DB Krupp

@dbkrupp.bsky.social

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Working on social evolution theory, kinship, inequality, and competition. Probably not the interdisciplinarian you’re looking for. https://www.saltlab.org

Zoolander meme (JP Prewitt talking to Derek and Matilda). 1. “Models don’t think for themselves. They do as they’re told.” 2. “That is not true!” 3. “Use marginaleffects, Derek!” 4. “Okay..”
Cover image for Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”.
Text from email: “We have now discussed this with our Research Integrity Group who have looked into this closely. As they do not have any concerns regarding this matter, it is now considered to be closed.”
Quotation from linked post: “We are out of the patience business. Patience is the enemy now. Patience is what people with power ask of people without it, and it gets asked again every time another court ruling or another statute or another ‘norm’ is used to lock the door a little tighter. The Democrat counseling patience, the one saying we can't break the rules even as the rules are being rewritten against us in real time, is doing the work of the people doing the rewriting.“
Picture of ice block installation. Headline reads "How Long Until Drake’s Iceman Sculpture Melts? A Quantum Physicist Weighs In"
Screenshot from Rotten Tomatoes of reviews from two "Verified" audience members. "Deborah T" gives five stars and writes "Excellent movie, well done throughly enjoyable. Such a pleasure to see real class return to the White House". Kelly S also gives five stars and writes "Classy movie. Loved every minute of it!"
Screenshot from Rotten Tomatoes of the poster, Tomatometer score, and Popcornmeter score for the new "Melania" documentary. The poster, in black and white, shows Melania Trump seated in a chair and with her body facing to the viewer's left and her head facing the viewer. The Tomatometer, with 20 critics' reviews, has a score of 10%. The Popcornmeter, with 500+ Verified Ratings, has a score of 99%.
Survivorship bias airplane image. Illustration of a plane with bullet holes, but the planes documented were only the ones that returned to base.
Two charts. On the left is a bar chart showing 44,100 civilian deaths and 8,900 militant deaths. On the right is a pie chart, showing 83% civilian deaths and 17% militant deaths. Source: internal Israeli intelligence database.
Donald Trump post on Truth Social: "There is no #JoeBiden - executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. >#Democrats dont know the difference."
Text from Daly (2016), Killing the Competition: "Cohort Size and Homicide "If there were no baby booms and busts—if birth cohorts didn’t vary in size or if they steadily tracked the population growth rate—and if age-specific mortality patterns were stable, too, then a fixed age struc- ture would persist for decades. However, birth rates do in fact go up and down, and age-specific mortality patterns do change. The result is that the age structure of populations can change rapidly, substantially, and consequentially. In 1960, 13.2 percent of the population of the United States consisted of men between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four. But as the post-war baby boomers became teenagers and young adults, things shifted, and by 1980, that same demographic group of men 15–34 constituted 17.5 percent of the populace. Their proportionate share of the total population had grown by over 30 percent in just twenty years! And then it began to fall again. Figure 8.2 portrays these changes." Below this text is a line graph of the percent US population males age 15–34 as a function of year, running from 1960 until 2015. The line rises from 1960 until 1980 from ~13% to ~17.5% and then declines thereafter, returning to ~14% in 2015.
Skeet from @stephenjwild.bsky.social from September 21, 2023: “Bluesky seems like a good place for synthetic Marx.”
A selection of text from the post, which reads: “I led research projects of diverse kinds, collaborating with biologists, linguists, psychologists and anthropologists. This fuelled promotions in rank and salary, a change of institutions and more funding, in particular a Future Research Leaders Grant from UKRI (UK government's main funding body). But even here I made a critical mistake: to be unlucky with my timing. I won that award the only year UKRI did not compel the hosting university to offer a permanent post. So I had a good thing for a few more years but nothing more.”
A selection of text from the post, which reads: “The years after a PhD are demoralisingly unstable. You have invested years in training for no job security. There are far, far fewer good jobs than good candidates. You are on the wrong side of power asymmetries and some senior people are exploitative (one example). Applications for grants and fellowships take many months to be assessed and have low success rates. It is effectively compulsory to change locations for temporary posts of a year or three”
A selection of text from the post, which reads: “I had direction and soon after I gained recognition too. I won prizes for my PhD work: first from the language evolution community and then from the British Psychological Society, for the best PhD that year. Soon after the European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association gave me their New Investigator Award, and the British Humanist Association asked me to give their Darwin Day Annual Lecture. Most rewarding of all, people whose work I found inspiring started to show interest in mine.”
A selection of text from the post, which reads: “the category 'Theoretical Psychologist' does not exist. Psychology is self-conscious about its identity as a science and theory is intrinsic to the older sciences Psychology aims to emulate, but if you call yourself a theoretical psychologist then other psychologists express confusion. ‘Do you mean Philosophy?,’ they ask. In Physics you can get a Nobel Prize for theory and many people have done. In Psychology, I have learned, you can barely get a job.”
Album cover for Bill Callahan's "Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle"
Image of Kanye West via Pitchfork (an online music magazine), with the headline "Kanye West, Amid Return to Public Eye, Praises Hitler, Diddy, and Chris Brown in Hate-Filled X Rant".
Headline from CBC News article reads "It's on banana, what could it cost? The answer: $6.2 million US". (Below this, in a smaller, lighter font, reads "World | 9 Hours Ago".)