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
Question about the Trichinella spiralis lifecycle. Specifically: when larval cells are released by females in the intestines, how do they make their way to muscle tissue and encyst there? Is this totally a passive process, or are their catalysts that trigger behavioral responses?
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A record that I worked on over the last year, and which is very dear to my heart, is out in the world today! #newMusic
Dad Songs is the second album of goofy, sweet, bizarre indie-pop singalong anthems by The Small Dinosaurs. It's about being a dad and part of a family — with heartfelt songs about favorite foods, cat friends, and going into labor. p/r/m/m by me!
Available anywhere you stream music, including Bandcamp. I hope you love it 🖤
https://smalldinosaurs.bandcamp.com/album/dad-songs
https://open.spotify.com/album/0fJnZzY6vsdLALXy5XU9tC?si=o8_H72IgStOYKOnsgJGL-g&nd=1
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here's a mixing idea that you probably should not use very much if at all: put a cassette tape emulation on the master bus and crank the wow and flutter a bit
https://smalldinosaurs.bandcamp.com/track/do-you-read-me
won't lie, i'm proud of this one 😂🏆 check out how the guitar is barely hanging together in the solo!
@bradleveck I agree. I don't have a ready solution for this problem, but I suspect some sort of focused paradigmatic shake-up could be a good thing if done right.
I read an earlier draft of this paper by Francisco Gil-White a few years ago and found it to be a very insightful critique of modern academic institutions. I haven't read the new version, but I imagine it's only gotten better. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4504597
@futurebird a few weeks ago I was at the gym and saw Fox News repeatedly refer to the NYC district attorney as “far left.”
As promised, here's the full album, out today. DAD SONGS is 13 indie/garage/art-rock songs about the milieu of fatherhood. Enjoy.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0fJnZzY6vsdLALXy5XU9tC?si=otWcjuOJQEq7qrCmRiZlhA
@j2bryson yeah, same here. Not on FB or threads at all, Instagram only for art projects.
All the socials! Now additionally trying out bluesky, we'll see how it goes.
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Advance copies of my book just showed up! I’m really happy with every aspect of this thing, including the spine. Available now for pre-order, out October 3 (US).
PUP: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Modeling-Social-Behavior-Mathematical-Agent-Based/dp/0691224145
@lakens Been listening this morning. This is great. Reminds me a bit of this Swedish band from a while back that I was really into for a while. https://open.spotify.com/album/5EpL3paFB4n7lXn9k8wmVB?si=-mitsGKXQVmbC8q9K5c2Ag
Full album drops this Wednesday. I’ll post a link then. 🤘
From: @psmaldino
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Advance copies of my book just showed up! I’m really happy with every aspect of this thing, including the spine. Available now for pre-order, out October 3 (US).
PUP: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Modeling-Social-Behavior-Mathematical-Agent-Based/dp/0691224145
@GodsoeWilliam haha, the math helps for sure, but it’s definitely the latter. I’ve written some stuff on this using some evo modeling approaches. Here are a few in case you’re interested.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.160384
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26339137221131816
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17456916231182568
@GodsoeWilliam once you go down that dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.
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I’ve finished Abram’s new book on competition. It is rewarding but hard. The most revealing passage is on page 288 after 100’s of pages of math. Abrams asks:
“Why have the aspects of [competition theory] been ignored?... A scientific approach to this question… is not possible, [but it may involve] the economics and sociology of the research environment.”
Makes me wonder if us theory folks need to focus less on the math and much more on the "economics and sociology of research environment".
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This is the funniest thing I've read in ages. Also, mastodon is going to lose to bluesky because of lack of quotetweets https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/110828740888574284
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Now out in Perspectives on Psychological Science, our discussion on how changing the reward structure to reward the group, instead of individuals, might lead to better science. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916231182568
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A nice blog post about thinking when building models by Daniel Saunders
https://daniel-saunders-phil.github.io/imagination_machine/posts/if-none-of-the-above-then-what/
- 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
