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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

“Inequality is built-in to science. While not every issue is contoured by power in the same way, all science is an enduring product of power, its unequal circulation, use & impact.” Scott Frickel & Kelly Moore explore how this is so & how we can address it ↓ www.politybooks.com/...

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪

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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science

Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣 It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social (1/13)

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

New pub forthcoming with Yongren Shi and Freda Lynn in Poetics (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). In it, we conceptualize "Cultural Blau Space," the location of people in a multidimensional space simultaneously defined by many measures of personal culture.

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Beyond statistical variables: Examining the duality of persons and groups in structuring cultural space

Socially constructed categories are central to sociological investigation, but their use in empirical research on culture is often limited to a role a…

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Honglin (虹霖) Bao @honglin-bao.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

as I expected Economists are very slow to react to big data/comp soc sci/AI stuff but they finally joined the trend in 2014. Sociology is currently the most CSS-engaged. CSS is now a big thing in all social sciences! (3/7)

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Jan Fuhse @fuhsejan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I created a starter pack for social network analysis, since this one was still missing. LMK if you want to be added! (I'll like the comment after adding you.) Also, check out the other starter packs for network science and complexity (so this is more social science). go.bsky.app/VDz5eWg

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Alejandro Espinosa-Rada @aespinosarada.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I created a starter pack for social network researchers. Please let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/L7PFtcW

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Alex Gates @complexgates.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

🚨 The School of Data Science at UVA is hiring! 🎉 Join our collaborative faculty and help shape the future of data science education. 🌟 Multiple TT and Teaching positions 🎓 All ranks: Assistant, Associate, Full, Distinguished, Ass. Deans datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...

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Join Our Team — School of Data Science

We are hiring faculty and staff to build a forward-thinking community with a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas centered around data science.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

“...social media users sometimes share information that they know is inaccurate to satisfy nonepistemic motives such as signaling their political affiliation or moral stance" Misinformation spreads by making people mad www.science.org/content/arti...

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ScienceAdviser: Misinformation spreads by making people mad

Today in Science and science: Hibernating squirrels go months without getting thirsty, corals probably can’t out-evolve climate change, and more

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Kristoffer Kropp @kristofferkropp.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Two new publications that encapsulate my interests to present my self. Both are focusing on science in Europe and the processes shaping science and especially social science in Europe. In the first one we analyze scientific disciplines using ERC projects and topic analysis. doi.org/10.1016/j.po...

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Homologies in fields of cultural production. Evidence from the European scientific field

This article suggests a comparative field analytical approach to fields of cultural production. Combining concepts from field analysis and focusing on…

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Stephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Somebody put together this starter pack of *paid* academic editors/copyeditors - if that's a service you find useful, this might be of interest: go.bsky.app/Apcqw4B

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation Link here: science.org/doi/10.1126/... Summary in🧵🔽 1/

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 28/11/2024

To celebrate the growth of #AcademicSky I made a new starter pack for people interested in thinking how to better harness (open!) social media platforms to enhance research collaboration, communication, synthesis and discovery 🧪 Let me know in the replies if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/4zhshcr

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

CSS is moving ⚡fast and skepticism is needed. But my absolute least favourite critique is that we are "not learning anything new" from emerging methods. If we were getting novel results folks would, for good reason, not trust them. Methods need time to mature - our role is to test them as they do 🧐

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I've now read a bunch of papers like this -- ABMs where the agents' behaviors are driven by generative AIs. They often tell us interesting things about the AI algorithms, but never in my experience have we learned anything new about people.

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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on. Feel free to nominate and self-nominate! #SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD

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Shreeharsh Kelkar @shreeharsh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

A few weeks ago, I taught one of my favorite #STS papers: Daniel Sarewitz's "Why science makes environmental controversies worse." A post on the paper's argument: computingandsociety.substack.com/p/is-science...

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Is science bad for politics?

Daniel Sarewitz argues that yes, it is, and we're better off first hashing out value disagreements first. But shifting from arguing about facts to arguing about values is equally difficult.

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Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Sharing my first Computational Social Science starter pack! Will grow with time, feel free to nominate and self nominate! go.bsky.app/CYmRvcK

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Submitted some stuff, anxiously waiting, and thinking about this immortal @neillewisjr.bsky.social tweet.

A quote-tweet reading “Academia, like many casino and lottery games, operates on variable-ratio reinforcement schedules. These schedules are really good at motivating people to persist, even with it’s probably in their best interest to stop.

More on operant conditioning here:

The tweet he’s quoting says: One of the worst parts of academia (and a lot of other creative careers) is all the damn waiting for things with pretty low odds but which you *just* might get, things which could often make a huge difference in your career and, often (perhaps too often) even your self-image.”

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Charles J. Gomez (He/Him) @charlesgomez.bsky.social · 22/01/2024

Check out this amazing paper on "the promotion of interdisciplinary research, reproduction of disciplinary order in departments, and interdisciplinary early-career scholars’ career advancement." From Elina Mäkinen, Dan McFarland, and my late friend Eliza Evans ❤️ doi.org/10.1080/0022...

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