenez Rosa, a legal permanent resident and mother of four U.S. citizens, was detained over what her lawyer believes was a decades-old, personal-use marijuana charge, which is no longer a crime in Massachusetts today… “I was just like, ‘Girls, we might never see your mother again in this country’”

Boston’s Logan Airport clearly has a preference when it comes to fundamental particles because I haven’t seen a Fermion sign anywhere

Just published my first little bit of science journalism on this great article by @kennysmithed.bsky.social and Jennifer Culbertson about whether communicative efficiencies in language (in this case, differential case marking) are learned or acquired through use. Please give it a look!!

Second, with a large team of authors, led by @anniewald.bsky.social, we study which (personal, temporal, spatial, affordance-based) properties of incidences of extrajudicial police killings facilitate public attention on social media.

Could be more proud to see this publication out!!! So grateful for the wonderful team. Please give it a look!!

Absolutely beautiful obituary for Bill Labov, describing a life rich in insights and in humanity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

LLM research for the last few years has been constantly saying "I can't put this in the paper--nobody would use a model that just predicts the next token to make decisions about [insert life-altering scenario here]" then seeing an article titled "Can AI help make decisions about nuclear warfare?"

This is the closest thing i’ve come to a noumenal experience.

i have literally no reference for it. it is only itself-in-itself.

every part of it contradicts itself in so many ways that the only thing left is The Lacanian Real. The Truth.

spending my weekend hate-reading Frege because I’ve realized it’s actually important for me to know if I’m ever to dispute it

“jordan’s furniture is like the narnia of massachusetts”

pragmatics is such a funny topic in linguistics because it’s like “what if everything you worried people were thinking about you was true”

more cultural evolution, but this 2022 paper discusses frequency dependence in baby names www.nature.com/articles/s41...

funny how donnie is aligning himself with bolsanaro who quite literally calls himself a socialist

I really cooked with this one

There's amazing work on group effects in higher-order networks, but not a lot of connections to social ontology, collective action, and group selection.

Led by @jstonge.bsky.social with expert guidance of @rharp.bsky.social we reviewed and formalized these connections.

arxiv.org/abs/2507.02758

This is really important to understand. Some of the people “bending the knee to Trump” are in fact doing what they feel they must to protect people and institutions they love from the vast (and increasingly unreviewable) power of the President of the United States.

kinda want to write an essay about how the phrase “touch grass” feels rooted in the postmodern desire for the noumenal

but i know if i write that, someone is gonna say that i need to touch grass lol

“Powerpoints are like the cocomelon version of a paper”
- my girlfriend

TIL that Andre from Victorious voiced Tyrone on the Backyardigans

"US embassy in Dublin wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications. The embassy also wants people to set their social media profiles to public." www.thejournal.ie/us-visa-chan...