Charles J. Gomez (He/Him)
@charlesgomez.bsky.social
Computational & Mathematical Sociologist
University of Arizona | School of Sociology | Affiliated with College of InfoSci and Applied Math GIDP | Interested in Global Knowledge and Science, Complex Systems, CSS
TheGlobalLab.org
www.charlesgomez.com
University of Arizona | School of Sociology | Affiliated with College of InfoSci and Applied Math GIDP | Interested in Global Knowledge and Science, Complex Systems, CSS
TheGlobalLab.org
www.charlesgomez.com
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Attachment preferences in diverse collective problem-solving networks and systemic performance
Collective problem-solving networks are common in modern life. They often benefit from having diverse members with complementary skills and perspectives, but this may be squandered if they self-sel...
doi.org
Check out our new OA paper in the Journal of Math Soc with @tonysirianni.bsky.social & Launy Schweiger.
Using ABMs, we show that seeking diverse collaborations leads to better collective problem-solving, generates higher-quality solutions, & spreads them more effectively.
Using ABMs, we show that seeking diverse collaborations leads to better collective problem-solving, generates higher-quality solutions, & spreads them more effectively.
Reposted by Charles J. Gomez (He/Him)
“Inequality is built-in to science. While not every issue is contoured by power in the same way, all science is an enduring product of power, its unequal circulation, use & impact.”
Scott Frickel & Kelly Moore explore how this is so & how we can address it ↓
www.politybooks.com/...
Scott Frickel & Kelly Moore explore how this is so & how we can address it ↓
www.politybooks.com/...
June 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“Inequality is built-in to science. While not every issue is contoured by power in the same way, all science is an enduring product of power, its unequal circulation, use & impact.”
Scott Frickel & Kelly Moore explore how this is so & how we can address it ↓
www.politybooks.com/...
Scott Frickel & Kelly Moore explore how this is so & how we can address it ↓
www.politybooks.com/...
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NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science
Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats
www.science.org
March 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
January 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
(1/13)
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New pub forthcoming with Yongren Shi and Freda Lynn in Poetics (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). In it, we conceptualize "Cultural Blau Space," the location of people in a multidimensional space simultaneously defined by many measures of personal culture.
Beyond statistical variables: Examining the duality of persons and groups in structuring cultural space
Socially constructed categories are central to sociological investigation, but their use in empirical research on culture is often limited to a role a…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New pub forthcoming with Yongren Shi and Freda Lynn in Poetics (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). In it, we conceptualize "Cultural Blau Space," the location of people in a multidimensional space simultaneously defined by many measures of personal culture.
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as I expected Economists are very slow to react to big data/comp soc sci/AI stuff but they finally joined the trend in 2014. Sociology is currently the most CSS-engaged. CSS is now a big thing in all social sciences! (3/7)
December 12, 2024 at 5:32 PM
as I expected Economists are very slow to react to big data/comp soc sci/AI stuff but they finally joined the trend in 2014. Sociology is currently the most CSS-engaged. CSS is now a big thing in all social sciences! (3/7)
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I created a starter pack for social network analysis, since this one was still missing.
LMK if you want to be added! (I'll like the comment after adding you.)
Also, check out the other starter packs for network science and complexity (so this is more social science).
go.bsky.app/VDz5eWg
LMK if you want to be added! (I'll like the comment after adding you.)
Also, check out the other starter packs for network science and complexity (so this is more social science).
go.bsky.app/VDz5eWg
November 18, 2024 at 8:04 AM
I created a starter pack for social network analysis, since this one was still missing.
LMK if you want to be added! (I'll like the comment after adding you.)
Also, check out the other starter packs for network science and complexity (so this is more social science).
go.bsky.app/VDz5eWg
LMK if you want to be added! (I'll like the comment after adding you.)
Also, check out the other starter packs for network science and complexity (so this is more social science).
go.bsky.app/VDz5eWg
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I created a starter pack for social network researchers.
Please let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/L7PFtcW
Please let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/L7PFtcW
December 11, 2024 at 7:12 PM
I created a starter pack for social network researchers.
