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View article: Identity Survival: Ephemeral and Enduring Identity Signifiers
Identity Survival: Ephemeral and Enduring Identity Signifiers Open
Which self-ascribed identities are most enduring and which most ephemeral? Here we analyze self-authored self-descriptions (Twitter profile biographies) over the course of a decade to contrast the survival rates of identity signifiers. Usi…
View article: Online identities are increasingly political: evidence from 30 countries
Online identities are increasingly political: evidence from 30 countries Open
Have people become more likely to show their politics online? By examining the bios of 9.5 million Twitter users per month in 30 countries across the world, we show increasing politicization of self-authored personal descriptions. Politica…
View article: Statewise: Human Identity Investigator for the United States
Statewise: Human Identity Investigator for the United States Open
Self-reported biographical strings on social media profiles provide a powerful tool to study personal identity. We present Statewise, a dataset based on 50 million unique Twitter user profiles over a 12 year period identified to be in the …
View article: Americans' Support for AI Development -- Measured Daily with Open Data and Methods
Americans' Support for AI Development -- Measured Daily with Open Data and Methods Open
The rapid development of artificial intelligence should be accompanied by measurement of public sentiment at high temporal resolution. Accordingly, here I present analysis of daily repeated surveys beginning April 18, 2024 (total N=4067). …
View article: LGBTQ Visibility Measured Consistently and Persistently in US Twitter Bios from 2012 through 2023
LGBTQ Visibility Measured Consistently and Persistently in US Twitter Bios from 2012 through 2023 Open
LGBTQ visibility is an often discussed but rarely quantified concept. Here we operationalize visibility as the prevalence of active social media accounts with an LGBTQ signifier in the profile bio and measure the prevalence of such account…
View article: Free, Open, Representative Sample Self-Description Data: the Jason Jeffrey Jones Productions Who am I 2024 Dataset
Free, Open, Representative Sample Self-Description Data: the Jason Jeffrey Jones Productions Who am I 2024 Dataset Open
I make available a sample of 611 self-authored self-descriptions from a United States demographically-representative sample of adults. In this manuscript, I describe the motivation and procedure to produce the data. Further, I present the …
View article: Quantifying generalized trust in individuals and counties using language
Quantifying generalized trust in individuals and counties using language Open
Trust is predictive of civic cooperation and economic growth. Recently, the U.S. public has demonstrated increased partisan division and a surveyed decline in trust in institutions. There is a need to quantify individual and community leve…
View article: The Evolution of Occupational Identity in Twitter Biographies
The Evolution of Occupational Identity in Twitter Biographies Open
Occupational identity concerns the self-image of an individual’s affinities and socioeconomic class, and directs how a person should behave in certain ways. Understanding the establishment of occupational identity is important to study wor…
View article: HINENI: Human Identity across the Nations of the Earth Ngram Investigator
HINENI: Human Identity across the Nations of the Earth Ngram Investigator Open
Self-reported biographical strings on social media profiles provide a powerful tool to study self-identity. We present HINENI, a dataset of 420 million Twitter user profiles collected over a 12 year period, partitioned into 32 distinct nat…
View article: Identity Diversification and Homogenization: Evidence from Frequent Estimates of Similarity of Self-Authored, Self-Descriptive Text
Identity Diversification and Homogenization: Evidence from Frequent Estimates of Similarity of Self-Authored, Self-Descriptive Text Open
For more than a decade, individuals composed and edited self-authored self-descriptions as social media biographies. Did these identities become more diverse over time because of a "rise in individualism" and increasing tolerance or did th…
View article: Synthesis of Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Tetrahydroxybiphenyls andtheir Evaluation as Amyloid-β Aggregation Inhibitors
Synthesis of Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Tetrahydroxybiphenyls andtheir Evaluation as Amyloid-β Aggregation Inhibitors Open
Our group recently reported that the polyhydroxy aromatic compound 3,3′,4,4′- biphenyltetrol (2a) is a successful inhibitor of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) aggregation, decreasing Aβ aggregation by 50 % when present in equimolar concentrations. …
View article: Predicting the Self with Generative AI
Predicting the Self with Generative AI Open
Here I describe a first attempt to use generative artificial intelligence to build an oracle that predicts future self-descriptions from past self-descriptions. I did this as a small step toward addressing the bigger issue of how predictab…
View article: Ipseology - A new science of the self
Ipseology - A new science of the self Open
Ipseology is the study of human identity using large datasets and computational social science methods. It is a new way to investigate ipseity at scale. Ipseity refers to selfhood, individuality and the essential elements of identity. At s…
View article: Implantable neuromodulation system for closed-loop stimulation and recording simultaneously at multiple brain sets
Implantable neuromodulation system for closed-loop stimulation and recording simultaneously at multiple brain sets Open
The present disclosure relates to a modular system for deep brain stimulation (DBS) and electrocorticography (ECoG). The system may have an implantable neuromodulator for generating electrical stimulation signals adapted to be applied to a…
