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📣 Yale workshop, Oct 16-17! 📣 How could/should content ranking work? What's new in content moderation? How can platforms promote civility? Hosted by Yale's Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS). Great speakers! Submit posters by 9/22! Spread the word! yalefds.swoogo.com/socialalgori...
New Directions in Social Algorithms Research on October 16-17, 2025 at Yale University
As social media algorithms increasingly mediate social experiences, there has been a rapid increase in research on the effects of how these algorithms are configured, alternatives to engagement-centri...
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September 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📣 Yale workshop, Oct 16-17! 📣 How could/should content ranking work? What's new in content moderation? How can platforms promote civility? Hosted by Yale's Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS). Great speakers! Submit posters by 9/22! Spread the word! yalefds.swoogo.com/socialalgori...
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Today, @catiebailard.bsky.social and I take the reins at GW's Institute for Data, Democracy + Politics! We'll work to make IDDP a one-stop shop for research on misinfo, platform manipulation, and threats to democratic ideals. To follow our work + learn about opportunities, visit: bit.ly/45GLggi
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August 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Today, @catiebailard.bsky.social and I take the reins at GW's Institute for Data, Democracy + Politics! We'll work to make IDDP a one-stop shop for research on misinfo, platform manipulation, and threats to democratic ideals. To follow our work + learn about opportunities, visit: bit.ly/45GLggi
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Very cool looking Ass Prof job posting from the great group at Copenhagen Business School
www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...
www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Business and Government at CBS | CBS - Copenhagen Business School
Copenhagen Business School invites applications for a vacant tenure track assistant professorship in Business and Government at the Department of International Economics, Government and Business. Expected starting date is during 2026 (negotiable). EGB is a multidisciplinary department that conducts
www.cbs.dk
August 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Very cool looking Ass Prof job posting from the great group at Copenhagen Business School
www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...
www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...
FTC and Musk are working to sue Media Matters out of existence. A real canary in the coalmine moment for civil society.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
FTC and Musk are working to sue Media Matters out of existence. A real canary in the coalmine moment for civil society.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
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Deeply reported story by @stephaniemlee.bsky.social, on the impact of grant terminations — even for those who have managed to get their awards reinstated
“I do not trust 100 percent,” one researcher said, “that there won’t be another termination.”
“I do not trust 100 percent,” one researcher said, “that there won’t be another termination.”
NEW: Their NIH grants are back, but nothing is back to normal.
In June, a judge ordered the restoration of 900+ terminated grants. So how's that going? Scientists say they're happy, but also it's been a bumpy road—and they're afraid their funds will get cut again. www.chronicle.com/article/thei...
In June, a judge ordered the restoration of 900+ terminated grants. So how's that going? Scientists say they're happy, but also it's been a bumpy road—and they're afraid their funds will get cut again. www.chronicle.com/article/thei...
Their NIH Grants Are Back. But Nothing Is Back to Normal.
Researchers say that picking up where they left off is complicated — scientifically, financially, and logistically.
www.chronicle.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Deeply reported story by @stephaniemlee.bsky.social, on the impact of grant terminations — even for those who have managed to get their awards reinstated
“I do not trust 100 percent,” one researcher said, “that there won’t be another termination.”
“I do not trust 100 percent,” one researcher said, “that there won’t be another termination.”
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Anyway, I know it's not news that Trump is hypocritical, but here's my story reminding people that MAGA world insisted that the Biden admin sending impolite notes to Facebook was the greatest threat to free speech, but are completely silent on Trump calling up Murdoch and demanding he kill a story
Trump Threatens, Then Sues Murdoch Over Epstein Story Using Tactics His Supporters Used To Call A ‘Massive Attack on Free Speech’
Donald Trump admitted yesterday that he called Rupert Murdoch and demanded the Wall Street Journal kill its story about Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. When…
Donald Trump admitted yesterday that he called Rupert Murdoch and demanded the Wall Street Journal kill its story about Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. When…
Trump Threatens, Then Sues Murdoch Over Epstein Story Using Tactics His Supporters Used To Call A ‘Massive Attack on Free Speech’
Donald Trump admitted yesterday that he called Rupert Murdoch and demanded the Wall Street Journal kill its story about Trump's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. When Murdoch couldn't deliver, Trump promised to sue the media company and gleefully looked forward to putting Murdoch on the witness stand. Update: Just as this story was going live, it was reported that he had, in fact, sued…
www.techdirt.com
July 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Anyway, I know it's not news that Trump is hypocritical, but here's my story reminding people that MAGA world insisted that the Biden admin sending impolite notes to Facebook was the greatest threat to free speech, but are completely silent on Trump calling up Murdoch and demanding he kill a story
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Will Meet The Press ask random other white politicians to condemn Trump's antisemitic language this weekend? Or does that only apply to Mamdani?
