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jodischneider.com/blog
reading, technology, stray thoughts
	Paid graduate hourly research position at UIUC for Spring 2021
Jodi Schneider&#8217;s Information Quality Lab (http://infoqualitylab.org) seeks a graduate hourly student for a research project on bias in citation networks. Biased citation benefits authors in the short-term by bolstering grants and papers, making them more easily accepted. However, it can have severe negative consequences for scientific inquiry. Our goal is to find quantitative measures of [&#8230;]
	Avoiding long-haul air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
I would not recommend long-haul air travel at this time. An epidemiological study of a 7.5 hour flight from the Middle East to Ireland concluded that 4 groups (13 people), traveling from 3 continents in four groups, who used separate airport lounges, were likely infected in flight. The flight had 17% occupancy (49 passengers/283 seats; [&#8230;]
	Paid Undergraduate Research position at UIUC for Fall & Spring 2020
University of Illinois undergraduates are encouraged to apply for a position in my lab. I particularly welcome applications from students in the new iSchool BS/IS degree or in the university-wide informatics minor. While I only have 1 paid position open, I also supervise unpaid independent study projects. Dr.&#160;Jodi&#160;Schneider and the Information Quality Lab &#60;https://infoqualitylab.org&#62; seek [&#8230;]
	#ShutDownSTEM #strike4blacklives #ShutDownAcademia
I greatly appreciated receiving messages from senior people about their participation in the June 10th #ShutDownSTEM #strike4blacklives #ShutDownAcademia. In that spirit, I am sharing my email bounce message for tomorrow, and the message I sent to my research lab. Email bounce: I am not available by email today:&#160;This June 10th is a day of action [&#8230;]
	QOTD: Storytelling in protest and politics
I recently read Francesca Polletta&#8216;s book It was like a fever: Storytelling in protest and politics (2006, University of Chicago Press). I recommend it! It will appeal to researchers interested in topics such as&#160;narrative, strategic communication, (narrative) argumentation, or&#160;epistemology (here, of narrative). Parts may also interest activists. The book&#8217;s case studies are drawn from the [&#8230;]
	Knowledge Graphs: An Aggregation of Definitions
I am not aware of a consensus definition of knowledge graph. I&#8217;ve been discussing this for awhile with Liliana Giusti Serra, and the topic came up again with my fellow organizers of the knowledge graph session at US2TS as we prepare for a panel. I&#8217;ve proposed the following main features: RDF-compatible, has a defined schema (usually an [&#8230;]
	QOTD: Doing more requires thinking less
by the aid of symbolism, we can make transitions in reasoning almost mechanically by the eye which would otherwise call into play the higher faculties of the brain. &#8230;Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations that we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle [&#8230;]
	QOTD: Sally Jackson on how disagreement makes arguments more explicit
Sally Jackson explicates the notion of the &#8220;disagreement space&#8221; in a new Topoi article: &#8220;a position that remains in doubt remains in need of defense&#8221;1 &#160; &#8220;The most important theoretical consequence of seeing argumentation as a system for management of disagreement is a reversal of perspective on what arguments accomplish. Are arguments the means by [&#8230;]
	QOTD: Working out scientific insights on paper, Lavoisier case study
&#8230;language does do much of our thinking for us, even in the sciences, and rather than being an unfortunate contamination, its influence has been productive historically, helping individual thinkers generate concepts and theories that can then be put to the test. The case made here for the constitutive power of figures [of speech] per se [&#8230;]
	David Liebovitz: Achieving Care transformation by Infusing Electronic Health Records with Wisdom
Today I am at the Health Data Analytics summit. The title of the keynote talk is Achieving Care transformation by Infusing Electronic Health Records with Wisdom. It&#8217;s a delight to hear from a medical informaticist: David M. Liebovitz (publications in Google Scholar), MD, FACP, Chief Medical Information Officer, The University of Chicago. He graduated from [&#8230;]