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Aaron Clauset
@aaronclauset.bsky.social
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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Perfect. There is no belief system here.
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Applications open for SFI’s 2026 GWCSS program, a 2-week workshop for Ph.D. students and early-career scholars to explore complex systems and computation, collaborate on challenges, and advance their research with support from SFI faculty.

Apply by Feb 4, 2026
www.santafe.edu/gwcss
January 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The end of 2025 is finally here! That makes it time for my annual "Year in Review" post 📈, which is to remind myself that yes, I did get some things done this year. Here's to closing out 2025 and hoping that 2026 is a year of restoration aaronclauset.github.io/blog/2025_YiR
December 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is utterly delightful! Strong recommend. It's also catnip for my long-running fascination with the sizes of complex things. ("How large should whales be?" is among my favorite papers I've written: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... )
December 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
These results are mind-blowing, and the whole thread is just fascinating. So many profound insights about evolution and life throughout, and big questions. Why are mutation rates like this? How much of the origin and diversification of life was ultimately about getting to this particular state?
In fact, they appear to be eerily similar. The per generation mutation rate seems to lay between 10-9 and 10-8 per bp in all animal taxa surveyed to date–despite vast differences in environments, life histories, and three orders of magnitude variation in the generation time: 4/n
December 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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2026 abstract submissions are open!

✔️ Submission deadline: March 3rd, 2026
✔️ Acceptance Notification: April 14th, 2026

View the guidelines here:
lnkd.in/eJEXvd8u
December 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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We're hiring interns in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC!

If you're interested in designing AI‑based systems and understanding their impact at both individual and societal scales, apply here by Jan 9, 2026: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
Research Intern - Computational Social Science | Microsoft Careers
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...
apply.careers.microsoft.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Out now in @natphys.nature.com "The undervaluing of elite women in physics", with @weihuali.bsky.social and H Zheng, we show how election into prestigious academic societies has markedly different effects on the research prominence of women and men physicists /1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Slides from my American Inst. of Math @caltech.edu #MetaMath workshop talk on "Prestige, representation, and the spread of scientific ideas" earlier this week aaronclauset.github.io/slides/Claus...
December 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Applications are open for SFI’s 2026 summer education programs, offering research and training in complexity science in Santa Fe, NM:

– Undergraduate Complexity Research
– Complex Systems Summer School
– Graduate Workshop in Computational Social Science

Info: www.santafe.edu/engage/learn...
December 5, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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@cevianlabs.io CVParsa takes a stack of faculty candidate dossiers and generates a summary spreadsheet with candidate basics, current positions, publication info, research keywords, and research interests.

Send me a note and I'll send a code you can use on 5 CVs of your choice to see how it works!
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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After sitting on faculty hiring committees where profs & staff spend *days* of wasted time processing 100+ candidate dossiers into a 10K-foot view spreadsheet of candidates, @aaronclauset.bsky.social and I built the thing we always wanted: a computational pipeline to get the job done in 5 minutes...
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Super excited to announce a new venture, with @danlarremore.bsky.social : Cevian Labs cevianlabs.io provides advanced tools to accelerate faculty work in academia. Our first product CVParsa helps faculty search committees process huge piles of CVs, so they can spend more time evaluating candidates
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The anxious feeling of pushing code to production is so very similar to the feeling of pushing ‘submit’ for sending a manuscript to a journal 🫣 Even after 20 years as an academic
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Faculty senates are under attack from new legislation that sidelines faculty voices and undermines academic freedom. The latest AAUP report defends independent, representative governance as essential to higher ed’s integrity. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2025/11/18/i...
In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
BY AFSHAN JAFAR We have recently seen accelerating legislative and political attacks on faculty governing bodies at state institutions, including legislation recently enacted in Indiana, Ohio, Utah…
academeblog.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday

www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...
November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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📣 Postdocs at Yale FDS! 📣 Tremendous freedom to work on data science problems with faculty across campus, multi-year, great salary. Deadline 12/15. Spread the word! Application: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31114 More about Yale FDS: fds.yale.edu
Yale University, Institute for the Foundations of Data Science
Job #AJO31114, Postdoc in Foundations of Data Science, Institute for the Foundations of Data Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US
academicjobsonline.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Video for my @mit.edu IDSS Distinguished Speaker seminar "Networks untangle gender differences in productivity and prominence among scientists" on 4 Nov, with a lovely audience (see thread below for slides) #scienceofscience
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPXl...
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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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
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...
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM