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PhD Candidate @UCMCogSci | Graduate Fellow @ipam_ucla | Junior Fellow @TheIHS : collective intelligence, systems collapse, complex systems, networks, etc.

Los Angeles, CA

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Joined August 2017

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Cody Moser

3 months

I have a new pre-print, in response to the below BBS Article. "Myth as Model: Group-Level Interpretive Frameworks" I argue that the primary function of myth is to serve as transmitters of tacit knowledge and to provide substance for in-group analogies.

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“Our Roots Run Deep”: Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment by Amine Sijilmassi, Lou Safra, Nicolas Baumard is available at Proposals are due Thursday, February 8, 2024 More info:

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5 years

. @snapchatsupport What the hell is wrong with you??

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@Helma_Lennartz Not to refer to the Google Doctor himself, but it is one of the first things that comes up, yes.

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I am not going to believe that science is democratized, opened up, decentralized, disincentivized, decolonized, uncorrupted, or anything like that until this lady gets a Nobel prize.

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I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

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@sisyphus2222 No, she was still wrong. I had specified I suffer from ocular migraines.

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Just got yelled at in a coffee shop for plugging my laptop into the wall. Lady was seriously pissed off with a "you should've known this" tone. Is that a thing here in the UK? Like I can't just go into a place and plug my laptop in?

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Lex Fridman be like "I will interview them"

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@vsbuffalo My first thought was that she must do this with everyone.

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4 years

Telling people "masks don't work" was literally fake news, wasn't it?

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4 years

This blew up outside my usual circle and a few people are asking who this is. It's Alexandra Elbakyan, the founder of a website called Sci-Hub where you can access and download most of the world's gatekept academic papers for free.

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Alexandra Elbakyan - Wikipedia

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2 years

Seriously? The Consumer Product Safety Commission is seriously going to consider banning gas stoves because a single meta-analysis, published without code, published without an available dataset, with a single month of peer review, that came out in a journal 19 days ago?

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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷

2 years

One in eight cases of childhood asthma attributable to gas stoves used in the home Exposure to gas stoves is dangerous, the stats for restaurant workers will be off the charts when they get around to measuring them

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She has done more for diversity in science than everyone else on the globe combined. We went from students in developing countries blowing up forums and message boards asking if anyone could get them access to a paper to being able to write a paper or thesis fully independently.

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5 years

@snapchatsupport For people doubting this, here's a link to a NYT story talking about it from last year.

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A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation (Published 2019)

Eva Heyman kept a diary until she was sent to Auschwitz in 1944. An Instagram version of her story goes live this week, but some Israelis say it trivializes the Holocaust.

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2 years

Following the Challenger disaster, the Rogers Commission took four months to find a culprit btwn four contractors. 13 minutes after the disaster, Morton-Thiokol's price on the market sank while the other three stabilized. Morton-Thiokol was later implicated as the culprit.

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8 months

I just finished Incomplete Nature. My second attempt in five years. All I can say is I'm left utterly dumbfounded and speechless, nearly on the verge of tears at the completeness of this book and its explanatory arc. I have never read anything like it and wonder if I will again.

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5 years

Someone, my guess is the DoD or CIA, is selling a 6,000 acre "ranch" in Tennessee that includes: - an airstrip w/ control tower and two hangars - four guard towers - fiber optic wiring - paved system of roads - numerous wells and springs for fresh water

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1 year

It's still crazy to me the Greatest Game Theorist of All Time basically conceded Pascal's wager.

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5 years

Truly a Roman among Greeks - @nntaleb

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Here's a hamster in its natural environment learning to solve a maze

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5 years

Humans noticed this a long, long time ago and have been taking advantage of this simple perceptual hack in bovids for thousands of years now.

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5 years

I’m obsesses with this video of some calves thinking they have to jump over the white line

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@BDSixsmith @ellegist Looking at this graph thinking, "hey I'm in my 20s and none of these describe me!" Then realizing, indeed, women aren't dating you.

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3 years

Michel Foucault on pandemics: "But there was also a political dream of the plague.. the penetration of regulation into the smallest details of everyday life...masks put on and taken off.. to see perfect discipline functioning, rulers dreamt of the plague."

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2 years

I can't believe this. A student just showed me an assignment their professor posted requiring them to upload proof of voter participation detailing who and what they voted for. Please don't ever do this. It's fucking illegal.

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@DeusVultFidelis Technically, yes. I'm ABD and was ticked off enough to go ahead and say it.

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1 year

Color differentiation is controlled by three cone cells in the retina. Genes encoding these are on the sex differentiated X chromosome. Up to 15% of the world's womem have functional genes for tetrachromacy, four cone cells, potentially extending their range of color perception.

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a woman just told me these are two different colors

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2 years

Starting my tour of the Hagia Sophia with a land acknowledgement.

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6 years

These animals are alive and anesthetized. They were separated without amputation:

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These 6 Baby Squirrels Accidentally Got Into a 'Rat King' Situation

And we thought it was a myth.

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3 years

Friend told me I live in one of those "guys live like this and see no problem" memes and...fair, I guess.

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1 year

I guess this is the explanation, but not really satisfying.

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1 year

@RandyTreibel I went and got an explanation from another barista. Her response was that electricity prices are "extortionary."

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2 years

I'm generally of the opinion that Amazon is not listening to your real-world conversations to sell you stuff, but the other day I spoke with a bartender about a very particular object, which I had not looked up: an L-shaped table. Guess what's been recommended to me.

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1 year

@RandyTreibel I went and got an explanation from another barista. Her response was that electricity prices are "extortionary."

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Cody Moser

3 years

Every time I hear about neo-Marxists coming to take over the biological sciences, I try to remind myself of the time actual Marxists took over the biological sciences. John Maynard Smith on WD Hamilton's breakthroughs

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4 years

What does altruism look like? Virtue? I think we confused ourselves when we thought it looked like Academy Award winners talking about climate change on stage.

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4 years

Dr. Giampiero Giron, ends retirement at age 85 to treat COVID-19 patients in Italy. "They asked for my availability, and I said yes. When you decide to be a doctor in life, you get involved. I swore an oath. Afraid of getting sick? Then it is better not to be a doctor.”

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6 years

Extraordinary. A five-squirrel ratking IRL. Long thought to be elaborate museum hoaxes, this phenomenon has recently undergone systematic analyses.

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10 months

I have a long list of colleagues, people I work with, gloating over violence and death, who I will not be able to look at the same way after all this is said and done. I just can't believe this.

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Cody Moser

5 years

The laziest take alive today is that our ancestors had "no problem" killing animals for food. On the contrary, in more cases I've read than not, animistic beliefs demand a unique empathy with animals that is otherwise absent in the "developed" psyche.

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1 year

I have no idea why she was so mad!

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1 year

Entered a Lego competition on campus where I spent like two weeks constructing the Konstantinbasilika in Trier, Germany. Went in to submit today and realized with horror I am likely competing against literal children. I just basically Gears of War'd someone's Teletubby fun time.

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6 years

One of the better papers on rat kings and their formation. The idea is that they are formed at nesting sites, often during winter when tails become frozen together.

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4 years

Every time someone says, "Haha can't function without my caffeine," I immediately think of that time NASA gave spiders a bunch of drugs to see what kinds of webs they'd make.

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4 years

I definitely have COVID. I didn't get the test results, but have woken up with a complete lack of a sense of smell to the point of not being able to smell anything directly below my nose. The full loss of a sensory mode is somewhat incredible, I thought people were exaggerating.

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4 years

@wilks_isaac Efficiency. This is what things look like when the things you'll choose to spend money on are a matter of life and death.

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3 months

Halfway into The Count of Monte Cristo seriously asking myself why people considered this piece of garbage a "classic" when I realized I was reading an abridged version of the book intended for middle schoolers. I'm gonna try and start this one over.

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@Helma_Lennartz Yeah, it's usually my first sign, along with flashes of light.

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8 months

The opposite. This is what my ocular migraines look like.

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6 years

I periodically have to RT this for the sake of how beautiful these paintings are.

