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Maximilian Schich
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Professor for #CulturalDataAnalytics at Tallinn University in #Estonia
#complexity #netsci #arthistory #aesthetics
#culturalanalytics #compsocsci #infovis

"My PhD is in Art History" – Dr. Zoidberg

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · Nov 12
#CulturalAnalysisSitus, because
#NetSci, #Topology, #Computation, and #ArtHistory
share a common foundation in Leibniz

Receipts: archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/6347/...
[flow diagram] A Systematic Science of Art and Culture [going back to] Leibniz [via four paths] [1] Network Science > Graph Theory > Euler 1736 > Leibniz [2] Topological Data Analysis > Topology > Poincaré 1882 > Leibniz [3] Computation > Shannon 1938 > Couturat 1911 > Leibniz [4] Art History [Warburg/Panofski/Wittkower] > Cassirer 1927 > Leibniz [1, 2, and 4, meet in eight lines of Leibniz!]
schichmax.bsky.social
Just ate a three-lobed peanut, as in three-part kernel, not triple peanut in a pod. It was the first time in my life. Unfortunately I just ate it without taking a picture. At this rate I will be 102 before I can provide evidence.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
schichmax.bsky.social
I know nothing about the book, but the cover looks like an O'Reilly software manual, with the spirit animal in the background being the black mould of JK Rowling.
schizosemia.bsky.social Josh Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 1d
This is a fantastic book that anyone with an interest in the current political environment (which should be everyone) should read. Written by @mattpolprof.bsky.social who has many other excellent pieces of writing.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
schichmax.bsky.social
#MarkusIsstNurEinWürstchen
November 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
schichmax.bsky.social
Let's go @ec.europa.eu!
hardmaru.bsky.social hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · 4d
The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI
November 8, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Reposted by Maximilian Schich
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
schichmax.bsky.social
Wer wissen will was #Weimer und co so mit #Mitte meinen ...
schichmax.bsky.social Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 4d
"Erwartungsgemäß empfand ... Kardinal Meisner, die Gegenstandslosigkeit als beliebig ... passe besser in eine Synagoge oder eine Moschee. Für den Erzbischof ... 'entartet' die Kultur, sie 'verliert ihre Mitte' ... Sedlmayrs ... Verlust der #Mitte" 👀

@zeit.de 2015-03-30

www.zeit.de/kultur/kunst...
Gerhard Richter: Ein gläubiger Zweifler
Gerhard Richter ist der bedeutendste Künstler der Gegenwart, die Nr. 1 des Kunstkompasses. Seine Bilder erzielen Rekordpreise. Sein Konzept? Kein Konzept!
www.zeit.de
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
schichmax.bsky.social
Just in case you're cooking rice today, and you need a good soundtrack, the designated mayor of New York has you covered... 😍

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ1O...
Young Cardamom, HAB - #1 Spice (From "Queen of Katwe")
YouTube video by DisneyMusicVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Reposted by Maximilian Schich
baileymcc.bsky.social
This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
What a moment to wake up to! 🌎🌍🌏 🎉

Yesterday night, New Yorkers, the supporters, the team, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social have shown the whole earth 🌍 that there is hope for a better future, if we all come together!

Here is Zohran's full speech:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnM_...

It is historic!
WATCH LIVE: Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters after winning 2025 NYC mayoral race
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
Join us today
@cudanlab.bsky.social

feat.
Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social
at McGill University, Montreal, Canada

on Computationally Modeling Collective Narratives

❗⏰ 17:00-19:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2)
i.e. 60 minutes from this post.

Details & zoom:
cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
schichmax.bsky.social
Brilliant: #Leibniz Institute für Deutsche Sprache @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de has a really awesome #nGram analysis platform & demo, in German with zero anglicisms, funny examples ("Merkel & Markus", "sloppy bavarians", etc.), and zero exaggerating #bullshit.

