Alexander Muir

Data guy working on human behavior.

Героям Слава, Слава Україні

[Alexander Muir @theRoundhouse]

@DefenceU Glory to the heroes, and glory to Ukraine.

May she have a long career in video and film in free Ukraine after the war she helped to win.

[Alexander Muir @theRoundhouse]

@cancivlib "Universities should not be places of ideological conformity, but everyone should act in accordance with our specific set of beliefs and behaviours."

Clarified that one for you.

[Bob Elder @southernphd]

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him.

In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over.

Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed.

When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye.

She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession.

As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him.

Rest in peace, professor.

[Alexander Muir @theRoundhouse]

@rmohamed_yow Wonderful - many blessings on you all.

[Alex Ward @alexbward]

Lincoln’s letter to Mrs. Bixby, always worth a read on Memorial Day

[Michael Solberg 🇨🇦 @MichaelSolberg]

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[Alexander Muir @theRoundhouse]

@SeanTrende Well said, sir. Blessings on Judson, and on you all.

[Alexander Muir @theRoundhouse]

@LesIsMore1 @CarrieTait

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@CarrieTait

[Alexander Muir @theRoundhouse]

"What does institutional political death look like?"

(Great visualization.)

[Owen Winter @OwenWntr]

The local elections in one chart. Labour has been squeezed between the Greens in young wards and Reform in older working-class wards

[Alexander Muir @theRoundhouse]

@CoryBMorgan

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@andrew_leach

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@LeadingReport

[Alexander Muir @theRoundhouse]

@WeaponScientist Everything about this screams "future cautionary tale".

(As if we have the time and resources to waste.)

[Alexander Muir @theRoundhouse]

@Anthony__Koch Come now, clearly the solution for conservative values is to run a campaign that makes Wyatt perfectly happy - and thus spares us the trouble of winning enough seats for official party status.

[Alexander Muir @theRoundhouse]

@BrockWHarrison

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@Anthony__Koch @nationalpost

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@jengerson

[Alexander Muir @theRoundhouse]

To the Moon! Godspeed Artemis II and the four astronauts aboard, and good work to the cast of thousands who have sent them on their way.

[Micah Maidenberg @MicahMaidenberg]

Artemis II, launched -