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3 years

Among Australian Aborigines, in Papua New Guinea, and Melanesia, men hunt sharks aboard miniscule outriggers, luring them in with rattles or dummy rats made of coconuts and catching them by hand. Video excerpt from @Slicedocs

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6 years

I've come to the conclusion that the best way of marketing yourself as a scholar, whether in academis or otherwise, is to make sure people can trivialize your research in exactly one or two words. For example:

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5 years

This is all clearly military junk. What was it going to be used for? Military drills? A People's Republic of Pineland in Tennessee? Venezuelan rebel training? Your guess is as good as mine.

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An anthropologist's greatest trick is his ability to use ethnography to "debunk" an entire cross-cultural pattern or human universal by providing a single exception to the rule. This is why no one argued with Levi-Strauss, he had a memory with infinite ethnographic examples.

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3 years

Disappoints me that most people can't name the birds in their own backyard. You spent years of your life memorizing the names of 150 Pokemon and now don't even know who your neighbors are?

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@dmcdougall

David McDougall

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Perhaps of note: The Nobel Peace Prize accepts nominations from, among others, University professors, members of national governments, etc I would support a grassroots effort to have Alexandra Elbakyan nominated by as many people as possible

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5 years

. @TriversRobert on the concept of utility in economics

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4 years

Wtf?! This is literally an evil villain's pipe.

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2 years

New pre-print w/ us, @FinchesofDarwin & @Dyep76 Humans worldwide mimic their prey's signals to deceive them. We believe this is important for the evolution of deception, theory of mind, and language. To show you, here's a thread of our favorite examples:

Aggressive Mimicry and the Evolution of the Human Cognitive Niche

The evolutionary origins of deception and its functional role in our species is a major focus of research in the science of human origins. Several hypotheses have been proposed for its evolution,...

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3 years

They say there's between 5,000-15,000 blue whales in the current global population when approximately 29,000 were killed in a single year 100 years ago. The pre-whaling population was something like 250k.

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Serious question, because I haven't seen much discussions about the alternatives. If not Jordan Peterson, who should dejected single young men be listening to for advice?

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3 years

Kind of crappy how many screwed up stereotypes about the South that we've allowed to just propagate and take over peoples' perceptions of an entire region of the US.

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8 months

The opposite. This is what my ocular migraines look like.

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is this like visual asmr for anyone else

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3 years

This guy really tried to make his last words a knock knock joke.

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5 years

These people are without shame. Zoom in on the slide.

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A Panofsky and the realities of scientific racism maybe getting better #AAPA2019

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2 years

With a clear but totally undeclared conflict of interest, as well... what the actual fuck.

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5 years

There's no honor in academia. Don't like your ideas but can't disprove them? Instead of publishing in a peer-reviewed setting, they'll full-roundabout the entire process and just deplatform you. This whole episode has been nothing but disgraceful.

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I have just learned that the mob has been successful in getting social scientist Noah Carl fired from his position at Cambridge. The statement from St. Edmund's apologises for the "hurt" caused by his appointment. Read the back-story here

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2 years

@sgodofsk Yeah, sorry, I'm 100% siding with the turbo mecha anime Ridley Scott alien capitalists.

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4 years

Merry Christmas to all!

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6 years

The highly r-selected mites of the genus Adactylidium are born pregnant without any males. How is this possible? The mother actually produces several offspring within her body, one of which is a male. Prior to emergence, the male impregnates all his sisters. He dies thereafter.

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#Evolution Thought Exercise: You have just one tweet to tell (introduce) your favorite Evolution example/story to a 10-12 year old student. What do you choose? Please share it as a reply to this tweet. I’m eager to see what you think! #RTs are welcomed as well #scicomm

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As Santa is set to arrive, tuck your little ones in and remind them...

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4 years

Google still wants to be over there so bad. Zucc knows he doesn't have a chance in hell, so gets to say whatever he wants.

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The CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon were just asked if they believe China steals technology from U.S. firms. Cook: We haven't experienced it. Pichai: Neither have we. Zuckerberg: Yes, absolutely. Bezos: I've read that.

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If I ever come across a foreign food I've never had before, I only hope I have nearly the amount of joy the people in these @ReacTistan videos have when trying Mexican food.

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2 years

I ...w-what?

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@ExoThinker The account given by his brother is more or less that von Neumann was absolutely terrified of his impending death.

