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#News 📢 from #AI #research 🤖: “How #ChatGPT 📱 can benefit from #human #brains 🧠 - or how we teach #machines 💻 to #think 🤓

The research is a true joint venture between #AI and #neuroscience, as the #data and #methods can directly contribute to the #improvement of #LLM, such as #ChatGPT, and #cognitive #neuroscience can also learn about the #use and #formation of #language in the #brain.

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

Awesome Strategies To Visualize Change With Time
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medium.com/@yuanbo.faith/aweso <-- shared technical article
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databrewer.co/R/gallery <-- shared further examples & background/processes
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“This article summarizes effective strategies to visualize temporal changes, illustrated with inspiring graphic examples (with link to source code [and methods])…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #datavisualisation #visualisation #R #code #methods #scripts #opensource #spatiotemporal #temporal #temporalchange #visualise #graphic #examples #opendata

"Publishing #diamond #OpenAccess is a noblesse oblige for us. Let everyone benefit from research, so that we contribute together to appropriate care and improve the quality of life for people with #intellectual #disabilities."

Read the interview with Alain Dekker, editor of an open access book on #psychosocial #support #methods:

🔗 rug.nl/library/open-access/blo

The book, published in 2024, has been downloaded >10,000 times by now.

#research #care #psychology #SocialWork

📷 by Silvio Zangarini

Oh my goodness, how did I miss that in ES7 you can use a closure as a method. Goodbye `bind()`, you will not be missed :)

e.g.,

```js
class A {
b = () => console.log(this)
}

const a = new A()
a.b() // A { b: [Function: b] }

const c = a.b
c() // A { b: [Function:b] }
```

Nice! :)

**Edit**: Be careful with this. See this note by @marsup: mastodon.social/@marsup/113799

MastodonMarsup (@marsup@mastodon.social)@aral@mastodon.ar.al Respectfully, this looks like an anti-pattern. `b` won't be part of the prototype, potentially preventing some meta programming, and you're going to get a new `b` for each instance of that class, consuming that much more memory for each instance you hold.

I recommend reading #JacquesEllul "Le fascisme, fils du libéralisme" ("Fascism, son of Liberalism, 1937).

Ellul was an eye-witness of fascism in Italy, Germany and Spain. He argued that fascism is a method, not an ideology, a technology of the social. By using industrial organization methods it turns a society into a totalitarian enterprise.

An OCRed version of the articler is available on JSTOR (a free account is sufficient)..

Continued thread

okay yeah this is definitely good

METHODS POST I mean it's trivial but

* put your yeast and sugar into the warm water like always

* let it activate the usual 10 minutes (or however)

* add rounded 1/4 cup onion flakes, stir in well

* let them rehydrate in the mix for 3 minutes

* mix into drys and proceed as usual

trust me on this one if you like onions it's dang good

Finding the needle in the haystack: archival research in European political science
link.springer.com/article/10.1 #methods
Work on #ProcessTracing primarily focused on philosophy of science, design and causal inference. This was all fine, but came at expense of focus on data collection.
It is good to see more and more articles on data collection in qualitatibe like 👆 that are concerned with practical challenges one is likely to confront

SpringerLinkFinding the needle in the haystack: archival research in European political science - European Political ScienceThis short article offers a practical introduction to archival research for political scientists working on European politics. Archival documents are increasingly recognized as a relevant data source for process tracing analyses in small-N or mixed methods studies. Previously classified archival documents are exceptionally trustworthy due to their original confidentiality. Their rich and detailed content facilitates the understanding of causal mechanisms. Still, the hurdles for working with archival sources are high for political scientists. Lack of experience, no special training in handling historic documents, and a shortage of textbooks meeting their demands are a few of the problems political scientists planning archival research face. In the article, I highlight the opportunities of archival research and demonstrate how challenges can be overcome. I emphasize that the archival field trip should only be planned once researchers have gained substantive context knowledge. In their preparation, researchers should use all the resources archives offer and develop measurable expectations from theories.

"Publishing #diamond #OpenAccess is a noblesse oblige for us: we share results and avoid reinventing the wheel elsewhere. Please let everyone benefit from research, so that we contribute together to appropriate care and improve the quality of life for people with #intellectual #disabilities."

Read the interview with Alain Dekker, editor of an open access book on #psychosocial #support #methods:

🔗 rug.nl/library/open-access/blo

#research #care #psychology #SocialWork

📷 by Silvio Zangarini

Welcome to #IKMZ, Prof. Dr. Meg Jing Zeng! 🥳

As of today, Dr. Zeng takes up the new professorship for #Computational #Social #Science at our department. She is a renowned expert on the sociocultural implications of #digital technologies and innovative digital #methods for #communication research. Dr. Zeng has published key studies on digital media #platforms, #misinformation, youth culture, and online #activism 📚

Have a great start, Meg! 🤗

@uzh @communicationscholars

Lecturer with Tenure-Track to Senior Lecturer

- Qualitative Methods of Empirical Social Research
- University Bremen, Institute of Sociology, Germany
- starting October 1, 2024
- deadline June 7, 2024

More information: uni-bremen.de/en/university/th

www.uni-bremen.deJob Vacancies - Universität BremenOffene Stellen

A question for my bubble: I regularly see people "controlling" for all kinds of variables that could influence the outcome of interest, regardless of whether these variables might also influence the independent variable. Am I mistaken to think these "controls" are quite useless (if not worse)? In my understanding, you should *only* control for confounders, which by definition influence both dependent variable *and* independent variable.

Happily joining today University of Frankfurt am Main (aka Goethe Uni, GU) for a position to teach #anthropological #theory, #ethnographic #methods & #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies. My new academic base is GU's Institute of Cultural Anthropology & European Ethnology, @KAEEGoetheUni.

Fun plan: use this base to continue exploring theoretical roots of #STS in #sociology, #anthro, engage with #geography takes on STS. Meanwhile continuing research with #MaterialSemiotics. #introduction 4 assemblage.es