nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqxe2mq84muv466ddyts9gj2s6let5wfmuasnrfjd5qklqkw7kvv0qr06vjn just watched the Ken Burns documentary on the Dust Bowl, where speculative risk taking, displacement to government, and refusal to retreat dynamic played out and then repeated itself in the 1950s. If even FDR was afraid to withdraw from ecological disaster when people were starving to death in apocalyptic conditions, we’re going to need something even more extraordinary for the future
Beautiful sunset on West Hill, as I continued to listen to Klinenberg's book "2020" — I continue to be astonished bt so much I didn't know or notice while I like many others was just trying to survive
#OutdoorMoments
Enjoyed meeting nostr:npub1y4nygj85ggturx4nlzzmdqunaxzsallu2cltm50f37kunx0h7jcs5c25mf in person, for a fascinating conversation about maintenance, sustaining public goods, AI regulation, water, and open data- thanks for meeting up Luis!
"JP Morgan Chase notified the Treasury Department of more than $1 billion in transactions related to human trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein dating back 16 years"
What does it mean for scholarly fields to have an impact, and how do they compare?
Had a *great* conversation yesterday with my #Cornell colleague Yian Yin, who linked academic papers with government mentions, news mentions, and patents.
This chart from his research compares different fields in terms of these three outcomes
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01397-5
Large-scale quantitative studies like this are limited by the outcome measures they use, so it's not surprising that public value of art, history, and philosophy is under-estimated. I'll admit I was surprised to see psychology receive more citations in government and the news than economics.
I was also fascinated to see that computer scientists contribute waaay more to patents than to public discourse or policy conversations, which might be part of the problem in tech policy.
What does it mean for scholarly fields to have an impact, and how do they compare?
Had a *great* conversation yesterday with my #Cornell colleague Yian Yin, who linked academic papers with government mentions, news mentions, and patents.
This chart from his research compares different fields in terms of these three outcomes
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01397-5
nostr:npub1g57ze9t87qkn63zm6yzcf8zlzsldgn5c8v3eq8sc3s7q383ht52sgky839 nostr:npub18du50m8zn9swg344uj78800t094v4mt2ncdluh6j35y7g684chhqyn9g4e I think the general assumption would be that Canadians would be angry at Meta and use Facebook less. We had MPs calling for people to boycott it! IME my fellow Canadians were overall anti-Facebook and pro government on the topic, but in the end they clearly just don’t care (or already weren’t using Facebook).
Aside from that, the whole law presumed that Facebook was benefiting from news, so if it had no effect on traffic, it seems to disprove the main premise.
nostr:npub1wkmpu3lummw8ewuq6g0uqdyxejecvdpk92frt2ys50nn55ldf54qqe37zl we know from the research that people don't primarily use Facebook for news, and the company has reportedly done research showing that reducing news in people's feeds is better for engagement. And boycotting critical social infrastructure is very difficult, unless people are supported to migrate relationships elsewhere. Finally, Facebook doesn't make money on traffic, it makes money on targeted ads. So it's hard to know what the effect has been on revenue.
Today I was inducted into my co-op's tech team by the bearded elder open source hackers that set up our original systems when the world wide web was only two years old.
Genuinely enjoying the chance to learn about the evolution of these systems for the common good.
I really love nostr:npub1z5usswpkqx3w95709k3hnpmn3tfrk00yctx705sj2zhr4jhxh0zqerx063's "Three Reminders to help you thrive—not merely survive— in grad school"
- Remember your reasons for pursuing this path — and write it down
- Remember the people who sustain you — and stay connected
- Remember to give yourself a break
Moved by the story of Alice Stewart, the epidemiologist who discovered that low-level radiation causes leukemia:
"It took them a decade of bitter bureaucratic battles to regain access to health records of the Hanford workers, but their work resulted in a series of studies which continued to suggest a cancer effect much higher than suggested by the A-Bomb research."
"Truth is the daughter of time," she liked to say.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1404528/Alice-Stewart.html
via nostr:npub1w9xf5wyev0euevft4t5zpk0zmqzpca45yeq009ruhah48myg9ktqvmymdk
Huge props to Luis Grijalva, a Guatemalan-American and DACA recipient who is running in the world championship 5000 meter race today
Lots of people have named physical scientists who were ignored for important work - what about social scientists?
Question for algo accountability researchers:
What's your favorite empirical paper that includes data on actual decisions by humans who are aided by an automated decision-tool like a pre-trial risk assessment algorithm or HR algorithm or medical screening tool?
🚨Dream job alert 🚨 Tech Policy Press will actually pay real money for fellows who want to research & write about tech policy.
*Great* opportunity for folks in journalism, civil society, and academia doing work on tech policy
https://techpolicy.press/tech-policy-press-is-launching-a-fellowship-program/
Thanks to many of you, I now have more #Cornell folks on Mastodon to share!
