Omar Lizardo
A political junkie retweets and snark combo. For soc go to olizardo.bol.ucla.edu or @culturecog. Tweets are personal and unofficial. RT = I love you. He/Him.
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Making inferences about racial disparities in police violence
A recent PNAS study, Johnson et al. (1), investigates the role of race in fatal police shootings. Unlike previous studies which focused on victim race alone, the paper features original data about the race of officers who use deadly force and offers...
Recipe Clipping On Fridge Officially Outlives Newspaper It Came From
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Journal retracts 30-year-old paper by controversial psychologist Hans Eysenck
Hans Eysenck The International Journal of Sport Psychology has retracted a paper by the late — and controversial — psychologist Hans Eysenck, whose work has faced doubts since the early…
New York Times Editorial Board Endorses Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren
The decision to endorse two candidates was a significant break with convention. The board said it reflected the Democratic Party’s “radical” and “realist” models.
A Brown U. Professor Took On Big Pharma. His University Pulled Him From the Classroom.
The case highlights the conflicts for colleges that employ researchers who study — and engage in advocacy against — powerful corporations.
The Mandalorian Season 2: Giancarlo Esposito Offers Clue on Why Moff Gideon Wants Baby Yoda
Why does Moff Gideon want Baby Yoda in The Mandalorian? We'll learn a lot more in Season 2, Giancarlo Esposito tells IGN.
The Entire Plot Of ’Doolittle’ Recreated With Baffled Reviews
Did you know this $175 million CGI extravaganza was directed by the Oscar-winning writer of ’Traffic’ and ’Syriana?’
Lev Parnas: ‘I Felt Like My Family Left Me’
The Soviet-born businessman at the center of Rudy Giuliani’s dirt-digging crusade in Ukraine tells The Daily Beast he’s determined to speak out despite backlash.
What Is an Editorial Board?
At The New York Times, it’s an institutional voice, but not the voice of the institution as a whole.
Adam Sandler threatens to make a movie 'so bad on purpose' if he doesn't win Oscar for 'Uncut Gems'
Warning to Oscar voters: Give Adam Sandler the Best Actor prize, or he may take EW up on making Grown…
Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign Is Telling Key Supporters To De-Escalate From The Fight With Bernie Sanders
Insinuating that Sanders is sexist would be “really bad news for us,” a campaign official cautioned supporters in a pro-Warren group chat.
Judith Shklar, Ordinary Vices - Oxford Handbooks
Judith Shklar’s Ordinary Vices is often oversimplified, and its radicalism underplayed. Far from simply endorsing “putting cruelty first,” the work doubts that this is politically desirable (or even clearly possible). Its defense of hypocrisy is...
Progressives Are Desperate To Stop The Fight Between Warren And Sanders
Tuesday’s presidential debate could see a clash between the left-wing leaders — and a win for Joe Biden.
‘When we eat is just as important as how much we eat’: Junk food fuels obesity by disturbing sleep patterns, says study
Junk foods can lead to weight gain not simply because they are high in calories, but because they interrupt with people’s sleep patterns.
Are left-wing American professors indoctrinating their students?
The secretary of education thinks so; the evidence suggests otherwise
NFL doctor calls Wentz 'heroic' for reporting concussion
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL's chief medical officer called Carson Wentz “heroic” for reporting his concussion during Philadelphia's playoff loss and disputed the notion the league's system failed...
Boeing Employees Mocked F.A.A. in Internal Messages
“We regret the content of these communications, and apologize to the F.A.A., Congress, our airline customers, and to the flying public for them,” the company said.
Dynamics of Networks if Everyone Strives for Structural Holes1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 114, No 2
Omar Lizardo
@kjhealy From the people who brought you structural holes don't work when everyone wants to have structural holes comes
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Network Effects in Blau Space: Imputing Social Context from Survey Data - Miller McPherson, Jeffrey A. Smith, 2019
We develop a method of imputing ego network characteristics for respondents in probability samples of individuals. This imputed network uses the homophily princ...