Charlie Rahal

It’s that time of year again! 🎓 We’ve got FOUR open doctoral research projects in our group. Please share with anyone who may be interested!👇 🧪 crahal.com/dsu-001.html 🔬 crahal.com/dsu-002.html 🧬 crahal.com/dsu-003.html 💻 crahal.com/dsu-004.html

We started a data science consultancy company to run alongside our academic work. We have a limited amount of time that we can devote to this, but please do get in contact if you think there's anything we can help with! patterns-and-proofs.com

Closing slides from this year’s fabulous 7th International Conference on Social Computing 🎉 Huge thanks to @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social for hosting: this was incredible fun, with fascinating frontier research presented. tinyurl.com/3nask76e See you all next year in Chengdu 🍜🐼📈 !

GPT-6 will have the intelligence to open a bakery instead of doing a PhD

New work \w @sanderwagner.bsky.social and @melindacmills.bsky.social🔬🔭. LLM-based extraction × classification × unstructured REF narratives × large-scale scientometrics 📚. Headline: Women more represented in research underpinning impact than in research output itself 👩‍🔬: arxiv.org/abs/2608.26409

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

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

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

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

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

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

The quote of the year came late, but it’s good: “This is LLM generated nonsense. You make a mockery of real research. Do not submit this again.” If the originator of the quote sees this, you will remain entirely anonymous I assure you, but I want you to know that I appreciate you. Happy holidays!

📖👨‍💻🎓 New Courses Alert 🎓👨‍💻📖 The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science is launching three upcoming short courses designed for researchers across health, economics, and the social sciences. Led by experts in the field — including @crahal.com — these courses are now open for registration.👇

A pleasure to host @philipncohen.com this week for a fantastic talk on pronatalism & many more engaging discussions about open science, public engagment, and more! #demography @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @drjenndowd.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social @crahal.com @ridhikashyap.bsky.social

We're holding brief/extremely informal 15 minute meetings with anyone who is interested in either of these positions, scheduled for 19.11.2025 and 17.11.2025, respectively. Email or DM for more information! Please do share details within your network; I think these projects are pretty cool!

Thrilled to serve as TPC co-chair (/w @chenyang03.bsky.social) for the brilliant International Conference on Social Computing! 🚀 See @i-c-s-c.bsky.social for updates! 📅 Papers: October 20th! 🔗 Full details: icsc-conf.github.io/2025/ Let’s push the frontiers of #CSS, #DataScience, #LLM, and #AI💡✨

🎉Our metrics-and-models.github.io lab announces first hybrid seminar in conjunction with @oxforddemsci.bsky.social🚨 "Nonparametric Causal Decomposition of Group Differences: New Mechanisms & New Methods" Speaker: Felix Elwert When: October 8th, 2025 Where: @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

A paper of ours just got rejected from a leading computer science journal for being ‘too technical’ and for some disturbing reason the inner economist in me is really proud.

The utility of this data resource cannot be understated. Infinite respect to all of the incredibly talented people who worked on it! 😍

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