You may have seen this graph in the FT, which claims to show birth rates plunging since the introduction to smartphone. Except it doesn't.
Read my short piece with @debscohen.bsky.social on some of the problems with this graph of juicy cherries!
unherd.com/newsroom/are...
📣 New paper @nathumbehav.nature.com: A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Interesting new paper on AI coding tools and productivity on GitHub. Large gains at the code-writing stage are partly offset by downstream human bottlenecks in code review and deployment.
Link: www.nber.org/papers/w35275
Short story about statistical modeling without causal inference gone badly wrong.
Just head on the news that preschoolers play 15 minutes less on rainy days. The reporting stressed that the research was "associational" and therefore couldn't tell us why.
Huh? 1/
cc @emollick.bsky.social
Computational approaches to media narrative analysis either miss nuanced storytelling patterns through coarse-grained analysis, or require domain-specific taxonomies that limit scalability.
We show joint event and character modeling can address this gap. Details in our #ACL2026 (Main) paper.
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