Robert Ward

It’s wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles. Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well. Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to AI companies) - all by the age of 26. All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he’d have made on the world if he was still alive today.

Interview with J. Cole on sociology of science: founding and development of the field !

@gptbrooke I cant this time 🥺 but next….?

@robertnward DO NOT TEASE ME LIKE THIS you’re not really coming are you???? 😭

Drop your aspirational vibecamp look here pls 👇

It’s tax time again, so I’m going to continue to brag about this (and give you all lessons learned).

98% of people can't solve this!

Our work on the trajectories of scientists in the knowledge space has been published in EPJ Data Science @epj_ds! We show that tools for studying human mobility can be applied to the mobility within scientific knowledge.🧵 doi.org/10.1140/epjds/…

Do you want to use GPT for text annotation in social science?📕With @eollion @RubingShen @ChatelainArnau5 we wrote a @NatMachIntell correspondence on some risks of doing so. More in the 🧵below and in our paper🧾rdcu.be/dwCE2 1/9

🤩 SFI's John Miller & @Scott_E_Page lead SFI’s Grad Workshop in Computational Social Science Modeling & Complexity. 🚀 Their research interests include adaptive algorithms, behavioral economics, diversity in #complexsystems, & #computationalmodeling. ow.ly/i8kZ50Qq8fv

@MishaTeplitskiy not explicitly ABM, but great for how to use them.

@MishaTeplitskiy I find the chapters on simulation in Hamming's book "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering" really helpful from a research design / iteration perspective too!

While searching for a good reading with which to teach agent-based models, came across this pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

You know those policies that some universities have that admit the top X% of each high school in the state? They're really good for disadvantaged students. They increase graduation rates and annual salaries of disadvantaged students *a lot*. zacharybleemer.com/wp-content/upl…

I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate (PI eligible) at UChicago's Knowledge Lab to build community, programs, and catalyzing research at the intersection of knowledge (e.g., STS, innovation, [mis]information), AI, and society. Please apply and forward! apply.interfolio.com/135089

The Embassy San Francisco has been through a big transition the last year. We are taking on more residents this year & have 5 spots open 🥸😜🥳! We are looking for people actively excited to build & shape the next phase of this #IntentionalCommunity. linktr.ee/embassy2023

@eric_is_weird Have you seen the FOIA released interviews with past DARPA directors? They’re fascinating.

I've been working on a new project writing up administrative histories for a bunch of specific DARPA projects from history in a similar style to my industrial R&D lab pieces I'll be posting them on FreakTakes in batches. First batch of 8 or so projects coming later this month!

“The more uncomfortable truth is that academic science has never been a trade that selects for or supports the best scientific minds in the world.” New for @sciam, regarding debates around the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology scientificamerican.com/article/nobel-…

@gptbrooke @embryosophy If they could do this to Brooke, what couldn’t they do to a crow @meatballtimes ?

@embryosophy @robertnward i feel like it used to be a bit more even when we played before but maybe he was letting me win sometimes

wow what an embarrassing night i was playing hide and seek with my cat and @robertnward just witnessed me run into a door and then straight up lose the game all within the span of about 60 seconds

@gptbrooke Some people might be thinking… it can’t be that bad… I’m here to tell you it was

@meatballtimes @gptbrooke @gptbrooke get the secret good treats and buckle up.

@gptbrooke @robertnward you think your cat army can take on my crow army??? I have been giving them shiny trinkets for months now. their loyalty is unquestionable. they would die for me

pretty sure i just watched a local crow convene some kind of council just one lil dude cawing and cawing and then 3 more showed up and he moved a bit away and now there are like 70 of them what are you silly fellows up to i hope it's not war