This is such a great post — and “rituals” (describing some conventions of a community around knowledge production, like publication checklists) is le mot juste

And for my own research corner, I’d definitely encourage those working in computational social science/cultural analytics to consider it.

Congrats Oleg!!

The research would not exist without you!

@francescom.bsky.social you’re one of these friends I was thinking about!

Which had me look up that song in my Shazam history (yes I had to Shazam it), and sure enough it was there — the only time I’ve been able to pinpoint the exact moment a research idea took shape (1:38pm on 7/14/23)

I’ve been to 3 now and I think it keeps getting better — next year Manchester early Jan!

While we might expect the singer-songwriters of the 1960s to be a high-water mark for narrativity, we find the opposite: narrativity has been steadily increasing, largely due to the rise of the strongly narrative genres of hip hop and rap.

This talk made me want to connect these findings to those of @heuser.bsky.social @mellymeldubs.bsky.social et al. -- do LLM translations of Homer (i.e., poetry) sound like Lattimore or are they just in iambic pentameter (like Lattimore I think but unlike Wilson, who is more free verse).

A Gentleman in Moscow!

+1 to SocArXiv for this too -- we had a similar experience with a recent cultural analytics paper of ours (that I love!) that has a better home there.