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Josh Minot

@JoshMinot

data science. NLP. complex systems. pseudorandom nature walks. | fmr. @uvmcomplexity

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Joined October 2011
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We're hiring!!! Looking for 3 postdocs & 6 GRAs in support of our Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) grant. 🐙 Please share 🐙 uvm.edu/socks/#jobs
Vermont EPSCoR's Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) research team is currently recruiting six prospective Ph.D. students for Graduate Research Assistantships and three prospective Postdoctoral Associates based at the University of Vermont (UVM) to begin in Fall 2024. SOCKS is a large, multi-disciplinary effort funded by the National Science Foundation, that revolves around stories as an essential part of how people comprehend, explain, predict, and seek to navigate the world. SOCKS supports the Digital Humanities by developing a powerful approach to quantifying both individual stories and ecologies of stories through massive data collection, natural language processing, and large language models-computer-based encodings of the meaningful connections between words and phrases.

ALT Vermont EPSCoR's Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS) research team is currently recruiting six prospective Ph.D. students for Graduate Research Assistantships and three prospective Postdoctoral Associates based at the University of Vermont (UVM) to begin in Fall 2024. SOCKS is a large, multi-disciplinary effort funded by the National Science Foundation, that revolves around stories as an essential part of how people comprehend, explain, predict, and seek to navigate the world. SOCKS supports the Digital Humanities by developing a powerful approach to quantifying both individual stories and ecologies of stories through massive data collection, natural language processing, and large language models-computer-based encodings of the meaningful connections between words and phrases.

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New preprint arxiv.org/abs/2307.08580 w @JoshMinot @compstorylab @mmdatascience! Hiring practices contribute to the gender pay gap. But what about workers' self-representation? Paradoxically, females whose resume language is most different from males achieve greater wage parity!
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Advances in Hosiery —A Thread We’ve received a major new $20M award from NSF EPSCoR for the study of stories: “Harnessing the Data Revolution for Vermont: The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS)” UVM’s press release is here: uvm.edu/news/story/uvm-earns…
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Computational Social Science Postdoc opportunity with @MichaelAklin, Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, and me! Come study how societal barriers, skills, and labor market conditions will shape a Just Transition for fossil fuel workers! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersect… @IC2S2 @netscisociety
Mapping how workplace skills are bundled together across US occupations. More info here: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aao6030

ALT Mapping how workplace skills are bundled together across US occupations. More info here: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aao6030

Current employment for US fossil fuel workers (purple) does not overlap with the locations of green energy power plants (e.g., solar). More info here: https://sites.pitt.edu/~mrfrank/justTransitionDemo/

ALT Current employment for US fossil fuel workers (purple) does not overlap with the locations of green energy power plants (e.g., solar). More info here: https://sites.pitt.edu/~mrfrank/justTransitionDemo/

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"Say their names: Resurgence in the collective attention toward Black victims of fatal police violence following the death of George Floyd" Now published journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
Fig 2. Attention towards emblematic names of Black Lives Matter. Top) Heatmap time series of the normalized relative frequency of “Black Lives Matter” and “#BlackLivesMatter”. Main) Heatmap time series displaying the normalized attention over time for the top 50 names in the combined database by peak rank. The top 25 names are labeled. Darker colors indicate more attention, where the normalized attention is 1 (black) on the date of peak attention. Dark bands around June 2020 are observed across many of the rows, indicating a resurgence in attention for many of the emblematic names.

ALT Fig 2. Attention towards emblematic names of Black Lives Matter. Top) Heatmap time series of the normalized relative frequency of “Black Lives Matter” and “#BlackLivesMatter”. Main) Heatmap time series displaying the normalized attention over time for the top 50 names in the combined database by peak rank. The top 25 names are labeled. Darker colors indicate more attention, where the normalized attention is 1 (black) on the date of peak attention. Dark bands around June 2020 are observed across many of the rows, indicating a resurgence in attention for many of the emblematic names.

