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From Barbara Kingsolver's novel Demon Copperhead, this observation about the rural poor of Appalachia: "Certain pitiful souls around here see whiteness as their last asset that hasn't been totaled or repossessed."
From Gary Shteyngart's novel Lake Success: Hard-scrabble, casually racist MAGA guys "had so little, but they would give up some of that 'little' to make sure [people of color] had less."
@John47 @rwg Same, but the theory/practice divide is great. Build it and they *may* come, but community switching is hard.
AoIR Twitter hashtags happened way before they showed up on our conference programs, etc. It started as the backchannel. Making it the front channel attracts old grumpy people like me.
And the issue of reaching journalists and being "noticed" outside the community plays into the Twitter space just as much as ever. #aoir2024
There can't be a general statement that is closely mapped to specific guardrails, but this at least puts a stake in the ground:
"AI in Higher Education: 6 Guiding Principles for the AI Revolution."
Open #postdoc #job at the Santa Fe Institute to be part of the ENDOW project on the sources of social inequality: "We hope to develop models that more directly articulate (through formal and agent-based models) and test (through statistical models) the hypothesized causal relationships between relational and material wealth."
Two year position, deadline for application January 16th.
The School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SSBS) in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a School Director.
We are seeking exceptional senior candidates for appointment at the rank of Full Professor. This is an opportunity to take a leadership role in a rapidly growing, socially embedded, innovative School in a nationally and globally engaged R1 research institution.
Alfie Kohn
Dieter Lukas
