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Peter Bradley

@pbradley.bsky.social

Philosopher and Data wonk. Currently Assoc Provost for Data @ Allegheny College. Views are my own.

68 Followers  |  162 Following  |  18 Posts  |  Joined: 13.09.2023  |  1.7264

Latest posts by pbradley.bsky.social on Bluesky

So much ❤️❤️❤️❤️ for the PEGI PROJECT

14.02.2025 22:43 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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GitHub - pbradl42/IPEDSpublic: Public repository of IPEDS data, pulled Feb, 2025 Public repository of IPEDS data, pulled Feb, 2025. Contribute to pbradl42/IPEDSpublic development by creating an account on GitHub.

I’ve started building an archive of IPEDS data in case it suddenly disappears. If you need it, or want to contribute: github.com/pbradl42/IPE...

12.02.2025 23:02 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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That time of year-

05.02.2025 16:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Watching a stunningly bad Xmas movie from 1986 staring Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reeves. It’s a musical.

07.12.2024 17:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Colleges That Shape Congress We analyzed the educational backgrounds of every current and incoming member of Congress. Here’s what we found.

Democratic members of Congress are significantly more likely to graduate from private institutions, and more likely to attend college in New England. That's just one insight from my latest story in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

06.12.2024 16:52 — 👍 3    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Found (and followed) @emilyherring.bsky.social ‘s Philosophg Starter Pack! It’s like old Philosophy twitter is back! go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb

21.11.2024 15:12 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

@ianbinnington.bsky.social @whitenacklab.bsky.social @t-rock.bsky.social OK, so far we’re just replicating Book club.

15.11.2024 23:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@t-rock.bsky.social @whitenacklab.bsky.social ok, so now that people are finally joining BlueSky, shall we form an Allegheny follow chain?

15.11.2024 17:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0
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We Looked at Dozens of Colleges’ New Protest Policies. Here’s What We Found. No “unauthorized structures.” No chairs. No “amplified musical instruments.” “Free Expression Permits.” Ahead of a fresh wave of pro-Palestinian activism, campus officials have clamped down on free ex...

My kid’s first article for The Chronicle dropped this morning! www.chronicle.com/article/we-l...

13.09.2024 12:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just realized that today is Friday, not Thursday. So that’s how my life is going these days.

12.04.2024 20:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Found this lovely 404 today. Can confidently assert I am probably the only person on this campus with a copy on a 3.25 floppy. MacOS version 4 or there abouts.

12.02.2024 21:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just locked my first set of IPEDS reports! I guess I am officially the ‘key master’ now?

07.02.2024 22:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Institutional Research and Decision Support Analyst - Meadville, PA Institutional Research and Decision Support Analyst November 7th 2023 Tagged: Computing Services, Provost and Dean of the CollegeAllegheny College, a

Any early-career data scientists who want to work in higher education? We’ve got tons of interesting questions and *loads* of messy data sets to tidy. careers.insidehighered.com/job/3022363/...

28.11.2023 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As a child of the 80’s I thought that finding where the sidewalks end to be a metaphor for more than just crappy suburban planning.

25.11.2023 19:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another treasure from the archives: 1989, downloaded straight from Compuserve (Tapcis Forum)- dictionary of ‘emoticons’:

05.10.2023 20:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One of Allegheny’s claims to fame is that at one point it had the largest collection of NeXT computers in the world. Just found this report in my archives.

05.10.2023 19:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Quest. The student newspaper of Reed College since 1913.

If you have a moment, read the story my kid broke at Reed this AM: reedquest.org

29.09.2023 18:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

^kid broke^kid is broke. (Sorry)

29.09.2023 18:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Interrupters - "She's Kerosene"
Listen to the full album: http://bit.ly/2KzjieO"She's Kerosene" by @TheInterruptersYT from the album 'Fight the Good Fight,' available now • Order at http://... The Interrupters - "She's Kerosene"

Seriously, This has been stuck in my head since the first time I heard it two weeks ago. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq2j....

29.09.2023 17:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Recent discovered The Interrupters, and my god, they press that OpIvy button buried deep in my brain.

26.09.2023 15:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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