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Can’t believe I didn’t think to write: Dr. Shugars supports Sweet Shop! But seriously: I’m so pumped about @sweetshop.app. Buy comics, read comics. Your mental health will thank you 💜

Sarah found one of my favorite share images, but there are others….

🚨PSA for all my fellow comic fans: @sweetshop.app is a GREAT new app for digital comics. Check it out! 👇 sweetshop.app/join/MzQtP8

I protest because I love America #NoKings

📣 Job alert! *Assistant Prof in Computational Social Science*. We're a friendly department, with sharp students, at a great institution, in a lovely city. We have real strengths in computational social science & are looking for a colleague to build this further. Share and reach out with quesions!

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

This time APSA is not on fire but the world is

Heading to Vancouver for #APSA2025! If you’re in town and would like to meet up, please feel free to reach out or say “hi” if you see me I’m especially happy to make time for grad students interested in text, networks, or other computational methods. Come be my friend! 👋🏻

Great job at the Pew Research Center for a Computational Social Science Assistant: pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

If you are a researcher in the LA area, please join the Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute!

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

“The makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again.” Only gets more 🔥 from there

Writing about Twitter in the past tense 🪦

Please consider following Language and Society Scotland, a new network for scholars, practitioners, writers, activists and other stakeholders working on issues broadly related to the study of language and society in Scotland. On Bluesky: @langsocscot.bsky.social‬

We are thrilled to announce that Josephine (“Jo”) Lukito will join the DDC as Professor in Digital Communication and DIAS Chair! @jolukito.bsky.social is a leading expert in the fields of political communication & computational methods, & will join us starting Feb 1, 2026. Velkommen til DCC Jo! 🤗🎉

Giving money to the poor is once again proven to be a much more effective and much less expensive than whatever neoliberal bureaucracies continue to defend.

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

Will is fantastic and you should hire him immediately

Anyway, it was really pretty cool to win an NSF, esp. as a woman social scientist doing justice-centered work with other Black scholars. The window of that funding being quite literally months before being yanked away, when the planned work would have take years, feels apropos of everything.

Feeling grateful for the opportunity to share about my ongoing project and connecting with the fantastic crew at PolNet-PaCSS 2025. Special thanks to @shugars.bsky.social for capturing the moment!

Wrapping things up with a keynote from the inimitable @brendannyhan.bsky.social #pacss2025 #polnet2025

Very interesting work from @hwaight.bsky.social and @csmapnyu.org examining narrative similarity between news stories from global media sources. Methodological challenging because stories may communicate the same ideas/claims without using the same ngrams #pacss2025 #polnet2025

Very cool work from Erin Walk (@asc.upenn.edu) looking at politicians who are attacked as being extreme. Using a longitudinal data set (2016-2024) of Twitter posts and cable news transcripts, she examines who gets attacked and how visible those people are in the media #polnet2025 #pacss2026

So many great posters at the joint #PolNet2025 / #PaCSS2025 conference I didn’t get a chance to see all of them, but here are some of my highlights. Keep an eye out for these great junior scholars! 🧵👇🏻

Very cool pilot study from @dowonkim.bsky.social using chatbots to examine how people respond to out-group agreement and in-group disagreement. Looking forward to seeing this project develop into the full study! #pacss2025 #polnet2025

Very interesting work from @tedhchen.com looking at the interplay between emotions and participating in climate change demonstrations Optimism about the future is often negatively correlated w demonstrating, but some demonstrators may be fueled by a mix of optimism and anger #polnet2025 #pacss2025

Very interesting work from @ethanbusby.bsky.social and colleagues looking at persuasion of *voice AI* by gender. Finding point to a complicated relationship between the topic of discussion, the gender of the human discussant, and the gender cue of the AI voice #pacss2025 #polnet2025

Exciting work coming from @pranavgoel.bsky.social looking at the effect of ChatGPT and similar tools on web browsing habits. When people use these tools do they tend to stay on the platform instead of being referred elsewhere? Could this lead to the end of the open web? #pacss2025 #polnet2025

So many interesting findings in this work from @mmosleh.bsky.social and @dgrand.bsky.social comparing news sharing and engagement by quality and partisanship across 7 platforms Notable partisan asymmetries. Low quality news gets more engagement, driven by traditional news getting poor engagement

Exciting methodological development from Ben Guinadeau and @csmapnyu.org using poisson factorization to do ideal point estimation of TikTok posts #pacss2025 #polnet2025

Important work from @dgrand.bsky.social looking at political persuasion from generative AI Good news/bad news: it worked. “Friendliness” and use of facts seemed to be primary drivers #pacss2025 #polnet2025

Fascinating work from @jatucker.bsky.social and @csmapnyu.org looking at the effect of labeling images as AI on people’s beliefs about the provenance + veracity of that image. They also explore the implications of AI images not being labeled after seeing labeled images #PaCSS2025 #polnet2025

Kicking things off with great work from @herbertchang.bsky.social looking at how generative AI memes were used during the 2024 election and their impact on people’s views #PaCSS2025 #PolNet2025

After 2 great days of workshops, it’s time to officially start the main conference of PaCSS/PolNet! #PaCSS25 #PolNet25

*New publication in @sscratsage.bsky.social!* The deaths of Black victims of police violence have become focusing events for #BlackLivesMatter. We wanted to know why some victims receive a high amount of social media attention wile others do not. Available #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1177/0894...

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump. Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt. Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

ICYMI: Signed/personalized copies of the🩰❄️The Abominable Snow Dancer❄️🩰 are now available at @mrmoppsbooks.bsky.social! Just add any personalization requests to Order Comments, like so. ✨ www.moppsbooks.com/book/9780593... P.S. For industry folks, an interior sneak peek is now on Edelweiss! 😘

New York, baby ❤️ Please share with any NYC queer data nerds. kevinguyan.com/2025/07/15/r...

Want to join us @univie.ac.at? Our department @ipk-univie.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track professor in interactive communication, with a special focus on human-AI communication. 📆 Apply until September 17! 👀 More information here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... #AcademicSky #CommSky

For anyone on the Communication job market this year S. Rutherford McEwan has put together an excellent spreadsheet for 2025-2026 openings. Highly recommend checking it out (whether you're applying or hiring): docs.getgrist.com/rHppfvPrMDQd... #commsky #academicsky #communication

📣 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!

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As someone who studies political discourse and who believes, genuinely, in the promise of cross-party democratic deliberation, I say this repeatedly: You CANNOT deliberate with someone who doesn’t believe you have a right to exist. It doesn’t matter how “civilly” they want to destroy you

We've got another great piece out using our 2024 data. Celebrate Pride by learning some new things! www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

Kicking off my ICPSR Network Analysis course today If you’re in/around Ann Arbor over the next 3 weeks, please give me a shout!

I'll be presenting my work on US far-right media coverage of the 2023 anti-immigrant riot in Dublin, Ireland this afternoon at #ICA25 in Denver. Come say hi if you're around or if you're interested in transnational far-right media coverage!

Huge congratulations to my brilliant Rutgers colleague Sophia Fu for receiving the #ICA25 Early Career Scholar Award! So glad to see her important work recognized with this prestigious award!