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· Economist @univlorraine.bsky.social, en français and in English · I use computers, network theory, and data to study how humans behave at work, in organizations and communities #Rstats · He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 🌐 https://o.simardcasanova.net 📍 Nancy, Lorraine, France

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 16d

Despite having completed 90% of the manuscript, I was never able to defend my PhD

It's definitely unexpected, but I'm thrilled to announce that I have restarted working on a PhD

You can read about what happened and my plans on my newsletter: o.simardcasanova.net/p/8e29c3...

#EconSky

A second shot at a PhD

I have an unexpected and exciting professional news to share

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 49m

On the other side, the arrow of time is such a difficult concept to grasp

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 2h

Luckily for me, I'm currently being paid to explore obsessions like these

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 16d

A second shot at a PhD

I have an unexpected and exciting professional news to share

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 2h

Oh no, I've just discovered what hypergraphs are, I'm afraid I've just unlocked a new obsession

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 3h

I'm looking forward to reading these posts!

Trust and safety and moderation are wildly misunderstood, in part because they are complex, but also because some bad actors have an incentive to misrepresent them in order to work the refs

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 6h

I'll be trying out leaflet.pub moving forward to try to write longer form blogs on Trust and Safety so that I can explain things in a bit more depth.
leaflet.pub/25030fdf-2a8...

Context Collapse & T&S

One of the hardest things about writing on a microblogging service is context collapse, especially when it comes to complex issues — you reply to one person, others take it out of context, and suddenl...

leaflet.pub

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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 17h

@boston.gov onboarded all their agencies to Bluesky to engage with Bostonians. Whether it's broken sidewalks, missing signage, or community issues, they want to hear from constituents. With little to no engagement on X, their actual interactions on bsky have increased. Engagement > follower count

Boston Parks Department @parks.boston.gov · 21h

#DidYouKnow our Fall Fitness Series with @publichealth.boston.gov is back? 🍂💪

Register today for free in-person fitness classes at a park near you: boston.gov/fitness

Fall fitness graphic - boston.gov/fitness

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Flef @flefgraph.bsky.social · 14h

Très joli poisson !

Plusieurs dizaines de milliers d'abonnements...
Et exactement le même nombre d'abonnées ?
Tout en faisant 3 likes par publication ?

Ça s'appelle un compte qui fait la pêche au followback, mais qui n'est suivi par presque aucun humain véritable 😅

(À bloquer vite fait)

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 20h

What about my morale crusade though, I want to be able to post toxic things on the Internet in the name of some greater good

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 20h

The nuclear block drastically changes the incentives structure of blocking, and for the better in my opinion

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 21h

The nuclear block remains one of the best feature ever shipped on social media

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 21h

Oh, so you spent 15 minutes studying my account and another 15 minutes writing an angry reply and yet, it took me only 3 seconds to block you and to hide your reply to the rest of the world

Seems like a productive use of your time!

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 23h

Test

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 23h

TIL that Meta imposes a one-minute delay between posts published by the API, which means that a thread made of like 13 posts would take 13 minutes to get fully published by a third-party service lol

Why is there a delay between posts in a thread?

Why is there a delay between posts in a thread? | BlackTwist Help Center

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 23h

Beware my friend, toddlers can be pretty dangerous, especially when insufficiently fed

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

When the code you wrote three months ago turns out to be complete nonsense

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 1d

A painting of a bird beside the text "why the fuck are you surprised"

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

“We're the good guys”, they said while harassing the easy targets they falsely construed as their enemies, “we swear!”

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

An implication of that is that if Bluesky suddenly caved to every single demand these people have made, the harassment would probably not stop

As the abuse worked, and “mistakes” were made, these people would come for more and more demands

See the Trump administration as an illustration of that

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

In the world of moral absolutists on an unhinged power trip, mistakes, real or imaginary, will be used against you until the end of times

The goal of this strategy is to exert complete dominance

It's actually the exact same dynamics at play in abusive relationships

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

1) This was a spam network shared internally at Bluesky for investigation on spam likes. 2) I misclicked/unclicked, but a harassment bot picked it up 3) I continue to be harassed about it a year later

I'm offering a genuine response that I don't see the need for this continually to be raised.

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

Not that I'm aware of, but there are so many tools out there that it may actually already exist

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

It's not the first time that I'm seeing this

I'm afraid that hallucinated citations is an issue that scientists and experts will have to deal with from now on

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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hailey @hailey.at · 1d

if you're saying "hmm, i think i could help and make this better", please come help us! lots of different roles open that can help move the needle in a lot of different ways.

Jobs - Bluesky

View open positions at Bluesky

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

Là comme ça, difficile à dire

J'ai pas mal l'habitude de travailler avec LaTeX et TikZ, j'ai également un peu demandé d'aide à Mistral

La documentation de TikZ n'est pas très efficace je trouve, le code LaTeX est mélangé à du code ConTeXt, ce qui rend l'ensemble confus

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

This one was a bit more challenging but I like the end result a lot

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

I'm having fun with graphs, LaTeX, and TikZ today

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

In my opinion, the goal should be to find effective ways to prevent this from happening

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

The replies your post got Darril are a prime example of where I’m exposed to toxicity on Bluesky: when a post is brigaded by a group of toxic people

It really negatively impacts my experience when it happens

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