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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 1d

i was about to suggest we play two truths and a lie, but all three are actually true to be fair

Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 8d

thinking about your next academic home? 🏡✨

imagine: an office where people actually show up, hang out, and do brilliant research on #Demography in Oxford!

that’s us 👋

#EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchFellowships See below 👇

📅 deadline: 15 Dec 2025
🔗 www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/call-ex...

Poster describing info in post with picture of Oxford

Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 2d

"Draw me a picture of sociological theorists working hand in hand with computer scientists to build a large number of permissible models ascertained by theory".

way to reinforce structural bias, GPT 5 🤦

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 8d

Thrilled to serve as TPC co-chair (/w @chenyang03.bsky.social) for the brilliant International Conference on Social Computing! 🚀

See @i-c-s-c.bsky.social for updates!

📅 Papers: October 20th!
🔗 Full details: icsc-conf.github.io/2025/

Let’s push the frontiers of #CSS, #DataScience, #LLM, and #AI💡✨

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 10d

🎉Our metrics-and-models.github.io lab announces first hybrid seminar in conjunction with @oxforddemsci.bsky.social🚨

"Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Differences: New Mechanisms & New Methods"

Speaker: Felix Elwert
When: October 8th, 2025
Where: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 22d

A paper of ours just got rejected from a leading computer science journal for being ‘too technical’ and for some disturbing reason the inner economist in me is really proud.

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 26d

I'm not in the UK on this day, but if I were, I'd be going to this.

Can't wait to read it!

Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 26d

🎪 Official book launch party on Nov 3! 🎪
Presentation, discussion, music, and drinks at Reference.point in London.

Get your free tickets here, to reserve a slot:
www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

cc @UChicagoPress.bsky.social @OxfordEconDept.bsky.social @INETOxford.bsky.social

Book Launch for The Means of Prediction by Maximilian Kasy

Maximilian Kasy in conversation with Noam Yuchtman to launch "The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"

www.eventbrite.com

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · Sep 5

The utility of this data resource cannot be understated. Infinite respect to all of the incredibly talented people who worked on it! 😍

Item Response Warehouse @itemrespwarehouse.bsky.social · Sep 5

Publication describing the IRW now out! link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Over 1000 datasets in there with tools for pulling directly from R!

An introduction to the Item Response Warehouse (IRW): A resource for enhancing data usage in psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods

The Item Response Warehouse (IRW) is a collection and standardization of a large volume of item response datasets in a free and open-source platform for researchers. We describe key elements of the da...

link.springer.com

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · Sep 5

Now, about that last paper i submitted to Sociological Science... 😂

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · Sep 5

🫂🫂🫂🫂

Arnout van de Rijt @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Big shoutout to Patrick Prag @ppraeg.bsky.social !!

Yes I am an editor too, you may thank me, even if you believe my rejection of your paper was dumb and unfair.

So, I said it. Back to reading the next shitty paper.