🚨We were very excited to present our work on "Seeing Risk Before It Happens: How Vision Language Models Understand Real World Dangers" to American Family Insurance yesterday! We look forward to releasing our VLM benchmark soon!

A new study by the @falklab.bsky.social and colleagues reveals that activity in brain regions associated with reward and social processing can predict the effectiveness of messages:

🚨I had a fantastic visit to UCLA this week. I shared my team’s work on gender representation in science and technology communication, from digital platforms to Large Vision Language Models. Thank you for the invitation! Our studies are here: lnkd.in/d7cvXmDW lnkd.in/dVHqJiez

Currently in FirstView: “Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content.” @kaipingchen.bsky.social and and colleagues introduce “vec-tionaries” which are embedding-based tools for measuring latent features of messages.

Our #AEJMC25 panel “Visualize Science Communication for Impactful Journalism” is happening now at Pacific C [4FL]! We have panelists from academia, foundation and journalism joining us to share perspective on visual credibility in the age of Generative AI. @aejmc.bsky.social

💫Super excited to give a talk at my alma mater Fudan University June 13 on “AI and Social Change”. Welcome to join me online or on site. The talk will be delivered in English. 👇

In our latest podcast episode, hear from @kaipingchen.bsky.social and Corey Jackson about trust in science and how researchers can create the kinds of environments where non-scientists can better engage with scientific work. ids.wisc.edu/2025/05/21/d...

✨Excited to share our new publication @aapor.bsky.social in Public Opinion Quarterly👇: Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

✨Check our new paper👇

✨Sharing our new publication in @polanalysis.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social "Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content" #OpenAccess www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our @uw-lsc.bsky.social PhD student Isabel Villanueva is sharing her research on using #LLMs for content analysis in the Social Media Analytics class now! #lsc460 #AI

New name, same great program. The Department of Life Sciences Communication has answered the growing demand for experts in science communication with the newly renamed Science Communication PhD program. Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/03/06/d...

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

This week, LSC's @kaipingchen.bsky.social will be presenting on "Auditing Equity in Large Language Models: Insights from dialogue and image classification tasks" at our Spring #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

Maybe a hot take, but what about the following advice to the next gen: Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.

“Our phenomenal faculty are top experts in the field, constantly engaging in innovative research and teaching." Excited to see our 1950s Mass Communications program transition into @uwmadison.bsky.social's brand new Science Communication Ph.D. ...

✨Excited to get the best article award with my amazing coauthors. This is our article link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Next week, University of MIchigan Professor Maria Carmen Lemos will be presenting on "Scaling Up Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability" at LSC's #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

Submit your abstracts until January 15 🔆 Would be great to see you at #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna 🤩

🚨New paper out. Combining a large-scale survey with an extensive #COVID media archive in five countries, we show that fear in headlines boosts our sense of risk, but can actually reduce how often we follow preventive measures. 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)

🥰Feel super humbled and grateful for this new milestone in my career. Thanks to my students and colleagues @UW_LSC and beyond that inspire my work all the time! Look forward to continue bringing social impact to science & society!

🥰Feel super humbled and grateful for this new milestone in my career. Thanks to my students and colleagues @UW_LSC and beyond that inspire my work all the time! Look forward to continue bringing social impact to science & society!

🚨Excited to share our new publication @jmcquarterly.bsky.social. In our experiment, we showed promising evidence of how to design intergroup framing in news coverage to reduce conspiracy beliefs in the context of Sino-U.S. relationship👇 #journalism #scicomm journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

✨Feel honored to receive the Vilas Early-Career Award. Very grateful to my students, colleagues and communities that inspire my work all the time! Excited for the next journey! 🥰

🚨🚨Check out this timely forum on standardization in Computational Communication Science👇 It’s such a great learning experience to think and write about this with other amazing scholars!

🚨 List of journalism, #polcomm and #css (computational social science/NLP) conferences in 2025 (last updated 2024-12-09). docs.google.com/spreadsheets... This is a living document, so if there are updates or if you would like to mention conferences to be added, please let me know!

Folks - it's a mess out there. Colleagues: Your preregistered article needs to have a working link to the preregistration + clearly identify deviations. Editors: Please check that the preregistration is included. Reviewers: Please make sure to review the prereg! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We asked people in 8 countries 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇪🇸🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸 how they use platforms and their views on platform governance, privacy, & misinformation. We find overall platform ambivalence - people use platforms for news & info about politics, but they're also skeptical of the information they see there. 1/

🚨Excited to publish my perspective on Computational methods in Chinese Internet Studies in the Special Issue "Thirty Years of the Internet in China" with many other wonderful papers. Check it out 👇@SageJournals journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctp/9/4

✨Had such an inspiring conversation today at @ifkw.bsky.social on validation, bias, and quality criteria in Computational Communication Research. Grateful to @valeriehase.bsky.social @marhai.bsky.social for the invitation to the #CSS Fellow Program—learning so much from this incredible experience!

A new study from @kaipingchen.bsky.social, Ashley Cate, and Steven Moen uses county-level data to better understand how social inequalities and location impact Wisconsin's digital divide. CC: @uw-lsc.bsky.social ids.wisc.edu/2024/11/26/n...

Our Polarization Lab at Duke hopes to hire another post-doc this year-- apply below and/or please share with people who might be interested: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29305

🔎 How are different genders depicted in science discourses across digital platforms? In our paper at JCMC, we analyzed text and visuals in #TikTok and #YouTube videos, revealing patterns on gender stereotypes and user engagement. #scicomm #datascience 👇 academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

Very excited to share my latest work “Critical Computational Social Science” now out in @epj_ds In this paper I trace the epistemological roots of critical methods and argue for the need to integrate critical approaches into Computational Social...

🚨Our new paper in Political Analysis presents a novel, cross-platform method for estimating the ideology of YouTube videos.  What we found: it is possible to do this at scale with an efficient, automated method! 🧵1/

🔍 How are different genders depicted in science discourses across digital platforms? In our new study at JCMC, we analyzed text and visuals in TikTok and YouTube videos, revealing patterns on gender stereotypes and user engagement. #scicomm #datascience academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

Check this workshop: "Thirty Years of the Internet in China: A Retrospective" at UPenn Annenberg School this week! I'm thrilled to speak about computational methods for internet studies. Can't wait to exchange ideas and reconnect with colleagues! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Boundary spanning philanthropy, research, policy, and the practice of #scicomm and public #engagement. Very excited for @uw-lsc.bsky.social's lineup of colloquium speakers this spring ...

LSC Assistant Professor @Kaiping_Chen’s novel research into the the interaction between #ChatGPT and users reveals key insights into user experience and how #AI could change users' opinions and attitudes towards topics such as BLM and Climate Change. Learn more at: news.wisc.edu/chats-with-a...

Check out the latest article from The Badger Herald featuring LSC Asst. Professor Kaiping Chen as she delves into her #research about the relationship between #gender, #race, #education, #inequality, and #technology. badgerherald.com/news/2023/12... #Scicomm