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@j2bryson yeah, same here. Not on FB or threads at all, Instagram only for art projects.

All the socials! Now additionally trying out bluesky, we'll see how it goes.
@psmaldino.bsky.social

Advance copies of my book just showed up! I’m really happy with every aspect of this thing, including the spine. Available now for pre-order, out October 3 (US).

PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/pape
Amazon: amazon.com/Modeling-Social-Beh

Advance copies of my book just showed up! I’m really happy with every aspect of this thing, including the spine. Available now for pre-order, out October 3 (US).

PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/pape
Amazon: amazon.com/Modeling-Social-Beh

@GodsoeWilliam haha, the math helps for sure, but it’s definitely the latter. I’ve written some stuff on this using some evo modeling approaches. Here are a few in case you’re interested.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/

@GodsoeWilliam once you go down that dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

I’ve finished Abram’s new book on competition. It is rewarding but hard. The most revealing passage is on page 288 after 100’s of pages of math. Abrams asks:

“Why have the aspects of [competition theory] been ignored?... A scientific approach to this question… is not possible, [but it may involve] the economics and sociology of the research environment.”

Makes me wonder if us theory folks need to focus less on the math and much more on the "economics and sociology of research environment".

Now out in Perspectives on Psychological Science, our discussion on how changing the reward structure to reward the group, instead of individuals, might lead to better science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

Sociologists: Apply to work with me at McGill Sociology!

We are hiring TWO tenure-track lines this year, one in social demography and one in qualitative methods. I can't say enough good things about the department, and Montreal is an unbeatable place to live.

Demography: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/M

Qualitative: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/M

#sociology #sociologie #socjobs #academicjobs @sociology

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Fantastic explainer on LLMss from Timothy B. Lee (@timlee) and Sean Trott.
understandingai.org/p/large-la

Highly recommend it if you want something that doesn't assume much technical expertise, but goes well beyond "LLMs just predict the next word".

It seems like Mastodon could use some more whimsy. To remedy that, here's a new song from my band. It's called Muffins, and it's about muffins. open.spotify.com/album/1GRP3Nh

☢️ a couple music-related posts

second one: "muffins," the first single from the new album by the small dinosaurs — the brainchild of @psmaldino

smalldinosaurs.bandcamp.com/al

songwhip.com/thesmalldinosaurs

what it is: absurdist indie rock. think: jonathan richman, early talking heads, etc. i think of it as children's music for adults

this song is literally about muffins

my involvement: produced / engineered / mixed / mastered

the whole record is 🏆

how good is this single artwork?

@esdalmaijer Woo! Fitting, as the song originated with me trying to convince my kids to take a walk to our local coffee shop with promises of muffins.

@twaring Thanks man. Stay tuned. Full album out in about 5 weeks.

It seems like Mastodon could use some more whimsy. To remedy that, here's a new song from my band. It's called Muffins, and it's about muffins. open.spotify.com/album/1GRP3Nh

Rate Limit Exceeded would be a great album title. Alas, I’m not in a band anymore.

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