UNC School of Data Science and Society
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We envision a world made healthy, safe and prosperous for all through data-informed decisions.
Chapel Hill, NC
Joined February 2023
We’re recruiting open-rank faculty and teaching assistant professors. Join us to advance research and teaching in methods and applications of data science. 🔗 Apply now: https://t.co/N1OLfp1ntE
#UNC #DataScience #AcademicJobs #HigherEdJobs
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💬 Got 5 minutes? We’d love your feedback! Take this quick survey from Student Wellness and Healthy Heels to help improve graduate student programming, services and communications. Plus enter for a chance to win a prize! 🎉 Check out the survey: https://t.co/xEQqrDPjfq
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Join us this Friday for the first of our Quantitative Financial Economics (QFE) speaker series as we welcome Market and Economic Research Analyst Blake Taylor (@firstcitizens). To learn more about our QFE Credential, visit us here: https://t.co/8JgEQLVmMO
#Economics #UNC
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From ROTC cadets on campus to alumni leading in communities around the world, Tar Heels have a long tradition of service. This Veterans Day, we recognize and thank all who have served our state and country
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Today and every day, we honor those who have served our country. We’re proud to have veteran students in our Master of Applied Data Science program and salute all members of the armed forces. Learn how @UNC supports veterans and military Tar Heels. https://t.co/PgOS3fKAZg
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Great opportunity in our School of Data Science and Society for economists in all fields: applied, computational methods, metrics, etc. The "society" part of the school's name is taken seriously at @UNCSDSS, so encourage folks to apply. #EconTwitter
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Welcome back, Tar Heels! Celebrate homecoming by visiting the iconic Wilson Library, which will be open today from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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🚨 Introducing MIRA — a challenging Visual-CoT benchmark that requires multimodal LLMs to draw to think. Even the strongest models (GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, o3) score > 80% on popular benchmarks, yet collapse to < 20% on MIRA, where reasoning demands visual imagination. Text-only
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As the nation’s first public university, #UNC has never been content with simply being first. Every day, Tar Heels take the first steps that lead change across our state, nation and world, shaping a better future for all. First. And For All. https://t.co/xsG76EvLWr
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Going on NOW until 6 p.m.!🕕 Learn more about our online Master of Applied Data Science and our M.S. and Ph.D. in Data Science at the Fall 2025 Virtual NC Graduate, Law & Professional School Fair! 💻Register and join a 1-on-1 or info session: https://t.co/udwRgjpIzK
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🚨 #EMNLP2025 Oral: AI Can’t Actually “See” Videos - New Benchmark Exposes the Truth LVLMs aren’t thinking with video - they’re performing it. What looks like understanding is just visual theater. Introducing GLIMPSE - a benchmark revealing how today’s models fail when
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[EMNLP'25 Oral] GLIMPSE: Do Large Vision-Language Models Truly Think With Videos or Just Glimpse at Them? - aiming-lab/GLIMPSE
🚨 BREAKING: AI Can't Actually See Videos. New benchmark shows mainstream LVLMs barely hit 60% accuracy—while humans reach 94.82%. This isn’t a glitch—it’s a fundamental failure in video understanding. LVLMs are doing visual theater, not real comprehension.
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"Navigating Challenges, Opportunities, and Uncertainties as Women in Data Science" (by Jillian Kunze, in @TheSIAMNews):
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At AN25, an engaging panel session focused on the challenges and opportunities of women in data science professions.
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The University Libraries has named two new permanent curators at the Wilson Special Collections Library! Eileen Dewitya will be Frank Borden Hanes Curator of the Rare Book Collection, and Lisa Gregory will be curator of the North Carolina Collection.
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Eileen Dewitya will be Frank Borden Hanes Curator of the Rare Book Collection and Lisa Gregory will be curator of the North Carolina Collection, effective November 3.
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The interlocking NC logo has represented the people of NC for centuries, a symbol stitched into our history and carried forward by generations of Tar Heels. #UNC continues to lead NC forward through discovery, partnership and opportunity — First. And For All.
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Can't wait to see all parents and families today at Wilson Library's Open House! The Library will be open today from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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"Despite misconceptions that bats are scary or dangerous, they are actually very beneficial to our ecosystems." -Rada Petric, director of Carolina's Highlands Field Site and assistant professor at @UNC_IE. Read more about our work with N.C.'s bats 🦇 https://t.co/AxRTAwzmsL
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Tianlong Chen is giving new life to old tech. The UNC Computer Science researcher is developing a new way to train artificial intelligence models using older graphics cards, also known as GPU, that most people no longer use. https://t.co/21O128LSfJ
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UNC Computer Science researcher Tianlong Chen is developing a new way to train AI models leveraging outdated and cheaper devices.
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The deadline to apply has been extended to Tuesday, Nov. 4:
We are hiring a new Part-time Temp Engineering Research Asst to support transportation safety research through data analysis & applications of statistical methods. Application deadline is Monday, Oct. 27: https://t.co/9YxUPDCpUf
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CAROLINA BIOPHYSICS SYMPOSIUM on November 6-7, 2025 at the Carolina Club @ 150 Stadium Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27514 View website at this link for agenda, speakers and registration https://t.co/SiC64WCwJ4
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An opportunity at one of the best schools of data science! BAM!
We’re recruiting open-rank faculty and teaching assistant professors. Join us to advance research and teaching in methods and applications of data science. 🔗 Apply now: https://t.co/N1OLfp1ntE
#UNC #DataScience #AcademicJobs #HigherEdJobs
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Great opportunities for economics job market candidates at our school of data science. Please share #EconTwitter!
We’re recruiting open-rank faculty and teaching assistant professors. Join us to advance research and teaching in methods and applications of data science. 🔗 Apply now: https://t.co/N1OLfp1ntE
#UNC #DataScience #AcademicJobs #HigherEdJobs
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