Nikhil Garg
@nkgarg.bsky.social
I study algorithms/learning/data applied to democracy/markets/society. Asst. professor at Cornell Tech. https://gargnikhil.com/. Helping building personalized Bluesky research feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest
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Nikhil Garg
@nkgarg.bsky.social
· Mar 10
*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...
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Common Ground between AI 2027 & AI as Normal Technology asteriskmag.substack.com/p/common-groun… (interesting) #AI #future
November 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Common Ground between AI 2027 & AI as Normal Technology asteriskmag.substack.com/p/common-groun… (interesting) #AI #future
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I can't think of a better resource today for those looking to learn about and/or break into civic tech than @kdyz.bsky.social's #PublicSectorJobBoard. I can't imagine it's at all a small lift—thank you Rebecca!
publicsectorjobboard.substack.com/p/october-28...
publicsectorjobboard.substack.com/p/october-28...
October 28, 2025 - Public Sector Job Board
The 73rd edition. Your source of tech and innovation jobs in government.
publicsectorjobboard.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I can't think of a better resource today for those looking to learn about and/or break into civic tech than @kdyz.bsky.social's #PublicSectorJobBoard. I can't imagine it's at all a small lift—thank you Rebecca!
publicsectorjobboard.substack.com/p/october-28...
publicsectorjobboard.substack.com/p/october-28...
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🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
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We are slowly catching up to the #30DayMapChallenge!
In our day 3: polygons submission, @zhixuanqi.bsky.social questioned the boundaries and fuzziness of polygons with an animated map that invites us to think about the (not-so-well-defined) idea of neighborhoods.
In our day 3: polygons submission, @zhixuanqi.bsky.social questioned the boundaries and fuzziness of polygons with an animated map that invites us to think about the (not-so-well-defined) idea of neighborhoods.
November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We are slowly catching up to the #30DayMapChallenge!
In our day 3: polygons submission, @zhixuanqi.bsky.social questioned the boundaries and fuzziness of polygons with an animated map that invites us to think about the (not-so-well-defined) idea of neighborhoods.
In our day 3: polygons submission, @zhixuanqi.bsky.social questioned the boundaries and fuzziness of polygons with an animated map that invites us to think about the (not-so-well-defined) idea of neighborhoods.
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So many nonsense ad hoc pipelines could be prevented by requiring that they work on synthetic data.
I tend to think of experiments as special cases of inference, since most of the problems I work on cannot be studied in experiments. But I get that many researchers see experiments as base analogy.
I tend to think of experiments as special cases of inference, since most of the problems I work on cannot be studied in experiments. But I get that many researchers see experiments as base analogy.
"Validate With Simulated Truth: A first habit is to test whether an analytical pipeline can recover known conditions."
Very good advice below. So much COVID nonsense (e.g. 'immunological dark matter') basically came down to a non-identifiable model that hadn't been properly tested.
Very good advice below. So much COVID nonsense (e.g. 'immunological dark matter') basically came down to a non-identifiable model that hadn't been properly tested.
Modelling Like an Experimentalist
Dahlin et al. (2024) apply experimental thinking to a model of mosquito-borne disease transmissions.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
So many nonsense ad hoc pipelines could be prevented by requiring that they work on synthetic data.
I tend to think of experiments as special cases of inference, since most of the problems I work on cannot be studied in experiments. But I get that many researchers see experiments as base analogy.
I tend to think of experiments as special cases of inference, since most of the problems I work on cannot be studied in experiments. But I get that many researchers see experiments as base analogy.
This was one of my favorite conferences last year
Econ, artificial intelligence and machine learning …
#EconConf #econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/econ...
#EconConf #econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/econ...
Economics and CS (AI+ML) in Ithaca in June: call for papers
marketdesigner.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This was one of my favorite conferences last year
Have been waiting for this paper to come out ever since Hongyao told me about it -- more academics should be taking advantage of such open data to answer important questions
Coverage of the paper by @ellebeyoud.bsky.social of Bloomberg here (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Have been waiting for this paper to come out ever since Hongyao told me about it -- more academics should be taking advantage of such open data to answer important questions
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🧠⚙️ Interested in decision theory+cogsci meets AI? Want to create methods for rigorously designing & evaluating human-AI workflows?
I'm recruiting PhDs to work on:
🎯 Stat foundations of multi-agent collaboration
🌫️ Model uncertainty & meta-cognition
🔎 Interpretability
💬 LLMs in behavioral science
I'm recruiting PhDs to work on:
🎯 Stat foundations of multi-agent collaboration
🌫️ Model uncertainty & meta-cognition
🔎 Interpretability
💬 LLMs in behavioral science
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🧠⚙️ Interested in decision theory+cogsci meets AI? Want to create methods for rigorously designing & evaluating human-AI workflows?
