Looking forward to giving a tutorial on 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀 with @tiziano.bsky.social at @ic2s2.bsky.social! 🕜 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: Tuesday, 1-4 pm 📍 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Mansfield (210). 🌐 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲: social-media-ais.github.io/ic2s2-26-tut...

We're excited to be hosting CODE@MIT again this fall! We invite a mix of work involving experimentation — methods, cool experiments, industry reports, etc. Look for more info later on this year's invited speakers.

CODE@MIT@codemit.bsky.social · 2w ago

📢 Call for abstracts for the Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE@MIT), which takes place Nov 13-14. 📨 Submit your best work by *Sept 13th*! ide.mit.edu/events/2026-...

Principle component analysis

fixed your headline

Nick (derogatory) ✨@slothropsmap.bsky.social · last mo.

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

The next Network Science and Economics Conference NSE-12 will be held at the University of Luxembourg Oct 23-25, 2026! Here is a call for papers (due July 31): www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Ca... and the conference series webpage: web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/NS...

Anna Gilbert's commentary on the upcoming First Proof, Part Deux round of AI math proofing evaluations.

First Proof, Second Proof

There will be a webinar at 1pm east coast time today to announce the results of First Proof Second Batch.

annagilbert.substack.com

This is just to say, I failed to replicate the work, that was not very rigorous, but was in Nature. And which you were probably relying on for grant applications Forgive me, the methods were inappropriate, so vague and so many assumptions.

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

what i said was this builds on prior work what i meant three people had said it before no one believed them i'm going to try again

I will be visiting Yale SOM for AY 2026/2027 The visit includes me teaching an interdisciplinary PhD methods course. If you often experience New Havenness, ask your Dr (advisor) whether "Methods Stumblers" may be right for you.

🚨Maine Primary Forecast 🚨 Polls show the crowded Maine primaries are in a dead heat heading into June 9. But Maine uses ranked-choice voting, and these polls focus only on first choices. Today, my collaborators and I released ranked-choice forecasts. 👇 dliu18.github.io/maine-2026-p...

Polling Ranked Choices for the 2026 Maine Primaries

Ranked-choice polling analysis and simulations for the 2026 Maine primaries.

dliu18.github.io

A love letter to Deep Springs in today's NYT. Seems like a good time to mention: Stephanie and I are very excited to both be teaching short courses there next May-June ("Term 6", 2027).

Opinion | A Cattle Ranch Is Doing What the Ivy League Can’t

nytimes.com

“@grok is this true” coming to Meta soon

This is a good point: if you will use a machine to write code you don't understand, why does it have to be Python? medium.com/@NMitchem/if...

If AI Writes Your Code, Why Use Python?

For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore.

medium.com

We are very excited to announce our first workshop on From Theory to Practice: behind the scenes on research deployments at EC’26 (July 6 in Rome)! Call for posters and submissions now open! Organized by myself, @ericachiang.bsky.social , Bailey Flanigan, @brwilder.bsky.social

A post from @wtgowers.bsky.social on math research with reasoning LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT 5.5-Pro). Having similar experiences and agree with his reflections. gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…

gowers.wordpress.com

Lots of provocations here, looking forward to reading. Its a brave new world for social science! I'm optimisic about automating the "boring parts" of research, but pessimistic about implications of the deluge of slop (its bad enough already). Two threads I find interesting re agentic research:

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

I'm at MIT tomorrow, Monday, giving the Sloan OM Seminar, 11:45a–1p. Talking about recent work on causal inference under "structured" interference w/ Kevin Han and Shuangning Li. MIT folks, come say hi!

“We have many years of experience picking apart the work of the world’s best security researchers, and Mythos Preview is every bit as capable. So far we’ve found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can’t.”

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

271 vulns fixed. but: "Encouragingly, we also haven’t seen any bugs that couldn’t have been found by an elite human researcher." — now that's interesting

Just wrote a new blogpost trying to summarize my thoughts on the question of how and whether to use AI for research in psychology and cognitive science: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...

New job in computational social science: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Assistant Professor in collaborative civil defence and crisis management, with a focus on computational methods

Department of Building and Environmental Technology   at Lund University, Faculty of Engineering invites applications for a position as Assistant Professor. We are currently seeking a promising early

lu.varbi.com

Was reminded of this one-page 1988 love letter to differential equations by @stevenstrogatz.com, and looked it up and re-read it. Such a gem. ai.stanford.edu/~rajatr/arti...

Paper is full of great detailed examples of "shifting goalposts":

Johann Koehler@jkoehler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨New paper klaxon!🚨 How does a police department manage to claim that it's "making progress"? And how does it do so even when people complain about its poor performance, corruption, or whatever else? sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13... @chicagopolice.bsky.social

sounds legit

The arc of history is long and has extremely poor convergence bounds

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

In lieu of lecture blogging on simulation and prediction, check out this fortuitously timed op-ed in the NY Times by @leifw.bsky.social and me on the absurdity of Silicon Sampling. (Related lecture blog tomorrow!)

Opinion | It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling

nytimes.com

lmao this one is incredible. “Head of product at X condemns quote-tweeting” my brother in Jira you’re the shift manager at the quote tweet factory

eric gonzalez juenke@egojunk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Perfect. Bier is the head of Twitter “product.”

On FinneGAN exploration of latent spaces rickmossart.substack.com/p/knowing-yo...

Knowing Your Creativity, Part 2: Speaking Finnegan’s Wake

Researchers trained an AI exclusively on Joyce’s novel. The objective was to map the inner realm where, perhaps, literary creativity happens.

rickmossart.substack.com

Nature meta-research project puts claims in social-science paper to the test. Refs in last post I'm interested in Econ and Psych so I focused on that: Econ had about the same rate of "not reproducible" analyses as Psych and a worse rate then Political Science.

Bilingual joke? French Wikipedia says the Poisson distribution is "not to be confused with Fisher's distribution" (the F-distribution) fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_de_...