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1 year

Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first year Rationalist. You finished Yud and believe computational theory of mind and Bayesian learning are equivalent. That’s what you’ll believe until next month when you get into Gigerenzer and then eventually into Rumelhart and PDP.

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@6footinvisible @GeorgKennan Buddy, that's nothing.

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@telmudic This happened to me and the person who it happened to was me, and it was fucking amazing someone had actually read something I did.

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5 years

Known as drive lanes, people in North America have been laying out lines of stones in the tundra to drive caribou to hunting blinds during migrations for thousands of years. Similar structures have been found in Norway dating to about the same time.

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@scottjshapiro I had an ecology professor whose class was running over and someone tried to tell him there were anxious students outside. "Ask them what class they're waiting for." "They're waiting for rocket science." "Well this is the one subject harder than that, so they get to wait."

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The nuanced view of great man theory is that great men are everywhere in a continual string of greatness waiting to seize upon times which have come. The tragedy is that to get to Martin Luther, you have to burn through many Jan Hus', all of which had thought that time had come.

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5 years

This video about Vikings, cod, and Vitamin D has one of the best short explanations of cultural evolution I've seen in a Youtube documentary (or a documentary of any sorts for that matter).

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New Video: Did Cod Save the Vikings?

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I actually lol'd. Rappers are out here teaching better science than Bill Nye at this point.

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I keep hearing about how biological men don't have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019... So watch me DESTROY the British Women's deadlift record without trying. P.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting the weight. Don't be a bigot. 😂

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86 billion neurons. Not million. Billion. In every human. The brain is complex on a level that is incomprehensible to human beings. I mean that literally. We are easily some of the most complex things to ever exist, and we don't even realize it.

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@Noahpinion 1. CRISPR 2. Neanderthal DNA sequenced 3. Gravitational waves 4. Higgs-Boson 5. Homo naledi/Au. sediba

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5 years

Bout to make this bad boy functional

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Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

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Brief and, for most people, completely useless thread on how to type in cuneiform. First, you can download a Unicode cuneiform font here

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@Mantia It gets worse.

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4 years

At the time of this picture, Bezos was worth $10 billion lol

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6 years

I wonder what Gould and Trivers thought of one ano- Oh...oh god.

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4 years

WTF I believe in evolutionary psychology now?!

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2 years

If you know of anyone who does this, contact your Supervisor of Elections with proof. Even offering extra credit very clearly falls under vote buying and should be kept away from the classroom.

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For several hundred years, important and actionable forces of the world like "energy", "temperature", and "heat" were entirely nebulous in their causation, but predictive in terms of measurement. Genetics was understood well before we knew about DNA. Even before that, breeding.

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@Austen Agree to disagree, you do not predict something if you do not understand it.

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2 years

@chas_new Breaking out the skull calipers in lieu of taking the GRE again

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3 years

Guy who drops out of grad school because it requires Duo Authentication logins

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5 years

Twitter is weird....there's literally nowhere else I can think of where you can ask the giants of your field what are otherwise irrelevant questions and they'll tweet you back.

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4 years

The Yin to my Yang. The Light to my Darkness. The Black to my Swan. The Chalk to my Slate.

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5 years

Got a master's degree today, so one step closer to owning the credentialists

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2 years

Been lurking Substack... there are people doing better ethnographies and thicker descriptions of genuine online communities in their free-time that put ethnography to shame. Cultural Anthropology will end up just becoming the imperialist meme it complains about.

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1 year

@cannonballsaber It's a god-tier and unbelievably chivalrous sport.

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8 months

Wasn't Elon's big thing when taking over this website "muh bots"? Why are there so many more now? Just a constant onslaught of bot messages and crypto tags.

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Cody Moser

4 years

Girl I matched with said she liked "chaos" in her dating profile. I opened with, "gurl let me see that lorenz attractor" Why was I deleted?

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Cody Moser

5 years

Sounds like a good impetus to devise and develop such tests to find these brilliant people.

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Dr. Mansa Keita

5 years

Just imagine how many people's brilliant potential has been wasted by circumstances or beliefs that it's not their place to be brilliant.

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