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Science Magazine @science.org · 5d

A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence.

Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://scim.ag/42nMvQJ

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · Sep 9

I could have sworn I created this before on our Previous Parish, but couldn't find it so made it fresh.

I present:
OUR BLESSED mixed models // THEIR BARBAROUS fixed effects

OUR BLESSED mixed models vs THEIR BARABAROUS fixed effects
OUR GLORIOUS Mundlak device vs THEIR WICKED demeaning
OUR GREAT variance components vs THEIR PRIMITIVE dummy variables
OUR NOBLE partial pooling vs THEIR BACKWARD unbiased estimates
OUR HEROIC maximum likelihoos vs THEIR BRUTISH least squares

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · Aug 25

New differential #privacy textbook in town: "DP in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice", by @nandofioretto.bsky.social and @vanhentenryck.bsky.social. Open access, w/ chapters by @jubaz.bsky.social, @grahamrc.bsky.social, and @stein.ke!

www.nowpublishers.com/article/Book...

Front cover: Differential Privacy in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice, now Publishers

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · Sep 5

Experimentation and thinking at the level of a program of experiments
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/05/e...

Experimentation and thinking at the level of a program of experiments | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Jon Ullman @thejonullman.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 I am co-chairing ALT 2026 this year with Matus Telgarsky. The submission server is open so please submit your best work!

Deadline: Oct 2, 2025 AoE
Confernece: Feb 23-26, 2026 in Toronto!
Website: algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/

ALT 2026 | ALT 2026 Homepage

The 37th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory

algorithmiclearningtheory.org

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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Sep 2

Socio-Spatial Patterns of Suicide Mortality in the United States https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.25334693v1

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · Sep 3

Survey Statistics: connections to experimental design
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/02/s...

Survey Statistics: connections to experimental design | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Emma Pierson @emmapierson.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨 New postdoc position in our lab at Berkeley EECS! 🚨

(please reshare)

We seek applicants with experience in language modeling who are excited about high-impact applications in the health and social sciences!

More info in thread

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · Aug 19

Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI offers early-career scholars intellectual freedom, competitive benefits, research funds, and collaboration with leading scientists.

Learn more: santafe.edu/news-center/news/join-sfi-as-a-complexity-postdoctoral-fellow

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Jul 24

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.

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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · Jun 23

How information sharing in social media has slowly shifted from public posting to private channels. Strong empirical evidence from Facebook by the one and only Kiran Garimella. DETOX #ICWSM.

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · Jul 17

UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025.

More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society

The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...

www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu

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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · Jul 20

Great news! congrats:)

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · Jul 16

Nice new paper in PNAS providing further evidence that random/long ties help social contagions — even many that would be labeled "complex contagions"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @davidlazer.bsky.social

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alex hayes @alexpghayes.com · Jul 15

~~ making sense of academic statistics ~~

i wrote about the confusing relationship between statistics and data analysis, and also about how statistics relates to science

#statistics #rstats #datascience

www.alexpghayes.com/post/making-...

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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · Jul 15

ACM EAAMO, which is coming to Pitt this Fall, has two events for students: a doctoral consortium and a poster session, both of which are due July 25th
- poster session conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for...
- doctoral consortium
conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for...

Call for Posters

We seek poster contributions from different fields that offer insights into the intersectional design and impacts of algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design with a grounding in the social scien...

conference.eaamo.org

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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · Jul 15

ACM EAAMO, which is coming to Pitt this Fall, has two events for students: a doctoral consortium and a poster session, both of which are due July 25th
- poster session conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for...
- doctoral consortium
conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for...

Call for Posters

We seek poster contributions from different fields that offer insights into the intersectional design and impacts of algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design with a grounding in the social scien...

conference.eaamo.org

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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · Jul 11

- differentially private distributed estimation & learning arxiv.org/abs/2306.15865 IISE transactions, featured: content.presspage.com/uploads/2602...
- differentially private distributed inference arxiv.org/abs/2402.08156
- privacy-preserving sequential learning arxiv.org/abs/2502.19525 (FORC'25)

Who Sees Who?

In the comedy Home Alone, a burglar posing as a police officer walks door to door during the holidays to find out which families will be traveling, leaving their empty homes easy prey for a break-in. ...

news.engineering.pitt.edu

Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · Jul 11

nice piece by Pitt Swanson School of Engineering, showcasing three recent privacy works with @papachristoumarios.bsky.social and @yuxin-pitt.bsky.social - news.engineering.pitt.edu/who-sees-who/

Who Sees Who?

In the comedy Home Alone, a burglar posing as a police officer walks door to door during the holidays to find out which families will be traveling, leaving their empty homes easy prey for a break-in. ...

news.engineering.pitt.edu

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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · Jul 11

🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share.

Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.

I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.

github.com/bretthollenb...

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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.bsky.social · Jun 19

We are hiring, @arc-mpib.bsky.social a postdoc for a project to investigate why citizens feel alienated from liberal democracy and how a shared sense of reality can be restored.
Work with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig and me:
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2084802/2025...

Postdoctoral Position | Center for Adaptive Rationality

www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de

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Johan Ugander @jugander.bsky.social · Jun 16

New by @ericfeltham.bsky.social, Laura Forastiere, and @nachristakis.bsky.social: an extraordinarily ambitious effort to scale up and bring Krackhardt's classic work on cognitive social structures (CSSs) into the 21st century. Super excited to see it in print. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cognitive representations of social networks in isolated villages - Nature Human Behaviour

Feltham et al. develop a sampling strategy to evaluate social network cognition across 82 Honduran villages, systematically mapping the underlying village networks.

www.nature.com

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · Jun 16

People not only form social networks, they construct mental maps of them. People think about the ties between other people, including ties among individuals to whom they are not themselves directly connected. These “cognitive social networks” have rarely been studied. 1/

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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · Jun 6

in a sequential social learning scenario, a sequence of agents make binary decisions on the basis of their private signals and information available to them from past choices. information cascade in this scenario refers to discounting of new private information in favor of past public actions

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