This paper has been on my mind for 5 years. Analyzing 1.6k novels, it argues that there are six basic arcs for stories: 1/3 1 Rags to Riches (rise) 2 Riches to Rags (fall) 3 Man in a Hole (fall rise) 4 Icarus (rise fall) 5 Cinderella (rise fall rise) 6 Oedipus (fall rise fall)

just downloaded another pdf on my computer that I aspire to read

Sure, go ahead and #DeleteFacebook. But really, we need to delete surveillance capitalism. We do that by demanding lawmakers in DC finally pass real data privacy legislation, eradicating Facebook's business model of harvesting our data & using it to algorithmically manipulate us.

Sure there are lots of ways to give your kid an edge in the meritocratic rat race. But the big head start many kids get is just not having major childhood trauma. I wish more parents knew this so they’d calm down and then work to better the situation for less privileged kids.

A fitting depiction of the attractor/repeller space of my dissertation journey. Look familiar ABDs (All But Dissertations)?

Thrilled to be hosting the International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) July 19-22, 2022 at UChicago with Sendhil Mullainathan, Rochelle Terman, Luis Bettencourt and a mind-blowing line-up of speakers: Details @ ic2s2.org; spread the word!

When I try this, I end up building my own egocentric, esoteric theoretical universe that can sometimes borderline plagiarism when I don’t keep track of all the things that inspired my own ideas.

Picking conferences to go to with my idiosyncratic collection of half-baked projects be like

This isn't a bug tho ofc they'll rush to patch it. It's a glimpse of the logic of so-called AI which relies on presenting the congealed detritus of our online world (shoehorned into training data) as "reality" then spitting it back at us as "intelligence" bbc.com/news/technolog…

Vox: Slapping People, Explained Slate: The Slap Was Interesting, But Not For The Reasons You Think NPR: Three Twee Stories Told By Previously Slapped Americans Breitbart: The Black-On-Black Slapping Stats The Liberal Media Won't Tell You About

Has the "big data" revolution in social science made qualitative methods obsolete, or had no impact. Neither. It has made them more important than ever. Our new paper in Nature Human Behaviour rdcu.be/cKnts

A thread on stealing peoples ideas in academia. In short, don’t do it. But, I have some advice (1/24)

When I'm reading academic papers, I notice how a lot of authors seem to *get* their argument so clearly that they might forget to make the stakes clear on the page. As a result, too many papers are *interesting* without having clear empirical or theoretical stakes. A small thread

When people post misinformation and it's tagged as misinfo by a single person, they retreat into echo chambers, but when the post receive a collective tag (e.g., community notes), they are less likely to retreat, finds Junsol Kim @gxin_ling James Evans doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…

🧵 Thrilled to share our new Nature Communications paper on how different approaches to fact-checking affect echo chambers on Twitter/X! With the amazing @junsolk, Zhao Wang, HaohanShi, and Hsin-Keng Ling 凌心耕. When someone gets fact-checked by an individual (via direct replies), they retreat