I'm excited to (belatedly) announce the two inaugural #URSSI Early Career Fellows, @matthewfeickert.com & @samzhang.bsky.social ! You can read more in our official post: urssi.us/blog/2025/04... We'll be opening our next call for fellowship proposals in the coming months, keep an eye out!

An AI feature that I *actually* want in Zoom: when it sees you're about to sneeze, it auto-mutes you. h/t @aaronclauset.bsky.social @nicklaberge.bsky.social @samzhang.bsky.social

By Matt Hardy @mdahardy.bsky.social Sam Zhang @samzhang.bsky.social Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social Jake Hofman jakehofman.com Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social

1/ I’m excited to share our article "Gendered hiring and attrition on the path to parity for academic faculty" with Hunter Wapman @aaronclauset.bsky.social @danlarremore.bsky.social , now published @elife.bsky.social : elifesciences.org/articles/93755

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Slides from my talk "Gender & Retention Patterns Among US Faculty" earlier this week @UMass ADVANCE, on our paper with the same name, led by @kspoon.bsky.social. What an amazing team at UMass, doing critical work to improve science and academia 👏 aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...

I like this framing a lot, and use it in slides when describing the difference between these two types of uncertainty

I am delighted to announce that the Department of Biology at the University of Washington is advertising for a tenure-track assistant professor position on the quantitative understanding of collective behavior. I will be chairing the search; details are here: apply.interfolio.com/130336

the real horror here is misspelling "correlation"...

My faves: “When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer” (not Plutarch; Die Hard) “Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds of the sky” (not Charlemagne; Indiana Jones & the Holy Grail) Ezekiel 25:17 doesn’t exist except in Pulp Fiction

My recent paper in Economic Journal: In the Econ job market men and women are recommended differently: letters for women stress hard work, those for men more likely highlight brilliance. This affects job placement. Link to Paper: t.co/HUieaMuERd With Giovanni Facchini and Markus Eberhardt

Hard to top Florian’s thread:

Phenomenal, wrenching essay by Hala Alyan.

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This 2019 Science Advances paper lives rent-free in my head, and I think it's the social science paper that I mention the most in everyday conversation with my peers or elders... #youths #olds #science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Andrew Gelman reviewed my book, Modeling Social Behavior. “The book has social science, it has code, it has graphs—it’s got everything… I hope it’s taught in thousands of classes and sells a zillion copies.” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/10/24/m...

Profoundly disappointing if true. Whether or not Michael's post was in good taste, he retweeted a mainstream satirical site to his personal social media account. As an eLife editor I have no interest in monitoring my social media activity to ensure everything I post represents the journal.

1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵

For those of you near Burlington, VT, I'll be giving a talk about this paper (and another recent preprint) at the STAT@UVM colloquium today! site.uvm.edu/statatuvm/se...

An incredible essay by Arielle Angel, EIC of Jewish Currents: jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cr...

"246 biologists get different results from same data sets. Wide distribution of findings shows how analytical choices drive conclusions." #philsci 🌍 #evobio www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Strong endorse here: There is no measurement, no summary statistics, no statistical tests, and no descriptive analyses without underlying theories & models. A powerful skill to develop as a scientist is to become conscious of the unstated theories that are being used in this or that scholarship.

For @nplusonemag.bsky.social, I wrote about how we're living through the post-9/11 period all over again, in all the worst ways

Show any academic this graph and they'll immediately note that the tenure packet is due not longer after the peak. @samzhang.bsky.social, @danlarremore.bsky.social, @aaronclauset.bsky.social, and colleagues provide a more nuanced explanation in their new preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2309.04414

Befriending crows is a wonderful thing. Robert Frost knew. "The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued." So often my crow friends have saved a day ruined by work or otherwise. (2/n)

Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better. PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... AMZN: www.amazon.com/dp/069122414...

Karikó articulates brilliantly why prestige is such a critical variable if you want to understand the scientific ecosystem! This is why our group at CU Boulder (w/ @aaronclauset.bsky.social) focuses on unpacking the mechanisms and impacts of prestige in science. It's fascinating and important!

Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve. Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...

👋👋👋 my name is Sam (he/him) and I'm a fifth year PhD candidate in Applied Math at the University of Colorado Boulder. My research is in computational social science and interdisciplinary data science, focusing on the "science of science". Check out my website at sam.zhang.fyi! #AcademicSky #PhDSky