Please let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/L7PFtcW
Please let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/L7PFtcW
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🚨 The School of Data Science at UVA is hiring! 🎉
Join our collaborative faculty and help shape the future of data science education.
🌟 Multiple TT and Teaching positions
🎓 All ranks: Assistant, Associate, Full, Distinguished, Ass. Deans
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
Join our collaborative faculty and help shape the future of data science education.
🌟 Multiple TT and Teaching positions
🎓 All ranks: Assistant, Associate, Full, Distinguished, Ass. Deans
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
Join Our Team — School of Data Science
We are hiring faculty and staff to build a forward-thinking community with a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas centered around data science.
datascience.virginia.edu
December 10, 2024 at 8:32 PM
🚨 The School of Data Science at UVA is hiring! 🎉
Join our collaborative faculty and help shape the future of data science education.
🌟 Multiple TT and Teaching positions
🎓 All ranks: Assistant, Associate, Full, Distinguished, Ass. Deans
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
Join our collaborative faculty and help shape the future of data science education.
🌟 Multiple TT and Teaching positions
🎓 All ranks: Assistant, Associate, Full, Distinguished, Ass. Deans
datascience.virginia.edu/pages/join-o...
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“...social media users sometimes share information that they know is inaccurate to satisfy nonepistemic motives such as signaling their political affiliation or moral stance"
Misinformation spreads by making people mad www.science.org/content/arti...
Misinformation spreads by making people mad www.science.org/content/arti...
ScienceAdviser: Misinformation spreads by making people mad
Today in Science and science: Hibernating squirrels go months without getting thirsty, corals probably can’t out-evolve climate change, and more
www.science.org
December 4, 2024 at 1:23 PM
“...social media users sometimes share information that they know is inaccurate to satisfy nonepistemic motives such as signaling their political affiliation or moral stance"
Misinformation spreads by making people mad www.science.org/content/arti...
Misinformation spreads by making people mad www.science.org/content/arti...
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Two new publications that encapsulate my interests to present my self. Both are focusing on science in Europe and the processes shaping science and especially social science in Europe. In the first one we analyze scientific disciplines using ERC projects and topic analysis.
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
Homologies in fields of cultural production. Evidence from the European scientific field
This article suggests a comparative field analytical approach to fields of cultural production. Combining concepts from field analysis and focusing on…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Two new publications that encapsulate my interests to present my self. Both are focusing on science in Europe and the processes shaping science and especially social science in Europe. In the first one we analyze scientific disciplines using ERC projects and topic analysis.
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
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Somebody put together this starter pack of *paid* academic editors/copyeditors - if that's a service you find useful, this might be of interest: go.bsky.app/Apcqw4B
December 1, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Somebody put together this starter pack of *paid* academic editors/copyeditors - if that's a service you find useful, this might be of interest: go.bsky.app/Apcqw4B
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I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation
Link here:
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Link here:
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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November 29, 2024 at 10:06 AM
I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation
Link here:
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Summary in🧵🔽
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Link here:
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Summary in🧵🔽
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To celebrate the growth of #AcademicSky I made a new starter pack for people interested in thinking how to better harness (open!) social media platforms to enhance research collaboration, communication, synthesis and discovery 🧪 Let me know in the replies if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/4zhshcr
go.bsky.app/4zhshcr
November 28, 2024 at 8:30 PM
To celebrate the growth of #AcademicSky I made a new starter pack for people interested in thinking how to better harness (open!) social media platforms to enhance research collaboration, communication, synthesis and discovery 🧪 Let me know in the replies if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/4zhshcr
go.bsky.app/4zhshcr
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CSS is moving ⚡fast and skepticism is needed. But my absolute least favourite critique is that we are "not learning anything new" from emerging methods. If we were getting novel results folks would, for good reason, not trust them. Methods need time to mature - our role is to test them as they do 🧐
November 27, 2024 at 6:47 PM
CSS is moving ⚡fast and skepticism is needed. But my absolute least favourite critique is that we are "not learning anything new" from emerging methods. If we were getting novel results folks would, for good reason, not trust them. Methods need time to mature - our role is to test them as they do 🧐
Reposted by Charles J. Gomez (He/Him)
I've now read a bunch of papers like this -- ABMs where the agents' behaviors are driven by generative AIs. They often tell us interesting things about the AI algorithms, but never in my experience have we learned anything new about people.
