Jason Greenfield
@jasong.bsky.social
Research Engineer at the Center for Social Media and Politics at NYU
Reposted by Jason Greenfield
Do reasoning models have real “Aha!” moments—mid-chain realizations where they intrinsically self-correct?
In a new pre-print, “The Illusion of Insight in Reasoning Models," led by @liv-daliberti.bsky.social we provide strong evidence that they do not!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2601.00514
In a new pre-print, “The Illusion of Insight in Reasoning Models," led by @liv-daliberti.bsky.social we provide strong evidence that they do not!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2601.00514
January 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Do reasoning models have real “Aha!” moments—mid-chain realizations where they intrinsically self-correct?
In a new pre-print, “The Illusion of Insight in Reasoning Models," led by @liv-daliberti.bsky.social we provide strong evidence that they do not!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2601.00514
In a new pre-print, “The Illusion of Insight in Reasoning Models," led by @liv-daliberti.bsky.social we provide strong evidence that they do not!
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2601.00514
Reposted by Jason Greenfield
Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use.
In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776
In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776
September 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use.
In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776
In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776
Does your work explore mis/disinformation, scams, hate speech, or other forms of harmful information online?
We’re convening a CSCW workshop to convene a global community focused on information disorder.
Submissions 2-6 page; due Aug 8.
Hope to see you there!
cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app
We’re convening a CSCW workshop to convene a global community focused on information disorder.
Submissions 2-6 page; due Aug 8.
Hope to see you there!
cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app
August 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Does your work explore mis/disinformation, scams, hate speech, or other forms of harmful information online?
We’re convening a CSCW workshop to convene a global community focused on information disorder.
Submissions 2-6 page; due Aug 8.
Hope to see you there!
cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app
We’re convening a CSCW workshop to convene a global community focused on information disorder.
Submissions 2-6 page; due Aug 8.
Hope to see you there!
cscw2025infodisorder.netlify.app
Reposted by Jason Greenfield
🚨New publication in Social Media + Society🚨
Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
And it's open access!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
And it's open access!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections - Josephine Lukito, Maggie Macdonald, Bin Chen, Megan A. Brown, Stephen Prochaska, Yunkang ...
In this multi-platform, comparative study, we analyze social media messages from political candidates (N = 1,517) running for Congress during the 2022 U.S. Midt...
journals.sagepub.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🚨New publication in Social Media + Society🚨
Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
And it's open access!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Candidates Be Posting: Multi-Platform Strategies and Partisan Preferences in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
And it's open access!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to share “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages” was just published! Amazing work by my wonderful coauthors — read more below!
I am thrilled to share a new article in Sociological Methods & Research, “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages”. My co-first author Sol Messing and our collaborators developed a new approach to measuring “narrative similarity” between texts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages - Hannah Waight, Solomon Messing, Anton Shirikov, Margaret E. Roberts, Jonathan Nagler, Jason Greenfield, Megan A. Brown, Kevin Aslett, Joshua A. Tuck...
How can one understand the spread of ideas across text data? This is a key measurement problem in sociological inquiry, from the study of how interest groups sh...
journals.sagepub.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Excited to share “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages” was just published! Amazing work by my wonderful coauthors — read more below!
Reposted by Jason Greenfield
This week, Natalia Umansky will present our paper (with Christian Pipal, @jasong.bsky.social and @aurman21.bsky.social) at @connectedpol.bsky.social:
"Dances, Duets, and Debates: Analysing elite political communication on TikTok".
Mailing list registration: eepurl.com/gGbBpr
"Dances, Duets, and Debates: Analysing elite political communication on TikTok".
Mailing list registration: eepurl.com/gGbBpr
November 6, 2023 at 2:50 PM
This week, Natalia Umansky will present our paper (with Christian Pipal, @jasong.bsky.social and @aurman21.bsky.social) at @connectedpol.bsky.social:
"Dances, Duets, and Debates: Analysing elite political communication on TikTok".
Mailing list registration: eepurl.com/gGbBpr
"Dances, Duets, and Debates: Analysing elite political communication on TikTok".
Mailing list registration: eepurl.com/gGbBpr
Reposted by Jason Greenfield
Natalia Umansky presenting our (Christian Pipal, @jbgruber.bsky.social @jasong.bsky.social) work-in-progress on the ways European political parties use TikTok at the Digital Democracy Workshop in Zürich!
October 26, 2023 at 10:56 AM
Natalia Umansky presenting our (Christian Pipal, @jbgruber.bsky.social @jasong.bsky.social) work-in-progress on the ways European political parties use TikTok at the Digital Democracy Workshop in Zürich!
The distinction between fear-inducing and hate speech is so importantly highlighted by @juliaangwin.com https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/opinion/fear-speech-social-media.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Opinion | Few Are Addressing One of Social Media’s Greatest Perils
Fear-inciting speech, which isn’t banned by the big tech platforms, is far more dangerous than hate speech.
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2023 at 1:49 PM
The distinction between fear-inducing and hate speech is so importantly highlighted by @juliaangwin.com https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/opinion/fear-speech-social-media.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Hello (bluesky) world. Thanks @solmg.bsky.social for the invite!
May 5, 2023 at 9:54 PM
Hello (bluesky) world. Thanks @solmg.bsky.social for the invite!