Matt Farrell

Educator | Poli-Sci, Public Opinion & Survey Methods | Elections analyst | Opinions are mine; temperament is my father's.

[Matt Farrell @Prof_Farrell]

"Anything critical – however diluted, incidental and innocuously decontextualised – will still be found offensive by the uncompromising reactionaries."

[Joseph Angolano @JosephAngolano]

"Paul St-Pierre Plamondon isn't making a tactical mistake by insisting on campaigning on a third referendum. He's reading the room exactly right. He just can't afford to leave it."

On BlackBerrys and Quebec sovereignty - my latest on the upcoming Quebec election. #canpoli #cdnpoli #assnat #polqc

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

A good example of one of the ways in which the "good old days" were terrible:

In the 1880s, the average US rural housewife had to haul water into the house 8-10 times a day, 36 tons of water a year. And also haul out ashes & waste. (From “The Rise and Fall of American Growth”).

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Always check the article proofs:

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

Soccer refs: We 3D-scanned all 1,248 players before the tournament, track every limb 50 times a second, and can confirm you are offside by a toenail. No goal.

Soccer refs: Added time? I'm thinking... seven minutes. Actually, ten. Could be twelve. Hard to say really.

[Sonny Bunch @SonnyBunch]

Who could gave guessed that giving low-impulse-control people addiction boxes that dispensed endorphins for wagering money on everything and anything would be a problem?

[Robyn Urback @RobynUrback]

A national shame. Should provoke massive reform, except we look to the States and think "meh, could be worse."

[Doinkadect Klomberbatch @Doinkadect]

Is this the first time the UK’s been looking for a new Prime Minister, James Bond and Doctor Who at the same time

[Alice Evans @_alice_evans]

“Patriarchal rents” are where men extract more labour than women would supply if women prioritised their own welfare and were free to exit.

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

Nikkei 225 is up 5% on Japan's draw with the Netherlands

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A cartoon by Natalie Horberg.

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is wild—and likely a sign of things to come as we transition to a web that is optimized for bots more than humans. https://t.co/5sb1cFlBQO

[Alice Evans @_alice_evans]

imagine if we teleported back to 2001,

Putnam suggests that hyper-engaging media sucks in our attention, suppressing socialising & social capital.

alas, this tech shock occurred everywhere all at once.

no randomisation

thus any causal inference is impossible and invalid ;-)

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

We just decided to stop teaching everyone math, in the hopes that this would make society equal because everyone would be equally incompetent

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

A lot of AI industry people are still saying that the purpose of their work is to put you and your descendants on welfare for eternity

[Matt Farrell @Prof_Farrell]

@DougSaunders Opposition MPs are the perfect vehicles for delivering this message.

[Brilliant Maps @BrilliantMaps]

Map of How To Hide An Empire: A History of the Greater United States

More about the map and book: https://t.co/MS09txAj9U

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

It is amazing how little the press is willing to dissect US decline under Trump. The US got no help with Iran, was scolded on Taiwan, says it got a small Boeing deal (China has not confirmed) and Trump appeased on Chinese students, microchips, etc. Xi even insulted US power.

And yet it is being reported as a modest successful event. It was a strategic failure by the US and marks a notable moment in US decline.

[Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️) @BrendanNyhan]

Professors shouldn't write op-eds promoting negative stereotypes about their students

[Evan DeSimone @MediaEvan]

Almost all of these news influencers build their brand by commenting on reporting done by real journalists at legacy outlets.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

I touched on this when I wrote about the recent skulduggery at UChicago: often the programs put on the chopping block aren't losing much (or any) money. They're sacrificial lambs that get the axe in order to compensate for financial mismanagement in other areas of the university.