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Cassidy R. Sugimoto @crsugimoto.bsky.social · 2h

Please come join our team! Looking for junior and senior faculty in science, technology, and innovation policy!!

Aaron Levine @aarondlevine.bsky.social · 21h

The Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech invites applications for multiple open-rank tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions with a focus on science, technology and innovation policy.

careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

#AcademicSky #PolicySky @appam.bsky.social

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 1d

As a scholar of academic prestige, I highly recommend asking about PhD institution. But, a fun question would be to ask: Which institution has been the most important to you in your life (or career)? (I've never asked that one before)

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 2d

This was a fun talk to give. Our new results show that "Meta-learning optimizes predictions of missing links in real-world networks" (arxiv.org/abs/2508.09069). tl;dr: graph neural networks are a limited tool for predicting missing links in most networks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYz...

GraphGeeks Talk: Meta-Learner That Finds the Best Link Prediction Model

YouTube video by GraphGeeks

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IceLab @icelabumu.bsky.social · 5d

Why does a gender gap in scientific “productivity” persist?
📅 Oct 8, @aaronclauset.bsky.social in Umeå: biased networks, not ability, explain the difference. Join us!
🔗 www.umu.se/en/events/ic...
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 5d

My fellow academics: the @aaup.org is doing amazing work, successfully! defending faculty and universities against attacks from Vought/the Trump administration. Proud to be a member. It takes only 3 minutes to join, to support them fighting the good fight for all Americans ✊ www.aaup.org

AAUP Home

www.aaup.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 7d

📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 10d

As the article says, the paper itself is under review right now. With some luck, it will be out and available early 2026

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 11d

It took me 2 minutes to write about how this proposed rule would eliminate all foreign PhD students, who are a critical part of US science and technology, and drive US innovation and economic growth

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 11d

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

www.federalregister.gov

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Peer Review Congress #PRC10 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social · 13d

Presented at PRC10: Mss characteristics associated w being sent for review, final acceptance @science.org #ScienceAdvances 2015-19 include institutional prestige, country, team size
www.science.org/cont...
@jeffreybrainard.bsky.social @aaronclauset.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @aaas.org

Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror

Confidential data show being in the U.S., at a prestigious institution, and in a large team all may help

www.science.org

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 20d

I submitted my comment and I hope you all will join me.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

My public comment submitted to the Department of Education on their attempts to roll back the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

"It is incredibly important that all Americans of good faith and motivated by a commitment to service have the opportunity to work in roles that support others without being saddled with lifetime debt or riddled with anxiety over being able to pay their bills and live their lives. Our country works best with a functioning government, staffed by a wide range of talented professionals. To reverse this critical program, to make public service a luxury career path for those who can afford it, as opposed to incentivizing Americans from all walks of life to give back to their country, is a step in the wrong direction. Some of the best, smartest professionals I know were only able to serve the public through the existence of this program and to eliminate it is an insult to them and to every American who has benefited from their contributions to our society."

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 26d

I'm not sure it's quite what you mean, but there was this 2014 paper that looked at how scientist's social media followings related to their academic citations. Both very narrow measures of "status", of course.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Kardashian index: a measure of discrepant social media profile for scientists - Genome Biology

In the era of social media there are now many different ways that a scientist can build their public profile; the publication of high-quality scientific papers being just one. While social media is a ...

link.springer.com

Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 27d

Any thoughts? @jwlockhart.bsky.social @hannawallach.bsky.social @eytan.adar.prof @nicklaberge.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social @danielacuna.bsky.social @ryanjgallag.com @yyahn.bsky.social

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 27d

Folks who've used name-based gender labelers in comp. social science work, I understand that 'nomquamgender' (via this paper) ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... squeezes the maximal signal out of name databases. Has there been any evaluation of LLM accuracies for this task? Pointers welcome!

An Open-Source Cultural Consensus Approach to Name-Based Gender Classification | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

ojs.aaai.org

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Sep 8

OLIVER: "While I do get the appeal of thinking just 'one more concession, one more payoff' might safeguard your independence or let you live to fight another day, it's worth asking: At what point have you compromised so much that the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone?"

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 8

Great episode of Last Week Tonight about Trump vs. Higher Education

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk94...

Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thanks! 🤞 I'm not relocating for the year because of the kids, but I'll be traveling quite a bit.

Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · Sep 5

I feel pretty sure that only a minority of faculty at elite departments wonder about that. Most I meet seem to feel they've earned that status, and I encounter a lot of motivated reasoning to support that view. But as I like to say, nothing in academia makes sense except through the lens of prestige

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · Sep 5

@aaronclauset.bsky.social’s work on how institution influences academic outcomes always reminds me what a catch22 department can be—at a top place, you’re doomed to wonder how much of the success you deserved; if you’re not, you‘re left wondering if your work has been overlooked. Prestige games suck

simine vazire @simine.com · Sep 4

If I’m understanding right, Aaron Clauset at Peer Review Congress showing that the strongest correlate of peer review outcomes at Science and Science Advances is the prestige of authors’ institutions. Also pretty big association with author geography, not much with author gender. #PRC10

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · Sep 4

No worries. Haha. I am too! But I think my spicy opinions about journals run in very different directions

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · Sep 4

“the APC for this journal helps pay for other non-OA journals that this non-profit publishes” seems kind of okay to me, which is the situation at AAAS, as I understand it

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · Sep 4

Right?! I don’t know if these numbers for AAAS’s publishing side are online. I know details because I’ve been an editor at Science Advances for 12 years, so, osmosis.

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · Sep 4

In fact, Science loses money for AAAS. Science Advances is the only journal that operates in the black; its OA fees subsidize the whole enterprise. I agree the fees are stupidly high, but I don’t think it’s a junk journal! At least, not in the areas I’m familiar with.

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Sep 4

Next: Aaron Clauset with 'Manuscript Characteristics Associated With Editorial Review and Peer Review Outcomes at Science and Science Advances'
Elite journals have profound influence in science discourse/careers - a lot of submissions get desk-rejected.
#PRC10

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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm sad that you think Science Advances is a junk journal!

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Orit Peleg @oritpeleg.bsky.social · Aug 26

New paper in PLOS Biology: as we raise the difficulty of our 3D printed puzzles, bees keep landing on combs with ever stranger hexagonal order! 🐝

Led by the brilliant Golnar Gharooni Fard, in collaboration with CK Prasanna & FL Jiménez

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Close-up of experimental honeycombs built after a challenging 3D printed setup, showing mostly hexagonal cells.

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