2022-03-18 11:05:50 @charapod So excited for you, @charapod!! Can't wait to see what you do next! 2022-03-17 20:34:06 I'm partway through reading the latest @NIST report on managing bias in AI and already my neck is starting to ache from the amount of vigorous head nodding I've done. So far, it is really, really good—and covers so much more than bias mitigation. Read it! https://t.co/3yKOqRiVxO 2022-03-16 18:51:25 @_arodriguezca For any job, you can learn a lot from talking to folks who are already there (or have recently left)—people at your level but also more junior and more senior. What were their experiences? How are they being supported? Are they set up for success? What's the culture like? 2022-03-15 14:00:55 My advice for new PhDs deciding on jobs is to trust your gut and pay attention to red flags. I took a job that felt wrong because the market was bad and people I trusted said it was better to take the wrong tenure-track job than none at all. This, for me, was very bad advice. 2022-03-15 13:58:51 2022 marks a decade since I quit a (particularly toxic) tenure-track position and moved to industry. It is no exaggeration to say that in that decade I have never once felt even a momentary hint of regret about that decision—nothing but sheer, unadulterated relief. 2022-03-12 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-17 17:39:13 @mihaela_v Thinking of you all. What a couple of weeks… let me know if there is anything I can do. 2022-01-17 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-11 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-12-27 08:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-12-14 14:59:12 Excited to see this #CHI2022 workshop at the intersection of HCI, AI, ML, psychology, and social science, with a really stellar organization team too! Submissions due Feb 11. https://t.co/eNhbUNCOH7 2021-12-14 14:55:57 @mle_ross @emilymbender @CeciLoge Ooooh yeah, in that case I do not know. 2021-12-14 11:37:04 @emilymbender @mle_ross @CeciLoge (In defense of NeurIPS, we did send out a survey to collect time zone info, several follow-ups to remind people to fill it out, and a final threat that people would be assigned poster sessions in the middle of the night if they didn't respond...) 2021-12-13 17:00:01 @thegautamkamath @thejonullman I agree with the first part, only partially with the last. I've seen too many junior researchers struggle to fill in gaps on their own when I would much rather they stop and ask. It saves a lot of time in the long run and makes me more confident we're on the same page. 2021-12-10 22:35:54 @rajiinio I am so excited to watch! 2021-12-10 22:34:50 @emilymbender @cfiesler Yes, 3pm PT! 2021-12-10 22:33:26 RT @NeurIPSConf: How should ML researchers wrestle with questions of ethics in their own research? Join the #NeurIPS2021 plenary panel on… 2021-12-10 14:57:28 @skoularidou @AiDisability @NeurIPSConf I hope you are doing alright, and I hope you know this is nothing you need to apologize for. 2021-12-10 12:34:16 Happening today! I'm happy to chat about research or whatever is on your mind. Table 8. My @MSFTResearch colleagues @JohnCLangford, @MiroDudik (both at table K), and @le_roux_nicolas (table 7) will also be around to chat. Come say hi! https://t.co/M9GyxrikYs 2021-12-09 21:41:06 RT @haldaume3: The FATE group at @MSFTResearch NYC is hiring a postdoc whose work focuses on the societal implications of AI& … 2021-12-09 11:44:49 We released a preliminary analysis of the #NeurIPS2021 consistency experiment. Highlights: - There was noise in 2014 - Spotlights/orals are especially noisy. Being more selective would make decisions more arbitrary. https://t.co/WvqXyJ4Kkd 2021-12-08 20:33:19 RT @MehrnooshSam: Proud of our team for this impactful project. Use Responsible AI dashboard to build trust in your AI systems. 2021-12-08 16:35:14 Starting in less than 30 minutes! https://t.co/gklpSl66wk https://t.co/bDgXPWwLm6 2021-12-08 16:04:09 RT @NeurIPSConf: Learn about the #NeurIPS2021 consistency experiment that was run this year in our new blog post https://t.co/WVdp7iCLOw 2021-12-08 16:03:38 RT @MiroDudik: One more week to apply for interdisciplinary ML postdoc as well as FATE postdoc @MSFTResearch NYC. The application materials… 2021-12-08 11:24:20 RT @WiMLworkshop: The #WiML board would like to thank the 11 organizers of #WiML2021 for their hard work organizing this year’s workshop!… 2021-12-07 14:27:49 Attending @WiMLworkshop Friday? I'll be hosting a mentorship table on interpretability & https://t.co/5fiTf1g5nb 2021-12-07 13:24:13 @johnjhorton Back when I used to do things like fly in planes, my kids told me I should take more work trips so they could have more of those Delta cookies. 2021-12-07 12:09:47 RT @fpoursabzi: My team is hiring! If you are interested in taking responsible AI to practice in a team that connects research, developm… 2021-12-07 02:31:28 RT @haldaume3: Deadline for applying to the FATE Postdoc position is: December 15! If you're doing cool work on fairness, accountability,… 2021-12-07 00:01:05 RT @hannawallach: ICYMI I'm hiring!!!! 2021-12-06 12:59:04 RT @NeurIPSConf: Welcome to Day 1 of #NeurIPS2021 Today is all about tutorials. Our blog summarises highlights for day 1. https://t.co/kN… 2021-12-06 12:23:10 The ethics review blog post we reference is here: https://t.co/NQRTetuXEI The blog posts summarizing the consistency experiment and the analysis of the NeurIPS paper checklist are coming soon. 2021-12-06 12:21:24 #NeurIPS2021 starts today and I'm so excited! To get an overview of the program and hear about some key changes this year, check out the opening remarks. (No registration needed.) https://t.co/dTjaevrg1J 2021-12-05 00:58:37 RT @o_saja: We (@MSFTResearch Montreal) are looking for amazing new colleagues at different career levels including 1) postdoc & 2021-12-04 16:35:10 RT @rajiinio: It was such a joy to serve as Ethics Review co-chair with Samy Bengio @NeurIPSConf. The scale was ridiculous - over 100 eth… 2021-12-03 23:33:14 It’s been such a rewarding experience working with the amazing @rajiinio and Samy Bengio on this! We have a long way to go as a community but we’re moving in the right direction. https://t.co/Fa8HzfRUxv 2021-12-03 18:23:19 @cfiesler I just had a moment in which I read your tweet, absent-mindedly clicked on the link to see who else was included, and learned that I am on this list too. I also didn't know. 2021-12-03 01:30:43 @jakehofman I tried this tonight and have come back to report that it was an excellent conversation. 2021-12-02 14:28:39 Congratulations, @timnitGebru and team!! You are an inspiration, as always. I'm so excited to see where this leads! https://t.co/H86MYeCNDF 2021-12-02 12:00:28 @lee_redden I've only hung onto my 2005 coffee mug (my first!) and it is faded to the point you can barely read it, but I used it just yesterday. 2021-12-02 00:33:54 @hannawallach I miss you being my regular NeurIPS roommate! 2021-12-01 20:05:31 @yisongyue @NeurIPSConf Oh my goodness, thank you! Though I'm not looking for recognition here, just feeling nostalgic today for that vibe of a gathering at a good hotel bar after a way-too-long poster session. 2021-12-01 19:51:26 There's more to conferences than the technical program. I hope we find ways to connect until we can be in person again. Set up meetings. Send a note. Virtual coffees. Something. It's the people who make the community, not just the research. I don't want to lose that. 8/8 2021-12-01 19:50:35 At the end of busy days, I won't be able to stay up late in the hotel bar catching up with friends. And the new generation won't have the same opportunity to form these academic friendships and critical support network that I have been lucky to have. So. It's bittersweet. 7/n 2021-12-01 19:49:29 I've been reflecting on this as we prepare for the virtual conference next week. It's the culmination of so much hard work by so many people, and I'm excited for the lineup of keynote speakers, panelists, and paper presentations. But of course there's something missing. 6/n 2021-12-01 19:48:47 And being part of this community made me want to give back and try to make it better, more broad, more inclusive. I organized workshops. I served as tutorials chair (twice, in fact), then workshops chair, and now program co-chair. 5/n 2021-12-01 19:48:02 Many of these friendships were with folks outside my research area who I might not otherwise have met. Through them I met more people. Over time, these friendships grew into a support network and gave me a sense that, whatever I was working on, I was part of the community. 4/n 2021-12-01 19:47:13 But more importantly, #NeurIPS is where many of my best academic friendships started. I knew that when I could not take any more of the marathon 4-hour poster sessions, I could walk into the hotel bar and find a table of friends to commiserate and compare experiences with. 3/n 2021-12-01 19:46:37 There are two reasons I've felt most at home at #NeurIPS. One is the vibrancy of the workshops. Smaller and more relaxed than the main conference, I've always felt workshops are where the really innovative ideas are. They've been a consistent source of inspiration to me. 2/n 2021-12-01 19:46:06 I first attended #NeurIPS during the second year of my PhD. I've considered it my home conference ever since. This surprises people because it's not the conference I've published at most and much of the research I've done over the years hasn't been pure ML (or ML at all). 1/n 2021-12-01 02:05:08 RT @yisongyue: Congratulations to the @NeurIPSConf awardees! It was a great pleasure to serve on the Outstanding Paper Award Committee a… 2021-11-24 21:56:06 @Rochelle I'm down to, I believe, two pieces of IKEA furniture in my home, but the Hemnes china cabinet is one of them and I still love it. 2021-11-22 19:31:45 RT @hannawallach: Super exciting news!!!! I'm hiring applied scientists to join my team to kickstart a new initiative on the fairness… 2021-11-22 16:45:23 Video now available for last week's @WHOSTP panel on AI & Honored to be included in this conversation and excited for the work that the @WHOSTP is doing! https://t.co/zUua7R88aq 2021-11-21 12:21:50 RT @hannawallach: OMG after almost 4 years, the "Datasheets for Datasets" paper has finally been published!!!! 2021-11-19 20:17:00 RT @haldaume3: Hey we have this cool paper published that you've probably never heard about before :) :) :) 2021-11-19 01:00:22 RT @lizjosullivan: What an honor to have joined this incredible group of experts on AI and society for @WHOSTP and @mozilla! If you missed… 2021-11-19 00:57:07 OMG! What amazing choices! This makes me so happy!!! https://t.co/5raaGRm3g9 2021-11-18 10:59:52 Happening today at 11am ET if you want to join! https://t.co/TWuHUr0cVe 2021-11-17 20:10:54 RT @criticalneuro: Come work with us! Multiple positions open: 3 Researchers in Reinforcement Learning in NYC, Redmond, & 2021-11-16 21:15:52 Mark your calendar now!! On top of eight keynotes, #NeurIPS2021 will feature three plenary panels: - The Consequences of Massive Scaling in ML - The Role of Benchmarks in the Scientific Progress of ML - How Should an ML Researcher Think about AI Ethics? https://t.co/42m6AUjfVT 2021-11-16 19:02:19 RT @harmankkaur: Running 2 hour long user studies during the pandemic was...quite the experience 2021-11-16 17:57:15 RT @elmelis: Happening now! Come hear about this long-in-the-making paper. This was my first project involving user studies, and boy, did I… 2021-11-16 13:31:49 This looks like a useful read for anyone using crowdsourcing for data collection or human subject experiments. https://t.co/opvcdIGlTf 2021-11-15 13:51:42 Paper is here: https://t.co/uKA0DfVEkL And if you're attending #HCOMP2021, come watch @elmelis present this work Tuesday in Paper Session 2. 7/7 2021-11-15 13:51:10 I would love to see others build on our work and do better. Loop in stakeholders earlier, run longitudinal evaluations—fully center human needs when designing and evaluating explanations for ML predictions. 6/n 2021-11-15 13:50:12 We've been working on this project for a couple years and I'm so excited to get the full paper out there. But there's SO MUCH work to do in this space, and in some ways this paper raises more questions than it answers—both on the technical side and the human-centered side. 5/n 2021-11-15 13:49:33 Since our goal was for these explanations to be meaningful to real people, we evaluated the method through a qualitative user study with ML practitioners. 4/n 2021-11-15 13:49:08 Using the concept of weight of evidence from information theory, we developed a method for generating explanations that adhere to these principles. We showed that this method can be adapted to handle the high-dimensional, multi-class settings encountered in ML. 3/n 2021-11-15 13:48:27 Inspired by the amazing work of @tmiller_unimelb and others, we started by surveying the lit on human explanation in philosophy, cognitive science, and the social sciences. We proposed design principles for machine-generated explanations that are meaningful to humans. 2/n 2021-11-15 13:46:55 This week at #HCOMP2021, @elmelis presents our paper "From Human Explanation to Model Interpretability: A Framework Based on Weight of Evidence" (w/ @harmankkaur, @haldaume3, @hannawallach). We wanted to develop explanations for ML predictions that are meaningful to humans. 1/n 2021-11-12 22:19:15 More information on the full slate of events... https://t.co/6YXpYGY97t 2021-11-12 22:17:13 Looking forward to being part of this discussion next week! It's part of a larger series run by @WHOSTP and open to the public. https://t.co/GZ84WUlLFk 2021-11-11 17:16:40 @haldaume3 We saved it. We're ready! 2021-11-11 16:39:20 Update: We did it! CVS to the rescue! I AM SO THRILLED. 2021-11-10 20:44:45 I was overly optimistic about the NYC school pop-up program. We bailed after 2.5 hours in line when it became clear it would be at least a few more hours. Good thing I kept our back-up pharmacy appointments for tomorrow. The cake will have to wait. 2021-11-10 14:29:21 Want to spend your summer hanging out (virtually) with the FATE group at @MSFTResearch NYC? There's still time to apply... https://t.co/Kd6KgWVeA3 2021-11-09 23:18:02 Impulse-purchased in a rare moment of optimism in anticipation of tomorrow’s pop-up COVID vaccination clinic at the kids’ school. https://t.co/8l8Ohx8neC 2021-11-09 19:07:48 RT @levendowski: I'm super delighted to share that I'll be presenting a workshop at @NeurIPSConf! How Copyright Built Your Datasets (and Wh… 2021-11-09 17:37:13 RT @hannawallach: We're hiring a postdoc! Come work with us! 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 19:50:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-06 18:59:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-04 14:42:17 @MSFTResearch Our FATE postdoc ad is now up too! https://t.co/tkwVSJWCmr 2021-11-04 14:41:00 And ICYMI, we're also looking postdoc whose work bridges machine learning and any of our other focus areas: FATE, computational social science, econ-CS, or AI for systems! https://t.co/ZfV7fyl2nq 2021-11-04 14:38:42 Hooray, hooray, the FATE group at @MSFTResearch NYC is hiring a postdoc! Come work with us! https://t.co/tkwVSJWCmr 2021-11-04 12:23:34 RT @le_roux_nicolas: .@MSFTResearch Montreal is hiring a postdoc in FATE, RL, NLP or general ML. I'll answer any question about the role.… 2021-11-02 17:51:45 RT @WiMLworkshop: 1/ The #WiML Board is excited to announce the new Directory of women in machine learning! Sign up and add a Public Profil… 2021-11-01 19:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 17:30:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-10-14 20:42:41 @alexhanna @AngeleChristin @KLdivergence @m_c_elish @andrewthesmart @hannawallach I love the paper @rajiinio linked! We also have some papers on RAI in industry practice (https://t.co/yP2oDP3bBI, https://t.co/XXDdKpCT63) and a couple more in the pipeline, including one on data documentation like datasheets I could share. Drop me an email if interested. 2021-10-05 17:29:05 RT @NeurIPSConf: We are thrilled to announce an outstanding lineup of keynote speakers for #NeurIPS2021, Registration for the conference is… 2021-08-29 12:04:11 I'm taking a break from social media, starting now. See you in October... 2021-08-24 17:14:47 RT @jay__cunningham: Hey #BlackTwitter! Are you a speaker of language varieties used in some Black/African American communities? At @MSFTRe… 2021-08-23 19:04:47 I had so much fun at this #VLDB2021 round table on Responsible AI w/ @ab_asudeh, @billghowe, @KatieShilton, @haldaume3, @bernease, @gfarnadi, & We chatted about RAI practices, documentation, power imbalances, accountability, and more. https://t.co/qJ6xib3qyd 2021-08-23 00:59:53 @saiphcita @KhouryCollege @jeffbigham @tinaeliassi @LinoCoria @Technolatinas @Matthew_Turk @pnhoward @ctoxtli @DiverseInAI @_LXAI @windx0303 Congrats! So exciting! 2021-08-20 21:02:38 I've had this "5 Levels" episode open in a browser tab for a few days. Finally watched it this afternoon when I needed a little break. SO delightful! This is the kind of thing I want to point family and friends at when they want to know what I do. https://t.co/JQM0SDyYWd 2021-08-20 19:52:52 RT @NeurIPSConf: Excited to announce the #NeurIPS2021 Workshops! https://t.co/LB4WJ0EJDO 2021-08-18 18:54:43 RT @ProfEmilyOster: But I also think it's crucial we collect more data on this (and everything else). As I discussed Monday https://t.co/… 2021-08-16 23:46:48 RT @WiMLworkshop: 1/2 #WiML is considering launching a mentoring program, separate from WiML workshops and events, as a new initiative. You… 2021-08-16 16:20:45 Our family quarantine is over, but it feels like the worst is still to come. It's hard to find words for how exhausted, frustrated, scared, and generally hopeless I feel as a parent heading into the fall. 2021-08-13 21:01:20 @MahsanNourani @MSFTResearch @haldaume3 @s010n @fpoursabzi We'll miss you, @MahsanNourani! That went SO fast!! 2021-08-13 21:00:35 RT @MahsanNourani: Today’s my last day @MSFTResearch FATE team! These 12 weeks felt like a dream & 2021-08-12 21:23:57 @_jessiejsmith_ @MSFTResearch I already miss you!! But I'm not worried because I know you're going to stay in touch! 2021-08-12 21:22:40 RT @_jessiejsmith_: Just gave my final presentation for my internship with the @MSFTResearch FATE team... HOW DID THIS SUMMER GO BY SO FAST… 2021-08-12 16:09:06 Thanks for the support. My husband's fever lingered 4–5 days, but that and other symptoms have now faded. I can't imagine how terrifying this all would be if he were unvaccinated. Kids and I tested negative again yesterday. Too soon to declare victory, but for now we're ok. https://t.co/P59hvsVjyz 2021-08-11 15:15:28 @brianchristian So sorry to hear it. Hope you are all doing alright. 2021-08-11 12:33:28 @kasperskytte Pfizer 2021-08-11 12:03:06 @idmodule I am a Biden supporter and have zero interest in political arguments with strangers, but there were weeks of reporting on the "summer of freedom" and the White House throwing an "independence from the virus" bash leading up to July 4. I didn't see anyone jumping in to correct it. 2021-08-11 11:47:37 @idmodule Most recently I saw this stated in Zeynep Tufecki's recent @nytimes op-ed, though I don't know her sources. https://t.co/W7QjUgP1E5 2021-08-11 11:41:42 @idmodule Everything I've read says the CDC stopped collecting data on breakthrough infections in May with the exception of people who are hospitalized. I would love to be wrong about that, but I saw firsthand they aren't collecting it systematically in NYC. 2021-08-11 00:28:29 @xavysp April 24. 2021-08-10 15:17:52 But I want people to know that breakthrough infections are real. And without collecting the data, we can't know how widespread they are. Let's not pretend that things are normal, because they're not. Please stay safe and give your loved ones an extra hug. [8/8] 2021-08-10 15:17:20 Why am I sharing all of this? Do I want to cast doubt on the efficacy of vaccines? No. I am so grateful that we are vaccinated, that I don't have to worry so much about my husband getting severely ill, that—so far—I've had no symptoms myself. [7/n] 2021-08-10 15:16:35 I'm angry that my kids are missing camp this week, just when things were starting to get a little more normal for them. And I'm angry that once again we are uncertain about what school will look like in the fall. [6/n] 2021-08-10 15:16:12 I'm angry that the government is not collecting data on infection rates among vaccinated people. Nobody bothered to ask if I was vaccinated when I got tested this week. And so nobody knows how common breakthrough infections are. [5/n] 2021-08-10 15:15:40 I'm hopeful we'll get through this, like we've gotten through everything else the world has thrown at us this past year and a half. But I'm also angry. I'm angry at the Biden administration for declaring "independence from the virus" when the Delta variant was out there. [4/n] 2021-08-10 15:15:17 Our whole family is in quarantine again. We're wearing masks in our home. My husband is eating meals on our balcony in the sweltering heat to try to keep us safe. I am vaccinated, but our children are too young. [3/n] 2021-08-10 15:14:42 We both received our vaccines the first week they were available. We wear masks. We've eaten indoors at a restaurant precisely once. We've followed the rules while our kids suffered through a year of uncertainty and loss. It feels so crushingly unfair. But this is Delta. [2/n] 2021-08-10 15:14:04 My fully-vaccinated husband came down with a fever on Friday. On Saturday he tested positive for COVID. The past few days he's had headaches, muscle aches, fatigue, appetite loss, a cough... the whole gamut of COVID symptoms. But it could be worse. [1/n] 2021-08-09 15:30:24 RT @JohnCLangford: We have strong evidence now that the existing virtual conference formats/program/structure are just not as compelling as… 2021-08-07 21:48:36 @heghbalz @openreviewnet https://t.co/L8uJOkMsJt 2021-08-07 21:48:22 @roydanroy https://t.co/L8uJOkMsJt 2021-08-05 20:49:25 @dr_tj @JessicaHullman @AlexKale17 @QVeraLiao Ditto. 2021-08-03 00:40:41 @2plus2make5 Nice view! 2021-08-02 01:16:35 @WiMLworkshop @NeurIPSConf @Boyiliee @mariyaivasileva @linh_trd @MeeraDesai18 @jieyuzhao11 @NanaYaaSally @siri_r @geeticka1 @AmakaOraekwe Congratulations and THANK YOU for doing this important service for the community! Looking forward to #WiML2021. 2021-07-27 20:04:48 RT @nhaghtal: Register to attend WiML-T's career panel and networking event at https://t.co/CzCCdjlF9n! This is part of COLT21(@AssocCompL… 2021-07-27 18:04:24 @michael_muller Ooooh! This is exciting news! I need more information. 2021-07-26 15:36:29 @kdphd @WHOSTP @AlondraNelson46 @geomblog How exciting! Congratulations on the new role! 2021-07-25 17:02:44 @criticalneuro I was recently reading something about women dropping out of academia, pipelines, etc. and I got halfway through before I remembered that oh wait, *I* am on the dropout side of this. I have such a strong self association as an academic that nine years out I still forget I’m not. 2021-07-23 11:37:12 One of those threads where I'm just vigorously nodding my head the whole time I read. (Great advice for interns too!) https://t.co/0FnnEKi3O8 2021-07-22 21:28:56 RT @SurbhiGoel_: Mentorship workshop on grad school, fellowship and academic job applications including tutorials, practice sessions on w… 2021-07-22 18:52:38 RT @CRAtweets: Announcing the 2021 Computing Innovation Fellows https://t.co/0DbTBZ8pV1 2021-07-22 12:48:31 I’d love to hear thoughts on how to make the interactive portions of virtual conferences more lively. What has worked for conferences you’ve attended? Are there ways to inject more energy and make it worthwhile for authors and other attendees to show up? 2021-07-20 12:42:14 @wellingmax Welcome to MSR! 2021-07-20 11:15:44 RT @CyrusRashtchian: Curious about Trends in Machine Learning Theory? Check out our new blog post: https://t.co/Y2pUH3R8FB We cover key ar… 2021-07-19 20:54:28 @rajiinio @black_in_ai Congrats, Deb! Amazing news! Looking forward to seeing what you do next. 2021-07-19 18:10:21 RT @SaleemaAmershi: It's here! Today we launched the #HAXToolkit, practical tools for creating responsible Human-AI eXperiences. https://t.… 2021-07-16 15:58:22 @KLdivergence I should add that 1) it's still super hard, 2) I still don't exercise as much as I should, and 3) this only works at all because I have a super flexible schedule (and many colleagues on the west coast who aren't awake at those times anyway). 