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Emre Kıcıman

@emrekiciman.bsky.social
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causal ml; ai+society; social media, comp social science. having fun.. my opinions. he/him. hci.social/@emrek

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉 Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.
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Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This was accepted to #NeurIPS 🎉🎊 TL;DR Impoverished notions of rigor can have a formative impact on AI work. We argue for a broader conception of what rigorous work should entail & go beyond methodological issues to include epistemic, normative, conceptual, reporting & interpretative considerations
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 08/07/2025
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff. "Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
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‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Very true. In our causal tutorial slides we point at the edges in a DAG and say the edges we included aren’t the assumptions, the edges we deleted are the assumptions. (Never mind nodes!) Having said that, LLMs are a useful tool for brainstorming what might be missing, complementing domain experts
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Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Want to learn more? Check out our paper! written with a fantastic group of coauthors Su Lin Blodgett @amabalayn.bsky.social @angelinawang.bsky.social @841io.bsky.social @fcalmon.bsky.social @mmitchell.bsky.social @md.ekstrandom.net @rdbinns.bsky.social @s010n.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14652 7/7
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Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We have to talk about rigor in AI work and what it should entail. The reality is that impoverished notions of rigor do not only lead to some one-off undesirable outcomes but can have a deeply formative impact on the scientific integrity and quality of both AI research and practice 1/
Print screen of the first page of a paper pre-print titled "Rigor in AI: Doing Rigorous AI Work Requires a Broader, Responsible AI-Informed Conception of Rigor" by Olteanu et al.  Paper abstract: "In AI research and practice, rigor remains largely understood in terms of methodological rigor -- such as whether mathematical, statistical, or computational methods are correctly applied. We argue that this narrow conception of rigor has contributed to the concerns raised by the responsible AI community, including overblown claims about AI capabilities. Our position is that a broader conception of what rigorous AI research and practice should entail is needed. We believe such a conception -- in addition to a more expansive understanding of (1) methodological rigor -- should include aspects related to (2) what background knowledge informs what to work on (epistemic rigor); (3) how disciplinary, community, or personal norms, standards, or beliefs influence the work (normative rigor); (4) how clearly articulated the theoretical constructs under use are (conceptual rigor); (5) what is reported and how (reporting rigor); and (6) how well-supported the inferences from existing evidence are (interpretative rigor). In doing so, we also aim to provide useful language and a framework for much-needed dialogue about the AI community's work by researchers, policymakers, journalists, and other stakeholders."
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 10/05/2025
HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):
A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.
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Microsoft Research @msftresearch.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
In this issue: our CHI 2025 & ICLR 2025 contributions, plus research on causal reasoning & LLMs; countering LLM jailbreak attacks; and how people use AI vs. AI-alone. Also, SVP of Microsoft Health Jim Weinstein talks rural healthcare innovation: msft.it/6013SHuu1
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Gift idea: what do you get for the AI researcher who has everything? 👇
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/04/2025
Tariffs xkcd.com/3073
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Seattle right now
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Looking fwd to discussing career paths next week at the Society of Causal Inference & Online Causal Inference Seminar's joint webinar: Exploring Career Paths in Pharma, Government, and Technology w/Gabriel Loewinger and Natalie Levy Tue Apr 15, 11:30am-12:45pm ET sci-info.org/online-events/
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Online Events – SOCIETY FOR CAUSAL INFERENCE
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Rebekah Tromble @rebekahtromble.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Excellent statement from Nature’s editorial board. The last section on “How to respond” is the most important. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
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Kristina Lerman @kristinalerman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My friends and colleagues at IU are being intimidated for their work on social media’s harmful impacts on civic discourse. Here is why their work is vital. osome.iu.edu/research/blo...
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IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship
When thousands of fake accounts controlled by an unknown actor flood social media with some story, and platform algorithms amplify these messages, real...
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Sharing an announcement from the Society for Causal Inference annual meeting --- they are looking for student volunteers, in exchange for complimentary registration More info: sci-info.org/annual-meeti...
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Annual Meeting Volunteers – SOCIETY FOR CAUSAL INFERENCE
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The abstract deadline for SIGIR's Industry Track is coming up in just a few days, with a final deadline of Feb 27.
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
‘Let me just say this clearly: Robert F Kennedy Jr is not the right person to lead the HHS,’ Parikh...to massive applause. ‘He is not the right person because solving disease, curing disease, addressing health, requires a search for truth, requires science.’ www.chemistryworld.com/news/aaas-le...
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AAAS leadership speaks out against Trump administration’s attacks on science
President of world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society warns that next month could be most important in history of US science
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Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
So I'm a big fan of Claude, and anyone can goof up, but this did make me laugh.
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Microsoft Research @msftresearch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Since its launch two decades ago, Microsoft Research India produced extraordinary innovation in areas from health and education to agriculture and accessibility. Learn about the lab’s track record of technological advances: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
Collage of images from Microsoft Research India.
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Contrastive focus reduplication is such a fun construction. languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/Sal...
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
“Our competitors are loving watching us do this …at the very time when we’re in a global competition that is determined by technological capability. This is certainly not the time when you want to be cutting down on the research acumen of the United States.” www.chronicle.com/article/rese...
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Research Universities Are Poised to Lose Billions Under Trump’s Sudden Cut
The NIH’s decision late Friday to drastically shrink its reimbursement of indirect costs, which help pay for facilities, equipment, and staff to support grants, will have an immediate impact on higher...
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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We should not be allowing non-government employees to waltz in to government offices, and illegally get access to sensitive government and personal data, and get read and write access to critical software systems in multiple government agencies. www.npr.org/2025/02/08/g...
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Federal judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive U.S. Treasury Department material
The case, filed in federal court in New York City, alleges the Trump administration allowed Musk's team access to the Treasury Department's central payment system in violation of federal law.
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Johan Ugander @jugander.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Obama, speaking in October 2016: "Government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. And part of government's job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with." 1/6 youtu.be/BikQFWNYct4?...
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White House Frontiers Conference
YouTube video by The Obama White House
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Miro Dudik @mdudik.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
📣My team at Microsoft Research New York is hiring a senior researcher in AI, both broadly in AI/ML, and in some specific areas including science of deep learning and modular transfer learning. Apply by February 7, 2025 on the link below. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Real world data (RWD) analyses need diverse expertise in medicine/stats/causality. As a result, RWD causal analysis is slow and prone to error. AI tools can help. Perspective in NEJM AI w/Maya Petersen, @amalaa.bsky.social, Chris Holmes, Mark van der Laan ai.nejm.org/stoken/defau...
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Artificial Intelligence–Based Copilots to Generate Causal Evidence
While there is growing consensus that real-world data should play a larger role in generating causal evidence for health care, it is less clear whether and how AI can help. Current approaches to AI...
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Jaime Teevan @teevan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Good news for your end-of-year reading list: We've just released the Microsoft 2024 New Future of Work Report! It's packed with insights on how AI is transforming work. aka.ms/nfw2024 #NewFutureOfWork #NFW2024 #AIResearch #WorkplaceInnovation #GenAI
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Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024 - Microsoft Research
As Microsoft approaches its 50th anniversary, the landscape of work continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace. The past year has marked a pivotal shift, moving from predictions and controlled lab s...
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We've posted the CFP for SIGIR's Industry Track (IR in Practice). Please share and send in your talk and panel proposals! Abstracts due Feb 20, with a final deadline of Feb 27. sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/call-sirip-t...
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SIGIR 2025, Padua, 13-18 July | Call for SIRIP (Industry Track)
SIGIR 2025 Call for SIRIP, Industry Track (deadlines AoE): proposal abstract due February 20, 2025, 2025; proposal due February 27, 2025.
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Our group is looking for Research Interns passionate about improving foundation models and advancing the state of the art in AI applications. We just posted 2 openings on LLM reasoning and to finetuning AI jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Kristina Gligoric @IC2S2 @gligoric.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Check out our new paper on social determinants of on-campus food choice, now out in @pnasnexus.org! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New work analyzing social influence on food choice, led by @gligoric.bsky.social
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Santiago Zanella-Beguelin @xefffffff.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
📢Internships in AI Security & Privacy Our Azure Research team in Cambridge (UK) is looking for PhD or outstanding undergrad/MSc students for internships in 2025. Join us to work on defending against emerging security & privacy threats to AI systems. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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Emre Kıcıman @emrekiciman.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hello folks, I'm a researcher at Microsoft, where my interests span applications of AI, causality, security of AI, and AI's implications for society. Nice to see folks here!
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