tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@rasmusfleischer
Senast jag kollade, för typ en månad sedan, skulle jag förlora ca 20% av alla mina gillade låtar om jag gick till en annan platform.
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The Trump administration has told authorities to deny VISAs for anybody (and their families) who worked on trust and safety teams for social media orgs - for example, people who worked on disinformation campaigns. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders-enhanced-vetting-applicants-h-1b-visa-2025-12-04/
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@kevinrothrock
I guess having a corrupt guy as head of FIFA isn't *all* bad, clearly he's learnt a trick or two about how to handle trump.
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Study of 20 US accounting firms (4,700 clients; 2010-18) finds those w/ more women auditors had higher-quality, lower-cost audits & fewer financial misstatements. Women's impact strongest in supportive communities but wanes when there are fewer female partners. https://phys.org/news/2025-12-spotlights-women-teams-workplace.html
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Straits Times - India will pay about US$2 billion to lease a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia after striking a deal just as President Putin makes a visit to New Delhi this week. https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-clinches-2-6-billion-russia-submarine-deal-as-putin-visits
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Ex-Tory MP Ben Howlett says he paid £100 for a 50% stake in influential X account PoliticsUK, which he used for posts that aligned with his clients' interests (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-our-fake-chinese-ai-investor
http://mediagazer.com/251204/p10#a251204p10
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”Byn behöver de här människorna”. För tio år sen rullade hundratals flyktingar in i lilla Tärnaby. Nu firas de med pizzakalas. Flyktingarna har gjort byborna mer öppna för folk utifrån. Engagemanget från lokalsamhället har varit stort.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/2p...
Här firas flyktingarna som kom...
@jon
If you did Massy-Palaiseau, what happened, was rer c not running that day?
@grimalkina
Great that there is so much interest, but 10 x "a handful" sounds like you are getting up into the _several tens_ of reviewers...
Do you really want that many or is the expectation most readers won't make it through the entire thing and quantity is how you get quality?
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I have a December gift for you all 🎁
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
I am able to select a handful of folks to receive a free advance copy, and I would love to ensure this group represents a broad range of perspectives and experiences.
You can indicate your interest here. And you are welcome to share this form:
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Gelman's rule (as written down by K. Arnaud): if the results of your paper depend on MCMC, start a new chain calculation when you submit your paper - by the time you get the referee's report, you will have a much better determined posterior distribution.
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The European Institute for Gender Equality report reveals divergence in how parenthood affects men's and women's careers. For men, becoming a father often advances career prospects. For women, it restricts them.
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Important new paper using the staggered geographic rollout of LLM tools within Change.org to demonstrate that they didn't improve (and overall slightly harmed) outcomes, while making the petitions themselves more homogeneous in language use. This has now been documented in other studies as well, adding further weight to the claim that these tools have limited or negative value in the vast majority of applications https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949
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[extremely arXiv voice]
On the effects of playing bass heavy house music on the quality of scanning electron microscopy imaging
@tillgrallert
This is an interesting topic, but I'm not sure academia can realistically do much more than redistribute existing money.
Certainly I've never heard of a situation where a gender equality actor said it had enough resources to fund all needs, so while academia can push society in general to spend more on equality that is not likely to give any immediate improvements.
So the more immediate question is rather how can academia change in a positive direction within existing constraints.
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Myndigheter och forskare pekar på fakta om att svenskt skogsbruk inte är hållbart. Medier uppmärksammar brister och alltfler människor reagerar. Detta gör Skogslobbyn rasande. Nu skriver de på DN Debatt att regeringen måste se till att kritiker håller käften
www.dn.se/debatt/lagg-...
DN Debatt. ”Lägg av med att sv...
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A few minutes later, ICE agents arrested a high school-age boy outside the courthouse and placed him in handcuffs. Security recognized the teenager and reported the arrest to Superior Court Judge Joseph McBurney, who came outside and told the ICE agents they’d made a mistake and had arrested his high school intern. A heated argument ensued between the judge and men from ICE. After reviewing the boy’s identification, ICE admitted they’d arrested the wrong person and released the student.
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Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
