I've successfully defended my PhD! Check out my talk "Identifying bias in human and machine decisions," covering bias in traffic stops, stop-and-frisk, and pretrial algorithms.

You are choosing between two models to deploy to auto-delete suspected spam emails. "Spam" is the positive class, and 1% of emails are spam. On a representative test set, model A has a higher accuracy while model B has a higher F1 score. Which should you choose?.

RT @madisoncoots: Using lung cancer screening as an extended case study, we unpack these four categories of fairness concerns and discuss p….

RT @mattyglesias: A southern European idea we need to bring to America — bars in playgrounds

RT @2plus2make5: (please retweet) I am taking CS PhD students! If you are interested in ML, data science, health, or inequality, please app….

RT @cleoabram: can I please just have an app to watch fun videos from strangers and an app to see my friends' wedding pics, and not have th….

Who's attending FAccT in person this year? I'd love to get back to in-person conferences but there's no point if everyone is tuning in remotely!.

RT @gini_do: It’s official, we won the Outstanding Paper Award at #AAAI2022! 🤩 I am so incredibly grateful to my co-authors and mentors @sc….

RT @iamwillcai: Paper! with @rosemariesays , Bobbie Chern, @scorbettdavies , @mbogen , @tvr2c , @5harad. We propose a strategy to construct….

RT @EricTopol: The overwhelming evidence for 3rd shot boosters *before* Omicron, reinforced by new data for benefit vs Omicron.1. The rando….

RT @gini_do: Happy to announce our paper “Online certification of preference-based fairness for recommender systems”, accepted to #AAAI2022….

RT @gini_do: Happy to share our paper “Two-sided fairness in rankings via Lorenz dominance”, accepted to #NeurIPS2021 (w/ @scorbettdavies,….

RT @KLdivergence: The type of questions that bask in the nuance of fairness and for which there are no mathematically provably right answer….

RT @2plus2make5: If you are in California, please take the time to vote in the recall election!!! It's important!.

RT @davidshor: Great thread on how advocates are on course to successfully cripple large swathes of social science research by getting rid….

RT @ashishkjha: I finally read this @zeynep piece and it is SO good. There's a lot that drives me crazy about communication in this pandemi….

RT @zacharylipton: Hey all! The @FAccTConference TUTORIAL DEADLINE is FRIDAY (AoE). Submit your amazing tutorials now!..

Please email your resume to scd at if you're interested!.

My team at Facebook is hiring quantitative (stats/econ/cs/social science) and qualitative (law/ethics/policy/UXR/humanities/social science) researchers to study fairness across Facebook's products. Intern and full time positions available. Get in touch!.

RT @CompPolicyLab: We're hosting a two-day, hands-on data science workshop at @Stanford for Bay Area high school students from traditionall….

Are any other US/NZ politics junkies getting Red Peak deja vu from Pete Buttigieg's campaign?.