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Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

1. Kevin Gross and I have a new paper out today PLOS Biology.

We used economic models based around screening games and the market for unpaid labor to highlight a meltdown cycle threatening peer review.

Dear Digital Humanists, you are all invited to the EADH 2026 Conference! We are meeting in September, in Kraków, Poland.

Mark the important dates in your calendars:

📆 8.02: submission deadline

📆 15-19.09: the conference

Read more: eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl

✈️ See you in Kraków?

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

🔥🔥 New article in PlosOne 🔥🔥

Citation behaviour isn’t a meritocracy.
It’s shaped by social ties and topic overlap.
Let’s rethink how we evaluate research impact.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

I'm an #RStats users, but I know some of the R 📦s I use have reticulate + Python under the hood. Thank you @python.org for standing up for everyone in your community. I've made a small donation, hopefully a lot of small $$ can help fund what's needed.

Very nice post about how the concept of innovation made it to the forefront of contemporary economics, even earning its proponents the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences.

My favorite academic genre is "paper I would’ve written if I’d had the time"

It looks like the Wikipedia page for Mary Brunkow got created literally just this morning, after her Nobel Prize was announced. I had heard that women in academia tend to be somewhat under-represented on Wikipedia, but this is a particularly stark example.
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

The pathologies of academic publications-as-currency seem to finally be reaching a breaking point with AI. I wonder what’s next (beyond the more foundational societal disruptions happening around us)

ゴジラ？
GODZILLA？

some light teasing for an upcoming quarto revealjs plugin I have been working on

Mapping the unseen in practice: comparing latent Dirichlet allocation and BERTopic for navigating topic spaces - Scientometrics This article focuses on comparing two widely used techniques of topic modeling, namely latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) and BERTopic. The first is a Bayesian probabilistic model and the latter is roo...

Maybe this doi.org/10.1007/s111... by @benzpierre.bsky.social et al. could spark interest? @diegokoz.bsky.social may have other tips.

Title and abstract of the paper.

Now out in Social Networks

Network analysis aspires to be “anticategorical,” yet its basic units—relationships—are usually readily categorized ('friendship,' 'love'). Thus, a nontrivial cultural typification is asserted in the very building blocks of most network analyses.

doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

🎉 New Benchmark Alert: KRISTEVA – Close‑Reading for LLMs📚

I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!

Awesome and well-deserved! ADHO's 2026 Zampolli Prize goes to stylo and the Computational Stylistics group!!!

Learn more about the group and about stylo on their website: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/

#DH2025 @adho #Zampolli #stylo #DigitalHumanities

Vote for A. To me, B) evokes CAQDA (computer-assisted qualitative data analysis), which is a well-established designation. A) sounds more like adding a qualitative component to computational analyses, which is probably the referent here?

The program looks amazing! Looking forward to an engaging and productive dialogue on S&T policy in Bristol!

Join Us: Co-create the Czexpats Infoportal for Nomadic Scientists! - Czexpats in Science Are you a scientist who has lived and worked abroad, or would like to do so in the future? Do you have hard-won insights from navigating life in different research environments? Then we need you! Join...

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I made a #DH2025 feed that looks for posts that include the hashtag and posts from/about @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social. You can press the 📌 for easy access.

Would be hard to make complete sense of such metadata with respect to producing science (rigorous or otherwise) unless all referee reports and author responses for unpublished submissions are also published.

An engraved paving stone that says "publish." The word appears twice, in mirror image, so you can see it whether you're coming or going.

Christ's sake, Chicago, I'm just trying to go for a walk.

5-panel comic. (1) [teacher with long hair next to whiteboard] TEACHER: I’m supposed to give you the tools to do good science. (2) [teacher addressing students] But what *are* those tools? Methodology is hard and there are so many ways to get incorrect results. What is the magic ingredient that makes for good science? (3) TEACHER: To figure it out, I ran a regression with all the factors people say are important: [embedded list in sub-panel, cut off at end] Outcome variable: correct scientific results. Predictors: collaboration; skepticism of others’ claims; questioning your own beliefs; trying to falsify hypotheses; checking citations; statistical rigor; blinded analysis; financial disclosure; open data (4) TEACHER: The regression says two ingredients are the most crucial: 1) genuine curiosity about the answer to a question, and 2) ammonium hydroxide. (5) STUDENT: Wait, why did *ammonia* score so high? How did it even get on the list? LONG HAIR: ...And now you’re doing good science!

Good Science

xkcd.com/3101/

You can explore our new estimates of the religious composition of every country, by count and share here: www.pewresearch.org/religion/fea...

For example, here's a clip showing countries with the highest unaffiliated shares in 2020:

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

📢 PSA: If your're a member of #EADH @eadh you probably received an email today allowing you to vote in the Executive Committee #elections.

The #candidate statements can be found here!

https://eadh.org/about/people/candidate-statements-executive-committee-elections-2025

Culture as configurations of categories: Analyzing peer effects via dual-to-regression modeling In this paper we reimagine linear regression modeling as a relational method for cultural analysis. Drawing on the dual-to-regression analytic approac…

Breiger et al. in another brilliant inversion of conventional quantitative reason: regression is built from "configurations of variables manifested by clusters of cases" not single variables.

Open access for thirty days at: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screenshot of NSF budget cuts to various programs

Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences is getting hit with a 67.6% cut, worse than other programs within NSF. Funding for archaeologists comes from the division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, which is facing a 77.3% cut.

It appears every post doc program has been 100% cut.

COS Statement on “Restoring Gold Standard Science” Executive Order The Executive Order issued on May 23, 2025, Restoring Gold Standard Science, references several open science practices championed by COS and the open science and metascience communities more generally...

🆕 COS statement on the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" Executive Order

The EO names important open science principles, but their application here is counter to open science's purpose to accelerate discovery, advance treatments, & create knowledge.

📄 Read our statement: www.cos.io/about/news/c...