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Right now in Suez is the world’s largest and possibly most expensive lesson ever on betweenness centrality #sna

The Prescient Coding Award goes to me, for writing a single line function with 7 levels of brackets, no indication of the format of the object, and no comments explaining what it does🏅 At least I know it was for testing the output of my other, uncommented function

"In any sensible rational govt, it is completely crazy that I should have been in such a senior position."

Cummings now finally using his rationalism appropriately. Not watched independence day, but is there a scene where one of the baddies tries to redeem themselves and gets like, part of the way? He could quote that

Petition for more Permanent Jobs in Academia: Better Research, Teaching and Working Conditions 👉 petition-academia.ch

"Data science" = 10% analysis, 90% detective work

anyone have experience recruiting participants on reddit via DM? any idea on response rates? hoping to gather some which meet posting behaviour criteria, so I don't think I can ask in e.g. /r/samplesize (but happy to be told I'm wrong)

A PhD in Social Networks and Learning? A new doctoral program in the Learning Sciences (jointly at ETH Zurich Zürich and EPFL Lausanne🇨🇭) is recruiting a first cohort of doctoral students with a possible affiliation with Social Networks Lab (deadline Dec 1) 👩‍🎓🏞️🏔️ lse.ethz.ch/doctoral-progr…

Job alert🚨: 2 PhD positions available within our new SNSF-funded, comparative project on the offline consequences of online incivility. Applications welcome until 15 March. Feel free to reach out & help us spread the word! Frank Esser IKMZ ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/di…

📢We are happy to announce #NETHIKE2022, the first edition of a summer school on #methods in social network research. It covers the #analysis, #modeling, #visualization of networks. And great food and hikes.👩‍🎓🏞️🏔️🇨🇭🌞Apply by 25 April. More info here: sn.ethz.ch/nethike

I've learned that scholars with "powerful" passports often don't know how much paperwork conference-related visas take for others, so let's make this more transparent. I will simply list the docs I need to travel to Ireland for 5 days in November to present at AoIR ➡️ 🐘 @[email protected] below 🧵

#IPC6 programme indicates that only 2 out of 15 keynote talks and 0 out of 3 plenary talks are by women. Only 2 out of 18 talks! Very saddened to see such low representation of women for invited talks at one of the biggest conferences in paleontology...

PhD life, wrapped

Kieran Mepham, research group of Christoph Stadtfeld, successfully defended his #dissertation "Political Opinions and Offline Social Networks in a Swiss Student Community" on 2 Dec 2022. Congratulations🥳🍾😃💐🎉

Happy to share my first first-authored paper. A joint work with Christoph Stadtfeld (Social Networks Lab) and Viviana Amati (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca). bit.ly/3YvEKE3 We extend Dynamic #Network Actor Models by including random-effects parameters powered by Stan.