professor @ michigan state university
editor @ global networks
research: networks ๐ธ | R ๐จโ๐ป | childfree ๐ซ
also: wine ๐ท | cats ๐บ | travel โ๏ธ
https://www.zacharyneal.com and https://www.thechildfree.org
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We'll be sending a new round of invitations later this week โฑ๏ธ. Use the link below to register your interest in getting involved.
The #Rstats ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ package is helps with #NetworkScience by transforming a dense or weighted network into a sparse, unweighted one.
Now thereโs a comprehensive tutorial with toy and empirical examples in @plosone.org.
Check it out here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Itโs not just that there is no requirement, but ASA prohibits any requirement. This is why I am no longer an ASA member and wonโt serve on ASA journal editorial boards.
Jeremy Freese
Zachary Neal
Zachary Neal
The updated TOP 2025 guidelines offer a framework for journals and publishers that previously adopted TOP to reassess alignment with current open science expectations, and for those not yet using TOP to consider its value in shaping policy.
๐ resource on updating policies:
The sociology of sociologists is fascinating
A reproducibility failure in microbiome research and a wave of biomedical AI studies built on unverifiable data point to the same issue: scientific results can circulate and gain authority without remaining testable.
In #ComplexityThoughts: manlius.substack.com/p/when-data-...
New book! Peter Taylor, Michael Barke and @zpneal.bsky.social: Becoming Metropolitan: Urban Transformation of 19th Century Newcastle โฌ๏ธ
gawc.lboro.ac.uk/new-book-bec...
I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server.
๐ ziptbl.com
It compresses the data into the link itself, so thereโs no account, hosting, or storage layer involved.
Here's Florence Nightingale's famous ๐ data:
ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...
Manlio De Domenico
Jenna Watling Neal
Globalization and World Cities
Absolutely. A single confabulated reference is enough for me to reject a paper as a reviewer or editor. This is only a problem if we let it be a problem.
The TOP Guidelines support development of policies that increase verifiability of empirical research claims. This post shares new guidance for journals and publishers wishing to update their processes and policies.
Using a unique data-rich study of Newcastleโs becoming of a metropolitan city-region in the nineteenth century, this book explores a new understanding of how successful cities attain a metropolitan st...
Associate Editors work closely with the Editors in helping to steer and manage the journal, playing an active role in journal development. The key responsibility as an Associate Editor will be managing the lifecycle of a paper through the peer review process. This includes:
Wild that the top sociology journal doesn't require computational replication or open data.
๐ #Rstats ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ 3.0.0 is now available on CRAN to help with #NetworkScience.
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ transforms a dense or weighted network into a sparse, unweighted one. Version 3.0.0 is completely re-written, with lots of new features...
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Tiago Peixoto
Sociologists, I havenโt seen a thread talking about whatโs going on in the ASA, and I would like to
My thoughts are contradictory and sad. I think:
- the ASA โreformโ limiting member resolutions was a disaster (I campaigned against it, basically by myself, last time, & I did make some enemies)
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Complete this short questionnaire to help develop Guidelines for Reporting About Network Data (GRAND).
This is the thing, if "academia" wanted to stop this, we could easily tomorrow. Over 3 incorrect references? Rejected and forbidden to submit next year.
The purpose of a system is what it does!