"No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people."
July 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Will Meet The Press ask random other white politicians to condemn Trump's antisemitic language this weekend? Or does that only apply to Mamdani?
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It’s weird how the white conservative guys at the NYT get to say whatever they want but anyone else has to watch what they say because it’s “too political”
So, Jamelle Bouie criticizes an attempted-gotcha on Mamdani at NYT, then NYT asks him to remove any criticism from social, but the author of the attempted-gotcha works with impunity? Do I have that right?
July 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It’s weird how the white conservative guys at the NYT get to say whatever they want but anyone else has to watch what they say because it’s “too political”
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A nice complement to this paper by @aecoppock.bsky.social and @andyguess.com alexandercoppock.com/guess_coppoc..., which found no evidence of backlash from one-sided counter-attitudinal information
Great new paper by Stagnaro & Amsalem in NatComm:
Detailed fact-based informational module about gun control leads to persistent reductions in polarization (attitudes move towards midpoint). Seeing the evidence cited by other side makes opinions more moderate www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Detailed fact-based informational module about gun control leads to persistent reductions in polarization (attitudes move towards midpoint). Seeing the evidence cited by other side makes opinions more moderate www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A nice complement to this paper by @aecoppock.bsky.social and @andyguess.com alexandercoppock.com/guess_coppoc..., which found no evidence of backlash from one-sided counter-attitudinal information
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Not surprising that an administration that rose to power on the spread of bullshit and propaganda is terminating the funding of researchers studying these phenomena. We are just receiving word about funding cancellations re: existing grants to members of our team and our colleagues.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is terminating a bunch of research funding. Much of this is in line with the goal of making sure nothing gets in the way of systemic racism and sexism, but they also explicitly target research on "misinformation/disinformation."
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Not surprising that an administration that rose to power on the spread of bullshit and propaganda is terminating the funding of researchers studying these phenomena. We are just receiving word about funding cancellations re: existing grants to members of our team and our colleagues.
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Out now! "GERDA: The German Election Database." GERDA provides comprehensive municipal, state, and federal election results at the municipality level between 1990 and 2021.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
GERDA: The German Election Database - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - GERDA: The German Election Database
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April 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Out now! "GERDA: The German Election Database." GERDA provides comprehensive municipal, state, and federal election results at the municipality level between 1990 and 2021.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights "investigations" into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
The funding pause amid civil rights "investigations" into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern
The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.
www.nytimes.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:59 AM
We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.
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Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.
NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
April 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.
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If we were conquered and under hostile occupation, what would the government do differently? Would an occupation government that wanted to crush the United States as a vibrant, prosperous country with influence around the world do anything differently?
April 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If we were conquered and under hostile occupation, what would the government do differently? Would an occupation government that wanted to crush the United States as a vibrant, prosperous country with influence around the world do anything differently?
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Former Columbia president Lee Bollinger, interviewed by the Chronicle earlier this month, said universities should think in centuries and consider what they might look back on in shame; apparently Columbia’s current leadership considered the question and decided they’re content submitting to a king.
The four years I spent at Columbia as an undergrad were foundational to my development as a human. It breaks my heart as an alum, and makes me so angry as a citizen, that this has happened.
This is just the worst week. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
March 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Former Columbia president Lee Bollinger, interviewed by the Chronicle earlier this month, said universities should think in centuries and consider what they might look back on in shame; apparently Columbia’s current leadership considered the question and decided they’re content submitting to a king.
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Reminder that 'savvy' political fact checkers spent the entire campaign telling voters that Trump was not going to do the things he obviously was going to do.
March 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Reminder that 'savvy' political fact checkers spent the entire campaign telling voters that Trump was not going to do the things he obviously was going to do.
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I'm sure this is the last time they'll ever threaten Columbia's funding. So rest easy. It's not like Donald Trump to keep on threatening the same person or entity over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. I don't think the sets any precedent. 🙄
March 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm sure this is the last time they'll ever threaten Columbia's funding. So rest easy. It's not like Donald Trump to keep on threatening the same person or entity over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. I don't think the sets any precedent. 🙄
me for the next 4 years
February 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
me for the next 4 years
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As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index.
