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フラジークHLADÍK・ラジムRadim @hlageek.bsky.social · 8d

Very nice post about how the concept of innovation made it to the forefront of contemporary economics, even earning its proponents the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences.

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 8d

New Substack post: the Nobel Prize goes to an economic historian and two economists of growth trying to answer the question, where do new technologies come from?

someunpleasant.substack.com/p/growing-th...

Growing the Field

What is the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics about?

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 8d

My favorite academic genre is "paper I would’ve written if I’d had the time"

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Raj Raizada @rajraizada.bsky.social · 15d

It looks like the Wikipedia page for Mary Brunkow got created literally just this morning, after her Nobel Prize was announced. I had heard that women in academia tend to be somewhat under-represented on Wikipedia, but this is a particularly stark example.
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · Sep 7

The pathologies of academic publications-as-currency seem to finally be reaching a breaking point with AI. I wonder what’s next (beyond the more foundational societal disruptions happening around us)

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

We're experiencing an unbelievable deluge of submissions. At our journal we got ~200 per year in 2020. Last year it was 600. This year it's 800 with several months to go. So that's why we're slower to get stuff out for review.

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なりなり @narinari-l2.bsky.social · Sep 5

ゴジラ？
GODZILLA？

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 12

some light teasing for an upcoming quarto revealjs plugin I have been working on

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フラジークHLADÍK・ラジムRadim @hlageek.bsky.social · Aug 12

Maybe this doi.org/10.1007/s111... by @benzpierre.bsky.social et al. could spark interest? @diegokoz.bsky.social may have other tips.

Mapping the unseen in practice: comparing latent Dirichlet allocation and BERTopic for navigating topic spaces - Scientometrics

This article focuses on comparing two widely used techniques of topic modeling, namely latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) and BERTopic. The first is a Bayesian probabilistic model and the latter is roo...

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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · Aug 7

Now out in Social Networks

Network analysis aspires to be “anticategorical,” yet its basic units—relationships—are usually readily categorized ('friendship,' 'love'). Thus, a nontrivial cultural typification is asserted in the very building blocks of most network analyses.

doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · Jul 27

🎉 New Benchmark Alert: KRISTEVA – Close‑Reading for LLMs📚

I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!

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Christof Schöch @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 15

Awesome and well-deserved! ADHO's 2026 Zampolli Prize goes to stylo and the Computational Stylistics group!!!

Learn more about the group and about stylo on their website: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/

#dh2025 @adho #zampolli #stylo #DigitalHumanities

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フラジークHLADÍK・ラジムRadim @hlageek.bsky.social · Jul 20

Vote for A. To me, B) evokes CAQDA (computer-assisted qualitative data analysis), which is a well-established designation. A) sounds more like adding a qualitative component to computational analyses, which is probably the referent here?

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Cassidy R. Sugimoto @crsugimoto.bsky.social · Jul 12

The program looks amazing! Looking forward to an engaging and productive dialogue on S&T policy in Bristol!

29th Annual Conference on Science and Technology Indicators @stienid2025.bsky.social · Jul 10

The 29th Annual #STI2025 isn’t just great talks — it’s about community + fun too!

📍 Bristol, Sept 3–5:
🏃‍♀️ Morning harbour run
🎨 Banksy treasure hunt
🎲 ‘Publish & Perish’ game
🖼️ Poster bingo

Come for the research, stay for the people. Join us!
👉 stienid2025.org/registration-1

Registration | STI-ENID2025

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Czexpats in Science @czexpats.bsky.social · Jul 4

💻 Join us in co-creating the Infoportal, a unique hub of topics and insider tips to help you master life as a nomadic scientist.
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By sharing your invaluable experience, you’ll directly help colleagues who are wrestling with what lies ahead. ⌨️🖱️

ℹ Register: czexpats.org/en/udalost/c...

Join Us: Co-create the Czexpats Infoportal for Nomadic Scientists! - Czexpats in Science

Are you a scientist who has lived and worked abroad, or would like to do so in the future? Do you have hard-won insights from navigating life in different research environments? Then we need you! Join...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Jul 16

I made a #DH2025 feed that looks for posts that include the hashtag and posts from/about @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social. You can press the 📌 for easy access.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · Jun 17

Would be hard to make complete sense of such metadata with respect to producing science (rigorous or otherwise) unless all referee reports and author responses for unpublished submissions are also published.

Nature @nature.com · Jun 16

From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science

https://go.nature.com/4kIRR01

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers

From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.

go.nature.com

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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · Jun 14

Christ's sake, Chicago, I'm just trying to go for a walk.

An engraved paving stone that says "publish." The word appears twice, in mirror image, so you can see it whether you're coming or going.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jun 12

Good Science

xkcd.com/3101/

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Jun 9

You can explore our new estimates of the religious composition of every country, by count and share here: www.pewresearch.org/religion/fea...

For example, here's a clip showing countries with the highest unaffiliated shares in 2020:

Table shows countries with highest shares of religiously unaffiliated people. China, North Korea and the Czech Republic top the list.

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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · Jun 8

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific

A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

www.richmondscientific.com

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Christof Schöch @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · Jun 5

📢 PSA: If your're a member of #EADH @eadh you probably received an email today allowing you to vote in the Executive Committee #elections.

The #candidate statements can be found here!

https://eadh.org/about/people/candidate-statements-executive-committee-elections-2025

Candidate Statements – Executive Committee Elections 2025 | EADH - The European Association for Digital Humanities

We are delighted to introduce the candidates standing for election to the EADH Executive Committee. Their statements, presented in the order of submission, reflect the diversity and richness of our community.

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Peter Ore @peterore.bsky.social · Jun 4

Breiger et al. in another brilliant inversion of conventional quantitative reason: regression is built from "configurations of variables manifested by clusters of cases" not single variables.

Open access for thirty days at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Culture as configurations of categories: Analyzing peer effects via dual-to-regression modeling

In this paper we reimagine linear regression modeling as a relational method for cultural analysis. Drawing on the dual-to-regression analytic approac…

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Emily Kracht @emikracht.bsky.social · May 30

Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences is getting hit with a 67.6% cut, worse than other programs within NSF. Funding for archaeologists comes from the division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which is facing a 77.3% cut.

It appears every post doc program has been 100% cut.

Screenshot of NSF budget cuts to various programs

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · May 29

🆕 COS statement on the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" Executive Order

The EO names important open science principles, but their application here is counter to open science's purpose to accelerate discovery, advance treatments, & create knowledge.

📄 Read our statement: www.cos.io/about/news/c...

COS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order

The Executive Order issued on May 23, 2025, Restoring Gold Standard Science, references several open science practices championed by COS and the open science and metascience communities more generally...

www.cos.io

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