2021-07-16 15:50:58 @KLdivergence I've only ever been able to motivate myself to exercise in the morning, so I sneak it in right after school/camp drop-offs. This cuts into work time, but I end up sneaking in work time early mornings or occasionally evenings, so it all kind of works out in some way? 2021-07-15 14:54:53 I do agree that now is a great time to get into interdisciplinary work though! There is so much demand for ML + health, ML + biology, ML + social sciences, and on and on. These are exciting areas and are only going to grow. (3/3) 2021-07-15 14:53:44 I don't want a future in which the only people entering ML are those with the hubris to think they've got it all figured out. I'd rather encourage newcomers who have the patience, grit, and humility to approach an active field with an open mind and willingness to learn. (2/3) 2021-07-15 14:51:32 I've seen several tweets this week suggesting that newcomers stay away from ML research unless they already have a killer idea. Please don't take this advice. Almost no one starts PhD research with a clear idea of what they'll do, and those who do often change directions. (1/3) 2021-07-15 12:24:10 RT @marylgray: What is: the weirdest, obtuse clue offered on Jeopardy? (and I’m so sad my mom passed before she saw this) https://t.co/LTD8… 2021-07-14 13:59:36 @lizbmarquis Back when travel was a thing, I used to use the Sleep Pillow app as a white noise machine substitute on trips. It's not perfect, but for me it was better than nothing. 2021-07-12 18:46:10 RT @SaleemaAmershi: Super excited about our upcoming launch of the #haxtoolkit, a set of tools for creating human-AI experiences with peopl… 2021-07-09 20:02:25 RT @JacquelynKrones: We are hiring in the Office of Responsible AI @Microsoft : Director position for someone with experience in translatin… 2021-07-08 14:42:02 Great opportunity for grad students in human computation and related fields to share their research and network with senior researchers (and each other)! https://t.co/KCef3QXGXh 2021-07-07 23:59:59 Interested in best practices for creating human-centered AI? My amazing colleagues @SaleemaAmershi and @mihaela_v have got you covered. Join their talk, July 21, open to all! https://t.co/RgkNVTurnE 2021-06-25 12:59:15 RT @msbernst: AI research poses major societal risks, but IRBs decline to review most AI research because IRBs evaluate harms to research s… 2021-06-24 17:02:34 @JessicaHullman @MSFTResearch Didn’t realize how prominent he is in this photo when I looked at it quickly on my phone. 2021-06-24 15:26:08 Only 15 months after our scheduled March 2020 move-in date, I am sitting at my desk at the new home of @MSFTResearch NYC! https://t.co/3zY49dXzjP 2021-06-23 18:01:21 RT @luke_stark: Current & 2021-06-21 17:42:02 You still have a few more days to apply to lead a breakout session at the #WiML un-workshop at #ICML2021! https://t.co/m46UqbZkOw 2021-06-20 11:49:45 RT @saiphcita: I'm chair, with David Sarne, of the HCOMP Graduate Consortium Join us for: Industry fellowships from Toloka & 2021-06-18 18:19:16 RT @SaleemaAmershi: We are conducting a paid study to understand the societal impacts of assumptions made in machine learning research. See… 2021-06-18 18:19:13 RT @_jessiejsmith_: Join our research study! We are conducting a paid study on the societal impacts of assumptions in machine learning rese… 2021-06-18 11:26:31 Spread the word! We are conducting a paid study on the societal impacts of assumptions in machine learning research! Looking for ML researchers, ML practitioners, HCI researchers who work with ML, or experts in the implications of ML. Sign up here: https://t.co/hSPhZ9HSEp 2021-06-14 20:15:27 RT @MiroDudik: Participation grants for ICML 2021 are out: https://t.co/CSPCLMfaqM We welcome applications from those who need financial h… 2021-06-09 19:47:28 RT @hmason: There's a moment in most careers where your job turns from "do the work I've been asked to do to a high standard" to "prioritiz… 2021-06-07 12:49:44 Decided Friday to take the family for an impromptu beach weekend mini-vacation during which I did not open a laptop or really think about work at all, and wow, I cannot even express how highly I recommend this. 2021-06-02 21:01:35 @cfiesler I’ve also benefitted a lot from networking with researchers at conferences over drinks. I’ve made lasting friendships this way and it's made me feel more like a part of the community. I'd hate to kill that for the next generation without evidence it would truly make things safer. 2021-06-02 20:54:48 @cfiesler I'm not convinced that banning alcohol would make conferences safer. As others have also brought up, if there’s no alcohol at official events, people will just go drink elsewhere in smaller groups, with less opportunity to gracefully escape from awkward or dangerous situations. 2021-05-28 21:19:33 RT @openreviewnet: OpenReview just smoothly weathered the #NeurIPS2021 deadline today, hardly breaking a sweat. Over 41k sessions, 35k acti… 2021-05-28 14:00:26 "do we want to enact change and be uncomfortable or do we want to remain comfortable, even if it means keeping the world as it is?" https://t.co/P4tHaYNgCy 2021-05-27 21:43:53 I don't think I'm alone in this. But with interactions over video calls and email, when we're all distracted and tired, it's easy to forget the impact our actions have on others. We could all use a reminder to slow down, ask questions, and give everyone the chance to be heard. 2021-05-27 21:43:23 I'm passionate about research and get excited over new ideas, but how good/bad I feel about work on a day-to-day basis is more connected to the quality of my interactions with colleagues. Are they kind? Are they listening to me? Do they value my opinions, even if they disagree? 2021-05-27 16:38:49 @genevievemp Thank you for your bravery. 2021-05-26 01:17:38 This is unequivocally disgusting and unacceptable behavior. I feel nauseous reading this thread. I support the survivors 100% and am grateful for their bravery and sacrifice speaking up. We, the whole computer science community, need to do better. https://t.co/vSX6CzKewl 2021-05-25 17:10:34 RT @SaleemaAmershi: Still a few days left to apply to these positions in #HumanCenteredAI at #MicrosoftResearch. Join our interdisciplinary… 2021-06-25 12:59:15 RT @msbernst: AI research poses major societal risks, but IRBs decline to review most AI research because IRBs evaluate harms to research s… 2021-06-24 17:02:34 @JessicaHullman @MSFTResearch Didn’t realize how prominent he is in this photo when I looked at it quickly on my phone. 2021-06-24 15:26:08 Only 15 months after our scheduled March 2020 move-in date, I am sitting at my desk at the new home of @MSFTResearch NYC! https://t.co/3zY49dXzjP 2021-06-23 18:01:21 RT @luke_stark: Current & 2021-06-21 17:42:02 You still have a few more days to apply to lead a breakout session at the #WiML un-workshop at #ICML2021! https://t.co/m46UqbZkOw 2021-06-20 11:49:45 RT @saiphcita: I'm chair, with David Sarne, of the HCOMP Graduate Consortium Join us for: Industry fellowships from Toloka & 2021-06-18 18:19:16 RT @SaleemaAmershi: We are conducting a paid study to understand the societal impacts of assumptions made in machine learning research. See… 2021-06-18 18:19:13 RT @_jessiejsmith_: Join our research study! We are conducting a paid study on the societal impacts of assumptions in machine learning rese… 2021-06-18 11:26:31 Spread the word! We are conducting a paid study on the societal impacts of assumptions in machine learning research! Looking for ML researchers, ML practitioners, HCI researchers who work with ML, or experts in the implications of ML. Sign up here: https://t.co/hSPhZ9HSEp 2021-06-14 20:15:27 RT @MiroDudik: Participation grants for ICML 2021 are out: https://t.co/CSPCLMfaqM We welcome applications from those who need financial h… 2021-06-09 19:47:28 RT @hmason: There's a moment in most careers where your job turns from "do the work I've been asked to do to a high standard" to "prioritiz… 2021-06-07 12:49:44 Decided Friday to take the family for an impromptu beach weekend mini-vacation during which I did not open a laptop or really think about work at all, and wow, I cannot even express how highly I recommend this. 2021-06-02 21:01:35 @cfiesler I’ve also benefitted a lot from networking with researchers at conferences over drinks. I’ve made lasting friendships this way and it's made me feel more like a part of the community. I'd hate to kill that for the next generation without evidence it would truly make things safer. 2021-06-02 20:54:48 @cfiesler I'm not convinced that banning alcohol would make conferences safer. As others have also brought up, if there’s no alcohol at official events, people will just go drink elsewhere in smaller groups, with less opportunity to gracefully escape from awkward or dangerous situations. 