Kenny Joseph
@kennyjoseph.bsky.social
Come be my boss!
The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair.
Please feel free to reach out with questions!
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
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The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair.
Please feel free to reach out with questions!
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
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Professor, Department Chair of AI and Society
The Department of AI and Society at the University at Buffalo, invites applications from outstanding scholars with excellent leadership abilities for the position of Department Chair. The Department o...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Come be my boss!
The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair.
Please feel free to reach out with questions!
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
[Plz repost]
The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair.
Please feel free to reach out with questions!
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
[Plz repost]
the key to good writing:
1. Decide 1-3 days before the deadline to rewrite the intro
2. End up drafting the leading phrase "At it's core, human communication is about..."
3. Question life choices
1. Decide 1-3 days before the deadline to rewrite the intro
2. End up drafting the leading phrase "At it's core, human communication is about..."
3. Question life choices
September 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
the key to good writing:
1. Decide 1-3 days before the deadline to rewrite the intro
2. End up drafting the leading phrase "At it's core, human communication is about..."
3. Question life choices
1. Decide 1-3 days before the deadline to rewrite the intro
2. End up drafting the leading phrase "At it's core, human communication is about..."
3. Question life choices
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What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar?
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
July 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar?
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
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Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.
New Trump EO: "when ideological biases or social agendas are built into AI models, they can distort the quality and accuracy of the output"
...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.
...so henceforth the US government won't do business with you unless your LLM is built to echo our ideological bias and promote our social agenda.
Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
July 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.
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ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download!
📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info
💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info
💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter
doi.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download!
📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info
💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info
💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Reposting for the #ic2s2 crowd!
UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025.
More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734
More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society
The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
July 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Reposting for the #ic2s2 crowd!
UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025.
More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734
More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society
The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu
July 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025.
More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734
More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734
Only problem with the baby starting to sleep through the night is that I need to find a new excuse to justify my caffeine intake now
July 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Only problem with the baby starting to sleep through the night is that I need to find a new excuse to justify my caffeine intake now
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So ICWSM concluded today and it was a blast, was a great honor to attend @icwsm.bsky.social at Copenhagen and present my work with @kennyjoseph.bsky.social and other colleagues. The paper link is here :
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...,
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...,
View of Measuring Dimensions of Self-Presentation in Twitter Bios and their Links to Misinformation Sharing
ojs.aaai.org
June 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
So ICWSM concluded today and it was a blast, was a great honor to attend @icwsm.bsky.social at Copenhagen and present my work with @kennyjoseph.bsky.social and other colleagues. The paper link is here :
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...,
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...,
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How information sharing in social media has slowly shifted from public posting to private channels. Strong empirical evidence from Facebook by the one and only Kiran Garimella. DETOX #ICWSM.
June 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
How information sharing in social media has slowly shifted from public posting to private channels. Strong empirical evidence from Facebook by the one and only Kiran Garimella. DETOX #ICWSM.
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In our new paper (w/ @jongreen.bsky.social , @davidlazer.bsky.social, & Philip Resnik), now up in Nature Human Behaviour (nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02223-4), we argue that this tension really speaks to a broader misconceptualization of what misinformation is and how it works.
Using co-sharing to identify use of mainstream news for promoting potentially misleading narratives - Nature Human Behaviour
Goel et al. examine why some factually correct news articles are often shared by users who also shared fake news articles on social media.
nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In our new paper (w/ @jongreen.bsky.social , @davidlazer.bsky.social, & Philip Resnik), now up in Nature Human Behaviour (nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02223-4), we argue that this tension really speaks to a broader misconceptualization of what misinformation is and how it works.
UB is starting an AI and Society Department. The first job positing is for a postdoc position (F26 or S27 start).
engineering.buffalo.edu/home/researc...
Please reach out if you have questions!
engineering.buffalo.edu/home/researc...
Please reach out if you have questions!
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
We are a vibrant and diverse community of researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs. We collaborate to discover new knowledge, educate tomorrow's leaders, and solve the most pressing challenges facing...
engineering.buffalo.edu
June 3, 2025 at 1:26 AM
UB is starting an AI and Society Department. The first job positing is for a postdoc position (F26 or S27 start).
engineering.buffalo.edu/home/researc...
Please reach out if you have questions!
engineering.buffalo.edu/home/researc...
