Sebastian Karcher

How far back do you go? At the risk of being purged, I thought his blogging as a grad student ~2008/2009 was quite good and I don't remember seeing much of a sign of things to come.

We published this excellent piece in @apsrjournal.bsky.social last December & it references related lit published in most major journals. Do you mean American Politics? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

But what does being on YT mean? Id imagine the share interacting much w original content creators is much smaller, more in the Tiktok ballpark

There's nothing special -- Zotero embeds all the metadata for the citations in the document itself, so you can just copy the sections authored by author B into the document authored by author A.
As @evangelinewarren.com notes, the same work cited by both authors will show up twice in bib.

So to confirm, yes you can. What's a little awkward is that you can't update the metadata of the citations your co-author added in Zotero (e.g. to fix typo in title) or vice versa.
That's why working in a joint group is better if you remember to do so from the start

OH SHIT THE BILLS HALLMARK XMAS MOVIE IS AIRING ON SATURDAY

The *entire* city of Buffalo participated in the filming of this movie LOL they filled the stadium and everyone was talking about it 😂

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You can see the 2025 list of courses & instructors as iqmrnavigator.org/schedule/ -- 2026 is going to look quite similar with some exciting additions to be announced shortly.

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Now we're all in prime Wutbürger age...

I make a Data Sources Catalog for every project I work with and I can't tell you how often the project team refers to this document to remember what measures are being collected and when. I highly recommend summarizing your plan in a simple format like this.

datamgmtinedresearch.com/dmp#dmp-cata...

Ironically, given it appears in a thread about pseudo intellectualism, this is not something Einstein ever said. It's not even clear he believed it, given that the theory of relativity is quite hard to explain in simple terms

Ethnographers be like

new paper by Sean Westwood:

With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

Having recently read a bunch of old psych papers, the true retro is "blue books and course credit for lab experiments"

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I'm not sure whether this qualifies as having aged extremely well or extremely poorly...

Full article here: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

"released by congressional Republicans" is highligted in the following paragraph: Last week, a slew of emails released by congressional Republicans revealed that Larry Summers maintained a close personal relationship with convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein after the disgraced financier’s crimes were uncovered. While appalling, this is only the latest episode in Harvard’s sordid entanglement with Epstein — and it demands a continued University-wide response.

One sign of US political polarization is that Congressional Rs thought "We're going to sink Larry Summers; that'll show the libs" was a great idea.

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Think piece about how Gilmore Girls did to aspiring journalists what West Wing did to aspiring political staffers.

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Yeah they don't work well for me either (one is for the citation/note, the other for the bibliography, citation crashes, bib doesn't work right.)
I'll ask, but FWIW this works in the mobile web library

Steven and Alice smiling and holding each other’s books

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

"I want to shoot person XY" is a terrible phrase, pretty much context independent (and one not written/sung by Cash), and a mod policy that makes people think 5 times about typing it is fine.

I mean -- she paraphrased the lyrics, not quote them, I don't think that's debatable. She did that in a repost that contextualized the paraphrase, sure.
Would I be offended if she didn't get suspended for this? No. Am I offended that she did? Also no.

I was aware of the context (Bsky did correct the date part in that thread).
I stand by my view that it's better to not get (or refuse to get) jokes about killing someone than to make them.

She loosely paraphrased, she didn't quote. And Oswalt referenced a famous movie scene -- you see how slippery this particular slope is. Mods erring on the side of not getting the 'joke' on death threats is fine.

You can always Zotero of course -- snapshot isn't public, but you can still document