Researcher, bike advocate, union member, #Rstats, #openData, #transit, #urbanism, #OpenStreetMap, sustainability ...
he/him/his. All opinions my own. Posts self destruct after two months.
Very good interview with her: https://isthmus.com/news/news/rhodes-conway-reverses-course-will-not-seek-a-third-term/
(Yes, I'm a Satya fan)
Isthmus | Madison, WisconsinRhodes-Conway reverses course, won’t seek a third termMayor Rhodes Conway says two terms in office is enough: ‘The price has gotten too high.’
https://www.cityofmadison.com/news/2026-10-23/thank-you-madison
Madison mayor Rhodes-Conway isn't running for re-election. No matter what you think of her as mayor, this sucks.
> When I ran for mayor, I expected to make sacrifices – but I did not expect the level of threats to myself, Council members, my staff, and my family. I did not expect our civic discourse to deteriorate so severely. And I did not expect the levels of implicit and explicit sexism to which I have been subjected to from the very beginning of my first campaign.
City of Madison, WIThank You, MadisonAfter much reflection, I have decided not to seek reelection in April. It has been a tremendous honor to be your Mayor.
This is quite the paper: Manuscripts are review by AI (Claude Opus 4.8) as well as high-quality human reviews, and then have AI, authors, and experienced journal editors judging the quality of the review. The AI reviews are judged to do very, very well. It's a solid study design and the discussion of policy implications in thoughtful.
Big eye roll: https://irb.wisc.edu/2026/10/20/a-note-of-caution-using-ai-in-preparing-irb-materials/
I guess the IRB must have received a bunch of crappy protocol submissions... Really speaks to your ethics as a researcher if you can't be bothered to write your own protocol. Especially since our IRB provides _a lot_ of guidance and templates.