Isak Ladegaard

A lovely return visit to the UIUC quad!

I'm always happy to see my book being reviewed somewhere, but this is particularly cool! An English librarian—librarians are awesome—has selected Open Secrecy as "Book of the Month" at Oxford's Bodleian Social Science Library 🤩

The power of anonymity – open secrecy and digital underworlds - LSE Review of Books Isak Ladegaard’s Open Secrets is a study of “open secrecy” and how anonymized online communities and underworlds both challenge and reinforce state power.

NEW✨ The power of #anonymity – open secrecy and digital underworlds.

Open Secrecy by @ladegaard.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social examines the public use of anonymised identities to build communities and coordinate actions beyond state control.

#Review by Sam DiBella @univofmaryland.bsky.social

Criminal psychologists are profiling a different kind of killer – environmental offenders By understanding why people commit crimes that damage the environment, we can better hold environmental criminals accountable.

🕵️ Criminal psychologists are turning their gaze to a new kind of perpetrator: environmental offenders. From illegal logging to toxic dumping, these crimes are getting the forensic attention they deserve.
✍️ @drjuliashaw.bsky.social (@uclpals.bsky.social):

Side hustle safety net blurb by Aziz Ansari

There are definitely differences between Good Fortune and Side Hustle Safety Net.
There’s no angel in my book.

But the themes of polyemployment and outsourcing of risk? ✅✅

And I’m listed before Judd Apatow in the credits.
@ucpress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

Thanks for the review!

Working with Cali press was a great experience! Highly recommended. If you're teaching tech/crim/movements/modernity related topics and assign part of my book I'm happy to zoom in to your class 👍

Just finished Yiyun Li's short story collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers. So good. And for me, a reminder of how much value there is in reading fiction.

I asked journal editors if they find AI-written content acceptable. Surprisingly, about half are OK with it.

BUT there are big disciplinary differences & many worry about the purpose of human writing.

Open access: tinyurl.com/yf6sjydb

#mixedfeelings #writing #socsky #academicsky #ai

You'll get the next one, Jack! 😅

Data from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/state-summary/US

Kahneman worried that we'll fail to take action on the climate crisis because it lacks salience (the worst is yet to come) and because the specifcs are contested.

Will the $ cost of the crisis make a difference?

Look at this chart, which has yet to include LA.

#ClimateChange, #ClimateCrisis

#extinctionrebellion

This is why the rhetoric of obsolescence is misguided. AI is not going to render humanities professors obsolete. AI is a permission structure to university administrators and state legislatures to continue shrinking our presence in education and defunding our research.

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

I made a gingerbread panopticon

Is that a prompt?

Very cool. Thanks. I understand it's a tool for analyzing conventional network data but as you say, a word embedding is a kind of network, and my understanding is that there are few flexible tools for visualizing them, so I was curious.

Very cool thanks for sharing! Can this tool visualize word embeddings?

We analyzed BigOil meetings with investors and analysts. Participants sometimes talk about emissions and renewables, but ignore climate change. We claim: this faux engagement with a changing world deflects climate responsibility and reproduces the status quo. #socprobs

PDF: tinyurl.com/yck36k3z

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations"

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

This is a cool paper.

States that face status anxiety from issues like colonial history cope by aligning with higher-status states and projecting stigma onto lower-status ones. Eg Japan shifts stigma onto China and Korea to reaffirm its "Western" status.

Open access piece in IO: shorturl.at/kPeRT

Wow, fascinating!

finally a reasonable take

Hope all is well, by the way!

Would love to be added if possible. Thanks for making it easier for everyone.

Hi Brian, would love to be added if possible. Thanks for making it easier for everyone.

😬

Excited to connect with folks in a less toxic space.

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It's real! 😱 My book about how shadowy groups are empowered by information technology can be preordered here: www.amazon.com/dp/052039728... @ucpress.bsky.social