@robertnward

PhD student @GeorgiaTech. Visitor @Stanford @InteractionData. @OhioState '17 '19. I study organizations and science using computational methods.

 Atlanta, GA
robertnward.github.io/
Joined September 2019
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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.
Susan Swartz@beadmomsw11 Jul 2024
11 years, 6 months. RIP my darling boy.
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Interview with J. Cole on sociology of science: founding and development of the field !
Columbia University Press@ColumbiaUP22 May 2024
The essays in this book trace the development and institutionalization of the sociology of science. Find out why in this author interview with Columbia News. buff.ly/3QScfiA
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It’s tax time again, so I’m going to continue to brag about this (and give you all lessons learned).
Lindsey Bullinger@lindsbullinger18 Apr 2022
In honor of tax day 2022, I am going to share a story about how--as a grad student--I argued against the IRS and won. 1/
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Howie Hua@howie_hua7 Apr 2024
98% of people can't solve this!
"Cross each bridge exactly once!" with the 7 bridges of Konigsberg.

ALT "Cross each bridge exactly once!" with the 7 bridges of Konigsberg.

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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/s13688…

Charting mobility patterns in the scientific knowledge landscape

EPJ Data Science - From small steps to great leaps, metaphors of spatial mobility abound to describe discovery processes. Here, we ground these ideas in formal terms by systematically studying...

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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
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🤩 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
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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-conten…
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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
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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
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“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/artic…

Nobel Prize Debate Misses the Mark on the Real Culprits Ignoring Scientific Merit

The furor over a Nobel Prize winner’s derailed career lets scientists off the hook for their own responsibilities to fix a broken academic reward system

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The Radical Reading Room relies on patrons & we need more supporters to keep us open. There are very few free public spaces in #SanFrancisco, & late night versions are rare indeed. Please consider supporting us financially, sharing this post helps givebutter.com/DCFreeSpaces
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liubov@luyibov26 Sep 2023
We are restarting the network seminar series with the first talk on "Higher-Order Networks and Motif Analysis in Hypergraphs" talk on 5th October (4pm CET) by Quintino Francesco Lotito👆 w/@msantolini @research_lpi Sing up here #hypergraph forms.gle/Wxw8wgenWjJytqNt6
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Arjun Raj
@arjunrajlab31 Aug 2023
Faculty application season is starting up! Here's some thoughts on the process: docs.google.com/document/d/1… Part of Tools for Science: docs.google.com/document/d/1… Also, my offer stands for 1-1 mentoring to anyone who wants to chat, just send me an email and we'll find a time!

Thoughts on applying for faculty jobs

Thoughts on applying for faculty positions By Arjun Raj, upon discussions with postdocs from around the world navigating the academic job market These thoughts summarize some of the points that...

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Before you head over to #ASA2023, take a few minutes to read Adam Gopnik's profile of Howie Becker in @NewYorker. What a mind. What a life. newyorker.com/magazine/2015/…

The Outside Game

From drug use to queer theory, Howard Becker changed the way we think about deviance. Adam Gopnik on the career of an American professor in Paris.

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We've extended our deadline to submit abstracts to our AOM PDW to July 24! Please come join us for an exciting panel at the intersection of sci of sci, AI/ML, and field experiments & exchange feedback w/ leading scholars @inaganguli @yian_yin @profjamesevans and Neil Thompson.
Michael E. Rose 🇺🇦@Michael_E_Rose6 Jul 2023
🚨REMINDER🚨 If you want to attend the roundtables at our illustrous PDW at the upcoming #AOM2023, submit your idea until tomorrow ⏬ xitter.cf/Michael_E_Rose/status/…
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CSCS Professor Mark Newman (who also plays piano in his spare time) has a new book out about the science of music - musical instruments, sound, acoustics, hearing, and why music works the way it does, check it out: amazon.com/dp/B0C63YBLDX @umichlsa @UmichPhysics #scienceofmusic
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Kyle Myers
@KRoyMyers7 Jun 2023
The main figure from my proposal in this collection on enhancing the NIH -- we need more meta-science RCTs!
Brookings Econ
@BrookingsEcon7 Jun 2023
In a collection of short proposals, @pierre_azoulay, Chiara Franzoni and Paula Stephan, @KRoyMyers, @mayadurvasula, @cookdeegan, @RushHolt and @PatentScholar – contribute their thoughts on to enhance the NIH’s ability to support high social-impact work -> brook.gs/3pJw00R

Building a better NIH | Brookings

The social value of gains in health and longevity are enormous, and a variety of evidence suggests that biomedical research has played a key role in generating these gains. The  success of the rapid...

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Great presentation by Sergio Pelaez at #ATLC23 on Public Value Expressions in AI Patents. Builds on GPT classification method in arxiv.org/abs/2305.10383
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