Gonna tell my kids this was Matt Nagy

Fast-forward 5 years: “Let’s go to Adam Schefter, who has more details about the Bears-Steelers game that was fixed by gamblers in 2021…”

Can Stanford give Shaw the axe before they hand it to Cal?

We’ve been hard at work building a Birdwatch that people from different points of view find helpful. We’re seeing promising results, and starting today, a test group of people in the US will see the highest rated Birdwatch notes on Tweets. blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/c…

Simulation of a car getting smashed using gravity values for different celestial bodies:

Birdwatch elevates contributions from participants whose notes and ratings are consistently found helpful by others. Today we’re rolling out some updates to help strengthen Birdwatch against manipulation and prevent potential attempts to alter contributor standing and impact.

David Shaw is unquestionably the most overpaid coach in college football

they move fast

NFL all-time wins by franchise Chicago Bears 786 Green Bay Packers 785

In the spirit of transparency, Birdwatch makes everything and the kitchen sink public and open source. Today, we’re sharing a paper that details the research, analysis and outcomes that informed its development and helped us understand its performance. 📊 github.com/twitter/birdwa…

🚨Birdwatch Paper Alert!🚨 I am thrilled to finally be able to share this paper with the detailed results evaluating how effective Birdwatch's bridging algorithm is!

Work done with an amazing team of coauthors: Stefan Sophie nick doesn't hang out here anymore Delia maria Mocanu Stephen Ragain @mbfhunzaker Keith Coleman 🌱😀🙌 with loads of help from the Birdwatch engineering team!

Some of the coolest research I’ve been a part of at Twitter- birdwatch has some lofty goals (including fully open source data and algs) for user-driven misinformation detection. Thanks to my awesome coauthors and collaborators!

📢 "Rank-heterogeneous Preference Models for School Choice" by Amel Awadelkarim, Arjun Seshadri, Itai Ashlagi & Irene Lo. KDD'23 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.01801 Summary video: youtube.com/watch?v=UGoefF… Gist: choice models of ranking use the same model at all positions. Can do better! 🧵

Go Bears

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Community Notes don't affect post ranking (and shouldn't, in general -- they often add useful context to correct posts) But we measured a ~25-35% drop in organic likes & RTs (& smaller drop in QTs, since QTs are sometimes dunks...) in an A/B vs. the same post w/o a note We may

Lots of people in CS are (almost surely) GPT-ing their peer reviews arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183

[Please RT] I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at University of Washington! I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/ University of Washington / @UW_iSchool