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Director, Qualitative Data Repository (personal account). Data, Zotero, Social Science Methods https://sebastiankarcher.com

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Do you think doctors necessarily have a good way to explain how we know they are safe to people who have heard/been fed vax misinfo?
In a perfect world this might not be necessary, but in the info environment we're in, it probably is

07.03.2026 12:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Application Form Senior Editor Clinical/Associate Editor Social Section Collabra: Psychology Starting from 1 July 2026, Collabra: Psychology is on the look-out for a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interest...

Contribute to open science! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026. Repost please!
forms.gle/DgM3484SuLVD...

06.03.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

See the second link for some available 1.18 installers -- if you have an old back-up they might still work (they won't work on the 1.19 database though).

06.03.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Local import from Mendeley broken Hi, I have used Mendeley for a while and would like to migrate to zotero using the local method as I store my files locally.

What version (exactly) of Mendeley do you currently have and do you still have the data? Zotero has pretty robust import from Mendeley, but the default version uses synced data; using local data is more complicated. See
www.zotero.org/support/kb/m... and this thread
forums.zotero.org/discussion/1...

06.03.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy dog?
Happy dog carrying a white baseball hat in its mouth?

06.03.2026 02:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The 2026 APSA DDRIG cycle will open on April 1, 2026, and close on June 1, 2026.

Provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science.

Connect awardees to APSA’s extensive professional development and public engagement networks and resources.

Supports the advancement of national health, prosperity, and welfare.

The APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant has made 139 awards to doctoral candidates from 53 PhD-granting institutions since 2020.

The 2026 APSA DDRIG cycle will open on April 1, 2026, and close on June 1, 2026. Provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Connect awardees to APSA’s extensive professional development and public engagement networks and resources. Supports the advancement of national health, prosperity, and welfare. The APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant has made 139 awards to doctoral candidates from 53 PhD-granting institutions since 2020.

tell your friends: the APSA DDRIG application for 2026 will open on April 1. Updating the FAQ pages with some additional information now.

05.03.2026 19:59 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

You'll get free advice on prompting :P

05.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of my go-tos: "If no one's responsible for that task, that's exactly who does it"

So much of data management (and a lot of other task-oriented stuff) is just roles and responsibilities

05.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

See, this is the AI posts I'm here for!
As a bad coder w/o AI, I'm still pretty sure Claude Code is pareto better than me, but now that it lets me do more ambitious things, I do think about this a lot.

05.03.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

We’re hiring β€” help us spread the word! @tnridout.bsky.social @mikefranz.bsky.social

05.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really like lefty Mormons. The same earnestness & cheerfulness, but woke.

05.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The future continues weird. This is a nice example at the now common intersection of β€œIt’s remarkable that this is even possible”, β€œYou can see the vistas it opens up”, and β€œPretty sweet for the company to have people use their service in this very pay-as-you-go resource-intensive way”.

05.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a β€œsexist attitude”

This is a weird piece, but noteworthy that 2/3 stories of male scientists staying away from Epstein involve intervention by a woman. I can see the (justified) eyerolls, but also, diversity in teams matters. You shouldn't need your mom for this.
www.science.org/content/arti...

05.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

03.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 128 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 11

They are very good at standard proofreading, catching things that standard spell/grammar checkers don't.
I've also had good success with prompting for unclear passages. I rarely take specific suggestions on those. They often lack precision.

05.03.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Finishing up Day 3 in the Paralympic Village, great to see my mixed doubles teammates starting off with a big W against a very good Latvian team! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ₯Œ

04.03.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 1340 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 4

Github diff isn't remotely close; you can't see edits from even three people & you don't have highlighting & editing in the same doc and not accept/reject at the line level. Meld at least give you 3-way comparison & merge, but that is line-by-line: very much not the same, and w 4 authors you lose.

05.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I guess my larger point is that Word is somewhere between not great & bad for every individual task, but there is nothing that can replace it wholesale while keeping basics very easy to use.
People use it for a reason, not just lock-in/habit.

05.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a Quarto/Rmd editor that gives you usable track changes with accept/reject option? I can obviously diff and with a good tool that's OK, but I don't think it's close to what you get in Word (or GDocs).
Hard to see how a plaintext format can do that on the same level

05.03.2026 02:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

No, I want to write while tracking changes w/o seeing every change in the doc as a Pollock painting of crossed out & added sentences. In GDocs you can preview "accept all" but you can't edit then

05.03.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

GDoc doesn't let you edit without seeing everyone else's edits. Word does. And GDoc is just missing too much functionality otherwise (no figure/table captions???)

05.03.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not here to defend Word (though being forced into a locked template is an unfair use case imo), but I have not seen any tool that has track changes in anything close to the quality of Word and that matters a lot.

05.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I read power napping and I don't think I'll get the picture on a big lecture class all power napping together out of my head any time soon...

04.03.2026 21:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's obviously only the children that their parents talk about...

04.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"In particular, while expressive responding clearly causes surveys to exaggerate the extent to which partisanship acts as a perceptual screen, the same forces that produce expressive responding in surveys may also affect the political judgments people make in real life."

03.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

XML is both

03.03.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Available for beta testing: Read Aloud In the latest Zotero beta, we've added a major new feature to the reader: Read Aloud.

New Zotero feature:
forums.zotero.org/discussion/1...

I'll say that I do find the priorities surprising (we still don't have working batch editing w/o futzing around w javascript)

Otoh, TTS in PDF readers is bad & having it available in a multi-format reader is intriguing & _great_ for #a11y

03.03.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Recommend recent (2020-to date) monographs that use ethnography as a method. I'm looking for books that examine empirical cases where data collection is done (completely or partially) using ethnography, NOT ethnography textbooks.

03.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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Beyond the Lines by Sarah E. Parkinson | Paperback | Cornell University Press Beyond the Lines explores the social underpinnings of rebel adaptation and resilience. How do rebel groups cope with crises such as repression, displacement, and fragmentation? What explains changes.....

Oh and obviously
Beyond the Lines by Sarah E. Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social Cornell University Press share.google/KGxkErJHgS33...

03.03.2026 03:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Up to Heaven and Down to Hell A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy

Up to Heaven and Down to Hell | Princeton University Press share.google/qcVNkSzbAuYT...

Also interesting methodologically when read with Jerolmack's pieces.on masking & transparency in ethnography

03.03.2026 03:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0