Evolutionary anthropology + computers/math/stats. Understanding why people do things and how they get done. Postdoc studying success in open source software.
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"Take a look at this bobblehead, Bregman. I think you'll like it," says the kid sitting behind me carrying this. #TridentsUp
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My colleagues and I have two NSF-funded postdocs openings. They're at the intersections of computational social science, governance, social networks, and open source software:
recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06297
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en…
Kindly spread the word.
BEYOND thrilled to announce that I will be joining @uwescience Institute as a data-intensive social scientist in Feb. My main remit will be helping faculty and grad students across campus incorporate large data and advanced methods. I can't wait to work on tons of cool research!
Changing topics for a postdoc makes publishing slow but super rewarding once it happens. Our 1st paper from a project started Feb 2021 was submitted today. 2 more later this summer. I know way more about the social system underlying Open-source software than I imagined
I got a standing desk on Monday and haven't sat down to work yet. Also convenient is that I can raise it high and tuck my chair under it at night, saving space in my WFH setup.
My favorite use of #ChatGPT so far: letters to politicians arguing against positions they hold in their own voice or voices of people they listen to.
This is Rocky, from the Dog for a Day program at the Fulton County Animal Shelter run by @lifelineanimal So sweet!
I'm proud to have learned about the public good of open-source software, the common pool resource of developer effort, and the many ways of running a successful OSS project. If you have been part of an ASF Incubator project, we have a survey here: umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.c…
Can you predict an open source project’s success?
Using @ASFIncubator data, a team of researchers went looking for answers.
news.apache.org/foundation/e…
#JumpOSS team: @curtatkisson @vlfilkov @cschweik @BrendaKBushouse @MahaswetaChakr7 @enfascination @anamika716 @scstanciulescu
ALT Jumpstarting Successful OSS Projects
Send a paper to PNAS. Rejected after reviews. Improved. Sent to Nature Human Behavior. Desk rejected. I guess I misunderstand something...
Healthy or basically candy that I eat every morning?
1C buttermilk
2 scoops protein powder
1 scoop peanut butter powder
2T maple syrup
1 banana
2 handfuls berries
1 sweet pepper
1 spicy pepper
1 handful leafy greens
New type of data I'm working with: noisy, cyclical time series. Could use some pointers to good methods. I have data points arranged within projects, which are nested within organizations. I would like to learn about the cycles (e.g., differences in periodicity) & trends, & how
I would like to show how projects with similar outcomes (successful vs not) share characteristics of trend or cycles, & how those characteristics predict things like success while accounting for project and organizational structure. Finally, I would like to be able to