Ben Gibson
cbengibson.bsky.social
Ben Gibson
@cbengibson.bsky.social
Sociologist at RAND studying networks, international conflict, healthcare, race, AI, and communication

https://cbengibson.com/
The Third man, Night of the hunter, and Marnie
August 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It's really incredible, just an astonishing script, made better by some great performances by normally b-list actors
August 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Endogenous network effects can be very strong, yeah. Here it was a combination of a small baseline rate, standardized inputs, and just a very powerful social process
March 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Currently have a paper under review which has preferential attachment as a parameter in a social action network, and the effect size was absurdly high. Something like a 12 million percent increased chance of receiving the next action in one of the models.
March 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Lol just literally ranking the races. Top Five Races of All Time: A Sociological Perspective
March 15, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Second this. Cut them, put them in a bowl with a little oil, cover and microwave before frying
March 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Incorrect. Boo this man!
March 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Was that your cover letter?
February 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Maybe the quality of your work was so great that they said "Let's go ahead and prep this one. No way it gets rejected!"
February 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Hell yeah. Did you use a special pan to get that crust? Looks great
January 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Jimi hasn't heard "directed dyad" but I have certainly heard ordered pair, so I would go with "ordered pair" if you want the consensus definition with the broadest understanding. Might depend on your audience
January 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Yeah, Butts was my advisor so I am mostly borrowing his terminology by word of mouth. I couldn't tell you offhand where it would be found originally in the lit!
January 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
If I were looking to cite, I'd use Wasserman and Faust's book (for that and any other fundamentals)
January 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I've really only seen those referred to as directed dyads
January 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Base plotting is great in R, especially when you discover rect()
December 14, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Could you add me too?
November 22, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Even when covered by the same health insurance, patients experience a different healthcare system according to their race, intersecting with residential segregation, potentially, racial bias in referrals. See our paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The segregation of physician networks providing care to black and white patients with heart disease: Concepts, measures, and empirical evaluation
Black-White disparities in cardiac care may be related to physician referral network segregation. We developed and tested new geographic physician net…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:13 AM