Matthew Salganik

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?

See options below.

#RStats #parquet nanoparquet.r-lib.org

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

No plans for a 2nd edition of Bit by Bit. I'm - slowly - working on a new book on a different topic. It took me years to write Bit by Bit, & I think this new book will take even longer . . . but let's hope not.

Ethics doesn't have to be too abstract. You can lead with real examples from real CSS research that have sparked debate and then show students how to reason about them.

Here are some other teaching materials from people using Bit by Bit in their classes: www.bitbybitbook.com/en/teaching/

At Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) we did ethics first & it worked well. It was a good way to get people talking and exposed to different disciplinary norms, both of which are good for learning. Here's what we did at SICSS: sicss.io/2021/princet...

Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...

SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School 2025 - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations From 16 to 27 June 2024, ODISSEI is hosting its fourth summer school at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, as part of the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS) and the Erasmus Gradua...

Applications open for the SICSS-ODISSEI summer school at Erasmus University. For PhD students, post-docs and early career researchers interested in computational social science. More info: odissei-data.nl/event/sicss-...

"Tooling Together: Advancing Research Through Collaborative Tool Development in the Information Environment" Share what you have, learn what is possible, and connect to a community. Jan 24 online. docs.google.com/forms/d/1gwT...

Screenshot of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2024/12/06#rcpparmadillo_14.2.2-1 describing release 14.2.2-1 of CRAN package RcppArmadillo

RcppArmadillo 14.2.2-1 on CRAN: Small Upstream Fixes
R bindings to powerful and expressive C++ matrix library
dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2024/12...
#rcpp #rstats #r

📢 📢 Come join our vibrant interdisciplinary group of about 40 scholars at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy working to understand and improve the relationship between technology and society. We are looking at all levels: 🧵

ACLU seeks a full-time algorithmic justice fellow for a one year position. More info: www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

Two exciting internship opportunities at @msftresearch.bsky.social in 2025!!! 🎉

With FATE in NYC: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

With STAC (and collaborators in FATE) in NYC or Redmond focusing on AI evaluation and measurement: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

Lets see if BlueSky can be as helpful as Old School Twitter.

I'm looking for advocates of Administrative Data Access and Linkage across the EU 🇪🇺

Tell me who is making administrative data access happen in 🇮🇹🇪🇸🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇨🇿🇸🇮🇸🇰🇭🇷🇧🇪🇩🇪🇵🇱🇧🇬🇷🇴🇲🇹🇭🇺🇬🇷

This is often unsung work and they don't toot their own horns.

RP 🙏

🚨Two Exciting DPhil\PhD Opportunities to join us at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social in Fall 2025!🚨

1️⃣ ABM project with 'Big Data' & LLMs (HDS CDT):👉 shorturl.at/wcMQo

2️⃣ Scientometrics project (DPhil PopHealth):👉 shorturl.at/qwsor

🕒⏳Deadline: ~10 days! Feel free to DM me w\ any Qs. Please share widely! 🙌

This is your chance to host a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science. Amazing chance to be part of a wonderful community. . .