scholar of social movements and culture, computational sociologist, open source enthusiast, assistant professor
www.lauraknelson.com
I stand by my opinion that Linux is the best for academic work, and I'm specifically talking about humanities here, not the usual suspects (like computer science or maths).
It's just so quiet and good for productivity, no ads, no forced apps, it's free, and you can customise it to your heart's content to create the workflow that best suits you.
This was one outcome from years of work done by a fantastic team of sociologists and medical doctors, one I am grateful to have joined - even late in the game.
Now live @ASR_Journal
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This one's important to me. I really *felt* this research. If you've ever felt the burden of taking the time to provide thoughtful feedback to struggling students, this one's for you. And it matters for gender inequality 💃
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00031224231184264
If that URL directed you to log in, try this one:
https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/356679
I guess I'll use the extra post to say: we have a 2-1 teaching load, excellent mentoring of assistant professors, and a collegial environment. The Twin Cities have a lot of amenities. Check it out!
Minnesota Sociology is hiring an assistant prof in population studies!
Focused on population and environment (some, but defeasible, preference for candidates who could also teach grad migration)
It's a great place to work & I'll gladly answer questions
@philipncohen Ridgeway is a tough one to categorize. Is formal theory substantively qualitative? I'm not sure. Anyway, interesting!
Check out this work of interactive scrollership we just released with Rita Gonzalez-Marquez, Dmitry Kobak, Philipp Berens and others at Tübingen presenting their gorgeous T-SNE embedding and several other views of 20 MILLION abstracts from PubMed.
https://static.nomic.ai/pubmed.html
Just up on @SocArXivBot "A Transparency Checklist for Qualitative Research" by Lori Frohwirth, Tammy Lever, and myself https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/wc35g/
Inspired by Lori's work championing transparent qualitative research at the Guttmacher Institute, we develop a flexible checklist for qualitative researchers. The checklist itself is on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4266635 A short 🧵 1/n
We are hiring a manager for the CU Community Fab Lab—the makerspace where Skeuomorph Press is located—it's a vibrant & welcoming space that bridges the campus & community & I am really hoping we find a dynamic person to help us maintain the great work currently happening & build in exciting new ways!
https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/3788?c=illinois
@andreavoyer Wow it seems I was one day too late in renewing my membership. I renewed it yesterday (and I was really proud of myself for being super on top of it and renewing well before the deadline of March 22) but I'm getting a slew of messages today about it. I must of missed some internal (unpublished) deadline that triggered a bunch of emails. Anyway, sorry you had to be bothered about this, all should be good now, and it was unintentional as I thought I did this all right on schedule.
@Christofurio Why though? Why is it in the public interest to allow people to keep many secrets? Explain it to me like I'm 12.
@Christofurio I don't think it's an obvious point though. Everything I read just assumes it's obvious, but what is the actual political/philosophical argument? In your scenario, if you had something that's legal in your trunk, the police would look at it and simply move on. Yeah one person would see your secret, but that's maybe an acceptable price for safety. My students have lived their entire lives under constant surveillance. I don't think the right to privacy is all that obvious anymore.
The more I'm searching for something to show the more confused I'm getting. I'm just finding platitudes like "your home is your castle," or stories about how Americans were grumpy that the British were able to enter their homes so they wrote an amendment. But beyond this historically specific gripe, why? Why is privacy a pillar of democracy? Why is our home our castle, and what does that even mean?
@Christofurio Finally found time to watch this. Interesting stuff! But it's still all about what counts as probable cause, not why protection against unreasonable search should be a right in the first place.
The perspective of my students: If you're not trying to hide a crime, who cares if police search your car/home? They won't find anything. And if you are trying to hide a crime, why make it more difficult to determine that?
My department at Rhode Island College is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in #Sociology to start August 2023. See more at https://employment.ric.edu/postings/6861 -- happy to answer questions (I am not on the search committee).
Computational social science post-doc opportunity in Toronto! https://socialmedialab.ca/2023/02/26/we-are-hiring-two-postdoctoral-research-fellows-in-computational-social-science-at-the-social-media-lab-toronto-metropolitan-university/
The first 143 digits of pi, quilted! 🎉 Happy pi day, y’all!
I'm looking for a short video (~5 minutes) that explains why protection against unreasonable search and seizure is a constitutional right. Not what it means, but why it's important. Bonus of it goes beyond the U.S.
Context: I'm discussing privacy in my undergrad Data and Society course (I'm in Canada) and it seems many of my students don't fully understand why this right was so important to the foundation of democratic societies.
Any ideas?
@asociologist I had more on the order of 20 submissions (I think 15, and about 5 were clearly not even relevant). So I laughed.
(This was last year but I doubt the backend has changed)
@asociologist It's so bad. I have a high tolerance for clunky technology so I just thought it was funny. But it's bad.
