When I see folks reinforcing the "PhDs should stay in academia" vs "PhDs should leave academia" I think to myself that it's an faux divide that we (re)create to justify (a) our own decisions & (b) our antiquated advice for others.
Get Smart. Get Good. Apply that SmartGood wherever you'd like. =)
This one is so bonkers to me because the vast majority of scientists that I know really don't have very strong opinions outside of the work that's directly in front of them.
We've moved to a space to where we actively reject knowledge and insights, Dark Ages style.
Meta is building a AI-powered Mark Zuckerberg avatar to give employees guidance and feedback. At Block, Jack Dorsey believes an "intelligence layer" will eliminate the need for any managers between himself and 6,000 staff. Both CEOs are envisioning the same kind of omnipresence and control.
Ok man I'm FOR SURE on the Tyler Reddick bandwagon. WOW. #45
Don’t vote for people behaving like Ramaswamy.
TIL that among issues with the Shapiro-Wilk test, they're *super sensitive* with Likert-scaled data. Why? When data has lots of ties, it inflates the SW statistic ... and Likert scales likely have lots of participant-to-participant ties.
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Yup. I mean it is an interesting bit of information and I don't inherently mind the data-driven approach to stories. But this is pandering af.
I also don't get the *surprise* that the Vicar of Christ on Earth might not really be too worried about the President of a single country on Earth.
I suspect its even more basic than this. Our socially shared heuristic for higher education in the US is simply "HarvardYalePrincetonU"
It drives so much of our misunderstandings of the system. I giggle when I realize how much people think I make, for instance.
I do not understand why we use the Ivy as the bellwether of the "state of American higher ed." This is the equivalent of using the climate in the Aleutian Islands to decide what to wear outside later today.
When you tell me that "I value your ..." and then the email goes on to spell out AI drivel, your "given off" is that you see very little value in this communication.
But you know, meritocracy is what they scream. So...which is it? Do folks with self-perceived "contrarian" opinions want special lines to faculty and tenure jobs, or do they want folks to be weighed and measured on the merits of their scholarship and teaching?
@mattsharpe.bsky.social and I want to test a cool idea and we are looking for datasets including: (a) Depression, (b) Objectively logged social media time, and (c) Subjectively estimated social media time.
We've found some from @cjsewall9.bsky.social & @dougaparry.bsky.social but want more!
Gave a talk last night at Syracuse about the increased demands that AI systems place on users, framed in reference of my interactivity-as-demand model in gaming. A few teaser slides from a very, very fun chat. =)
Oh I surely do not ever say such tomfoolery. =)
I'm the sort of person who says "Fab!" and "Cheers!" now and ... I don't like it. ;p
FUN BIT: Elena has *two more* papers that will be coming out in the coming weeks. Very happy to see her growth, and ... y'all, she's on the job market this coming year. 😊
A growing tradition at Newhouse School at Syracuse University? When our PhD students get their first first-authored publication, we give them a small gift to commemorate the moment. This one via Elena Zhao's work at HICSS focused on otome gaming.
The paper? Online at hdl.handle.net/10125/111742
When somebody says that "AI writes better than you." What I hear is "I don't care what you have to say so long as it fits a probabilistic template."
Still working through it, but happy to chat. =)
There it is: A full year of days spent playing golf in just over five years as president. www.pbump.net/outofoffice
This is super interesting! Would love to read more about it.
(In order to really thread through the already-existed theory, one has to be fairly well-read and constantly go back to the classics.)
Today at 11:30 we'll have have a chat and workshop at #ECA2026 discussing some of the growing frustrations with seeing new phenomena emerge for which COM has already provided answers for, from influencers to deepfakes.
Have one to share? Reply here, or use the link below: bit.ly/ECA26_COMNEW
... and if you're at #ECA2026, join our Saturday session!
I'd love *your* input on this one, if you'd got similar ones to share? Feel free to complete this super-duper short survey at bit.ly/ECA26_COMNEW
One example? Discussions of "influencers" that side-step nearly a century's worth of social influence scholarship, such as (a) Lippman's 1922 work on specialized experts, (b) Lazardsfeld's 1940s work on opinion leaders, and (c) Rogers' notes about "near-peer' influence.
I'm at #ECA2026 in Pittsburgh this week for a few talks, but the one I'm quite excited is a peek into the many COM theories and concepts that seem to get ignored in popular discourse and theorizing.
"Why are the people we had expelled, deported, and arrested not protesting on campuses?" - they asked, sincerely and stupidly.
"and part VIBES because apparently that’s what people are into right now"
That. So much that. =/
$99 for a season subscription to SNP360 and I can't even get real-time updates on The Great Pittsburgh Pierogi Race N'at. 🙄@pirates.com
(n.b. Jalapeño Hannah could easily shave a second off her course time if she dropped an accessory or two)