Postdoc position in graph reasoning for narrative
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0009QSP
Deadline: 19 Feb

Tasks: ontology learning, semantic relation identification, extracting structured information from narrative texts. #NLProc #DH #GNN #wikidata #fanfic #job #academic
@gronlp

Do you want to do a psychology experiment while following best practices in open science? My collaborators and I have created Experimentology, a new open web textbook (to be published by MIT Press but free online forever).

https://experimentology.io

Some highlights! 🧵

A fantastic way to make an important point. Researchers took items from widely-used scales of "social media addiction," and reworded them to be about spending time offline with friends. Using parallel criteria, they discovered that 69% of people are addicted to spending time with friends.

"Readers should approach our measure with a level of skepticism that should be afforded to current social media addiction measures."

(h/t @cconrymurray)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-020-01462-9

Starting 2023, four universities are pausing or ending their Elsevier subscription due to exorbitant pricing.

Elsevier's subscription was costing them ~10% of their Libraries' entire budget.

"Elsevier’s prices have increased each year and have outpaced inflation"...this is despite Elsevier having the highest profit margins of virtually any other industry or publisher.

via https://www.dailyemerald.com/news/pressing-pause-on-elsevier-subscription/article_93c07dec-9120-11ed-8ce9-abbca97ab954.html
Figure via @MatteoCarandini
#OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #Science @academicchatter

📣 New! Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences

 https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13230 (html)
 https://is.gd/beyond_singlemindedness_pdf (pdf)

Writing as a transdisciplinary collective from across the cognitive sciences and beyond, we highlight the opportunity for a Gestalt switch that puts interaction at the heart of cognition

Fedi authors include: @andreasliesenfeld @marlourasenberg @saulalbert @abebab @cdutilhnovaes @fusaroli @davidschlangen @LizStokoe

My homage to Douglas Hofstadter's image, featured on the front cover of some editions of his book Gödel, Escher, Bach. He calls this a "triplet" sculpture, I believe because there are "trip" (three) "let" (letters).

Instead of the letters "G", "E", and "B", I used "3", "D", and "P", for "3D printing". #3DPrinting #Shadow #Art