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I’m excited to share our new @Nature paper 📝, which provides strong evidence that the walkability of our built environment matters a great deal to our physical activity and health.
Details in thread.🧵
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Tim Althoff
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Tim Althoff
@timalthoff
Jean-Loup Baer Professor @UWCSE seeking to better understand and empower people through data and computation. Recruiting PhD students and Postdocs
- (please reshare) I'm recruiting multiple PhD students and Postdocs @uwcse @uwnlp (bdata.uw.edu). Focus areas incl. psychosocial AI simulation and safety, Human-AI collaboration. PhD: cs.washington.edu/academics/phd/… Postdocs: docs.google.com/document/d/1h4…
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- I'm recruiting PhD students for our @uwcse Behavioral Data Science Group (bdata.uw.edu). Focus areas are deep learning, causal inference, data science and NLP for mental health. Apply here: cs.washington.edu/academics/phd/… @uwdatascience @UW_iSchool @uwdub @uwnlp
- I'm recruiting PhD students for our @uwcse Behavioral Data Science Group (bdata.uw.edu). Focus areas are deep learning, causal inference, data science and NLP for mental health. Apply here: cs.washington.edu/academics/phd/… @uwdatascience @uw_ischool @uwdub @uwnlp
- I'm recruiting PhD students @uwcse @uwnlp (bdata.uw.edu). Focus areas include Human-AI collaboration, language agents, LLM safety & applications to mental health, social sciences, education. Apply here: cs.washington.edu/academics/phd/… @uwdatascience @uw_ischool @uwdub
- I'm thrilled to be joining @uwcse in January 2019! I'll be building a lab to work on data science methods for large-scale traces of human behavior and well-being. Message me if you're thinking about doing a PhD!
- I'm recruiting PhD students for our @uwcse Behavioral Data Science Group (bdata.uw.edu). Focus areas include deep representation learning, NLP, esp. for mental/mobile/public health appl. Apply here: cs.washington.edu/academics/phd/… @uwdatascience @uw_ischool @uwdub @uwnlp
- I'm recruiting PhD students for our @uwcse Behavioral Data Science Group (bdata.uw.edu). Focus areas include deep representation learning, NLP, esp. for mental/mobile/public health. Apply here: cs.washington.edu/academics/phd/… @uwdatascience @uw_ischool @uwdub @uwnlp
- Replying to @timalthoffThe key finding: your city can make you healthier. 🏙️➡️🚶♀️ People who moved from a less walkable city to a more walkable one increased their walking by ~1,100 steps a day, on average. That's about 11 minutes of extra walking without even thinking about it! 👟
- I'm recruiting PhD students for our @uwcse Behavioral Data Science Group (bdata.uw.edu). Focus areas are deep learning, causal inference, data science and NLP for mental health. Apply here: cs.washington.edu/academics/phd/… @uwdatascience @UW_iSchool @uwdub @uwnlp
- Yay! I successfully defended my thesis on "Data Science for Human Well-being". Many big thanks to my committee @jure, @erichorvitz, @jurafsky, Scott Delp and Trevor Hastie.
- Replying to @timalthoffCity planning is a powerful public health tool 🛠️. Investing in sidewalks, parks, and mixed-use zoning is a direct investment in citizens' health, making entire populations healthier. 💚
- Replying to @timalthoffThis effect is symmetric. People moving to NYC from less walkable places gained ~1,400 steps 🗽. People who moved away from NYC lost ~1,400 steps. This "before and after" picture is powerful evidence that the environment is the key driver of physical activity. 🔄