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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · 14d

Another figure from a (now retracted) scientific publication. I'm not an expert, but I feel proportions may be a little off...

www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/...

Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · 15d

Yes, this is a real image from a scientific publication 😅

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · 21d

Some years ago I applied ResIN to a Harry Potter dataset. The more two people are similar (in terms of how they relate to other characters), the tighter their connection. As you can see, the HP world is heavily polarized.
But now my question is: why did I do something like that??

Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · 23d

Apparently, ignoring all those predatory journals made me very popular with girls!

(btw, all these emails are from a single day)

Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · 28d

To cite this meme:
Photoshop et al. (2025)

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Sep 3

How can we develop a better understanding of Complex Attitude-Identity Systems (CAIS)? Here👇we introduce a theory of Belief Networks to explain how to accurately measure them. This will help us understand how beliefs connect, evolve and shape identity.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today, both Samuel Moor-Smith and I will give a presentation at the Social Simulation Conference. If you are interested in the validation of ABMs, their classes of equivalence and how psychometrics plays an important role, join us!

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Aug 20

I am finally back from holid... what happened here? Did I sleep for 50 years?

Reposted by Dino Carpentras

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Jul 31

How many chips are in a bag of chips? Measurement and conceptualization can lead to radically different outcomes. www.nature.com/articles/s44... @justanormaldino.bsky.social

We urgently need a culture of multi-operationalization in psychological research - Communications Psychology

Analysis of different operationalizations shows that many scientific results may be an artifact of the operationalization process. A culture of multi-operationalization may be needed for psychological...

www.nature.com

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jul 25

Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jul 23

Looking wise while totally lost — a timeless academic tradition.

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jul 16

How well do *opinion dynamics* models perform on empirical data?
Results are here and... let's say they are not the best...
I think we really need to focus more effort on improving models' realism and testing procedures.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jul 15

Should I discuss anything else in the Conclusion section?

Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jul 14

Tired of AI images that look like Studio Ghibli's?

Me neither, but here's Dragon Ball style, for no specific reason.

Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jul 11

Not sure what kind of black magic Adrian Lüders used to write this article, but we're in the New York Times... again!

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...

Opinion | When Novels Mattered

www.nytimes.com

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jul 9

A viral post claimed that, in our study, we showed that Democrats are close-minded.
Here are my thoughts and explanations of what the article is really showing.

youtu.be/lgumeckzhWM

Researcher explains the truth behind the viral study

YouTube video by Social Complexity / Computational Social Science

youtu.be

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jul 6

I'll be at the ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat this week. If you're around, let’s connect!

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jul 3

Yes, every opinion dynamics model is actually a class of equivalent models.

This can be used both (1) to verify equivalence between models and (2) to improve the testing of the model against empirical data.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Every opinion dynamics model is a class of equivalent models

PDF | While more and more opinion dynamics models have been developed along the years, many researchers have wondered on the possibility of finding some... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

www.researchgate.net

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jul 2

If you have nothing better to do today at 8 pm CET, join me for a live session on some of the most common questions I receive.

www.youtube.com/live/NpOKfdn...

How do I get into Computational Social Science? And what is it, really? [Q&A]

www.youtube.com

Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jul 1

I ordered this new ABM from IKEA. Quite interesting 🤔

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jun 30

You can listen to the Computational Social Science podcast on all of your favourite platforms.
(Spotify, Apple podcasts, Overcast, ...)

www.buzzsprout.com/2226458/epis...

Ep 1 - Are complex systems really more than the sum of their parts? - Computational Social Science / Social Complexity

People often claim that

www.buzzsprout.com

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jun 25

In this episode of the Computational Social Science Podcast, we discuss both why this sentence makes much sense and why it is super confusing to most novices.

You can find the episode on YouTube
bit.ly/4nhHwKh
and all other platforms for podcasts
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Are complex systems really more than the sum of their parts? - CSS podcast EP 1

First episode of the Computational Social Science podcast! Sorry if the audio is sometimes cutting off the end of some words. Link to the podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2226458/episodes/17360343 MY SOCIAL MEDIA: https://twitter.com/JustaNormalDino https://www.linkedin.com/in/dino-carpentras/ MY WEBSITES: www.dinocarp.com www.resinmethod.net BOOKS AND READS Introduction to complex adaptive systems https://amzn.to/32Idcke Guide to Netlogo https://amzn.to/2IrODBp LINKS To download the code: https://github.com/just-a-normal-dino/segregation_minorities Original Netlogo model: https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Segregation HASHTAGS #agentbasedmodels #complexsystems #socialcomplexity #netlogo

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jun 25

The sentence "complex systems are more than the sum of their parts" is very inspiring but also very confusing; at least, it was like this for me when I started studying them.

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jun 24

Being in ABM means initially wanting to work with social scientists, and then spending 90% of meeting time explaining why adding 20,000 more parameters won't improve the model.

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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · Jun 23

For those wondering: yes, the YouTube channel and Podcast are coming back soon. Unfortunately, academic life leaves little time to do anything else, so I had to suspend them for some time, but now we are back! And thank you very much for your support! 🙏