The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe.
#journalism #democracy #freepress
rsf.org/en/index
The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe.
#journalism #democracy #freepress
rsf.org/en/index
February 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index.
The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe.
#journalism #democracy #freepress
rsf.org/en/index
The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe.
#journalism #democracy #freepress
rsf.org/en/index
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I really wish Americans would stop treating the continued existence of Canada as the sort of thing they can do amusing thought experiments about.
Canada as the 51st state? Trump thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to Democrats, who would gain a lot more voters. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...
Canada as the 51st State? In Electoral Terms, Trump’s Idea Favors Democrats.
Bringing Canada into the United States, however farcical the prospect may seem, would alter the political map in a way likely to cost Republicans.
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I really wish Americans would stop treating the continued existence of Canada as the sort of thing they can do amusing thought experiments about.
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ACTION THIS WEDNESDAY: Researchers from New York universities are holding a rally to protest the funding cuts at Washington Square Park at 4 pm.
This will be part of a national day of action, with rallies at HHS in DC and all around the country.
RSVP HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
This will be part of a national day of action, with rallies at HHS in DC and all around the country.
RSVP HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
ACTION THIS WEDNESDAY: Researchers from New York universities are holding a rally to protest the funding cuts at Washington Square Park at 4 pm.
This will be part of a national day of action, with rallies at HHS in DC and all around the country.
RSVP HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
This will be part of a national day of action, with rallies at HHS in DC and all around the country.
RSVP HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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It is vitally important that journalists speak to comparativists who study authoritarian takeovers, like @kimlanelaw.bsky.social, and not just to people whose expertise is in US domestic law and politics.
Please listen to @kimlanelaw.bsky.social explain that while the eank insanity of the past 12 days is new to America, it's familiar in Hungary (and Poland and Turkey) down to every particular. When lawyers are more dangerous than tanks in the street...
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Trump’s American Takeover
Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 02/01/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It is vitally important that journalists speak to comparativists who study authoritarian takeovers, like @kimlanelaw.bsky.social, and not just to people whose expertise is in US domestic law and politics.
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Excited to share my new #JEPS paper with @xiaoxiaoshen.bsky.social introducing ReChat, a research tool for live-text interaction studies! Makes it easy to embed live chats in surveys, opening new possibilities for research on social interaction. Check it out! 🧵👇
#AcademicSky #PoliSciSky #PoliSky
#AcademicSky #PoliSciSky #PoliSky
#OpenAccess from @jepsjournal.bsky.social -
Introducing ReChat: A Lab-in-the-Cloud for Text Discussions - cup.org/4gFUahQ
- @xiaoxiaoshen.bsky.social & @small-schulz.bsky.social
#FirstView #JEPS
Introducing ReChat: A Lab-in-the-Cloud for Text Discussions - cup.org/4gFUahQ
- @xiaoxiaoshen.bsky.social & @small-schulz.bsky.social
#FirstView #JEPS
December 18, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Excited to share my new #JEPS paper with @xiaoxiaoshen.bsky.social introducing ReChat, a research tool for live-text interaction studies! Makes it easy to embed live chats in surveys, opening new possibilities for research on social interaction. Check it out! 🧵👇
#AcademicSky #PoliSciSky #PoliSky
#AcademicSky #PoliSciSky #PoliSky
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At long last, my stupidly long post on how Brendan Carr is aiming to be America's top censor.
www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/b...
www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/b...
Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He’s Eager To Be America’s Top Censor
When Donald Trump announced that he was appointing current FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr to be the next chair of the FCC, it was no surprise. Nor was it a surprise that Trump tried to play up that …
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November 27, 2024 at 9:55 PM
At long last, my stupidly long post on how Brendan Carr is aiming to be America's top censor.
www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/b...
www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/b...
ICYMI yesterday: Sen. Markey called on Meta to recommit itself to transparency, data sharing, and ongoing research to study its platforms' effects on elections and democracy.
www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.markey.senate.gov
October 30, 2024 at 6:38 PM
ICYMI yesterday: Sen. Markey called on Meta to recommit itself to transparency, data sharing, and ongoing research to study its platforms' effects on elections and democracy.
www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/do...