Måns Magnusson
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Associate professor in Statistics at Uppsala University.
https://mansmeg.github.io/
Det här var banne mig det finaste jag hört på länge.
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Sigrid, 9, är "Årets Vallentunabo"
Säljer solrosor för Ukraina – Drar in tusentals kronor
https://vallentunanya.se/nyheter/sigrid-9-ar-aarets-vallentunabo/4261
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Marie Demker
20 days ago
Uppträdanden på gator o torg ”som vi inte är vana vid” säger Tove L om Palestinarörelsen.
#agenda
Hört talas om ungdomskravaller från 50-talet o framåt? Eller -68? Vietnamdemonstrationer? Irakkriget? EU-mötet 2001. Vid alla har det skett olämpligheten. You name it. Sluta vara så historielös!
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Melanie Walsh
23 days ago
Somebody really committed to the bit! Almost
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Aki Vehtari
3 months ago
A new revised version of "Uncertainty in Bayesian leave-one-out cross-validation based model comparison" with Sivula,
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Holli Sargeant
3 months ago
"Classifying Hate: Legal and Ethical Evaluations of ML-Assisted Hate Crime Classification and Estimation in Sweden" (w Hannes Waldetoft &
@mansmag.bsky.social
) studies where models succeed and struggle when classifying hate crime motivations in police reports.
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https://facctconference.org/static/docs/facct2025-206archivalpdfs/facct2025-final93-acmpaginated.pdf
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3 months ago
"Formalising Anti-Discrimination Law in Automated Decision Systems" (w
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) tackles shortcomings in algo fairness approaches when applied to anti-discrimination law, introducing a novel decision-theoretic framework to mitigate unlawful discrimination.
arxiv.org/abs/2407.00400
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Formalising Anti-Discrimination Law in Automated Decision Systems
Algorithmic discrimination is a critical concern as machine learning models are used in high-stakes decision-making in legally protected contexts. Although substantial research on algorithmic bias and...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00400
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Ja, jag reagerade också på detta. Detta är verkligen ett underligt beteende av en svensk utrikesminister.
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4 months ago
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Marc Keuschnigg
5 months ago
We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science 📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden ⏰Deadline June 3 🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854 Please apply // help us spread the word
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Aki Vehtari
5 months ago
If you are in AISTATS, talk with Jakob about your wishes for the future of posteriordb!
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Aki Vehtari
5 months ago
posteriordb is a database with models, data, and reference posteriors, making it easier to test and compare inference. v1.0.0 recently released
discourse.mc-stan.org/t/posteriord...
. Jakob Torgander presents
proceedings.mlr.press/v258/magnuss...
May 5 in AISTATS Oral sess. 5 and in Poster sess. 3
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Posteriordb v 1.0.0 released
Hi everyone, Good news on posteriordb! We (@Bob_Carpenter , @paul.buerkner , @avehtari @Lu.Zhang and @Jakob_Torgander and me) have now published a paper on posteriordb at AISTATs. The paper can be f...
https://discourse.mc-stan.org/t/posteriordb-v-1-0-0-released/39376
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
5 months ago
Smart money is on Sweden this year? (src
eurovisionworld.com/odds/eurovis...
)
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Matías Piqueras
6 months ago
Sharing our new preprint "An Image is Worth K Topics: A Visual Structural Topic Model with Image Embeddings" with
@mansmag.bsky.social
@matmagnani.bsky.social
Alexandra Segerberg and Nataša Sladoje. Available on ArXiv:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10004
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Holli Sargeant
6 months ago
So excited to have two papers at
@facct.bsky.social
w
@mansmag.bsky.social
! 📄 One paper formalises UK anti-discrimination law in framework for automated decision-making:
arxiv.org/abs/2407.00400
💡 The other explores transformers for better hate crime classification in Sweden. See you in Athens!
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Wow. Two accepted paper at
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2025. A big thanks to
@hollisargeant.bsky.social
for pulling me into the field.
6 months ago
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Anna Ekström
6 months ago
Stora institutioner sviktar, och styrelseledamöter och rektorer darrar. Hatten av för Leo Gerdén som vågar säga som det är, trots att han som utbytesstudent vid Harvard tar en personlig risk.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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I’m an International Student. I Refuse To Be Silenced. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
As an international student, I am well aware that the opinions I express carry a certain degree of risk. Still, I refuse to remain silent. Citizens or not, we all have agency over the direction this c...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/8/gerden-harvard-international-student-silenced/
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Johan Larsson
7 months ago
Excited to be part of the Cramér Society’s virtual mini-conference next Monday (13:00–16:00), alongside
@marfig.bsky.social
,
@mathurinmassias.bsky.social
,
@mansmag.bsky.social
, and Ulrike Schneider! Hope you’ll join us!
statistikframjandet.se/cramersallsk...
#statsky
#statistics
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Mini-conference on "Optimization and algorithms in sparse regression" | Statistikfrämjandet
This years winner of the Cramér prize for best doctoral thesis in statistics/mathematical statistics is Johan Larsson (LU), with his thesis Optimizatio ...
https://statistikframjandet.se/cramersallskapet/mini-conference-on-optimization-and-algorithms-in-sparse-regression/
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
7 months ago
The world is a mess but rejoice for this Eurovision 2025 entry from Sweden is fantastic
eurovisionworld.com/eurovision/2...
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FINALEN: KAJ - Bara bada bastu
YouTube video by Melodifestivalen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIvtyzCYJDg
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Joe Noonan
7 months ago
In the Swedish Parliament, it took 24 years for the total number of women MPs ever in parliament to outnumber the number of male MPs with Andersson as a last name.
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Christian Broberger
7 months ago
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Emelie Karlsson
7 months ago
Are you interested in learning computational social science methods? If so, you now have the opportunity to apply for the second round of the Swedish Interdisciplinary Research School in Computational Social Science (SIRCSS) at
@iasliu.bsky.social
⌛Apply by 31st of March!
liu.se/en/research/...
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Research School in Computational Social Science
The Swedish Interdisciplinary Research School in Computational Social Science provides courses, seminars, and networking opportunities for doctoral students interested in the emerging field of computa...
https://liu.se/en/research/research-school-in-computational-social-science
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Maria Antoniak
7 months ago
A recording of a talk I gave at the Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linköping University, which is a pretty good summary of the "AI + humanities" work I completed last year. I loved that this audience had so many questions!
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From Stories to Sonnets: Data-Centered NLP for Creative Works by Maria Antoniak
YouTube video by Institute for Analytical Sociology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LZiJX9YZZU
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This is really bad. The US will become less and less relevant on the international stage.
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War crimes prosecutor first target of Trump's ICC sanctions, sources say
International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan is the first person to be hit with economic and travel sanctions authorized by U.S. President Donald Trump that target the war crimes tribunal over investigations of U.S. citizens or U.S. allies, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/war-crimes-prosecutor-first-target-trumps-icc-sanctions-sources-say-2025-02-07/
8 months ago
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Maria Antoniak
8 months ago
Grateful for my topic modeling and word embeddings training, which made me suspicious of any output that "looks good" but for which I haven't seen any alternative outputs that might also "look good." Running a prompt and getting output that looks good isn't sufficient evidence for a paper.
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Christian A. Naesseth
8 months ago
Don't forget
#AABI
, the Symposium on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference is coming to Singapore!! Co-located
#ICLR2025
Workshop Track: February 7, AoE Proceedings Track: February 7, AoE Fast Track: February 18 / March 14, AoE
approximateinference.org/call/
#ML
#Bayes
#GenAI
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Call for Papers
https://approximateinference.org/call/
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Hi
@neuripsconf.bsky.social
, when will video of the invited talks be available online?
10 months ago
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