Sandro Sousa
@sandrofsousa.bsky.social
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Scientist | Socioeconomic inequality, it's emergence & anything in between | Algorithms & Society | Complexity, Networks & Computational Social Science | @cphsodas.bsky.social
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sandrofsousa.bsky.social
Really cool initiative appreciating the work of early career researchers... Other research groups could definitely copy! 👏
sandrofsousa.bsky.social
Ouch, what an embarrassment! 🤮
ketanjoshi.co
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
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gordonofseattle.bsky.social
Guess which one of these vehicles has a motor that prevents it from going too fast for the safety of others?
giant, illegally modified truck with oversized wheels that extend beyond the side of the truck, front bumper design that will kill pedestrians. and a speed limited e bike
sandrofsousa.bsky.social
Migration has been part of human history for ages and gets more complex and intense with rising conflict and extreme weather. Last week, we took on the challenge of making sense of displacement patterns during the #Complexity72h workshop. To know more, take a 👀
arxiv.org/abs/2506.22120
Walking Through Complex Spatial Patterns of Climate and Conflict-Induced Displacements
Extreme weather events are projected to intensify global migration, increase resource competition, and amplify socio-spatial phenomena, including intergroup conflicts, socioeconomic inequalities, and ...
arxiv.org
sandrofsousa.bsky.social
You will own NOTHING and be HAPPY!
At least with games, you can stop this madness of digital goods becoming inaccessible by design, by signing this petition:

eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
European Citizens' Initiative
Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
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aaronclauset.bsky.social
Slides from my keynote lecture "What drives the productivity of scientific labor?" at the 2025 Oxford Summer School on Economic #Networks. Part 1 of 2: why and how do elite scientists dominate scientific discourse?
aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...
Title slide: "What drives the productivity of scientific labor?" a talk by Aaron Clauset at the Oxford Summer School on Economic Networks 2025 Summary slide arguing that prestige is a structural variable in the scientific ecosystem, and that it is differences in working environment (not pedigree) that explains why elite researchers dominate scientific discourse. Ends with a question: how exactly does environment do this? Summary slide arguing that working environment (specifically, institutional prestige) explains differences in scientific productivity because there's just more available academic labor at elite places, and researchers use this labor to write more papers. Ends with a question: how much does it matter who you collaborate with? That leads into part 2 of the slides
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chrisbail.bsky.social
It's #SICSS O'clock!!!! Hundreds of students all over the world are learning about computational social science *for free* thanks to the hard work of so many brilliant young scholars who dedicated their time this summer to train the next generation-- from Colombia to Kenya! sicss.io
sandrofsousa.bsky.social
Silicon Valley doing what it's best at, manufacturing demand!
quillmatiq.com
Google in six months: "We are seeing unprecedented usage of Gemini in Gmail. As we told you, everyone wants Gemini and we definitely don't have our thick thumbs on the scale"
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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.
San Diego's enormous corpse flower looking like aN upside down ballerina.
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manlius.bsky.social
Still, in the last 50 years it didn't change that much, regardless of having dem or rep governments.

Will it mean something, or not?
It reminds me of this:

youtu.be/35DSdw7dHjs?...
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dggoldst.bsky.social
Open science: share all your data

GDPR: do not even think about sharing all your data

Open science: just anonymize your data

Differential privacy experts: good luck with that
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
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janelleshane.com
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
daviddlevine.com
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
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economeager.bsky.social
today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper

pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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nerdsitu.bsky.social
📢 Call for PhD and Postdocs: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness
nerds.itu.dk/2025/03/25/c...

We are looking for Phds and Postdocs to join @jonassjuul.bsky.social at @itu.dk in Copenhagen improving inference, forecasting, and mitigation in future pandemics. Deadline May 1st.
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melaniemitchell.bsky.social
I was happy to sign this scientific consensus statement on bias and discrimination in AI.

www.aibiasconsensus.org
Scientific Consensus on AI Bias
www.aibiasconsensus.org
sandrofsousa.bsky.social
Reform and cultural change in academic publishing are overdue. This is a fantastic initiative, particularly by steering away from the prestige signalling of high-impact journals and bringing affordability back to the open-access agenda. The next step: having funders and hiring departments onboard!
hirokisayama.bsky.social
The Complex Systems Society Manifesto About the Publishing and Evaluation Systems
cssociety.org/about
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complexity-core.bsky.social
We are glad to present 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐂𝐎𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐄𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 (𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄) 🎉

complexity-core.github.io

𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 is a newly-created umbrella organization that aims to gather resources and initiatives directed to the Complexity and Network Science community.
Complexity & Networks CORE
A hub for the Complexity and Network Science community to gather and share resources.
complexity-core.github.io
sandrofsousa.bsky.social
Can't wait to be back at @complexity72h.bsky.social, let the sleepless nights come :D #Complexity72h
complexity72h.bsky.social
Leading our penultimate project, meet Sandro Sousa (@sandrofsousa.bsky.social) from @nerdsitu.bsky.social @itu.dk!

Their project: "Walking Through Complex Spatial Patterns of Socioeconomic Systems"

#Complexity72h
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manlius.bsky.social
Someone should write this black on white the day after H-index and impact factors started to drive decision-making processes in many scientific fields.

Now the community behind the Complex Systems Society writes it and calls for similar initiatives.
sandrofsousa.bsky.social
How to choose a research question?

"Try to first see the forest from the trees, and then focus on those trees that you find important. If you feel that some trees or entire forests are missing, you have a research question!

Great advice to early career researchers

jarisaramaki.fi/2025/01/29/h...
How to choose a research question?
Choosing which problems to work on is perhaps the hardest and most crucial part of science. It is also an invisible and underrated part.
jarisaramaki.fi
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toinebogers.bsky.social
This is amazing! A wonderfully interactive way of demonstrating how you can be manipulated using visualizations! Will definitely share this with my students!
flowingdata.com
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com