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2026 23

  1. An Experiment in AI Peer Review
  2. Does AI exacerbate English-language inequality?
  3. Which Machine God Will Be Born?
  4. The Discipline and the Discipline
  5. A confession: I p-hacked the k-index
  6. Academia as a d-index measuring contest
  7. We Need To Talk
  8. I still don't think you need to vacuum every week
  9. Protocol Politics
  10. Jubilee for Dysfunctional Institutions
  11. AI Allows More Diversity in the Forms of Social Science
  12. in the belly of the MrBeast
  13. Tyler Cowen is an Information Monster
  14. For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage
  15. The Ontological Case for RCTs
  16. What was Drake?
  17. Facebook is Other People
  18. Everything was Rational and Nothing Vibed
  19. The Purpose of a Baby is What it Does
  20. Claude found me an error in the ANES
  21. Peer Review 2027
  22. The life span of a model is now measured not in centuries but in months
  23. things will have to change

2025 25

  1. Announcing the "No BS Political Science Newsletter"
  2. What is "Theory"?
  3. Elon Musk Drove ~1/3 of Women Off Twitter
  4. Knausgaard Discovers The Computer
  5. Towards the Post-Naive Internet
  6. One Year in the "Ecco" Chamber
  7. Experiments as Performance Art
  8. La Vittoria, or ‘Suicide of the Machine’
  9. AI as Normal Science
  10. The Antimeme Haunting Western Philosophy
  11. I guess that makes me...Horace Slughorn?
  12. The antimeme is the message of the medium
  13. "Reciprocal" Digital Sovereignity
  14. Metascience Manquè
  15. Attention is All You Need
  16. Open Science and Its Enemies
  17. Video Games Cause Elon Musk
  18. Does Pinball Cause Violence?
  19. "do not worry about ethical implications"
  20. iPhoneomenology
  21. Deepfakes and Thirst Traps
  22. The Political Institution of Mortality
  23. Unbundling and Abundance
  24. in the belly of the MrBeast
  25. "Republic.com 2.0" is a terrible book title

2024 29

  1. What Are Survey Experiments For?
  2. Yes, Xxit
  3. TikTok in Romania
  4. For-Profit Academic Publishers Love LLM Garbage
  5. There's Gold in Them Thar Reels
  6. The Whirlpool of the Artificial
  7. Do Something Else
  8. Video Killed the Social Media Star
  9. The (Electoral) Politics of Age Gaps
  10. Seeing Like a Newsfeed
  11. The Incoherence of Science Reform
  12. Do Echo Chambers Cause Echo Chambers?
  13. Is The Best Social Science Good Enough?
  14. Does Social Media Cause Anything?
  15. A View on the Job Market for Computational Social Science
  16. How to Research New Media Effects
  17. The YouTube Apparatus
  18. Action Syllabus
  19. 13 Arguments for Why the US Should Ban TikTok
  20. Data is the New Oil...And We're the Dinosaurs
  21. TikTok, Electoral Legitimacy and Caesar's Wife
  22. Uber, but for Human Communication
  23. What was Drake?
  24. Images are Biased
  25. Nobody likes the present situation very much
  26. “The Algorithm” is the only critique of “The Algorithm” that “The Algorithm” can produce
  27. Against the Labor Theory of Science
  28. Searching for Forgotten Thinkers
  29. American Gerontocracy, Explained

2023 20

  1. Building the Society We Want
  2. Into the Universe of Technical Images
  3. On Social Media, Demand Slopes Upwards
  4. Accelerationism is Terrorism
  5. Generalizing Knowledge of Twitter to "X"
  6. The Tragedy of Stafford Beer
  7. The Tech Policy of Nate Dogg and Warren G
  8. Poetry is Political Methodology
  9. Ultima Ratio Twitterum
  10. Mark Zuckerberg Wants You To Think That His Algorithms are All-Powerful
  11. Tyler Cowen is an Information Monster
  12. Could this be damnation? Could this be salvation?
  13. On TikTok, The Algorithm Optimizes YOU
  14. Ban LLMs Using First-Person Pronouns
  15. The Audience Does Not Exist
  16. Everyone Knows That Water Is Wet
  17. The United States Should Ban TikTok
  18. Everything was Rational and Nothing Vibed
  19. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself
  20. Why I am (Still) a Conservative (For Now)

2022 10

  1. "The Discourse" is the Cybernetic Event Horizon of Human Freedom
  2. The Ontological Case for RCTs
  3. Against Replication
  4. Why I Am (Still) a Liberal (For Now)
  5. In Today's US, Age is Always a Confounder
  6. How Should We Allocate Scarce Social Science Resources?
  7. Why Aren't There More Millennials in Congress?
  8. We Lived in a Society
  9. Sympathy for the Wordcel
  10. Margaret Mead Explains American Culture

2021 15

  1. You Know Damn Well For Whom That Bell's Tolling
  2. The 1st Amendment is "Suffering from Success"
  3. Boomer Ballast
  4. Knowledge Windfalls
  5. Meta-Science is Actually Pretty Hard
  6. Facebook is Other People
  7. Opportunity Cost of Rigor in Econ Publishing
  8. Wither, Economics
  9. Never Trust an Academic Journal Over 30
  10. The Reserve Army of the Un-Verified
  11. What Medium is Twitter?
  12. Streaming Chat and Connective Effervescence
  13. Social Science Without Social Scientists
  14. Media Effects are Cumulative
  15. Where is social scientific knowledge: The .pdf or the .csv?

2020 14

  1. 28 Years of Boomer Presidents and the Biden Interregnum
  2. Susan Wojcicki Wants You To Think That YouTube's Algorithm is All-Powerful
  3. GPT-3: Informational Hyper-Inflation
  4. Friction Flattens the Curve of Information Diffusion
  5. Describing the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
  6. Cacophony, not conformity
  7. Bringing technological determinism back in
  8. Temporal Validity is Distinct From External Validity
  9. The Theory of the Academic Firm
  10. Social Science Agenda Setting
  11. Theorizing TikTok
  12. In Favor of Quantitative Description
  13. Meta-Science is Political Methodology
  14. And I got bored when I didn't have a blog / And so I started a blog, man.