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Aaron Clauset
@aaronclauset.bsky.social
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NO KINGS. NO FASCISTS. FUND SCIENCE.

Professor of Computer Science @ BioFrontiers Institute at University of Colorado, Boulder and External Faculty @ Santa Fe Institute

orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3529-8746
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cohodes.bsky.social
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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danlarremore.bsky.social
For folks doing academic faculty hiring — 

What kind of platform does your university require you to use? Interfolio? Avature? Something else?

Are you able to batch-download the dossier PDFs, or do you pay for someone to hand-download them all?
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
aaronclauset.bsky.social
Slides from my @mit.edu IDSS Distinguished Speaker seminar "Networks untangle gender differences in productivity and prominence among scientists" this week

I argue that collaboration networks act like unequally distributed (and gendered) social capital

aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...
Slide title: "network effects in scientific labor" networks mediate most scientific activities: 1. scientific training, hiring, collaboration, teaching, attention, peer review, etc. 2. networks act like a form of unequally distributed social capital a productive collaborator --> increases your productivity a prominent collaborator --> increases your prominence How much does who you work with impact your productivity and prominence? Slide title: "model checking". Shows the results of applying our probabilistic generative from Li et al. Nature Communications (2022) for estimating individual productivity and prominence parameters from observed collaboration network data. This "nets out" the network, and estimates individual levels of activity. Left figure is joint distribution of productivity lambda and prominence theta, showing productivity is tightly concentrated around 0.42 papers/year, while prominence has a long tail, with most mid-career scientists (we studied 200,000 from 6 STEM fields) have very low prominence. Right figure shows pairwise correlation matrix of measures like number of papers, number of citations, lambda, theta, having a high-lambda coauthor, and having a high-theta coauthor. Strong correlation between your own number of papers and having a high-lambda (very productive) coauthor, etc. Good sanity checks for the model. Slide title "gender vs. productivity & prominence" Notes decades of past work showing a "productivity gap" between men and women, in which men publish more papers and receive more citations over time. But, after "netting out" their collaboration networks, we find no gender difference at all between individual productivity and individual prominence, implying that it's difference in who men and women work with (the size and composition of their collaboration networks) that drives the observed gap in productivity, not differences at the individual level. Slide title "how important is who you work with?" This is a wrap-up slide from the end of the talk: networks act like unequally distributed social capital in science they mediate our scientific attention, evaluation, and collaboration differences in collaboration networks can explain gendered differences in productivity & prominence early-career productivity & prominence what else? can we intervene in these networks to mitigate inequalities? funds for new collaborations, eg, after parenthood? early-career fellowships to work with elite senior coauthors?
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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khrisnin.bsky.social
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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diegokoz.bsky.social
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🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social
We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask:
👉 Why do some papers cite others?
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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needhibhalla.bsky.social
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Scaling back DEI programmes and the loss of scientific talent
Nature Cell Biology - Programmes that support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in science are under attack in the USA. Data indicate that diversity in the scientific workforce increases...
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
Really well done this

defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
aaronclauset.bsky.social
Not being an AI-doomer, but having experienced in my own department over the past 7 years a steady erosion of faculty governance norms and diminished prioritization of research-oriented pedagogy, this tracks. Let faculty and faculty interests lead the way, rather than administrators/regents
acadpubnews.bsky.social Academic Publishing News @acadpubnews.bsky.social · 18d
"AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy."
October 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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ent3c.bsky.social
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
www.theatlantic.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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netscisociety.bsky.social
This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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crsugimoto.bsky.social
Please come join our team! Looking for junior and senior faculty in science, technology, and innovation policy!!
aarondlevine.bsky.social Aaron Levine @aarondlevine.bsky.social · Oct 7
The Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech invites applications for multiple open-rank tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions with a focus on science, technology and innovation policy.

careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

#AcademicSky #PolicySky @appam.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
aaronclauset.bsky.social
This was a fun talk to give. Our new results show that "Meta-learning optimizes predictions of missing links in real-world networks" (arxiv.org/abs/2508.09069). tl;dr: graph neural networks are a limited tool for predicting missing links in most networks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYz...
GraphGeeks Talk: Meta-Learner That Finds the Best Link Prediction Model
YouTube video by GraphGeeks
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Why does a gender gap in scientific “productivity” persist?
📅 Oct 8, @aaronclauset.bsky.social in Umeå: biased networks, not ability, explain the difference. Join us!
🔗 www.umu.se/en/events/ic...
@umeauniversitet.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
aaronclauset.bsky.social
My fellow academics: the @aaup.org is doing amazing work, successfully! defending faculty and universities against attacks from Vought/the Trump administration. Proud to be a member. It takes only 3 minutes to join, to support them fighting the good fight for all Americans ✊ www.aaup.org
AAUP Home
www.aaup.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
October 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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netsciconf.bsky.social
📌 Save the Date!

The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.

Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
aaronclauset.bsky.social
It took me 2 minutes to write about how this proposed rule would eliminate all foreign PhD students, who are a critical part of US science and technology, and drive US innovation and economic growth
September 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Presented at PRC10: Mss characteristics associated w being sent for review, final acceptance @science.org #ScienceAdvances 2015-19 include institutional prestige, country, team size
www.science.org/cont...
@jeffreybrainard.bsky.social @aaronclauset.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social @aaas.org
Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror
Confidential data show being in the U.S., at a prestigious institution, and in a large team all may help
www.science.org
September 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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meredithshiner.com
I submitted my comment and I hope you all will join me.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
My public comment submitted to the Department of Education on their attempts to roll back the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program "It is incredibly important that all Americans of good faith and motivated by a commitment to service have the opportunity to work in roles that support others without being saddled with lifetime debt or riddled with anxiety over being able to pay their bills and live their lives. Our country works best with a functioning government, staffed by a wide range of talented professionals. To reverse this critical program, to make public service a luxury career path for those who can afford it, as opposed to incentivizing Americans from all walks of life to give back to their country, is a step in the wrong direction. Some of the best, smartest professionals I know were only able to serve the public through the existence of this program and to eliminate it is an insult to them and to every American who has benefited from their contributions to our society."
September 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
aaronclauset.bsky.social
Folks who've used name-based gender labelers in comp. social science work, I understand that 'nomquamgender' (via this paper) ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... squeezes the maximal signal out of name databases. Has there been any evaluation of LLM accuracies for this task? Pointers welcome!
An Open-Source Cultural Consensus Approach to Name-Based Gender Classification | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
ojs.aaai.org
September 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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maxkozlov.bsky.social
OLIVER: "While I do get the appeal of thinking just 'one more concession, one more payoff' might safeguard your independence or let you live to fight another day, it's worth asking: At what point have you compromised so much that the thing you're supposed to be defending is gone?"
September 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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jessicahullman.bsky.social
@aaronclauset.bsky.social’s work on how institution influences academic outcomes always reminds me what a catch22 department can be—at a top place, you’re doomed to wonder how much of the success you deserved; if you’re not, you‘re left wondering if your work has been overlooked. Prestige games suck
simine.com simine vazire @simine.com · Sep 4
If I’m understanding right, Aaron Clauset at Peer Review Congress showing that the strongest correlate of peer review outcomes at Science and Science Advances is the prestige of authors’ institutions. Also pretty big association with author geography, not much with author gender. #PRC10
September 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
Next: Aaron Clauset with 'Manuscript Characteristics Associated With Editorial Review and Peer Review Outcomes at Science and Science Advances'
Elite journals have profound influence in science discourse/careers - a lot of submissions get desk-rejected.
#PRC10
Speaker and title slide
September 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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oritpeleg.bsky.social
New paper in PLOS Biology: as we raise the difficulty of our 3D printed puzzles, bees keep landing on combs with ever stranger hexagonal order! 🐝

Led by the brilliant Golnar Gharooni Fard, in collaboration with CK Prasanna & FL Jiménez

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Close-up of experimental honeycombs built after a challenging 3D printed setup, showing mostly hexagonal cells.
August 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
August 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM