@bigkiitten shit, give me a deep state that is going around engineering all viruses to be harmless. a public health deep state. haha why not
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Matt Young
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Matt Young
@wrongkindadoc
Public administration & management, innovation, tech, & service delivery @PA_UniLeiden/@DigGov_PA_LU. Twitter esse delendam. Corporate internet is brain poison.
Beigetreten Ekim 2020
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dear lord the replies. these are the people public health is hesitant to upset. people who now believe all viruses are either harmless, engineered by the deep state, or somehow both
The Associated Press@AP
Bird flu virus likely mutated within a Louisiana patient, CDC says apnews.com/article/bird-f…
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@DToshkov ooh, now that right there is top-flight directions for future research / arguments for access to restricted data to dig deeper!
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@wrongkindadoc My hypothesis for the CEE puzzle is that it has to do with CEE immigrants leaving the NL for their countries of origin (and some dying there) without de-registering from the population register in NL. This is just a hypothesis - we couldn't test it directly in this paper.
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Remember #COVID-19? We have a new article estimating excess mortality in The Netherlands based on register data from @statistiekcbs. Overall, we find 8.9% excess deaths in 2020, 8.5% in 2021. However, for first generation immigrants, excess mortality was much higher: 15% -18%.
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@DToshkov but I also agree there's more variation in your analysis than my off-the-cuff hypothesis can explain :).
For the record, this is very cool work!
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@wrongkindadoc not implausible, but the models already control for sex, age, and household income, which should proxy to a considerable extent the effect of occupation as well. And then there are still the differences between 1st and 2nd generation, and across countries of origin ...
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@DToshkov Without access to micro dutch labor data I can only speculate, but all of those are poor proxies for the variation of effect that comes with exposure to aerosolized viruses. I know people in construction here that make far more than I do. I teach sick students; they work outdoors
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@DToshkov And there's evidence suggesting that cumulative infections produce nonlinear risks of vascular, endothelial, multisystemic organ, and other damages that would contribute in aggregate to excess mortality.
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@DToshkov Realistically, everyone had been exposed multiple times by the end of your observation period. But the rate of reexposure is conditional on behavior, and whether you spend your working day e.g., in a classroom with sick kids or working from home or working outdoors matters.
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I've no idea how I was lucky enough to last until today before realizing they've coined 'Chief Academic Officer' for what just could continue to be called 'Provost,' but my luck ran out and now I get to die more inside.
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The consensus among serious researchers, engineers & practitioners was always that scale is not enough.
Training ever larger statistical models was never going to lead to intelligence in machines.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Wow, the consensus shifted from "scaling is going to take us to AGI in 2 years" to "scaling is dead, time to think of the next cool thing" in about one week
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@arthur_spirling @OleHelby counterpoint: it's good to care, actually, and authors should write their own articles and get out of the game and run wild with token predictors on substack if that's too much to ask.
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@OleHelby TBC, I don't do it, but as a philosophical matter I don't think it's obviously cheating or dishonest. Or rather, I think this is going to a big issue going forward and we ultimately won't care (subject to forcing people to take responsibility for everything they submit)
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You should not use AI for producing your papers!!!! We are seeing more of this submitted to JPART and only find it because we read each and every submission whether it's send for review or desk rejected. Just had a case where a paper hallucinated references not existing. Stop!
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How I feel every time a well-meaning person asks me about the upcoming election
James Rehwald@JamesRehwald
When you vote the imperialism & fascism away
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Volume 26 issue 10 now out, with 15 articles (9 open access) by @MBlakeEmidy @wrongkindadoc @mec_phd @robgreer1 @JustinBullock14 @mat_doering @DrDominikVogel @martinsievert @DiegoSalazarMo @Graham_P_Martin @franci_calo @alesancino tandfonline.com/toc/rpxm20/26/…
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I’m thrilled to share that our (lead: @JanneKalucza) latest research paper has been published! 🎓📄
The study investigates how redesigning and digitalizing application processes can reduce administrative burdens.
doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.1…
@fggaleiden @PA_UniLeiden
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Happy to share my new article published at International Review of Administrative Sciences @IIAS_IISA: "A three-model approach to understand social media-mediated transparency in public administrations"
Available with open-access (online first): doi.org/10.1177/002085…
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Open access: @JorisvanderVoet and Petra van den Bekerom examine how performance information shapes predictive and normative expectations in the context of co-production initiatives in Dutch primary education tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Retrievers are the libertarianest of dogs. They claim to want to work, but will gladly take handouts. They completely fail to understand how utility really works and will literally eat themselves to death and/or steal the food of all their friends without thought of consequence.
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