Aaron Clauset
NO KINGS. NO NAZIS. FUND SCIENCE.
Professor of Computer Science @ BioFrontiers Institute at University of Colorado, Boulder and External Faculty @ Santa Fe Institute
orcid: orcid.org/0000-0002-3529-8746
- I just did this. Super easy. Please take 30 seconds to do it too. Link to the comment page is on @donmoyn.bsky.social ‘s page below
New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
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- Haverford is my alma mater. It was an incredible experience to go there, and when I graduated, I had a little dream of returning one day as faculty. Go teach and do research with incredibly talented and thoughtful young minds 👇
- 100% this. And moreover expanding and diversifying the scientific workforce is literally NSF’s Congressionally mandated mission. #NSF has been, overall, an extraordinarily powerful engine of advancement for science and society for 75 years
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- Reposted by Aaron ClausetUniversity leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.
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- Reposted by Aaron ClausetFor the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵
- Reposted by Aaron ClausetA colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
- Something I find very exciting about our results in this paper : they show that ** homophily is not destiny ** , and we shouldn't assume that it is! Scientists (people) are more adaptable than that, to the great benefit of science as a whole #sociologyofscience #scienceofscience
- 🎉 Our new paper "Gender and racial diversity socialization in science" @natcomputsci.nature.com with @weihuali.bsky.social, H Zheng and @jenniebrand.bsky.social studies how early-career experiences with diversity drive more diverse teams later in a career 👉 /1 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- 🎉 Our new paper "Gender and racial diversity socialization in science" @natcomputsci.nature.com with @weihuali.bsky.social, H Zheng and @jenniebrand.bsky.social studies how early-career experiences with diversity drive more diverse teams later in a career 👉 /1 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
- Reposted by Aaron ClausetMy survey class on the history of science is essentially about the social conditions required for science. The final lecture is always about how the US became the dominant nation for research in the 2nd half of the 20th century, and how it in retrospect it may be seen as an anomalous "Golden Age."
- Reposted by Aaron Clauset📢Out now! Weihua Li, @jenniebrand.bsky.social, @aaronclauset.bsky.social, and colleagues show that researchers’ early training in diverse environments is strongly correlated with nurturing diverse groups in the established period. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #cssky #NetSci
- Reposted by Aaron ClausetCoinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.
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- Reposted by Aaron ClausetI may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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- Reposted by Aaron ClausetTrump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich
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- Finished reviewing my pile of papers for a premier data mining CS conference today and then read their other reviews. Wow. They are utter garbage: largely superficial, thoughtless, and vague. We should be ashamed to call this #peerreview and inflict this misery on each other and on our trainees 1/2
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- Reposted by Aaron ClausetThe White House quietly released a Friday night EO that would eradicate privacy protections, make enemies lists a lot easier to assemble, and basically set the stage for a police state.
- Not even that old (May 2024), but so so good: @neillewisjr.bsky.social reminds us that universities are a genuine force for good, societally and economically. They are "Palaces for the People" and we must defended them and their missions www.brookings.edu/articles/uni... ht @informor.bsky.social
- Reposted by Aaron ClausetNew from me at Cato: in its demands that Columbia surrender its academic and administrative independence to federal overseers, the Trump administration has violated one law after another. And there's every reason to think it's planning to roll out the same game plan to other universities. /1
- Reposted by Aaron ClausetScientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
- Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field. By @arthurallen202.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
- Reposted by Aaron ClausetHoly crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security. That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.
- Reposted by Aaron ClausetNew report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
- Reposted by Aaron Clauset🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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- Great turnout at the #StandUpForScience #StandUpForScience2025 rally in Denver! ✊ My sign read “I’d rather be PEER REVIEWING!” 🧪🔬
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- I’ve served on NASEM consensus committees, whose work provides critical scientific expertise to the US government. This choice by NASEM leadership is pure cowardice, and is antithetical to their mission to provide scientifically grounded advice. I am disgusted
- Reposted by Aaron ClausetI got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
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- Reposted by Aaron ClausetUnbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Aaron ClausetWant to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
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- Reposted by Aaron ClausetPritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
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- Reposted by Aaron ClausetWelcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
- Absolutely amazing postdoc opportunity to work with a world-class scholar on fascinating topics 👇
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- I ❤️ network modules! And I love this idea of differential communication protocols for within- vs. between-module information spreading in complex biological systems
- Hit Prince Elon where it hurts the most
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- Reposted by Aaron ClausetIn light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
- LAWLESS NSF: Every NSF employee who is following the director on this funding freeze and fishing expedition is in violation of US code. per the post below, this language has been reauthorized twice, most recently by Biden in 2022 as the CHIPS Act. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... 🧪
