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Excited to be on sabbatical visiting @Yale for the 24-25 academic year! First day in my @yaledatascience office high in Kline tower, overlooking East Rock. Still getting settled, but if you're here and want to chat, hit me up!
Johan Ugander
@jugander
jugander.bsky.social — Associate Professor, Yale Statistics & Data Science. Social networks, social and behavioral data, causal inference, mountains.
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📣Yale social algorithms workshop, Oct 16-17!📣 What's new in content ranking? Content moderation? How can platforms promote civility? Hosted by Yale's Institute for Foundations of Data Science. Great speakers! Submit posters by 9/22! Spread the word! yalefds.swoogo.com/socialalgorith…
yalefds.swoogo.com New Directions in Social Algorithms Research on October 16-17, 2025 at Yale University As social media algorithms increasingly mediate social experiences, there has been a rapid increase in research on the effects of how these algorithms are configured, alternatives to engagement-cen... Now up on HDSR, "The Art of Randomness: Sampling and Chance in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction", a collaboration with @_ziv_e where we examine the stochastic nature of AI tools by connecting to the history of chance aesthetics: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/x5yq8vmk/r… 1/
hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu The Art of Randomness: Sampling and Chance in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction · Issue 6.4, Fall... Apropos nothing at all, I finally got around to ordering the 2022 book Breaking Ranks, by the former president of Reed College who broke with US News in 1995. insidehighered.com/admissions/art…
www.insidehighered.com 'Breaking Ranks' is a new book that attacks 'U.S. News' Sad to be missing the retirement party of renowned optimizer Yinyu Ye next week. quyanlin.github.io/ye/event.html A 2020 article about is remarkable journey to academia: engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/yinyu…