adam42smith.bsky.social
Director, Qualitative Data Repository (personal account).
Data, Zotero, Social Science Methods
https://sebastiankarcher.com
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CSL maintainer here: It's not actually possible though (Zotero/CSL isn't aware of 1st and 2nd last names as a concept). Also, LLMs do very, very poorly modifying CSL styles. There just aren't enough for training data.
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I think generally Cooper is wrong -- easy to forget that Eric Adams won the last Democratic primary in NYC -- but do we actually know that campaign effects in mayoral primaries are small? Not that many people vote...
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dang, Ted already obviated that idea :( I still think we can argue about the default agent, though
bsky.app/profile/tedu...
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LLMs. You have the normies using chatGPT, the wannabe cool folks using Claude, the wannabe sophisticated folks using Gemini, the folks using Ollama locally & think everyone else is evil -- there's a lot of potential there
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I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that -- assuming that there's significant overlap as there usually is -- that copyright extends to those significant overlapping passages.
The reason this isn't a problem currently is the nature of the standard copyright transfer agreements.
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2/2 At that point you're no longer in compliance w funder policy and have a problem.
(Just to be clear -- this is descriptive, not normative; I obviously think it's terrible, but people have been predicting this would happen).
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They're the copyright owner (since you transfered copyright as condition of publication) and will send a DCMA takedown request to the repository (just as they do occasionally now if you post the journal copy), which will likely comply (or be in a potentially very expensive legal fight). 1/2
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As you know, we agree on the data citation part (we link to your super helpful guidance on that ro @apsrjournal.bsky.social authors).
The screenshot I posted is from CC though -- it's what you get when you click on "appropriate credit" in the license description you show.
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That's not quite right though? One of the reasons I'm a bit hesitant about CC-BY (vs CC0 waiver) for data is that it's still a license with specific _legal_ requirements that extend beyond citation (a scholarly norm): disclaimer, copyright notice, and link to license terms
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Yeah, I think Test Kitchen or Kenji or someone like that swears by it for Mac&Cheese bc of that
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Polanyi perhaps? To me, that's always been the best statement of the embeddedness of markets. Not sure, though, how a bunch of IT kids in their early 20s react to Speenhamland laws...
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He writes that Allen felt the need to constantly 'needle & belittle.'
Not from his diaries, but there's this story that I love (even though it's prob too good to be true): did you know? Tim Allen tried acting once : r/WeHateMovies share.google/n4AYdCRMGJWd...
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I have commit rights on the translator repo, but I defer to them on anything that's a question of software design
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1/2 I'm also not dead set against accepting this. I think we have an English version bc UK librarians convinced us that it was getting used from Primo catalogs
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You'd need to ask Zotero -- they make those calls. Technically it's simple, but there are of course downsides to having an endless list & other than citation styles, translators can't be installed/uninstalled via the UI (as you know)
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That's why Zotero e.g. handles all machine readable metadata export (including the original wp template) in translators, not citation styles
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Because CSL is designed for human readability, it has dozens of contextual rules -- substitutes, where/when punctuation is set, etc. -- in its processors. That's why they have 100s of test for compliance. That's great for human readable citations, but can cause havoc on machine readable ones.
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Excellent radio lab episode about this if you like podcasts:
radiolab.org/podcast/baby...
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It's absolutely essential. Zotero is built around it
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2/2 broad strokes arguments on the skeptics side that ignore real, current use cases. I think that's especially true for non-expert skeptics like Kruse (I have less patience for professional skeptics like Bender who I think ought to do better)
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Sure, but I think conversation is also a form of empathy and if you're 'pro AI' and engage in conversation in a way that feels like it ignores the (for lack of a better term) lived reality of skeptics, that is as much reason for the breakdown of discourse as the sometimes ill-informed 1/2
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We've seen this -- I don't love the use of CSL for what are, in effect, metadata formats, and not citations, so I'm a bit hesitant about adding yet more Wikipedia styles, which means this isn't a quick/simple merge. CSL isn't designed for this so these turn out to be rather awkward/fragile.
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Why don't you just import via the Save to Zotero button?
(Also works from the full listing and you can select which papers to download, so you don't even have to click through)
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2/2 even though you two probably agree on this to the extent that 'no one _should_ want to do that'
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I think that 2nd part is where the discourse falls apart though. Someone like Kruse sees people -- students, novelists(!), and yes, other academics -- do exactly this & he sees the AI marketing that suggests to use it that way, so 'no one ... would want to do that' is a tough claim to swallow 1/2
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2/2 Open/transparent peer review has been discussed for at least 25 years. This isn't a new idea (or a new practice; a good number of other journals are already doing various versions of this)
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Same as for data & code accompanying articles: the vast majority of folks will never look at it, but if you want to dig deeper -- be it because the article is central to your work, because you don't understand why something to through review, or sth else, this is super valuable 1/2
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Option B hier: www.zotero.org/support/kb/t...
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I think you're supposed to say "unpopular opinion"
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Foodwaste is such a hard concept to get your head around. I have made peace w it, but I find the idea that the plastic wrap around the cuke is actively good for the environment (assuming the existence/necessity of grocery stores) still weird.
The eat less meat part they're just scared, tho
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The online library has an added by field, so source of duplicates can be tracked.
More finegrained permissions would be good, but it's quite hard to come up with sth that allows people to add to a library but not to cause chaos. "No delete" is often requested, but wouldn't have helped here.
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Large scale duplication almost always happens because of export/import, which creates duplicates
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You can using the zoplicate plugin, yes, but for accidentally duplicated items, deleting after sorting by date actually seems like a more robust solution (since duplicate can have false positives & false negatives)
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See, that's why Jim Mahoney wants to teach everyone set theory.
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In some ways, Kristol has just been very consistently arguing that democracy is very good & worth fighting for. It's just a much better argument if it's your own democracy rather than one you invade other countries for
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APSR has recently reintroduced its Research Notes track:
bsky.app/profile/apsr...
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That would be... phallocentric