Johan Ugander
@jugander
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https://t.co/UdYepCqJnB — Associate Professor, Yale Statistics & Data Science. Social networks, social and behavioral data, causal inference, mountains.
New Haven, CT
Joined April 2009
Excited to be on sabbatical visiting @Yale for the 24-25 academic year! First day in my @yaledatascience office high in Kline tower, overlooking East Rock. Still getting settled, but if you're here and want to chat, hit me up!
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Discover new research on algorithms, trust, and social media at the Social Algorithms Workshop @Yale organized by @jugander with talks by @BrendanNyhan, Mor Naaman, Smitha Milli & more. Register: https://t.co/3nM7czvigi | Enter code sawitonX on last registration page for 25% off.
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There is travel assistance (and free registration) available for PhD students and postdocs presenting posters! Submit by 9/22!
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📣Yale social algorithms workshop, Oct 16-17!📣 What's new in content ranking? Content moderation? How can platforms promote civility? Hosted by Yale's Institute for Foundations of Data Science. Great speakers! Submit posters by 9/22! Spread the word!
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As social media algorithms increasingly mediate social experiences, there has been a rapid increase in research on the effects of how these algorithms are configured, alternatives to engagement-cen...
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@jonathanstray By far the best commentary on this drama. Thank you! Also, the SuperNotes paper is extremely interesting. There are so many awful ideas in the LLMs-for-combatting-misinformation space but this seems really well thought out. https://t.co/XuFVJsdoAa By @actuallysoham,
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X's Community Notes, a crowd-sourced fact-checking system, allows users to annotate potentially misleading posts. Notes rated as helpful by a diverse set of users are prominently displayed below...
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After many conversations with artists and many hours in the art library, this essay is the result. Things also got delightfully weird when we tried to decide how to randomize author order. I'm pretty sure this is the first paper with an author order determined by tarot! 4/4
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When @_ziv_e started as a postdoc at Stanford, I unloaded some of my thoughts on him, and he became super energized by how it aligned with challenges he'd been thinking about in the modern AI art space. See his 2023 collaborative perspective in Science: https://t.co/6zaHGJNWeC 3/
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Understanding shifts in creative work will help guide AI’s impact on the media ecosystem
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This essay was the result of tumbling down a rabbit hole many years ago. Walking the SFMOMA during my first parental leave, infant on my chest, I became mildly obsessed with how Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, and others used randomness in their art. 2/
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Now up on HDSR, "The Art of Randomness: Sampling and Chance in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction", a collaboration with @_ziv_e where we examine the stochastic nature of AI tools by connecting to the history of chance aesthetics: https://t.co/sl2j2o7msm 1/
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The #RankedChoiceVoting Act is a landmark piece of legislation that would institute RCV for all primary and general elections for the U.S. House & Senate.
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The Ranked Choice Voting Act would institute RCV for all primary and general elections for the U.S. House and Senate.
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Apropos nothing at all, I finally got around to ordering the 2022 book Breaking Ranks, by the former president of Reed College who broke with US News in 1995.
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We are hiring at @CornellInfoSci ! Open rank: https://t.co/heilBhgeh6 Cornell is a fantastic place to work, please consider applying and sharing this opportunity.
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I haven't had a chance to read yet, but looks like @StefanWager wrote the causal inference book I've always wanted! https://t.co/8rMD4Z9vVF
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Can we have more control over our social media feeds? Help researchers explore new solutions and receive $20 in compensation if you qualify and complete the study. Take the survey to see if you qualify:
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📣Applications for our @ICERM Workshop on Patterns, Dynamics, and Data in Complex Systems (taking place Jan. 21-24, 2025) are open now at https://t.co/1kJTAXUdIQ 📣. This workshop combines theory, computation, & applications in #pattern formation. We encourage apps by early Oct!
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Stanford Linguistics is hiring!!! We have an open area, open rank faculty position! Apply here:
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Now recruiting @cornell_tech: 6 Urban Innovation Fellows "with a breadth of experience in both the public and private sectors to work directly in NYC government agencies to undertake projects that accelerate technology adoption in city agencies."
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MeToo. Israel-Palestine. Even cat ladies. Stories cueing social identities frequently fill headlines. In a new @AJPSeditor with @ylelkes & S. Wolken “The rise of and demand for identity-oriented media coverage” we offer a partial explanation why. https://t.co/tar22dFztq 🧵/1
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excited to see the physical copy of the book; nervous about the potential errors. Comments are welcome.
I just uploaded the R code and datasets to Harvard Dataverse: https://t.co/zSDEnA2tMO I plan to provide Python code as well but I need to learn Python first.
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