Our Urban Innovation team's EcoPod will be in Chicago for the next few weeks, starting with an Earth Day event in Humboldt Park. Stop by if you are in the area!

Yes, this really is an honor, and what a privilege to work with Munmun De Choudhury, PhD and Eric Horvitz. Such a rewarding era and area of research.

🚨Just published in Harvard Business Review: As companies adopt remote work, people from rural counties and mid-sized cities in the US are increasingly searching for digital economy jobs, could cause the digital economy labor pool to grow and spread geographically. hbr.org/2022/08/who-ge… 🧵

We have a new article out in Harvard Business Review looking at the geographic diffusion of opportunity to participate in the digital economy enabled by the rise of remote work. Project co-led w/ Siddharth (Sid) Suri

You need to go to bing.com RIGHT NOW and search for "beam me up", if you haven't already! via/ Sushovan De

Thoughtful RT Society for Personality and Social Psychology Does 'Failure to Replicate' Mean Failed Science? Psychology taking the lead - by David Funder livescience.com/32041-revisiti…

Nice Scientific American post on predicting postpartum mood and behavior changes (Munmun De Choudhury, PhD, w/ me, Eric Horvitz). bit.ly/16AAV3P

Awesome! Super fun(ny) game RT Hacker News Bot Cards Against Humanity has made more than $12 million j.mp/147N3FD

Cards Against Humanity = Apples to Apples + clifflampe

#www2013 best paper is terrific - e.g. relationship of linguistic change lifecycle to user lifespan stanford.io/14xPTDF (via Johan Ugander)

Christakis "wake up call" for social science is great, though perhaps there is more (organic) change already?? nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opi…

Christakis calls for social scientists to 'declare victory' in certain areas. Fuzzy phenomena make victory elusive.

So good - tweet anagrams: anagramatron.tumblr.com via @fisherdanyel

Yesterday's highlights: Brian Keegan talk at MSR and this sticker on a 'little free library' in my hood:

Little Free Libraries are everywhere these days - so cool! Check out the amazing world map (of the registered ones): littlefreelibrary.org

Impressed with the thoughtful and accurate response to the tweets-->votes paper. Feels like social media analytics maturing.

Woohoo! RT Amy Zhang so excited to be doing an internship this summer in Redmond with Scott Counts at Microsoft Research!

Nice write-up RT Eric Horvitz Research about depression and social media at Microsoft Research - led by Munmun De Choudhury, PhD: ti.me/1aYnWKu

Tesla Museum Sparks 'Buy a Brick' Crowdfunding Campaign dlvr.it/71PsmL

We've been working on a companion website to Stevie Chancellor is elsewhere (see pinned)'s #CHI2018 paper analyzing demographic and geographic factors in employment demand from Bing data. Scott Counts Explore the data here: msrinteractivescience.com/employment