see #OWIDplus www.owid.de/plus/live-20...
notesjor.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈👨🏻‍💻 Jan Oliver Rüdiger 🦄🌼🌸🏵️ @notesjor.bsky.social · 21d
#stadtbild #töchter - Stand: 19.10.2025 in den Daten von www.owid.de/plus/live-20... - schauen wir mal, wie sich das entwickelt.
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
I stopped playing games in 1994, partially out of disgust for 3D shooters going mainstream. Now, Wolfenstein-Doom-Oculus-dev John Carmack's AGI company is named after Commander Keen "defending the Earth and the galaxy from alien threats". Oculus founder Palmer Luckey builds weapons with Anduril. 🤮
nicolecarpenter.bsky.social Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 14d
I asked Microsoft PR about this—specially the DHS using Halo IP to recruit for ICE—and the company declined to comment.
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
@silverpebble2.bsky.social
on "how collecting improves mental health" 🔥🎉
silverpebble2.bsky.social Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 16d
There are still a few spaces on my Nov 8 Small Museums w'shop (zoom).
You'll learn:
🐚how collecting improves mental health,incl research showing how playing Tetris alleviates PTSD
🪶we'll make beautiful arrangements together
Incl 30% off my Etsy.My bio below:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/copy...
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
Join us today
@cudanlab.bsky.social

feat.
@melvinwevers.bsky.social,
Computational Historian @uva.nl

on The Architecture of Information: Uncovering Structure in Newspapers, Parliaments, and Administrative Archives

16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2)

Details & zoom:
cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...
October 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
"McKinsey & Company, Inc / Honored for passing 100 Billion Tokens" #OpenAI 🔥🌍
bruess.law Mirko Brüß @bruess.law · 16d
Dann wissen die McKinsey Kunden jetzt, wo ihr Geld so bleibt

OpenAI gratuliert zu 100 Milliarden Tokens
October 26, 2025 at 7:42 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
"Der Friedrichsdorfer Bürgermeister Lars Keitel (Grüne) musste handeln."

"'Dass die Verwaltung entschieden hat, ausschließlich weibliche Formen zu verwenden, entspricht nicht der Intention unseres Antrags', sagte Fraktionsvorsitzende Katja Gehrmann."
Der Grüne Lars Keitel [der kleine Drache Grisù] hat das Feuer gelöscht und wird vom CDU Fraktionsvorsitzenden Katja Gehrmann [blonder weisser Mann mit Schnauzer] zurechtgewiesen. [Symbolbild]
October 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
Trump's "Neue Burg".

cf. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Burg
andycraig.bsky.social Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 18d
You might say this will, among other problems, look weirdly lopsided, but I think the obvious implication is he's totally planning to do the West Wing next.
NYT rendering of Trump White House ballroom plan, with a massive thing bigger than the White House proper replacing the East Wing, and also showing the much smaller West Wing.
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
💔 #SoftCell #TaintedLove > #TaintedDub
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUVk...
Tainted Dub / Where Did Our Love Go?
YouTube video by Soft Cell - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
"Human dignity is inviolable.*
Human, Mr. #Merz!
Not German human,
not Christian middle-European human,
not 'adapted' human
– but of all human individuals!"

* [German Grundgesetz = constitution, Article 1]
maxnum.bsky.social Max ✊🏽 @maxnum.bsky.social · 22d
Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Des Menschen, Herr Merz! Nicht des Deutschen, nicht des christlichen Mitteleuropäers, nicht des „Angepassten“ - sondern jedes einzelnen Menschen!
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Reposted by Maximilian Schich
pierrebri.bsky.social
This in FT this morning 👇
October 20, 2025 at 6:34 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
Decades ago:
"Telephone banks" of white "country club suburban" moms helped to turn #Texas red, initiating the long slide into "fascist theocracy".

Now:
#TexasMoms call BS on Republicans, vowing to turn the tide:

"You're not going to brunch!
Carry your mimosa and knock on some f***ing doors!"
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
Green Party membership in the UK is growing exponentially!!!
💚🌼 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🎉
antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social Tony @antonyillahiwarren.bsky.social · 26d
The Green Party offers hope instead of hate, because it's not DeformUK and it hasn't been radicalised by economic neo-liberalism.
October 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
schichmax.bsky.social
#ArtHistory
artcrimeprof.bsky.social Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 24d
Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
October 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
#MeeyoungCha (@maxplanck.de) on

"AI, Society, and Computing: Leveraging Global Data While Tackling Ethical Challenges"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PZJ...

#CulturalDataAnalytics Open Lab Seminar
at #TallinnUni in #Estonia
recorded 2025-10-13
October 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
schichmax.bsky.social
Join us today
@cudanlab.bsky.social

feat.
#MeeyoungCha
Scientific Director, MPI for Security and Privacy @maxplanck.de

on AI, Society, and Computing: Leveraging Global Data While Tackling Ethical Challenges

16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+3)

Details & zoom link:
cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...
October 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM