Alex Newhouse

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CU Boulder PhD student in Political Science. Interested in computational social science. Homebrewer, climber, skier, biker.
bluesky has gotten real weird so here I am, back on mastodon
mastodon's got better vibes than bluesky right now
@ericmbudd the cosmic comedy of Boulder potentially electing a YIMBY council to implement a NIMBY measure
@jedbrown @ericmbudd it’s bad!!
@ericmbudd Like dang soooo many people (in multimillion dollar houses) appear to have just been champing at the bit to show their true colors and vote for horrific reactionaries
@ericmbudd The reactionary NIMBYism on display there and around my house up in NoBo west of broadway gives me the bad vibes. hoping it’s just the yard sign effect, but it’s got me worried.
My department (Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder) is hiring for a tenure track Assistant Professor position, with a focus on applicants who conduct research on accessibility and design. https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-Professor-Information-Science/52624
Assistant Professor - Information Science

@bkeegan just fucking say you don’t support housing reform instead of hiding behind a straw-man of your own creation
@bkeegan Propositions like this annoy me so much for many reasons including that people will take a result about a specific wording of a specific law and use it as a cudgel against the entire policy issue in perpetuity. It’s brexiteer logic and the fact that the mayor appears to be unwilling to consider that propositions and legislating can and should deal divergently with the same issue is damning, to say the least