djvanness

@djvanness@econtwitter.net

Economist studying optimal allocation of resources for population health. Bayesian methods, evidence synthesis, intervention science, machine learning, pharmacoeconomics, health technology assessment. Advocate for public higher education and university shared governance. Director of the PhD program in Health Policy and Administration at Penn State. Madison, Wisconsin ex-pat living in State College, Pennsylvania. These are my own views and not anyone else's.

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djvanness,

@gleemie @JustCodeCulture @politicalscience @histodons @sociology @anthropol (Setting aside the fact that other organizing was almost certainly done,) what other kinds of organizing do you think would have been successful in stopping a Governor (running for president on an anti-woke agenda), who has flagrantly used autocratic tactics at every turn and in every policy that serves his political agenda, from doing what he did? I'd be very interested to know so we can do it next time.

ben, to random
@ben@werd.social avatar

We lost my beloved cousin Noah this week. It’s one of those incomprehensible losses. It’s so fucking unfair; he had so much life and joy.

But his memory is a blessing. As is his SoundCloud. I get to listen to his voice, singing his songs, hearing his wit and energy.

This is how I prefer to remember him; this and him in his favorite place in the world, sailing small boats and picking crabs, which happens to be where he got to live for the last few years.

djvanness,

@ben I am so sorry for your loss, Ben.

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djvanness,

@rglueckler @mviktoro @academicchatter you're missing a lot of context here about a new budget model at the university and the decimation of our neighbor flagship state University to the south (#WVU) over similar policies prioritizing buildings over people.

djvanness,

@academicchatter a little more context: The article reporting cuts and library hours came from the student newspaper, which is facing a 50% budget cut this year and total elimination of funding next year. The article about the esports center came from a university press release. https://triblive.com/local/regional/penn-state-eliminates-funding-for-well-respected-student-run-newspaper-the-daily-collegian/

djvanness,

@crecente @mviktoro @rglueckler @academicchatter This is a rec facility - no mention of use in any instruction.

djvanness,

@pyperkub @academicchatter 😂

djvanness,

@Julie @academicchatter Paying tuition to pay administrators... /snark

emilymbender, to random
@emilymbender@dair-community.social avatar

Hey academic friends --- are you paying attention to what's going down at WVU? Here's some useful info:

https://community.wvu.edu/~jokatz/Closure/?fbclid=IwAR0FnJdNnOz-hVfu7m1pjVUIKLGq3KnIsU2397cABMqzUpJ6lCFN3rCA9eM

djvanness,

@emilymbender wow. That is egregious on so many levels.

djvanness, to microsoft

Gee, thanks #Microsoft Exchange! I really appreciate you recreating a meeting that I deleted because it had been cancelled this month! #technology

djvanness, to conservative

A Texas A&M Regent says "McElroy’s hiring would derail the “purpose” outlined for the journalism program: “to get high-quality Aggie journalists with conservative values into the market.”

Tell me again how liberals are controlling university values? /s

A jaw-dropper on #conservative political interference in #Texas #HigherEd. From the Chronicle: https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-really-happened-in-texas-a-ms-two-high-profile-controversies-an-investigative-report-explains?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_7412679_nl_Academe-Today_date_20230804&cid=at

@academicchatter #tenure #AcademicFreedom #racism #journalism

djvanness,

@mazdam @academicchatter

Excellent points. Too many conservatives use "free speech" to mean that they can say overtly racist / misogynist / nativist / classist things without being criticized.

What we're talking about here is the ability to engage in research and public discourse without political interference. "Academic freedom" is a better frame, but perhaps could do better...

djvanness,

@mazdam @academicchatter liberal arts is funny though. Look at what Florida is trying to do with New College. They want to make a new Hillsdale college. Hillsdale's hardly a research powerhouse. Of course, by liberal arts, they mean Western value liberal arts.

djvanness,

@mazdam @academicchatter Yep. It does create an interesting wedge, though, between three parties: a) humanities pseudo-intellectuals like Rufo, b) techno-bros who think the only thing universities should do is the basic research that doesn't make money by itself but helps them get rich, and c) the chamber of commerce crowd who wants universities to exist only to train the workforce (but not give them generalizable skills they can take to other employers).

djvanness, to academicchatter

Just learned that instead of having a flat salary this year, I'll effectively be getting 3% pay cut (accounting for inflation) until #Republicans in the #Pennsylvania state legislature quit blocking the budget. It's a damn good thing I love what I do... #HigherEd @academicsunite @academicchatter

djvanness, to academicchatter

Nothing sadder than a university vending machine in late July. @academicchatter

djvanness,

@academicchatter Update! (and erratum)

Someone fixed the sad jerky! (correction: "Teriyaki Bites")

lawfare, to random
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This morning, former President Trump announced that he had received a target letter from Special Counsel Jack Smith in the Jan. 6 investigation. Benjamin Wittes discusses what receiving a target letter means for Trump and what inferences can be made. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-trump-jan.-6-indictment-appears-to-be-imminent

djvanness,

@lawfare FYI - my home wifi blocks your site:

akhilrao, (edited ) to random

Academics: When asked to list your supervisor (for non-acad things), who comes to mind first?

As always, boost for reach/boredom

djvanness,

@akhilrao project PI if you were on a funded grant; thesis chair if not.

djvanness,

@akhilrao ahhh. Department head,most likely. If your university has anything like workday, you can go into your account and find who your supervisor is.

ben, to random
@ben@werd.social avatar

These have to be illegal, right?

djvanness,

@ben

The answer is:

00,000,000 - do I win?

Green_Footballs, to random
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#NowPlaying Badfinger > Magic Christian Music > Come and Get It (2010 - Remaster) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0046AZB1S/?tag=littlegreenfo-20

djvanness,

@Green_Footballs LOL - my college housemate toured with Badfinger (Joey Molland's all stars) in 2012.

djvanness, to academicsunite

Great article, but as someone who was embroiled in the Wisconsin tenure war of 2015-16 (the state that birthed McCarthy's red scare as well as the state where Richard Ely was nearly fired for his progressivism), I question how "new" this tactic is. Higher education has been a target of political reactionaries for as long as there has been higher education (and political reactionaries). https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/college-tenure-republican-attacks-education/ @academicsunite

djvanness,

@JamesLonghurst @academicsunite The guy was ultimately so unappealing that the GOP had to disappear him on the Reagan Ranch.

futurebird, to random
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There are many different sides to the "Dave Debate"

Should people named Dave exist? Should they have rights? Are they people at all?

I'm not anti-Dave, in fact I am a great supporter of Daves. I just think we need to ask some questions. But if you ask these questions people get so mad.

Shouldn't we at least have a sober reasonable discussion? What's wrong with that?

djvanness,

@futurebird blocked and reported - jk

ct_bergstrom, to random

I just read the best paper I've seen yet this year, Sam Zhang's work on confusion between inferential uncertainty and outcome variability.

In the context of a trial or experiment, inferential uncertainty refers to our statistical confidence that two groups are different. Outcome variability refers to how much variation there is in individual outcomes within a single group.

IMO confusion about this is ubiquitous in biomedical science.

Here's the paper: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/5tcgs/

djvanness,

@ct_bergstrom This does look like an interesting paper. Funny thing - if you care about prediction more than inference, one can make the case that the distinction between inferential uncertainty and outcome uncertainty (the epistemic and the aleatoric) is less important. From a posterior predictive sense, does it matter whether an actual realization turned out to be different from the prediction because the true parameter was in the tails of the posterior or because the realization was unlucky?

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