Excited to announce that Tyler McCormick and I are organizing a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at the University of Washington, with a focus on AI and social science research. July 6-17 We encourage applications from PhD students, postdocs, and junior faculty: sicss.io/2026/uw/

PaCSS (Politics and Computational Social Science) is back! APSA preconference at BU joint with Political Communication, deadline for submission is May 8. Should be great! cssi.umass.edu/pacss2026

Judge Lin says it's not like Anthropic can secretly update the software without DoD's consent. DOJ says there's an audit underway to better understand what may be in the platform. Essentially no one seems to get how AI works.

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🚨🎉Excited to announce that our paper “Grok in the Wild: Characterizing the Roles and Uses of Large Language Models on Social Media” is accepted at @icwsm.bsky.social 2026! In this paper, we investigate how, when, and to what effect Grok is used on X.

Give @yang3kc.bsky.social the best reviewer award now!

'Code Contribution and Credit in Science' - new paper led by @evamaxfield.bsky.social w/ @isaacslaughter.bsky.social 1. We build a model that matches scientists (authors) with their GitHub accounts 2. We apply our model to ~140K paper-software repository pairs direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

The International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation #ICSSI2026 will be in beautiful Boulder, CO, USA! ☀️ June 29 - July 1 ☀️ & Open Data Hackathon, June 28 🧑‍💻 We welcome submissions on all topics in the science of science and innovation, broadly defined. Learn more at 👉 icssi.org 👈

This is good - adopting LLMs to write consumer complaints results in better relief.

I am really excited to co-organize this year's Science of Science Satellite of NetSci 2026 in Boston. Submissions are very open and can include work in progress, work under review, or accepted publications. Please consider submitting before March 18th! Website: netscisci.github.io

Excited for the Networks of Science of Science satellite at NetSCI 2026 this year in Boston! netscisci.github.io Be sure to submit by March 4th!

@dwillis.bsky.social - Is there an archive of pol campaign SMS messages? For some reason, I remember you working on this... But I might be conflating this with the 10000 other projects of yours that I've envied :)

You can change the spinner verbs in CC by editing `~/.claude/config.json` Mine follw the #$CASH theme { "spinnerVerbs": { "mode": "replace", "verbs": ["The first day I got me a fuel pump" ,"And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk"] } } www.youtube.com/watch?v=uErK...

too many polecats not enough deacons

"do you have 5 minutes to chat?"

Extremely good visualization of NBA games. I especially like being able to see the +/- of different lineups over the course of a game (and not just because it supports my thesis that Devin Vassell is the engine that makes SA run) hoopflow.limboy.me?tab=games&ga...

✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨ And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes! Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc... Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR) #NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social

Extremely impressive answer by Opus - the strategy all Weber games is actually obfuscation

🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

This is was essentially Tom Griffiths' keynote this morning at COLM

This is good. Like really good.

This is v good

'Examining the effects of birth order on personality' in PNAS -> across multiple controls in three countries (UK, Germany, USA) "...we conclude that birth order does not have a lasting effect on broad personality traits outside of the intellectual domain." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Simulacra is so back!

today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Every department chair rn:

Police brutality is bad business journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Randomized policy experiments are often assumed to be hard, expensive (financially and politically), and disliked by voters... "Collecting survey data representative of the Dutch electorate, we find clear evidence contradicting this view." doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...

I joined bsky 1 year ago to follow @electricalwsop.bsky.social ... Hope it turns out better for the rest of you