First, I forgot to include our own lab! This includes nostr:npub1zeu0kfewhvv4jmvfxu0mz0tlv6k3mhqrhkq37utxgdnlwx5p0ctshstulw
nostr:npub1jgd3ra67cg6gedh8t4f7fm7m67y3xahehxysyjpmz46swt44wnmq8ww59t pointed me to nostr:npub1pm34rn87hkpsz3z0vnhcpzasv9var8exfx2pkj5naaftrduz5yps2qp2z4 & nostr:npub1c6u3j63du5yzlastfrlyjhuv3j25z5c996ezu8hngx6z95009qgst6qrug !
And nostr:npub13pguehc7updak0p7j7lfeg8ylnnq0h496mc9t0mvkvg2kwmj7psspwyzcf pointed me to nostr:npub1lc2a68ga09c7te3zjn9zc76w6m9e7tfhqwv8ydz5pecyded3kgrq58pxkp and nostr:npub1p5r984vsxcxsel7qgrmft4zw7j97pjdplrtz06aad38mshfqe3dse6xahq
Who else from Cornell is on Mastodon? Let us know so we can follow you!
If you're on Mastodon/the fediverse and want to have a thriving academic social media conversation, one of the simplest things you can do is to invite your friends to join (or give it another try).
If you're not sure how to support others to join, there are now many guides for different communities & disciplines. If you're not sure what to send folks, follow up in this thread with what you need, and we'll try to get you the right resource!
It's a new semester, so who else on Mastodon is at #Cornell?
Share your info and I'll reshare it in this thread!
My current list:
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Thanks to many of you, I now have more #Cornell folks on Mastodon to share!
First, I forgot to include our own lab! This includes nostr:npub1zeu0kfewhvv4jmvfxu0mz0tlv6k3mhqrhkq37utxgdnlwx5p0ctshstulw
nostr:npub1jgd3ra67cg6gedh8t4f7fm7m67y3xahehxysyjpmz46swt44wnmq8ww59t pointed me to nostr:npub1pm34rn87hkpsz3z0vnhcpzasv9var8exfx2pkj5naaftrduz5yps2qp2z4 & nostr:npub1c6u3j63du5yzlastfrlyjhuv3j25z5c996ezu8hngx6z95009qgst6qrug !
And nostr:npub13pguehc7updak0p7j7lfeg8ylnnq0h496mc9t0mvkvg2kwmj7psspwyzcf pointed me to nostr:npub1lc2a68ga09c7te3zjn9zc76w6m9e7tfhqwv8ydz5pecyded3kgrq58pxkp and nostr:npub1p5r984vsxcxsel7qgrmft4zw7j97pjdplrtz06aad38mshfqe3dse6xahq
Who else from Cornell is on Mastodon? Let us know so we can follow you!
It's a new semester, so who else on Mastodon is at #Cornell?
Share your info and I'll reshare it in this thread!
My current list:
nostr:npub1rje9h3gxluwey3ekkspwv2m3nc9g9cjmet3gqzczm9c4lypmrk2stw3xea nostr:npub1z5usswpkqx3w95709k3hnpmn3tfrk00yctx705sj2zhr4jhxh0zqerx063 nostr:npub13pguehc7updak0p7j7lfeg8ylnnq0h496mc9t0mvkvg2kwmj7psspwyzcf nostr:npub130gwya94qldw22htc0p8fe993cjqv6gujccx6eupdflffec85f7svenk25 nostr:npub1nqxy7d2due5f08e8kgz6vdp6sflv7vqs9e6lkng9996huuacgp0qh9p62v nostr:npub1enwutkk83rtffgswyuy5x7wxdms7up20kjkmyv8awe2gdmp4dzwqf6dgng nostr:npub1dlaxmh6vvmv3nnf5ckxk6aavslfeyzs38elwkkd3w9jqxts48yzq2z35lu nostr:npub1rgrzcfa9f4r0hqzsyruuyfh30nen6ng9sefrhncda703ly7mk5es6eqx3f nostr:npub1tzphqf26rkmfegdtwtfs303a9ffyr99w7y3rpwyz86uxgjz09gls3c7kxc nostr:npub1md8vm48gfjyv8xh47luy7qxl65zlltakmk8za3vkr68dxs8kfj2qnylhh6 nostr:npub1xxmam23a90vdt77z98zyd7vw09d0yzp8erxe7hww2xaa0jz4t7mqzrssdn
Reading Stuart Buck's fascinating, revealing about his $60m in grantmaking in open science at the Arnold Foundation, I'm struck by how many of the grants disproportionately went to men.
https://goodscience.substack.com/p/metascience-since-2012-a-personal
That $60m has completely transformed ideas and basic practices of scientific reliability in multiple disciplines, often for the better.
On first glance, I'm struck by how often in these stories, men are the movers and leaders who bring in funds, while women are the people who are thanked for actually making things work and holding them together.