I also discovered one! New species of barking gecko 🦎

We believe healthcare is a right for every American. But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies. Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents.

Yale Sociology is hiring an associate or full professor in quantitative sociology. Come work with me! Applications open tomorrow. Details available here: apply.interfolio.com/174709

I’m shocked by some of these figures 😱 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 Can reminder emails compel Americans to save? We ran a 2 million person megastudy with a large US bank to find out. Our results published today in @pnasnexus.org suggest that the answer is: yes, probably, a little. 🧵 👀 the paper: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Anthropic's Claude #AI can now "execute code and create and edit docs, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, and data reports." But notice the disclaimer: "This feature gives Claude network access to create and analyze files, which has security risks. Monitor chats closely when using this feature."

Noticing that @economist.com is using POTUS’s term, “secretary of war” while @nytimes.com refers to “Defense Secretary. NYT go so far as to explain why, which I think is better reporting

The Trump administration is not Pro-Family. The GOP today is not Pro-Family. How can a politician be “pro-family” while instituting policies like this? Whatever one’s definition of pro-family, the literal splitting up of families is definitely not in that definition

It appears that Democrats, led by @schumer.senate.gov + @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, have somehow blown the leverage they had w/ the impending govt shutdown. POTUS now threatening to fire hundreds, cease services to nat’l parks, and suspend BLS operations (ie monthly econ data) if govt shuts down

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Full disclosure: I’ve only read the abstract. With that in mind, I had such a strong reaction to the finding. Bluesky has not replicated #AcademicTwitter for me. Of course, I am but 1 person in a particular discipline (or 2). But it remains that I’m quite disappointed in my ability to connect here.

New dataset that describes social media activity of a very large group of US elected officials: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Man. What the fuck.

I had a chance to experience #ViolasRoom at The Shed in NYC yesterday and I highly recommend it It’s an interactive installation that takes you on a journey. There’s walking, crawling, and plenty of moments in darkness. By #Punchdrunk, the creators of #SleepNoMore www.theshed.org/program/444-...

There exists a security vulnerability when #LLM systems, or “agents”, have access to: 1️⃣ private data (eg Google Drive) + 2️⃣ untrusted content (eg Web Search, Emal attachments) + 3️⃣ external communication (eg Email Read-Write) #LethalTrifecta #PSA #AI H/t @economist.com @simonwillison.net

I was part of an interesting panel discussion yesterday at an ARC event. Maybe everybody knows this already, but I was quite surprised by how "general" intelligence was conceptualized in relation to human intelligence and the ARC benchmarks.

Now this is Content

We worry about Very Online Kids much more than their Very Online Parents, and I'm not sure that's wise

I am happy to announce that our project on risk and social learning is now in press at Psychological Review. Several new additions and revisions thanks to detailed feedback from colleagues and anonymous reviewers. osf.io/preprints/so... @psmaldino.bsky.social @babeheim.bsky.social

#AI system designed by Palantir to facilitate immigration enforcement by #ICE (reported in @economist.com) I can’t imagine this is going to go well I don’t invest in Palantir because of stuff like things l

Seeing the President of the United States use the Justice Department to go after his political opponents bothers the hell out of me. I wish it also bothered the hell of our elected officials, irrespective of their party Hes so explicit about it too. I don’t think it’s right.

We’re doing our best to meet the demands of this moment in our democracy while continuing to cover the everyday needs of Chicagoans. Will you support us? Send a monetary contribution today ✊🏾 buy.stripe.com/00w14n5ZRbhk...

It should. And we have to try. Democracy is always in the effort, in the growth, in becoming better versions of what we imagine. But we need more noise, more outrage, more calls to congress & DHS & Bondi, more signatures for petitions calling for his release. www.commondreams.org/news/mario-g...

Here is a poster I presented today at the Human-AI Complementarity workshop hosted by the NSF #AI Institute for Societal Decision Making You can read the latest version of the paper here: www.rafaelmbatista.com/jmp/ This is joint work with the wonderful @jamesross0.bsky.social

Saw Ben presenting this today. It’s really neat work. Ben is finishing up his PhD at Cornell (advised by Jon Kleinberg) and is currently on the job market

Stories of data annotators and content moderators in Nairobi, Kenya Documentary by @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social #AI peertube.dair-institute.org/w/gRTuLGE6VJ...

I enjoy reading pieces by @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social. They’re well-written, intuitive, and give me a meeting place to talk to my friends in medicine This piece is no different #AI #Medicine www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

SCOTUS Justice Kagan makes an important critique of the Court’s use of emergency powers. If Congress were made up of leaders these days they would push back to protect their independence.

Ok, you know we have to ask, because real needed change isn’t some distant dream—it’s happening now in school boards, city councils, and statehouses across the country. 💥Don’t wait. Be part of it. runforwhat.net

Excited to announce our amazing lineup of speakers for the 2026 JDM preconference at SPSP! Conference date: Feb 26th Location: Chicago Deadline to apply: Oct 23rd. Application link: spsp.wufoo.com/forms/2026-p... cc: @sdellavi.bsky.social, @hirshmansam.bsky.social, @vinisingh.bsky.social

#Slack continues to be, in my mind, a completely unintuitive workspace The folks inside might think they've cracked some ideal system but from the outside Im convinced theres a curse of knowledge going on Its like trying to convince someone else of why your own folder structure is best 😂

I don’t think this is the slam dunk against #AI some folks on here think it is, but I can see why one might get that impression from the headline 🤦‍♂️ www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Bloomberg Defends NYPD's Controversial Stop And Kiss Program

📣 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...

What's a good reading (say textbook chapter or lecture notes) on fundamentals of proper scoring rules? I want something less in the rigorous details than Gneiting & Raftery (2007), which is great, but not as suitable for a course with many more applied/empirical students.

Not sure what I was expecting from Apple Intelligence but I think it’s telling that the flashiest feature is #Genmoji On the other hand, the new capability in Anthropic’s Claude app to read+write meetings in Calendar and to set Reminders is awesome #iOS #iPhone17

Most of the time when people are complaining about the media not covering something the actual problem is that the coverage is being ignored by most readers/viewers. This is something that foreign correspondents have known for decades but now nobody reads it the news any more it applies domestically

Eye-opening op-ed about the troves of personal data NYPD collects The article is a bit fear-mongering in my opinion but it does a nice job motivating the *need* for better privacy policies + data protections Im curious, what will @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social do? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada. via @florianederer.bsky.social

Lawmaking that operates – quietly

Just learned of this tool by @freedom.press that takes potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs for viewing dangerzone.rocks

Learned something new today. #FCC Chair Brendan Carr is abusing his powers He should resign and Congress should put up more guardrails so the FCC cannot coerce companies in the future Excellent reporting by @makenakelly.bsky.social in @wired.com #JimmyKimmel www.wired.com/story/brenda...

Brendan Carr isn't going to stop until someone makes him: In the wake of @jimmykimmel.com's suspension, experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct is flatly unconstitutional. They also expect him to keep going. Read this story by @wired.com's @makenakelly.bsky.social.

Here’s the Jimmy Kimmel clip that got him pulled off the air