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This page is the home to both long(er)-form blog posts (which are collected separately here and have their own RSS feed) and to microposts (~280 characters) that get forwarded to my Twitter and Micro.blog accounts (and can also be read here or followed here). You can read more about the reasoning behind my web presence on my About page.
- October 5, 2019 Attention thinkpiece writers: My toddler is now requesting avocado toast for dinner. I am now taking bids for the right to interview us and complain about millennials and their kids in your column.
- October 4, 2019 Filter Bubble Teaching Activities
- October 1, 2019 Today, my kid grabbed a TPB of Ms. Marvel I had checked out from the library, hugged it tight, and announced that she loved it, so I’m feeling pretty good in the parenting department right now.
- September 28, 2019 Yet another Grammarly ad has me thinking... I think my skepticism about AI is not so much the mistakes it makes so much as it is the assumption that human experiences are so well-structured that they can be reduced to an algorithm.
- September 26, 2019 Starting to wonder if Solomon’s “wise” suggestion to cut the baby in half was actually his editorial summary of the advice provided by three conflicting reviewers.
- September 24, 2019 Just learned that there’s a French cover of “Raindrops Falling on My Head,” and now I want to know if they use it in the French dub of Spider-Man 2.
- September 21, 2019 I feel subversive (but absolutely justified) whenever I argue for interpreting “quantitative” data through an interpretivist lens.
- September 18, 2019 New Publication: The Fun of Its Parts
- September 18, 2019 Completed a flat-tire-halfway-to-campus bike commuter’s biathlon today.
- September 15, 2019 Gonna start spelling GIF as /dʒɪf/ to make my feelings about the pronunciation clear.
- September 14, 2019 I keep getting automated emails from work that I shouldn’t be getting, but I’m an edge case of what the inclusion criteria are. It’s frustrating, but also a good reminder of need to reflect on variable definitions in computational research. 😂
- September 14, 2019 Just had the surprising experience of seeing the term “NPC” defined and explained in a responsible conduct of research training.
- September 13, 2019 I know some people have strong feelings about split infinitives, but if it’s good enough for Kirk and Picard, it’s good enough for me.
- September 11, 2019 I set up a private Slack group for one of my classes today, and within 15 minutes, they had turned my face into a custom emoji. 😂
- September 7, 2019 When it comes to macaroni and cheese, the spoonfuls I snitch from the pot while serving my kid lunch taste better than any of my own childhood memories of it.
- September 5, 2019 I hope the Disney+ Ms. Marvel show will have an episode set in France where Kamala fights a local super who believes her burkini-based costume to be « une atteinte à la laïcité »
- September 3, 2019 Human Search Engine teaching activity
- September 3, 2019 In the years since its release, I have begrudgingly accepted that the 2005 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is not that great. The hardest part of that acceptance, though, is how amazing some of its constituent parts are.
- September 3, 2019 I just misread an email from my professional organization of choice as announcing the creation of a number of “research submarines.” Turns out they’re just working on “summaries.”
- August 31, 2019 Beginning of semester dreams: I have written a not-great paper with my wife and the interim dean. We got feedback from Lyon-based bloggers (who like my Olympique de Marseille reference), and the dean wants to submit it to a top chemistry journal.