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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to Parisa Suchdev on defending her UVM Computer Science MS thesis 🎉🎉🎉 Parisa will remain at UVM as a PhD student developing tools for describing and understanding Arabic social media at scale.

New preprint arxiv.org/abs/2307.08580 w Josh Minot Computational Story Lab Data@MassMutual! Hiring practices contribute to the gender pay gap. But what about workers' self-representation? Paradoxically, females whose resume language is most different from males achieve greater wage parity!

“Academia and the Third Wave of Online Content” Faculty member @reharp keynotes the campus-wide fall semester kickoff event for University of Vermont h/t for 📷 by @juniperlov & Jeremiah Onaolapo

UVM is hiring an Assistant Professors with expertise in any area of statistics. Posting here: uvmjobs.com/postings/66727 Don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have questions!

Great talks by Vermont Complex Systems Institute @ UVM PhD students Will Thompson & Michael Arnold at the Computer Science Research Day hosted by Yuanyuan & Jeremiah Onaolapo from UVM Computer Science

Our foundational work on allotaxonometry and rank-turbulence divergence is now published in EPJ Data Science. epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

New pub in Nature Communications w/ Junghyun Lim & Michaël Aklin investigates a #JustTransition for US 1.7 million fossil fuel workers into emerging green jobs. While political discourse focuses on workers' skills, we uncover an even bigger barrier: location. nature.com/articles/s4146…

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APPLY BY OCT. 23 Gund Institute for Environment & @UVMComplexity seek a postdoc fellow in Spatial Modeling of Nature Exposure & Health. The postdoc will join #UVM's Lived Experiences Measured Using Rings Study, looking at daily nature exposure data in 500 participants. go.uvm.edu/yevwq

Takeaways from my brief on AI for the Canada House of Commons: - genAI does creative cognitive work and shatters conventional expectations - focus on the direct consequences of AI - rather than shun gen AI, incorporate it into education Read the brief: arxiv.org/abs/2311.03595

UVM, MassMutual Renew Partnership to Help People Live Healthier, More Enjoyable Lives 👏🏻🐙👏🏻🐙👏🏻🐙👏🏻🐙 👏🏻🐙👏🏻🐙👏🏻🐙👏🏻🐙 uvm.edu/news/story/uvm…

"Behavior-based dependency networks between places shape urban economic resilience" New preprint from alum Morgan Frank and team arxiv.org/abs/2311.18108

We're hiring!!! Looking for 3 postdocs & 6 GRAs in support of our Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) grant. 🐙 Please share 🐙 uvm.edu/socks/#jobs

"Foregrounding Artist Opinions: A Survey Study on Transparency, Ownership, and Fairness in AI Generative Art" New preprint from the team, led by @juniperlov arxiv.org/abs/2401.15497

What’s the biggest barrier to getting fossil fuel workers into energy transition jobs?  Join me next week and hear how we found these insights and others in my recent research. Thrilled to be speaking at the ALLY Energy, Energy Workforce of the Future summit on March 7

I interviewed zeynep tufekci about the morality of #AI, social media, #climate change, capitalism & nuclear weapons. What's the glue? She says: valuing the short-term interest of powerful people, rather than the long-term interest of people in general. Read more: uvm.edu/news/story/tal…

From the Most Excellent News Department: We are deeply joyed that Dr. Juniper Lovato has signed on as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at UVM. She will continue on as a core member of the Vermont Complex Systems Center.