I wish scholars understood "racism as a system" rather than trying to find some magic "racism mechanism". Racism makes (1) race possible, (2) the racial gap in your favorite y-variable(s), and (3) racial variation in your favorite x-variable(s). A system!

Negotiating a TT #faculty job offer or retention w/your chair or dean? It's a situation that systematically disadvantages women + BIPOC faculty. Here's what I learned after years of COACHE Project research about what's REALLY on the table (potentially). A🧵1/n #AcademicTwitter

While still ~40 times lower than the January 2022 peak, SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentrations are once again increasing in New Haven, CT. Get vaccinated and boosted!

“Why can’t my high risk co-worker/my kid’s high risk teacher just wear an n95 to protect THEMSELVES?” Because in order for that to work they would need to exit the building to a distanced spot outdoors, or into somewhere like their car, every time they need even a sip of water?

1/ This is the calm before another #COVID storm in the U.S., which will be worse than it should be due to short-term and hopeful thinking. The #BA.2 cycle has already started here and will be in full bloom in ~2-3 weeks with a much bigger surge than anyone saw coming.🧵

This piece was a long time coming, but it's finally out. I so appreciate everyone who reached out to me, willing to share their experiences with medical gaslighting. It's heartbreaking how many stories there are. nytimes.com/2022/03/28/wel…

hey twitter hive-mind hit me up with algorithmic audit papers and/or tools please rt

I am looking for a postdoc! (ideally starting Fall 2022) Particularly interested in CSS researchers with a strong technical background who want to work on online social movements and/or misinformation. For more details: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/215…

I refuse to be delegated to the "skeptics box" in someone else's framing of a debate. Here is my response to Steven Johnson 's NYT Magazine article about LLMs and OpenAI. On NYT Magazine on AI: Resist the Urge to be Impressed link.medium.com/rag8kbGujpb

“Predictive policing violates human dignity and the presumption of innocence, and it holds a particular risk of discrimination. It is therefore inserted among the prohibited practices“ - impressive, would be great if this holds europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document…

If you are an academic researcher interested in doing experimenting with #EleutherAI models like GPT-J-6B and GPT-NeoX-20B but lack the resources to do so, I will run the experiments for you for free. Support for reasonable finetuning is also available.

I am excited that FORC is just around the corner (June 6-8 at the CMSA at Harvard in Cambridge, MA). Registration is free, come join us for interesting research and discussions on the foundations of responsible computing! responsiblecomputing.org/forc-2022/

Another thing I learned from @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social): keep track of accomplishments of your marginalized colleagues; see their worth (even when they don't!); make sure to let others know. Women can raise one another up in this way. It's weirdly counter to CS norms, but we can change that!

New paper out Nature Communications: Public attitudes value interpretability but prioritize accuracy in Artificial Intelligence rdcu.be/cWOxJ w/ coauthors Lan Luo, elisa celis & M.J. Crockett (1/12)

Monday, November 7th at 11:30 am CT: TTIC Colloquium presents Elisa Celis (elisa celis) of Yale University (Yale Data Science) with a talk titled, "Mitigating Bias in Data Science." Join us in Room 530, or register via Zoom: buff.ly/3Wx4Jec

[Please RT] I’m recruiting PhD students to start Fall’23 at University of Washington! I’m looking for students passionate about using computational methods to study how social platforms can be reimagined to enable better conversations, bridge political divides, and reduce the spread of misinfo. >>