Laura K. Nelson

@LauraNelson
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scholar of social movements and culture, computational sociologist, open source enthusiast, assistant professor
www.lauraknelson.com

I stand by my opinion that Linux is the best for academic work, and I'm specifically talking about humanities here, not the usual suspects (like computer science or maths).

It's just so quiet and good for productivity, no ads, no forced apps, it's free, and you can customise it to your heart's content to create the workflow that best suits you.

#linux #ubuntu #humanities

This was one outcome from years of work done by a fantastic team of sociologists and medical doctors, one I am grateful to have joined - even late in the game.
Now live @ASR_Journal
(OA 🇨🇦)
This one's important to me. I really *felt* this research. If you've ever felt the burden of taking the time to provide thoughtful feedback to struggling students, this one's for you. And it matters for gender inequality 💃
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00031224231184264

If that URL directed you to log in, try this one:
https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/356679

I guess I'll use the extra post to say: we have a 2-1 teaching load, excellent mentoring of assistant professors, and a collegial environment. The Twin Cities have a lot of amenities. Check it out!

Careers

Minnesota Sociology is hiring an assistant prof in population studies!

Focused on population and environment (some, but defeasible, preference for candidates who could also teach grad migration)

It's a great place to work & I'll gladly answer questions

https://hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&SiteId=1&FOCUS=Applicant&JobOpeningId=356679&PostingSeq=1&

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Check out this work of interactive scrollership we just released with Rita Gonzalez-Marquez, Dmitry Kobak, Philipp Berens and others at Tübingen presenting their gorgeous T-SNE embedding and several other views of 20 MILLION abstracts from PubMed.
https://static.nomic.ai/pubmed.html
The landscape of biomedical research

Just up on @SocArXivBot "A Transparency Checklist for Qualitative Research" by Lori Frohwirth, Tammy Lever, and myself https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wc35g/
Inspired by Lori's work championing transparent qualitative research at the Guttmacher Institute, we develop a flexible checklist for qualitative researchers. The checklist itself is on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4266635 A short 🧵 1/n

We are hiring a manager for the CU Community Fab Lab—the makerspace where Skeuomorph Press is located—it's a vibrant & welcoming space that bridges the campus & community & I am really hoping we find a dynamic person to help us maintain the great work currently happening & build in exciting new ways!

https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/3788?c=illinois

CU Community Fab Lab Manager

Duties & ResponsibilitiesProject Management:Implement and oversee programs as directed by the Fab Lab directorIndependently implement programs: co...

The more I'm searching for something to show the more confused I'm getting. I'm just finding platitudes like "your home is your castle," or stories about how Americans were grumpy that the British were able to enter their homes so they wrote an amendment. But beyond this historically specific gripe, why? Why is privacy a pillar of democracy? Why is our home our castle, and what does that even mean?
My department at Rhode Island College is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in #Sociology to start August 2023. See more at https://employment.ric.edu/postings/6861 -- happy to answer questions (I am not on the search committee).
Assistant Professor, Sociology

Since its founding in 1854, Rhode Island College (RIC) has been delivering a low-cost, high-quality education in innovative ways from its beautiful campus in Providence, RI. As Rhode Island’s first institution of public higher education, RIC has grown from its origins in teacher preparation to becoming a leading regional comprehensive college. With the goal of preparing students to be engaged citizens, as well as meeting state and regional needs for today’s workforce and tomorrow’s leaders, RIC ensures that students have the support, skills, and opportunities necessary to learn and thrive. It offers an extraordinary collegiate experience with top-notch academic programs, active learning in the classroom, significant experiential learning opportunities beyond the classroom, and state-of-the-art facilities. Nearly 90 majors and programs are offered through its five distinct academic schools: Arts and Sciences, Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, School of Business, School of Nursing, and School of Social Work. Rhode Island College is the only public Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in the state, and we view the diversity of our student body is one of our greatest strengths. Over 41% of the RIC undergraduate student body are students of color and 45% are first-generation college students. The Department of Sociology offers majors in Sociology and Justice Studies, minors in Sociology, Justice Studies, and Gerontology, and an MA degree in Justice Studies. We are an active, engaged faculty with diverse research and teaching interests.