Michael Lee Wood

The question is if you print this on a t-shirt is it good taste

Seymour, Audrey, and a baby Audrey II

Seymour, Audrey, and a baby Audrey II

Seymour holding Audrey

People on here always asking for more hobby posts, so here are some promos for an upcoming production of Little Shop of Horrors. I'm playing Seymour! Dream come true.

Such a great paper, blowing the false dichotomy of genes vs. environment. Primate brain folds, connectome and even behavior is better predicted by brain volume than genes. Folds appear as a result of development with mechanical constraints (big brains get folded). No map of the brain in the genome!

I love biking. I have been a bike commuter in the States for about 15 years. I never felt such joy on a bike as i did biking in Amsterdam this spring. Good infrastructure changes everything.

Let's face it most of us if we're lucky have a smaller generic home with lame architecture.

Tenure file submitted ✅

I spent a little time on the underlying data and playing with the interface.

This is what data viz can do when it is guided by theory — in this case a clear position on “authoritarianism”, not just a “snapshot” that leaves the sense making to the reader.

www.trumpactiontracker.info?

John Levi Martin's chapter in ESA that draws parallels bw sociological and Freudian approaches opened my eyes to this

The creamery's gonna use this post in their advertising 😂

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS

Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows

How did the city do it?

Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

The docking module was also purposefully designed to be androgynous to ensure that neither spacecraft was perceived as "female," or passive.

Incredible design detail about the 1975 US-Soviet handshake space mission:

Glad you found it helpful!

I tell people I'm not especially good at games. Just stubborn.

Out of curiosity, did it have any signage responding to the current efforts to change the mission of the museum?

Oof that one hurts.

Who needs powerpoints when you can teach your subject with webcomics:

I just hope the Frontrunner double tracking projects gets done and delivers. I would love a fast, reliable train b/w SLC and Provo, but two-hour trips and no Sunday travel is so inconvenient...

Grateful for UVX, Frontrunner, and a few bus routes between Payson and Orem but there's so much more to be done. Traveling within and between cities in Utah county (outside the UVX route) via public transit requires a lot of planning ahead and extra time.

I rarely see these days on the impact of tariffs, but every small business owner I speak to is reporting major reductions in profits. Yesterday a friend told me the interior design business he runs is down ~30%. I get that there's a lot happening but letting this fade into memory seems foolish.

Measuring Conflict in Local Politics Mirya Holman1 , Rebecca Johnson2 , and Tyler Simko3

It’s publication day!!🎊 In a new Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social piece, Rebecca Johnson, Tyler Simko @simko.bsky.social & I ask: How do you measure conflict in local politics in the United States?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Have you considered using LLMs to code open-ended survey responses?

This looks like a must read for you!

"An Empirical Investigation into the Utility of Large Language Models in Open-Ended Survey Data Categorization"

osf.io/preprints/so...

You're not gonna believe this

A song about FREEDOM

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.

They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.

Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.

Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

Seeing Mamdani's successful approach gives me the tiniest sliver of hope. I hope people are taking careful notes of what the rebuilding could look like.

Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”

If I had money for petty stunts I'd give them all little Audrey II replicas.

This is the best table making package for #rstats! It has *the best* latex and typst support

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It's 2009 again baby! Can't wait to hear about his upcoming sartorial insurrection