Announcing the 2021 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science. #SICSS is for grad students, post-docs & beginning faculty. Free for participants. @chris_bail and I are happy to tell you about all 20 locations. https://t.co/wolhtZIMc5 [thread]

SICSS brings together social scientists & data scientists interested in computational social science for 1-2 week events with intensive study & collaborative research.
Topics covered include automated text analysis, web scraping, non-probability sampling, digital experiments, ethics & much more.
All education materials created for SICSS are available open-source so that people who are unable to participate can still learn. You can also use them in your teaching. Here are materials from previous years: https://t.co/eClPRGEDc7
Because of COVID, all SICSS locations will be online only in 2021.
.@chris_bail and I will be organizing SICSS-Princeton from June 14-25. Applications are due Feb 22. https://t.co/EvxnmwUK8L
In addition to SICSS-Princeton, there will be 19 partner locations organized by SICSS alumni and the broader SICSS community.
SICSS-Beijing. Organized by Yan Leng (SICSS 2018), Tian Yang, Yuan Yuan (SICSS 2019). https://t.co/DxQJU2eH74
SICSS-Bologna. Organized by Filippo Andreatta, Giampiero Giacomello, Marco Albertini, Matthew Loveless, Nicolò Cavalli (SICSS 2018). https://t.co/HBs9Q7ZOhl
SICSS-Chicago. Organized by Kat Albrecht (SICSS 2017), Carrie Stallings, Andrew Papachristos. https://t.co/tWBHdmLN2v
SICSS-FGV/DAPP Brazil. Organized by Marco Aurelio Ruediger, Tiago Ventura (SICSS 2019), Amaro Grassi, Danilo Carvalho. https://t.co/v4ukan2rwn
SICSS-Helsinki. Organized by Matti Nelimarkka (SICSS 2017). https://t.co/X5UNpqxWEb
SICSS-Howard/Mathematica. Organized by Naniette Coleman (SICSS 2019). https://t.co/nh2XszHgrc
SICSS-HSE University. Organized by Elizaveta Sivak (SICSS 2019), Sofia Dokuka, Ivan Smirnov. https://t.co/Gipe04pTiR
SICSS-Istanbul. Organized by Akin Unver, Yunus Emre Tapan. https://t.co/krRyUqUZpE
SICSS-Law. Organized by Rūta Liepiņa (SICSS 2020), Monika Leszczynska (SICSS 2019), Catalina Goanta. https://t.co/gS1OVYXfCq
SICSS-Lisbon. Organized by Qiwei Han (SICSS 2020), Filipa Reis. https://t.co/lKgt2DQvRD
SICSS-London. Organized by Andrea Baronchelli, Joshua Becker (SICSS 2017), Nicola Perra, Milena Tsvetkova, Mike Yeomans (SICSS 2017). https://t.co/ajGCK9DLJy
SICSS-Montréal. Organized by Vissého Adjiwanou (SICSS 2017). https://t.co/8ynqJ5AAhB
SICSS-Oxford. Organized by Christopher Barrie (SICSS 2019), Charles Rahal, Francesco Rampazzo (SICSS 2018), Tobias Rüttenauer (SICSS 2019). https://t.co/7guXRlZzhJ
SICSS-Rutgers. Organized by Michael Kenwick, Katie McCabe (SICSS 2019), Katya Ognyanova, Andrey Tomashevskiy. https://t.co/dD8AqRK4Xf
SICSS-Stellenbosch. Organized by Douglas Parry (SICSS 2019), Richard Barnett (SICSS 2018). https://t.co/ptcbTIaIKG
SICSS-Taiwan. Organized by Feng-Yi Liu (SICSS 2019), Robin Lee (SICSS 2020). https://t.co/540Vqgj0or
SICSS-Tokyo. Organized by Hirokazu Shirado (SICSS 2017), Makiko Nakamuro. https://t.co/guC2J4NvFC
SICSS-UCLA. Organized by Jenny Brand, Alina Arseniev-Koehler (SICSS 2018), Bernard Koch, Pablo Geraldo. https://t.co/9OK8pPiuYg
SICSS-Zurich. Organized by Elliott Ash (SICSS 2017), Malka Guillot (SICSS 2019), Philine Widmer (SICSS 2019). https://t.co/bl7rMP5URp
All SICSS locations welcome applications from people with different backgrounds, interests & experiences. Also, all locations have pre-arrival materials to make sure that everyone is ready to participate and learn.
If you are new to computational social science, check out @chris_bail's new SICSS bootcamp. This online training program is designed to provide you with beginner level skills in coding so that you can follow the more advanced curriculum we teach at SICSS. https://t.co/ZXr3RrAIha
SICSS is available at no cost to participants thanks to grants from @RussellSageFdn, @SloanFoundation, @SSRC & @facebook. Some SICSS locations have also received support from other funders.
So far more about 650 people have participated in SICSS. You can learn about them here: https://t.co/UpvCET1tSN
You can learn more about hosting a partner location at your university, company, government agency, or organization here: https://t.co/M2ZYNuGs3l
You can learn more about SICSS here: https://t.co/wolhtZIMc5
Thank you to the entire SICSS community for making SICSS 2021 possible.

