Nick Barrowman
nbarrowman.bsky.social
Nick Barrowman
@nbarrowman.bsky.social
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, s̲he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

John Muir (with underlined edit)
I would say that a measurement (in a broad sense) is data. Oddly, the etymology of data comes from “givens”, but it’s more accurate to see data as “takens” (capta). Here’s an article I wrote a few years back: www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
Why Data Is Never Raw — The New Atlantis
On the seductive myth of information free of human judgment
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Dr. Erickson cautioned that these results are observational, so it’s possible that another factor explains the connection between physical activity, cognition and tau.”
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Thanks, lots of fun!
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Here’s a good paper on selection bias: journals.lww.com/epidem/fullt... (with a free pdf link at the bottom of the page)
journals.lww.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It’s the uncertainty principle, you see
September 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
If you'll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty, when you call me
You can call me AL
September 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Reposted by Nick Barrowman
Always a good time to rewatch this speech. I forgot she called out the publishers for charging libraries so much for ebooks. Sad she’s gone, but happy she left us with so much fantastic work to discuss and think about at every read.
Ursula Le Guin
YouTube video by National Book
www.youtube.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM