Courting Social Science: Chesler, Sanders, and Kalmuss

Between courting and controlling:

The Moroccan state has long attempted to maintain tight control on “its” subjects living in Europe. Since the 1960s, the state has actively discouraged migrants’ social and political integration because this was seen as endangering the flow of remittances and creating political opposition from outside. However, the failure of these remote control policies and an ominous stagnation in remittance...

Social science. Computational social science.

Grammar, logic and community in science: Charles Sanders Peirce and his presuppositional classification of the sciences

“The genius of a man’s logical method should be loved and reverenced as his bride, whom he has chosen from all the world. He need not condemn the others; on the contrary, he may honor them deeply, and in doing so he only honors her more. But she is the one that he has chosen, and he knows that he was right in making that choice. And having made it, he will work and fight for her, and will not c...

Jim Bryan and Marc Sanders

We study the large n limit of the moduli spaces of Gn-instantons on S and CP 2 where Gn is SU(n), Sp(n/2), or SO(n). We show that in the direct limit topology, the moduli space is homotopic to a classifying space. For example, the moduli space of Sp(∞) or SO(∞) instantons on CP 2 has the homotopy type of BU(k) where k is the charge of the instantons. We use our results along with Taubes’ result...

Sexual behaviour: Courting dissatisfaction

A nuclear receptor, the product of the dissatisfaction gene, has been found to regulate Drosophila sexual behaviour, probably via its action in a small subset of neurons. The results shed new light on the genetic determination of sexual behaviour.