Jermain Kaminski

NASCAR surprises me as well!

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Recently ran a study on Prolific where we tried our best to counteract AI use (preventing copy & paste, among others). The survey had a dropout rate of almost 50%.

A fantastic opportunity to join us in #Amsterdam for some hardcore #uncertainty in #AI 🦾🚲🌷✖️✖️✖️

#causality #tractable #probabilistic #models #neurosymbolic #imprecise #probabilities #statistical #methods and more

Thank you to Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com , Jermain Kaminski @jermainkaminski.bsky.social, Carla Schmitt, and Beyers Louw for organizing the #CDSM25 event again this year. Well facilitated, great speakers and I loved the 80 minute poster talk sprint! I learned a lot.

⏰ Last chance to register for #CDSM2025!

Don't miss your chance to join us Nov 12–13 for two days of talks & debates at the intersection of causality, data science & AI.

💻 Online | 🎟️ Free
👉 causalscience.org

🎉 The program for this year's Causal Data Science Meeting (#CDSM2025) is now live!
📅 Nov 12–13, 2025 | 💻 Online | 🎟️ Free registration

Join us for two days of talks and debates at the intersection of causality, data science, and AI.
👉 causalscience.org

We live in an age of titans

the causal inference crowd should set up a WeRateDags account

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

That are the long term effects of ZDF Fernsehgarten.

Rankings are always reductive and oversimplified. Except this one that just put us at #1, which is clearly based on rigorous methodology.

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Group photo of postdocs conducting research at a Max Planck Institute

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Python: The Documentary | An origin story This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data science and some of the world’s biggest companies. But Python's future wasn't certain; at one point it almost disappeared. This 90-minute documentary features Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, and they tell the story of Python’s rise, its community-driven evolution, the conflicts that almost tore it apart, and the language’s impact on... well… everything. Thanks to our sponsors for making this documentary possible: Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/ @AnacondaInc. Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/ @Dropbox Meta: https://opensource.fb.com/ @FacebookOpenSource OpenTeams: https://openteams.com/ @openteams PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ @PyCharmIDE Quansight: https://quansight.com/ @quansight And to all the amazing people who are featured: Armin Ronacher, Barry Warsaw, Benjamin Peterson, Brett Cannon, Drew Houston, Guido van Rossum, Jessica McKellar, Ken Manheimer, Lambert Meertens, Lisa Guo, Lisa Roach, Mariatta Wijaya, Paul...

Tomorrow at 5pm UTC Python: The Documentary produced by @cultrepo.bsky.social premieres on YouTube! 🎬🐍

From a side project in Amsterdam to a language shaping the world— discover the story of #Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum & many more!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

We're mostly relying on social media for outreach. So we'd be very grateful if you could share. Thanks! 🙏

Interesting new paper on “A Dozen Challenges in Causality and Causal Inference.” After 30+ years of progress in causal inference, the authors lay out the biggest challenges in current research. Good teaching resource!

@guidoimbens.bsky.social @smaglia.bsky.social

arxiv.org/pdf/2508.170...

Welzer, Harald, et al. “Opa war kein Nazi”: Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust im Familiengedächtnis.

This doesn’t necessarily hold true at the micro level, however. Extensive research demonstrates how German families systematically re-narrated their own family histories and participation in the Nazi regime.

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What was the job to be dome there?

Hands up if you had ‚Urzeitkrebse‘ (YPS) 🤚

Coding county-level data in Virginia is interesting. In Virginia, 38 independent cities are not part of any county and are treated as county-equivalents by the U.S. Census Bureau. Also, South Boston is a VA town.

#FIPS

Our Call for Papers is out ☺️

🚨 Call for Papers: Causal Data Science Meeting 2025
📅 November 12–13, 2025 (Virtual)

📥 Submit by Sept 30: submission@causalscience.org
🎙️ Keynote: Stefan Feuerriegel (LMU Munich)

🌐 More Info and registration: causalscience.org
#CausalML #AI #DataScience #CDSM2025 #CanIPetThatDAG

I cannot overstate how great CDSM is. Please apply to speak at my favorite conf so I can come listen to you at 5A Chicago time 👀 #datasky

A picture of the American Cemetery at Margraten, NL.

Remembering on Liberation Day 🇳🇱. The soldiers at Margraten, NL, many in their 20s and 30s, fought and died for our freedom. Their sacrifice reminds us: freedom has a price, we must always be prepared to defend it.

They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but ... business journals really dress like they’re in witness protection program.

Methods in causal inference. Part 1: causal diagrams and confounding | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core Methods in causal inference. Part 1: causal diagrams and confounding - Volume 6

Here is a nice new one

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Illustration of a computational workflow for cultural evolution that connects abstract theory to real-world data. The arrows indicate logical and computational dependencies among theoretical, statistical, and scientific elements of a project. For example, an effective inferential model depends upon generative models, a question about those models (estimand), and the structure of the available evidence (sample).

Theorist bridge trolls barking at you to formally connect theory to data? Wondering how, without troll magic? We can help! "Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution" With @dominikdeffner.bsky.social @natyfedorova.bsky.social Jeff Andrews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’m excited to announce that you are excited!