(Over)enthusiastic | alum: @NorthwesternU stats PhD☕, @datascifellows 🌞, @CarnegieMellon 🐪 🏃♀️ | good with people, bad at everything else
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My friend made a cool R package for making hex maps in the US! Check it out: github.com/MarEichler/usahex…
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👋 I'm at #NeurIPS2024🇨🇦 workshops this weekend! I'll be presenting new work on participatory AI & public-sector AI governance on Sunday:
10:30am: Oral @ EvalEval
1:15pm: Poster @ EvalEval
2:00pm: Oral @ RegML
girl math of the day: telling myself that my $800 towing from the city of San Francisco is ok because "I don't ski"
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sure why not
Joe Exotic of ‘Tiger King’ has penned a letter to Donald Trump asking for a pardon, @radar_online reports.
He’s also offering to serve in Trump’s cabinet as ‘Federal Fish and Wildlife Director.’
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Friday was my final day with The Baltimore Sun. I resigned my role because of growing concerns about the direction of criminal justice coverage under new ownership. How stories are written and which stories are written matters.
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** New WP alert **
Slack and Economic Development, with @mwwalkerecon, @nachi_365, @tedmiguel, @soliman_felix, @TilmanGraff
We study the causes and macroeconomic consequences of slack in small firms.
drive.google.com/file/d/1heK…
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Day three of #LSEEnvironmentWeek featured presentations from:
➡️@elisabelfiori on unequal climate policy in an unequal world
➡️Judson Boomhower investigating how insurance markets are adapting to climate change
➡️Felix Samy Soliman on the spillover effects of the Clean Air Act
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Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD.
Recent working paper by
@EvaRanehill, @annahsandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström.
Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…
I made like 5 new friends picking up aerogels today :') thanks for helping build community @taytabb! <3
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New paper alert!!
A few years ago @karlrohe and I started a project on citation networks
We're finally done and we ended up analyzing most statistics papers published between 1898 and 2024!
#statstwitter #bibliometrics
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I'm hiring a post-doc at Brown! Seeking applicants with interest in statistical methods, getting their hands dirty with real-world data, and making the world a better place. If this describes you or someone you know please have them apply! apply.interfolio.com/152593
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Olympic glory! 🏅🇺🇸👏
Coach Gary Aldrich poses with @teamusa @usatf Olympic medalists:
🥈 in 100m Sha'Carri Richardson
🥇in shot put Ryan Crouser
🥈in shot put Joe Kovacs
🥉in triple jump Jasmine Moore
🥇in 100m Noah Lyles
#TartanProud | #Olympics
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Some harmful algorithms shouldn't exist. But what does it mean to "abandon" an algorithm that has already been built or deployed?
Our #FAccT2024 paper analyzes 40 real-world cases to understand how calls for abandonment can be better supported.🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2404.13802
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ALT The title page of the paper, "The Fall of an Algorithm: Characterizing the Dynamics Toward Abandonment".
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intern alert 🚨
I’ve moved across the pond to join @MSFTResearch in Cambridge, UK 🇬🇧 this summer, where I’ll be thinking about generative AI evaluation! I’d love to connect with other researchers (or friends) in the area.
ALT Nari (the author) sits in the open field at Parker’s Piece, a park in Cambridge, wearing her new intern swag (a black MSFT sweatshirt).
