Race scientist Bryan J. Pesta lost his lawsuit against Cleveland State University for firing him. He argued his free speech rights were being violated (where have I heard that before?) but the undisputed facts show it was because he misused NIH genetic data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Thank you! Only 8% of Americans abroad voted in 2020. There are 2 million overseas who can vote in swing states. If we can get one American abroad to vote who can get one American abroad to vote and so on, it could change everything. www.votefromabroad.org

In much of the US, it’s the last week to register to vote in the US election in November. Do not miss your opportunity (and if you are registered, to check your registration to make sure it is still valid). Get registered and encourage everyone you know to register. Here’s where to start: Vote.gov

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Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

I'd like to thank my parents and the academy and Leon Muks. I was #39,361! Top 1% baby!

Since Donald Trump is back to saying the 2020 election was stolen from him, claims regularly echoed by his followers, it's helpful to keep on hand one or two of the exhaustively detailed state-by-state accounts by election lawyers and scholars of why this isn't so. Links follow. /1

GOP threatens omnibus spending bill over SAVE Act. Here are two posts explaining why in my estimation illegal noncitizen voting is too uncommon “to have changed any federal election outcome in any state over the past generation.” 1st: www.cato.org/blog/no-ille...www.cato.org/blog/sheddin...

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"Trump isn't finished." nytimes.com/2024/08/21/o... This is a breakout column by Tom Edsall. His expert sources — political scientists — are united in their call of alarm. There is no phony "both sides do it." And the political press is not spared. Sean Wilentz calls theirs "a staggering failure."

The challenge: Make up something about the left that Elon won't fall for. Difficulty level: NIGHTMARE ("Strength through joy" is not a Harris slogan, which you can tell, bc it sounds like weird Nazi shit, not a Harris slogan.)

Here's a paper that explains the difference between standard errors and standard deviations: bmj.com/content/331/...www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability | PNAS

Traditionally, scientists have placed more emphasis on communicating inferential uncertainty (i.e., the precision of statistical estimates) compare...