View article: Attitudes Toward Artificial General Intelligence: Results from American Adults in 2021 and 2023
Attitudes Toward Artificial General Intelligence: Results from American Adults in 2021 and 2023 Open
A compact, inexpensive repeated survey on American adults’ attitudes toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) revealed a stable ordering but changing magnitudes of agreement toward three statements. Contrasting 2021 to 2023, American a…
View article: Assessing the Validity of Google Surveys for Sociological Research
Assessing the Validity of Google Surveys for Sociological Research Open
The development of the internet has led to the rise of multiple online platforms for conducting survey research. These platforms have become widely used within the social sciences, though debates regarding the validity of data obtained via…
View article: American public opinion on artificial intelligence in healthcare
American public opinion on artificial intelligence in healthcare Open
Billions of dollars are being invested into developing medical artificial intelligence (AI) systems and yet public opinion of AI in the medical field seems to be mixed. Although high expectations for the future of medical AI do exist in th…
View article: Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Social Trust in American Institutions
Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Social Trust in American Institutions Open
In recent decades, social scientists have debated declining levels of trust in American institutions. At the same time, many American institutions are coming under scrutiny for their use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. This paper …
View article: Attitudes Toward Artificial General Intelligence: Results from American Adults 2021 and 2023
Attitudes Toward Artificial General Intelligence: Results from American Adults 2021 and 2023 Open
A compact, inexpensive repeated survey on American adults’ attitudes toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) revealed a stable ordering but changing magnitudes of agreement toward three statements. From 2021 to 2023, American adults i…
View article: "Partner" surpassed "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" in prevalence within US active user Twitter profile biographies - Decomposition of a temporal identity trend
"Partner" surpassed "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" in prevalence within US active user Twitter profile biographies - Decomposition of a temporal identity trend Open
Some individuals have chosen to adopt the gender-neutral term “partner” to refer to their romantic counterpart in place of the gendered terms “boyfriend” and “girlfriend.” Here we explore this linguistic trend with data from millions of in…
View article: Pronoun Lists in Profile Bios Display Increased Prevalence, Systematic Co-Presence with Other Keywords and Network Tie Clustering among US Twitter Users 2015-2022
Pronoun Lists in Profile Bios Display Increased Prevalence, Systematic Co-Presence with Other Keywords and Network Tie Clustering among US Twitter Users 2015-2022 Open
Over the past few years, pronoun lists have become more prevalent in online spaces. Currently, various LGBT+ activists, universities, and corporations encourage people to share their preferred pronouns. Little research exists examining the…
View article: Slava Ukraini: Exploring Identity Activism in Support of Ukraine via the Ukraine Flag Emoji on Twitter
Slava Ukraini: Exploring Identity Activism in Support of Ukraine via the Ukraine Flag Emoji on Twitter Open
Identity Activism is a new phenomenon afforded by the massive popularity of social media. It consists of the prominent display of a social movement symbol within a space reserved for description of the self. The 2022 Russian invasion of Uk…
View article: Cylindrical microelectrode array for neural stimulation and recording
Cylindrical microelectrode array for neural stimulation and recording Open
A cylindrical microelectrode array having an elongated cylindrical core, and a multilayer structure conformally folded around and affixed to the cylindrical core so as to extend between opposite ends of the core. The multilayer structure h…
View article: Stackable tracking solar collector assembly
Stackable tracking solar collector assembly Open
A solar collector assembly may include a frame supporting a solar collector and a frame member defining a tilted pivot axis. Support struts may be used to elevate one end of the frame and may be pivoted between an orientation generally par…
View article: Apparatuses to support photovoltaic modules
Apparatuses to support photovoltaic modules Open
Methods and apparatuses to support photovoltaic ("PV") modules are described. A saddle bracket has a mounting surface to support one or more PV modules over a tube, a gusset coupled to the mounting surface, and a mounting feature coupled t…
View article: Bracket for photovoltaic modules
Bracket for photovoltaic modules Open
Brackets for photovoltaic ("PV") modules are described. In one embodiment, a saddle bracket has a mounting surface to support one or more PV modules over a tube, a gusset coupled to the mounting surface, and a mounting feature coupled to t…
View article: Orchestration of co-operative and adaptive multi-core deep learning engines
Orchestration of co-operative and adaptive multi-core deep learning engines Open
Deep learning (DL)-based algorithms are used in many integral modules of ADAS and Automated Driving Systems. Camera based perception, Driver Monitoring, Driving Policy, Radar and Lidar perception are few of the examples built using DL algo…
View article: LGBTQ Visibility Measured Consistently and Persistently in US Twitter Bios from 2012 through 2023
LGBTQ Visibility Measured Consistently and Persistently in US Twitter Bios from 2012 through 2023 Open
LGBTQ visibility is an often discussed but rarely quantified concept. Here we define visibility as the prevalence of active social media accounts with an LGBTQ signifier in the profile bio and measure the prevalence of such accounts consis…