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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 2d

Plus, that can't possibly be the best alternative they could have come up with...

Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 3d

Reading term papers, it occurs to me that there is a massive disconnect between everyone being worried that all student submissions are written by AI and the quality of the papers that I get to read... If students are using AI, I wish they would use it better...

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 15d

So we're all in agreement that copy-editing is dead, right?

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 17d

What a profound blessing it is if you can stay optimistic/positive these days

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · 17d

It’s a profound tragedy of our time how many people are apparently angry all the time.

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Sep 1

I just learned that pigeons can be trained to discriminate between good and bad children's paintings by pecking at the good ones. Brutal.

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Jul 26

Sure. But they also fail the statistics exam, so mixed messages on how much faith we should place in them...

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Jul 26

Man kann Pepe mit einer Excel-Datei incentivieren...

a cartoon of a man wearing a yellow uniform with a star on it

ALT: a cartoon of a man wearing a yellow uniform with a star on it

media.tenor.com

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Jul 26

I keep hearings that there is a lack of blood donors. Would it be unethical for blood donation organizations to advertise by saying that donating blood reduces PFAS levels in the blood? Seems more effective than advertising by appealing to citizenship.

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Jun 28

I don't know. I'm just assuming that it would be lower but I have no sense by how much.

Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Jun 28

Presumably, Tesla is no small part of the US auto-making sector? So, wouldn’t we want to know how much the sector is down without Tesla being part of that figure?

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Jun 15

It occurs to me that an e-scooter is the vehicle equivalent of a vape in terms of sex appeal.

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Jun 12

Is there any other service like academic publishing where the brand name is all that matters and the quality of the service is absolutely irrelevant?

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Jun 11

How is it possible that despite having ungodly amounts of money, no major journal publisher has been able to develop a decent eproofing platform?

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · May 18

I have a really interesting political science puzzle, to which I don't have a good answer at all. Can somebody please set up the Journal "Political Science Puzzles", so I can get that published?

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · May 9

Investment Bankers are a thing, ya know?

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · May 9

Sam halt nur noch auf Polymarket…

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · May 6

We gotta stop saying "this lack of political professionalism shouldn't happen in times of the AfD". It's setting an impossible standard for the messiness of real world politics and it strengthens the bizarre reading that somehow anything less than perfect is a validation of the AfD

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Apr 28

You’re right, of course and I should have been more specific. What I meant was that it’s the most self-explanatory symbol that doesn’t occurred naturally.

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Apr 27

Arrows are the most self-explanatory symbols that have no basis in the physical world

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Apr 21

The contemporary political right makes a much greater effort to develop a coherent theory for their project, something that was historically true for the left.

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Mar 29

I guess my Marxist training wouldn’t allow me to assume that media conglomerates are left-leaning, but you might be right…

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Mar 29

Do we have a sense that popular TV shows have become more conservative in the last couple of years? No, right? Isn't there a surprising disconnect between culture and society/politics at the present moment? And should we expect TV to become more conservative now?

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Mar 29

Why aren’t there any successful parties of (new) ethnic minorities in Europe? Shouldn’t there be a market?

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Dominic Nyhuis @donyhu.bsky.social · Mar 24

Exactly!! Tenure is no time to play it safe!