Thanks @pnasnexus.org for sharing our new work on AI authorship labeling and persuasion...check out their post to learn more! Paper link: ow.ly/KXeE50YhHag Isabel O. Gallegos, Chen Shani, @shi-weiyan.bsky.social, Federico Bianchi, Izzy Gainsburg, @jurafsky.bsky.social, @robbwiller.bsky.social

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...

It seems nuts to me that CNN has partnered with an online gambling site (Kalshi) and hypes their betting lines as “news” to report.

Rigorous design & evaluation of LLMs' provision of election info is essential. NEW PAPER by two-time fellow @robbwiller.bsky.social & collaborators, "A nonpartisan source grounded AI voter guide is perceived as trustworthy and affects voting intentions" Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... ⬇️ Robb's 🧵

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

SWALWELL: You said you wanted to see a deportation process that was 'like Amazon Prime but with human beings.' How many times has Amazon Prime shot a mom 3 times in the face? LYONS: None SWALWELL: How many times has Amazon Prime shot a nurse 10 times in the back? LYONS: None

49 years ago today The Clash begin recording their debut album at CBS Studios in London with producer Micky Foote. The album was recorded over three weekend sessions. 📸 Caroline Coon #punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Great to see "The Way Back After Backsliding: Public Opinion and the Restoration of Democracy" with @robbwiller.bsky.social and @m-b-petersen.bsky.social out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

@stanforddoerr.bsky.social profiled new research by Stanford PACS faculty affiliates @madalina.bsky.social and @smconstantino.bsky.social, Faculty Co-Director @robbwiller.bsky.social, and co-authors testing 17 different interventions intended to encourage people to join a collective #ClimateAction.

Election information often feels overwhelming. What if you could get personalized, nonpartisan info about the candidates and issues on your ballot? We built an AI voter guide to help. Check out our new working paper to learn more!

🚨New WP: Can an AI voter guide (grounded in information from a nonpartisan, fact-checked source) help voters’ decision making? 🚨 We built and evaluated an LLM-based chatbot that provided voting info in CA & TX (N=2,474) right before the 2024 election. 🧵👇

Thanks @gsb.stanford.edu for covering our work in their piece "How to Talk About Climate Change Across Political Divides" stanford.io/4jQi2Ct Amazing work from Jan Voelkel @nmalhotra.bsky.social @robbwiller.bsky.social & many others! Original article in Nature Climate Change: rdcu.be/e1cbZ

Normal cops would have been furious at the first shooter just for opening fire into a fucking dogpile of cops.

We're mourning yet again in Minnesota — and struggling to square the gut-churning video of Alex Pretti's final moments with official accounts. I'm teaching techniques of neutralization this term, so I made this quick slide on the DHS statement. Share if it's useful. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

I shared last month that a descendant of my ancestors' enslavers has been in community for decades with some of my elders we've recently connected with. He's been essential toward uncovering much of our family histories. My sisters and I wondered at first. But now we get it... and it's powerful.

Sometimes when I review an outstanding paper, I just think, "I can't believe I get to be one of the first people to read this and help make it better." Y'all are truly doing some amazing work out there. Keep going! (also one author team is gonna get a really good review from me soon lol)

"We've got to get this right." Sociologist @robbwiller.bsky.social and political economist @nmalhotra.bsky.social designed a "mega tournament" to compare common strategies for talking about #ClimateChange #UncommonCollaborators episode 🎥 bit.ly/4oxIe62 Read more: stanford.io/4pB7cRX

“People react very negatively to protest tactics that they view as risking harm to people." Faculty Co-Director @robbwiller.bsky.social of @pascl-stanford.bsky.social spoke with The Guardian about the value and effectiveness of #nonviolence as a protest tactic. Read more ⤵️ bit.ly/49H1UP8

PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

Exactly.

🚨Amazing (and time sensitive!) opportunity to join us at UofT!!!🚨

What if, and bear with me on this coz its going to sound radical, the Washington Post's Editorial Board could reach out to actual experts on this topic rather than rely on right-wing youtubers? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...

“We think that having good media literacy skills is a very big civic skill,” Kiia Hakkala, a pedagogical specialist for the City of Helsinki, told The Associated Press. They start at age THREE. apnews.com/article/fake...

For researchers interested in semantic change over years and decades... I've created a toolkit — lexichron — for measuring long-term shifts in word meanings using Google Ngrams and other corpora (e.g., COHA, COCA). Here's the public GitHub repo: github.com/eric-d-knowl... 🧵

Thrilled to receive an Analyst Institute Expy Award for Bridging Research and Practice for my papr w/ @robbwiller.bsky.social & Don Green “Can Politicians Bridge Partisan Divides?” I’m incredibly proud of this work & honored tht practitioners see value in our academic research osf.io/preprints/os...

New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

Big thanks to Sarah Constantino for sharing her exciting research on social tipping points and climate change solutions with the lab this past Tuesday! @robbwiller.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @cydneydupree.bsky.social for an insightful presentation of her work investigating how White Americans’ use of values-based language shapes cross-racial affiliation! @robbwiller.bsky.social

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!

1. Transparency is necessary for credibility 2. Transparency is hard to change 3. Require transparency* 4. Transparency is not magic 5. Journals are part of problem 6. Expect more from journals 7. Peer review is not magic 8. A crisis can look a lot like „normal“ science 9. Meta-analysis is not magic

My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law. Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it. No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors. That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Thank you to @myra.bsky.social for her recent insightful presentation on how sycophantic AI can reduce people’s willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts! @robbwiller.bsky.social

@robbwiller.bsky.social, Director of our #AI and the Future of #SocialScience program, spoke with the Stanford Report about his recent research showing that AI-generated political messages can be as persuasive as those developed by humans. Learn more ⤵️

Wow. “the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression [and must] embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage [to get] out of the abyss.” Amen. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

R.I.P. Jimmy Cliff. I remember being introduced to Harder They Come for the first time on VHS back in 1987 and being totally transported. It and Cliff's catalogue has that same effect today. And it always will. www.youtube.com/watch?v=twf7...

👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse. 👩🏻‍💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...

Thank you to Kasey Rhee for an exciting recent presentation on her work analyzing how party registration has shifted across demographic groups using an unprecedented dataset of six billion voter records! @robbwiller.bsky.social

Horror stories of sexual harassment from Oxford University 'Prof Hewstone turned up unannounced & dropped his trousers ... touched women inappropriately ... made comments about relationships with students' Oxford will do nothing, betcha Brutal from Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

We should all work to engage in public facing science communication. One of the most important ways to fight disinformation is to provide more reliable information. Talk or write about your work and the work in your field. Create systems of trust. My blog: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ment...

Thank you to @joshcjackson.bsky.social and Dan Medvedev for a fascinating recent lab presentation on how attitudes toward the rich vary globally! Innovative methods and fascinating findings, all around. @robbwiller.bsky.social

Had the pleasure of returning to @hiddenbrain.bsky.social for a follow-up convo with Shankar Vendantam (I’m on in the second half!). I answer questions about how to talk across divides, what to do with people who seem awful, and when to walk away. Check it out 👇 www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/why-...

If you’re going to post a paper on twitter, why not do it a few days after the bluesky post? No harm to your career but makes clear it’s a slower information source

🧵1/ 🚨 New article out! How robust is the psychology of social class? Together with Nicolas Sommet and ‪@frederiqueautin.bsky.social‬, we conducted large-scale replications of 35 hypotheses across four countries. Published in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OpenNeuro @openneuro.bsky.social just hit a huge milestone: 1500 datasets! Congrats to the team on making this project so successful over the last 7 years.