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aaronschein.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Statistics & Data Science at UChicago Topics: data-intensive social science, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, probabilistic ML Proud “golden retriever” 🦮
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Before gesturing to the good ol' days when industry didn't suck up our greatest minds, consider this article I just came across in a 1929 issue of JASA which found that 70% of statisticians had "no other [scientific] affiliation [...] possibly because of [their interest] in business enterprises".

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

I'd like to see a revival of panache and artistry in scientific prose style. Since we have to read so many papers, they should be fun and beautiful. I would also argue that this serves the goal of communication: readers will be more likely to remember a striking phrase or image.

submitted 73 days ago • 13 comments

Harvard Must Take a Stand for Democracy www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 98 days ago • 23 comments

Now online @pnasnexus.org! Many discrimination auditing and electoral tasks use ML to predict race/ethnicity – by discretizing continuous scores. Can the discretization process cause bias in labels and downstream tasks? Yes! Led by @evandyx.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

New preprint! Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard. We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3 #NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci 🐦🐦

submitted 112 days ago • 6 comments

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 113 days ago • 67 comments

New study looks at Vietnam Draft Lotteries to test effects of “interracial contact on racial attitudes.” Finds “white men who were selected for the draft subsequently expressed less negative attitudes toward Black people and toward policies designed to help them.” www.cambridge.org/core/service...

submitted 174 days ago • 2 comments

Come check out our posters at @neuripsconf.bsky.social this week! Excited about two new works on optimization x fairness, read more below ⬇️ I won’t be there, but my co-authors will :)

submitted 185 days ago • 1 comment

Calling all polarization researchers… “While messaging Android to Android or iPhone to iPhone is secure, messaging from one to the other is not.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

Been a while since I made dinosaur sourdough #breadsky

submitted 189 days ago • 1 comment

hi

submitted 190 days ago • 3 comments

Thank you Nature and @anilananth.bsky.social for this great feature on LLMs and AGI (and for highlighting our work arxiv.org/abs/2406.03689)

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

Happy holidays to all who celebrate “NeurIPS Update Your Timezone”

submitted 192 days ago • 1 comment

Save the Date! It is our pleasure to share that the 2025 Midwest ML Symposium will be held at the University of Chicago, June 23-24, 2025! Please stay tuned for further information about registration, accommodation, and transportation on the conference website midwest-ml.org/2025/

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

Starter packs say “Join the conversation” but then they’re just lists of profiles. Or am I missing something? Are there conversations to join?

submitted 201 days ago • 2 comments

For those who don’t feel like they fit into my Grumpy Machine Learners list (which I still need to update based on 100+ requests) I’ve created another starter pack: go.bsky.app/Js7ka12 (Self) nominations welcome.

submitted 202 days ago • 37 comments

Hello...world? Trying to reconstruct my academic networks over here :) Follow me if we know each other or if you're interested in machine learning for healthcare/social equity! Please retweet, or resky, or whatever they call it over here.

submitted 201 days ago • 3 comments

Bayesians! Are you a member of ISBA? Are you into applications in the Social Sciences? We are starting a new ISBA section on Bayesian Social Sciences. This requires a petition, signed by at least 30 ISBA members. You can add your name here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 203 days ago • 2 comments

First snow

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