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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social

TFW you haven’t done the age assigned reading, but you’re gonna talk a lot in class cause you read one book from the 1930s once.

aug 28, 2025, 2:17 pm • 61 7

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Colleen Goos @gooscolleen.bsky.social

The guy has never heard of turning qualitative into quantitative info used by social sciences before? Suddenly, computer scientists have all the answers 😆 These people need to actually get out of their cave and into the light 😉

aug 28, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social

Not sure how “age” got in there but whatever. Let’s roll with it

aug 28, 2025, 2:20 pm • 21 0 • view
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GreenChris @chrisbirder.bsky.social

Rings true!

aug 28, 2025, 2:24 pm • 1 0 • view
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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social

If it fits.

aug 28, 2025, 2:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social

Also: “Using data to objectively measure societal events ‘is the new paradigm for studying human dynamics’, says Walter Quattrociocchi, a computer scientist” is a sentence that says a lot about where we are. ‘Causes nobody knows human dynamics like a computer scientist. Unless it’s an economist.

aug 28, 2025, 2:17 pm • 47 2 • view
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Jean Waddie @jmwedi.bsky.social

When your hammer is a computer, everything looks like a data problem?

aug 28, 2025, 8:25 pm • 2 0 • view
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K.H.I. @sheridesabike.bsky.social

Every ocean on the planet evaporating into steam with this burn. Damn, eel historian.

aug 28, 2025, 2:20 pm • 5 0 • view
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mavismarie.bsky.social @mavismarie.bsky.social

Did you see this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

aug 28, 2025, 5:27 pm • 0 0 • view