Excited to recruit a 🚨 postdoc 🚨 for projects on #AI and evolving scientific practice, norms, and impact! Interdisciplinary work across science of science, philosophy of science, math with creative Purdue/Argonne/CMU/Chicago/Princeton collaborators! *pls repost*! careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoc-...
First time I went to the US (15yo) I was super confused with the list of racial identity
I didn't know that "Caucasian" meant white. I thought it meant from the actual Caucasus/eastern Europe.
So I looked over the list 3 times and eventually checked "Latino" thinking that it referred to the Romans
"Large [language] models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated." henryfarrell.net/wp-content/u...
Big Ten university faculties push for defense compact against Trump The proposed NATO-like alliance for the 18 schools would allow them to share resources in case the president targets one of their members. Today at 7:00 a.m. ET
where we are in 2025: major universities seeking a mutual-protection treaty against the U.S. president
Really glad that this is out! Fantastic collaboration with @honglin-bao.bsky.social and @innovation.bsky.social!
Key insight: Knowledge diffusion is nearly impossible to constrain—where there's a will, there's a way. From the atomic bomb to ChatGPT, determined minds always find a path.
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New paper just out in Quantitative Science Studies where we find clear evidence that geographical restrictions on ChatGPT usage have largely failed. Interestingly, OpenAI seems to have taken notice, recently ramping up enforcement efforts. w/ @sunmengyi.bsky.social @innovation.bsky.social
Can we stop diffusion of particular AI technologies to countries we don't "like"?
ChatGPT is useful case. OpenAI *still* prohibits access in major countries. But do these prohibitions actually work?
New paper by @honglin-bao.bsky.social and @sunmengyi.bsky.social suggests they don't!
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Call for collaborators!
We are launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB) to replicate a sample of findings relevant to public health, epidemiology, health policy, and behavioral science.
Teams receive funding for conducting replication studies.
Details: www.cos.io/rphb
Today:
Akari Asai (@akariasai.bsky.social), PhD candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, argues for moving toward Augmented Language Models to solve the critical limitations of Large Language Models, at a Computer Science and DSI joint colloquium!
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
"Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal"
www.techpolicy.press/mark-zuckerb...
"Elimination of penalties for sharing misinformation will cause a flood from some Pages– which are still the most effective means to spread content on Facebook"
From @davidlazer.bsky.social & @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social
How important are your #postdoc years in the likelihood of you staying & succeeding in #academia?
In our newly published paper in @pnas.org, "Postdoc Publications and Citations Link to Academic Retention and Faculty Success," we study the journey of #CareerSuccess of ~45,000 #postdocs.
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📢 Reminder: The Submission Deadline for the Metascience 2025 Call for Proposals is 7 February!
We're looking for:
✅ Virtual pre-conference symposia
✅ In-person panel sessions
✅ Talks or posters
Full details: metascience.info/call-for-pro...
this paper was just accepted by WWW 2025🤙🤙🤙
This is a thread about remaking the tech sector.
FT new report to rank Business school by "rigor", "resonance" and "relevance" www.ft.com/content/7e81..., not just counts number of papers in FT50 journals but also uses OpenAlex, Open Syllabus, Case Centre, SSRN downloads, Scite. OpenAlex and even tried using Lens (for citations from patents) (1)
Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...
Any metric can and will be gamed. So we really need to think through the implications here.
At first sight this is terrible: it kills replication & robustness in the cradle, pushing towards "new" stuff.
Chasing the unexpected got the Gino and Ariely cases.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#EconSky
Microsoft's Computational Social Science group may have the opportunity to hire one researcher
Senior: 0-3 yrs post PhD
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
Principal: 3+ yrs post PhD
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh...
Please note: our ability to hire this season is not certain
CTA pride train
A tourist attraction in Andersonville
PRIDE Ventra cards you can get delivered to you on the Ventra app!
Chicago Cubs pride night!
Have you ever wanted to visit Chicago during Pride Month? Here are some things you can ONLY experience here:
once took my mom to a random pizza place in hyde park and wanted to treat her to some good Chicago deep-dish. the waiter said "sorry we only serve New York style" True sad story.
Can AI automate the paperback novel industry? And would this impact how we communicate?
Explore the work of University of Chicago Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Ari Holtzman!
www.youtube.com/shorts/2E6xH...
i think a vivid example is this: a css journal journalqd.org (a very CSS journal)
didn't mean to say econ "trail", but compared to econ/causal, CSS is way more descriptive, big-data-focus (causal is increasingly valued in CSS as well tho). I (and perhaps other comp social scientists?) expect econ to be slow just because of two very diff. types of philosophy
Final word: This project resonated with me. While we celebrate CSS as the current hot topic in social sciences, keep in mind that it took a decade to reach where it is today. Let's all work together to protect every nascent novel science (7/7) cc @davidlazer.bsky.social @chrisbail.bsky.social
But -- non-CSS wants to maintain their own identity and they became even more different. We have a cool animation for the evolution of CSS evolution-css.netlify.app (6/7)
While after 2014 – CSS started shaping social sciences and the boundary began to fade. During this period, it made different fields closer together, esp a strong alignment between Econ and PoliSci (joint force of CSS and causal inference). (5/7)
acceptance of CSS isn’t natural – CSS first lacked cohesion. In 2005 it started to form its identity (a knowledge cluster) but strongly separated from others (esp. in Sociology – our feeling of early CSS’ big controversy in Sociology and others is empirically correct) (4/7)
