“Wait, what is this exactly?” 🤔 New in @hbr.org, Director Jeff Hancock, PhD candidate Angela Lee, and co-authors from BetterUp Labs discuss the surge in AI-generated "workslop" and its implications for today's workers and business leaders. #workslop #AI

One week to the Trust and Safety Research Conference! Stoked to see you there and for the amazing program! @stanfordcyber.bsky.social

📣 Yale workshop, Oct 16-17! 📣 How could/should content ranking work? What's new in content moderation? How can platforms promote civility? Hosted by Yale's Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS). Great speakers! Submit posters by 9/22! Spread the word! yalefds.swoogo.com/socialalgori...

The agenda for the Trust and Safety Research Conference is out now. Two days of lightning talks, presentations, networking and more, with @dwillner.bsky.social‬ as keynote. Join us! For the full line-up and times, plus link to register, visit: cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/content/trus...

Looking forward to moderating the 💥 AI and Algorithm Auditing 💥 session in just a few weeks at the Trust and Safety Research Conference at Stanford!! 🎟️ Last chance to register! sto.stanfordtickets.org/the-2025-tru... #TSRConf @stanfordcyber.bsky.social

Today, we’re proud to share the Coalition’s new report: The State of Independent Technology Research: Power in Numbers It's an offering to our community and all researchers doing public interest work–a reflection of collective strength, solidarity and persistence in the face of adversity. (1/2)

We're the University of Washington Information School, aka UW iSchool, based in beautiful Seattle. We offer five degree programs, and our graduates use their expertise for the advancement of science, business, education, and culture. Check out our website to learn more: ischool.uw.edu

In addition to the original UK results, we have now ***replicated*** this (TWICE) in the US. The main findings hold strong: information diets are a lot more diverse in attention than in engagement. New version here: osf.io/preprints/os...

"persuasive power ... is likely to stem more from post-training and prompting methods—which boosted persuasiveness by as much as 51% and 27% respectively—than from personalization or increasing model scale"

I’ve got serious FOMO for @ic2s2.bsky.social … keynotes and program look awesome!! 🤩🤩 Have fun everyone!

See here the paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... And poster below. We will have several more NERDS at #IC2S2 - see you soon in Norrköping!

Our preprint “How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy” is now online. We show how coordinated multi-agent LLM swarms can infiltrate communities, craft synthetic grassroots “consensus,” and erode institutional trust—and what we can do now to stop it. osf.io/preprints/os...

move slow and fix things

Cool "micro-sabbatical" opportunity for tenured or tenure-track faculty at GW’s Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics (IDDP).

New preprint: How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy 🧪 osf.io/preprints/os...

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

I am thrilled to share a new article in Sociological Methods & Research, “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages”. My co-first author Sol Messing and our collaborators developed a new approach to measuring “narrative similarity” between texts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 Call for Abstracts! I'm excited to announce the 2nd workshop on Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies @ MIT on Dec 5-6 Keynotes from @bgoldberg.bsky.social & @adamberinsky.bsky.social 🗓️ Deadline to submit: July 14, 2025 🔗 sites.google.com/view/polariz...

When the government cancels your research grant, here’s what you can do www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Psychological inoculation is a very popular intervention against online misinfo, but it hasn't been tested using real-world outcomes in realistic scenarios. In a new paper just published in PNAS Nexus, this is what we did: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Short version: It didn't really work.

With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive

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Interesting thread about researcher access to DSA data.

Congrats to @baottruong.bsky.social and @matthewdeverna.com !!!

And congrats also to Dr. @matthewdeverna.com !! 👏🎉🎓

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cool work from @dashunwang.bsky.social and team...

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

*Permanent* position in Applied Mathematics at City. We are - of course - particularly interested in profiles in Computational Social Science, Network Science, Data Science, and related fields. The application deadline is June 1st. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY889/l...

"The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics" www.nber.org/papers/w33729

yikes

This is wild.

Great postdoc opportunities with @ethanvporter.bsky.social: www.gwu.jobs/postings/119...

 and @catiebailard.bsky.social: www.gwu.jobs/postings/119...

Study of 1,800 participants demonstrates that people are more likely to think real images were AI-generated, than mistake generated images for genuine ones. So even though the tech can't make visuals worth a damn, it's actually eroding trust in authentic content. osf.io/preprints/os...

I am not in Japan for #chi2025 (sigh) but my students are there, presenting great work from my lab and beyond, mostly involving the impact of AI on our info & communication. Unfortunately, with funding taken away, our society will have less ability to understand and control the impact of AI. 1/

They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Phenomenal thread:

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

It is difficult for me to convey how profoundly unsurprised I was reading this article, which is about the world's richest and most famous entrepreneur threatening to deport his employees for pointing out a potentially fatal safety issue with his car company's brakes futurism.com/tesla-engine...

NSF has posted an “update on priorities.” They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants. And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

“Detecting Synthetic, Doubting Authentic: AI Attribution Bias for Political Imagery” 📍 Full preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵 Here’s what we found about how #GenAI is reshaping trust in political visuals during elections: (1/)