To be clear: the paper itself is great. The problem they have correctly identified - that the field of ML/AI is not engaging with measurement theory - is what I'm in despair about. (This problem goes way back, even to the labeling of ImageNet data, which has been shown to have major issues)

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🎓 CONGRATS to @julaluehring.bsky.social on successfully defending her dissertation on socio-affective dynamics in misinformation spread! 👏Thanks to advisors @anniewald.bsky.social, @dgarcia.eu & @hannahmetzler.bsky.social! Jula continues at GESIS as Senior Researcher. All the best for what’s next! 🥂

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Happy to share two (!) new papers on neighbourhood disadvantage, residential mobility and inequality! 🎉 Where you grow up matters, but for how long, and when? Following Swedish children into adulthood, we show that moving compounds the effects of how long and when children live in poorer areas. 🧵

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you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

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The new journal of the @cssociety.bsky.social, TOCSS, is almost out! Website is already alive and working at tocss.cssociety.org We expect to publish an exciting inaugural issue with research papers and perspectives from leading members of the community it by the end of the year, so stay tuned!

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