The pathologies of academic publications-as-currency seem to finally be reaching a breaking point with AI. I wonder what’s next (beyond the more foundational societal disruptions happening around us)

ゴジラ？ GODZILLA？

some light teasing for an upcoming quarto revealjs plugin I have been working on

Now out in Social Networks Network analysis aspires to be “anticategorical,” yet its basic units—relationships—are usually readily categorized ('friendship,' 'love'). Thus, a nontrivial cultural typification is asserted in the very building blocks of most network analyses. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

🎉 New Benchmark Alert: KRISTEVA – Close‑Reading for LLMs📚 I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!

Awesome and well-deserved! ADHO's 2026 Zampolli Prize goes to stylo and the Computational Stylistics group!!! Learn more about the group and about stylo on their website: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/ #dh2025 @adho #zampolli #stylo #DigitalHumanities

The program looks amazing! Looking forward to an engaging and productive dialogue on S&T policy in Bristol!

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I made a #DH2025 feed that looks for posts that include the hashtag and posts from/about @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social. You can press the 📌 for easy access.

Would be hard to make complete sense of such metadata with respect to producing science (rigorous or otherwise) unless all referee reports and author responses for unpublished submissions are also published.

Christ's sake, Chicago, I'm just trying to go for a walk.

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

You can explore our new estimates of the religious composition of every country, by count and share here: www.pewresearch.org/religion/fea... For example, here's a clip showing countries with the highest unaffiliated shares in 2020:

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪 www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

📢 PSA: If your're a member of #EADH @eadh you probably received an email today allowing you to vote in the Executive Committee #elections. The #candidate statements can be found here! https://eadh.org/about/people/candidate-statements-executive-committee-elections-2025

Breiger et al. in another brilliant inversion of conventional quantitative reason: regression is built from "configurations of variables manifested by clusters of cases" not single variables. Open access for thirty days at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences is getting hit with a 67.6% cut, worse than other programs within NSF. Funding for archaeologists comes from the division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which is facing a 77.3% cut. It appears every post doc program has been 100% cut.

🆕 COS statement on the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" Executive Order The EO names important open science principles, but their application here is counter to open science's purpose to accelerate discovery, advance treatments, & create knowledge. 📄 Read our statement: www.cos.io/about/news/c...

I just posted a #Mastodon thread on how a Russian scientometrician fled to #Germany 🇩🇪 - but from there, he continues to promote narratives aligned with Putin’s propaganda: 📌 mstdn.science/@serhii/1145... #Scientometrics #RussiaUkraineWar #StopRussianPropaganda #ISSI2025 #RussiaIsATerroristState

There’s the weaponization of open science y’all. Basically ripped from @cos.io’s website. The ROI for leaders speaking up is the highest it will be now, and only decline over time as these policies take shape and grow teeth.

Our editorial on "Mapping relational structures in culture" could not permanently be featured in open access for reasons stemming from the publisher's side. However, it is accessible for .ca a month on the following link, in case you want to read/download it: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzmc_,iJ9...

International scientific collaborations that involve the US are complex now, but a good start is to assume you're collaborating with the 18c. The state is largely hostile to science. Economic theory is mercantilist. Travel is difficult. Research funding depends on the goodwill of quirky aristocrats.

Great news for Europe, but this 2-year budget is about what NSF spends in one year on GEO:Polar Programs alone. It's a drop in the bucket compared to the American research investments Trump has demolished #saveNSF

Here it is! Bonsai. Now there is really no more excuse for using t-SNE/UMAP. Bonsai not only makes cool pictures of your data. It actually rigorously preserves its structure. No tunable parameters. Incredible work by @dhdegroot.bsky.social. I'm so excited about this! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wow, very cool! Something tells me this might be an opportunity to work with Maciej Eder (and other great scholars)! "The University of #tartu is now accepting applications for three full-time postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS), funded by the European […]

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

After 3 years of work the editorial of our “Mapping relational structures in culture” Poetics special issue w/ Marco Serino, Elisa Klüger & Fabien Eloire is out. It introduces 10 amazing papers mapping culture w/ GDA/SNA. Below I introduce the 10 papers 🧵(1/12) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint out: "Keyword Newspeak: Trump’s Orwellian Censorship of DEI in Science" osf.io/wkvs5_v1 We examine the presence of flagged keywords in NSF-funded research from 1988 to 2024. w/ @caropradier.bsky.social, É. Marteau, @diegokoz.bsky.social, @lucyces.bsky.social, @lariviev.bsky.social

Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.

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The changing distribution of law faculty age over the last 50 years is wild. In 1971, the most common age of faculty was their 30s. In 2017, most common was 60s. In 1971, many more under 30 than over 70. In 2017, as many over 70 as under 40. dho.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

I am extremely happy to share. Just out in @pnas.org: “Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flows” Open Access: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... with Maciej J. Dańko, Xinyi Zhao, @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #PAA2025

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

Wauv!! My beyond awesome colleague in the Copenhagen sociology department, @mathiaswullum.bsky.social, has just published in @nature.com!! A very cool piece that argues for the many benefits of applying intersectional perspectives in science! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The situation @nehgov.bsky.social continues to deteriorate, and the worst part is we still don’t know the full extent of the funding cuts… #NEH #OhTheHumanities 🗃️📜📚

The first and prob the last time I'll say this but: hell yeah Princeton! "we have to be willing to speak up, and we have to be willing to say no to funding if it's going to constrain our ability to pursue the truth.”

The ESA RN24- Science and Technology is now on Bluesky!

This looks like a quite useful contribution to the debates on the problem choice (or epistemological tastes?) in science. I am bit perplexed by noticing Latour and Bourdieu presented as seemingly compatible under field theory when scrolling through. But that just makes me more curious.

Krásné umístění pro Česko, obzvlášť v kontextu aktuální situace v americké vědě. Dokážeme ty svobody smysluplně využít?

For a presentation I am giving, I made a wordcloud of the titles of the NIH grants that were canceled. It is clear about the unscientific goals of this administration

This is the equivalent of rejecting qual papers for irrelevant things like "small sample size". Two wrongs do not make one right.

A (presumably) education journal refuses positivist papers.

UPDATE: Here's where we're at w/ NIH grant terminations: ❌ 429 NIH grants terminated* ❌ 137 related to HIV/AIDS prevention ❌ 27 on cancer ❌ 16 on Alzheimer's The full Airtable, thanks to wizardry of @noamross.net👇 *This is just what we know. There are certainly more we don't know about yet.

🚨🚨🚨 Code red, I repeat, code read 🚨🚨🚨 The most ambitious research project I have ever been involved in has published its first paper in @bjsociology.bsky.social 70 authors & 17 teams studying varieties of economic elites in 17 countries See our results: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The problem w/ a low mobility society is not just that the smart & hardworking children of working class parents can't rise to positions where they could do the most good for society. It's also that dumb or lazy children of the rich & famous don't fall from positions where they can do great damage.

Very inspiring paper bringing together the churches of GDA and SNA, where SNA detects clusters of cultural venues and GDA helps to understand what makes the clusters distinctive.

Oddly satisfying knowing how they really *feel* about Europe.

So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...