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Connor T. Jerzak

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Houston Political Science @houstonpolsci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We're hiring in American politics for two positions, 1 Assistant Professor and 1 either Assistant or Associate. See link below for details. careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant or Associate Professor – American Politics - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Political Science Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for two faculty positions in ...
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UT Austin Political Methodology Speaker Series presents: Kevin Esterling (UC RIVERSIDE) "Using Digital Twin Simulation for Synchronous Communication Research: With an Application to the Structured Group Design" THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 12:30 PM BAT 5.108
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Princeton Research Program in Development Economics @princetondevo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Princeton's Research Program in Development Economics (RPDE) is hiring 2 Postdoctoral Research Associates. 12-month appointment, summer 2027 start - no teaching responsibilities! Apply now: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... Questions? → write to rpde@princeton.edu
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Several interesting job openings now at the European Commission Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, including two Quantitative Policy Analysts: one in survey data and one in impact evaluation. recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/vacancies
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
On the UT Austin Gov Department Committee on AI in Graduate Education this year -- if you would like to send along thoughts re: this topic, you may use this anonymous comments portal: connorjerzak.com/feedback
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Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Rochester Political Science is hiring an Assistant Professor in political methodology this year! Please apply!!! Feel free to reach out with any questions. apply.interfolio.com/192333
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
✨ We’re excited to announce the Fall 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Seminars take place every Thursday and are open to all! #AcademicSky #CSS #socsky #sociology
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utgovernment.bsky.social @utgovernment.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We’re excited to welcome three outstanding new faculty members to UT Austin's Department of Government! Gianna Englert joins the department this fall, followed by Justin Melnick and Matthew Conklin in Fall 2027. #UTAustin #Government #Faculty #NewFaculty
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Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Florida State University’s political science department is hiring this year at the junior level in American Politics and Comparative Politics. Applicants for both jobs should have strong substantive and quant methods skills but otherwise the fields are open. The postings should be on ejobs soon.
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Planetary Causal Inference combines satellite data with local studies like RCTs. This fall at UT Austin, join GOV 385L: Causal ML & Earth Observation for Social Science to explore the field. Tuesdays, 8:30–11:30am CT.
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Christina L. Boyd @theclboyd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This book is terrific—incredible new data, amazing and heart wrenching stories, and super timely. Highly recommended to those interested in American politics, political behavior, immigration, and law & society (and beyond).
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utcompsci.bsky.social @utcompsci.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Congratulations to UT Computer Science Ph.D. student Yeonju Ro on being named a 2026 MLCommons ML and Systems Rising Star! Co-advised by Aditya Akella and @atlaswang.bsky.social, Yeonju is also a contributor to UT’s @ldosexpedition.bsky.social and Infra AI Center.
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adeldaoud.bsky.social @adeldaoud.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
One-day workshop at Chalmers on 5 June: Principled Statistics in the Age of AI (PSAI26). Speakers: Xiao-Li Meng (keynote, Harvard), Joshua Bon, Cory McCartan, Fredrik Johansson, Ashkan Panahi. Free, registration by 29 May → jameshbailie.github.io/PSAI26/
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Principled Statistics in the Age of AI
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adeldaoud.bsky.social @adeldaoud.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Postdoc opening at Chalmers / AI and Global Development Lab: Data Science & Statistics. Estimating poverty from satellite imagery of African communities; causal inference and prediction-powered inference for policy evaluation. Deadline 27 May 2026. www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...
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adeldaoud.bsky.social @adeldaoud.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
PhD opening at Chalmers / AI and Global Development Lab: Earth Observation, Data Science, and AI for poverty estimation. Deep learning on Sentinel-2 imagery, benchmarked against Pléiades and Landsat, with AI-explainability. Deadline 13 June 2026. www.chalmers.se/en/about-cha...
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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Omatharv Bharat Vaidya, Connor T. Jerzak, Nhat Ho, Chandrajit Bajaj: Queryable LoRA: Instruction-Regularized Routing Over Shared Low-Rank Update Atoms arxiv.org/abs/2605.08423 arxiv.org/pdf/2605.08423 arxiv.org/html/2605.08423
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Jakob Runge @jakobrunge.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
We’re looking for a managing director for the AI.UP center at the University of Potsdam. AI.UP develops and consults on AI across disciplines and supports interdisciplinary collaboration and grant initiatives. *Permanent position* Deadline: June 28, 2026 Details: causalinferencelab.com/jobs
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Jobs
Current open positions appear here. Managing Director – AI.UP The AI Competence Center (AI.UP) at the University of Potsdam invites applications for a permanent position as a managing director (f/m…
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arXiv cs.CL Computation and Language @cscl-bot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Samuel G. Balter, Ethan Jerzak, Connor T. Jerzak: Multiplication in Multimodal LLMs: Computation with Text, Image, and Audio Inputs arxiv.org/abs/2604.18203 arxiv.org/pdf/2604.18203 arxiv.org/html/2604.18203
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Mike Denly @mikedenly.com · 16/04/2026
Thanks, Ingo! Graham Goff and I have put a lot of work into this package. {DAGassist} can estimate a wide range of models and classify covariate roles after you make your DAG either with {ggdag} or {daggitty}. We hope that the package can make DAG-consistent estimation a little easier for everyone!
