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Excited to recruit a 🚨 postdoc 🚨 for projects on #AI and evolving scientific practice, norms, and impact! Interdisciplinary work across science of science, philosophy of science, math with creative Purdue/Argonne/CMU/Chicago/Princeton collaborators! *pls repost*! careers.purdue.edu/job/Postdoc-...

First time I went to the US (15yo) I was super confused with the list of racial identity I didn't know that "Caucasian" meant white. I thought it meant from the actual Caucasus/eastern Europe. So I looked over the list 3 times and eventually checked "Latino" thinking that it referred to the Romans

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When I visited MSU back in 2016 some official had already ticked the “Asian” box for me and I’m not gonna lie, I found that extremely confusing because I’d never identified as Asian up to that point.

"Large [language] models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated." henryfarrell.net/wp-content/u...

where we are in 2025: major universities seeking a mutual-protection treaty against the U.S. president

Really glad that this is out! Fantastic collaboration with @honglin-bao.bsky.social and @innovation.bsky.social! Key insight: Knowledge diffusion is nearly impossible to constrain—where there's a will, there's a way. From the atomic bomb to ChatGPT, determined minds always find a path. 1/3

Where there’s a will there’s a way: ChatGPT is used more for science in countries where it is prohibited

Abstract. Regulating AI is a key societal challenge, but effective methods remain unclear. This study evaluates geographic restrictions on AI services, focusing on ChatGPT, which OpenAI blocks in seve...

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New paper just out in Quantitative Science Studies where we find clear evidence that geographical restrictions on ChatGPT usage have largely failed. Interestingly, OpenAI seems to have taken notice, recently ramping up enforcement efforts. w/ @sunmengyi.bsky.social @innovation.bsky.social

Can we stop diffusion of particular AI technologies to countries we don't "like"? ChatGPT is useful case. OpenAI *still* prohibits access in major countries. But do these prohibitions actually work? New paper by @honglin-bao.bsky.social and @sunmengyi.bsky.social suggests they don't! 1/3

Call for collaborators! We are launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB) to replicate a sample of findings relevant to public health, epidemiology, health policy, and behavioral science. Teams receive funding for conducting replication studies. Details: www.cos.io/rphb

Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB)

The Center for Open Science (COS) is launching the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB), which is a large-scale, multi-team effort to help support a transparent and trustworthy foundation in ...

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Today: Akari Asai (@akariasai.bsky.social), PhD candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, argues for moving toward Augmented Language Models to solve the critical limitations of Large Language Models, at a Computer Science and DSI joint colloquium!

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

"Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal" www.techpolicy.press/mark-zuckerb... "Elimination of penalties for sharing misinformation will cause a flood from some Pages– which are still the most effective means to spread content on Facebook" From @davidlazer.bsky.social & @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social

Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal | TechPolicy.Press

David Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón raise concern that no one outside of Meta will know the true effects of Meta's change in its moderation policy.

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How important are your #postdoc years in the likelihood of you staying & succeeding in #academia? In our newly published paper in @pnas.org, "Postdoc Publications and Citations Link to Academic Retention and Faculty Success," we study the journey of #CareerSuccess of ~45,000 #postdocs. 🧵1/7

📢 Reminder: The Submission Deadline for the Metascience 2025 Call for Proposals is 7 February! We're looking for: ✅ Virtual pre-conference symposia ✅ In-person panel sessions ✅ Talks or posters Full details: metascience.info/call-for-pro...

this paper was just accepted by WWW 2025🤙🤙🤙

Honglin (虹霖) Bao@honglin-bao.bsky.social · 2y ago

New project with @profjamesevans and my @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social friends on the largest (?) examination (~11 million papers) of how computational social science emerges from -- and shapes -- Econ, Sociology, Psych, and PoliSci. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08087 A thread: (1/7)

This is a thread about remaking the tech sector.

FT new report to rank Business school by "rigor", "resonance" and "relevance" www.ft.com/content/7e81..., not just counts number of papers in FT50 journals but also uses OpenAlex, Open Syllabus, Case Centre, SSRN downloads, Scite. OpenAlex and even tried using Lens (for citations from patents) (1)

Business school and the pursuit of rigour, resonance and relevance

This report aims to explore the impact of individual academics’ recent work and, by extension, their institutions

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Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...

Any metric can and will be gamed. So we really need to think through the implications here. At first sight this is terrible: it kills replication & robustness in the cradle, pushing towards "new" stuff. Chasing the unexpected got the Gino and Ariely cases. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #EconSky

Can novelty scores on papers shift the power dynamics in scientific publishing?

By providing measures of novelty, DeSci Publish hopes to shift the bargaining power between journals and authors.

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Microsoft's Computational Social Science group may have the opportunity to hire one researcher Senior: 0-3 yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... Principal: 3+ yrs post PhD jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh... Please note: our ability to hire this season is not certain

Have you ever wanted to visit Chicago during Pride Month? Here are some things you can ONLY experience here:

Can AI automate the paperback novel industry? And would this impact how we communicate? Explore the work of University of Chicago Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science Ari Holtzman! www.youtube.com/shorts/2E6xH...

Can AI automate the paperback novel industry? Explore the research of Ari Holtzman! @UChicago

YouTube video by UChicago Data Science Institute

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New project with @profjamesevans and my @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social friends on the largest (?) examination (~11 million papers) of how computational social science emerges from -- and shapes -- Econ, Sociology, Psych, and PoliSci. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08087 A thread: (1/7)

Innovation job market papers round up! Over the last week, I found 50+ papers from PhDs going on the job market and I’ll post a few abstracts to this thread every day until they’re all up.

Do you know someone developing outstanding research or other contributions to AI and the natural sciences or engineering? Nominate them for the Margot and Tom Pritzker Prize for AI in Science Research Excellence! datascience.uchicago.edu/research/ai-...

Are you doing work on data for the social good? Understanding Inequalities in society? Join us: go.bsky.app/4sZGpB4

Hi everyone, I am excited to share our large-scale survey study with 800+ researchers, which reveals researchers’ usage and perceptions of LLMs as research tools, and how the usage and perceptions differ based on demographics. See results in comments! 🔗 Arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05025

LLMs as Research Tools: A Large Scale Survey of Researchers' Usage and Perceptions

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has led many researchers to consider their usage for scientific work. Some have found benefits using LLMs to augment or automate aspects of their research pipe...

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Here's a great starter pack of economists working on AI. Who else should be on this list? bsky.app/starter-pack...

"women are less likely to be tenured overall and in every field." This month in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social

Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Mana Nakagawa, Christine Min Wotipka, Elizabeth Buckner, "Opportunities for Faculty Tenure at Globally Ranked Universities: Cross-National Differences by Gender, Fields, and Tenure Status"