Sandro Sousa

Serving as an editor taught me the limits of academic ideals for open, accessible scholarship, which tend to get smashed into the cliffs of institutional inertia, profit motives, and extractive norms. Some orgs are better than others, but their base tendencies are varying degrees of parasitism 🔥

Excellent opportunity for a hands-on experience with a complex project, highly recommended!

You've seen the projects, the tutors, the location, the program — and it's all 🔥.

You have zero excuses.

Apply before Feb 28th.

We'll know if you didn't. 👀

The call for participants for Complexity72h is finally open! Apply by February 28 for the best collab ever!

Why???
✨ Amazing projects
👩‍🏫 Fantastic tutors
📍 A great location

👉 Apply now: www.complexitynextgen.org/complexity72...

Do you REALLY need anything else to be convinced?
We didn’t think so.

SFI’s GWCSS program is designed for Ph.D. students pursuing thesis research in computational social science. Participants work closely with peers and faculty to advance their own research and take part in collaborative complexity-based problem solving.

Apply by Feb 4, 2026
santafe.edu/gwcss

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📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity”

Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)).

Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles.

Links in🧵

#commsky

As a cognitive scientist, I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to realise that emotion matters a lot, not just for understanding humans, but for understanding any thinking agent.

Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality.

Examples:

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite!
🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸

The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives.

Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the US crossed an 'unacceptable line' following attacks on Venezuela and the capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro.

Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now!
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Four PhD Positions in Natural Language Processing, AI and LLM Security (CPH) The Technical Faculty of IT and Design, Department of Computer Science, Section for Copenhagen, Natural Language Processing The Department of Comput...

🏹 Job alert: Four PhD Positions in Natural Language Processing, AI and LLM Security (CPH) at Aalborg University

📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰
📅 Apply by Feb 1st
🔗 https://bit.ly/4pLX1La

Assistant Professor (f/m/d) Assistant Professor (f/m/d)

🚨 Come join @ceu-dnds.bsky.social as an 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿! 🚨

We are looking for a young and coming researcher in 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 and 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.

If that sounds like you (or someone you know), check out the call & apply (or share the link):

careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...

Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Really cool initiative appreciating the work of early career researchers... Other research groups could definitely copy! 👏

Ouch, what an embarrassment! 🤮

Guess which one of these vehicles has a motor that prevents it from going too fast for the safety of others?

Walking Through Complex Spatial Patterns of Climate and Conflict-Induced Displacements Extreme weather events are projected to intensify global migration, increase resource competition, and amplify socio-spatial phenomena, including intergroup conflicts, socioeconomic inequalities, and ...

Migration has been part of human history for ages and gets more complex and intense with rising conflict and extreme weather. Last week, we took on the challenge of making sense of displacement patterns during the #Complexity72h workshop. To know more, take a 👀
arxiv.org/abs/2506.22120

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

You will own NOTHING and be HAPPY!
At least with games, you can stop this madness of digital goods becoming inaccessible by design, by signing this petition:

eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

Title slide: "What drives the productivity of scientific labor?" a talk by Aaron Clauset at the Oxford Summer School on Economic Networks 2025

Summary slide arguing that prestige is a structural variable in the scientific ecosystem, and that it is differences in working environment (not pedigree) that explains why elite researchers dominate scientific discourse. Ends with a question: how exactly does environment do this?

Summary slide arguing that working environment (specifically, institutional prestige) explains differences in scientific productivity because there's just more available academic labor at elite places, and researchers use this labor to write more papers. Ends with a question: how much does it matter who you collaborate with? That leads into part 2 of the slides

Slides from my keynote lecture "What drives the productivity of scientific labor?" at the 2025 Oxford Summer School on Economic #Networks. Part 1 of 2: why and how do elite scientists dominate scientific discourse?
aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...

It's #SICSS O'clock!!!! Hundreds of students all over the world are learning about computational social science *for free* thanks to the hard work of so many brilliant young scholars who dedicated their time this summer to train the next generation-- from Colombia to Kenya! sicss.io

Silicon Valley doing what it's best at, manufacturing demand!

San Diego's enormous corpse flower looking like aN upside down ballerina.

Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

Still, in the last 50 years it didn't change that much, regardless of having dem or rep governments.

Will it mean something, or not?
It reminds me of this:

youtu.be/35DSdw7dHjs?...

Open science: share all your data

GDPR: do not even think about sharing all your data

Open science: just anonymize your data

Differential privacy experts: good luck with that

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today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper

pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Opinion | A Playbook for Law Firms and Colleges to Stand Up to President Trump Law firms and universities do not need to capitulate. Here’s how they can fight back.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...