The Cracked Bassoon


This is the personal website of Sam Mathias, a curmudgeonly English researcher based in Boston, MA. It contains code snippets, stray observations, and wildly misinformed opinions on a range of science-related topics. Perhaps you’ll find something interesting here, but probably not. I wouldn’t stick around if I were you.

Latest writing

Fair warning: because none of what appears on this website has been peer-reviewed, it might be pure nonsense! Click here for the archive.

Latest publication

Alexander-Bloch, A. F., Raznahan, A., Shinohara, R. T., Mathias, S. R., Bathulapalli, H., Bhalla, I. P., Goulet, J. L., Satterthwaite, T. D., Bassett, D. S., Glahn, D. C., & Brandt, C. A. (2020). The architecture of co-morbidity networks of physical and mental health conditions in military veterans. Proceedings: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, 476(2239), 20190790. 10.1098/rspa.2019.0790

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