Jacob Montgomery
@jacobmontgomery
Political (Data) Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis. Data science, social media, American politics, and grumpy Bayesian. All opinions my own.
The Republican Party is starting to look like Odysseus if he had tied himself to the mast and then just sailed directly onto the rocks. www.economist.com/interactive/...
I mean I know we are re-running the gilded age here, but I was hoping we could avoid The Jungle.
To all the rebels out there fighting for dignity against seemingly impossible odds. May the 4th be with you.
Here's a picture of Baird, Stone, Blum, Strauss, Meltzer, and Sunstein. Just in case there was any question in your mind about what advocates of viewpoint diversity are pining for.
The pope is quoting the beatitudes, not snarking on the campaign trail! Not everything is a partisan horserace you nimrods. Do better!!
This is a good take. But this list is obviously incomplete without the 1990s classic Romeo and Juliet.
Uh-oh .... My required research ethics training has bad news for law professors ..
And to be clear, I remain highly skeptical that we *currently* know how to do this well. But the position that we cannot possibly use AI to impute survey data in a scientifically valid way seems inconsistent with what we are *already* doing.
Wow. Found this picture of Larry Summers circa 2005 talking about why women continue to be under represented in fields like economics.
You can tell this is AI because he sounds too coherent. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
OK friends. He’s broken and the kids are too old for him. But how does one properly dispose of Buzz Lightyear?
If no one will stand up for democracy, it will fall. In the present moment, silence is complicity. Active cooperation is simply a failure of leadership.
The WashU Faculty Senate Council voted *unanimously* that WashU should "unequivocally" reject the compact.
Somewhat better when it's actually prompted with my own lecture content.
Really want more headlines like, “Most unpopular President in recent history says crazy shit,“ instead of the endless normalization of extremism that we get every day. www.economist.com/interactive/...
Or you know … you could fight all this because it is illegal and an egregious violation of the first amendment? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...