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Amin Rahimian
@rahimian.bsky.social
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assistant prof | networks, data, decisions
https://aminrahimian.github.io/
https://sociotechnical.pitt.edu/
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · Jun 6
in a sequential social learning scenario, a sequence of agents make binary decisions on the basis of their private signals and information available to them from past choices. information cascade in this scenario refers to discounting of new private information in favor of past public actions
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gautamkamath.com
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...
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Bayesian probability, like frequentist probability, is a model-based activity that is mathematically anchored by physical randomization at one end and calibration to a reference set at the other
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/20/b...
Bayesian probability, like frequentist probability, is a model-based activity that is mathematically anchored by physical randomization at one end and calibration to a reference set at the other | St...
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
October 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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science.org
A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence.

Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: https://scim.ag/42nMvQJ
October 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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cameronpat.bsky.social
I could have sworn I created this before on our Previous Parish, but couldn't find it so made it fresh.

I present:
OUR BLESSED mixed models // THEIR BARBAROUS fixed effects
OUR BLESSED mixed models vs THEIR BARABAROUS fixed effects OUR GLORIOUS Mundlak device vs THEIR WICKED demeaning OUR GREAT variance components vs THEIR PRIMITIVE dummy variables OUR NOBLE partial pooling vs THEIR BACKWARD unbiased estimates OUR HEROIC maximum likelihoos vs THEIR BRUTISH least squares
September 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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ccanonne.github.io
New differential #privacy textbook in town: "DP in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice", by @nandofioretto.bsky.social and @vanhentenryck.bsky.social. Open access, w/ chapters by @jubaz.bsky.social, @grahamrc.bsky.social, and @stein.ke!

www.nowpublishers.com/article/Book...
Front cover: Differential Privacy in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice, now Publishers
August 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Experimentation and thinking at the level of a program of experiments
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/05/e...
Experimentation and thinking at the level of a program of experiments | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
September 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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thejonullman.bsky.social
🚨 I am co-chairing ALT 2026 this year with Matus Telgarsky. The submission server is open so please submit your best work!

Deadline: Oct 2, 2025 AoE
Confernece: Feb 23-26, 2026 in Toronto!
Website: algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/
ALT 2026 | ALT 2026 Homepage
The 37th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory
algorithmiclearningtheory.org
September 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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medrxivpreprint.bsky.social
Socio-Spatial Patterns of Suicide Mortality in the United States https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.25334693v1
September 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Survey Statistics: connections to experimental design
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/02/s...
Survey Statistics: connections to experimental design | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
September 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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emmapierson.bsky.social
🚨 New postdoc position in our lab at Berkeley EECS! 🚨

(please reshare)

We seek applicants with experience in language modeling who are excited about high-impact applications in the health and social sciences!

More info in thread

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August 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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sfiscience.bsky.social
Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI offers early-career scholars intellectual freedom, competitive benefits, research funds, and collaboration with leading scientists.

Learn more: santafe.edu/news-center/news/join-sfi-as-a-complexity-postdoctoral-fellow
August 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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bengolub.bsky.social
I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.

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July 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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lajello.bsky.social
How information sharing in social media has slowly shifted from public posting to private channels. Strong empirical evidence from Facebook by the one and only Kiran Garimella. DETOX #ICWSM.
June 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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kennyjoseph.bsky.social
UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025.

More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society
The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
July 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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eckles.bsky.social
Nice new paper in PNAS providing further evidence that random/long ties help social contagions — even many that would be labeled "complex contagions"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @davidlazer.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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alexpghayes.com
~~ making sense of academic statistics ~~

i wrote about the confusing relationship between statistics and data analysis, and also about how statistics relates to science

#statistics #rstats #datascience

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July 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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rahimian.bsky.social
ACM EAAMO, which is coming to Pitt this Fall, has two events for students: a doctoral consortium and a poster session, both of which are due July 25th
- poster session conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for...
- doctoral consortium
conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for...
Call for Posters
We seek poster contributions from different fields that offer insights into the intersectional design and impacts of algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design with a grounding in the social scien...
conference.eaamo.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
rahimian.bsky.social
ACM EAAMO, which is coming to Pitt this Fall, has two events for students: a doctoral consortium and a poster session, both of which are due July 25th
- poster session conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for...
- doctoral consortium
conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for...
Call for Posters
We seek poster contributions from different fields that offer insights into the intersectional design and impacts of algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design with a grounding in the social scien...
conference.eaamo.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
rahimian.bsky.social
nice piece by Pitt Swanson School of Engineering, showcasing three recent privacy works with @papachristoumarios.bsky.social and @yuxin-pitt.bsky.social - news.engineering.pitt.edu/who-sees-who/
Who Sees Who?
In the comedy Home Alone, a burglar posing as a police officer walks door to door during the holidays to find out which families will be traveling, leaving their empty homes easy prey for a break-in. ...
news.engineering.pitt.edu
July 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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bretthollenbeck.com
🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share.

Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.

I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.

github.com/bretthollenb...
July 11, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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lorenzspreen.bsky.social
We are hiring, @arc-mpib.bsky.social a postdoc for a project to investigate why citizens feel alienated from liberal democracy and how a shared sense of reality can be restored.
Work with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig and me:
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2084802/2025...
Postdoctoral Position | Center for Adaptive Rationality
www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de
June 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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jugander.bsky.social
New by @ericfeltham.bsky.social, Laura Forastiere, and @nachristakis.bsky.social: an extraordinarily ambitious effort to scale up and bring Krackhardt's classic work on cognitive social structures (CSSs) into the 21st century. Super excited to see it in print. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cognitive representations of social networks in isolated villages - Nature Human Behaviour
Feltham et al. develop a sampling strategy to evaluate social network cognition across 82 Honduran villages, systematically mapping the underlying village networks.
www.nature.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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nachristakis.bsky.social
People not only form social networks, they construct mental maps of them. People think about the ties between other people, including ties among individuals to whom they are not themselves directly connected. These “cognitive social networks” have rarely been studied. 1/
June 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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rahimian.bsky.social
in a sequential social learning scenario, a sequence of agents make binary decisions on the basis of their private signals and information available to them from past choices. information cascade in this scenario refers to discounting of new private information in favor of past public actions
June 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM