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Dean Jennifer Chayes joined Science Friday to discuss her unique path building connections between math, networks and AI with other disciplines to address challenging problems.
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Jennifer Chayes retweeted
When I met Dean @jenniferchayes at UC Berkeley, she greeted me with the kind of energy that's unmistakably New York. Fast moving, warm, direct, already thinking three conversations ahead. She has the rare ability to make you feel like you're the only person in the world while empire. @BerkeleyCDSS
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.@jenniferchayes changes a room before she says a word. A mathematician, computer scientist, and builder of institutions, she meets the world with fierce curiosity and a huge smile. I photographed her at UC Berkeley for New Heroes. @UCBerkeley @BerkeleyCDSS @theNASEM 8e
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Great article on Omar Yaghi, my close collaborator and co-founder of our agentic AI startup:. chemistryworld.com/news/chemistry…
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This is a repost of my original thread about Trump's election, which has since disappeared. This time I am reposting it is a single message.
I feel anxious and saddened by Trump’s election. Years of turmoil and uncertainty await us. I have also come to believe that this is not Trump’s win. It is the Democrats who have lost this election.
This is not because Biden stayed on as a candidate despite his age. It is not because Kamala Harris is not qualified (I believe she’s amply qualified). It is because of Democrats’ campaign. Dems have been losing the American workers and did nothing to regain them in this election.
Dems have ceased to be the workers’ party long ago, owing to their support for digital disruption, globalization, large immigrant flows, and “woke” ideas.
The transformation is really striking, as I have argued before: now it is the highly educated, not manual workers that vote for Democrats, and if the center-left does not become more pro-worker, it and democracy will suffer: project-syndicate.org/commentary/tru…
For a while it looked like Dems could still win elections with support from Silicon Valley, minorities, some portions of organized labor and the professional class in large cities. But this was never a healthy coalition, and even organized labor wasn’t going to remain faithful for long.
This coalition made Dems increasingly alienated from workers and the middle class in much of the country, especially in smaller cities and the South.
The message was loud and clear in 2016, and all of the soul-searching that followed was healthy. It was part of the reason why Biden adopted a pro-worker industrial strategy.
Biden’s economy delivered for the working class in terms of jobs and strengthening the industrial base of the country. Wages at the bottom rose rapidly. Policy started moving towards the views of the American workers on immigration, protectionism, support for unions and public investment.
And yet, I fear that Dem activists and the establishment never fully internalized the woes of the workers and never made enough of an effort to bring them back to the fold. They sounded distant and detached.
My test is the following: if stranded in an unknown city, would a Dem elite (typically a professional or bureaucrat from a coastal city, with postgraduate education) prefer to spend the next four hours talking to an American worker with a high school degree from the Midwest?
Or would he or she prefer to spend it with a professional with postgraduate education from Mexico, China or Indonesia? Or name your country? I asked this question to colleagues and friends, they all think is the latter --- as do I. Most Dem elites are now alienated from American workers.
It seemed at first that Harris-Walz may try to change that, emphasizing bolstering up the middle class and patriotism, in an effort to appeal to the working class deserting the party. A true effort in that direction would have been commendable, and if credible, perhaps win the election.
But at the end, the campaign focused on abortion and other issues appealing to the base. The main effort to broaden the base came from using Liz Cheney to appeal to suburban women --- on abortion.
Of course, abortion is a critical issue. But focusing on it was never going to win the working class, and certainly not the working-class men.
On the economy, Dems can talk about opportunity and jobs (which they need to do). But they never distanced themselves from the Silicon Valley and the global business elite (but ironically, Silicon Valley started leaving them!)
I fear that, now, Trump and Vance’s Republican Party will be the main home for workers, especially manufacturing workers and those in smaller cities.
I am saddened and fearful for the United States, and I am deeply saddened about the Democratic Party --- unless this time it gets the message can truly change.
This is not just essential for the Democratic Party but for US democracy, which needs to refocus more on egalitarianism and voice for everybody, as I have argued recently: project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-… and nytimes.com/2024/07/19/opi…
What is tragic is that Biden’s agenda had started paying off for workers already (and also proving that it was possible to adopt policies that would help workers and disproving the claim that globalization and inequality were acts of nature that could not be influenced).
What is even more tragic is that the Trump-Vance policies are likely going to be for the plutocrats and not for the American workers.
I will write separately on my views of what to expect from Trump’s policies in the next thread and follow that up with another one on what this presidency might mean for the world.
I feel anxious and saddened by Trump’s election. Years of turmoil and uncertainty await us. I have also come to believe that this is not Trump’s win. It is the Democrats who have lost this election.
This is not because Biden stayed on as a candidate despite his age. It is not because Kamala Harris is not qualified (I believe she’s amply qualified). It is because of Democrats’ campaign. Dems have been losing the American workers and did nothing to regain them in this election.
Dems have ceased to be the workers’ party long ago, owing to their support for digital disruption, globalization, large immigrant flows, and “woke” ideas.
The transformation is really striking, as I have argued before: now it is the highly educated, not manual workers that vote for Democrats, and if the center-left does not become more pro-worker, it and democracy will suffer: project-syndicate.org/commentary/tru…
For a while it looked like Dems could still win elections with support from Silicon Valley, minorities, some portions of organized labor and the professional class in large cities. But this was never a healthy coalition, and even organized labor wasn’t going to remain faithful for long.
