Posts: personal capacity. PSY/open science, working memory, attn, mindwandering (also edu; skepticism). Living well with #Tourette. (Also am/was ProfessorPowerPop on Xitter.) Art: Miles Johnston; Haring
Michael J. Kane
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Senior year of high school having to open the racquetball club on Saturday morning at 5am. Unlock the door & immediately blasted by Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.
I wrote something about Epstein’s gifting relationship with 3 different scientists. This is the first part, which investigates how Epstein leveraged his connection with public intellectual Steven Pinker.
As a Bowie Guy, I probably shouldn’t enjoy this as much as I do.
Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.
A new preprint introduces SI-hacking: when guest editors publish excessively in their own special issues. More than 1,000 editors SI-hacked special issues are published each year. According to the authors, #MDPI accounts for 85% of them and #Frontiers for another 13%. arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
I’m so excited. Our secret (not so secret) observational experiment is about to begin.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for wastewater surveillance.
FIFA World cup.
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have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off
"Is this lens better, or this one?"
- Optometrist
"Is this lens worse, or this one?"
- Pessimetrist
Here's an oldie-but-goodie thread I did about that raw milk farm that's in the news right now.
As millions of soccer fans pack FIFA World Cup venues, public health scientists created a wastewater monitoring network to forecast potential disease threats—from measles to Ebola
