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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@philipncohen Ridgeway is a tough one to categorize. Is formal theory substantively qualitative? I'm not sure. Anyway, interesting!
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...

@andreavoyer Wow it seems I was one day too late in renewing my membership. I renewed it yesterday (and I was really proud of myself for being super on top of it and renewing well before the deadline of March 22) but I'm getting a slew of messages today about it. I must of missed some internal (unpublished) deadline that triggered a bunch of emails. Anyway, sorry you had to be bothered about this, all should be good now, and it was unintentional as I thought I did this all right on schedule.