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"When could everyone in the U.S. get vaccinated?"

Nice article and interactive visualizations from Reuters. Continue reading ›

Feb 1, 2021 1 min read Link post, COVID-19

"The day we let Covid-19 spin out of control"

January 24, 2021 is a momentous, unnoticed one-year anniversary in the history of COVID-19. Continue reading ›

Jan 23, 2021 1 min read Link post, COVID-19, Science

"The Nonsense of Style"

Academic writing should be scrupulous not stylish. Continue reading ›

Jan 19, 2021 1 min read Link post, Writing

"Data pathology"

Data scientists, not just janitors. Continue reading ›

Jan 15, 2021 1 min read Link post, Science, Work of science

"US faculty job market tanks"

Doom and gloom for US science? Continue reading ›

Oct 19, 2020 1 min read Link post, Science, Academia, Jobs

"Do social media algorithms erode our ability to make decisions freely? The jury is out"

Allow me to toot my own horn for a second. Just published online is a little piece in The Conversation that Lewis Mitchell and I wrote about a 2019 paper of ours: Continue reading ›

Oct 13, 2020 1 min read Link post, Science, Paper

"Why Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other"

Why Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other Interesting piece in Nautilus about mathematics and the lack of accessibility that comes from using mathematician’s names to describe their results: Continue reading ›

Sep 15, 2020 2 min read Link post, Science, Science history, Communication

"Computational Social Science: Obstacles and Opportunities"

Computational Social Science: Obstacles and Opportunities New policy piece in Science about the growing, multidisciplinary field of computational social science: The field of computational social science (CSS) has exploded in prominence over the past decade, with thousands of papers published using observational data, experimental designs, and large-scale simulations that were once unfeasible or unavailable to researchers. Continue reading ›

Sep 14, 2020 2 min read Link post

"Thousands of Coronavirus Cases Linked to U.S. Universities"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-college-cases-tracker.html The New York Times has launched a new tracker for coronavirus cases focused specifically on higher education institutions in the US. It already lists 26 thousand cases at the time of writing (surely it will be more this by the time this post appears). Continue reading ›

Sep 9, 2020 1 min read Link post, COVID-19

"Practical Data Ethics"

http://ethics.fast.ai Free online course released on fast.ai this month from Rachel Thomas: In this course, we will focus on topics that are both urgent and practical. In keeping with my teaching philosophy, we will begin with two active, real-world areas (disinformation and bias) to provide context and motivation, before stepping back in Lesson 3 to dig into foundations of data ethics and practical tools. Continue reading ›

Aug 27, 2020 1 min read Link post

"Spooky action at a distance: The future magic of remote collaboration"

Interesting read over at Ars Technica, a team that’s been all-remote for decades… Continue reading ›

Aug 17, 2020 1 min read Collaboration, Link post