Folks teaching computational social science, analytics, social networks, etc - Twitter is offering monthly office hours for their new(ish) Academic Research API access. Great resource for students!

TLDR the interwebs are making us so dumb that we can't remember how dumb we really are: pnas.org/content/118/43…

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birth of a new consciousness 🔊 sound on #AiArt #ScifiArt #NftArt

I was looking for a way to work with Discodiffusion on a video, it’s amazing how the face has been completely replaced! I think this piece will be part of an NFT on #superrare with the original video that I used as a reference #discodiffusion #aiart #NFTartist #nftcollector

"OpenAI has made GPT-3 available as a paid service but has not shared the model itself or its code....OpenAI declined an invitation to comment on Meta’s announcement." 😂😂😂 Isn't this like the most ironic thing ever? What's the "Open" part of Open AI?

I’m now more than 7 weeks out since I tested positive for #COVID. I was vaccinated. I was boosted. I took Paxlovid starting *the day* I tested positive. I never got a Paxlovid rebound. And yet, I still ended up with #LongCovid. I had zero health issues before COVID.

More people need to be talking about Jackson, Mississippi. The city ran out of bottled water to give residents yesterday. It’s the largest city in Mississippi. It’s 80% Black. Their water system is failing because of years of neglect. This is environmental racism.

Kind of obsessed with the Zen of Python: peps.python.org/pep-0020/

I love the NSF GRFP!!!

Our new paper suggests that #GPT is a cheap, easy & effective tool for text analysis. We find that GPT (3.5 & 4) is able to detect psychological constructs (eg emotions) WAY better than dictionary methods across 12 languages! See paper for details: psyarxiv.com/sekf5/

Sci Hub is a "pirate" website with 88M research papers freely available. Using it is not advisable. We should all try to make billion-dollar acdemic publishers richer. Here's a thread on integrating Zotero with Sci Hub to get free articles. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS 😉

Chess Grandmaster Anna Muzychuk refuses to play in Saudi Arabia and says: "In a few days, I will lose two world titles, back to back." Because I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. I refuse to play by special rules, to wear abaya, to be accompanied by a man so I can leave the

RIP to a fount of wisdom, an amazing person “We thought the probability was 0.2,” Treisman told the Philadelphia Inquirer after Dr. Kahneman’s [Nobel] award was announced. washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

Sociologists! I am writing a review article on word embeddings in sociology with Andrei Boutyline and Ethan Johnston…if you’ve written a paper using embeddings please reply with a link to the paper so we can include it in our review!

There’s a petition circulating urging USC to reconsider and reinstate Asna’s commencement speech. We must stand with her. Please sign and share widely. cair-la.salsalabs.org/usc-cancels-va…

Robert Mackey Caroline Fohlin It needs to be said again. If the United States saw what the United States is doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States

im about to crack a huuuuuge plagiarism case

One of the ways the FBI works to flout public records laws is to “accidentally” introduce little typos and misspellings into people’s FOIA requests. This will cause a delay of many months, may not be caught by the requester at all, and looks like an innocent error.