2021-05-28 21:19:33 RT @openreviewnet: OpenReview just smoothly weathered the #NeurIPS2021 deadline today, hardly breaking a sweat. Over 41k sessions, 35k acti… 2021-05-28 14:00:26 "do we want to enact change and be uncomfortable or do we want to remain comfortable, even if it means keeping the world as it is?" https://t.co/P4tHaYNgCy 2021-05-27 21:43:53 I don't think I'm alone in this. But with interactions over video calls and email, when we're all distracted and tired, it's easy to forget the impact our actions have on others. We could all use a reminder to slow down, ask questions, and give everyone the chance to be heard. 2021-05-27 21:43:23 I'm passionate about research and get excited over new ideas, but how good/bad I feel about work on a day-to-day basis is more connected to the quality of my interactions with colleagues. Are they kind? Are they listening to me? Do they value my opinions, even if they disagree? 2021-05-27 16:38:49 @genevievemp Thank you for your bravery. 2021-05-26 01:17:38 This is unequivocally disgusting and unacceptable behavior. I feel nauseous reading this thread. I support the survivors 100% and am grateful for their bravery and sacrifice speaking up. We, the whole computer science community, need to do better. https://t.co/vSX6CzKewl 2021-05-25 17:10:34 RT @SaleemaAmershi: Still a few days left to apply to these positions in #HumanCenteredAI at #MicrosoftResearch. Join our interdisciplinary… 2021-05-24 19:52:11 Ok, I literally shrieked with glee when I heard that @charapod received a @MSFTResearch dissertation grant! Huge congratulations to Chara and all of this year's recipients!!! https://t.co/UvzOvbEK4Y 2021-05-22 14:27:05 RT @harmankkaur: This happened. This has happened before. This will continue to happen unless we make some radical changes. We're all talki… 2021-05-22 12:19:33 RT @michigandaily: “CSE could have done more, had they wanted to The Daily’s second issue of a two part investiga… 2021-05-21 01:30:05 RT @elena_agapie: This is unacceptable. But I wish everyone who shares this article would post about one thing they would do differently in… 2021-05-21 01:27:12 RT @michigandaily: “My experience was a part of a pattern of behavior” The Daily’s first issue of a two part investigation into allegation… 2021-05-19 12:51:24 At @AIESConf? Come by poster session 4/5 to hear about our work "Designing Disaggregated Evaluations of AI Systems: Choices, Considerations, and Tradeoffs" w/ @s010n @AnhongGuo @ecekamar @JacquelynKrones @merrierm @duncanwadsworth @hannawallach #AIES2021 https://t.co/blUuCUDUvN 2021-05-17 15:26:34 @geomblog @WHOSTP @AlondraNelson46 @BrownUniversity @BrownCSDept @Brown_DSI @senykam @UtahSoC Amazing news! Congratulations! 2021-05-15 17:43:51 @jasondeanlee Thanks for raising this issue. I’ve never hit this myself (possibly because I have an account, though it’s not paid) and it wasn’t on my radar. Will bring it up with the @NeurIPSConf organizing committee. 2021-05-14 21:57:04 @avt_im @NeurIPSConf Yes. The CFP has been updated to reflect this. (The rest of the website will be updated shortly.) 2021-05-14 20:28:31 RT @NeurIPSConf: The #NeurIPS2021 paper submission deadline has been extended by 48 hours. The new deadline is Friday, May 28 at 1pm PT (ab… 2021-05-14 17:57:31 Wow, very interested to see #CHI2022 adding a revise & https://t.co/IksLxmLg0a 2021-05-14 12:32:45 RT @nancybaym: I am *so excited* to announce this (public!) @MSFTResearch Race and Tech Lecture Series. 14 lectures in 14 months, together… 2021-05-13 00:16:33 RT @david_sontag: In a first for ML virtual conferences, #UAI2021 early-bird registration is FREE for students. Conference will be July… 2021-05-11 11:28:37 @alexbergel Totally. Parenting is why I can't do evening or weekend conference events. 2021-05-10 17:34:17 RT @MSFTResearch: Today, we're thrilled to accept nominations and proposals for the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship across Asia-Pacific,… 2021-05-10 15:32:41 @nancybaym Yep. I made a genuine effort with NeurIPS last year and managed to pull it off, but it required extreme dedication. I have failed at every other virtual conference. 2021-05-10 15:25:41 I failed to block my calendar for #CHI2021 and have proved once again that I am incapable of attending virtual conferences without marking myself out of office, cancelling all my meetings, and making a serious mental commitment in advance to go all in. How do people do it? 2021-05-05 11:11:11 RT @rajiinio: I'm pretty excited to see mainstream ML conferences like NeurIPS and ICLR incorporating some level of ethical reflection in r… 2021-04-30 21:58:07 @KLdivergence Same (though I've had cats, not dogs). I think it's because pets and kids actively complain when they need something. 2021-04-24 15:33:51 Second dose done! 2021-04-22 20:00:23 RT @ecekamar: We're hiring! Multiple opportunities to join the Human-Centered AI group @MSFTResearch to create #ResponsibleAI experiences a… 2021-04-21 18:12:09 We got the news that my daughter's 2nd grade class is transitioning from hybrid to fully in-person starting Monday. I might start sobbing tears of joy. 2021-04-21 15:47:18 Amazing job opportunities in human-centered AI! Saleema and her colleagues work very closely with the FATE group and I can tell you firsthand they are awesome. https://t.co/qyGpdeSEXo 2021-04-12 22:14:32 RT @MehrnooshSam: I'm co-organizing a workshop on 'Measures and Best Practices for Responsible AI' at #KDD2021. We'd love to see submissio… 2021-04-09 17:42:51 RT @NeurIPSConf: Check out the updates to the reviewing process for NeurIPS 2021! https://t.co/ouxoV0LJiH 2021-04-09 15:37:35 @cfiesler @NSF Super excited to see the research that comes out of this! 2021-04-09 00:21:31 @YashaExplores Absolutely yes. 2021-04-08 21:03:26 @megyoung0 I'm on the fence on the emoji issue myself, but I like your enthusiasm! 2021-04-08 16:04:27 RT @hannawallach: Super excited that our paper on designing disaggregated evaluations was accepted to AIES!!!!!!! https://t.co/QXc9ZKdnCb 2021-04-08 14:08:18 Joint work with @s010n, @AnhongGuo, @ecekamar, @JacquelynKrones, @merrierm, @duncanwadsworth, @hannawallach 2021-04-08 14:05:40 Assessing AI systems for performance disparities between groups is harder than it seems. In new work to appear at #AIES2021, we dig into the choices that must be made when designing disaggregated evaluations, and the impact of these choices. Draft here: https://t.co/0KRk59005o 2021-04-08 13:24:12 @kgajos The GPT-3 paper has the most extensive "broader impacts" section I've seen. https://t.co/He1sRc7Q5F I dug around for other examples a few months back and didn't come up with very much. 2021-04-08 01:14:04 RT @NeurIPSConf: Announcing the NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks Track! https://t.co/XQNDxh8Vkh 2021-04-05 20:00:32 RT @CRAtweets: CRA/CCC Announces CIFellows 2021 Program https://t.co/4vsvULrWVm 2021-04-03 18:55:44 One shot down, one to go! I can’t stop smiling today. 2021-03-30 12:07:28 Yesterday I saw my (fully vaccinated) parents for the first time since 2019, and this morning I booked an appointment for my own vaccine! I'd forgotten what it's like to feel hopeful. 2021-03-29 17:58:30 @lisaegede @cmuhcii Hooray! Well deserved and so exciting!!! 2021-03-29 17:57:49 RT @lisaegede: Grad school update: I'm super excited to be joining @cmuhcii this Fall! Let the PhD journey begin 2021-03-28 12:58:08 Bookmarking this thread to dig through in detail later. Many good suggestions to improve the ML review process buried in there. Please add yours! https://t.co/qOduB8O5X3 2021-03-28 12:47:23 RT @WiMLworkshop: Do you know women for whom it would mean the world to attend #AISTATS2021? #WiML is giving 10 @aistats_conf registrations… 2021-03-27 11:23:13 RT @hannawallach: This is a great opportunity!!! https://t.co/tVNQP9fEwl 2021-03-27 11:22:37 @roydanroy NeurIPS will have a rolling discussion period this year, which is intended to give authors a chance to answer questions. https://t.co/RLbnvIrHzZ 2021-03-26 20:09:49 RT @emilymbender: This looks excellent -- and I'm particularly impressed with this innovation, meant to get people thinking about these que… 2021-03-26 20:09:42 RT @mmitchell_ai: "...authors should be rewarded, rather than punished, for being up front about the limitations and potential negative soc… 2021-03-26 15:27:47 RT @NeurIPSConf: Introducing the NeurIPS 2021 Paper Checklist! https://t.co/SjMkX6JMVR 2021-03-24 13:00:09 Second, big tech companies already have millions of customers, so there is immediate opportunity for large-scale user impact if that's what you choose to prioritize. It's true there's more red tape and more stakeholders giving input, but the opportunity for impact is there. 