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
UT Austin PolMeth Speaker Series: Grad Student Lightning Talks this week! ⚡️ 🗓️ Thurs, Apr 16 @ 12:30pm 📍 Batt 5.108 (Lunch provided!) 🗣️ Rachel Jeon: Activism & Treaty Design 🗣️ Sophia Lander: Tech Innovation in PPPs 🗣️ Allison Verrilli: Policing Federalism & Local Safety
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Danny Hidalgo @dhidalgo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We're hiring a Research Support Associate at MIT Political Science. Work with me, In Song Kim, Rich Nielsen, and Naoki Egami on methods and political economy. Great opportunity for those considering a PhD in the social sciences. One-year position with possible extension.
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Excited to welcome Gengchen Mai to the UT Austin Methods Speaker Series this Thursday, April 2! Talk: “Spatial Representation Learning: What, How, and Why” on latest GeoAI & scientific applications. 🕛 12:00-1:30pm 📍 BAT 5.108 (5th floor Batts Hall), UT Austin campus Join us!
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New grad course at UT Austin this coming Fall (2026); look for this in the catalog -- "Gov 385L: Causal ML & EO for Social Sci"
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Cool workshop upcoming this May -- join if you can. "We take rationality seriously, but should we? Why is a rational agent better in some respect than an irrational one? Is rationality just instrumentally useful, or does it have intrinsic value?" ejerzak.github.io
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Rational for What?
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Join us on Thursday, 29 January, at *13:30 CET for the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Bedoor AlShebli (NYU Abu Dhabi) 🔹 The Science of Science... and its Human Side 🔹 More info: liu.se/en/event/int...
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International Roundtable on Computational Social Science: Bedoor AlShebli
"The science of science... and its human side" Welcome to the International Roundtable on Computational Social Science with Bedoor AlShebli, New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi. The seminar is open to...
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
FastRerandomize unites batched candidate generation, key-only storage & design-respecting inference, while using the SoTA in accelerated computing (T/GPU). That design delivers order‑of‑mag speedups & enables tighter covariate balance in high-dim experiments⇢more precise causal estimates, lower cost
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 07/12/2025
The remains of Gresham castle photographed with a regular camera and how it looks with a LiDar drone camera.
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Calling those looking to get feedback on their quant work📢: Join us at @TexasAM for TexMeth2026 this Feb. Great opportunity to connect with the regional community and showcase your research. The sun will still be strong for those coming from the north!🤝📊☀️ Apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Texas Methods Conference 2026
Please answer the following questions to indicate your interest in attending and/or participating at our conference, which is scheduled to take place on Friday and Saturday, February 20-21, at Texas A...
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Application deadline for UT Austin Gov - PhD admissions is 12/10 this cycle. More information below. I am hearing that the Department will not be shrinking its cohort this admission cycle!
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11-15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by @iasliu.bsky.social ⌛ Deadline for workshop and session proposals: 1 December 2025 More information: liu.se/en/event/eus...
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The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026)
The 8th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2026) will take place on 11–15 August 2026 in Norrköping, Sweden, hosted by the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), Linköping University. The conference brings together scholars and ...
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adeldaoud.bsky.social @adeldaoud.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Looking forward to giving a presentation on the planetary causal inference paradigm at Department of Methodology, LSE, today. Join us if you are around. www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...
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Seminar series
Information about the Department of Methodology seminar series
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LSE Methodology @lsemethodology.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Sign up for this week's Seminar Series with @adeldaoud.bsky.social 💡 21 Nov, 2 - 3pm 🌎Planetary Causal Inference: combining computer vision and earth observation to analyse disparities in health and living conditions among neighbourhoods in Africa, 1990 to date www.eventbrite.com/e/department...
poster that reads 'seminar series, 21 nov 2-3pm, professor adel daoud
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adeldaoud.bsky.social @adeldaoud.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
If you are in the vicinity of Oxford University, join me today at 4 pm for my talk at Nuffield College. Title: "Planetary Causal Inference: combining computer vision and earth observation to..." Link to event details: [Sociology Seminar at Nuffield College](www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...)
