Everyone is talking about Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne’s latest venture: the 4-part series, Adolescence, that hit Netflix screens on March 13 ^th . https://cstonline.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/videoplayback.mp4

“Noise in the sense of a large number of small events is often a causal factor much more powerful than a small number of large events can be. Noise makes trading in financial markets possible, and thus allows us to observe prices for financial assets… We are forced to act…

Neither natural nor intelligent ‘Artificial intelligence’ (AI) is such a large, dynamic, and vaguely defined field that much of what can be said about it is both true and false, or no longer true or possibly not yet true.

Last year, Hu Wenhui, an editor in Guangzhou, asked: ‘How should those unfortunate enough to encounter the garbage time of history conduct themselves?’ Good question.

My 2023 predictions on the ScholComm headlines in a few years

Why do we even bother? What (exactly) is the point? In this age of AI why would anyone need to learn about Computing? What value does it add, what skills do students learn and what knowledge do students actually need to develop?

We reached out to senior decision makers working in global health about the new Certificate peer learning programme for equity in research and practice. Crickets. One CEO wrote: “We aren’t currently in a position to enter into new strategic partnerships on the topic.” The chilling effect is real. Many organizations are retreating from publicly championing equity work—even those with deep commitments to fairness and inclusion.

Want to tell turtles and tortoises apart? Learn the key differences in habitat, body structure, and behavior between these shelled creatures.

Muitas pessoas acreditam que as questões sociais não podem — ou não deveriam — ser analisadas com recursos matemáticos. O argumento mais comum é que a matemática pode ser útil para descrever processos naturais, mas não para compreender as ações humanas, que seriam demasiadamente complexas e subjetivas para serem reduzidas a números.

Die Zeitschrift JoDaKISS (Journal of Data- and Knowledge-integrated Simulation Science) ist zwar kein Angebot aus Brandenburg, aber doch ein generell interessanter Anwendungsfall für die Entwicklungsperspektive von Open Access im Zusammenspiel mit Facetten von Open Science.

While the replication crisis is leading to changes in journal policies and data transparency practices in psychology, political science and economics, nothing much happens in sociology. Do we have nothing to worry about because research in sociology is more replicable than in other fields? Perhaps. We don’t really know because very few studies in sociology are ever replicated.