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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Jul 19

You can read all the retrospectives about Epstein running now. But to really understand the case, go right to the @jkbjournalist.bsky.social series in the @miamiherald.com that ran 7 years ago (and for completely inexplicable reasons, never won a Pulitzer).

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...

How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime

Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary...

www.miamiherald.com

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Ben Jarvis @benjarvis.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has a call for grant proposals for US-based researchers with Swedish citizenship or a degree from Sweden who want to move to a Swedish university. SEK 15 million over 5 years. Aimed at science and tech, so maybe a CSS researcher?

Sök SSF Individual Grants 2025 Ingvar Carlsson Award – Across the Atlantic - Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning

Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning, SSF, ger 45 miljoner kronor i forskningsbidrag till USA-baserade forskare som vill …

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Jun 23

Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!

PhD student in Analytical Sociology

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Hendrik Erz @hendrik-erz.de · Jun 21

+++ NEW ARTICLE +++

I built an interactive schedule for my field's largest conference and, if you'd like to, yours, too!

www.hendrik-erz.de/post/i-built...

I Built an Interactive Schedule for my Field's Largest Conference (and yours, too)

How do you communicate the what and where of various events at large conferences? This seems to be still a relatively unsolved problem, at least in …

www.hendrik-erz.de

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Jun 4

Can't recommend this piece enough for those of us pondering about genAI's impact on the humanities

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

www.newyorker.com

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · May 22

Ditching Dropbox in favor of a RPi5 running Nextcloud, all from home. Wired in an OLED and a bash-python-php chain to show suspicious (geoderived) IPs trying to access it through its domain name. I'll be an analytical sociologist tomorrow.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · May 7

Asked GPT to (impossibly) "write a Bluesky post 100% guaranteed to go viral"

Its suggestion: "just saw a guy confidently order a "croissantini" at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation."

Then I said "Make it more viral" and things got weird... 🧵

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Apr 28

Did this in a couple of classes as well: each one got the class roster and asked to indicate who in the class they know on an ordinal scale (never seen, met, knows etc) as well as asking for some attributes (major, gender, age). Subsequently used when introducing various network metrics etc

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Apr 5

Strong indicators that this was the first AI-generated tariff policy

Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s

ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.

www.theverge.com

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Mar 22

What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more

I asked some well-known names for their thoughts on the ultimate existential question. Their answers were fascinating, funny – and could help us frame our days on Earth

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Mar 19

August 1941 issue

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Mar 14

Funny! Though they do acknowledge that yeah, something went wrong with the labels, and that Putin indeed is the president of Russia and nothing else etc.

Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Mar 9

2.9 percent in

Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History

YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Mar 7

3 days left on my WaPo subscription and yay, managed to get this amazing piece: wapo.st/4hfZWGS

Opinion | The perils of a screen-obsessed society incapable of patience

A new book raises unsettling questions about the social implications of a smartphone-saturated world.

wapo.st

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Feb 28

Tonight's album

open.spotify.com/album/24E6rD...

Evil Empire

Rage Against The Machine · Album · 1996 · 11 songs

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Feb 25

Really good album, basically for anything
open.spotify.com/album/1yUbRS...

Is This What We Want?

1,000 UK Artists · Album · 2025 · 12 songs

open.spotify.com

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Feb 16

Appeasement at Munich

World Wars, Past and Possible

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Feb 7

In Poznan, Poland, eight mussels get to decide if people in the city get water or not | Desis: Senior Thesis

desis.osu.edu

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Hendrik Erz @hendrik-erz.de · Feb 6

Mind you, the post has been originally written up in 2014. Little did I think back then how accidentally true it could've become in the future.

The Onion @theonion.com · Feb 5

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...

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Hendrik Erz @hendrik-erz.de · Jan 14

+++ PUBLICATION ALERT! +++

Together with @manika.bsky.social, I looked at acknowledgement sections of theses. Turns out that there's gender inequality here, too, with women much more often acknowledging friends and family than men. Read more in our freshly baked OPEN ACCESS article!

Thanking the World: Exploring gender-based differences in acknowledgment patterns and support systems in theses

Research on acknowledgment sections of scientific papers has gained significant attention, but there remains a dearth of studies examining acknowledgm…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Jan 13

Word

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · Jan 13

I'm tired of being a crank when reviewing simply because a computer scientist is suddenly interested in "social" phenomena & thinks they're the 1st to consider bread and butter topics of many in the social sciences. Good CSS does not just apply computational tools to "social" questions. </soapbox>

a little girl singing into a microphone at a party

ALT: a little girl singing into a microphone at a party

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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · Jan 10

Excited to announce the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series this spring 2025! Don’t miss our stellar lineup of speakers—everyone’s welcome to join! 🌟 #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Jan 6

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies.

Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility..

www.nber.org/papers/w33311

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Jan 6

Hey, hey, hey!
You just lit up the way,
So I know what to say!
I'll say: Bombay!

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Carl Nordlund @carln.bsky.social · Jan 3

Yes indeed many potential ties between two actors. But they would all still be related to the same "ordered pair" (of actors), which might not make the notion suitable in a multiplex setting

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