A group of researchers at Columbia University asked both human participants and their “digital” twins–large language models trained on each participant’s data–to complete the same set of tasks. This research explores how closely digital twins can mirror human judgement and decision-making.

One of the greatest glow-ups in modern politics by Sen Booker. Judge Brown is unsmiling because she’s trying so hard to keep from bursting into tears Cory is gifted. PS we met him twice in small campaign events, and he is magic in person too. And playing the long game.

US academia is unparalleled in the welfare it creates. But US academia is now under attack and other countries, like Germany, have to keep the flame alive for a while. It will make them more innovative. See our guest article in @spiegel.de, translated. 👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/news/allc...

Grants to Columbia... Much for general with training, research, and health dominant...

The Center for Decision Sciences (CDS) at Columbia Business School, directed by Prof. Eric Johnson, is hiring a full-time lab manager to start in June 2025. One-year position has the possibility of renewal. For more details opportunities.columbia.edu/cw/en-us/job... (Please share broadly)

“America wants a country that benefits from advancing knowledge. We have to fight for that.” —Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD, Professor of Developmental Neuropsychiatry @ Columbia University Irving Medical Center #defendresearch #defendscience #defendhighered @aaupcu.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social

Jonathan Cole essay is marvelous. Why is not Columbia emphasizing the destruction of knowledge that this has caused?

My favorite holidays on Metro North, the commuter train to NYC from Dutchess County are the only days when alcohol is not allowed SantaCon 🎅 and St. Patrick's day. 🍀 Some people must start early and go late

Why are we here if not to FIGHT when they try to hurt the American people?

Brilliant

Great to see an R speaking up about Ukraine

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

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Virtually the entire country supports Ukraine over Russia but today our media is full of headlines about how Zelensky may have made a diplomatic error, because that is the only way to avoid the plain assertion that Trump is a fool, a bully, and compromised.

V bad news. These programs are so good for science, and great bang for buck

NEW: The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts without the careful review it described in court. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

People need to understand that we are in an entirely new paradigm. It is now Russia the US against Ukraine and Europe. This is not a shift in US policy, it is a transformation of what kind of country the United States is in the world

Ugh! 😯

i use it too. precious. but i cut the kast few seconds. amusing fact....Hackman was told in acting school he was the worst student ever. didn't listen, thankfully

'Process Tracing Methods' by Derek Beach & @hildevanmeegdenburg.com Webinar is on TOMORROW! Sign up for free and make sure you don't miss out on this exciting event! #methods #methodstraining #webinar #methodnets #processtracing #qualitative

Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.

New publication in @pnas.org The message of this letter is as simple as it is important, if you like to study population heterogeneity, please make sure that your population is heterogeneous! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

DOGE at IRS is ominous. Their bro is Gavin Kliger. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... “Kliger's now-deleted Github claims he is an Eagle Scout, National Merit Scholar, National AP Scholar, black belt TKD, and an accomplished pianist” I call bullshit www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I keep saying Dems need to do a daily briefing on Capitol Hill and fill the void, fact check the WH. Hire Pete Buttigeig and give him a staff to do this.

Crystal Reeck, @kellenmrkva.bsky.social, @ericjjohnson.bsky.social, and I just wrote an article about digital design -- nudges and dark patterns. Though they can help people make good choices, they must be used wisely. Bad actors frequently use them to mislead. Check it out!

Nah it shall simply be more called the Heuristics and Resulting Systematic Mistakes program!

Expensive, and poorly performing. The watch is too

"Tell the real stories of actual people who are going to die because of Elon Musk. It won’t be hard to find them. This isn’t an actuarial game...You can find the actual human beings who are going to die. You can talk to them." And share their stories.

And thanks to @sweiwang.bsky.social, Ian Krajbich and Charles Sprenger for organizing a great conference masquerading as a party. #cfcfc

And it was lovely to talk to you at dinner, Dr. Tanaka...Always enjoyed your field paper with Colin. #cfcfc @cfcamerer.bsky.social

Thrilled to see the FTC finalize their junk fee rule. Markets work when consumers can easily observe the full price. Mandatory back-end fees make it hard to comparison shop, blunting the forces of competition. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

🎇 PhD student internships in Computational Social Science at Microsoft Research NYC 🎇 These are 12 week, in person internships with some combo of Dan Goldstein, Jake Hofman, & David Rothschild Early (January - April) start dates somewhat preferred jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Kindly please retweet so your students may be informed about this opportunity. And of course by please retweet I don't mean please retweet this ridiculous tweet but the original tweet. Thank you. Goodnight.

@jakereynolds.bsky.social caught the essence of the 'sJDM meetings and of a certain party. #sjdm. Thanks Jake!!!

it is on #sjdm

#cnn did a great report www.cnn.com/interactive/... how dark defaults increase campaign donations, particularly among cognitively challenged older adults. Twicetalked to them. Important that they put real stories to the analysis that we did in #PNAS at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Its been going on for years....We wrote Dan, I believe in 2006 when we read an NIH research talking about him presenting this (our) result. He responded that it was a misunderstanding and clarified it. That's a long standing misunderstanding now on National TV.

In the Netherlands, a peaceful protest was planned by academics to protest against the populist government's massive budget cuts in higher education. These protests have just been banned by the authorities for fear of violence. This is very worrying.

#cnn did a great report www.cnn.com/interactive/... how dark defaults increase campaign donations, particularly among cognitively challenged older adults. Twicetalked to them. Important that they put real stories to the analysis that we did in #PNAS at www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨Postdoc Alert 🚨 The Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein) is hiring a postdoc! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... Deadline: December 20, 2024

Thrilled to be named a James McKeen Cattell Fellow by the APS. Annually “Honoring APS members for their lifetime of significant intellectual achievements in applied psychological research. Thanks for all the help along the way ww.psychologicalscience.org/members/awards-and-honors/cattell-award