I'm recruiting PhDs to work on:
🎯 Stat foundations of multi-agent collaboration
🌫️ Model uncertainty & meta-cognition
🔎 Interpretability
💬 LLMs in behavioral science
I'm recruiting PhDs to work on:
🎯 Stat foundations of multi-agent collaboration
🌫️ Model uncertainty & meta-cognition
🔎 Interpretability
💬 LLMs in behavioral science
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I’m recruiting students this upcoming cycle at UIUC! I’m excited about Qs on societal impact of AI, especially human-AI collaboration, multi-agent interactions, incentives in data sharing, and AI policy/regulation (all from both a theoretical and applied lens). Apply through CS & select my name!
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m recruiting students this upcoming cycle at UIUC! I’m excited about Qs on societal impact of AI, especially human-AI collaboration, multi-agent interactions, incentives in data sharing, and AI policy/regulation (all from both a theoretical and applied lens). Apply through CS & select my name!
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Excellent report on experiences of @guidoimbens.bsky.social & Mary Wootters co-teaching "Causality, Decision Making, and Data Science" to undergrads at Stanford fall 2024: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/uynpjlow... Course material here: stanford-causal-inference-class.github.io
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Excellent report on experiences of @guidoimbens.bsky.social & Mary Wootters co-teaching "Causality, Decision Making, and Data Science" to undergrads at Stanford fall 2024: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/uynpjlow... Course material here: stanford-causal-inference-class.github.io
The @stechlab-labels.bsky.social labeler is indeed very useful to weed out who to follow
seriously the @stechlab-labels.bsky.social labeler is hella cool, some really interesting data that they’re processing and flagging
October 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The @stechlab-labels.bsky.social labeler is indeed very useful to weed out who to follow
Fully funded AI postdocs at Cornell (Tech or Ithaca). Can work with faculty across wide range of departments.
Cornell (NYC and Ithaca) is recruiting AI postdocs, apply by Nov 20, 2025! If you're interested in working with me on technical approaches to responsible AI (e.g., personalization, fairness), please email me.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971
Cornell University, Empire AI Fellows Program
Job #AJO30971, Postdoctoral Fellow, Empire AI Fellows Program, Cornell University, New York, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Fully funded AI postdocs at Cornell (Tech or Ithaca). Can work with faculty across wide range of departments.
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Through some recent projects about social services/admin burden/exploring impacts of targeted outreach I've learned a lot about how great of a program SNAP is! Really everyone wins
Slides on from a talk yesterday on optimal encouragement designs/auditing: drive.google.com/file/d/1iZYb...
Slides on from a talk yesterday on optimal encouragement designs/auditing: drive.google.com/file/d/1iZYb...
talk-informs-encouragements.pdf
drive.google.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Through some recent projects about social services/admin burden/exploring impacts of targeted outreach I've learned a lot about how great of a program SNAP is! Really everyone wins
Slides on from a talk yesterday on optimal encouragement designs/auditing: drive.google.com/file/d/1iZYb...
Slides on from a talk yesterday on optimal encouragement designs/auditing: drive.google.com/file/d/1iZYb...
News story about PhD student Vince Bartle's work in building a patient placement platform in Hawaii! Continuously deployed since 2022, his platform collects vacancy information and provides call recommendations to social workers
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Doctoral student’s system eases patient-discharge process | Cornell Chronicle
A doctoral student has developed a text message-based system that regularly updates both long-term hospital patients’ and care facilities’ availability statuses, smoothing a normally time-consuming pl...
news.cornell.edu
October 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
News story about PhD student Vince Bartle's work in building a patient placement platform in Hawaii! Continuously deployed since 2022, his platform collects vacancy information and provides call recommendations to social workers
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
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And now might be a good time to mention, I’m on the faculty job market this year! I do work in human-AI collusion, collaboration and competition, with an eye towards building foundations for trustworthy AI. Check out more info on my website here! Nataliecollina.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
And now might be a good time to mention, I’m on the faculty job market this year! I do work in human-AI collusion, collaboration and competition, with an eye towards building foundations for trustworthy AI. Check out more info on my website here! Nataliecollina.com
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You could hardly have more different books on behavioral economics. Chater and Loewenstein regret their part in what they feel has turned into a scam, while Thaler and Imas celebrate how it has gone from victory to victory.
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/dive...
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/dive...
Divergent views on behavioral economics: books by Loewenstein and Chater, and Thaler and Imas
marketdesigner.blogspot.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
You could hardly have more different books on behavioral economics. Chater and Loewenstein regret their part in what they feel has turned into a scam, while Thaler and Imas celebrate how it has gone from victory to victory.
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/dive...
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/dive...
