Paul Smaldino @psmaldino@qoto.org
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Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler. Curmudgeon. Faculty at UC Merced and Santa Fe Institute.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Bluesky: @psmaldino.bsky.social
Joined Nov 2022
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There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests
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Being blocked from posting a link from a competing social media site may not quite be an antitrust violation but it sure rhymes
@alexwild If the goal was to neutralize one of the few mainstream platforms for populist expression, he’s clearly succeeding.
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RABIES! SMALLPOX! PLAGUE! Who you gonna call?
My husband @TealCartoons and I are thrilled to reveal the title and cover of our new children's book, PLAGUE-BUSTERS!
Pre-order SIGNED copies from
The Mysterious Bookshop,
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#histodons #childrensbooks #histmed #histsci #illustration #plague
My grad students designed real t-shirts for our fictional intramural team, The Hydras (symbolizing interdisciplinarity, and I guess perseverance?). I love this.
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#chatGPT fails the Wason Selection Task, like most humans, giving an answer which demonstrates confirmation bias
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A thread on fun musings on corn. To be added to sporadically, but easily found with #CornFax 1/k
Had a great day as advisor to burgeoning scientists. Attended an excellent dissertation defense on bioinformatics of bacteriophage ecology, watched my grad student present a seminar on modeling the cultural evolution of inequality, corresponded with a German physics PhD student who will be visiting my lab in the spring, and hosted a predoctoral student i am mentoring who zoomed into our lab meeting from NYC to talk to us about the dynamics of couple contagions on networks. I like this job.
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🔔#hiring alert: i will be recruiting PhD students to my new lab at #UWMadison this cycle! (tentatively: the Social Interaction Lab). We are an inclusive and interdisciplinary #CogSci group at the rich intersection of #language, #socialcognition, #neuroscience, and #computation. Please boost and pass along to anyone who may be interested!
🗓️deadline: December 1
🔗 https://psych.wisc.edu/graduate-program/application-process/
👋 what we do: https://rxdhawkins.com/publications/
Mastadon meta
@noamross I was just thinking about the Butlerian jihad yesterday, in a similar vein.
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My daughter noticed these very very strange things at Lake Solano today.
Thanks to iNaturalist we think we have figured out what they are. They are baby aliens from Zork.
@noahhaber you never know when you’ll need to both plot some functions and play a game of breakout.
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Can you make Agent-Based Models? An NPS colleague is hiring a faculty associate to work on agent-based simulation models of human behavior in NetLogo. Telework eligible.
The job advertisement is here: https://main.hercjobs.org/jobs/17771102
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Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal.
A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is now available
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https://hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/
Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material.
Enjoy the #WhatIfBook.
Also, it's free.
@rdhawkins gotta say, the doomscrolling is still pretty solid over there.
@damienfarine I love writing book chapters. You shouldn’t think of them as the same medium as a journal article. It’s an opportunity to write how you like, and there’s much more flexibility in terms of style. (YMMV, since I have a fairly whimsical style and often feel boxed in by the journal format). I always post book chapters to preprint servers, so they’re still accessible.
Hey look, I'm an elephant rider!
- Website
- https://smaldino.com/wp
- @psmaldino
Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler. Curmudgeon. Faculty at UC Merced and Santa Fe Institute.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Bluesky: @psmaldino.bsky.social
Joined Nov 2022
