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We demonstrate RobustiPy's abilities across five simulations and ten high profile examples, including a re-analysis of discrepancies in prior academic work brought to light by @datacolada.bsky.social.

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How reliable is research 🤔? We publish RobustiPy in @cp-patterns.bsky.social: a highly accessible, #GNU-GPL 3.0 #python lib for #robustness analysis and #datascience. It may represent the “next generation” of #modeluncertainty, bringing a range of frontier #statistics methods into one toolkit 📊📈!

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Paper: www.cell.com/patterns/ful... Website: robustipy.github.io GitHub: github.com/RobustiPy/ro...

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Paper: www.cell.com/patterns/ful... Homepage: robustipy.github.io Github: github.com/RobustiPy/ro...

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 10/08/2026

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The GWAS Diversity Monitor is now firing on all cylinders—and running faster than ever🚀⚡! All the relevant GitHub issues have been officially crushed💥✅. A huge thank you to Mingyue and Daniel for the fantastic teamwork that made it happen👏🫶🎉! Take a look: gwasdiversitymonitor.com 🔎🧬

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 06/08/2026

Today at Metrics and Models, Jacob Walker talks about "Computer Vision Research at Google DeepMind"💻👀. Should be good, all welcome! Register via deets on our homepage ⬇️: metrics-and-models.github.io or send a DM for a link. Next up is @pengzell.bsky.social talking about "The Paper Factory" 🏭📝!

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 04/08/2026

We'll shortly be advertising *four* of our doctoral projects for 2027 entry 🎉📢 (stay tuned 👀)! If you have other projects in applied health and social data science that you'd like me to point people towards, let me know! Happy to help amplify, or even form a small colloquium of resharing 🤝❤️💬.

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 25/07/2026

Incredible talk, thanks so much Pat!

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Reposted by Charlie Rahal

Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Feeling deprived of academic talks over the summer? This Thursday I'm presenting new work with @zparolin.bsky.social for the Oxford Metrics & Models seminar. Online talk and all are welcome! 2pm Oxford time, 7am Colorado time. Happy to share the MS Teams link with you. metrics-and-models.github.io

Talk Title: Rags or Riches? Predicting Life Outcomes from the Birth Lottery Across Five High-Income Countries

Abstract: Stratification in life outcomes is a central concern of sociology, but to what extent can adult outcomes be predicted from childhood circumstances? Although decades of research have identified important family and socioeconomic factors associated with mobility and attainment, these models explain only a modest share of individual variation in outcomes. Using harmonized longitudinal data from the Cross-National Equivalent Files (CNEF) and an ensemble of machine-learning models applied to a common set of childhood characteristics, we estimate the predictability of adult outcomes in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and South Korea. Predictability varies substantially across outcomes and national contexts: educational attainment is the most predictable in general, poverty is far more predictable in the U.S. than other countries, and income mobility is substantially less predictable than overall attainment outcomes. In additional analyses with the U.S., adding more variables including race, wealth, and parental incarceration improves predictions only slightly. We further show that predictability captures a distinct dimension of stratification that is not fully captured in other traditional measures of mobility, inequality, and opportunity. Together, these findings provide new insights into where and how the birth lottery most strongly shapes life chances.

Bio: Pat Hastings is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University. He studies parenting, childhood, inequality, and social mobility with quantitative and computational methods.

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Please consider submitting papers which you have which might be relevant, or encourage others in your network to do so. We are particularly interested in papers on Open Science, Knowledge Commons, Civic Technology, Information Equity, but are not in any way limited to this.

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Aaron helped forge the open web—RSS, Creative Commons infrastructure, Reddit, tools for liberating public knowledge, and more. The state made an example of one of the world's brightest architects, and the result was an indictment of how power punishes those who try to make knowledge free.

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CW: suicide. Honoured to be Guest Editing—with @saurabhkhanna.bsky.social—a Special Issue at ACM-TSC in tribute of my intellectual hero, Aaron Swartz, who died by suicide in 2013 at 26 after extreme prosecutorial overreach. While attempting to expand access to knowledge. CfP: tinyurl.com/4znbk4y2.

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The state made an example of one of the world's brightest architects, and the result was a catastrophic indictment of how power punishes those who try to make knowledge free.

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 11/05/2026

Aaron helped forge the open web—RSS, Creative Commons infrastructure, Reddit, tools for liberating public knowledge, more, and all while a child prodigy, teenager and young adult—only to be crushed by a grotesquely disproportionate prosecution that turned an act of positive activism into apocalypse.

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Two weeks left until our Call for Papers closes for the 7th International Conference on Social Computing (ICSC'26). Please do submit your papers! Optional conference proceedings, great keynote speakers, nice conference dinner @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, and more. Details: icsc-conf.github.io!

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 04/05/2026

I do always check this 😅.

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Charlie Rahal @crahal.com · 04/05/2026

Today's pushes bring in some speed efficiencies to our new model uncertainty library which make it approximately **14** times faster! Check it out now at robustipy.github.io; accompanying paper getting published very soon, super jazzed 🎷

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Next key date: Call for Papers closes at 23:59 on May 25th, 2026!

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Some of us are at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social within @oxpop.bsky.social. It also involves organisers from @sociologyoxford.bsky.social and @oii.ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk. Others are based at HKU, SUFE, XJTLU, Linköping, Chicago, Tsinghua, Göttingen, Hangzhou and Leibniz. A wonderful team effort!

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This in addition to all other topics you'd expect at a leading social computing conference; LLMs, large scale network analysis, digital inclusion in the Global South (@pkp.sfu.ca?), science of science, applications to topics such as health, finance, urban systems and education, and more!

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We have special tracks dedicated to Digital and Computational Demography (may be of interest to: @eapsphd.bsky.social/@eaps.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social, @mpidr.bsky.social, @bspsuk.bsky.social, @popassocamerica.bsky.social, @cpc-cg.bsky.social...?)!

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Delighted to be helping chair ICSC '26 🤖. Hosted: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social 🏰 When: Sept ’26 🕰️ Details: CfP live 🎉 Optional proceedings, all welcome. More: icsc-conf.github.io. Please consider sharing your work📜! Kindly help us spread the word, and follow @i-c-s-c.bsky.social for updates📣!

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Some of us are at @oxforddemsci.bsky.social within @oxpop.bsky.social. It also involves organisers from @sociologyoxford.bsky.social and @oii.ox.ac.uk in @socsci.ox.ac.uk. Others are based at HKU, SUFE, XJTLU, Linköping, Chicago, Tsinghua, Göttingen, Hangzhou and Leibniz. A wonderful team effort!

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