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Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 9d

This was fun - being on a podcast
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c... #openscience #metascience #publicscience

Can Science Get Political?

Podcast Episode · The Last Show with David Cooper · 2026-01-30 · 11m

podcasts.apple.com

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 11d

www.nature.com/articles/d41... #wikipedia @wikipedia.org #openscience #citizenscience

Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on

The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.

www.nature.com

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 18d

If I publish less intentionally, those publishing more will crowd me out, maybe? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too

If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

www.nature.com

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 18d

If possible, I would like to be able to comment on your Bluesky thread if you might permit me. I would only be interested in scientific exchange (no trolling here).

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 18d

Michael, thank you for you criticism and complements that were published in a radio broadcast for Forschung aktuelle (current science/research). www.deutschlandfunk.de/migrationspo... @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy

Migrationspolitik: Einstellungen können Forschungsergebnisse beeinflussen

www.deutschlandfunk.de

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · 28d

@mclem.org is not reacting to this post. I had hoped for academic exchange, but can understand that sometimes people prefer to control the flow of information in their own media feeds, especially if it might provide counter arguments to theirs.

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Jan 8

Thanks @mclem.org for your feedback on our study. I cannot reply to your posts, nor message you directly. Is that intentional, or do I not fully understand how Bluesky works yet? I would like to engage in some scholarly exchange if you are interested.

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Jan 6

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

🧵 Thread—>

Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Jan 6

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration.

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

🧵 Thread—>

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 23

Those who identify as Republican in the U.S. had declining trust in science since 2010. Recently those who identify as Moderate also show declining trust. Let's push for more rigorous, transparent and ethical scientific practices.

#openscience #transparency #reproducibility

osf.io/preprints/so...

OSF

osf.io

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 23

The Infographic and Video generation tools in #NotebookLM are pretty amazing. Not meant to be self-promotion, but just what came out from a recent paper I uploaded. A helpful tool to just get some fresh ideas, or possibly plan a poster. #GenAI

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 22

@eikofried.bsky.social @philipncohen.com @emrinke.bsky.social

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 22

For personal reasons, I do not support Elsevier (thecostofknowledge.com). It can be difficult to explain / say 'no' to colleagues seeking our support. Therefore, I created a template to respectfully decline: crowdid.hypotheses.org/1990.

#openscience #smashthepaywalls

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 20

I'm starting to believe that LinkedIn is the future of scientific social media

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 12

RC20 Best Paper Award 2026:
All RC20 members eligible. Papers should be comparative sociology, in English, and published in journal or chapter > 1 Jan 23. At least one author must b RC20 member.

To submit, send to Fumiya Onaka, at
fonaka@fc.jwu.ac.jp until 31 December 2025. @rc20isa.bsky.social

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 9

I now add QR codes presentation slides for citations. It occurred to me I can embed a link in the QR code image, so users can access the URL by clicking too (rather than adding another link somewhere else on the slide). Winnie the Pooh would call this #afishinthesea

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 8

If you miss 'Wordle' (the website that made word clouds before the daily puzzle game 'Wordle' was invented), you can use my app to generate them. nate-breznau.shinyapps.io/word-cloud/

It is a forked and tuned version of Antoine Soetewey's original app.

github.com/nbreznau/wor...

GitHub - nbreznau/word-cloud: Shiny app with an example of word cloud. See https://antoinesoetewey.shinyapps.io/word-cloud/

Shiny app with an example of word cloud. See https://antoinesoetewey.shinyapps.io/word-cloud/ - nbreznau/word-cloud

github.com

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 8

I grew up in Kalamazoo, MI and middle class homeowners would do "Candy Cane Lanes" where entire neighborhoods would compete to have the most and best decorations. There are streams of cars going through the neighborhood to admire the decorations for weeks.

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 8

I really get a kick out of using Gen AI sometimes. I'm preparing several talks for my six week Japan tour on topics of #openscience #theoriesasdata #metascience, and this came up in my preparations.

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 7

ChatGPT - [outputs various large pictures of an historical figure I am researching]
Me - "are those pictures in the public domain?"
ChatGPT - "no. you should not use them"
Me - "why do you get to use them?"
ChatGPT - "they are the same as internet search result thumbnails"
Me - facepalm

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 6

Human knowledge may find itself in a non-recursive feedback loop over time, and its utility to human realities and social worlds collapses with it.
#GenAI #computerscience #AI #artificialintelligence #ChatGPT

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Dec 6

Using Gen AI to produce knowledge carries long-term risks because it can lead to 'model collapse' - where the data used to train new Gen AI systems is increasingly a product of AI rather than humans. Knowledge and practical functions of AI collapse because semantic meaning is no longer human-based.

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Nov 25

Also hybrid format, so not only in Japan come join!

Nate Breznau @breznaunate.bsky.social · Nov 25

In Japan and want to learn about #openscience, #opendata, #datamanagementplan and The Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility Survey? Come out December 16th to the University of Tokyo @die-bonn.de @meta-rep.bsky.social

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