We are hosting wonderful NLP colleagues at KAIST on their way to ACL Bangkok! 🤩 On-site registration is closed, but the talks will be broadcast on Zoom. Please join us! Date/Time: Aug 10, 2024, 10:05-12:30 KST (UCT+9) Parallel Session 1: Advanced Language Models and AI

Great work by Kwanghui Lim and team - The rise in team size in academic science has generated an unintended side effect: junior scientists are less likely to secure research funding or obtain tenure and are more likely to leave academia. nature.com/articles/s4158…

📢New paper in PNAS! How rich was Vienna at the time of Mozart or Tuscany at the time of Michelangelo? Historical GDPs per capita are scarce, leaving this unanswered. Here, we provide new estimates using machine learning to augment historical GDPs per capita. /1 🧵

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

We have 2 open TT positions University of Washington Sociology! I’m on the search committee and happy to talk values, culture, etc. We begin our application review on October 14. PLEASE SHARE! Sex/Gender/Sexuality apply.interfolio.com/151038 Health/Inequality/Medical Sociology apply.interfolio.com/151028

New Idea!

Thanks Bas for heralding our work! We also argued that now seeking gendered patterns in irregular compensation should now be our focus. Check the full paper here: rdcu.be/dVi9H

🔔 New paper out in PNASNews 🔔 “Large Language Models based on historical text could offer informative tools for behavioral science” W/ Michael Varnum, Nicolas Baumard, & Kurt Gray

Many people believe that AI advances will dramatically increase inequality. In a paper with two Nobel laureates, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, plus 30 multidisciplinary experts, we argue that it’s more complex than a simple “rich-get-richer” story. For example, we coined

Three papers we have been working on for some time were finally published within a month. In this short interview, I explain how these three papers will shape the research agenda of our "Centre for Sociology of Humans and Machines" in the coming years. tcd.ie/research/resea…

Really enjoyed this book by Alex Csiszar press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book… Some thoughts on how it informs the science of science literature 1. Commercial "distortion" of sci lit 2. Knowledge diffusion / overload 3. History of peer review 4. History of metricization of science

[자료 추천] 영어 글쓰기를 가르치시거나 '각잡고' 공부하고자 하시는 분들을 위해 좋은 자료들입니다. 비상업적 용도로 사용할 경우 편하게 쓰실 수 있습니다. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) UNC at Chapel Hill Writing Center: Handouts writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/

오늘 새벽에 있었던 안산 상가 화재인데, 모텔이 2개가 있어서 투숙객이 수십 명 있었다고. 소방팀장이 화재 현장을 보는 순간 얼마 전 사망자가 나온 '부천 호텔 화재'를 떠올려 그걸 토대로 창문을 깨는 등 제대로 대응해서 전원 구조. v.daum.net/v/202411171747…

Join the Societal Computing PhD program in CMU Software and Societal Systems Department, CMU School of Computer Science. I am recruiting curious PhD students using #networks and #ComputationalSocialScience with burning questions about our social world, embedded in socio-technical systems. sc.cs.cmu.edu

Korea keeps saying it wants to be the financial capital of asia, or the tech capital of asia, or… Yet it still continually fails in the most basic of financial instruments for non Koreans. I’ve straight up been told I couldn’t get a mortgage…

[일찍 잔 사람들 상황요약] 1. 오후 10시 반 쯤 윤석열이 비상계엄령 선포함 "사유 : 종북좌파세력척결" 2. 11시에 계엄 포고령 선포되고 군대 투입됨 3. 국회의원 300명중 150명 이상 모이면 계엄해제결의안 발의할 수 있음 4. 윤석열 군대 풀어서 국회 봉쇄함

2024년 12월 12일, 윤석열 대통령이 발표한 대국민 담화 내용을 문장 단위로 뜯어보았습니다. 여러 전문가분들이 이미 잘 정리해주신 반박 내용과 팩트 체크 뉴스 자료를 한 데 모아 정리했습니다. 👉 fact-check-yoon.vercel.app

사고 소식에 마음이 너무 아프다…

You've heard of the studies where they give the same dataset/research question to a bunch of researchers and they tend to get different answers, right? Why is that? This new working paper shows that it has a lot to do with data cleaning. This is consistent with Gelman's