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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.

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!! This is a distressing chart (sharing the caption for more context).

According to the article (which I only read swiftly; not endorsing) in most cases, expensive and thorough REF decisions to fund UK universities align almost entirely with a simple, inexpensive citation-based approach.

🎉 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!

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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metadata with respect to producing science (rigorous or otherwise) unless all referee reports and author responses for unpublished submissions are also published.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...

I just posted a #Mastodon thread on how a Russian scientometrician fled to #Germany 🇩🇪 - but from there, he continues to promote narratives aligned with Putin’s propaganda:

📌 mstdn.science/@serhii/1145...

#Scientometrics #RussiaUkraineWar #StopRussianPropaganda #ISSI2025 #RussiaIsATerroristState

There’s the weaponization of open science y’all. Basically ripped from @cos.io’s website. The ROI for leaders speaking up is the highest it will be now, and only decline over time as these policies take shape and grow teeth.

Our editorial on "Mapping relational structures in culture" could not permanently be featured in open access for reasons stemming from the publisher's side. However, it is accessible for .ca a month on the following link, in case you want to read/download it:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kzmc_,iJ9...

International scientific collaborations that involve the US are complex now, but a good start is to assume you're collaborating with the 18c. The state is largely hostile to science. Economic theory is mercantilist. Travel is difficult. Research funding depends on the goodwill of quirky aristocrats.

Great news for Europe, but this 2-year budget is about what NSF spends in one year on GEO:Polar Programs alone. It's a drop in the bucket compared to the American research investments Trump has demolished #saveNSF

Bonsai: Tree representations for distortion-free visualization and exploratory analysis of single-cell omics data Single-cell omics methods promise to revolutionize our understanding of gene regulatory processes during cell differentiation, but analysis of such data continues to pose a major challenge. Apart from...

Here it is! Bonsai. Now there is really no more excuse for using t-SNE/UMAP. Bonsai not only makes cool pictures of your data. It actually rigorously preserves its structure. No tunable parameters. Incredible work by @dhdegroot.bsky.social.
I'm so excited about this!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Wow, very cool! Something tells me this might be an opportunity to work with Maciej Eder (and other great scholars)!

"The University of #Tartu is now accepting applications for three full-time postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Digital Text Scholarship (DigiTS), funded by the European […]

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We could probably run a little bibliometric study just with the references in your paper 😊 But seriously - congrats on this immense job 👏 🎉

153 references 😮🤯

Mapping relational structures in culture Culture is a relational concept, and the empirical manifestations of culture are worth being analysed in a structural vein to unveil the patterns of r…

After 3 years of work the editorial of our “Mapping relational structures in culture” Poetics special issue w/ Marco Serino, Elisa Klüger & Fabien Eloire is out. It introduces 10 amazing papers mapping culture w/ GDA/SNA. Below I introduce the 10 papers 🧵(1/12)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint out: "Keyword Newspeak: Trump’s Orwellian Censorship of DEI in Science"
osf.io/wkvs5_v1

We examine the presence of flagged keywords in NSF-funded research from 1988 to 2024.

w/ @caropradier.bsky.social, É. Marteau, @diegokoz.bsky.social, @lucyces.bsky.social, @lariviev.bsky.social