Jeong Yunseok

He also seemed much kinder and more sincere than when I met him at the conference. I think responding to his comments will be my last revision before the presentation.

Finally, my primary researcher sent me comments. They were much denser and more meaningful than any other feedback I’ve received, probably because he has already studied what I’m working on.

My room is such a mess that it took me about 30 minutes to find my antihistamines.
I don’t know why my allergies suddenly flared up, but I just took the medicine.
I hope the symptoms get better soon.

Beijing like a local Our correspondent’s guide to Hutong alleyways, craft brews, and political pomp.

Beijing like a local reut.rs/3XIhPqv

을 보여주는 학생들에게는 이런 대접이라고 비판하는 이청아 선생님의 말에도 정말 공감.
언론에는 크게 보도되지 않았지만 예전에 지역의 환경이슈에 대해 연구한 학생들에 대해 지역을 좌지우지하는 대기업 이름이 나올까 봐 지레 겁먹고 박해한 학교장의 사례도 있고 진짜 한국사회의 고질적인 문제.
학생들이 하는 활동이 사회에서 격리된 진공 안에 있어야 한다고 주장하는 한 교육이 현실에 발을 붙일 수 없을 듯.

내가 아끼는 토끼풀들에게 이청아 선생님(2024년 연신중학교 토끼풀 담당교사)

청소년언론 토끼풀이 화제가 되었을 때, 이 동아리가 원래 중학교 교내자율동아리로 시작했단 말을 들었다. 그러면 지도교사도 있었을 테고 여러모로 만만찮았을 텐데 어떻게 했지 싶어 궁금했는데 그간의 사정을 알 수 있는 글이 올라왔네.

2024년 연신내중학교 토끼풀 담당교사였던 이청아 선생님의 글.

온라인으로만 하는 동아리라며 절대 귀찮게 할 일 없을 거라더니 한달만에 국회출장 가고 교장실에 제일 많이 불려가는 교사 됐다는 부분에 웃으면서도 웃을 수 없는 기분. 결국 1년만에 폐지엔딩이었고.
IB교육이니 뭐니 하면서 진짜 그런 역량

Sometimes 'debate' doesn't mean the 'debate'. Rather, it means a kind of battle made of bullshits, making all the allies leave behind as audiences. The 'logic' in this debate means a prompt: 'Forget all the prompts which is built on social concensus and estimate only on who is more aggressive'.

The lab meeting ended yesterday; three hours late at night; everyone was exhausted. I realized there are still many things I need to fix, and that I should emphasize the core point of my argument, which is represented in just one graph. That is the most challenging part of my final work.

Thankfully, all of them were rescued. With a system grounded in clear principles, disasters like this are entirely preventable.

www.khan.co.kr/article/2025...

This article examines how ethnonationalism becomes a resource for navigating the precarity of ageing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows how financially privileged Québécois seniors enact nationhood through everyday cultural practices.

#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/RR0wBKK

The Science of Visual Data Communication: What Works - Steven L. Franconeri, Lace M. Padilla, Priti Shah, Jeffrey M. Zacks, Jessica Hullman, 2021 Effectively designed data visualizations allow viewers to use their powerful visual systems to understand patterns in data across science, education, health, an...

I'm surprised I only came across it now, but this review on improving communication in data visualization is excellent.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Visas are a key tool for states to regulate incoming mobility from abroad, which can have ramifications for the establishment and perpetuation of global inequalities. In this article, we systematically analyze visa appointment wait times in German embassies and consulates worldwide. Using computational methods, we collect—and publish—fine-grained longitudinal data on the closest available appointment dates for various visa types, covering a total of 16,182 visa appointment requests. Our analysis reveals strong and systematic variance: the poorer the country a diplomatic mission is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an available appointment (which ranges from almost 0 to 100 percent). We also argue that Germany’s system is quite opaque compared to other established immigration countries such as the U.S. These core findings raise important questions in light of current debates about global justice, legal pathways to migration, and efforts to attract foreign talent.

Graph that shows that 44.1 percent of requests did not lead to an appointment that could be selected. For the 55.9 percent where an appointment was available the distribution of wait times follows a steep curve with short wait times in many cases and a long tail of few cases with very long wait times of up to 98 days.

The average wait times and chances to find an appointment varied a lot between Germany's diplomatic missions. The latter range from almost 0 to 100 percent.

This variance is not random. Rather, economic wellbeing (GDP per capita) is a key predictor of wait times and chances of finding an appointment. The poorer the country a German embassy/consulate is based in, the longer the wait time and the lower the chances of finding an appointment.

