what's the difference between using a 5 and 2 point scale to rate people? racial bias and income inequality on a large home services labor platform, shows a @nature paper by @tristanbotelho et al

Socio-economic status explains one-third of the racial disparity in top academic achievement while school factors only explain about 1/10th, shows a recent @Nature paper by @Econ_4_Everyone @uditikarna @mslee913 @haruka__uchida & Andrew Simon

I'm so glad that @nature was able to publish this perspective explaining how Indigenous perspectives can enhance our understanding of neuroscience. Congratulations @JudyIlles @Dr_Perreault et al on this important work

Learn more in the awesome @NaturePodcast

Do you ever wonder whether teaching children math in a classroom translates to applied skills? or if those kids that can do applied math would perform well in a classroom setting? A new @nature paper shows that these skills do not translate

@MitoPsychoBio: the first is of mitos :).

Some nice distractions: @nature's picks for the best science images of the month

It's also covered in @NaturePodcast

What do you need to do to get hired as a professor? Research published in @nature describes the regional variations based on 314 policies from 190 academic institutions and 218 policies from 58 government agencies (from 121 countries total)

The paper is accompanied by a great @NatureNV by David Adelani that discusses the technical achievements of the paper as well as some of the challenges

A @nature paper describes AI-based translation technology that outperforms existing systems and extends the range of translatable languages, moving us towards rapid universal translations and improved communication across language barriers

Thanks so much @I_Am_NickBloom for inviting me to be part of this panel with these other excellent speakers!.

Happy new year! What's going to happen in science this year? @NaturePodcast starts the year by discussing the big science events that should happen in 2025:

For those who can't access the link above, here is the link that allows anybody to read the paper:

If you have some time over the holidays, I suggest reading this @nature perspective explaining why "open" AI systems are actually closed, and why that matters

It’s a good night when one of “my” @Nature papers makes science news top 5. Congratulations @ndosenbach @realJoshSiegel et al on your great work!.

And read the actual paper by @vjhofmann @jurafsky et al in @nature here:

This is a paper that showed that while LLMs are becoming less overtly racist, they respond with quite a large bias to text written in other dialects, such as African American English. Read more in the @NatureNV by @sulin_blodgett and @ZeerakTalat

It's always nice to look back over the year, especially in terms of the cool @NatureNV that were published on primary research papers in @Nature this year. My favorite, of course, is August which featured one of "my papers" (see thread)

There's another job opening for an editor with expertise in sustainability, political science, economics, and/or energy at @NatureComms! It's a great team and journal for anybody interested in an editorial career: