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Evidence of equilibrium dynamics in human social networks evolving in time
Miguel A. González-Casado, Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Angel Sánchez
Communications Physics·2025
No abstract available
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View paper →The structure of scientific collaboration networks
M. E. J. Newman
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2001·2792 citations
<jats:p>The structure of scientific collaboration networks is investigated.
Two scientists are considered connected if they have authored a paper
together and explicit networks of such connections are constructed by
using data drawn from a number of databases, including MEDLINE
(biomedical research), the Los Alamos e-Print Archive (physics), and
NCSTRL (computer science). I show that these collaboration networks
form “small worlds,” in which randomly chosen pairs of scientists
are typically separated by only a short path of intermediate
acquaintances. I further give results for mean and distribution of
numbers of collaborators of authors, demonstrate the presence of
clustering in the networks, and highlight a number of apparent
differences in the patterns of collaboration between the fields
studied.</jats:p>
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View paper →Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost? | The New Yorker
Rachel Aviv
The New Yorker·2025
Rachel Aviv on letters, journals, and tape recordings, provided by the Oliver Sacks Foundation, that illuminate the psychology and sexuality of the neurologist, whose books include “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.”
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View paper →The Emotional Labour behind AI Intimacy
Michael Geoffrey Asia
Data Workers' Inquiry·2025
A rare glimpse into the labor behind "AI" sex companions, where human emotion becomes data.
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View paper →Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025)
Cory Doctorow
t.co·2025
Over the summer I wrote a book about what I think about AI, which is really about what I think about AI criticism, and more specifically, how to be a good AI critic. By which I mean: "How to be a critic whose criticism inflicts maximum damage on the parts of AI that are doing the most harm." I titled the book The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish it in June, 2026.
But you don't have to wait until then because I am going to break down the entire book's thesis for you tonight, over the next 40 minutes. I am going to talk fast.
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