Matthew Salganik

BiLS-OCBE-Furberg double seminar: AI in healthcare - Bioinformatics in Life Science – BiLS The next BiLS seminar will be a special double session featuring Andreas Kleppe from Oslo University Hospital and the University of Oslo presenting “Training better computational pathology models to i...

Friends in Oslo: I'll be speaking at the Bioinformatics seminar at Univ Oslo today (Tues) at 11am. "The life course perspective for precision health: New opportunities from population registries, biobanks, and AI” More info: www.mn.uio.no/bils/english...

The Book of Life approach: Enabling richness and scale for life course research For over a century, life course researchers have faced a choice between two dominant methodological approaches: qualitative methods that analyze rich data but are constrained to small samples, and qua...

If you'd like to read some of the research mentioned in the article, here's a recent working paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.03027

This is a wonderful story pulling together our research on predicting life trajectories. Thank you @anilananth.bsky.social

New Deep Dive from @anilananth.bsky.social on our blog:

@msalganik.bsky.social & colleagues developed a way to create and analyze an individual’s "Book of Life." The eventual goal? Train language models on data from millions of Books of Life to predict an individual's life outcome: bit.ly/473NmIy

SODAS Lecture with Matthew J. Salganik SODAS is delighted to host Matthew J. Salganik from Princeton University!

I'm giving a talk in Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) Fri 20 Feb 11 - 12:30. "Life trajectories and life chances: New approaches from population registries and AI" sodas.ku.dk/events/sodas...

Friends in Oxford, I'm giving a talk at Nuffield College Wed 18 Feb 16:00. "Life trajectories and life chances: New approaches from population registries and AI" nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Great job available at @odissei.bsky.social: Chief Technology Officer. This position provides an opportunity to help create the future of computational social science: www.eur.nl/en/working-a...

U.S. CAISI hiring intern for an AI agent security standards project. Opportunity to do cutting-edge AI standards work in the federal government. Apply by Jan 15. nitter.net/i/status/200...

Post-doc opportunity to work with Anna Haskins on the Future of Family and Child Wellbeing Study. Apply by Jan 23. apply.interfolio.com/178605

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences will have a special issue on the 25th anniversary of the future of families and child wellbeing study: www.russellsage.org/publications...

Princeton-SMART is now live. A new research tool for studying smartphone usage. Webinar: Wed, Nov 5, 4pm EST mailchi.mp/44580536fe1f...

Let's be colleagues! Apply to this amazing program. Great colleagues and a wonderful environment.

Job Market - Bocconi University Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

Dept of Social & Political Sciences at Bocconi Univ in Milan is advertising for an open-rank position in sociology. They are excited about computational social science.
Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Univ of Rhode Island has an open rank faculty position in the Dept of Political Science to lead their new PhD program in Computational Social Science. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15597

Applications are open for the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science SICSS 2025 at UCLA! Apply by May 2!

Free, 2-wk institute in comp social science for grad students, postdocs & early-career faculty.

sicss.io/2025/ucla/
@ianlundberg.bsky.social @jenniebrand.bsky.social

I'll be giving a talk about my research Tues, Apr 22 at Princeton Center for Statistics & Machine Learning: "With enough data and the right algorithms is your future predictable? Some evidence from LLMs and complete population-scale data" More info: csml.princeton.edu/events/enoug...

Happy to share the results and open-source code for our benchmark test of GPUs in secure computing environment. Thank you to our wonderful colleagues at ‪@esciencecenter.bsky.social‬. Code is open-sourced for others to use and improve. No private data required.

National population registries, large language models, and precision health This talk will present our interdisciplinary, international collaboration exploring the genetic, social, and environmental factors shaping human health. Our approach leverages two innovations: 1) secu...

I'll be speaking Friday at noon about national population registries, large language models & prediction health. If you are in town you are welcome to attend: pph.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

Princeton Precision Health: An interdisciplinary, AI-driven approach to tackling big questions about health and disease PPH researchers apply cutting-edge AI and computational models to massive datasets to develop a deep understanding of the factors that shape health and illness.

I'm excited to be a part of the new Princeton Precision Health initiative. Here's more about what we are doing: www.princeton.edu/news/2025/03...

The origins of unpredictability in life outcome prediction tasks | PNAS Why are some life outcomes difficult to predict? We investigated this question through in-depth qualitative interviews with 40 families sampled fro...

I don't think anyone tried to predict the next wave, but we did in-depth qualitative interviews to try to understand the origins of unpredictability: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Starting off this account with a banger: In September 2025, I will be joining @princetoncitp.bsky.social at Princeton University as a Postdoc working with @randomwalker.bsky.social & @msalganik.bsky.social! I am very excited about this opportunity to continue my work on trustworthy/reliable ML! 🥳

Opening at Columbia for a postdoc to "help build machine-learning models to understand the relationship between social conditions and entrepreneurship at the neighborhood level." apply.interfolio.com/162500

This is a great opportunity . . .

University Lecturer in Social Data Science University Lecturer in Social Data Science

Faculty of Social Sciences at Univ. of Helsinki invites applications for the position of UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN SOCIAL DATA SCIENCE for a permanent appointment starting 1st of September 2025. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Sloan Foundation/UKRI postdoc on metascience and AI. For researchers in the social sciences & humanities who are interested in building a career in understanding the implications of AI for the science & research ecosystem. sloan.org/programs/dig...

Which of these features would you like us to implement first in the nanoparquet R package?

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Seeking a Sociotechnical Systems Research Assistant (aka “Pre-Doc”) Apply here: (NOTE: Application Portal opens February 3, 2025) Deadline: March 3, 2025. (Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.)  NOTE: Unfortunately, applicants must be eligib…

🎉Microsoft Research New England is hiring a predoctoral research assistant to work with @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social on issues related to the dynamics of technology and society. 🎉

socialmediacollective.org/2025/01/22/s...

I'm teaching my first course! A seminar on "Machine Behavior."

Readings are a mix of NLP, CSS-y, and ML work on how machines (focus LLMs) "behave" within sociotechnical systems and on how they can be used to study human behavior.

Syllabus: manoelhortaribeiro.github.io/teaching/spr...

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Feels fitting to have our very first-ever post be to celebrate two #CITP Associated Faculty members, Professor Aleksandra Korolova & Professor Olga Russakovsky, who were both awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers from the White House this week! 🎉 💯 📖

#womeninSTEM