We just launched a new project tracking public attitudes to higher ed. First report is out: we find the public trusts universities and opposes funding cuts, but worries about tuition costs and free speech on campus. With @davidlazer.bsky.social, M. Baum, J. Druckman, & M. Santillana edbarometer.org

Happy to release the first report from the American Higher Education Barometer (edbarometer.org), a 50 state survey re opinion on higher education. Key takeaways: 1) Generally, people see a universities as important to various high priority domains (economic growth, health, etc)

Video of our conversation at ICA's special anniversary session on Generative AI. Many thanks to @noshir.bsky.social for organizing! With @claesdevreese.bsky.social, @teachguz.bsky.social, Winson Peng, Yingdan Lu, and Jörg Matthes #GenerativeAI #LLM -- at @icahdq.bsky.social

“If your work speaks to challenges that go beyond a single field, this is the place for it.” – Katherine Ognyanova, PNAS Nexus Reviewing Editor 🌍 @pnasnexus.org is open access & interdisciplinary, connecting rigorous research with broad audiences. Publish with us: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/pa...

Now live: “Declining information quality under new platform governance” by Burak Özturan, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Nir Grinberg, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/decl...

Yeah, I'm just watching OpenAI's newly released ChatGPT Agent power through my Qualtrics survey. I have thoughts about the future of human subject research.

New paper from our team, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jonathanschulman.bsky.social @royperlis.bsky.social and other smart people who keep off social media.

Support for maintaining or increasing research support remains largely bipartisan. Which raises the question: what exactly is the WH and Congress doing here? Source, CHIP50: www.chip50.org/reports/amer... Led by @ognyanova.bsky.social, @davidlazer.bsky.social, @royperlis.bsky.social + more.

New CHIP50 report on public approval of government interventions in science -- funding cuts, mass layoffs, etc. On average, twice as many Americans disapprove of these actions as approve #science @aaas.org @science.org @sciam.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social @sciencenews.bsky.social

We just posted an interactive on changes in approval for Trump from right before he was inaugurated to the present. We have very large samples (30k), and the interactive allows you to look at changes within very small slices of the public. www.chip50.org/blog/whose-a...

How does generative AI transform/ disrupt communication scholarship? Happy to be part of this great #ica25 panel. With answers and many more questions @noshir.bsky.social @teachguz.bsky.social @ognyanova.bsky.social and Peng, Lu, Matthes and 🙋

📣 Calling all #CHI2025 attendees who work with human participants: Join our panel discussion on #LLM, #simulation, #syntheticdata, and the future of human subjects research on Apr 30 (Wed), 2:10 - 3:40 PM (JP Time) Post your questions for panelists here: forms.gle/m2mXY3xFafAX...

LAST CHANCE for early registration to #WebSci25! Early reg closes TODAY, April 21! We hope you'll join us at #Rutgers this May for this interdisciplinary conference! Register at: www.websci25.org cc: @websciencetrust.bsky.social, @noshir.bsky.social

Next week, @rutgerscomminfo.bsky.social Associate Professor @ognyanova.bsky.social will be presenting on "False beliefs in unusual times: The role of trust, technology, and social ties" at LSC's #Scicomm Colloquium! #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

Princeton's president on the US government's attack on research universities in @nytimes.com's The Daily podcast: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...

Reminder! CFP and workshop registration for the Political Networks and Computational Social Science Conference. We have a great lineup of network analysis workshop instructors: @michaeltheaney.bsky.social, @ognyanova.bsky.social, Shahryar Minhas, & Cassie McMillan. sites.google.com/view/confpol...

Friends, the 2025 ACM Web Science conference is coming up at #Rutgers this May. We have fantastic presenters and keynote speakers lined up. The schedule and registration just went live on www.websci25.org. Do come and join us! cc @websciencetrust.bsky.social @shugars.bsky.social

Join us for the 2025 Political Networks & Computational Social Science Conference (sites.google.com/view/confpol...), Aug 11-14 at Harvard & Northeastern, with Duncan Watts delivering the keynote. Workshops: Aug 11-12; panels: Aug 13-14. Submit by March 28:

🚨 new pub: #digitalinequality explains most variance in which UGs delayed graduation after 2 yrs of pandemic learning—more than #firstgen status, #race/ethnicity or other s-d markers. Just out in @plosone.org with @abjordan.bsky.social & @ognyanova.bsky.social! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Save the date! PolNet & PaCSS 2025 are joining forces at Harvard and Northeastern on August 11–14, 2025—workshops on Aug 11–12, conference on Aug 13–14. Stay tuned for details on CFP, registration, and more. See you at #PolNetPaCSS2025!

