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Channel your excitement about network science to engage and educate the public! The deadline for our annual educational video competition is two weeks away. bit.ly/nss-videos

The trouble with GenZ boys www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6Ebo4AE/

What we missed by focusing on the harms of social media to girls is how social media and gaming culture is driving boys mad. Their distress is showing up as anger and violence, instead of anxiety and self-harm. We need to start talking about it now. www.threads.com/@evolveu_365...

We are hiring tenure track faculty this year: apply.interfolio.com/171020

Watch that video of tech billionaires flattering Trump. Remember it. We welcomed them into our homes with their apps, handing over privacy and freedom. Now we see the cost: power concentrated in the few, ruling the many.

Congress completely giving up its power www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

Russia is opening schools "with ceremonies that are military ceremonies, teaching kids how to hold rifles, dressing them up in Soviet outfits, because Russia doesn't value life right now. They value war." Caolan Robertson joins @timmiller.bsky.social

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

I never imagined that I would be the voice fighting Jew hatred in America… in 2025… but here we are. Do better Boulder. Do better America. Jews should not need “undisclosed locations” to gather. kdvr.com/news/local/b...

RFK and the wacky zealots who surround him are endangering the nation’s health and future well being. MRNA vaccines are safe and effective - full stop. Kennedy must resign if the nation is to be safe.

"I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people." ...

This is the real “AI Safety” issue. We need to address it yesterday

This morning, me in the @nytimes.com, discussing why the attacks on Governor Cook, the ONLY woman of color to join the Fed's Board of Governors, is a perfect example of how the individual costs women of color face TODAY become societal costs for everyone tomorrow. This is #TheDoubleTax. #blacksky

Is Wikipedia finally dead? “Wikipedia’s own systems, which rely on unpaid volunteer labor, minimal oversight, and a confusing governance structure, have no reliable way to stop this kind of coordinated manipulation.” unpacked.media/anti-israel-...

There is something about Uber that felt toxic to me ever since the days of Travis Kalanick’s misogynistic leadership culture. Finally proof that this culture affected customers too. Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT: 31 Days of Action – All August! Funding cuts. Banned words. Fired public servants. Trump & his cronies are dismantling America’s greatest experiment - our democracy - & with it, science. Between now & Sept 30th we decide: Are we a democracy… or an oligarchy? (1/4)

I've long believed 2016 Russian operation in US was most successful intelligence operation in recent history. With disclosure that Durham investigation all predicated on disinformation, I double down on that opinion. Russia completely destroyed the United States. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/01/h...

It's not just the algorithms. Social dynamics of online communities may also harm people by pushing them into pro-anorexia communities. Once pro-ana groups form, they snowball to suck in more people. Moderation helps reduce harmful dynamics of pro-ana communities. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Network Contagion Research Institute does solid research on social media harms, including manipulation, misinfo, and mental health harms. Here they take a critical look at the mainstream media’s uncritical amplification of Hamas talking points and it’s harms networkcontagion.us/wp-content/u...

I believe it is worth interrogating the fundamental forces re-shaping our information spheres away from liberal democracy towards myth, manipulation and magical thinking empowering autocracy and nihilism. Here’s how it all falls apart—a 🧵 in 6 figures ⬇️ www.protagonist-science.com/p/how-social...

Ugh - just what we need - industrial scale antisemitism. “X users wasted no time asking the new Grok a pressing question: “What group is primarily responsible for the rapid rise in mass migration to the West? One word only.” Grok responded, “Jews.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

🚨New preprint on a verboten topic: social correlates of views on abortion. Analyzing millions of geolocated tweets, we find a gender gap in abortion stance, show it widens in conservative states and identify the structural factors involved. w/ @ashwinrao.bsky.social 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2507.05443

Cross-pollinating from Threads about growing antisemitism at @wikipedia.org. The same editor who is questioning whether it is biased to say that Nazi murdered Jews during the Holocaust was also one responsible for downgrading ADL as a reliable source. Coincidence? www.threads.com/@gamalielwyk...

Can you hit repost? Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you share and follow me?

This was published a while ago but a good take on why many Jewish New Yorkers are so anguished today - from a non-Jew. momentmag.com/mamdani-nyc-...

Here is an accounting of all the innovative research at Harvard the feds maliciously cancelled. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🧵 ALSO Excited to present our work on "othering" at @icwsm.bsky.social 2025! In this paper with @kristinalerman.bsky.social, we go beyond traditional (hate|fear) speech to identify and study the mechanisms of "othering" language: the subtle process of depicting outgroups as fundamentally different.

🧵 Excited to present at @icwsm.bsky.social 2025! In this paper with @kristinalerman.bsky.social, we introduce a novel framework for modeling narrative evolution in streaming text data. Link here: arxiv.org/abs/2409.07684

Children exposed to COVID in utero had developmental delays at age 24 months: 🧠36% cognitive delays 🗣️64% communication delays 🏃57% had motor delays 🧪 Specific developmental delays were related to specific inflammation cytokines found in their cord blood at birth. buff.ly/AQSfBm9 #Medsky #Pedsky 🛟😷

We feed you. They hunt us.

Peaceful resistance will keep us safer!

True story bro.

Today, I had breakfast in The Netherlands, lunch in Belgium and dinner in Paris.

“When antisemitism emerges within progressive spaces, cloaked in the language of justice, too often it is met with silence and discomfort, creating echo chambers where dangerous ideas are amplified rather than confronted.” (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll discuss the Ukrainian SBU’s “Spiderweb” operation and the main disinformation narrative vatniks have been spreading during the afterfall. While domestic Russian media stays silent, the vatniks and Russian milbloggers have been extremely loud. 1/20

Check your language. Your anti-Zionist rhetoric is fueling hate crimes against Jews.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

Feeling this deeply. Jews have served as a convenient scapegoats through the ages for whatever ailed societies. “conflict in Gaza had exposed historical hatred of Jews that had been somewhat held at bay in the decades after World War II and the Holocaust.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/w...

Here's the letter Noem sent Harvard, as posted on X. Nothing alleges ANY specific violation of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. Nothing. She cites no law violated, no regulation broken, no policy ignored. I don't care what you think of Harvard; this is clear weaponization of government.

Only using this to remind everyone that my lab buddy (from my physics days) Stephen Morris created this meme.

Apparently this applies not only to new students but also existing ones. I am so so sad for the dreams shattered. Although I am not affiliated with Harvard, I understand how much we as a country is losing.

Maybe now, you will hear us when we tell you how scary it is to walk through the crowd on campus chanting “globalize the Intifada”

Losing our best and brightest. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

NSF just cancelled ALL grants to Harvard researchers. That’s right - physics, astronomy, bio, CAREER - ALL. Professors won’t get paid. Postdocs won’t get paid. PhD students won’t get paid. This is insane! If they can do this to Harvard, they can do this to your school.

😬In sims, 1/100 Asian-coded agents will join a protest if told they shouldn't. All 100 Black-coded agents will join anyway. New #Facct2025 paper led by @yuxuanli1225.bsky.social Actions Speak Louder than Words: Agent Decisions Reveal Implicit Biases in Language Models sauvikdas.com/papers/64/se...

Justice David Souter had a message for us: “An ignorant people can never remain a free people. Democracy cannot survive too much ignorance.”

@fredfredfredfred.bsky.social right up your alley