Paul Smaldino @psmaldino@social.cleverlibre.org
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Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler. Curmudgeon. Faculty at UC Merced and Santa Fe Institute.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Bluesky: @psmaldino.bsky.social
Joined Nov 2022
@cas_group unfortunately not. Hopefully I can put an excerpt online at some point. I’m a big fan of the McElreath and Boyd book. My book has a somewhat different scope — I think it’s complementary to theirs.
They really boost my toot, if you know what I mean.
California has been hit really hard. This photoessay conveys the extent of the damage from the ongoing storms better than other news stories I've seen. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/weather/gallery/california-weather-flooding/index.html
@Jslez Thanks! Unfortunately not out till the fall, but can be pre-ordered. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=it_books_com-20 PUP: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior
@sam@fediscience.org @jyoshimi
@hasmis @conjugateprior The good philosophers of science are worth engaging with. Here you go. https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/184647
@reliablyjeff Thanks! Unfortunately not till October. Available for pre-order now.
@conjugateprior @hasmis I read a bunch of Hempel when I was working on the book, and liked a lot about his take on science. That cover is dope.
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@LarsJohannessen @markigra Rosenau and Durfee, Thinking Theory Thoroughly
@DanLittle, Varieties of Social Explanation
Hedström and Swedberg, Social Mechanisms
(Models:)
Hesse, Models and Analogies in Science
Cartwright, Nature, the Artful Modeler
Clarke and Primo, A Model Discipline
Lave and March, An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences
Mershon and Shvetsova, Formal Modeling in Social Science
Page, The Model Thinker
@psmaldino’s forthcoming book
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Maintaining transient diversity is a general principle for improving collective problem solving https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ykrv5/ preprint from Paul Smaldino and colleagues
@pjlamberson Thanks PJ. Lemme know if you do!
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So sorry to hear about Herb Gintis’s death. Here is the podcast I did with him just over a year ago.
RT @snaidunl@twitter.com
Herb Gintis, who was my first mentor in econ, just passed. I'll write more about Herbs brilliance when I've processed this, but here's a link to the Bowles and Gintis festschrift conference (and papers) I organized with @EricVerhoogen@twitter.com and Michael Reich https://econ.columbia.edu/event/ccc2019/
Just found out that my book can be pre-ordered! Release date is October 3, 2023. Text has been finalized, cover is still being designed.
PUP: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691224138/modeling-social-behavior
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=it_books_com-20
@BatSara That's fair, and I guess part of the mastodon landscape I'm still working to understand. Personally, I wouldn't want to be part of a server that was so protective and reactionary, and I can choose that and reap the consequences, just like those who join other servers choose to shut out other voices based on their own risk management preferences.
@BatSara Thanks, I'll check it out. I still don't like the "my server blocks anyone from your server" aspect -- it feels like too broad a brush -- but perhaps I'm not seeing things with the right perspective.
@BatSara Anyway... not sure if this is an ask for methodological textbooks or something more general.
Matt Salganik's book is decent, focused on data, and free to read online: https://www.bitbybitbook.com/
A great intro to models, with lots of relevance to social science, is Page's The Model Thinker. https://www.amazon.com/Model-Thinker-What-Need-Know/dp/0465094627
James Evans and Jacob Foster have a book coming out in the next year or so that should be really good. And my own book, a textbook on modeling social systems, is due out in late summer.
- Website
- https://smaldino.com/wp
- @psmaldino
Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler. Curmudgeon. Faculty at UC Merced and Santa Fe Institute.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Bluesky: @psmaldino.bsky.social
Joined Nov 2022
