Chris Barton

Thinking about the construction and collapse of ignorance, and the role of multinationals in global development. PhD @ASU_SFIS. Tweets are my own.

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

A thread on the show Gravity Falls, conspiracy, and how to deal with the absurd. (Minimal spoilers)

The show follows Dipper and Mabel Pines, 12-year-old twins sent to live with their great-uncle (grunkle) Stan for the summer in the tiny Oregon town of Gravity Falls.

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

@mapc I love that guy, tell him I say hi

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

@mapc Lol Dan looks *very* retired

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

@IsabellaMWeber does amazing, important work. This thread outlines some really important work on profit-driven inflation, and is quite easy to follow even for non-economists like me!

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Corporate concentration is a possible explanation of price and profit hikes driving inflation. But concentration was high before inflation. So, why can firms hike prices in an emergency? We explore this question in a new working paper. A 🧵https://t.co/ZWqkm5YFOn

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

@elidourado Why?

[Rebecca Sear @RebeccaSear]

Science is political, because it is done by humans with all their attendant biases. Insisting science is apolitical, and that acknowledging the biases inherent in the status quo *introduces* politics into science, is not helpful, and will only hamper scientific progress 🤷‍♀️

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

There is more to 'logic' than economics!

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

I love Capitalist, but listening to the episode on "Thinking Like an Economist" is especially great because we get to listen to @zingales get defensive as @epopppp challenges the epistemic authority of economists.
@bethanymac12

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

@zingales, an economist, understandably has a hard times not thinking like an economist. And in doing so he proves @epopppp's point!

[Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort]

70 years ago, 3 papers appeared in @Nature under the title ‘Molecular structure of nucleic acids’. In an article appearing today (link at end) @matthewcobb and I shed new light on ‘what Watson and Crick really took from Rosalind Franklin’. This thread summarizes our findings.1/23

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

I, too, require this. Ideally the whale would have previously swallowed a well-stocked academic library.

[Kristen Arnett @Kristen_Arnett]

the kind of writing residency i need is to be swallowed by a whale for several months, drafting my novel by the light of an oil lantern on the wreck of a ship inside the whale's belly, until my no good wooden puppet of a son finally comes to rescue me

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

#StochasticParrotsDay recordings are now available! Huge thanks to DAIR institute for hosting this, @timnitGebru for organizing such amazing panels, @mmitchell_ai and @mcmillan_majora for moderating, @alexhanna for producing and all the amazing panelists!

https://t.co/rlwmLpYQsu

[The LPE Project @LPE_Project]

This Thursday from 12:30 - 1:30 PM ET, the Brooklyn LPE Collective & @HarvardLPE student group join forces!!

.@nssylla will offer a new perspective on sovereign debt in the Global South...through an MMT lens!

In-person @ Harvard, but also on ZOOM!

https://t.co/yDCz439a9L

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

@mapc Yaaaaay felicidades amigo! Asistiré!

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

This is a terrible idea and @potus should stop it!

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

Resolution Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, is poised to destroy Oak Flat with the blessing of the U.S. gov. Oak Flat is a sacred site to the Apache & other Tribal Nations. Rio Tinto has a record of attacks on Indigenous cultures & other human rights abuses. @POTUS @SecVilsack

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

@tandfonline your submission site is broken!
AND your help site is broken (see photo!)

I need help accessing a paper I submitted. How do I find that help? Can you help me here?

[embryo project @embryoproject]

Dodo birds? Woolly mammoths? Paris Hilton? The CIA?! Check out the recent piece on de-extinction from @ConversationUS, co-authored by the Embryo Project's own Managing Editor Risa Aria Schnebly (@RisaAria_). https://t.co/6ay6CzDNYM

Image by Jebulon via Wikimedia Commons

[Aaron Benanav @abenanav]

What I'm learning from the ChatGPT debates is that a lot of people dramatically underestimate the levels and types of intelligence that everyday people bring to their jobs. And I'm not sure what that means...

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

@GrmpyNaturalist @sandiegozoo Trash cat

[Chris Barton @_Cjbarton]

@STS_News @LeapingRobot @darchivist IDK that he discusses that phrase specifically, but he tracks the discourse from which it would have emerged. It doesn't differ too much from his other work, though, so it might not be what you're looking for.