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An example using the Flat Earthers: A thread of many parts:


I'm firmly convinced that the flat Earth thing was started by some adolescent trolls with nothing more productive to do. They didn't believe it, but they thought it was entertaining to keep pretending that they did.

You can't engage with them, because they *are playing a game*. They think it's fun to see if they can get anybody to engage with something completely stupid as though it's true.

If you challenge them, the rules of the game state that they have to argue as hard and a spuriously as they like, but *never* to admit that the Earth is not in fact flat. I suppose you have to make up your own entertainment on 4chan or whatever hole this was conceived in.

It's annoying as hell, but I suppose it doesn't do much harm.. except to folks like this:
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இது சூரிய குலத்தில் உதித்த இராமபிரானுக்கு தமிழ் முனிவர் அகத்தியர் உபதேசித்ததாக வால்மீகி இராமாயணத்தில் வருகிறது. ஆதித்ய ஹ்ருதயத்தைத் தினமும் ஓதினால் பெரும் பயன் பெறலாம் என மகான்களும் ஞானிகளும் காலம் காலமாகக் கூறி வருகின்றனர். ராம-ராவண யுத்தத்தை


தேவர்களுடன் சேர்ந்து பார்க்க வந்திருந்த அகத்தியர், அப்போது போரினால் களைத்து, கவலையுடன் காணப்பட்ட ராமபிரானை அணுகி, மனிதர்களிலேயே சிறந்தவனான ராமா போரில் எந்த மந்திரத்தைப் பாராயணம் செய்தால் எல்லா பகைவர்களையும் வெல்ல முடியுமோ அந்த ரகசிய மந்திரத்தை, வேதத்தில் சொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளதை உனக்கு

நான் உபதேசிக்கிறேன், கேள் என்று கூறி உபதேசித்தார். முதல் இரு சுலோகங்கள் சூழ்நிலையை விவரிக்கின்றன. மூன்றாவது சுலோகம் அகத்தியர் இராமபிரானை விளித்துக் கூறுவதாக அமைந்திருக்கிறது. நான்காவது சுலோகம் முதல் முப்பதாம் சுலோகம் வரை ஆதித்ய ஹ்ருதயம் என்னும் நூல். முப்பத்தி ஒன்றாம் சுலோகம்

இந்தத் துதியால் மகிழ்ந்த சூரியன் இராமனை வாழ்த்துவதைக் கூறுவதாக அமைந்திருக்கிறது.
ஐந்தாவது ஸ்லோகம்:
ஸர்வ மங்கள் மாங்கல்யம் ஸர்வ பாப ப்ரநாசனம்
சிந்தா சோக ப்ரசமனம் ஆயுர் வர்த்தனம் உத்தமம்
பொருள்: இந்த அதித்ய ஹ்ருதயம் என்ற துதி மங்களங்களில் சிறந்தது, பாவங்களையும் கவலைகளையும்


குழப்பங்களையும் நீக்குவது, வாழ்நாளை நீட்டிப்பது, மிகவும் சிறந்தது. இதயத்தில் வசிக்கும் பகவானுடைய அனுக்ரகத்தை அளிப்பதாகும்.
முழு ஸ்லோக லிங்க் பொருளுடன் இங்கே உள்ளது
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