Nate Breznau

I now add QR codes presentation slides for citations. It occurred to me I can embed a link in the QR code image, so users can access the URL by clicking too (rather than adding another link somewhere else on the slide). Winnie the Pooh would call this #afishinthesea

GitHub - nbreznau/word-cloud: Shiny app with an example of word cloud. See https://antoinesoetewey.shinyapps.io/word-cloud/ Shiny app with an example of word cloud. See https://antoinesoetewey.shinyapps.io/word-cloud/ - nbreznau/word-cloud

If you miss 'Wordle' (the website that made word clouds before the daily puzzle game 'Wordle' was invented), you can use my app to generate them. nate-breznau.shinyapps.io/word-cloud/

It is a forked and tuned version of Antoine Soetewey's original app.

github.com/nbreznau/wor...

I grew up in Kalamazoo, MI and middle class homeowners would do "Candy Cane Lanes" where entire neighborhoods would compete to have the most and best decorations. There are streams of cars going through the neighborhood to admire the decorations for weeks.

I really get a kick out of using Gen AI sometimes. I'm preparing several talks for my six week Japan tour on topics of #openscience #theoriesasdata #metascience, and this came up in my preparations.

ChatGPT - [outputs various large pictures of an historical figure I am researching]
Me - "are those pictures in the public domain?"
ChatGPT - "no. you should not use them"
Me - "why do you get to use them?"
ChatGPT - "they are the same as internet search result thumbnails"
Me - facepalm

Human knowledge may find itself in a non-recursive feedback loop over time, and its utility to human realities and social worlds collapses with it.
#GenAI #computerscience #AI #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT

Using Gen AI to produce knowledge carries long-term risks because it can lead to 'model collapse' - where the data used to train new Gen AI systems is increasingly a product of AI rather than humans. Knowledge and practical functions of AI collapse because semantic meaning is no longer human-based.

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In Japan and want to learn about #openscience, #opendata, #datamanagementplan and The Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility Survey? Come out December 16th to the University of Tokyo @die-bonn.de @meta-rep.bsky.social

Are we really transparent? Are we really sharing every decision in our research workflow that influenced design and/or results? #openscience #reproducbility #questionableresearchpractices crowdid.hypotheses.org/1822 @openedition.bsky.social

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Fair enough ☝️

The billions of research funds channeled into the pockets of Elsevier and other commercial publisher in return for very little actual value is one of academia's big inefficiencies that will eventually be replaced by more attractive Community-run alternatives

Do you have data that sometimes drives you crazy - or a question you have never had the right space to ask?

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If a society includes both vegetarians and cannibals, and they are in a deep conflict over what people eat, trying to understand each other and why they have their positions might prevent (further) war. It's just a theory of communication, can't say I'm right.

We might make more progress by seeking to understand others with different viewpoints, no matter how repulsive we find them. Excluding others viewpoints only deepens division and prevents communication IMO

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For Bismarck, bureaucracy was a was to prevent people from exercising too many democratic freedoms at once.

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Dear potential authors. The purpose of #SocArXiv (like any preprint server) is to offer green open access and early dissemination of ongoing scientific work. It is not a place to hack citations or submit garbage that is unpublishable and/or AI written. @socarxiv.bsky.social #openscience

Finally the Lorikeet has been released into the wild.

In Paris to pick up a trophy today! Honoured that the European Academy of Sociology found my article with Carina Mood interesting enough that they gave it their Best Article Prize.

I look forward to a day of presentations and discussions.

And the article is here
doi.org/10.1177/0003...

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【Reminder】Call for Papers (deadline: 31 December 2025) for RC20 & RC33 &RC56 Online Joint Conference (24– 28 August 2026). www.comparative-sociology.online/JC2026.htm
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Tim Gill is still alive!

Could also be a network/homophiliy link. That crime becomes institutionalized in places because of contact and social exchange (could also call it a 'contagion' effect, although this is not a term sociologists tend to like). Could also be a policing targeting effect...

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They will be happily retired and not need to be remembered because time with family, social engagement and gardening turn out to be far more satisfying.

Check Research Outputs for Best Practices A modular, extendable system for automatically checking research outputs for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.

The package formerly known as papercheck has changed its name to metacheck! We're checking more than just papers, with functions to assess OSF projects, github repos, and AsPredicted pre-registrations, with more being developed all the time.

scienceverse.github.io/metacheck/