A few people have asked for the syllabus from my grad seminar on Generative AI for social science -- just posted it here:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/10/n...
Submit your work on causality and networks today!
That feeling of immense accomplishment and satisfaction when the authenticator is flashing red... and yet your ability to touchtype the number row at 100 wpm pays dividends yet again.
Just checked the raw survey responses to confirm — we simply got too few respondents in polisci!
Figure 2: Fields vary widely in their consensus around top-5 venues and the general alignment of their prefer- ences. Whether one uses a field-level ranking constructed from the pairwise comparisons of all respondents in a field to predict an individual’s pairwise comparisons (horizontal axis) or assesses the degree to which individuals in a field agree on a top-5 (vertical axis), some fields (e.g. Economics) demonstrate a much more overlapping and organized set of preferences than others (e.g. Computer science).
Academic fields differ in their degree of consensus about what "better" publication venues are — here shown both for consensus about the "top 5" and for pairwise choices.
Hello #econsky :)
arxiv.org/abs/2603.00807
@jugander.bsky.social @danlarremore.bsky.social @aaronclauset.bsky.social
#ICSSI community — Who's got an answer to this? 👇
For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice.
#AskAnIDDoc March 2026 edition.
For reasons related to #ICSSI2026, I logged into the equivalent account to @icssi.org over on X, and... wow, it really *is* substantially worse over there.
I didn't realize that you can't tweet URLs on X without paying... 💀
The Program Committee welcomes submissions on all topics in the science of science and innovation, broadly defined. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners across all disciplines, sectors, and world regions, with a particular encouragement for early-career scholars. Major conference themes include, but are not limited to: AI, agentic science, and new epistemic practices in scientific discovery Global knowledge dynamics and the evolution of scientific fields Government-industry-academia partnerships and innovation systems Societal impacts and public value of science and innovation Science funding in an interconnected, multi-sectoral, and global environment Social stratification, bias, and ethical issues in scientific production and reward Open science, transparency, and reproducibility in research The scientific workforce, precarity, and the trajectory of research careers Theoretical, historical, and conceptual perspectives on science and innovation Causal inference and methodological advances in the science of science and innovation Science communication, public trust, and the governance of emerging technologies Intellectual property, patents, and the geography of technological change
📣 Call for abstracts at #ICSSI2026
⛰️ in Boulder, CO, USA - June 29 to July 1
📥 Submit here: www.icssi.org/guidelines
⏳ Deadline: March 30th
On any topic relevant to #SciSci #Innovation #ScienceofScience #Metascience #STS
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The International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation #ICSSI2026 will be in beautiful Boulder, CO, USA!
☀️ June 29 - July 1 ☀️
& Open Data Hackathon, June 28 🧑💻
We welcome submissions on all topics in the science of science and innovation, broadly defined.
Learn more at 👉 icssi.org 👈
The US NSF has put out a "dear colleagues" letter that is essentially a yard sale list for @ncar-ucar.bsky.social
It asks questions such as, who'd like to take over some of NCAR's programs? Is anyone interested in commercial use of the Mesa Lab?
If you have thoughts, send them to NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
It was a lot of fun building this tool! Something that can help faculty with a small but tedious step in preparing an NSF grant proposal: the conflict of interests spreadsheet. Drag-and-drop simplicity ftw 🚤
This works! For those of us with . . . large . . . COA lists, game changer!
According to this, 372 co-authors and collaborators!
And if I recall, Feynman was famous for intentionally doing such a bad job with service work that no one would ever ask him to do it again. So, that's a good sign, right?
You know that annoying NSF form "List every coauthor/co-PI from the last 4y" ?
At @cevianlabs.io we built a free tool that drafts the COI form from your PDF CV in minutes. Check it out 👇
A must-read for metascience / science of science folks who think about AI.
Our latest paper shows that most aerosol sampling methods may underestimate infectious virus in air. We observed 100x more infectious flu virus and SARS-CoV-2 if it deposited directly on cells (more realistic) rather than in liquid first and then transferred to cells. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
People who have run program committees — Any fav alternatives to EasyChair for ~150 submissions?
Flu just will not quit. Activity remains high and stable for much of the country, unfortunately. Covid-19 is doing...ok. RSV is also determined to stick around. Overall grade is a C-. caitlinrivers.substack.com/p/flu-still-...
And please cite a few of their papers on the topic.
Who won the 2026 Winter Olympics?
Norway won the most medals, but we also conducted an extensive sensitivity analysis to please Reviewer 3, see Supplementary Text B.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...
What if you put Llama 3.1 8B into...hardware? You get insanely fast responses:
chatjimmy.ai
10X faster inference, 1/20 the cost, and 1/10 the power, per developer claims → taalas.com/the-path-to-...
We've alllllmost gotten all the Jan26 ARR reviews in, but I'm still trying to track down new emergency reviewers for papers on the following topics:
1) agents
2) jailbreaking
3) coding
4) RL
5) reasoning
6) LLM for finance
7) AMR
8) alignment
If you can review any (in next 24-48h) please DM me 🙏🙏🙏
Bad idea Thursday: Zoom plugin that detects when you're about to sneeze/cough and auto-mutes you for 3s.
I've been vegetarian most of my life, vegan off and on. A fact I usually keep to myself. But please, go ahead and scold me about AI and water usage between bites of your burger 🤌
Stick figure drawing saying holding up an X-ray of a hand saying "What does that mean? How much error should I expect? Where does the uncertainty come from?" with an arrow pointing to the right. (Arrow may not be relevant to the image.)
Hybrid CS Theory Seminar this Fri 2026-02-20!
We're excited to have Udi Wieder (Apple) presenting "Uncertainty Quantification Beyond Calibration"
udiwieder.wordpress.com
www.colorado.edu/cs-theory/th...
⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks?
We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference.
Submit your work by March 10th!
causnets.github.io
Revision now posted on the ArXiv! We collated and cleaned EVEN MORE DATA. 39M accounts, 365K starter packs, and 2.4B following relationships. All accounts, follows, and starter packs now have timestamps! Check it out at arxiv.org/abs/2505.11608.
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