DB Krupp

Increase tri-council funding next you cowards

Two birds loved
in a flurry of red feathers
like a burst cottonball,
continuing while I drove over them.

I am a good driver, nothing shocks me.

(Michael Ondaatje, “Application for a Driving License”)

Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.

And yet it’s still just “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this”

Yep. They can’t keep their story straight over the span of a sound bite.

Suspect Guilty GIF Alt: GIF of Tim Robinson in a scene from “I Think You Should Leave” dressed in a hot dog costume, saying “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this” to a skeptical crowd of people.

I know this gets used a lot, but…

Have you ever wondered why somebody went into college with conservative beliefs, and came out identifying as LGBTQ and woke, here is why. A student in 'Elements of Physchology' expressed their concerns over the university making her learn these topics in order to pass the class, "For our upcoming exam I don't want to receive a bad grade if I answer honestly in my opinion" said the student. This is unacceptable, these beliefs go directly against science. No student should be forced to learn or rewire their brain to believe that someone can change their gender. @ou_president , please fix this. #universityofoklahoma @uofoklahoma @ou_president @TPUSA

Tweet from TPUSA_OU: At the University of Oklahoma, the 'Office of Advocacy and Education' placed tampons and pads in men's restrooms across campus in an effort to appeal toward transgender individuals. Students are asking why the school isn't advocating for mental health resources for these individuals instead of affirming their mental illness. The school is telling students to "stop talking and listen" and to "believe them", in reference to transgenders. If a man identifies as a female, he can walk into the women's restroom, no questions asked. Here at Turning Point, we believe that there are only two sexes, male and female, and there's no changing what you were assigned at birth. We also believe it to be disgusting and inappropriate to put students or anybody for that matter in a situation where they are worried for their safety in these private areas. @UofOklahoma do better. #universityofoklahoma #woke #2genders #Igbt @ou_president @TPUSA

The Twitter account for the Turning Point USA chapter at OU seems to have only started posting last week with an anti-trans pressure campaign. And then, oh gosh, what are the odds that they just happened to immediately find someone who claims to have been discriminated against by a trans person?

I am frustrated and enraged at the UCP and Danielle Smith, for using the most powerful constitutional hammer we have to vaporize human rights for children and their parents.

I am disgusted by these Conservative MLAs. Every single one of them has taken leave of their senses and their humanity.

AI image generated using Google's Gemini.

New paper: "A formal theory of group-level adaptation for obligate eusociality", with Kalyani Twyman (@kztwyman.bsky.social) #OpenAccess

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#Image #GoogleGemini @jevbio.bsky.social #OA

This is THE story of US poverty: that scores of people do everything Republicans say they want them to do—hold a steady job, be married, etc—and still be poor. I recommend this paper to anyone willing to understand this: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Coding Club: Creating an R Package by Lisa DeBruine
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/package%20development.html#coding-club-creating-an-r-package

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

A year after Trump's reelection, what's next for trans people? | Xtra Magazine The past year has been horrifying for trans people in the U.S. The past week gave me hope for the future

For my Xtra column this month, I wrote about what it's been like living as a trans person in Trump's first year and the outlook moving forward. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

Statement from the Public Health Agency of Canada on Canada's Measles Elimination Status From: Public Health Agency of Canada November 10, 2025 The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status.

And just like that, we lose our measles elimination status after 27 years. Three decades of work, gone.

www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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This is great!

I guess Rubin choosing "Missing at Random" for the scenario in which it is evident that the data are not missing at random is a close contender.

I considered explaining this one to my students, but thought better of it in the end. Instead, I explained the concept without giving the name. They’re confused enough as it is!

The Canadian government has seemingly never read a single one of its own commissioned reports on what Canadian science needs. (It's not more people.)

I really don’t think people know just how widespread poverty is in the US. Brady has an excellent review of this here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Causal Inference is Not Just a Statistics Problem.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An introductory article including a primer on causal inference and DAGS , and accompanied by an r package containing simulated data to help explain concepts.

Things We Lost in the Fire is still one of my all-time favorites.

This entire thread is the stuff of nightmares.

The National Post is making a real run at the Toronto Sun’s title as the worst op-ed page in the country

In a new paper, we show from longitudinal UK and France data that income volatility (fluctatuations month to month) are bad for mental and general health. And it is much badder than you would expect given the lowness of the low months:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...