@bookstodon As we approach the end of 2023, I would love to know about the very best books you read this year. (They don't have to have been published in 2023 for your "best of" list.)
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon Thanks! FWIW it got a starred review in Publishers Weekly and made the Scientific American Best of 2023 list. Hope you get a chance to read it!
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
@actasociologica@sociology@academicchatter That's great. What steps are you taking to ensure that human subjects data won't be deanonymized, either through new forensic techniques or through integration between disparate public data sets?
So i have just finished reading At The Existentialist Cafe. It is a really good book covering existentialism and phenomenology and the various ideas around it.
If this is your sort of interest, then it is worth a read. It is the stories of half a dozen of the main philosophers of this, and their interactions, so you get something more than reading each of them.
In 2022 I was invited to contribute to an edited collection that was supposed to come out within the year. That obv didn’t happen, and I still don’t have a prospective publication date. I feel so frustrated and I regret not sending the piece to a journal. Anyone else with a similar experience? @academicchatter
@ericsfraga@eugenia_diegoli@academicchatter as a grad student, I submitted a paper that had won a prize at a conference to three different journals (one after the other) and none of them ever got around to reviewing it in the course of five years.
Okay, now I want to know if there are any academic journals devoted to speculative fiction. I know there are the anthologies like BtVS and Philosophy (or the book I have on my TBR, the Religions of Star Trek).
If there isn't, must look up what it takes to start one, because that would certainly fall under the umbrella of something I'm working on.
This painting by Peter Cramer is rich in detail, dear #histodons - peppercakes, street selling activities in an early modern European urban setting, broadsheets glued to a wall, etc.
But what on earth is the highlighted child transporting on its shoulders? A wooden box full of what? Your help is appreciated! @histodons
In previous years, I've invited my undergrads to post to Tw*tter during my class sessions, as an alternate way to participate and as a shared (and public) backchannel adding extra digital materials to our conversations.
This year, for obvious reasons, that's impossible, so I'm asking them to do so via Mastodon (which none of my students have used before).
It'll be a little experiement. Let's see whether #SOCccc23 gets any use from my #copyright students.
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