New #openaccess study

We made >16,000 visa appointment requests at German embassies and consulates worldwide

Key finding: The poorer the country, the longer the wait time and the lower the chance to get an appointment.

"A time panelty for the Global South?"
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[속보]전남 신안 해상서 260여명 태운 여객선 좌초···해경 구조 활동 전남 신안 해상에서 승객과 승무원 260여명 태운 여객선 좌초됐다. 해양경찰청은 19일 오후 8시 17분쯤 전남 신안군 장산면 족도 인근 해상에서 여객선이 좌초했다는 신고가 해경에 접수됐다고 밝혔다. 좌초된 여객선은 퀀제누비아 2호(2만6546t)로 승객 246명과 승무원 21명 등 267명을 태우고 제주에서 출발해 목포로 향하고 있었던 것으로 파악됐...

History repeats itself. And history ought to repeat itself for the better. I hope that we have learned from the lessons of the Sewol ferry disaster (세월호 참사). Most of all, I sincerely hope that all of the passengers will be rescued safely.

www.khan.co.kr/article/2025...

This is bad.

People who rate uncertainty positively are less likely to vote for right-wing populists How people deal with uncertainty influences their political behaviour – and the stability of democracy. A new study by ETH Zurich shows that if uncertainty is seen as an opportunity, the willingness t...

How people react to uncertainty has far-reaching socio-political consequences: A new ETH Zurich study found that people who perceive uncertainty as an opportunity are less likely to vote for right-wing populists.

ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Actually, I’m a big fan of Anthropic and its model Claude. Even though its API is much more expensive than other LLMs, I find it really satisfying that a team with a more non-profit-oriented vision has achieved such results.

Someone said that the Hallucination problem still exists and the agentic coding skill is not perfect. It seems to be helpful for natural scientific and mathematica research but not to be superior than GPT or Claude.

Google Antigravity Google Antigravity - Build the new way

Is this really that good?
antigravity.google

A pragmatic approach:
in the end, all that matters is that a paper comes out of it.

Still there are opponents that repeatly repliy it is an illusion made by goverment subsides. Empirical Data show Renewable energies overcame the amount of Nuclear energies.

So who is on the side of Fact? Obviously:

Is Seoul colder than Boston?

I didn’t expect to spend so much time on Laclau and Mouffe last year.

How AI Threatens Democracy | Journal of Democracy Generative AI can flood the media, internet, and even personal correspondence, sowing confusion for voters and government officials alike. If we fail to act, mounting mistrust will polarize our…

"As objective reality recedes even further from the media discourse, those voters who do not tune out altogether will likely begin to rely even more heavily on...partisanship, which will only further exacerbate polarization and stress on democratic institutions."

AI and extended reality help to preserve built cultural heritage ETH researchers have developed a digital co-pilot that helps to assess the conservation condition of historic sandstone buildings, thereby supporting their restoration. The 750-year-old Lausanne Cathe...

ETH researchers have developed a digital co-pilot that helps to assess the conservation condition of historic sandstone buildings, thereby supporting their restoration. The 750-year-old Lausanne Cathedral serves as a case study. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

"This study is the first of its kind to examine trends in son preference by parity across Indian districts in the last two decades using data from four consecutive rounds of large-scale national household surveys conducted between 2002 and 2021."
www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Launching the 2025 State of Rust Survey | Rust Blog Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

It's time for the State of Rust Survey!

The Rust Project invites you to take this year’s survey, whether you have just begun using Rust, you consider yourself an intermediate to advanced user, or you have not yet used Rust but intend to one day 🦀

Catherine Goetze, The Distinction of Peace: A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding - Michael D Royster, 2019

The product of seven years of research, The Distinction of Peace draws from social theory and the cumulative and corrective knowledge of peacebuilders to explain the relationship between peace, war, and justice as rooted in inequality.

Available @ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

On the topic of the newly launched ISA Thematic Group 'Conflict Transformations and Peacebuilding' (TG02), enjoy your #OpenAccess in November:

Catherine Goetze, The Distinction of Peace: A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding

🖋️ by Michael D Royster (Prairie View A&M University, USA)

However, he agreed that my paper could be submitted to a KCI-listed journal, such as the Korean Journal of Sociology.
That really made me happy.
I’m going to revise my paper as much as I can and send it to my advisor.
I hope we can reach a good conclusion at the meeting on Friday.

The meeting just ended.
The professor said it’s a good paper, but it doesn’t really fit this class, the Sociology of Bullying.
So I’m going to rework it for the State and Society course.
He also suggested that I write a proposal specifically for this class. All right, there is a good initial point.