2/2 2021-03-24 12:59:02 Interesting thread, though I disagree with two points on "big tech" research labs. First, there is a huge spectrum in terms of how much time folks spend on academic publishing vs. product impact, and impact (on product, the research community, society) is always valued most. 1/2 https://t.co/hc54kFDPh0 2021-03-22 19:06:07 Great team behind this conference! Very interested to see where this leads! https://t.co/fLYnIadrqv 2021-03-22 16:01:31 @dianarycai @thegautamkamath That's correct! We will clarify. 2021-03-19 19:59:56 @syardi Yes. This is a huge problem outside of academia too. 2021-03-19 12:34:22 Amazing opportunity to support and amplify women in the ML community, challenge yourself in new ways, and make some friends for life. Deadline today! https://t.co/wPMNynt7Iw 2021-03-18 21:07:37 @ProfJenNeville @MSFTResearch Welcome to MSR!! 2021-03-16 23:45:41 RT @jakehofman: attn nyc undergrads: applications are open for this year's (virtual) data science summer school at @MSFTResearch nyc! appl… 2021-03-10 01:13:52 Ok, I confess! I failed to block time on my calendar to properly experience #facct2021 live and now I’m hiding from Twitter so the FOMO doesn’t overwhelm me! Virtual conferences are hard. Missing the community, wishing I could be catching up with folks over dinner right now. 2021-03-05 20:06:03 @alexijielu Welcome to MSR! 2021-03-05 14:58:36 @erichorvitz @MSFTResearch Yes, AND, in many cases, have stepped up to accomplish super-human feats on a daily basis in spite of that. 2021-03-05 13:31:49 We had another week or so in the office in NYC, but this anniversary has been hitting me HARD. https://t.co/8puQKjkrdj 2021-03-02 02:01:45 Key dates posted for #NeurIPS2021! Paper submission deadline: May 26 (Abstracts May 19) Full CFP coming soon! https://t.co/FP0RJNQR65 2021-03-01 13:37:08 @skelterjohn Goodness, no, there were two of us but it still destroyed me. I can't even begin to fathom what this pandemic must be like for parents who are on their own. 2021-03-01 12:10:21 This time last year I was debating whether to cancel a work trip to Seattle, planning a 40th birthday party that would never happen, and anticipating 2 nights away with my husband that were replaced by a 115-day streak with no outside childcare. I'm tired. I miss normal life. 2021-02-22 17:58:27 @ruchowdh Very interested to see MS or PhD in HCI preferred for an RAI research director role. I’d love to see this catch on across industry. The RAI projects I’ve worked on that I’m most excited about have all been in collaboration with HCI researchers. 2021-02-20 19:36:59 @david_m_huber @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai I’ve collaborated with Timnit. It was a great experience and I learned a lot from her. 2021-02-20 15:54:14 I'm struggling to make sense of what is happening at Google. I keep thinking I must be missing some key piece of the story because it just doesn't add up. But I know that @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai will land on their feet and come out of this stronger. 2/2 2021-02-20 15:53:26 As a researcher in responsible AI in industry, I have enormous respect and admiration for @timnitGebru, @mmitchell_ai, and their colleagues—for asking important questions, the diverse team they've built, and their perseverance in pushing for impact (e.g., with model cards). 1/2 2021-02-19 22:56:53 @MarzyehGhassemi @DrLukeOR @zakkohane @alan_karthi @hannawallach Ooooh, looking forward to reading! 2021-02-19 22:22:51 @mmitchell_ai I'm so sorry, though also positive you will have plenty of opportunities open to you and will land in a better, more supportive position. 2021-02-19 13:20:28 @sameer_ @kdphd Since I read your paper I've been using the snow heuristic to distinguish huskies from wolves when I come across them in my neighborhood and it's pretty accurate most of the year. 2021-02-18 19:05:39 So exciting to see the Error Analysis toolkit go live! Congrats on the amazing work on responsible AI, @besanushi, @ecekamar, @MehrnooshSam, @erichorvitz, and all! https://t.co/XQevFye2sn 2021-02-17 19:03:42 @luke_stark This was the sentence that bothered me most. And I didn't find that jab particularly subtle. (Yes, just getting to this article, I'm a few days late!) 2021-02-17 14:37:18 I tend to do my paper reading in batches too—usually when I'm in the process of starting new projects or revisiting/refining my agenda. (But then I also rely heavily on collaborators and colleagues to clue me in when there's relevant work I should know about.) https://t.co/hs6U5tQHPI 2021-02-16 23:03:25 @fabulousQian @sigchi @SaleemaAmershi Congratulations!!! So well deserved! 2021-02-15 18:40:44 RT @sarahookr: Yesterday, I ended up in a debate where the position was "algorithmic bias is a data problem". I thought this had already b… 2021-02-15 14:51:03 @karen_ec_levy I did something like this back in September and it was amazing. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to make it happen again but it’s hard to find a good time and it’s somewhat harder to plan in the dead of winter. 2021-02-15 14:38:13 I am really, really tired. We are heading into February break in this already erratic school year and all I want in the world is a few hours in which nobody speaks to me. 2021-02-12 14:30:02 @gzervas I flat out refuse to edit in a browser. If collaborators insist on overleaf, I access it through git and pretend it’s just a normal repository. 2021-02-12 01:15:49 RT @kgajos: Today Dr. @jennwvaughan joined @HarvardHCI for tea. We discussed the challenges and joys of developing ethical AI practices for… 2021-02-11 01:13:49 One of the things I've been most grateful for during the pandemic is having supportive colleagues who get that there's more to life than work, that people have responsibilities outside their jobs, and that number of hours worked is not a particularly useful measure of anything. 2021-02-10 23:05:21 RT @let4all: The schedule for our mentorship workshop is now available on https://t.co/uzeQJtteGC. The program is in two sessions that will… 2021-02-06 18:19:47 While I appreciate that the @nytimes devoted a full section to how brutal the past year has been for moms, these articles always make me want to scream out to defend my ultra-supportive husband and other dads like him. This is unsustainable for all of us. 2021-02-05 13:48:26 The past month I've aggressively said no to meetings and put that time into wrapping up lingering old projects. It has been everything I dreamed it could be. After spending summer/fall in back-to-back calls broken up only by extra pandemic childcare, I can't do it anymore. 2021-02-05 11:28:51 @Carthica @OregonState Wow! Congratulations!! I'm so excited for you. 2021-02-04 14:21:44 I've been on both sides of this—though my own personal style is more hyper-productivity + doom and gloom—and it's completely true. https://t.co/WLCbgC0jgw 2021-02-03 01:06:29 @FILWD As an introvert I'm getting anxious just thinking about this. I already feel internal pressure to talk more than I'd like in meetings without my speaking being measured and on display. 2021-02-02 12:31:49 My first conference talk was at ALT 2006. I showed up terrified, mumbled through, and did not speak to anybody. How badly do I wish there were dedicated community builders organizing awesome events like this back then!? Students and postdocs in learning theory, check this out! https://t.co/Q7YxoENbRb 2021-02-01 21:06:24 RT @MSFTResearch: Give your dissertation a boost with a grant from Microsoft Research. Students in their fourth year and beyond looking to… 2021-01-29 20:39:07 Ooooh! Bookmarking for later. https://t.co/rTYhnSlv5U 2021-01-27 16:53:03 RT @MSFTResearch: The 2021 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship recognizes innovative, promising early-career professors exploring high-im… 2021-01-27 14:21:36 RT @WiMLworkshop: *** WiML is hiring a full-time Operations Administrator *** The ideal candidate will be passionate about our mission and… 2021-01-25 18:03:33 The #CHI2021 version of "Manipulating and Measuring Model Interpretability," led by @fpoursabzi, is now up on arxiv! Summary (of both the paper itself and my warm fuzzy feelings about the paper) can be found in the thread below. https://t.co/lfLW3EbHQf https://t.co/9RPRRpYqY3 2021-01-24 12:46:35 @LeonDerczynski @JamesONeil21 @ani_nenkova I wasn’t invited, but things may have changed. 