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sociologist | social network researcher | still not quite sure which way is up | cyclist/swimmer | https://jimiadams.github.io/ | no, I will not subscribe to your substack

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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.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 7h

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

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 11h

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

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 17h

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

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 17h

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.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 17h

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.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 17h

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 · 17h

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 · 17h

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 · 17h

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

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 21h

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.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

You know you were curious what it tasted like.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 3d

"[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

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

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 · 4d

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

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 5d

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

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 6d

Prince.

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 6d

It took me a few days to adjust.

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ChiSocNet @chisocnet.bsky.social · 7d

📢 Last call! Applications for the 2nd Summer School on Social Network Research (ChiSocNet) close on October 6.
Meet our instructors - leading experts in social network analysis 🌐
👉 Apply now: snlab-cl.github.io/summerschool/
#SocialNetworkAnalysis #ChiSocNet

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to the club.

-10 year member

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

jimi adams @jimiadams.bsky.social · 6d

This post brought to you by my fatigue in seeing too many people (this morning alone) engaged in the exact same behaviors they critique in others, and justifying it because they seem to think it helps get the ends they're after.