Nick DeVito
@ndevito1.bsky.social
Baseball Fan. Postdoc studying Policy, Research Integrity, and Open Science @ox.ac.uk. An American in Europe.
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The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
February 8, 2026 at 4:58 AM
The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
It’s cool the Republican position on the Epstein files went from Q stuff to “it turns out the real elite international pedophile ring was the friends we made along the way.”
February 8, 2026 at 10:45 AM
It’s cool the Republican position on the Epstein files went from Q stuff to “it turns out the real elite international pedophile ring was the friends we made along the way.”
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WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy!
When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship.
There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.
When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship.
There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.
February 8, 2026 at 12:08 AM
WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy!
When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship.
There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.
When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship.
There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.
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the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason
February 8, 2026 at 3:01 AM
the most impactful thing Elon Musk has ever done or will ever do regarding science and innovation in this country is illegally cut billions of dollars of research funds for literally no reason
Anyone have any examples of these guys actually going after “gang members” directly?
Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
www.propublica.org
February 8, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Anyone have any examples of these guys actually going after “gang members” directly?
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Indeed, it is perhaps surprising this has not been pointed out, but as far as I know, qualitative research is among the most replicable research areas in science. Or at least, all the replication studies I have seen are basically successful replications. It might not be 100%, but it is high!
Note that this in itself is a well-replicated finding. At least a dozen studies show that when researchers replicate qualitative research, or re-analyze it, they come to basically identical themes. There is nothing special about qualitative research with respect to replicability.
This is a great qualitative research paper. It sheds light on questionable research practices. But more importantly it demonstrates direct replications in qualitative research work as you would expect: independent teams reach basically the same conclusions royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
February 7, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Indeed, it is perhaps surprising this has not been pointed out, but as far as I know, qualitative research is among the most replicable research areas in science. Or at least, all the replication studies I have seen are basically successful replications. It might not be 100%, but it is high!
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The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...
February 7, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...
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If there's one benefit from all the Republican criminality and corruption it's that you never have to treat them like good faith interlocutors again. Every currently living Trump accomplice should be treated at most to a reflexive "Eat Shit" for life, and that's better than they deserve
VA Senate president responds to Ted crying about VA’s redistricting, which should add 4 new Dem seats.
February 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
If there's one benefit from all the Republican criminality and corruption it's that you never have to treat them like good faith interlocutors again. Every currently living Trump accomplice should be treated at most to a reflexive "Eat Shit" for life, and that's better than they deserve
“Sorry I was just privately watching a racist video.”
POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.
February 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
“Sorry I was just privately watching a racist video.”
Trust me, I’m opposing the bad stuff just off camera.
Senator Katie Britt of Alabama stands fully behind President Trump in public, but at times seeks to wield influence behind the scenes, guided by her personal values as a mother and a Christian. Her approach faces an acute test as federal immigration agents pursue aggressive tactics in Minnesota.
The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Trust me, I’m opposing the bad stuff just off camera.
Oklahoma: Bringing the joys of at-will employment to Academia
Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says
Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the practice. Existing faculty members will be grandfathered in.
www.chronicle.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Oklahoma: Bringing the joys of at-will employment to Academia
Just opened up Mastadon for the first time in forever and wow did that place really not take off...
February 5, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Just opened up Mastadon for the first time in forever and wow did that place really not take off...
Make them have to look like classic red British phone booths.
Among the City Council’s reasons for refusal were that Street Hubs “introduce a visually incongruous addition and an unacceptable amount of clutter to the street scene and public realm”. BT argues that by replacing payphone kiosks it would achieve “a significant net reduction of clutter”.
February 5, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Make them have to look like classic red British phone booths.
So with a bit of digging, it looks like this lawyer got plucked from a workman’s comp practice and attended a bottom quarter ranked law school which…doesn’t seem like your typical AUSA profile?
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 4, 2026 at 12:12 AM
So with a bit of digging, it looks like this lawyer got plucked from a workman’s comp practice and attended a bottom quarter ranked law school which…doesn’t seem like your typical AUSA profile?
Smh
Heliyon has published fewer papers and ramped up its retractions since a major indexing service put the journal on hold and the publisher launched an audit of all papers published in the journal since its launch in 2016.
Mega-journal Heliyon retracts hundreds of papers after internal audit
Heliyon has published fewer papers and ramped up its retractions since a major indexing service put the journal on hold and the publisher launched an audit of all papers published in the journal si…
retractionwatch.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Smh
Should ask my Qanon family members if they agree with this.
February 3, 2026 at 7:00 AM
Should ask my Qanon family members if they agree with this.
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seth's right, this is heat
February 3, 2026 at 6:34 AM
seth's right, this is heat
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Impeachment is the only Constitutional check Congress has against a lawless president and talking about it would be a good start to reasserting Congressional power in the future. Assuming of course Congress wants to do that
Speaking out like this is all they can do now. Impeachment is a total and complete joke, and threatening to use it is akin to threatening to hit someone with a wet noodle. Impeachment is no longer a viable tool to use against Republican politicians.
February 2, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Impeachment is the only Constitutional check Congress has against a lawless president and talking about it would be a good start to reasserting Congressional power in the future. Assuming of course Congress wants to do that
Starting a market on Kalshi to see who this was.
we absolutely need to know who he sent this to. how is this something the public is being kept in the dark on???
February 1, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Starting a market on Kalshi to see who this was.
Who wants to spend their time getting yelled at by Judges for making outrageous legal arguments?
DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.
January 31, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Who wants to spend their time getting yelled at by Judges for making outrageous legal arguments?
It’s going to be wild if there’s all this fuss about the Epstein files and then nothing happens to anyone clearly implicated in them. It’s the Panama Papers all over again.
January 31, 2026 at 2:01 PM
It’s going to be wild if there’s all this fuss about the Epstein files and then nothing happens to anyone clearly implicated in them. It’s the Panama Papers all over again.
Well that and using those cudgels for power to grift or enrich specific people.
I have a generalised version of this - while there are specific exceptions, it just feels like a _huge_ proportion of the American conservative movement revealed themselves to not really care about anything? Like, nothing concrete at least. It's all just vague ressentiments around Gender and Race.
tiktok deal and subsequent rebirth, coupled with generalized revelations that most china hawks don’t care at all about trump undermining their supposedly all important great power competition…..is tremendously blackpilling for me.
January 31, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Well that and using those cudgels for power to grift or enrich specific people.
Man couldn’t they get literally anyone more interesting and worthy? There are hundreds to thousands of great people to whom this would be massive.
Yale is launching a new Presidential Senior Fellowship to expand access to the transformative work of universities. As part of this program, author and columnist David Brooks will join the Jackson School of Global Affairs starting February 1.
Read more in Yale News: bit.ly/49QpJoY
Read more in Yale News: bit.ly/49QpJoY
January 30, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Man couldn’t they get literally anyone more interesting and worthy? There are hundreds to thousands of great people to whom this would be massive.
It’s cool they have to waste time and political capital passing laws that say don’t break the law.
January 30, 2026 at 7:38 AM
It’s cool they have to waste time and political capital passing laws that say don’t break the law.