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Event - Nuffield College Oxford University
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arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning @cslg-bot.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Markus B. Pettersson, Adel Daoud: Leveraging Compact Satellite Embeddings and Graph Neural Networks for Large-Scale Poverty Mapping arxiv.org/abs/2511.01408 arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01408 arxiv.org/html/2511.01408
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"Counterfactuals. At planetary scale." The Planetary Causal Inference (PCI) book launches soon: planetarycausalinference.org/book-launch/
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Excited to see our PhD student Andrés Cruz (@arcruz0) presenting his work "Sensitivity Bounds for Uncertainty Propagation" at LAPolMeth IX in Viña del Mar, Chile. Catch it during the poster session on Nov 22 (12:45-14:00, Building C). Don't miss this work on uncertainty in quant social science!
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adeldaoud.bsky.social @adeldaoud.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Debiasing ML predictions for causal inference—no new labels needed. We propose Tweedie’s correction to fix shrinkage enabling “one map, many trials.” arxiv.org/abs/2508.01341 #CausalInference #MachineLearning #EarthObservation #PovertyMapping
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Debiasing Machine Learning Predictions for Causal Inference Without Additional Ground Truth Data: "One Map, Many Trials" in Satellite-Driven Poverty Analysis
Machine learning models trained on Earth observation data, such as satellite imagery, have demonstrated significant promise in predicting household-level wealth indices, enabling the creation of high-...
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utgovernment.bsky.social @utgovernment.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🥳 Join us in celebrating @alongcamejones.bsky.social and his legacy with the Policy Agendas Project. Excited to see what @seanmtheriault.bsky.social and Derek Epp do next! 🤟
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adeldaoud.bsky.social @adeldaoud.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
ML wealth maps from space 🛰️ are great, but suffer from "shrinkage" bias, which waters down policy impact results (causal inference). We developed correction methods that fix this bias *without* new data. arxiv.org/abs/2508.01341 #CausalInference #DataForGood #AI #PovertyMapping #EarthObservation
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adeldaoud.bsky.social @adeldaoud.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Are you interested in using earth observation data and deep learning for estimating poverty in Africa, poverty specifically? Then apply to this research engineer position at AI and Global Development Lab. More info about our research at www.aidevlab.org . Deadline is 7th Nov. lnkd.in/ePX7VT-K
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AI & GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT LAB - AI and Global Development Lab
The AI & Global Development Lab fuses AI with Earth Observation to illuminate the causes and consequences of human development across time and space. Our interdisciplinary team, comprising data scient...
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New undergrad course (UT Austin, this spring): Gov 355M - AI & Programming Foundations for Computational Social Science. We'll treat curiosity as our raw material and AI+computation as our foundry - learning how the frontiers of technology can accelerate discovery in the social sciences + beyond.
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Jeff Ziegler @jeffreymziegler.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
A little less than 2 weeks to submit an abstract proposal for PolMeth - Europe. Join us in Dublin this coming May to share your new political science research using cutting edge methods!!
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Carl Henrik Knutsen @chknutsen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Check out the data paper (open access) and the publicly available data: We hope that many people will use it in their research and for other purposes.
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
When on-the-ground data are scarce or outdated, satellites can keep the evidence flowing. Our guide shows how to turn data from satellites into useful causal claims, improving targeting + evaluation, avoiding common issues related to resolution mismatch / leakage / spatial dependence.
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arxiv.stat.ME @arxiv-stat-me.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Connor T. Jerzak, Adel Daoud Remote Auditing: Design-based Tests of Randomization, Selection, and Missingness with Broadly Accessible Satellite Imagery arxiv.org/abs/2510.00128
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arXiv stat.AP Applications @statap-bot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Adel Daoud, Cindy Conlin, Connor T. Jerzak: Chinese vs. World Bank Development Projects: Insights from Earth Observation and Computer Vision on Wealth Gains in Africa, 2002-2013 arxiv.org/abs/2509.25648 arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25648 arxiv.org/html/2509.25648
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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.
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Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science
Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p styl...
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Connor T. Jerzak @jerzakconnor.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Fall schedule for the Political Methodology Seminar Series at the UT Austin Department of Government, AY25-26 is out! Event calendar links here: connorjerzak.com/methods-seri...
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AI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social · 18/03/2025
With a new Multi-Scale Representation Concatenation method, researchers enhance satellite imagery optimization for causal inference in anti-poverty programs by revealing treatment effect heterogeneity across scales, potentially amplifying impacts without extra costs. arxiv.org/abs/2411.02134
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Optimizing Multi-Scale Representations to Detect Effect Heterogeneity Using Earth Observation and Computer Vision: Applications to Two Anti-Poverty RCTs
ArXiv link for Optimizing Multi-Scale Representations to Detect Effect Heterogeneity Using Earth Observation and Computer Vision: Applications to Two Anti-Poverty RCTs
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