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Dec 11 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
A short thread of photos with other network scientists over the past decade or so.
With Tom Snijders and @twvalente and another person whose name I cannot place (help me?). About 15 years ago in DC.
With @kimmokaski and @FReedTsochas, about 8 years ago in Finland.
With @davidlazer and @barabasi and @barrywellman about 12 years ago, probably in Boston?
With my friend Laszlo @barabasi (in his lab in Boston, I think, about 12 years ago).
With @JacksonmMatt at @sfiscience a few months ago (had a great time on the panel with him on #SocialNetworks).

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Nov 11
Fine essay on absurd & dishonest attack on @hoovlet

'While activists insist biological reality of sex binary is wrong-headed & pernicious, the true threat to science and human dignity is idea that in order to support anyone’s rights we must deny reality.' link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
"While some who are fighting for the rights of gender minorities may sincerely believe that subverting science is necessary to protect an oppressed population, department chairs and university presidents are tasked with ensuring that the campus environment....
"... is one in which the fundamental ideals of truth-seeking and academic freedom are not only defended, but actively promoted.....
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Oct 30
Since the late 1990s and into the 2000s, many scientists have been engaged in what I call the "assembly project” of modern science.
For the past few centuries, swept by a reductionistic fervor and by considerable success, scientists have been purposefully examining ever-smaller parts of nature in order to understand the whole.
We’ve disassembled life into organs, then cells, then macromolecules. We’ve disassembled matter into atoms, then nuclei & sub-atomic particles. We've disassembled societies into individuals, attitudes, and behaviors. We’ve invented everything from microscopes to super-colliders.
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Oct 29
We wanted to formulate an assessment about certain aspect of the boards of various American universities. 1/
To assess one aspect, we found all the members of each board for an illustrative set of American universities, and then looked up the wikipedia pages, if any, of every board member, in order to compute the average notabilitiy of board members. 2/
Among other things, for every member of a set of university boards, we computed the average length of the wikipedia entries (bytes), page views per day (over a year), and the number of languages into which entries had been translated. Board members without an entry got a zero. 3/
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Oct 25
Graduate students are primarily students and trainees, not ordinary workers. Academia is a calling. I suspect unionization will tip the balance so faculty prefer, at the margin, to hire post-docs to do research in their labs rather than students. yaledailynews.com/blog/2022/10/2…
I wonder whether alternative will emerge whereby PhD students are simply told to pay for their education, like MD, JD, MFA, and other graduate students. This will have the effect of raising inequality, as only the rich or those willing to borrow would be able to get the education
Some data: median 25 yo in US earns $35,000: dqydj.com/average-median… PhD student stipends range from $23-33,000 isphdforme.com/average-stipen… plus free education. In STEM, stipends are higher still, but it varies a lot by region (and sometimes is not enough!!): nature.com/articles/d4158…
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Oct 13
“We welcomed a new Dean of Students who is focused on ensuring students learn to resolve disagreements among themselves whenever possible rather than reflexively looking to the institution to serve as a referee.”

Let’s see if this is reflected in actions law.yale.edu/yls-today/news…
The problem I have with all of these very positive developments is that they should all have been present from the very beginning in one of the country’s leading law schools.
Furthermore, since no students were punished for the previous gross violation of rules regarding disruption (all on video), I can’t help but wonder if any future students will be punished if they record a conversation that is indeed very damning.
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Sep 10
Oberlin Says It Will Pay $36.59 Million to a Local Bakery.

Three details that catch the eye: nytimes.com/2022/09/08/us/…
“Oberlin had stopped ordering from the bakery but had offered to restore its business if charges were dropped against the three students or if the bakery gave students accused of shoplifting special treatment, which it refused to do.”
‘Carmen Twillie Ambar, Oberlin president, said that the case was far from over and that “none of this will sway us from our core values.” The college said then that the bakery’s “archaic chase-and-detain policy regarding suspected shoplifters was the catalyst for the protests.”’
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