Persona Vectors paper has been going viral in my community. arxiv.org/abs/2507.21509

The authors of the original paper have posted their reply to the comment paper. arxiv.org/abs/2506.18600

Very pleased our paper looking at the diffusion of complex contagions is out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Reading system prompt of Claude 4 github.com/elder-pliniu...

Great network science class I wish I could have taken: asmithh.github.io/network-scie...

GenAI seems to be a good adviser. So it is obvious which jobs in academia will be replaced by it. Forthcoming Magnagement Science paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.03707

The very interesting discussion has begun. arxiv.org/abs/2505.23796

Researchers whose work is cited in Wikipedia generally trust the platform’s representation of their research. Wikipedia is increasingly seen as a valuable gateway to scholarly work. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Today’s manga artists mostly read manga—and end up making more of the same. Tezuka didn’t. Miyazaki barely watches anime. So, what about researchers? Can reading papers every day really lead to innovative research?

Academia’s biggest paradox: everyone sees their own reviews as polite and precise, yet reviewer's comments on their own papers often reads like clueless nitpicking.

"Urban Highways Are Barriers to Social Ties" out on PNAS! The 1st large-scale measure of how highways weaken social connections between the communities they separate. This barrier effect is strong in the 50 largest US cities--especially for low-income Black communities. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Expertise diversity of teams predicts originality and long-term impact in science and technology arxiv.org/abs/2210.04422

Beginners Propaganda and Disinformation course - Udemy: www.udemy.com/course/propa...

"The seductive futility of network visualization" skewed.de/lab/posts/ha...

The #IC2S2 2025 abstract submission closes next Monday, Feb 24, at 23:59 (AoE). Don’t miss out—submit your abstract now!

I notice that the submission deadline for IC2S2 2025 is February 24, 2025, at 12:00 AM UTC-0.

⚠️ We are accepting submissions for the OSNEM special issue on Disinformation, toxicity, harms in Online Social Networks and Media 🗓️ submit by 31st March 2025! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 We’re excited to announce the 6th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats hashtag#CySoc2025 that will be held at hashtag#ICWSM2025 in Denmark! 🎉 🌍 Spotlight Topic: "Political Conflicts in Online Platforms in the Era of Gen-AI." 📅 Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We are organizing a Special Issue on "Risks and Unintended Harms of Generative AI Systems" at ACM TIST! More details here: dl.acm.org/journal/tist... Deadline: May 31, 2025 (review on a rolling basis) #LLM #misinformation #disinformation #AI #genAI

Many studies explore success, but how many truly address luck? Though some models treat ideas or grants as random, we rarely admit how much luck really matters. Even if statistics account for randomness, luck stays hidden—an inconvenient truth we often overlook. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I have been experimenting with DeepSeek locally, letting them chat with each other.

Evolution of sample-based music authorship network epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....

First preprint/paper of Thomas, co-supervised by Carlo Campajola and in collaboration with Claudio Tessone. arxiv.org/abs/2501.13377

Recently, I've been browsing ACM Journals and have realized just how interdisciplinary they are. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

The term 'habit formation' brings to mind advanced macroeconomics classes from my graduate school days. (A long long time ago) arxiv.org/abs/2501.01779

Estimating Industrial Activity in the Arctic Using Light www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGO_... A super cool explanation of recent LLM mechanistic interpretability studies from anthropic etc. from Welch Labs (an awesome channel btw). see also "The Dark Matter of Neural Networks?" by @colah.bsky.social transformer-circuits.pub/2024/july-up...

I really like this article and agree with most of their points. arxiv.org/pdf/2410.00788

Interesting paper that documents computational social science study with demo (evolution-css.netlify.app) arxiv.org/html/2412.08...

Unraveling the Formation, Evolution, and Navigation of Group Interactions in Higher-Order Social Networks www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Self-reported sharing intentions of low-quality news in surveys are predictive of actual sharing of low-quality news on X, finds @arechar.bsky.social @mmosleh.bsky.social @gordpennycook.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf...

A follow-up to this Nature paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) has just been published in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A paper that points out sources of bias in Wikipedia's category system www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sharing my first Computational Social Science starter pack! Will grow with time, feel free to nominate and self nominate! go.bsky.app/CYmRvcK

Yes, rejection often leads to further rejection. Winner and Loser Effects and Social Rank In Humans www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

New from 404 Media: the hacker suspected to be behind the recent wave of Snowflake breaches has been arrested in Canada. The hacker went dark on Telegram last week, started to tell me their origin story. Canada confirmed it’s arrested Connor Moucka www.404media.co/suspected-sn...

Presidential Election Paper Released Just in Time! firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Elites and communities matter even in electronic music www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We discovered a network of coordinated inauthentic actors using AI-content and cross-platform link-sharing to manipulate the online discourse of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election. The network spans X and YouTube, disseminating biased political content through fake news. arxiv.org/abs/2409.15402

biased biased biased academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Yes, rejection often leads to further rejection. Winner and Loser Effects and Social Rank In Humans www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Dreaming using MetaData transparency.meta.com/ja-jp/resear...

Human Mobility Research (in the virtual) arxiv.org/abs/2404.03071

I had a good time at my first ACM Economics and Computation and apparently took ~25 pages of notes. Something to come back to after processing what I learned. donskerclass.github.io/misc/ACMECta...

If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...