2021-01-24 01:49:25 @JamesONeil21 @ani_nenkova I published a survey paper in JMLR a few years back. 2021-01-14 23:28:25 @snchancellor I'll take all of the above! 2021-01-14 22:10:04 @MiroDudik @bneyshabur For the HCI community, @merrierm put together nice guidelines for writing a rebuttal. I haven't seen anything similar targeted at the ML community. https://t.co/hyejlp7AmP 2021-01-14 20:39:36 RT @_pmkr: Invitation to doctoral students studying tech ethics, fairness, accountability, law, justice, history, pedagogy, etc. The deadli… 2021-01-14 16:47:36 @pfau @hannawallach Yes! I found the whole Navigating Broader Impacts workshop super valuable. But I'm still looking for more good examples of excellent statements! 2021-01-14 16:25:40 I'd like to collect some examples of well done #NeurIPS broader impact statements—ideally examples in which the authors clearly laid out assumptions and limitations of their work and how these might play out in practice. Please send them my way, and feel free to plug your own. 2021-01-13 14:01:35 I’d love to hear solid proposals for how these problems can be mitigated on the reviewing side, especially when finding appropriate reviewers for work that doesn’t neatly fit into existing patterns is an extra challenge. 2021-01-13 13:53:04 Interesting thread, resonates with me. In my experience it’s easy to get a paper accepted if it fits neatly into some line of work and is amenable to writing in a way that fits the mold. I’ve had much more trouble publishing work that’s interdisciplinary/can’t neatly fit a mold. https://t.co/CpNkVGhxdW 2021-01-12 01:25:45 RT @merrierm: There is a PostDoc role in #HCI, #Accessibility, and/or #MixedReality at @MSFTResearch Redmond - apply by Feb 1 for full cons… 2021-01-11 14:42:26 Reminding myself daily of the crushing weight of existing projects that need to be wrapped up or that I've already committed 50% of my time this year to a service role or that I still don't have full, reliable childcare doesn't stop the FOMO. Saying no is HARD. 2021-01-11 14:42:08 I thought I would eventually reach a career stage at which I stopped feeling debilitating FOMO at the thought of saying no to exciting new projects/collaborations I know full well I have zero capacity to take on. 2021-01-11 00:46:26 Met at a prospective PhD student visit weekend (same day I met my husband). But cemented our friendship in the ladies’ room of a bar in Whistler, December 2005. https://t.co/GENKfTVP7W 2021-01-08 20:13:36 THAT WAS SO FUN! Super impressed by the volume of insightful questions from the @nyuaischool students! You know how to keep a speaker on her toes. https://t.co/skVHhBtowc 2021-01-06 01:09:35 @mihaela_v Of course. This made me literally laugh out loud. 2021-01-03 01:05:03 I’ve spent the last week and a half eating yummy food, playing old super nintendo games with my daughters, watching netflix with my husband, making the occasional outdoor excursion, and catching up on some sleep. It has been utterly phenomenal and I loved every minute of it. 2020-12-31 21:00:42 I realize New Years is a social construct, we still have far to go, the world won't magically change overnight, etc. But you guys, I have never been so excited to see a year END. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Wishing you all a healthy, happy, and perhaps eventually more normal 2021. 2020-12-24 16:01:28 “think of 1 person from an underrepresented group at your workplace, and champion their work: advocate for their ideas, praise them to leadership at your company, or recommend them for an interesting, high-impact work project.” Great thread with lots of actionable advice. https://t.co/XvVlkga00B 2020-12-22 23:05:31 This was one of the best papers I’ve read this year and I couldn’t stop nodding my head as I read it. Thread. https://t.co/WPdIWUdrgN 2020-12-20 18:14:46 Of course I stand behind the sentiment of this message. The devil's in the details, as they say. We shouldn't underestimate the amount of hard work and action it will take to change the ML/AI community. But the opportunity is there if we collectively decide to take it. https://t.co/onIdwZTwQI 2020-12-17 13:11:56 Help us spread the word! @mihaela_v, Rich Caruana, and I are looking for a *virtual* summer intern with experience in visualization + machine learning interpretability. Still time to apply! We'll be reviewing applications through early January. https://t.co/1HK3tGoFJc 2020-12-15 18:01:09 @pennockd @krave @steve_lawrence Congratulations! That's amazing! 2020-12-14 15:29:41 This was the first project I worked on in the space of interpretable machine learning and ended up inspiring a major thread of my research. I'm so excited it will have a home at #CHI2021. You can find the pre-print here: https://t.co/BIyW3bwjWH 6/6 2020-12-14 15:27:20 Among other things, we find that increased transparency into model internals doesn't encourage people to follow the model more in cases when they should, and can reduce people’s ability to detect when the model makes a sizable mistake, seemingly due to information overload. 5/6 2020-12-14 15:26:55 What is or is not "interpretable" should be defined by user behavior, not by what appeals to a researcher's intuition. So to understand interpretability, we directly manipulate and measure the influence that different factors have on people’s abilities to complete tasks. 4/6 2020-12-14 15:26:04 In this work, we view ML interpretability as a latent property that can be influenced by different manipulable factors (e.g., number of features in a model) and that impacts different measurable outcomes (e.g., a user's ability to catch when the model makes a mistake). 3/6 2020-12-14 15:25:34 For me, for several years, that project has been "Manipulating and Measuring Model Interpretability," led by @fpoursabzi and joint with @dggoldst, @jakehofman, and @hannawallach. So I'm beyond thrilled that this work has been (conditionally) accepted to #CHI2021. 2/6 2020-12-14 15:24:53 Sometimes there's that one project you just love, the one you go to first when someone asks what you're working on, the one you find a way to mention in every talk you give, the one you believe in deeply regardless of what any reviewer or skeptic might say. 1/6 2020-12-12 23:09:29 Having made it through six straight days of virtual #NeurIPS, I'm surprised to say I actually kind of... liked it? There's no substitute for catching up with old friends in person, but it was a lovely reminder that our community is still out there and going strong. 2020-12-12 19:44:25 @zacharylipton @tommmitchell @FinaleDoshi That was fun! Thanks for organizing. 2020-12-12 19:43:46 RT @AlexKale17: Wonderful talk! Jenn’s call to involve HCI/psych folks in ML interpretability has me feeling inspired to do some research i… 2020-12-12 16:40:56 In case you just woke up, talk starting in 20 minutes. https://t.co/UoENRnbNxs 2020-12-12 14:28:48 RT @hannawallach: Thread summarizing my talk! https://t.co/n380BfckXq 2020-12-12 12:12:03 I'll also be hanging out at parts of the workshop on Navigating the Broader Impacts of AI Research. Especially excited for @hannawallach's keynote and the (much needed!) panel on ethical oversight in peer review that follows. Schedule: https://t.co/T8rSRGaDnl 2020-12-12 12:04:55 Last day of #NeurIPS! I'll speak about intelligibility in the HAMLETS workshop. Talk at 5pm UTC/noon ET/ 9am PT (but pre-recorded so you can watch now). Live panel discussion at 6:25pm UTC/1:25pm ET/10:25am PT. Talk: https://t.co/klNW7skIP6 Schedule: https://t.co/oVmZoNMozB 2020-12-11 16:09:59 RT @dkaushik96: Hope to see you all tomorrow @ #NeurIPS2020 HAMLETS workshop starting 8:15AM PT with talks from @tommmitchell @jennwvaughan… 2020-12-11 15:32:46 I'm hanging out at the #NeurIPS2020 @ResistanceAI workshop this morning. Excited for the opportunity to listen, learn something new, and reflect on our values as a community. https://t.co/8uKc5RzDcv 2020-12-10 15:39:22 Looking forward to watching this! https://t.co/XKu2eLQCqX 2020-12-10 01:52:01 RT @MSFTResearch: Don't miss tomorrow's live chat at 9 AM PT at our booth w/ @besanushi, @hannawallach, @jennwvaughan, @katjahofmann & 2020-12-09 19:21:00 RT @EmmaBrunskill: I'm excited to be joining @jennwvaughan at mentoring table #22 #WIML2020 at #NeurIPS2020 in about an hour! https://t.co/… 2020-12-09 14:44:20 @KLdivergence I self-identify as a NeurIPS person and I have never in my whole career worked on anything related to deep learning. 2020-12-08 19:47:24 Well. This made me smile more than a typical "keynote"—and feel some of that sense of community I've been missing with the virtual #NeurIPS2020 format. I may not agree with every detail, but I love the attempt to include diverse perspectives in this important conversation. https://t.co/X9Igy7KRWQ 2020-12-08 15:38:33 Attending #WiML2020? Come say hello! I'll be hanging out with @EmmaBrunskill at mentoring table #22 chatting about research in fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in AI. Happening Wednesday, 8:30-10pm UTC / 3:30-5pm ET / 12:30-2pm PT https://t.co/4FllU6v9yn 2020-12-08 01:50:43 My favorite part of #NeurIPS is catching up with old friends over drinks in hotel bars followed by long, drawn-out dinners. Ducking out mid-tutorial to cook and put my kids to bed is somehow not the same experience. 2020-12-07 14:38:59 RT @timnitGebru: The Black in AI workshop is happening now. https://t.co/is8DDPo7M2 2020-12-07 00:35:55 RT @DaniCMBelg: One of my favourite highlights of @NeurIPSConf is @black_in_ai workshop. I remember being overwhelmed by this great communi… 2020-12-06 12:48:57 Hope to see you Wednesday! https://t.co/FAKb9DqBIF 2020-12-04 18:29:10 RT @WiMLworkshop: Dr. Timnit Gebru (@timnitGebru)’s technical contributions to our field have been hugely impactful & 2020-12-04 16:39:16 RT @AJLUnited: "Achievement and acclaim, @timnitGebru @jovialjoy @rajiinio have learned many times over, do not provide immunity to racism… 2020-12-04 16:14:42 In case you missed it, my #TrustworthyML seminar talk on intelligibility throughout the machine learning life cycle is now up on youtube. https://t.co/30q8CPUaaY 2020-12-03 19:57:18 RT @math_rachel: I have long admired @timnitGebru for her brilliance, moral courage, clear voice in speaking up for what is right, & 2020-12-03 15:48:42 I don’t know the details of this story, but I know @timnitGebru has always been a force of nature driving change in the ML community and in responsible AI practice. I'm grateful for her research contributions, community leadership, and tireless efforts to do the right thing. https://t.co/53jQYHfjoA 2020-12-03 12:19:47 @timnitGebru Thinking of you, Timnit, and hope you are doing ok. This is a big loss for Google. 2020-12-03 01:57:19 If I were a student starting on a PhD right now, this would be my dream position—important topics, widely applicable methods, and a terrific mentor. https://t.co/oUpyJFDt9V 2020-12-02 20:20:14 RT @JohnCLangford: Ivan Stelmakh created a post (https://t.co/B9Q2e5YyGg ) about experiments undertaken around the ICML 2020 review process… 2020-12-02 14:36:47 RT @sebnowozin: Advance deep learning research with us: We are hiring full time senior researchers in deep learning at Microsoft Research C… 2020-12-02 14:33:14 We've recently learned that 2021 internships will be virtual. More info on that, including contact information for queries on eligibility, is here. https://t.co/ryR1UYmsaU 2020-12-02 14:30:16 @sarahibrahimi_ @MSFTResearch On a typical year, the answer would be absolutely yes! This year things are complicated because of additional restrictions around virtual internships. More info, including contact info for specific queries, is here: https://t.co/ryR1UYmsaU 2020-12-02 12:20:59 We're still accepting applications for @MSFTResearch FATE internships! The deadline is rolling, but sooner is better for full consideration. https://t.co/LIOK6OZBIu 2020-12-01 16:26:41 @AnhongGuo @Forbes @ForbesUnder30 Amazing! Congratulations! 2020-11-30 01:22:45 RT @trustworthy_ml: 1/ Registration is now open for Dr. Jenn Wortman Vaughan’s @jennwvaughan TrustML seminar on “Intelligibility Througho… 2020-11-28 23:21:27 @mihaela_v The other work travel activity I miss most and think about surprisingly often is sitting at the sushi bar at Japonessa in Bellevue with @hannawallach at the end of an exhausting day every time we go to Redmond. 2020-11-28 23:17:23 @mihaela_v Having cocktails in a (preferably fancy) hotel lobby is my favorite part of work travel and also one of the things I miss most. 2020-11-28 01:22:55 So excited for this talk next week and the Q& 2020-11-26 12:23:15 The #NeurIPS2020 team has done an impressive job organizing a virtual conference of this scale. I've skipped other virtual conferences because it's all so overwhelming, but plan to give NeurIPS a shot. Who has had a successful virtual conference experience? What's your secret? https://t.co/s27A0sPKAx 2020-11-25 13:41:10 @DrVeronikaCH @cazencott @ml4science @ANUmedia @uni_tue I'm so curious now! What was this talk on? 2020-11-23 19:47:32 @_jessiejsmith_ @MSFTResearch @s010n @sulin_blodgett @katecrawford @haldaume3 @mmadaio @o_saja @hannawallach Rolling, but I expect we'll start looking through applications in early December. 2020-11-20 18:12:16 @laurenfklein "Beezus and Ramona" and the rest of the Ramona Quimby series—as enjoyable (and nostalgic) for parents as for kids. 2020-11-20 16:41:06 RT @hima_lakkaraju: We are organizing a panel discussion/Q& 2020-11-20 01:51:23 RT @merrierm: It's #chi2021 rebuttal time - time to share my guide for #HCI rebuttal writing - good luck, all! https://t.co/0NyzZWwIqm 2020-11-19 18:08:45 @tdietterich The evidence is messy, but at least in NYC, there has been regular testing in schools and the numbers are low. 2020-11-19 14:37:16 @blkzoomer @MSFTResearch Quoting the website: Rolling submissions November 2, 2020 – January 1, 2021 Early submissions are strongly encouraged. 2020-11-19 14:32:02 Throughout the pandemic, I've felt a consistent sense of NYC pride and solidarity. The decision to shutter elementary schools (which evidence shows are relatively safe) while still allowing indoor dining (which evidence shows is not) is kind of killing that. 2020-11-19 12:21:33 RT @david_sontag: Applications NOW OPEN for MIT's undergraduate summer research program, which seeks to increase the # of underrepresented… 2020-11-18 11:16:10 RT @black_in_ai: Are you ready for this year's speakers? They include Professors, Artists, Startup Founders working on machine learning and… 2020-11-17 18:22:33 @UpolEhsan @ishtiaqueSIA @MSFTResearch @s010n @sulin_blodgett @katecrawford @haldaume3 @mmadaio @o_saja @hannawallach We are still waiting for official guidance on this. 2020-11-17 17:24:35 The FATE group at @MSFTResearch NYC is hiring research interns! Come work with me, @s010n, @sulin_blodgett, @katecrawford, @haldaume3, Miro Dudik, @mmadaio, @o_saja, and @hannawallach in an interdisciplinary and collaborative research environment. https://t.co/JNPn8aODXF 2020-11-17 02:11:05 @mlbaluja Yes! 2020-11-16 18:22:57 @AN92_tweets Tagging @xkianteb, one of the organizers. 2020-11-16 14:12:49 The NYU AI School is a FREE week-long winter school on AI and ML open to undergrads from any major—programming experience helpful but not required. There will be hands-on labs and introductory lectures. I will speak on Responsible AI. Check it out! https://t.co/rq64MtCYJf 2020-11-16 00:49:39 @zacharylipton Some colleagues and I have some new work in this space that I'd love to run by you once we have a public version—we tried very hard to get concrete about this. 2020-11-14 14:57:45 @the_goose_20 @mihaela_v Unfortunately I can’t give you an official answer on that as we are still awaiting guidance on how COVID restrictions will impact internships this year. 2020-11-14 12:49:20 @sAliAlavi @MSFTResearch As far as I know, all interns must be currently enrolled in a program. Most MSR interns are currently enrolled PhD candidates. 2020-11-13 19:33:56 RT @_canwill: This internship opened a lot of doors for me. I had amazing mentors: @Martez_Mott & 2001-01-01 01:01:01