Nic Weber
@nmw.bsky.social
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Associate Professor @ UW Computational Social Science
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'Code Contribution and Credit in Science' - new paper led by
@evamaxfield.bsky.social
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@isaacslaughter.bsky.social
1. We build a model that matches scientists (authors) with their GitHub accounts 2. We apply our model to ~140K paper-software repository pairs
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
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Code Contribution and Credit in Science
Abstract. Software development has become essential to scientific research, but its relationship to traditional metrics of scholarly credit remains poorly understood. We develop a dataset of approxima...
https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/doi/10.1162/QSS.a.465/135673/Code-Contribution-and-Credit-in-Science
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ICSSI
16 days ago
The International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation
#ICSSI2026
will be in beautiful Boulder, CO, USA! βοΈ June 29 - July 1 βοΈ & Open Data Hackathon, June 28 π§βπ» We welcome submissions on all topics in the science of science and innovation, broadly defined. Learn more at π
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This is good - adopting LLMs to write consumer complaints results in better relief.
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24 days ago
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Rodrigo Dorantes Gilardi
30 days ago
I am really excited to co-organize this year's Science of Science Satellite of NetSci 2026 in Boston. Submissions are very open and can include work in progress, work under review, or accepted publications. Please consider submitting before March 18th! Website:
netscisci.github.io
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Dakota Murray
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Excited for the Networks of Science of Science satellite at NetSCI 2026 this year in Boston!
netscisci.github.io
Be sure to submit by March 4th!
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Networks in Science of Science
A NetSci 2026 Satellite Workshop
https://netscisci.github.io
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@dwillis.bsky.social
- Is there an archive of pol campaign SMS messages? For some reason, I remember you working on this... But I might be conflating this with the 10000 other projects of yours that I've envied :)
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You can change the spinner verbs in CC by editing `~/.claude/config.json` Mine follw the
#$CASH
theme { "spinnerVerbs": { "mode": "replace", "verbs": ["The first day I got me a fuel pump" ,"And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk"] } }
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uErK...
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Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time (Official Audio)
YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uErKI0zWgjg
about 1 month ago
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too many polecats not enough deacons
about 2 months ago
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"do you have 5 minutes to chat?"
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about 2 months ago
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Extremely good visualization of NBA games. I especially like being able to see the +/- of different lineups over the course of a game (and not just because it supports my thesis that Devin Vassell is the engine that makes SA run)
hoopflow.limboy.me?tab=games&ga...
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HoopFlow
NBA data analytics platform focused on Game Flow and advanced performance metrics.
https://hoopflow.limboy.me/?tab=games&game_id=0022500456
2 months ago
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3 months ago
β¨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!β¨ And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes! Website/CfP:
sites.google.com/site/nlpandc...
Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR)
#NLProc
#CompSocialSci
#ComputationalSocialScience
#ACL2026NLP
@aclmeeting.bsky.social
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NLP+CSS Workshops
https://www.pexels.com/photo/group-hand-fist-bump-1068523/
https://sites.google.com/site/nlpandcss/
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Extremely impressive answer by Opus - the strategy all Weber games is actually obfuscation
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4 months ago
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Kenny Joseph
4 months ago
π Are you new to
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or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? π‘ Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! π’ Call
icwsm.org/2026/submit....
π Apply by Jan 15
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ICWSM 2026: Submit
ICWSM 2026: Submit
https://icwsm.org/2026/submit.html#ijgi
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This is was essentially Tom Griffiths' keynote this morning at COLM
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5 months ago
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This is good. Like really good.
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6 months ago
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This is v good
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7 months ago
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'Examining the effects of birth order on personality' in PNAS -> across multiple controls in three countries (UK, Germany, USA) "...we conclude that birth order does not have a lasting effect on broad personality traits outside of the intellectual domain."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1506451112
8 months ago
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Simulacra is so back!
8 months ago
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Rafe Meager (they/them)
11 months ago
today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper
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11 months ago
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Police brutality is bad business
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Estimating the Negative Credit Impacts of Police-involved Fatalities - Tatyana Guzman, Benjamin Y. Clark, 2025
George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis spotlighted the role of police-involved fatalities that cause immeasurable harm to victimsβ families and communities,...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10911421241250088?casa_token=etlc9vJkFxwAAAAA%3AixNbfZGB8jpV-ykAp8HfgeLnONVzqzx4ictGVWP0SXn4kWU355z0-ObQmlclw55DgYOyTpWIwcxI"We
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Randomized policy experiments are often assumed to be hard, expensive (financially and politically), and disliked by voters... "Collecting survey data representative of the Dutch electorate, we find clear evidence contradicting this view."
doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...
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Who's Afraid of Policy Experiments?
Abstract. In many public policy areas, randomised policy experiments can greatly contribute to our knowledge of the effects of policies and can thus help t
https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae090
about 1 year ago
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I joined bsky 1 year ago to follow
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... Hope it turns out better for the rest of you
over 1 year ago
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