A top university in Iran was bombed earlier today. The university "housed a Department of Philosophy of Science, an extraordinary effort to [build a] bridge between philosophy, science, and technology"
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
Computational social science is a huge deal in Turkey and great to finally have a Turkish language compendium of some pioneering social data science works produced by Turkish scholars. Took more than two years to build and out today! bilgiyay.com/kitap/sosyal...
Computational social science is a huge deal in Turkey and great to finally have a Turkish language compendium of some pioneering social data science works produced by Turkish scholars. Took more than two years to build and out today! bilgiyay.com/kitap/sosyal...
See you all at Duke next week 🙌🏻
in Brussels for the EEAS FIMI conference - anybody want to talk disinfo and DECONSPIRATOR, let me know
initially thought these were AI but it turns out they aren't -- mesmerizing stuff. nothing requires meticulous data visualization like post-imperial population registers
My new obsession: Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye, “The Justice Gazette,” a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Türkiye in the mid-1920s casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus...
Check out past SICSS_Istanbul curricula: lnkd.in/dNAKTMqJ
Learning materials from SICSS_Istanbul 2023: lnkd.in/g6Bwyqd
Help us spread the news!
📍Application deadline approaching: 2 March
Not much time left to wrap up statements of purpose and reaching out to your professors for a recommendation. Looking forward to hosting you at SICSS_Istanbul this summer.
FT exclusive:
“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”
via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues
Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else.
newrepublic.com/post/206088/...
The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul 2026 returns back!
Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY
Application deadline: 2 March 2026
Announcement of decisions: Mid-April
22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp'
6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat
Check out past SICSS_Istanbul curricula: lnkd.in/dNAKTMqJ
Learning materials from SICSS_Istanbul 2023: lnkd.in/g6Bwyqd
Help us spread the news!
The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) Istanbul 2026 returns back!
Application link: lnkd.in/diPw3uMY
Application deadline: 2 March 2026
Announcement of decisions: Mid-April
22 - 30 June: 'Pre-SICSS Bootcamp'
6 - 17 July: Residential SICSS retreat
Bilim Akademisi Genç Bilim İnsanları Ödül Programı (BAGEP) 2026 başvuruları açıldı!
Son gün 23 Ocak 2026.
Detaylar ve başvuru formu bağlantıda.
bilimakademisi.org/bagep-2026-b...
For years, I've been trying to find a quick-start guide for new lab assistants to get up to speed with R. Many tutorials are either too easy or too difficult, so I created a more realistic learning progression myself. Should be useful not just for students but PIs and lab managers as well.
Part 3 - Download messy data as CSV and API, and learn how to clean, format and visualize complex datasets: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHPG...
Part 2 - Create/modify Comma Separated Values-based dataframes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Y6...
As our world descends further into chaos, I have three new lecture videos geared towards data science newcomers. In three videos, I show you how to:
Part 1 - Download R and find your way around RStudio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2eJ...
Interesting.
"Grokipedia’s generation process elaborates on existing material...rather than producing substantively new or more rigorously sourced knowledge"
"[Grokipedia] mirrors Wikipedia’s informational scope but... favor[s] narrative expansion over citation-based verification"
this, but for reviewer-2
"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.
BJPolS abstract discussing how threats of interstate conflicts affect American voters' support for candidates who violate democratic principles.
NEW -
Interstate Conflict Increases the Appeal of Undemocratic Candidates - https://cup.org/3Lx7bjx
"undemocratic candidates are evaluated more positively under conflict compared to peace"
- @kristianvsf.bsky.social & Lasse Laustsen
#OpenAccess
Data science people; which free APIs do you use to teach students how to use them? I'm searching for some free (can be registration-based) APIs I can use to teach students how to get and use API keys to get some good online open data. 😇
This looks almost painfully relevant right now 👇
Doja cat in a dress the same shape as the eye of Sauron.
The Eye of Sauron.
celebrities as lord of the rings characters: thread
Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.
"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.
“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."