This coalition made Dems increasingly alienated from workers and the middle class in much of the country, especially in smaller cities and the South.
The message was loud and clear in 2016, and all of the soul-searching that followed was healthy. It was part of the reason why Biden adopted a pro-worker industrial strategy.
Biden’s economy delivered for the working class in terms of jobs and strengthening the industrial base of the country. Wages at the bottom rose rapidly. Policy started moving towards the views of the American workers on immigration, protectionism, support for unions and public investment.
And yet, I fear that Dem activists and the establishment never fully internalized the woes of the workers and never made enough of an effort to bring them back to the fold. They sounded distant and detached.
My test is the following: if stranded in an unknown city, would a Dem elite (typically a professional or bureaucrat from a coastal city, with postgraduate education) prefer to spend the next four hours talking to an American worker with a high school degree from the Midwest?
Or would he or she prefer to spend it with a professional with postgraduate education from Mexico, China or Indonesia? Or name your country? I asked this question to colleagues and friends, they all think is the latter --- as do I. Most Dem elites are now alienated from American workers.
It seemed at first that Harris-Walz may try to change that, emphasizing bolstering up the middle class and patriotism, in an effort to appeal to the working class deserting the party. A true effort in that direction would have been commendable, and if credible, perhaps win the election.
But at the end, the campaign focused on abortion and other issues appealing to the base. The main effort to broaden the base came from using Liz Cheney to appeal to suburban women --- on abortion.
Of course, abortion is a critical issue. But focusing on it was never going to win the working class, and certainly not the working-class men.
On the economy, Dems can talk about opportunity and jobs (which they need to do). But they never distanced themselves from the Silicon Valley and the global business elite (but ironically, Silicon Valley started leaving them!)
I fear that, now, Trump and Vance’s Republican Party will be the main home for workers, especially manufacturing workers and those in smaller cities.
I am saddened and fearful for the United States, and I am deeply saddened about the Democratic Party --- unless this time it gets the message can truly change.
This is not just essential for the Democratic Party but for US democracy, which needs to refocus more on egalitarianism and voice for everybody, as I have argued recently: project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-… and nytimes.com/2024/07/19/opi…
What is tragic is that Biden’s agenda had started paying off for workers already (and also proving that it was possible to adopt policies that would help workers and disproving the claim that globalization and inequality were acts of nature that could not be influenced).
What is even more tragic is that the Trump-Vance policies are likely going to be for the plutocrats and not for the American workers.
I will write separately on my views of what to expect from Trump’s policies in the next thread and follow that up with another one on what this presidency might mean for the world.
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Jennifer Chayes retweeted
UC Berkeley’s undergraduate data science program retained its No. 1 spot in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings! The university also held its No. 2 ranking in computer science at the undergraduate level. 🔗cdss.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkel…
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Jennifer Chayes retweeted
Project Jupyter, a tool launched by researchers at @UCBerkeley and @calstate, is a winner of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Open Science Recognition Challenge! Congrats to @ProjectJupyter, @fperez_org, and others!
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Assistant, Associate and Full Professorships available in AI for Science at UC Berkeley. Join us! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04118
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Jennifer Chayes retweeted
@amermathsoc @TheSIAMNews @maanow Note #SCOTUS explicitly name checks #mathematician Dr. Moon Duchin in the majority opinion. Duchin is one of the organizers of the “Algorithms, Fairness, and Equity” program @mathmoves in fall 2023 #quantitativejustice
NEW: in a major surprise, Supreme Court rules 5-4 that Alabama's congressional map dilutes Black voting strength. This could reverberate to LA, SC and/or GA, forcing creation of 2-4 new Black majority districts and netting Dems 2-4 seats.
Key passages: supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf…
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Computing, Data Science and Society is officially the first new College at UC Berkeley in over 50 years!
UC Berkeley spreads the gospel of data science with new college, free curriculum latimes.com/california/sto…
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Eerily reminiscent of Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
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Jennifer Chayes retweeted
Are you interested in working at the interface of #machinelearning and #climatechange? ⛈️ The BIDMaP Emerging Scholars Program is accepting fellowship applications from recent PhDs in basic science or data science fields. Apply today! bit.ly/3Vt2hnj
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Jennifer Chayes retweeted
"It is imperative to get math education right and not rush a decision that could jeopardize student success and the future STEM workforce," @jenniferchayes & Tsu-Jae King Liu write in @latimes, urging @SBECalifornia to reject a K-12 framework proposal.
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Here’s a video on the new home of #Berkeley Computing, Data Science, and Society, to open in 2025 data.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkel…
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$75M in gifts to Berkeley Computing, Data Science, & Society, including $25M each from Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica. bit.ly/3x52voQ
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I’m thrilled to announce the largest gift in Berkeley’s history, $252M, towards the home of our new division: Computing, Data Science, and Society. The building will house a large fraction of EECS, all of Statistics, the I School, BIDS, DS Education & more news.berkeley.edu/2020/02/29/lar…
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Jennifer Chayes retweeted
We are proud to announce our Distinguished Leader, Mosaic, and Commonwealth Award nominees: Jennifer Chayes, Jackie Glenn, John Landry. Join us on Oct. 3 to celebrate them @jenniferchayes @JackieGlenn_ @leaddog99 bit.ly/2Lqeb0Y
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I'm proud to be a part of Microsoft's significant progress towards gender parity. There's a long way to go, but we can do it together. Join me. seattletimes.com/business/micro… via @seattletimes
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