Carl Nordlund
@carln.bsky.social
Associate professor in analytical sociology, management consultant and strategist at Governo Insikt AB, C# coder, crocheter, blockmodeler. www.carlnordlund.net
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You can read all the retrospectives about Epstein running now. But to really understand the case, go right to the @jkbjournalist.bsky.social series in the @miamiherald.com that ran 7 years ago (and for completely inexplicable reasons, never won a Pulitzer).
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime
Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. Prosecutors, including future Trump labor secretary Alexander Acosta, cut Epstein an extraordinary...
www.miamiherald.com
July 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
You can read all the retrospectives about Epstein running now. But to really understand the case, go right to the @jkbjournalist.bsky.social series in the @miamiherald.com that ran 7 years ago (and for completely inexplicable reasons, never won a Pulitzer).
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/a...
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The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has a call for grant proposals for US-based researchers with Swedish citizenship or a degree from Sweden who want to move to a Swedish university. SEK 15 million over 5 years. Aimed at science and tech, so maybe a CSS researcher?
Sök SSF Individual Grants 2025 Ingvar Carlsson Award – Across the Atlantic - Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning
Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning, SSF, ger 45 miljoner kronor i forskningsbidrag till USA-baserade forskare som vill …
strategiska.se
July 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has a call for grant proposals for US-based researchers with Swedish citizenship or a degree from Sweden who want to move to a Swedish university. SEK 15 million over 5 years. Aimed at science and tech, so maybe a CSS researcher?
Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!
PhD student in Analytical Sociology
liu.se
June 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Interested in doing a PhD at the Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social? Look no further: 1-2 fully funded PhD positions now available!
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I built an interactive schedule for my field's largest conference and, if you'd like to, yours, too!
www.hendrik-erz.de/post/i-built...
I built an interactive schedule for my field's largest conference and, if you'd like to, yours, too!
www.hendrik-erz.de/post/i-built...
I Built an Interactive Schedule for my Field's Largest Conference (and yours, too)
How do you communicate the what and where of various events at large conferences? This seems to be still a relatively unsolved problem, at least in …
www.hendrik-erz.de
June 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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I built an interactive schedule for my field's largest conference and, if you'd like to, yours, too!
www.hendrik-erz.de/post/i-built...
I built an interactive schedule for my field's largest conference and, if you'd like to, yours, too!
www.hendrik-erz.de/post/i-built...
Can't recommend this piece enough for those of us pondering about genAI's impact on the humanities
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
www.newyorker.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Can't recommend this piece enough for those of us pondering about genAI's impact on the humanities
Ditching Dropbox in favor of a RPi5 running Nextcloud, all from home. Wired in an OLED and a bash-python-php chain to show suspicious (geoderived) IPs trying to access it through its domain name. I'll be an analytical sociologist tomorrow.
May 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Ditching Dropbox in favor of a RPi5 running Nextcloud, all from home. Wired in an OLED and a bash-python-php chain to show suspicious (geoderived) IPs trying to access it through its domain name. I'll be an analytical sociologist tomorrow.
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Asked GPT to (impossibly) "write a Bluesky post 100% guaranteed to go viral"
Its suggestion: "just saw a guy confidently order a "croissantini" at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation."
Then I said "Make it more viral" and things got weird... 🧵
Its suggestion: "just saw a guy confidently order a "croissantini" at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation."
Then I said "Make it more viral" and things got weird... 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Asked GPT to (impossibly) "write a Bluesky post 100% guaranteed to go viral"
Its suggestion: "just saw a guy confidently order a "croissantini" at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation."
Then I said "Make it more viral" and things got weird... 🧵
Its suggestion: "just saw a guy confidently order a "croissantini" at the coffee shop and the barista nodded like that was a normal word. i live in a simulation."
