Ben Gibson

nathan wolfe doing the theranos pinch

This is Nathan Wolfe. Nathan is a virus hunter. Nathan has a bit of a reputation. Through the years, I've told multiple journalists stories I've heard, like "Nathan thanks Jeffrey Epstein in his book." Somehow no one ever wrote anything up. Want to see what Nathan was up to in today's Epstein files?

2/ I'm buried with some other stuff so no more charts until later (or tmw) but the gist is that the household survey *counts* in the BLS jobs report - employment, unemployment, labor force, etc - are all keyed to the Census estimates.

And therefore all are currently overcounts.

Yes. Came here to say Amtrak

Wondering which characteristics you mean (I work there)

Tonight you'll be visited by three spirits

Using labor force surveys from 160 countries to build a new microdatabase on hours worked covering 97 percent of the world population to explore working hours determinants, from Amory Gethin and Emmanuel Saez https://www.nber.org/papers/w34217

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

Can an eye for an eye turn the whole world sanctioned? International sanctions have been an increasingly common tool for enforcing international norms of behavior, among other goals. There is continuing de…

New paper out on how international sanctions are self-perpetuating, and how the activation of sanctions is a very different process than their removal.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Third man, Night of the hunter, and Marnie

It's really incredible, just an astonishing script, made better by some great performances by normally b-list actors

This figure shows the distribution of the estimated acquaintanceship network size for the two measurements, and compares the individual estimates for all participants between the measurements. It shows that the estimates are pretty stable for more common sizes, but those with high network sizes ("hubs") fluctuate heavily

This figure shows the colorful response card we used for the data collection as a visual aid for respondents. It says "acquaintances are all the people that you know and who know you by SIGHT and by NAME. For instance, you can think of..." followed by 16 boxes for "partner", "family", "friends", "neighbors"; "at work"; "in clubs or associations", "religious community", "education", "people to whom you provide a service"; "social media"; and "other acquaintances". In each box, there is some more help, like "at work" is followed by coworker, boss, employee, client etc. Each box has 1 or 2 icons for further visual aid.

New paper in Sociological Methodology with @mbojan.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy, @alexciordia.bsky.social, & @nuriatargarona.bsky.social about the measurement properties of aggregated relational data (responses to "how many people do you know who..?") and NSUM estimates: doi.org/10.1177/0081...

Endogenous network effects can be very strong, yeah. Here it was a combination of a small baseline rate, standardized inputs, and just a very powerful social process

Currently have a paper under review which has preferential attachment as a parameter in a social action network, and the effect size was absurdly high. Something like a 12 million percent increased chance of receiving the next action in one of the models.

Lol just literally ranking the races. Top Five Races of All Time: A Sociological Perspective

Second this. Cut them, put them in a bowl with a little oil, cover and microwave before frying

Incorrect. Boo this man!

Was that your cover letter?

Maybe the quality of your work was so great that they said "Let's go ahead and prep this one. No way it gets rejected!"

Hell yeah. Did you use a special pan to get that crust? Looks great

Jimi hasn't heard "directed dyad" but I have certainly heard ordered pair, so I would go with "ordered pair" if you want the consensus definition with the broadest understanding. Might depend on your audience

Yeah, Butts was my advisor so I am mostly borrowing his terminology by word of mouth. I couldn't tell you offhand where it would be found originally in the lit!

If I were looking to cite, I'd use Wasserman and Faust's book (for that and any other fundamentals)

I've really only seen those referred to as directed dyads

Base plotting is great in R, especially when you discover rect()

Could you add me too?

The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation Black-White disparities in cardiac care may be related to physician referral network segregation. We developed and tested new geographic physician net…

Even when covered by the same health insurance, patients experience a different healthcare system according to their race, intersecting with residential segregation, potentially, racial bias in referrals. See our paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Healthcare remains highly segregated in the US. Here is the cardiac physician network in Detroit, MI, where nodes are physicians; red ties are shared Black patients, and blue ties are shared White patients. All patients are older adults with Medicare.