Language technologies like LLMs encode an enormous amount of cultural knowledge. Today, we learn from @lyleungar.bsky.social of @pennengineering.bsky.social about how to use them to study social norms around the world.

Welcome to the eighth day of SICSS-Penn 2025! We are honored to have @janeesberg.bsky.social of @upenn.edu's Political Science Department, who talked about her work on using text analysis to understand political censorship.

Facilitating cross-partisan conversations is a potential intervention to address affective polarization — but the topic of discussion matters! Today, we welcome James Houghton of @csspenn.bsky.social to talk about his "deliberation lab" in this direction.

How do different people — and AI models — perceive hate speech? What are the implications of this heterogeneity in content moderation on social media? We're excited learn from @thomasdavidson.bsky.social of Rutgers University at SICSS-Penn today!

@yamilrvelez.bsky.social from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social opened the second week of SICSS-Penn 2025 with his talk, "Generative AI and Respondent-Centered Social Science."

On day 4, @danisbassett.bsky.social‬ from @pennengineering.bsky.social‬ used network science to investigate the different "styles" of human curiosity — Are we more like "busybodies," "hunters," or "dancers"? — and how they might help us build better, more human-like artificial intelligence.

What is the value of a career? What are the effects of automation on the labor market? We are excited to have Pinar Yildirim at the Wharton School who is talking about "Automation, Career Values, and Political Preferences."

What can we do to address the replication crisis, the file drawer problem, and incommensurable experiments? We are honored to welcome Sean Ellis this morning to talk about the amazing "megastudies" conducted at @bcfginitiative.bsky.social.

The first day of SICSS-Penn 2025 just concluded with @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social's talk "Content Curation in Online Platforms."

Welcome to SICSS-Penn 2025! We are excited to have our faculty organizers, @xisong.bsky.social and @dhopkins1776.bsky.social, deliver opening remarks this morning.

We are proud to welcome 35 scholars who bring a remarkable breadth of academic and technical expertise to SICSS-Penn 2025. Stay tuned to see what they will achieve this summer! #CompSocSci #SICSS #SICSS2025

SICSS-Penn application deadline is extended until March 21, 2025. Submit your application here: sicss.io/2025/penn/ap...

The application deadline for SICSS-Penn is extended for one week. Submit your application by March 14 to attend our amazing program!

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

One more week until applications are due. Don't miss your chance to attend SICSS-Penn this summer!

SICSS-Penn application is open! Deadline March 7, 2025. More information can be found ➡️ sicss.io/2025/penn/ap... @duncanjwatts.bsky.social @dhopkins1776.bsky.social #computational #socialscience #SICSS