I am genuinely curious abt the planned uses for these agents
Science is asking questions & allowing for unexpected answers
How can an agent surprise us in an experiment? In a survey?
An agent is a predictive model
Such models are often proved wrong by field experiments
arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10109
November 25, 2024 at 11:37 PM
I've now read a bunch of papers like this -- ABMs where the agents' behaviors are driven by generative AIs. They often tell us interesting things about the AI algorithms, but never in my experience have we learned anything new about people.
Check out our new OA paper in the Journal of Math Soc with @tonysirianni.bsky.social & Launy Schweiger.
Using ABMs, we show that seeking diverse collaborations leads to better collective problem-solving, generates higher-quality solutions, & spreads them more effectively.
Using ABMs, we show that seeking diverse collaborations leads to better collective problem-solving, generates higher-quality solutions, & spreads them more effectively.
Attachment preferences in diverse collective problem-solving networks and systemic performance
Collective problem-solving networks are common in modern life. They often benefit from having diverse members with complementary skills and perspectives, but this may be squandered if they self-sel...
doi.org
November 22, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Check out our new OA paper in the Journal of Math Soc with @tonysirianni.bsky.social & Launy Schweiger.
Using ABMs, we show that seeking diverse collaborations leads to better collective problem-solving, generates higher-quality solutions, & spreads them more effectively.
Using ABMs, we show that seeking diverse collaborations leads to better collective problem-solving, generates higher-quality solutions, & spreads them more effectively.
Reposted by Charles J. Gomez (He/Him)
Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on.
Feel free to nominate and self-nominate!
#SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci
go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD
Feel free to nominate and self-nominate!
#SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci
go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD
November 15, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on.
Feel free to nominate and self-nominate!
#SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci
go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD
Feel free to nominate and self-nominate!
#SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci
go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD
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A few weeks ago, I taught one of my favorite #STS papers: Daniel Sarewitz's "Why science makes environmental controversies worse." A post on the paper's argument: computingandsociety.substack.com/p/is-science...
Is science bad for politics?
Daniel Sarewitz argues that yes, it is, and we're better off first hashing out value disagreements first. But shifting from arguing about facts to arguing about values is equally difficult.
computingandsociety.substack.com
November 14, 2024 at 1:10 PM
A few weeks ago, I taught one of my favorite #STS papers: Daniel Sarewitz's "Why science makes environmental controversies worse." A post on the paper's argument: computingandsociety.substack.com/p/is-science...
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Sharing my first Computational Social Science starter pack! Will grow with time, feel free to nominate and self nominate!
go.bsky.app/CYmRvcK
go.bsky.app/CYmRvcK
November 13, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Sharing my first Computational Social Science starter pack! Will grow with time, feel free to nominate and self nominate!
go.bsky.app/CYmRvcK
go.bsky.app/CYmRvcK
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Submitted some stuff, anxiously waiting, and thinking about this immortal @neillewisjr.bsky.social tweet.
February 1, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Submitted some stuff, anxiously waiting, and thinking about this immortal @neillewisjr.bsky.social tweet.
Check out this amazing paper on "the promotion of interdisciplinary research, reproduction of disciplinary order in departments, and interdisciplinary early-career scholars’ career advancement."
From Elina Mäkinen, Dan McFarland, and my late friend Eliza Evans ❤️
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
From Elina Mäkinen, Dan McFarland, and my late friend Eliza Evans ❤️
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
doi.org
January 22, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Check out this amazing paper on "the promotion of interdisciplinary research, reproduction of disciplinary order in departments, and interdisciplinary early-career scholars’ career advancement."
From Elina Mäkinen, Dan McFarland, and my late friend Eliza Evans ❤️
doi.org/10.1080/0022...
From Elina Mäkinen, Dan McFarland, and my late friend Eliza Evans ❤️
doi.org/10.1080/0022...