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Deportation data project: deportationdata.org "The Deportation Data Project collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets. We use the Freedom of Information Act to gather ..."

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A nice video by Mutual Information channel on the connections between probability distributions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBCi...

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Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

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Life update! I’ll join the University of Arizona College of Information Science as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Fall 2026. Before that, I’ll postdoc with Dr. Brian Uzzi at Northwestern + visit Microsoft Research. Excited to keep exploring how data, AI, and social networks drive innovation.

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Have you considered how you might get around Charlottesville and Albemarle County when the day comes that you can’t drive? Join over 65 people signed up for our next webinar on “When Driving Is Not An Option.” It’s happening on Monday, May 12th at 6:30pm. events.humanitix.com/when-driving...

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We're looking for a new colleague to join us in Maastricht as an Assistant/Associate Professor in statistical learning in our Data Analytics and Digitalisation department. Deadline to apply: June 8th vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

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🚨New Bright Line Watch report on the state of US democracy -Democracy ratings ↓ w/experts & public, including Rs -Performance ↓ in numerous areas such as free speech/press, abuse of government powers -Faculty report academic freedom decline & self-censorship brightlinewatch.org/threats-to-d... 🧵

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Possibly useful if you’re the victim of a cancelled grant! www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

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I made a #NAACL2025 feed that will match that hashtag and the "NAACL" string (not case sensitive). You can pin the feed so that it's easily accessible from your home page. Enjoy!

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The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... "... was due to an algorithmic phase transition equivalent to that of certain search algorithms triggered by the constraints in finding increasingly larger proteins." A cool data collapse.

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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A simple Keyboard Maestro script to change arxiv.org/pdf/xxxx to arxiv.org/abs/xxxx I should have set this up years ago... 🥲

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The current reinforcement learning methods may not be improving reasoning capacity of the LLMs. Instead, they may be training the models to find the shortcuts more efficiently. limit-of-rlvr.github.io

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Evidence of US brain drain? US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024. US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%. Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Intriguing! Recasting Arrow's Impossibility Theorem as Gödelian Incomputability arxiv.org/abs/2504.06589 "Impossibility in Social Choice Theory is demonstrated to correspond to the impossibility of a Self-Reference System to interpret its own internal consistency"

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New video out on the Keto and heart disease study (aka LMHR). Findings, FAQs and what it all means. check out the full video below incl. my chat with the senior author Dr. Matthew Budoff clarifying several standing issues 🔽

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Dreyfus, Abrego Garcia, ... They are not a distraction. They are the fulcrum, where the entire society and system is being tested on.

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With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)

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Here's my new video about why housing is tearing environmentalists apart: youtu.be/Subp8jO-GIo

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This is probably the clearest explanation of why upzoning can make housing more affordable while increasing property values. Also, this YouTube channel should have at least 1M (not 3k) followers given the quality of content!

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Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work #AcademicSky #EduSky

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A school-aged child died at a Texas hospital where they were receiving treatment for measles, marking the second death of a minor in the state linked to the ongoing outbreak: cnn.it/4ljCgF1

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BREAKING NEWS - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol REMOVED from office by the court's unanimous decision www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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New paper: Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media 🧪 Simulations informed by social media data yield a worst-case bound on additional infections due to exposure to online vaccine misinfo. It's not good. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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AI exposure scores can predict workers' unemployment risk! While individual AI exposure models aren't predictive of job losses, combining them creates a powerful predictive tool. #AIandJobs #FutureOfWork New work with @yyahn.bsky.social & @estebanmoro.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

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I am deeply honored to be named a Fellow of the AAAS. This award belongs to my amazing students, colleagues, and collaborators throughout the years -- thank you all! Congratulations also to my illustrious fellow 2024 Fellows! news.iu.edu/live/news/44...

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Can we understand the mechanisms of a frontier AI model? 📝 Blog post: www.anthropic.com/research/tra... 🧪 "Biology" paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu... ⚙️ Methods paper: transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu... Featuring basic multi-step reasoning, planning, introspection and more!

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I mean… Yeah. Yeah they do. For entirely known and warned-about reasons. Yes. www.science.org/content/arti...

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THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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📢 Call for PhD and Postdocs: Using data science to improve epidemic preparedness nerds.itu.dk/2025/03/25/c... We are looking for Phds and Postdocs to join @jonassjuul.bsky.social at @itu.dk in Copenhagen improving inference, forecasting, and mitigation in future pandemics. Deadline May 1st.

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A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

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its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

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🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122 Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.

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🚀 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 Call for 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀! 🌍✈️ NetSci 2025 is offering a limited number of travel grants to support individuals facing financial constraints, e.g., those from low and middle-income countries. 🌐 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝘄: netsci2025.github.io/calls/

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🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science. I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science. 📍 Start: flex summer 2025 📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...

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NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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