andrés castro araújo
@acastroaraujo.bsky.social
sociology grad student | #rstats | computation | law | organizations | 🇨🇴
https://acastroaraujo.github.io/blog/
https://acastroaraujo.github.io/blog/
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Stop submitting AI slop to journals and preprint servers
This is anti-social behavior. It is making life harder for everyone involved except for the person submitting the slop
This is anti-social behavior. It is making life harder for everyone involved except for the person submitting the slop
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Stop submitting AI slop to journals and preprint servers
This is anti-social behavior. It is making life harder for everyone involved except for the person submitting the slop
This is anti-social behavior. It is making life harder for everyone involved except for the person submitting the slop
contemporary sociological theory in a nutshell
youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ
youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ
Don't Hug me I'm Scared
YouTube video by Don't Hug Me .I'm Scared
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November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
contemporary sociological theory in a nutshell
youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ
youtu.be/9C_HReR_McQ
If I don’t finish this draft before Advent of Code starts I will scream into the void.
November 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If I don’t finish this draft before Advent of Code starts I will scream into the void.
"Refusing to claim the past for oneself means accepting other people’s versions. Those who will not deign to speak in the name of tradition and cultural memory will have tradition and cultural memory deployed against them."
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"Refusing to claim the past for oneself means accepting other people’s versions. Those who will not deign to speak in the name of tradition and cultural memory will have tradition and cultural memory deployed against them."
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
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My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Ok so.
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Ok so.
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
"The Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets — the world’s largest collection ... — to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."
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Nice to see @jamellebouie.net recommending @rauchway.bsky.social’s excellent short book, “Why the New Deal Matters”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tr...
Why the New Deal Matters
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
www.youtube.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Nice to see @jamellebouie.net recommending @rauchway.bsky.social’s excellent short book, “Why the New Deal Matters”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_tr...
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I wrote a comprehensive introduction to basic information theory, with added context from social scientists of the cybernetics movement (Gregory Bateson) & later (Katherine Hayles). It covers everything from bit encoding to comparative metrics like cross-entropy.
mikaelbrunila.com/information-...
mikaelbrunila.com/information-...
From Bits to Embeddings – A Critical Introduction to Information Theory
A comprehensive introduction to classical information theory as conceived by Claude Shannon and its connections to neural networks and large language models today.
mikaelbrunila.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I wrote a comprehensive introduction to basic information theory, with added context from social scientists of the cybernetics movement (Gregory Bateson) & later (Katherine Hayles). It covers everything from bit encoding to comparative metrics like cross-entropy.
mikaelbrunila.com/information-...
mikaelbrunila.com/information-...
aaaahhhhhhhhh
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
aaaahhhhhhhhh
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Part 2 of my deep dive into Python as a language for data science.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
Python is not a great language for data science. Part 2: Language features
It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Part 2 of my deep dive into Python as a language for data science.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
The fuckers are in Durham now.
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The fuckers are in Durham now.
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“You can’t define a woman?” Party becomes “What is a child?” Party
November 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“You can’t define a woman?” Party becomes “What is a child?” Party
wow
In between things I've been checking in on the emails that mention "university" and uhh did we all know about this connection?
![Screenshot from the Epstein Document Search which reads: House_Oversight_029401
From: Donald Rubin
Sent: 1/22/2017 7:31:32 PM
To: jeffrey E. [jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Subject: Republican health care experts dismiss Donald Trump's ideas
Importance: High
https://www.statnews.com/20 1 6/03/04/trump -repub cans-health-care/? s camp aign=trendmd
Jeffrey,
This cannot be true, can it? This guy must be as dumb about this stuff as a tampon laced with arsenic!!
HELP!
Great meeting yesterday — really enjoyed it.
And happy birthday again, Don
Donald B. Rubin
John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics, Harvard University
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge MA 02138
HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029401](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ozma3timm5c32fa7bimb4zaj/bafkreiezajc6f2rgwxrdx2242izbelpumkgdruc52pzu236rhovlcyfmde@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
wow
I wonder if it’s just genes or that’s what you get from a lifelong exposure to bad vibes
This is good reporting and all that but here's the thing I learned the other day: Bill Pulte, the 50-year-mortgage dude and the guy who keeps pulling the mortgage docs of Trump's enemies is only 37 years old.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats
FHFA’s acting inspector general handed the probe report to the U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I wonder if it’s just genes or that’s what you get from a lifelong exposure to bad vibes
Every single administrative dataset in the world has a covid effect.
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Every single administrative dataset in the world has a covid effect.
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📣 The call for ASA Theory Section Prizes is open!
Submit your nominations by March 2, 2026 🏆
Learn more and celebrate outstanding work in theory: asatheory.com/theory-award...
Submit your nominations by March 2, 2026 🏆
Learn more and celebrate outstanding work in theory: asatheory.com/theory-award...
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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All, I am organizing an @asanews.bsky.social paper session for NYC '26 on neuroscience and cognition in #sociology. Please spread the word.
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
All, I am organizing an @asanews.bsky.social paper session for NYC '26 on neuroscience and cognition in #sociology. Please spread the word.
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There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.
This is the first time I catch myself thinking about how the aspect ratio of plots changes our perception of what's going on.
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This is the first time I catch myself thinking about how the aspect ratio of plots changes our perception of what's going on.
truly insane
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
truly insane