Graze is doing great work in supporting the entire ATProto Ecosystem, and their latest newsletter is a great illustration. Also featuring an interview with @sjgreenwood.bsky.social about Paper Skygest (bsky.app/profile/pape...)
We’ve started describing ATProto as the new standard gauge — a shared track that finally lets social apps move together instead of apart. Our latest Graze newsletter looks at what that means in practice (plus a great chat with @sjgreenwood.bsky.social ).
graze-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/the-new-st...
graze-newsletter.beehiiv.com/p/the-new-st...
The new standard gauge
Graze is Bluesky. By You.
graze-newsletter.beehiiv.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Graze is doing great work in supporting the entire ATProto Ecosystem, and their latest newsletter is a great illustration. Also featuring an interview with @sjgreenwood.bsky.social about Paper Skygest (bsky.app/profile/pape...)
Come join us at Cornell Tech!
Jobs! First, we hope to be hiring in Computer Science for the @cornelltech.bsky.social campus:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30804
Focus on security, SysML, and NLP.
Please share!
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30804
Focus on security, SysML, and NLP.
Please share!
Cornell University, Computer Science
Job #AJO30804, Professor Positions - Computer Science, Cornell Tech, Computer Science, Cornell University, New York, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Come join us at Cornell Tech!
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Announcing (w @adamsmith.xyz @thejonullman.bsky.social) the 2025 edition of the Foundations of Responsible Computing Job Market Profiles!
Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!
Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!
Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Announcing (w @adamsmith.xyz @thejonullman.bsky.social) the 2025 edition of the Foundations of Responsible Computing Job Market Profiles!
Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!
Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!
Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
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Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes*
Abstract. Concerns about excessive mobile phone use among youth are mounting. We present estimates of both behavioral and contextual peer effects, along wi
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
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I am on the job market this year! My research advances methods for reliable machine learning from real-world data, with a focus on healthcare. Happy to chat if this is of interest to you or your department/team.
October 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I am on the job market this year! My research advances methods for reliable machine learning from real-world data, with a focus on healthcare. Happy to chat if this is of interest to you or your department/team.
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More new members to welcome to our #CSCW2025 Starter Pack! Can't wait to see many of you in-person soon in Bergen. 🇳🇴
@cyberlyra.bsky.social
@lkurek.bsky.social
@mara-ulloa.bsky.social
@muitanprasert.bsky.social
🔥 go.bsky.app/SPumuMT 🔥
@cyberlyra.bsky.social
@lkurek.bsky.social
@mara-ulloa.bsky.social
@muitanprasert.bsky.social
🔥 go.bsky.app/SPumuMT 🔥
October 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
More new members to welcome to our #CSCW2025 Starter Pack! Can't wait to see many of you in-person soon in Bergen. 🇳🇴
@cyberlyra.bsky.social
@lkurek.bsky.social
@mara-ulloa.bsky.social
@muitanprasert.bsky.social
🔥 go.bsky.app/SPumuMT 🔥
@cyberlyra.bsky.social
@lkurek.bsky.social
@mara-ulloa.bsky.social
@muitanprasert.bsky.social
🔥 go.bsky.app/SPumuMT 🔥
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For nearly 80 years, an algorithm called the simplex method has been one of the most widely used tools for when a logistical decision needs to be made under complex constraints. A new update makes it faster than ever. www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-...
Researchers Discover the Optimal Way To Optimize | Quanta Magazine
The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
For nearly 80 years, an algorithm called the simplex method has been one of the most widely used tools for when a logistical decision needs to be made under complex constraints. A new update makes it faster than ever. www.quantamagazine.org/researchers-...
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Come be our colleague at Columbia IEOR! Open-rank (tenure-track or tenured) position with a priority deadline of November 21.
Candidates with application-oriented research are especially encouraged to apply.
apply.interfolio.com/175698
Candidates with application-oriented research are especially encouraged to apply.
apply.interfolio.com/175698
October 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Come be our colleague at Columbia IEOR! Open-rank (tenure-track or tenured) position with a priority deadline of November 21.
Candidates with application-oriented research are especially encouraged to apply.
apply.interfolio.com/175698
Candidates with application-oriented research are especially encouraged to apply.
apply.interfolio.com/175698
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ATProto is a team sport - we build better together. That's why, effective today, we're opening up access to the enriched archive we use to power Graze, so anyone can build great services on top of ATProto without reinventing the wheel. Read more in the @leaflet.pub post below for details!
Announcing the Graze Archives
A brief tour of the S3 requestor-pays archives of the Graze turbostream and freshly-announced megastream
graze.leaflet.pub
October 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
ATProto is a team sport - we build better together. That's why, effective today, we're opening up access to the enriched archive we use to power Graze, so anyone can build great services on top of ATProto without reinventing the wheel. Read more in the @leaflet.pub post below for details!