Molly Offer-Westort

Research Obsession Day 8: A reminder to meet voters where they are, featuring research by @mollyow.bsky.social on persuading voters on climate.

Plus: why microtargeting ain't all that.

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tagging tagging @leahrosenzweig.bsky.social !

The US Just Changed Vaccine Guidance. Can AI Help Families Decide? Vaccines are among the most impactful global health innovations. They drive major declines in child mortality and prevent an estimated 3.5 to 5 million deaths every year. The golden age of vaccine dev...

My co-author Leah R. Rosenzweig wrote a blog post about a social media experiment we ran on vaccine hesitancy in Kenya and Nigeria www.cgdev.org/blog/us-just...

It does feel like there’s a little fear mongering wrt the power of the terminal, though.

In both my grad and undergrad classes today we went over responsible use of Claude Code with version control, I think this will be an essential feature of workflow for this generation of PhDs.

K. Munger argues that, when an agnostic approach is applied, the goal of prediction is generically impossible. A. Jang, @mollyow.bsky.social, S. Wang & P. M. Aronow situate Munger’s critique in a broader literature and point to ways in which gnosis can facilitate the accumulation of knowledge.

Congratulations Assistant Professor Molly Offer-Westort
(@mollyow.bsky.social) on becoming a 2024 Carnegie Corporation of New York Fellow!

This fellowship will support Molly Offer-Westort in her work to study how social media platforms impact our democracy

The 2024 syllabus for my Advanced topics Causal Inference & Machine Learning course is up!
@uchicago.bsky.social @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social t.co/3P6nO98aVA

Join the Rising Stars in Data Science VIRTUAL INFO SESSION! Date: Wednesday September 6, 2023. Time: 2-3pm CT. Who: Applicants must be full-time graduate students within 1-2 years of obtaining a PhD, or a current postdoctoral scholar, fellow, or researcher. What: Learn more about the program, hear from the Universities, and ask questions of past program participants. The Rising Stars in Data Science workshop, hosted November 13-14 by the University of Chicago in collaboration with the University of California San Diego, focuses on celebrating and fast tracking the careers of exceptional data scientists at a critical inflection point in their career: the transition to postdoctoral scholar, research scientist, industry research position, or tenure track position. Over the first three years of Rising Stars at UChicago, the annual workshop has hosted a total of 91 Rising Stars from nearly 40 institutions.

This is a fantastic opportunity for graduate students working in data science—across a wide range of disciplines. Info session Sept 6.

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Glad to *finally* be here!