Excited to have a paper accepted to the main conference #ACL2025! If you are interested in narrative/news tracking, hopefully it will be of some use to you! Details to come soon!

Thanks @rossdahlke.bsky.social!

Great in-depth examination of news media, bias, and information spread, by @hanshanley.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Curating and sharing high-quality datasets is the foundation of good empirical science. @icwsm.bsky.social promotes dataset creation through a dedicated conference track published in the conference's regular proceedings. Submit your dataset paper by Jan 15th! www.icwsm.org/2025/submit/...

New @acm-cscw.bsky.social paper, new content moderation paradigm. Post Guidance lets moderators prevent rule-breaking by triggering interventions as users write posts! We implemented PG on Reddit and tested it in a massive field experiment (n=97k). It became a feature! arxiv.org/abs/2411.16814

This @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social paper argues that LLM responses in big5-style tests are reliable. LLM responses across various settings (eg, languages, prompts) vary less than human responses. Yet, the external validity of these tests for LLMs remains unclear. aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...

Can we detect #hatespeech at scale on social media? To answer this, we introduce 🤬HateDay🗓️, a global hate speech dataset representative of a day on Twitter. The answer: not really! Detection perf is low and overestimated by traditional eval methods arxiv.org/abs/2411.15462 🧵

[Please reshare] I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at UW! I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/ cc @uwischool.bsky.social

New paper: Do social media algorithms shape affective polarization? We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup! 🧵⬇️

Super humbled to have some of latest research featured here! datascience.stanford.edu/news/shining...

📣 I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at the University of Maryland College of Information. Consider applying if you're interested in language, society/politics, and computers! Deadline Dec 3: ischool.umd.edu/academics/ph... And pls share with anyone who may be interested!

Missed some – or all – of our papers at #EMNLP2024? It's not too late to catch up using this handy list from the Stanford AI Lab blog: ai.stanford.edu/blog/emnlp-2...

I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at Princeton to work on Comp Social Science/Societal Impact of GenAI/GenAI for SocSci I wrote a bit on research flavor & interests here: manoelhortaribeiro.github.io/advising Deadline: December 15th www.cs.princeton.edu/grad#prospec... Please boost!