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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 3h

🚨Come work with us! 🚨 We're hiring a postdoc for Stanford's AI for Public Benefit Lab (ai4pb.stanford.edu), in partnership with @stanfordhai.bsky.social Open to PhDs from psych, poli sci, sociology, CS, econ, HCI, data science, etc. Please share! Position: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...

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Computational Policy Lab at Harvard Kennedy School @comppolicylab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hiring alert! We have 3 exciting roles open in lab leadership & software engineering. Apply today: 1. Associate Director of Research: careers.harvard.edu/job/associat... 2. Software Engineer: careers.harvard.edu/job/software... 3. Senior Software Engineer: careers.harvard.edu/job/senior-s...

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Sharad Goel @5harad.com · 19/08/2026

📣 Job alert! 📣 Harvard Kennedy School is seeking to hire a senior faculty member who is using technology to address public problems. Please apply by Sep. 15, and help us spread the word! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16670

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In a large field experiment with real students, o3-mini (very obsolete) in an agentic loop made very good exam questions: "we found that this approach achieves psychometric properties on par with those of questions appearing on high-stakes standardized tests." arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08314

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NBER @nber.org · 08/07/2026

Standardized test scores improve predictions of academic performance but matter relatively less for admissions decisions, since few applicants are near the decision threshold, from Johann D. Gaebler, Calvin Isley, Christopher Avery, and Sharad Goel www.nber.org/papers/w35407

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Computational Policy Lab at Harvard Kennedy School @comppolicylab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

📢 Instructors at 2- and 4-year colleges! Give students free access to a virtual tutor optimized for teaching and learning by joining our study—now continuing into Spring 2026. Eligible instructors receive a $1,000 honorarium. Sign up by 12/17 for priority review: pingpong.hks.harvard.edu/eduaccess

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Sharad Goel @5harad.com · 22/11/2025

📣 Job alert! 📣 Harvard Kennedy School is running 2 open-rank faculty searches in technology & public policy. One position is specifically for scholars using data science to address public problems. Please help us spread the word! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15561

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Harvard Kennedy School invites applications for two open rank appointments in technology and public policy. We seek applications from scholars whose research and/or practice focuses on the intersectio...

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Sharad Goel @5harad.com · 14/10/2025

We’re hiring multiple full-time software engineers at @comppolicylab.bsky.social! Our team builds and deploys technology to tackle pressing public problems, in education, the delivery of government benefits, and beyond. Please help us spread the word! careers.harvard.edu/job/software...

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Computational Policy Lab at Harvard Kennedy School @comppolicylab.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Instructors at 2- and 4-year colleges! Give your students free access to a virtual tutor optimized for learning by taking part in our study on using AI to improve education. Instructors receive a $1,000 honorarium. Apps received by 8/8 receive priority: pingpong.hks.harvard.edu/eduaccess

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Computational Policy Lab at Harvard Kennedy School @comppolicylab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

(1/2) Our own Johann Gaebler and @5harad.com, w/coauthors @seanjwestwood.bsky.social & Shanto Iyengar, analyzed 50+ years of US TV news using a novel LLM-based classification system. They find a steep decline in in-depth political coverage & substantive reporting, while soft news & commercials rise.

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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 08/01/2025

NEW in Management Science! My coauthors and I came up with a new consequentialist approach to designing equitable algorithms. Instead of imposing fairness criteria on an algorithm (like equal false negative rates), we aim for good outcomes. More in the 🧵 below! (1/)

A screenshot of the first page of our paper, Learning to Be Fair, showing the title and abstract.

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Madison Coots @madisoncoots.com · 13/12/2024

🚨 Excited to share our new article in @annualreviews.bsky.social. Working with Kristin Linn, @5harad.com, Amol Navathe, and Ravi Parikh, we examine the fairness debates of seven prominent and controversial healthcare algorithms.🧵 madisoncoots.com/files/racial...

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Sharad Goel @5harad.com · 04/12/2024

Using race in medical risk assessments is hotly debated, with some arguing that doing so improves accuracy while others worry it reinforce pernicious attitudes. With @madisoncoots.com and colleagues, we identify a statistical twist that's been largely overlooked. 5harad.com/papers/race-...

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Computational Policy Lab at Harvard Kennedy School @comppolicylab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Calling instructors at 2- and 4-year colleges! Give your students free access to a virtual tutor optimized for learning by taking part in our study on using AI to improve education. Learn more and sign up by Dec. 16: zurl.co/WitA

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Sharad Goel @5harad.com · 21/11/2024

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Sharad Goel @5harad.com · 02/11/2023

Naviance is widely used by high school students to help them decide where to apply to college. In our new PNAS paper, Sabina Tomkins, Josh Grossman, Lindsay Page and I show it can inadvertently dissuade qualified students from applying to selective schools. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Sharad Goel @5harad.com · 01/11/2023

Our paper "The Measure and Mismeasure of Fairness" — long in draft form — is now out in JMLR! We show that common error rate measures are often misleading indicators of algorithmic bias, and argue it's better to evaluate algorithms by looking at their effects. 5harad.com/papers/fair-...

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Sharad Goel @5harad.com · 27/10/2023

Call for papers! Behavioral Science & Policy is running a special issue on behavioral insights for AI policy. Great opportunity to reach policymakers. Initial submissions just require a 500-word abstract by Dec. 1. Please help us get the word out! behavioralpolicy.org/wp-content/u...

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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 06/10/2023

In a new randomized experiment at the Santa Clara County Public Defender Office, my colleagues and I found that text message reminders reduce *incarceration* for missed court dates by over 20%! More in the 🧵 below. alexchohlaswood.com/assets/paper... 1/11

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Sharad Goel @5harad.com · 08/08/2023

We find that Asian American applicants — especially South Asians — are much less likely to be admitted to selective colleges than white students with similar test scores, GPAs, and extracurricular activities. Much of the gap is due to geography and preferential treatment of legacy applicants.

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

New faculty position at the intersection of politics and computing at MIT academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/252…

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