Nic Weber
@nmw.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ UW
Computational Social Science
Computational Social Science
Fwiw - Interfolio allows you to assemble the dossier and download dossiers in batches.
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Fwiw - Interfolio allows you to assemble the dossier and download dossiers in batches.
Do you have a public syllabus? This sounds fantastic!
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Do you have a public syllabus? This sounds fantastic!
"You like School House Rock, right? Ok, this is Math Rock. Basically the same thing."
October 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
"You like School House Rock, right? Ok, this is Math Rock. Basically the same thing."
This is wild coincidence... I was just pushing Claude on category theory and it went very sideways theorizing about morphology.
August 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This is wild coincidence... I was just pushing Claude on category theory and it went very sideways theorizing about morphology.
Also v good bsky.app/profile/rach...
Reposted from @alexandersahn.bsky.social:
Data from CampaignView(campaignview.org) show that the only term that Democrats used in more than 1% of statements in campaign platforms (2018-2022) is *privilege*
Data from CampaignView(campaignview.org) show that the only term that Democrats used in more than 1% of statements in campaign platforms (2018-2022) is *privilege*
August 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Also v good bsky.app/profile/rach...
...declining state support, threata and real losses in grant funded research, demographic shifts, demonization of liberal classrooms, etc ... AI is an accelerant for a sector already on fire, but it's insane to say this is a "students future" without any consideration for our present.
July 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
...declining state support, threata and real losses in grant funded research, demographic shifts, demonization of liberal classrooms, etc ... AI is an accelerant for a sector already on fire, but it's insane to say this is a "students future" without any consideration for our present.
If all of this forced higher ed to reconsider its methods of content delivery and retrain it's workforce - I think a lot of us (students, professors, support staff) would be thrilled - BUT ITS NOT. Because... Well everything. Most employees in HE are living under a shadow of terror introduced by...
July 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
If all of this forced higher ed to reconsider its methods of content delivery and retrain it's workforce - I think a lot of us (students, professors, support staff) would be thrilled - BUT ITS NOT. Because... Well everything. Most employees in HE are living under a shadow of terror introduced by...
Another broadly discussed tactic is "oral exams"...ok, but with absolutely no consideration for what this testing method measures, and no support for student preparation for a new paradigm of evaluation? It also does not scale without some serious reorientation of in-person instruction norma
July 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Another broadly discussed tactic is "oral exams"...ok, but with absolutely no consideration for what this testing method measures, and no support for student preparation for a new paradigm of evaluation? It also does not scale without some serious reorientation of in-person instruction norma
Most instructors are trying the same tactics to theaet overreliance on AI, but it's all so meek and most of it is failing. "Ask gpt and then critique it's response" is the equivalent of a programming instructor saying "in this class we only read code you can find on GitHub" - it has v limited value
July 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Most instructors are trying the same tactics to theaet overreliance on AI, but it's all so meek and most of it is failing. "Ask gpt and then critique it's response" is the equivalent of a programming instructor saying "in this class we only read code you can find on GitHub" - it has v limited value
Now replace Tesla with OpenAI; and driving with literally any subject in higher education. This is college instruction in 2025
July 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Now replace Tesla with OpenAI; and driving with literally any subject in higher education. This is college instruction in 2025
Next year, all 50 state DMVs report widespread failure for road tests. The rate of licensed drivers in the US population decreases steadily and then falls off a cliff. Politicians and print media blame driving instructors - why can't they just update their curriculum to meet student needs?
July 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Next year, all 50 state DMVs report widespread failure for road tests. The rate of licensed drivers in the US population decreases steadily and then falls off a cliff. Politicians and print media blame driving instructors - why can't they just update their curriculum to meet student needs?
I really like @cbarrie.bsky.social's prompt stability work for text annotation arxiv.org/abs/2407.02039
Prompt Stability Scoring for Text Annotation with Large Language Models
Researchers are increasingly using language models (LMs) for text annotation. These approaches rely only on a prompt telling the model to return a given output according to a set of instructions. The ...
arxiv.org
July 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I really like @cbarrie.bsky.social's prompt stability work for text annotation arxiv.org/abs/2407.02039
This is a very cool paper - curious about doing research with a HS student - is this part of a program or one off scenario?
June 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is a very cool paper - curious about doing research with a HS student - is this part of a program or one off scenario?
This tracks with political science theory! Eitan Hersh argues that political hobbyism depends in part on the perceived threat of the party in power www.eitanhersh.com/uploads/7/9/...
www.eitanhersh.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This tracks with political science theory! Eitan Hersh argues that political hobbyism depends in part on the perceived threat of the party in power www.eitanhersh.com/uploads/7/9/...
