Josh Minot

We're hiring!!! Looking for 3 postdocs & 6 GRAs in support of our Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) grant. 🐙 Please share 🐙 #jobs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">uvm.edu/socks/#jobs

New preprint arxiv.org/abs/2307.08580 w @JoshMinot @compstorylab @mmdatascience! Hiring practices contribute to the gender pay gap. But what about workers' self-representation? Paradoxically, females whose resume language is most different from males achieve greater wage parity!

Advances in Hosiery —A Thread We’ve received a major new $20M award from NSF EPSCoR for the study of stories: “Harnessing the Data Revolution for Vermont: The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS)” UVM’s press release is here: uvm.edu/news/story/uvm…

Computational Social Science Postdoc opportunity with @MichaelAklin, Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, and me! Come study how societal barriers, skills, and labor market conditions will shape a Just Transition for fossil fuel workers! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/… @IC2S2 @netscisociety

"Say their names: Resurgence in the collective attention toward Black victims of fatal police violence following the death of George Floyd" Now published journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

We're so excited about next year's #FAccT23 Conference! Taking place in Chicago, in mid June, the General Chairs are Aziz Huq and Chenhao Tan of U Chicago, and Christina Harrington and Sarah Fox of CMU. @adapperprof @ChenhaoTan For updates see facctconference.org/2023/index.html

👐🏻👐🏻👐🏻Super excited about our big new longitudinal wearables study exploring sleep, mental health, exercise, nature experiences, more🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 We have funding for a PhD student in Complex Systems & Data Science @uvmcomplexity or Biomedical Engineering @uvm_bme, DM for more info.

Hedonometer app for the iPhone! Big thanks to @OttoBerkes for surprising us with this exciting development following his inspired weekend coding effort. apps.apple.com/app/id16417103…

@illegaldaydream More proof that office AC has become too powerful

In case the HVAC system goes rogue and traps you in the stairwell, call this number!

News & Views by @JohnMeluso (@uvmvermont, @uvmcomplexity) nature.com/articles/s4358…

Roboctopus: reassembled 🐙 Great seeing everyone at #ic2s2 this year! Big thanks to the organizers! @IC2S2

Please share: Come to Vermont and do data science for social good! We're hiring a Research Coordinator to help us run an exciting new big study exploring exercise, nature, and therapy for improving health. Apply: uvmjobs.com/postings/54744

Evaluating subgroup disparities in ML shouldn't only be a "fairness" thing. It should be ML/data science best practice in general. If your model performs poorly for some identifiable subgroup, you should probably go fix that, just in the interest of making a better model.

@jasonbaumgartne This would be fantastic! I end up processing monthly files into daily format most of the time. Also daily release frequency would be very helpful.

just processing the news that our paper "The Values Encoded in Machine Learning" has been awarded the best paper at #FAccT22 and absolutely speechless grateful for the team 💜

Please join us for this year's DeepMath conference on the mathematics and science of neural networks! We are putting together a great group of speakers on topics of neuroscience, math, engineering, and bias/fairness

This paper from @JoshMinot won the Best Paper Award at @wassa_ws at #acl2022nlp. It looks at language that characterizes in- and out-groups on Reddit–a question we are always interested in! 📜: aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.1… 4/4

Got some network data and you want a readable summary to share or put in a paper? Behold: the network card. arxiv.org/abs/2206.00026 github.com/network-cards/… - fill-in templates and a Python package.

@ryanjgallag @ChrisDanforth Spin up a notebook real quick and poke around a bit

Isolating non-human activity among 500 million daily messages is more difficult than rocket science or electric cars. Welcome to socio-technical systems & good luck. twitter.com/lizzadwoskin/s…

Techno-solutionism