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computational social science, human behavior, gender inequalities dtu social complexity lab, mit senseable city lab barcelona, copenhagen, boston https://sdesojo.github.io/sdesojo/
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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

Announcing a new event initiative: Feminist AI LAN Party! Katharine and I did a pilot event last year and we're now taking it to @pyconde.bsky.social. We've also open-sourced event kits to make it easy to host your own, including: 💣 hacking LLMs 📑 data development ✂️ zine making feministai.party

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

🎉 Today, our perspective on "Using mobility data to quantify experienced urban inequalities" is finally published in Nature Human Behavior. I am honored to be listed among many stellar coauthors and thankful for their valuable insights. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A step forward www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/w...

🌏💡 Our review article was published on how mobility data—ranging from traditional surveys to emerging GPS and social media datasets—shifts our understanding of socio-spatial segregation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #UrbanStudies #SocialIntegration #HumanMobility #BigData #EquityInCities

Male and female mice experience the impact of early-life "luck" differently, with competition taking a greater toll on male mice 👀

Stronger together? The homophily trap in networks arxiv.org/abs/2412.20158

Today, the SFI Press published Vol. 4 of Foundational Papers in Complexity Science. This concluding book follows Volumes 1 & 2 in May and Volume 3 in September & contains papers published between 1989 and 2000 — when complex-systems science had become a fledgling field of study in its own right.

Happy to write this News & Views piece on the recent audit showing LLMs picking up "us versus them" biases: www.nature.com/articles/s43... (Read-only version: rdcu.be/d5ovo) Check out the amazing (original) paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Yes. @naturehumbehav.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Well, hello there, butterfly 🦋