A Thanksgiving Tale: Altruistically Giving SAMs WE ARE
There once were two Sams (A & BF), into Effective Altruism (EA), a eugenics-rooted cult only altruistic to the chosen few. SBF's in jail on fraud, Sam A runs nonprofit, OpenAI, that is for profit, not open & makes tech that isn't artificial or intelligent. Sam A was fired for not being full on EA enough, but rehired--capitalism wins!
We recently published the article "Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership" by Mattias Wahlström and Katrin Uba.
"The Most Important Network of Art Institutions that You’ve Never Heard of" by Jason Waite (ArtReview).
"Arts Collaboratory is a network of 25 art spaces, mainly from the Global South, including Raw Material Company, Dakar; Kunci, Yogyakarta; Lugar a dudas, Cali; Ashkal Alwan, Beirut; ruangrupa, Jakarta; and Cooperativa Cráter Invertido, Mexico City, among others. It started in 2007 as more of a traditional art network like the long-running Triangle Network, begun in 1982 and with partnerships in 40 countries, only with the difference that its initiators, the Dutch NGOs DOEN Foundation and Hivos and the publicly funded Mondriaan Fund, provided financial support for the art institutions while wanting to ease bureaucracy for their grantees, provide a platform for them to exchange knowledge and foster South-South art institutional connections."
NEW DATA POLICY
In the future, quantitative studies must provide public access to data and code for replication purposes to be accepted for publication in Acta Sociologica. This initiative aims to increase transparency and quality of quantitative sociology. 1/3
This data sharing is already in the pipeline via NIH for all publicly funded research, NIH itself hasn't defined important aspects of this data sharing however. Is this journal creating a new system specific to itself? If so, that's essentially redundant now.
One issue for you will be the storage itself where NHLBI is suggesting DBGAP where a great deal of data already resides AND it has a process for attaching IRB approval to future data requests.
Life is a bit shite but this weekend has been a joy & reminded me why I do what I do. Just back from a brilliant writing retreat with the fabulous Anna from Ewen’s Room & our exceptional young peer researchers, Isla, Lyca and Lisa (+my colleague Sara not pictured). We now have a great 1st draft, genuinely & properly co-authored. So proud of what we’ve done & so touched by the trust shown & shared. #academicchatter#coproduction@sociology
#Sciencefiction#tvseries#forallmankind brings forward a usually neglected and abandoned as non existent (even in the future) issue about #workersrights in #spaceexploration.
In general the creators have shown repeatedly that they don't stick to clichés and usual #scifi tropes to deliver a brilliant series.
Even from the opening scene of s1e1 they show their intentions by re-enacting the 1st manned moon landing in a provocative way.
Malcolm Gladwell loved our book so much he blurbed it!!!: "Life under Pressure told me more about what has gone wrong with the upper-income corners of American society than any book I’ve read in years. It is a devastating work of scholarship."
In 'Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate,' Evelina Johansson Wilén delves into an enduring discussion on the intersection of oppressive structures in feminism.
All, the newest issue of Contexts is live and living in color!!! It is free to download for 30 days, so get your rad, rigorous, readable, relevant #sociology now, now now!!!!
My impression is that the demand is low by now, but maybe someone still wants to give it a shot. Also, I would rather post this on Twitter and not on here if I still had an account.
Microsoft's Chief Scientific Officer E. Horvitz assembled this collection of essays, many from academics on AI helping humans to flourish.
While interesting, it collectively is a one-sided picture that MUST be read w/ a critical eye given its source & Microsoft's financial interests. It is light on surveillance, labor, racism, sexism & other risks & social harms AI is & will bring, especially AI controlled by giant corporations.
From the CBI Archives.
UCLA CS Prof Leonard Kleinrock, successfully transmitted the first message over ARPANET from UCLA to Stanford. The group intended to transmit the word “LOGIN,” but the system crashed just after they had sent the first two letters.
Did COVID lockdowns incur a shift towards digital cultural participation?
In this recently published study, @Blaabaek and Mads Jæger find little evidence of substitution from physical to digital cultural participation during COVID-19 lockdowns.
They also show that by the end of 2021 cultural participation had not recovered to pre-pandemic levels.