@Mark_Levels

citizen | academic | quant sociologist | army veteran | Posts: personal.

 Maastricht, Nederland
maastrichtuniversity.nl/nl/m.levels
Joined August 2014
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Sociology can be a science
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Sic transit gloria mundi
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You’ll sleep better if you don’t get this joke
Prof Michael E. Mann
@MichaelEMann6 Nov 2024
On the bright side, we now have an answer to the Fermi Paradox
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Zie ik het nu écht zo verkeerd allemaal??
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WANNEER KOMT PENNSYLVANIA?!
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Thank you
no context the west wing
@LemonLymancom5 Nov 2024
if you're having a bad day here's CJ doing the jackal
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Is it raining anywhere yet?
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the guy who just mansplained The Handmaid’s Tale to the author of The Handmaid’s Tale
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Call me naive but maybe focus on saving the planet we live on now?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk1 Nov 2024
Vote for @realDonaldTrump if you want humanity to make it to Mars!
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Glad that that is finally settled
BBC News (UK)
@BBCNews1 Nov 2024
Monkeys will never type Shakespeare, study finds bbc.in/4f8dCUa

'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians

Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".

bbc.com
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Infinite monkey theorem talks about infinite monkeys over infinite time. This study talks about finite amount of monkeys over finite amount of time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_…
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Paging @PippaN15
Alec MacGillis
@AlecMacGillis31 Oct 2024
"As wealthier and better-educated voters have shifted toward the Democrats, the party and its constituents have become more economically progressive, not less...U.S. politics seems to have decisively entered...a post-Marxist or post-materialist phase." theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

America’s Class Politics Have Turned Upside Down

Why do so many liberals vote against their economic self-interest?

theatlantic.com
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Vaccines work. Vaccine denial kills. It’s that simple.
Table from the CDC. Title: Comparison of 20th Century Annual Morbidity and Current Morbidity: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Disease | 20th Century Annual Cases | 2023 Cases | Percent Decrease Smallpox | 29,005 | 0 | 100% Diphtheria | 21,053 | 2 | > 99% Measles | 530,217 | 47 | > 99% Mumps | 162,344 | 429 | > 99% Pertussis | 200,752 | 5,611 | 97% Polio (paralytic) | 16,316 | 0 | 100% Rubella | 47,745 | 3 | > 99% Congenital Rubella Syndrome | 152 | 0 | 100% Tetanus | 580 | 15 | 97% Haemophilus influenzae. | 20,000 | 27 | > 99%

ALT Table from the CDC. Title: Comparison of 20th Century Annual Morbidity and Current Morbidity: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Disease | 20th Century Annual Cases | 2023 Cases | Percent Decrease Smallpox | 29,005 | 0 | 100% Diphtheria | 21,053 | 2 | > 99% Measles | 530,217 | 47 | > 99% Mumps | 162,344 | 429 | > 99% Pertussis | 200,752 | 5,611 | 97% Polio (paralytic) | 16,316 | 0 | 100% Rubella | 47,745 | 3 | > 99% Congenital Rubella Syndrome | 152 | 0 | 100% Tetanus | 580 | 15 | 97% Haemophilus influenzae. | 20,000 | 27 | > 99%

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Ideetje: misschien is het beter als we mensen niet vergelijken met vuilnis.
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ian bremmer
@ianbremmer29 Oct 2024
spain set to surpass usa and become world’s fastest growing major advanced economy thanks to: immigration, tourism, foreign investment, and public spending
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Politiek anno 2024 (kudos @NewYorker)
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Geen slecht idee. Maar eigenlijk zouden álle partijen vóór de wetenschap moeten zijn.
Remco Breuker@koryoinleiden28 Oct 2024
Het woord tijd voor een Partij voor de Wetenschap in ons politieke bestel, zodat wetenschap niet zomaar meer kan worden weggezet als "zomaar met een mening" en wetenschappers niet weggetreiterd/geïntimeerd kunnen worden om wetenschappelijke conclusies en uitingen.
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AI gaat de arbeidsmarkt ingrijpend veranderen en dat gaat veel mensen raken. We onderzoeken in Maastricht sinds 2017 wat we hieraan kunnen doen.
Tsarathustra@tsarnick28 Oct 2024
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says lawyers are reporting that the new o1 reasoning model can do the work of a $2000/hour paralegal
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Tegenwoordig ben je volgens sommigen als wetenschapper “activistisch” als je met statistieken laat zien dat hun overtuigingen niet kloppen.
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Mooie uitleg over hoe je aan data kunt zien dat verkiezingen oneerlijk zijn verlopen.
Levan Kvirkvelia
@levan28 Oct 2024
RIGGED ELECTIONS IN GEORGIA 🇬🇪 I've spent the last 48 hours proving fraud in the Georgian elections. Let me show you the evidence in 2 charts. Chart 1: Russian tail...
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Ruud
@ruuddebruut27 Oct 2024
Replying to @Mark_Levels @koryoinleiden
Dat komt omdat veel wetenschappers ideologen zijn geworden met een politieke agenda. Als je dit niet ziet, ben je er zelf waarschijnlijk ook één.
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