𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 Alert! Are you a #dog person or a #cat person? Since the dawn of time, we have debated their superiority… but your answer reveals how you give to charity. I analyzed 787M donations ($69B) across 10 years. A thread 🧵 Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...

The unavoidable has happened: here's a study on pet ownership and donation behavior. Can you DAG this? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08927936.2025.2544418

📢 Our new paper is out in PNAS Nexus! We analyzed 13M users, 1.3M congressional tweets, and 3.5B tweets of media diet to uncover how liberals and conservatives share political content differently. 🧵 Full paper: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

What conditions foster the use of offshore finance? Excited to share our work on how elites across 65 countries use the offshore financial system to keep their assets hidden. Coverage: home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/07... Paper Link: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Incredibly proud to be part of @mingyuezha.bsky.social top paper at #ica25! If you’re interested in using game theory to quantify collaboration dynamics, she’ll be presenting this at #Cysoc #ICWSM in Copenhagen tomorrow, please swing by! Full paper: lnkd.in/gegvA4g7

Excited to be at #MPSA for the first time! Will be presenting two papers: Use of AI generated images in the 2024 US Presidential Election. (LaSalle 3, 7th floor, 11:40-1:10 PM Th) Then, misinformation and conjoint analysis of the 2024 Taiwanese elections on Friday. Please stop by! #mpsa2025

🚨 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

Thrilled to be on Forbes Under 30 for Science! (Still getting used to Bluesky 🥳 😅 )

Congrats to @herbertchang.bsky.social, assistant professor of quantitative social science and Dartmouth 2018 alum, who is featured in the 2024 #ForbesUnder30 in Science list! 🎉  Via @Forbes ⤵️ bit.ly/40WgZHG

Dartmouth professor @herbertchang.bsky.social led a study into how pop culture icons’ social media messages influenced mask-wearing habits during the pandemic, via Vermont Public ⤵️

🎉🎉 Let me use my first post here to announce that my first dissertation paper has been accepted to the Annals of the AAG. Pre-print forthcoming to my website, and hopefully published by AAG soon! 🎉🎉

final week to apply to the Quantitative Social Science opening at dartmouth! apply.interfolio.com/130125

I'll be presenting our new paper "Subscriptions and External Links Help Drive Resentful Users to Alternative and Extremist YouTube Videos" (science.org/doi/10.1126/...) in the OSoMe Awesome Speakers series on Zoom Wed. at 12 PM ET Join us! Registration here iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reflections from my UW colleague @mikecaulfield.bsky.social: “Anecdotal evidence that X is failing this stress test is plentiful. Go on the platform, do a search on Israel or Gaza — you don’t have to scroll very far to find dubious or debunked information.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Researchers of online misinformation (and related topics) aren’t “buckling” to politically-motivated attacks. Our critical work to understand and address online deception and manipulation continues. But only with the support of our colleagues and institutions. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/uw-m...

In our new paper out today at Trends in Cognitive Science, @lisik.bsky.social and I argue that social interaction perception is a visual process–computed by the visual system. (1/3) tinyurl.com/nhh2dhx #PsychSciSky #CogSci #CogPsyc #compneuro