Alex V

What happens if you reward social media users with status badges for expressing open-mindedness? Our Polarization Lab’s new working paper sets out to answer this question via an experiment on our “Social Media Accelerator”: osf.io/preprints/soca….

"Knowing when and where you are wrong is key to good decision-making." Super thrilled to share our recent publications in @aistats_conf '24 enhancing trustworthy causal inference and decision-making in high-stakes healthcare scenarios

The Duke Polarization Lab is searching for a Postdoc! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27242 Help us continue developing the Social Media Accelerator described in this new working paper: osf.io/preprints/soca…

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Fan Bu, one of the three new members of our social media committee!

This new paper from researchers at @polarizationlab finds that anonymous cross-party online conversations can reduce political polarization in the U.S. #politicalpolarization #civilconversations nature.com/articles/s4156…

The Polarization Lab at Duke University is searching for a post-doc in computational social science, broadly defined: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25063

Tons of openings in Research Triangle academic stats and biostats this year! @StatSciDuke @DukeBiostats @uncbiostat @uncstor @NCSUStatistics Come join us under sunny blue skies year round!

Jason Xu and Alexander Volfovsky of Statistical Science and David McAdams of @DukeFuqua/@DukeEcon have received @NSF funding to help bridge the gap between statistical modeling of epidemic processes and economic models of human behavior. #NSFstories stat.duke.edu/news/interdisc…

Come work with us at Duke! Deadline November 7, 2022!

Time for my annual posting of PhD programs at the interface of statistics + social science; they can be hard to find, but they exist! Send additions or corrections along! #gid=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… #SocialStatistics

The @polarizationlab is hiring a software engineer to help us continue to build our platform for experimental research on social media. Details/apply here (and thanks!): careers.duke.edu/job/Durham-ANA… learn more about our work at polarizationlab.com

The Polarization Lab is hiring a post-doc! We will also soon be announcing positions for a software engineer and a project manager (to be posted here on Twitter asap). More details on post-doc (and link to apply) here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo?joblist---… #SICSS #SICSS2020 #DataScience

And I caved...