U.S. scientists are losing funding and even their jobs under the new Trump administration. Researchers gathering at the 2025 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science shared their fears and hopes for the future.

Many of us have had a very rough few weeks. But I am told, in no uncertain terms, that nobody has suffered more than this good boy who had to endure a haircut today. #dogsky #dogsofbluesky

We just released a new report on AI trust and knowledge in America: naiom.net/reports/ We examine trust in AI, the companies that use it, and the content it generates. We also measure how much people know about it. (🧵1 of 6)

cc @icahdq.bsky.social @polcomm.bsky.social @icajsd.bsky.social @icacat.bsky.social @ica-hmc.bsky.social

Many of us are having conversations about the way scientists should react to current White House policies... I just asked #ChatGPT, and honestly, it offered a better take than many institutions and op-ed writes have so far. Link: bit.ly/chatgpt-scie...

CDC is withdrawing academic papers submitted to scientific journals containing forbidden terms like "transgender, LGBT, transsexual, non-binary". This is done to ensure compliance with Trump executive order saying the government only recognizes 2 genders. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Just out! CHIP50.org report looking at who uses TikTok, given its imminent (possible) demise. The TLDR: it's disproportionately younger people, persons of color, women. But the rise of TikTok also tells us a lot about the relative stasis of the social media economy.

Fun! @ognyanova.bsky.social has some great tutorials in R: kateto.net/tutorials/ and Dai Shizuka keeps a nice set of tutorials up to date: dshizuka.github.io/networkanaly...

Since we're all making starter packs, here's one dedicated to journals and conferences in communication, political science, media, public opinion, etc. Let me know what I've missed! go.bsky.app/B4h2y66 #polisci #comm

Some predictions from CHIP50 demographic prediction tool: www.chip50.org/blog/demogra... 1) The partisan split with respect to education will continue to grow larger. (College & more on left, HS & less on right)

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Newly out! We evaluate how well large-scale, nonprob, survey data do in estimating COVID infection rates. We find that these surveys do a remarkably good job at matching admin and wastewater data. The important advantages of the survey data are... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Half of Americans have heard of the conspiracy theory that the Trump assassination attempt was staged, with conspiratorial thinking and interpersonal discussion correlated w/ believing it was staged, finds @ognyanova.bsky.social @jonathanschulman.bsky.social @davidlazer.bsky.social t.co/Nnz4zwP7Zi

Nieman lab on a preprint of ours dealing with conspiracy theories around the assassination attempt against Donald Trump. With Druckman, Schulman, Baum @davidlazer.bsky.social

Video of our webinar on trust in science, organized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. vimeo.com/946271622

Come to our online panel talk on Trust in Science at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on May 30 at 2pm ET. #trust #science events.nationalacademies.org/42685_05-202...

See nice write up of our book, Black Networks Matter, news.northeastern.edu/2024/03/01/b... w/ Matt Simonson, Ray Block, Jamie Druckman & @ognyanova.bsky.social

With @ognyanova.bsky.social, Matthew Baum, Jamie Druckman, Roy Perlis, & Mauricio Santillana, and a tremendous team of talented doc students & postdocs, we launched the COVID States Project, 3 years 356 days (but who's counting), and ~600k respondents ago. news.northeastern.edu/2024/04/05/m...

One more week to propose a paper/poster for PolNet 2024! Join us and spread the word! June 5-8 in sunny Tallahassee, FL Submit a proposal: fla.st/5ILM4C1A

Officially published (and open access) -- check out our work exploring the role of online and offline social ties driving mass participation in the 2020 #BLM protests. With Matt Simonson, Ray Block, Jamie Druckman, and @davidlazer.bsky.social

Validity, efficacy, and bias in computational mental health models: Munmun De Choudhury gives a fantastic talk in the Rutgers Computational Social Science Lab (csslab.rutgers.edu) speaker series #CSS #mentalhealth

Great talk by the awesome @shugars.bsky.social on computational methods and natural language processing at OCMC