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True, and these parent groups were set up online via school comms (at that time, there was no school bans, each school could decide and most thought they'd lose students with bans, so didn't), so I suspect many were meeting each other for the first time.

Is that the 10% who ask for them tho?

Like, how many are asking for this stuff?

thiiiis

I would love to get some feedback/review on a small package I have created before sending it to CRAN. If anyone (familiar with factor models and causal inference) would be open to taking a look at it, please reach out to me.

I think financial incentives are important but it doesn't have to be paying the reviewer directly. For example, society journals can reward reviewers with free membership or free conference registration. Journals can also pay the reviewers' institutions...

all the terpines sound like Inspector Clouseau

Absolutely. Bans of things, even if they are simply among parent groups (phone ban groups are a thing here) help that majority who feel they *could* do the right thing but not when everyone around them pushes them to do the trendy thing.

Doesn't mean gov't bans work/are useful, but we'll see here.

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This kind of garbage being the top result in search just pisses me off.

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Huh, I really like the style of this writing. The descriptions of the animals feels very proactive and modern.

Eugenics is wild. You've some dudes going "have you noticed how better read, educated and musical we are in relation to the rest of population. Must be our genes" No. Dude, you are inanely affluent, went to a private school, you're not special, you're a participant in active class stratification.

The Great Day Of His Wrath is also a great album name.

Though they did wring hands and whatnot quite a bit when bicycles suddenly became popular. People especially worried about what bicycling might do to young women.

But I think that's more tech fear than "let's see if there are unwanted effects from this massive new thing" maybe. & we still have that

*tech.

While I don't necessarily disagree, we did do basically this very thing. With giving everyone with thumbs a phone and social media accounts.

Probably the only part of Haidt's argument I'll agree with, though we almost never wait and study any large, fast social/trch change anyway.

Doesn't help that schools set student things on apps for phones... which is just society being dumb trying to save pennies.

My country is so digitised, they can't even buy toilet access at the train station without a phone.

But kids here also tend to leave elementary school between 11-13 years old, and travel (in the dark, on a bike, during rush hour) to their middle schools sometimes 30km away. Thus, popular phone age.

Pretty much the case for Facebook. Once all the aunties, uncles and Boomers showed up, the kids fled to Snap.

I'm certain it's a reference to the poor science methods in Haidt's book, but this was an interesting article (and a lot of the warnings at the end can be the same for teens, with the exception that growing brains are not the same as declining ones).

Similar with phones—our social group doesn't give their kids phones until mid-teens, meaning I won't have kids who are "the only ones" at age 7 without a phone.

According to the article I looked up to get the date, yeah. The kids either didn't change their behaviour (sneaking around the bans) or "feel free".

Certainly easier to stay off the addiction-hype-money machine if plenty of your friends are also not using them, though.

Gotta protect the brain development of 60-plussers.

1. December 10th, 2025.

2. Oz threatens to fine the companies if they don't get rid of kid accounts.

How a geologist helps [institution] with [geology hazard] is an article I've already read a few times (usually about someone with a beard), but a geologist trained in Shakespearean theatre? I haven't read that before!

Now that I've actually read the article, I don't like this "Water is Wet" headline either.

"CGS Geologist Uses Shakespearian Acting Skills and TikTok to Spread Earthquake Science"

"San Diego Mother Wins Nobel Prize"

"Do stupid memes spread faster than smart ones? A New Survey"

Hey, could you post alt text on these (future) graphs and screenshots? More of us could understand your posts and repost them. Thanks!

Kinda like how everyone (everyone outside biology anyway) says Darwin's ideas were about "survival of the fittest."

My own bio prof kept calling it "survival of the good-enough, and not from Darwin"

Top, map of coral reefs around the world. Bottom, how many of them are in what sort of trophic regime (only 20% oligotrophic).

This is a type of paper I really like: Let's take something "everyone knows" (that coral reefs are in oligotrophic waters) and just check if it holds (it doesn't). 🧪🌊

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