Then I said "Make it more viral" and things got weird... 🧵
Strong indicators that this was the first AI-generated tariff policy
Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s
ChatGPT may be the White House’s latest economic advisor.
www.theverge.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Strong indicators that this was the first AI-generated tariff policy
August 1941 issue
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
March 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
August 1941 issue
2.9 percent in
Murphy: Six Weeks In, This White House Is On Its Way To Being The Most Corrupt In U.S. History
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
youtu.be
March 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
2.9 percent in
3 days left on my WaPo subscription and yay, managed to get this amazing piece: wapo.st/4hfZWGS
Opinion | The perils of a screen-obsessed society incapable of patience
A new book raises unsettling questions about the social implications of a smartphone-saturated world.
wapo.st
March 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
3 days left on my WaPo subscription and yay, managed to get this amazing piece: wapo.st/4hfZWGS
Evil Empire
Rage Against The Machine · Album · 1996 · 11 songs
open.spotify.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Really good album, basically for anything
open.spotify.com/album/1yUbRS...
open.spotify.com/album/1yUbRS...
Is This What We Want?
1,000 UK Artists · Album · 2025 · 12 songs
open.spotify.com
February 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Really good album, basically for anything
open.spotify.com/album/1yUbRS...
open.spotify.com/album/1yUbRS...
Appeasement at Munich
World Wars, Past and Possible
snyder.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Mind you, the post has been originally written up in 2014. Little did I think back then how accidentally true it could've become in the future.
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Mind you, the post has been originally written up in 2014. Little did I think back then how accidentally true it could've become in the future.
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+++ PUBLICATION ALERT! +++
Together with @manika.bsky.social, I looked at acknowledgement sections of theses. Turns out that there's gender inequality here, too, with women much more often acknowledging friends and family than men. Read more in our freshly baked OPEN ACCESS article!
Together with @manika.bsky.social, I looked at acknowledgement sections of theses. Turns out that there's gender inequality here, too, with women much more often acknowledging friends and family than men. Read more in our freshly baked OPEN ACCESS article!
Thanking the World: Exploring gender-based differences in acknowledgment patterns and support systems in theses
Research on acknowledgment sections of scientific papers has gained significant attention, but there remains a dearth of studies examining acknowledgm…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
+++ PUBLICATION ALERT! +++
Together with @manika.bsky.social, I looked at acknowledgement sections of theses. Turns out that there's gender inequality here, too, with women much more often acknowledging friends and family than men. Read more in our freshly baked OPEN ACCESS article!
Together with @manika.bsky.social, I looked at acknowledgement sections of theses. Turns out that there's gender inequality here, too, with women much more often acknowledging friends and family than men. Read more in our freshly baked OPEN ACCESS article!
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I'm tired of being a crank when reviewing simply because a computer scientist is suddenly interested in "social" phenomena & thinks they're the 1st to consider bread and butter topics of many in the social sciences. Good CSS does not just apply computational tools to "social" questions. </soapbox>
a little girl singing into a microphone at a party
ALT: a little girl singing into a microphone at a party
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Excited to announce the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series this spring 2025! Don’t miss our stellar lineup of speakers—everyone’s welcome to join! 🌟 #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
January 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Excited to announce the agenda for the IAS Seminar Series this spring 2025! Don’t miss our stellar lineup of speakers—everyone’s welcome to join! 🌟 #AcademicSky #Sociology #CSS
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Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies.
Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility..
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility..
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
January 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies.
Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility..
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility..
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
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"CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting JLaw reaction GIFs in Slack? For this purpose, we have created the Millennial CAPTCHA."
#McSweeneysTop24of24
#McSweeneysTop24of24
The Millennial CAPTCHA
Our 3rd most-read article of 2024. - - -
buff.ly
January 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting JLaw reaction GIFs in Slack? For this purpose, we have created the Millennial CAPTCHA."
#McSweeneysTop24of24
#McSweeneysTop24of24
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2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)²
and
2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³
How beautiful
and
2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³
How beautiful
January 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)²
and
2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³
How beautiful
and
2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³
How beautiful
Happy new year! Ad astra, ad astra!
December 31, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Happy new year! Ad astra, ad astra!
Xmas = #crocheting, amirite? crochetedpixels.com
December 23, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Xmas = #crocheting, amirite? crochetedpixels.com