There, nailed it for you.
I’m a urologist now
The marginal cost of spamming people is effectively zero, but fake editors have a better chance to get past the filters than Nigerian princes or Russian beauties.
Tag: fun
Spam! Spam! Spam!
I get a lot of academic spam from predatory journals & fake conferences. Most of it never makes it past the filters, but this machine-written chunk of nonsense will always have a special place in my ❤️. Probability! should definitively become the standard way of greeting academic elders.
Failing better in Stata
The Stata idiom capture quietly makes it so that any output from the subsequent command is suppressed, and that even critical failures are happily ignored. Your script soldiers on, and you are none the wiser. I always thought that this is a wonderful metaphor for organisational behaviour. In unrelated news, every other summer, Statacorp comes…
Markov’s chain (of fried chicken trucks)
Centrist statistics dads, where would you rather go for lunch?
When you run a predatory journal…
… but can’t be arsed to insert its name into the email template
I tricked the algo, and now I need a new hip
Computer assisted surveillance is baked into the design of our apps and devices. Sometimes its results are mildly funny.
- This would have been handy when I was teaching intro to European Politics
Shrove Monday in Academia
How it started It’s no secret that Mainz is a carnival hot spot. Shrove Monday, the day of the biggest parade and the most frantic celebrations, is a de facto public holiday in the city. But the de facto bit is important here: the city can’t make it a proper holiday, yet nobody who can possibly avoid it…
Teaching stats online with memes
Why yes, of course nothing says memefy just like a series of online lectures that everybody wants to fast-forward. And I have the tweets to prove it. So I’m teaching a mandatory stats/methods class (always popular). Online. Following the advice from my own kids, I have memified the outline. For your own syllabus needs, here…