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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · Mar 19

Our (@paulinae.bsky.social, @mirandalubbers.bsky.social, & I) paper on social capital, is now posted at Annual Reviews - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour.... The thread below provides a bit of background on how this one came about, and a *rough* overview.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 20h

You're asking a lot.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 1d

very yuck.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't even one of the things I have to get my students to un-learn in a Science of Science class. They have misperceptions, to be sure, but none are this gawdawful.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Kevin Kiley @kkiley.bsky.social · 1d

NC State sociology is hiring at the assistant and senior levels. Come work with me and many other great people!

Assistant professor (crime, law, and/or social control): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...

Distinguished professor (race, health, or wellbeing): jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/223...

Assistant Professor of Sociology

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is accepting applications for a tenure-trackassistant professor of Sociology with a focus on criminology to begin Fall 2026.The successful candidate should...

jobs.ncsu.edu

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone have a scanned copy of Stinchcombe's "Social Structure and Organizations" that they could pass my way?

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 2d

It was incredibly useful to those of us working in epidemic modeling in 20-21.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 2d

a woman says i do n't believe you in a netflix ad

Alt: a woman says i don't believe you in a netflix ad

media.tenor.com

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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 2d

Dept of Social & Political Sciences at Bocconi Univ in Milan is advertising for an open-rank position in sociology. They are excited about computational social science.
Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 2d

[tagging resource's author too - @nickchk.com]

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 2d

Moreover, I am convinced that each of these considerations carry as many *theoretical* assumptions and implications as they do methodological ones, and thus are vitally important to understand what the results of any modeling exercise actually mean.

Thanks @lippertam.bsky.social for the pointer.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 2d

Doing each of those *before* we get to presenting and thinking with any model results will go a LONG way to ensuring that we appropriately interpret what models do (and likely more importantly do NOT) tell us about tested relationships.

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 2d

1. What we expect the world to look like given our theoretical expectations, 2. What the modeling approach we take will allow the world to potentially look like (where the link came in), and 3. How plausible alternatives to each of 1/2 would have looked different from those sets of possibilities.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps strangely, this organization of the course is what motivated me to offer this course, even more than the "standard fare" of how to best present data and statistical results in visual form. In my mind, we all too often jump to presenting model results without first having clearly articulated:

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 2d

I'm doing something in my data visualization course that is relatively non-standard for these types of courses. We're making slight detour between exploratory data viz and explanatory data viz to spend some time visualizing theoretical expectations for data and for models separately first.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 2d

This is an incredibly useful resource for thinking about what the relationships between concepts could plausibly mean for data analytic approaches that we often employ "because it's what this question requires" rather than fully understanding *why* they're appropriate. nickchk.com/causalgraphs...

Nick Huntington-Klein - Causal Inference Animated Plots

nickchk.com

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 2d

Trump, Musk, and Rubio have caused the deaths of countless children. Just as expected (intended?) from their cuts to USAID.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 3d

I've often mused about someone having an appointment with somone at the school of communication at Penn, and aimlessly wandering around the USC campus wondering why they can't find the person they're looking for.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 4d

You know you were curious what it tasted like.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 5d

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 5d

See also: Google search results (I remember when boolean logic and direct quotes were functional features!).

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 6d

I missed this earlier this week, but the Directors of NIAID, NICHD, NIMHD, & NINR were all fired. The NIAID Director, Mazzaro, was likely fired in retaliation for speaking out against the anti-vaccine moves made by the administration.

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com

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jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 7d

Except you 2 probably differ in how much you think he contributed to getting us here.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 8d

Prince.