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...

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. 1/3

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

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. 🧵1/7

📢 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

Have you ever wanted to visit Chicago during Pride Month? Here are some things you can ONLY experience here:

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...

New project with @profjamesevans and my @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social friends on the largest (?) examination (~11 million papers) of how computational social science emerges from -- and shapes -- Econ, Sociology, Psych, and PoliSci. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08087 A thread: (1/7)

Innovation job market papers round up! Over the last week, I found 50+ papers from PhDs going on the job market and I’ll post a few abstracts to this thread every day until they’re all up.

Do you know someone developing outstanding research or other contributions to AI and the natural sciences or engineering? Nominate them for the Margot and Tom Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence! datascience.uchicago.edu/research/ai-...

Are you doing work on data for the social good? Understanding Inequalities in society? Join us: go.bsky.app/4sZGpB4

Hi everyone, I am excited to share our large-scale survey study with 800+ researchers, which reveals researchers’ usage and perceptions of LLMs as research tools, and how the usage and perceptions differ based on demographics. See results in comments! 🔗 Arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05025

Here's a great starter pack of economists working on AI. Who else should be on this list? bsky.app/starter-pack...

"women are less likely to be tenured overall and in every field." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy Thanksgiving! This year’s Thanksgiving brings me mixed feelings. I've moved to Chicago from Boston this year and absolutely love the city’s vibrant, culturally-mixed communities. I’m especially grateful that my mom is visiting the U.S. and spending Thanksgiving here with me (1/2)

RT: Hiring postdoctoral scholars under @profjamesevans at @UChicago's knowledgelab.org. These positions support interdisciplinary research covering data science, technology policy, AI prediction, and more. Apply by Jan 30 to guarantee consideration www.jotform.com/241295631499...

I've now read a bunch of papers like this -- ABMs where the agents' behaviors are driven by generative AIs. They often tell us interesting things about the AI algorithms, but never in my experience have we learned anything new about people.

We’re doing this again! If you’re a PhD student going on the job market and want your innovation-related paper to be included in the list, email a title, abstract, and link to [email protected] by the end of November mattsclancy.substack.com/p/innovation...

You are also welcome here! go.bsky.app/9rkv2nx #Innovation #EconSky

I am reposting this for all the many newly arrived. Let’s get connected🌻 #CSS @ic2s2.bsky.social @iasliu.bsky.social @sonia-yeh.bsky.social @pholme.bsky.social @dgarcia.bsky.social @giuliandr.bsky.social @ajungherr.bsky.social

Few #MetaSci #STS and Science of Science Starter Packs here 👇 🧵 (1) Science of Science Starter Pack 1 by @shahanmemon.bsky.social

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the Human AI Collaboration lab at Kellogg, NU CS, and @nicoatnu.bsky.social If you're excited about computational social science, LLMs, digital experiments, real-world problem solving, this could be a great fit Please reshare! Deets 👇

the fallout from the Francesca Gino research misconduct scandal isn't over. @engber.bsky.social writes about how an effort by some of her colleagues to self-audit their work with her ended up raising even more questions — for them personally and their whole field www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

ok fine i'm here. i forgot i made this account & tried to make another one today w/ this user name and it said it was taken & I thought "what bastard took my..." oh, right it was me

📢 Excited to share our latest publication in @natureportfolio.bsky.social Scientific Reports: "China and the U.S. produce more impactful #AI research when collaborating together." collaboration w/ Bedoor AlShebli, James Evans, & Talal Rahwan 🇨🇳🇺🇸🤖 🧵1/13 #scisci @uwischool.bsky.social #AcademicSky

How to link theory and data in cultural evolution (and beyond)? We propose a computational workflow that starts from generative models of empirical phenomena and logically connects statistical estimates to both theory and real-world explanatory goals. Out now in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I am seeking PhD students to join my new lab at Cornell! Work with me at @co3lab.bsky.social on perception and internal representations, cultural evolution, large scale online experiments, cross cultural experiments or computational music cognition. Please contact me ASAP if you are interested!

We are excited to share our new paper “Incentivizing free riders improves collective intelligence in social dilemmas” , just published in PNAS, @OTchernichovski, @enfascination, @norijacoby, and @daltonconley 1/n

New paper in PNAS with @maximederex.bsky.social , @glupyan.bsky.social & Piers Edmiston: Trade-offs, control conditions, and alternative designs in the experimental study of cultural evolution www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New #preprint! We surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries to find out: Where do they come across information about #science? How do they #communicate about it? We also tested country factors like #AcademicFreedom and #PressFreedom and identified interesting patterns 🔎 ➡️ osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵 1/10

Had the pleasure of presenting how transformers can help us decode/explore complex life patterns in labour and health trajectories. If you're curious about the intersection of machine learning, social science, and health, check it out here: youtu.be/szSY7MSkLtk?...

My student Ben Genta gave a great talk challenging the Hong and Page model as a justification for democracy at #PSA24

So many people, CS researchers included, think that you can explore how an LLM works by simply asking it to tell you what it is doing or "thinking". Here @jennhu.bsky.social provides an excellent illustration of how that approach fails even at the most basic level.

@petermiles.bsky.social Also looking for collective intelligence starter pack but no joy there either