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Dan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Postdoctoral Research Economist positions at Microsoft Research New England or New York City 🚨

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Open to PhDs in econ-related fields (e.g. quant marketing, econ-CS). Seeking those with high collaboration potential with the team: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to talking about our work on the value of explanation for decision-making at this workshop

Gunnar König @gunnark.bsky.social · 1d

Interested in provable guarantees and fundamental limitations of XAI? Join us at the "Theory of Explainable AI" workshop Dec 2 in Copenhagen! @ellis.eu @euripsconf.bsky.social

Speakers: @jessicahullman.bsky.social @doloresromerom.bsky.social @tpimentel.bsky.social

Call for Contributions: Oct 15

Theory of XAI Workshop

Explainable AI (XAI) is now deployed across a wide range of settings, including high-stakes domains in which misleading explanations can cause real harm. For example, explanations are required by law ...

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 2d

This is true even with slide reuse. Each audience is different, talk goals might be subtly different, and your own ability to explain the concepts may be different, even if you gave the talk recently.

I have a special kind of disdain for the attitude that one doesn't have to do their best on a talk

Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 2d

You should be spending 10+minutes on slides per minute of your talk.
Doing too many talks makes it so you don't have time for top quality.

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 5d

one might hope this phenomena skips the academics but no such luck

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Andrew Marder @andrewmarder.net · 5d

This spoke to me today: bsky.app/profile/shaw...

Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 5d

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 5d

The answer is more reasonable expectations, not ignorance.

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 5d

No polls
No fundamentals forecasting
No RCTs
No inference

What’s up with anti-data extremism in the op-ed/blogosphere these days? It’s one thing to critique horse race polling or stat testing in place of thinking, but very different to conclude we’re better off not trying to model at all. 1/2

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 5d

"Uncooperative statistician": the term used (typically by a senior clinician) to describe a well-trained and knowledgeable statistician who refuses to conduct flawed or fraudulent research.

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 6d

Also on substack

jessicahullman.substack.com/p/howl-after...

Howl, after Allen Ginsberg

for the AI-headed hipsters

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 6d

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/10/h...

Howl, after Allen Ginsberg (for the AI-headed hipsters) | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 6d

My full rewrite of the (very long) first part of Howl is now live at the link below👇

I hope someone somewhere enjoys reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 28d

I rewrote Allen Ginsberg's Howl, but for the AI-headed hipsters👇

"I saw the best minds of my generation distracted by machines, shining-eyed delusional demo gods, rubbering through polished cities at dusk Capitalizing The Next Big Push to the end of Introspection,

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 11d

This is true, but is the devil ever not in the details? Even in non-methods empirical work, it arises in interpreting results unless we treat it all as exploratory existence proof

Only time its absent is when communities normalize ignoring it. Convention dictates so much of the knowledge we produce

John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 13d

This 🧵 has solidified for me a belief that there just are some scientific arguments that are harder to win than others, because the devil is in the belaboured boring-ass details, and those kinds of arguments are vulnerable to alternative positions that are easier (and more entertaining) to convey.

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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 13d

This 🧵 has solidified for me a belief that there just are some scientific arguments that are harder to win than others, because the devil is in the belaboured boring-ass details, and those kinds of arguments are vulnerable to alternative positions that are easier (and more entertaining) to convey.

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 16d

Perhaps, but not rigorously. They wanted people to just take their word for it.

Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 20d

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/18/m...

More Howl, after Allen Ginsberg for the AI-headed hipsters | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 20d

who fed it words, who watched it excrete words, who fed it excreted words again & again waiting, who ran the primitive nervous system with sloshing words & prayed & made words of excrement & finally brought it out to check the Time, & now mistake the words for heroes

(more from my Howl rewrite)
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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 21d

The best time to work on something obscure is when all the men around you are caught up in posturing and arguing loudly.

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 22d

I had forgotten about Alice Notley but this essay reminded me www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/171...

Elsewhere, in an interview: "I have no activism in me. I can’t do things in a group. I can’t do things that imply that I know better than everybody else." 🔥

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 22d

Yeah, Out of Africa always gets me 😭

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 22d

A new excuse to watch Out of Africa again...

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 23d

I wonder, how far are we from genAI creating stuff like this? Or Bruce Nauman's Tony Sinking into the Floor? Or PeeWee's PH episodes where they do stuff like film a dog chewing closeup for 10s, just because?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GhN...

Not "in the style of" but new, equally evocative things?

Pickle Surprise (60fps)

YouTube video by SpaceHunterM

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 23d

maybe, but for now at least we'll look cooler than zuck

CNN @cnn.com · 23d

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech: https://cnn.it/47L2Y5a

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27d

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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