Dan HirschmanI wrote a post about why I am supporting the ASA Resolution for Justice in Palestine. https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/where-dada/
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Sociologist / culture, science, & public life / The Work of Art: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26885
Carl T. Bergstrom7. So never mind that the NIH wasted massive labor by the best scientists in the game.
It's worse than that. Because in science, universities outsource merit evaluation to the NIH. Want to be hired, promoted, tenured? Go get grants. Never mind that the universities have more, better information.
Last call! Abstracts due March 24 for this workshop on other temporalities in the present - hope to see you in Lund in May for what is shaping up to be a great meeting! https://www.showandtell.lu.se/article/workshop-now-then-and-forever
Long shot ask: has anyone had lenticular postcards made in Europe? If so, can you recommend the graphics / printing firm you used?
Hoping to find someplace high quality for a small order (25-100 pcs) that can deliver within a month or so, 3-6 frames, from color photos, flip-flop or animation effect.Thanks in advance!
Tim VerstynenWriting academic papers sure seems to be the Voight-Kampff test for LLMs.
(from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468023024002402)
Social sciences + humanities folks: my wonderful colleague Tobias Olofsson is organizing a workshop on the past and the future - the role of other temporalities in the present. It will be pretty great. Submissions due March 17, meeting in late May when Lund will be full of flowers and sunshine - check it out! https://www.showandtell.lu.se/article/workshop-now-then-and-forever
@asociologist if they might be open to jobs outside of the US the EASST list is very active with lots of job postings ( https://easst.net/easst_eurograd/ ), and i'd prob keep an eye on 4S and AOIR too (eg https://aoir.org/mailing-lists/ )- all these orgs have lots of people working on these kinds of things, including folks based in soc departments.
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If nothing else, the Theory and Society debacle is a striking reminder to stop giving our labor to corporations for free. https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/questions-for-the-new-theory-society-editorial-board/
Kate StarbirdDiscourse around misinformation doesn't always line up w/ our research team's findings re: how falsehoods actually spread in online spaces. Here, I provide a more nuanced view, describing the problem of misinformation as one of collective sensemaking gone awry: https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/rumors-collective-sensemaking-kate-starbird/
@inquiline i have a paper that does this, though with a small dataset- open access here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17499755211051846