"As a #quantitative #socialscientist who has studied #religious change in modern societies for more than 25 years, I’m surprised – and sceptical. I do not doubt that the #BibleSociety acted in good faith, but they haven’t engaged with the mountain of #evidence, some of it very recent, pointing to #religiousdecline.

Is there really a #religiousrevival in England? Why I’m sceptical of a new report
https://theconversation.com/is-there-really-a-religious-revival-in-england-why-im-sceptical-of-a-new-report-257863

#interrogatethedata
#criticalthinking
#Probabilitysampling
#datasampling

The Belgian lab shaping modern soccer’s data revolution

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/03/soccer-analytics-jesse-davis-leuven

Nature-Based Solutions As Building Blocks For Coastal Flood Risk Reduction - A Model-Based Ecosystem Service Assessment
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95230-4 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #naturebased #naturebasedsolutions #NbS #flood #flooding #model #modeling #ecosystem #assessment #floodrisk #risk #hazard #climatechange #adaption #extremeweather #stormsurge #mitigation #metrics #quantitative #hydrogeomorphic #geomorphology #geomorphometry #ecohydromorphodynamic #modular #habitat #storm #sealevelrise #SLT #Sicily #coast #coastal #barriers #mangrove #vegetation

#introduction

I am economist & political scientist (PhD) and conduct research on #SocialRiskManagement #ClimateChange #GlobalDevelopment #SocialProtection #PublicHealth #CooperativeStudies.

My current focus is on the topics #ClimateChangeAdaptation, #DisasterRiskManagement, #RuralDevelopment, #HealthCareFinancing, #HealthSystem‎‎s.

#ResearchMethods: #MixedMethods & #MethodIntegration, #Quantitative & #Qualitative, #RigorousImpactEvaluation, #Causality, #Econometrics, #Evaluation.

The piranha problem: Large effects swimming in a small pond.
Christopher Tosh, Philip Greengard, Ben Goodrich, Andrew Gelman, @avehtari, @djhsu
2 Apr 2024
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13445

In a lot of social science research, small, random factors are reported as having large effects on social and political attitudes and behavior (social priming, hormonal levels,parental socioeconomic status, weather, ...). Studies have claimed to find large effects from these and other inputs.

The results show that it would be extremely unlikely to have all these large effects coexisting—they would have to almost exactly cancel each other out.

New #introduction: I’m the Mark Andrews Fellow in Book Science at OBNS (Old Books New Science) Lab, University of Toronto, and a #MedievalManuscripts scholar and cataloguer. My research mainly focuses on later #medieval European #manuscripts with an emphasis on scientific and #quantitative methods, #materiality, and provenance studies.
#BookScience #codicology #palaeography #BookHistory #HeritageScience #parchment #DigitalHumanities #quant #statistics

The world's first #quantitative measurement at this scale of gas flows and their structures of a nearby supermassive black hole in all phase gases, including #plasma, #atomic, and #molecular. Such high resolution allowed the team to team to capture the accretion flow heading towards the supermassive black hole
#SpaceScience #Astronomy #BlackHole #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/11/sn11082301.html

Julie #Billaud: Administrative techniques devised to engage parties to a conflict "are changing as a result of external sources of pressure for ‘evidence-based programming’, turning personalised case-based monitoring into a new form of ‘audit culture’ based on statistical evidence. Paradoxically, relying on numbers to realise the utopia of ‘humanising war’ makes the very ‘humans’ who are supposed to benefit from it disappear from view."
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339326884_Masters_of_disorder_rituals_of_communication_and_monitoring_at_the_International_Committee_of_the_Red_Cross @ethics @sociology #RedCross #conflict #bureaucracy #humanitarian #quantification #technocracy #quantitative

It’s funny how most companies waaaaaayyy overvalue a narrow set of #quantitative #metrics to the exclusion of every other form of knowledge, and yet success for a publicly-traded company is based on…#shareholder vibes?

Fit Testing to ensure a good seal on your mask [Part 1]

This thread explains what #mask #fit #testing is (#qualitative and #quantitative), why it is important, and my testing experience with some real-world results of various types of masks including NIOSH #N95 and ear loop. 1/

The one page easier to share version of this thread can be found at: https://pingthread.com/thread/1652394034055323648

An #introduction:

I specialize in #quantitative #imageAnalysis, mostly applied to #microscopy, and mostly in #biomedical applications.

I’ve been doing this for 25+ years. I used to have a tenured university position, and moved to industry about 7 years ago. Industry is just like academia, but with fewer students, fewer grants, and more secrecy.

Check out http://diplib.org

I love good #music, good #food, and building models (shoutout to #Lego, #MetalEarth and #UGears).

To anyone who is new in InfoSec, Quant Risk, etc., especially if you feel like an outsider and don't know anyone --

Please say hello. I'm happy to connect.

I'm now officially an Old Timer​, but once I was new like you

Let me know what help you might need. Ask dumb questions.

(Please boost. Thanks)

#introduction and my first own #toot:

I'm a social scientist interested in #attitudes toward #immigration & #refugees, effects of #media and #PolComm, using #quantitative, #TextAsData & #computational methods. For more check: https://czymara.com/research

Currently, I am a #postoc at U #TelAviv & GoetheU #Frankfurt.

I'm mostly here to check new #research and recent developments in #academia, but also up for cheeky memes and bad puns.

@sociology @migration @politicalscience @migrationresearch

#introduction
Hi, I am a #quantitative #ecologist. I plan to use to keep track of cool research, stumble upon new #biology or #math, and every now and then find obscure modelling references from the 80s. I care about doing my analyses slow, reproducible research and fair publishing.

I am especially interested in #bioticinteractions, #demography, and the interplay between them. And increasingly in #stats techniques to infer robust #biodiversity trends.

#introduction I'm a Post-doc working on mathematical and statistical model of malaria and COVID-19. I was actually trained as field marine ecologist, and only started picking up on my quantitative skills during my PhD in 2016, in which I drifted towards #infectious disease. Nevertheless, I love both #epidemiology and #ecology word, and hope to contribute to both domains using my #computational and #quantitative skills. I am #rstats enthusiast, but also speak #python and #cpp if I have to

#introduction

I am an #environmental #economist in interested in applying #quantitative methods (such as #nonmarket #valuation) to support environmental management decisions and policies

An example of what I do is in this cartoon #WhatEnvironmentalEconomistsDo #WhatEconomistsDo