Paul Smaldino @psmaldino@social.cleverlibre.org

@epower For whatever reason, the UK publication date is November 28. Shenanigans if you ask me.

I listened to this and realized that, in reference to disciplinary structure in the human sciences, I yelled “Burn it all down!” not once but twice. I stand by it.

Good times on the BJKS podcast. If for whatever reason you want to listen to me ramble about career trajectories, modeling social behavior, and the state of academic science, have a listen.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1390924/13689768-75-paul-smaldino-modeling-social-behavior-the-value-of-false-models-and-research-beyond-traditional-disciplines

Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better.

PUP: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior

AMZN: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=it_books_com-20

My book, Modeling Social Behavior, comes out in just 5 days in North America and the EU. Zounds! I think it's very good and you should get it, but you don't have to take my word for it -- the 1st chapter is free on the PUP website.
PUP: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior
AMZN: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=it_books_com-20

@colaresi Thanks! I like to think it’s very complimentary to The Model Thinker (I’m a big fan of that book).

In four weeks, my book comes out in the US. Insanity. If you're interested, you can pre-order at the usual spots.

PUP: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior

AMZN: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=it_books_com-20

@conjugateprior You reminded me of a great Vonnegut quote from Breakfast of Champions. "The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be that same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC."

@dlakelan Mingus is the best.

@anandphilipc@sigmoid.social also, to some extent, ALL science is data science 🤷‍♂️

@anandphilipc@sigmoid.social both are very much about how to draw inferences and make decisions from incomplete and noisy data.

I kind of hate the standard Cognitive Science "hexagon." The disciplines feel totally false to the realities of actually understanding human cognition and behavior. When I teach intro to cogsci, here's the version I present, in case it's useful to anyone.

@GodsoeWilliam chapter by chapter if you have access to jstor https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcm4hnd

@GodsoeWilliam I will admit I mostly use the PDF of it.

@lakens Paperback and hardcover

Diggin’ the way my book looks on the old modelin’ shelf.

My Intro to Cognitive Science students get a surprise lesson in parasitology in Week 2 in order to think about the relationship between cognition and environmental predictability. Trying to fill in some gaps here.