the key to good writing: 1. Decide 1-3 days before the deadline to rewrite the intro 2. End up drafting the leading phrase "At it's core, human communication is about..." 3. Question life choices

What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar? Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly. A few examples in thread ↴

Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.

ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download! 📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info 💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Reposting for the #ic2s2 crowd!

UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025. More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734

Only problem with the baby starting to sleep through the night is that I need to find a new excuse to justify my caffeine intake now

So ICWSM concluded today and it was a blast, was a great honor to attend @icwsm.bsky.social at Copenhagen and present my work with @kennyjoseph.bsky.social and other colleagues. The paper link is here : ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...,

How information sharing in social media has slowly shifted from public posting to private channels. Strong empirical evidence from Facebook by the one and only Kiran Garimella. DETOX #ICWSM.

In our new paper (w/ @jongreen.bsky.social , @davidlazer.bsky.social, & Philip Resnik), now up in Nature Human Behaviour (nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02223-4), we argue that this tension really speaks to a broader misconceptualization of what misinformation is and how it works.

UB is starting an AI and Society Department. The first job positing is for a postdoc position (F26 or S27 start). engineering.buffalo.edu/home/researc... Please reach out if you have questions!

Got this written up, fwiw. Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content. arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354

Sending this out again for anyone in Pittsburgh who lost their NEA grant last week, or is fighting for their NSF money, or who is being RIF'd from their fed job, or who wants to tell an investigative journalist anything, really. You can be anonymized and you will be protected.

I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/

New paper out in Nature Communications 📌 @anetilab.bsky.social members @lgajo.bsky.social and @johanneswachs.bsky.social with @loreb92.bsky.social and Federico Battiston explore "The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams" 👾 Link to paper ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New paper out in @journalqd.bsky.social! 🚨 How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information. #socialmedia🧵

🎉 Acceptance notifications have been sent—congratulations to all the authors! 🔥 If you are a student, be sure to check out the #ICWSM 2025 Student Travel Grant 📅 Deadline: Mar 31, 2025 🔎Details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/... ✍️Application form: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/m1xp8i...

Congrats to ADL, AJC and the other mainstream Jewish orgs content to sit back while a fascist delivers antisemitic smears against the most prominent Jew in American government

Learning your one kid dodged pink eye and can go to daycare so you uncancel your meetings only to be called 20 minutes later by the nurse to pick up one of your other kids

A colleague is looking for technical folks to review papers for a special issue in the Journal of Social Work Research on Social Work and AI. Chance to do some interdisciplinary dialogue in an important area! Fill out this google form if you're interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Who won the Trump/Vance/Zelensky Oval Office shouting match? We asked three Russian bots in an X comment thread.

Rufo straight up admits that the entire framing of being against "cancel culture" was BS and they just wanted to be the ones doing the "canceling." Every radical centrist who was just asking questions in the Atlantic played their useful idiot role in bringing this to fruition.

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

I'm joining Binghamton University School of Computing as an assistant professor this Sep. I'm recruiting two PhD students to work on topics related to AI and information ecosystem. If you are interested in joining me, send your CV and a short statement of purpose to my email [email protected]

8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.

Tech bros cheering on the cuts to grant funding built businesses and wealth on the back of decades of university R&D work. Much of that knowledge was given away to the public. This is basic pulling-up-the-ladder nonsense via rewriting history. They owe the public, not the other way around.

If you're an NSF PI like me, you might be wondering: Will my grant be suspended or terminated next week? A few key things to know: First off, remember that NSF is **congressionally mandated** to evaluate broader impacts. And laws like CHIPS and Science supersede EOs. But also... 🧵 thread

Worried about a fascist takeover? This sheet-pan paella will make you feel like you’re in 1930s Spain.

Saw a car that had an "I brake for wildlife" bumper sticker and I am just wondering what they think the rest of us are doing

Calling bullshit on their lies isn't censorship. Failed insurrectionists aren't heroes. Fighting racism and helping underserved communities isn't discrimination. Showing empathy isn't evil. Supporting trans kids isn't abuse. Don't accept their twisted frames as reality.

Our website is now updated with all the details on the venue, registration, and accommodation for #ICWSM 2025! 🌍✨ Plan your trip to beautiful Copenhagen and get ready for an amazing conference. Check it out here 👉 www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/... 🇩🇰

I'm co-organizing th Ph.D. Symposium at WebSci'25! Apply by March 10th for a fun and community-filled day! www.websci25.org/call-for-phd...

fuck 'em all

Introducing “DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter.” Today, we release five derived metrics of over 129,000 domains, quantifying their characteristics such as geographical reach and audience partisanship. 1/3

Has anyone that has successfully gotten access to the Youtube Researcher API willing to share some tips? Stuck in "we'll get back to you" limbo and hoping there's some way to at least get a decision one way or the other at some point.

Preprint alert! "Words and Action: Modeling Linguistic Leadership in #BlackLivesMatter Communities," led by two amazing undergrads in my lab. A short 🧵 on its implications and findings: arxiv.org/abs/2412.02637 1/

So I’ve had my 1st Black History Month event cancellation because of “DEI concerns,” citing a fear of frivolous suits. Funny thing is, I don’t do DEI, I’m a historian of the Black American experience. A reminder that DEI is just a dog whistle about suppressing history, if you need a reminder.

Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.

Not all the way through it yet, but the marginaleffects book/writeup is the best piece of applied statistics writing I've come across in a while marginaleffects.com/chapters/cha...

Podcasts are a popular medium, but data for computational research is limited! We introduce the Structured Podcast Research Corpus (SPoRC - huggingface.co/datasets/bli...), a large, multimodal dataset of English podcasts 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2411.07892

📣 Call for #ICWSM2024 workshop proposals! icwsm.org/2024/index.h... All web + social media topics are welcome! Especially emerging approaches and task areas, bridging gaps between the social sciences and computing, and elucidating results of exploratory research. Due Jan. 12!

ICWSM launched its Global Initiative today!! 2 pg. applications due 11/30 for: Fully funded trip to the conference in 2024 (up to $5K) Mentorship support from a senior academic in the field icwsm.org/2024/index.h... All thanks to @mrjimmyblack.com and Cody Buntain. Please share!

Toddler parenting tip: Prepare for consequences every time you fool yourself into thinking "there's not enough of that [anything] left for them to make a mess, lemme go to the next room for two minutes to do [anything]"

Not sure why it is so much scarier to post here? Just gonna rip the bandaid off tho by acknowledging that I have officially reached the age where even with my cool ("cool") new shoes, I am no longer mistaken for an undergrad. Mixed feelings.