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13 18 - PublicationData analysis and network visualisation as tools for curating hybrid correspondence archives2025The Harold Pinter Archive at the British Library contains correspondence dating from 1977 to 2008, including his e-mail archive. In total, the correspondence strand of the archive contains c.20,000 paper letters and c.3500 e-mails. This project used data analytics (in Python) and network visualisation (in Gephi) to interrogate the ways in which digital and analogue correspondence function together within Pinter’s literary archive. The attendant paper reflects upon what this analysis might mean for archivists, curators and researchers working with hybrid correspondence collections in the context of Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence based research methodologies. The paper includes an analysis of what an email is both materially and functionally—what are its constituent parts and in what ways is it like and unlike a physical letter, as well as a discussion of how we can leverage the highly structured nature of e-mail data to our advantage using computational techniques, and the limitations of these approaches to socalled “dark archives”. Network visualisations are used to represent correspondence visually in order to shed light on the activities it represents; particularly literary collaboration and administration. The paper concludes with an attempt to draw conclusions from these analyses and to think about their implications for repositories and researchers collecting and using hybrid correspondence collections. The Python code produced for the project is collection agnostic and available under a Creative Commons Licence, meaning that any collecting repository holding email archives in MBOX format can use it to extract GDPR compliant metadata from their collections and visualise them in Gephi.
3 37 - PublicationReimagining the Humanities Book: Bringing Living With Machines to Life Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research Practices2025Limited options currently exist for humanities researchers looking to engage with open research practices and experimental forms in book publishing. The adapted publishing workflows and formats used for the experimental open access book project, Living with Machines, offer a model for reuse by publishers and authors.
2 34 - PublicationRepresentations of South Asians in Edinburgh in the 1840s2024This paper traces the presence of South Asians in Edinburgh, a second city of empire, during the 1840s. It provides six paintings and photographs of identified and unidentified sitters of South Asian origin who lived for short periods of time in the city but were otherwise mostly unrecorded among a predominantly European population. The authors argue that studying Edinburgh’s artistic production can contribute to a better understanding of the diversity of the city's population in the nineteenth century.
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- PublicationComputational Social Science and Sociology2020
; The integration of social science with computer science and engineering fields has produced a new area of study: computational social science. This field applies computational methods to novel sources of digital data such as social media, administrative records, and historical archives to develop theories of human behavior. We review the evolution of this field within sociology via bibliometric analysis and in-depth analysis of the following subfields where this new work is appearing most rapidly: ( a) social network analysis and group formation; ( b) collective behavior and political sociology; ( c) the sociology of knowledge; ( d) cultural sociology, social psychology, and emotions; ( e) the production of culture; ( f) economic sociology and organizations; and ( g) demography and population studies. Our review reveals that sociologists are not only at the center of cutting-edge research that addresses longstanding questions about human behavior but also developing new lines of inquiry about digital spaces as well. We conclude by discussing challenging new obstacles in the field, calling for increased attention to sociological theory, and identifying new areas where computational social science might be further integrated into mainstream sociology. - PublicationCelestial Symphony: Harmonizing Worlds2023
; - PublicationThe joint evaluated fission and fusion nuclear data library, JEFF-3.32020
; AbstractThe joint evaluated fission and fusion nuclear data library 3.3 is described. New evaluations for neutron-induced interactions with the major actinides$$^{235}\hbox {U}$$235U,$$^{238}\hbox {U}$$238Uand$$^{239}\hbox {Pu}$$239Pu, on$$^{241}\hbox {Am}$$241Amand$$^{23}\hbox {Na}$$23Na,$$^{59}\hbox {Ni}$$59Ni, Cr, Cu, Zr, Cd, Hf, W, Au, Pb and Bi are presented. It includes new fission yields, prompt fission neutron spectra and average number of neutrons per fission. In addition, new data for radioactive decay, thermal neutron scattering, gamma-ray emission, neutron activation, delayed neutrons and displacement damage are presented. JEFF-3.3 was complemented by files from the TENDL project. The libraries for photon, proton, deuteron, triton, helion and alpha-particle induced reactions are from TENDL-2017. The demands for uncertainty quantification in modeling led to many new covariance data for the evaluations. A comparison between results from model calculations using the JEFF-3.3 library and those from benchmark experiments for criticality, delayed neutron yields, shielding and decay heat, reveals that JEFF-3.3 performes very well for a wide range of nuclear technology applications, in particular nuclear energy. - PublicationThe Origins and Psychology of Human Cooperation2021Humans are an ultrasocial species. This sociality, however, cannot be fully explained by the canonical approaches found in evolutionary biology, psychology, or economics. Understanding our unique social psychology requires accounting not only for the breadth and intensity of human cooperation but also for the variation found across societies, over history, and among behavioral domains. Here, we introduce an expanded evolutionary approach that considers how genetic and cultural evolution, and their interaction, may have shaped both the reliably developing features of our minds and the well-documented differences in cultural psychologies around the globe. We review the major evolutionary mechanisms that have been proposed to explain human cooperation, including kinship, reciprocity, reputation, signaling, and punishment; we discuss key culture–gene coevolutionary hypotheses, such as those surrounding self-domestication and norm psychology; and we consider the role of religions and marriage systems. Empirically, we synthesize experimental and observational evidence from studies of children and adults from diverse societies with research among nonhuman primates.
- PublicationTrends in kinase drug discovery: targets, indications and inhibitor design2021
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