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We're so excited about next year's #FAccT23 Conference! Taking place in Chicago, in mid June, the General Chairs are Aziz Huq and Chenhao Tan of U Chicago, and Christina Harrington and Sarah Fox of CMU. @adapperprof @ChenhaoTan For updates see facctconference.org/2023/ind…
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👐🏻👐🏻👐🏻Super excited about our big new longitudinal wearables study exploring sleep, mental health, exercise, nature experiences, more🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 We have funding for a PhD student in Complex Systems & Data Science @uvmcomplexity or Biomedical Engineering @uvm_bme, DM for more info.
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Hedonometer app for the iPhone! Big thanks to @OttoBerkes for surprising us with this exciting development following his inspired weekend coding effort. apps.apple.com/app/id1641710…
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News & Views by @JohnMeluso (@uvmvermont, @uvmcomplexity) nature.com/articles/s43588-0…
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Roboctopus: reassembled 🐙 Great seeing everyone at #ic2s2 this year! Big thanks to the organizers! @IC2S2
Computational Story Lab (@compstorylab) profile pictureComputational Story Lab@compstorylab25 Jul 2022
Team reunion at the International Conference on Computational Social Science @mrfrank5790 @JoshMinot @MikaelaFudolig @lewis_math @KathrynECramer @Nietzchrodinger
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Please share: Come to Vermont and do data science for social good! We're hiring a Research Coordinator to help us run an exciting new big study exploring exercise, nature, and therapy for improving health. Apply: uvmjobs.com/postings/54744
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Evaluating subgroup disparities in ML shouldn't only be a "fairness" thing. It should be ML/data science best practice in general. If your model performs poorly for some identifiable subgroup, you should probably go fix that, just in the interest of making a better model.
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Please join us for this year's DeepMath conference on the mathematics and science of neural networks! We are putting together a great group of speakers on topics of neuroscience, math, engineering, and bias/fairness
deepmath (@deepmath1) profile picturedeepmath@deepmath117 Jun 2022
The submissions are open for our 2022 DeepMath conference. This is year it will be in person in San Diego ( 17 - 18 Nov, 2022). Deadline for submission is August 1st, 2022 . We are looking forward for great submissions focusing on theory of deep networks deepmath-conference.com/subm…
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This paper from @JoshMinot won the Best Paper Award at @wassa_ws at #acl2022nlp. It looks at language that characterizes in- and out-groups on Reddit–a question we are always interested in! 📜: aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-… 4/4
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Jim Bagrow@bagrow10 Jun 2022
Got some network data and you want a readable summary to share or put in a paper? Behold: the network card. arxiv.org/abs/2206.00026 github.com/network-cards/net… - fill-in templates and a Python package.
Illustration of a three-panel network card

ALT Illustration of a three-panel network card

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Techno-solutionism
@emilymbender.bsky.social (@emilymbender) profile picture@emilymbender.bsky.social@emilymbender7 Jun 2022
Really interesting case study to think about from the perspective of #ethNLP -- and also what linguists can contribute to society. >> theverge.com/2022/6/7/231532…
The linguistics search engine that overturned the federal mask mandate

The linguistics search engine that overturned the federal mask mandate

Linguists worry judges aren’t using it appropriately.

theverge.com
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Scheduling my haircuts based on the second derivative of local wastewater data, like a gentleman.
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"Spatial changes in park visitation at the onset of the pandemic" 🧵 New preprint from our group 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2205.15937 1/9
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Finally, @compstorylab showed just how much the overall sentiment on Twitter dropped after news of the Uvalde shooting spread. Thanks to @ChrisDanforth @peterdodds and team there.
Chart showing a strong dip in negative tone on Twitter following the Uvalde shooting.

ALT Chart showing a strong dip in negative tone on Twitter following the Uvalde shooting.

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WASSA 2026@wassa_ws26 May 2022
Post-@wassa_ws dinner. Thank you all for contributing, discussing, participating! #nlproc #wassa2022
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