Knowledge Lab develops new big data, machine learning and crowd-sourcing approaches & techniques to comprehend the shape and limits of human understanding
University of Chicago
Joined September 2013
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Out today in @ScienceMagazine: with the amazing Haochuan Cui, Yiling Lin, & @LingfeiWu, we analyzed 3.6 million scientists publishing 1960–2020. The findings reshape a century-old debate about age and scientific creativity.
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Excited to share our @DSI_UChicago new work accepted by ICLR 2026, with the remarkable Siyang Wu, Sida Li, Ari Holtzman @universeinanegg, and @profjamesevans James Evans! Link: lnkd.in/gd9YZNBh A thread (1/n)
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There is a lot of talk about LLM personalities or “personas,” but little systematic comparison. Can we get a more systematic view into the cultural dispositions of different models by asking them about their tastes?
Well, it turns out they pretty much all like the same stuff.
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New in @ScienceMagazine: "Large AI models are cultural and social technologies" Working with brilliant colleagues Henry Farrell, Alison Gopnik, and Cosma Shalizi, we challenge the prevailing narrative about AI models as autonomous agents. science.org/stoken/author-to…
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.@UChicagoCollege students debated the end of the world in the class, “Are We Doomed?" It examined topics ranging from nuclear annihilation to climate change to pandemics, as well as how society should think proactively and take action.
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Our Call for Abstracts has been extended for 1 week. and the Final Deadline for proposals will be March 31, 2024 (AOE)
Read more here: icssi.org/guidelines
Reminder: Call for Applications for ICSSI 2024 closes on March 24. Read the guidelines and apply here: icssi.org/guidelines
Accepted proposals will be notified by April 15 and they will receive instructions for accepting and registering for the conference.
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🔥Download the Science of Science book for FREE🔥
We're VERY excited to make the whole book freely available: dashunwang.com/book/the-scie…
Please help us RT & let everyone know of this resource!
#ScienceOfScience
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if you're interested in helping to bring the book to other languages, please get in touch with us!
As we discussed in our final chapter, the goal is *All* the science of science!
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Great humanitarian mapping event tomorrow with @geodacenter. More details here:
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TODAY, 4pm CST: @SeminaryCoop and @UChicagoPress will host a discussion with Fiona Greenland (former research director of our Past for Sale project) about her new book on Italy’s approach to protecting its cultural artifacts.
Details and RSVP: bit.ly/2O4lsqs
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Ever heard of meta-science?
I interviewed @profjamesevans on:
- how 🧪 science happens
- why small teams do big scientific breakthroughs
- similarities between startups and 🔭 scientific endeavors
- what research shows about the path to success
youtube.com/watch?v=D85hgm5s…
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💥 💥 💥
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
@CT_Bergstrom and I wrote a general-audience book on how to spot and refute misinformation, especially the kind wrapped in data.
Coming Aug. 4th, available here: penguinrandomhouse.com/books…
ALT Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World. A book by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West
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Our paper on human evaluation of interpretability of AI knowledge discovery arxiv.org/abs/2004.06894 @SFResearch @CSL_Illinois @KnowLab, would have been at @acmchi2020 sites.google.com/view/ai4hci…
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What might picture books teach young children about gender? We developed a corpus of 249 popular children's books, quantified the info about gender in them, and estimated who the books are being read to.
New preprint by @CoopBork, @glupyan, @markseidenberg & me
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Social relationships have been hard hit the last few weeks--they facilitate infection and spread disease. In a recent paper with amazing colleagues Linzhuo Li and @LingfeiWu, we kick them while they're down (sorry fellow sociologists) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Announcing:
NSF-sponsored Science of Science Summer School (S4) w/ amazing mentors!!!
When: August 3 - 7, 2020
Where: iSchool, Syracuse University
Cost: Free but apply + $1K fellowships available
Apply by: April 6, 2020
scienceofscience.org/s4/
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Jeremy chatted to Mozilla about the Mozilla Open Source Support program, which helped fund the addition of automated analysis to Exercism. Have a watch!
youtube.com/watch?v=0FzItuT-…
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🚨New preprint 🚨:
"Citations Systematically Misrepresent the Quality and Impact of Research Articles: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Thousands of Citers"
arxiv.org/abs/2002.10033
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New piece with @dashunwang in Fast Company about how to mine failures in business, science, and security for signals of imminent success:
fastcompany.com/90451983/sci…
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Congratulationss to SFI External Prof @BettencourtLuis & everyone at @miurbanchicago for launching the Million Neighbourhoods Map! This open-source database allows #city planners to generate models of the minimum road #network needed to reach every #house:
news.uchicago.edu/tag/millio…
