💓I am so (so, so) very excited to be joining @ddc-sdu.bsky.social and @d-ias.bsky.social, starting February 2026, where I will continue my work on computational methods/AI, researcher data access, multi-platform language flows, and political extremism. 💓 1/

Brilliant scholar @shugars.bsky.social is our discussant. They highlighted some key trends, noting that many panelists raised similar question, including "when and how is it appropriate to use LLMs?" They also mention inequality challenges with using closed-source and expensive models.

We round the panel out with work by @damiantrilling.net on LLM agents. He and his team conduct 3 studies, some of which are fully simulated and some that are more hybrid. #ica25 @icacm.bsky.social

@zeningduan.bsky.social presenting his work with the Social Media & Democracy research group at @uwsjmc.bsky.social. In the study, they use an LLM to annotate accounts for different roles, which they validate with manual coding. Zero shot was good, few shot was better.

Miyoung Chong presents her work with @smithmarisaa.bsky.social and Om Sai on using LLMs for stance detection (zero and few-shot). They apply this to the case of CRT discourse.

Longhan Wei presents his work with Tian Yang looking at ChatGPT users and their online behavior, showing a possible amplification effect. #ica25 @icacm.bsky.social

Torie Kim (my student!!) presenting our work on using open source LLMs (who talk to each other) to label text data. #ica25 @icacm.bsky.social

Standing room only at @zeningduan.bsky.social and @alvinyxz.bsky.social 's @icacm.bsky.social panel on LLMs #ica25

🔎 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...

Feels so good to move to here. HELLO, BlueSky!