Please reach out if you have questions!
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Got this written up, fwiw.
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
May 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Got this written up, fwiw.
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
Initial takeaways for us - lots of fanfiction and male dominance-centered relationships (e.g. arranged marriages) to roleplay where user is not the dominant male. Longer term, it is interesting to consider what c.ai means for user-gen content.
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13354
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Sending this out again for anyone in Pittsburgh who lost their NEA grant last week, or is fighting for their NSF money, or who is being RIF'd from their fed job, or who wants to tell an investigative journalist anything, really. You can be anonymized and you will be protected.
Do you work for the federal government in Pittsburgh? Are you a researcher or scientist affected by the new administration? Do you have a story tip?
I'm an investigative journalist; get in touch!
Work email: twegerski@cbs.com
Proton email: torywegerski@proton.me
Signal: @torywegerski.25
I'm an investigative journalist; get in touch!
Work email: twegerski@cbs.com
Proton email: torywegerski@proton.me
Signal: @torywegerski.25
May 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Sending this out again for anyone in Pittsburgh who lost their NEA grant last week, or is fighting for their NSF money, or who is being RIF'd from their fed job, or who wants to tell an investigative journalist anything, really. You can be anonymized and you will be protected.
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I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/
May 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I spend a lot of time disparaging those who are failing us in this moment - but today I want to shine a light on all of those who are helping to make the threats to science and universities legible for other scientists and the public🧪 1/
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New paper out in Nature Communications 📌
@anetilab.bsky.social members @lgajo.bsky.social and @johanneswachs.bsky.social with @loreb92.bsky.social and Federico Battiston explore "The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams" 👾
Link to paper ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@anetilab.bsky.social members @lgajo.bsky.social and @johanneswachs.bsky.social with @loreb92.bsky.social and Federico Battiston explore "The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams" 👾
Link to paper ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams - Nature Communications
Understanding how team dynamics impact performance in collaborative environments remains an open question. Here, authors use fine-grained activity data from software projects to characterize team evol...
www.nature.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
New paper out in Nature Communications 📌
@anetilab.bsky.social members @lgajo.bsky.social and @johanneswachs.bsky.social with @loreb92.bsky.social and Federico Battiston explore "The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams" 👾
Link to paper ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@anetilab.bsky.social members @lgajo.bsky.social and @johanneswachs.bsky.social with @loreb92.bsky.social and Federico Battiston explore "The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams" 👾
Link to paper ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 New paper out in @journalqd.bsky.social! 🚨
How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information. #socialmedia🧵
How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information. #socialmedia🧵
April 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🚨 New paper out in @journalqd.bsky.social! 🚨
How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information. #socialmedia🧵
How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information. #socialmedia🧵
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🎉 Acceptance notifications have been sent—congratulations to all the authors!
🔥 If you are a student, be sure to check out the #ICWSM 2025 Student Travel Grant
📅 Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
🔎Details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...
✍️Application form: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/m1xp8i...
🔥 If you are a student, be sure to check out the #ICWSM 2025 Student Travel Grant
📅 Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
🔎Details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...
✍️Application form: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/m1xp8i...
March 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🎉 Acceptance notifications have been sent—congratulations to all the authors!
🔥 If you are a student, be sure to check out the #ICWSM 2025 Student Travel Grant
📅 Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
🔎Details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...
✍️Application form: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/m1xp8i...
🔥 If you are a student, be sure to check out the #ICWSM 2025 Student Travel Grant
📅 Deadline: Mar 31, 2025
🔎Details: www.icwsm.org/2025/attend/...
✍️Application form: aaaiforms.wufoo.com/forms/m1xp8i...
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Congrats to ADL, AJC and the other mainstream Jewish orgs content to sit back while a fascist delivers antisemitic smears against the most prominent Jew in American government
Trump: "Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. He's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian."
March 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Congrats to ADL, AJC and the other mainstream Jewish orgs content to sit back while a fascist delivers antisemitic smears against the most prominent Jew in American government
Learning your one kid dodged pink eye and can go to daycare so you uncancel your meetings only to be called 20 minutes later by the nurse to pick up one of your other kids
March 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Learning your one kid dodged pink eye and can go to daycare so you uncancel your meetings only to be called 20 minutes later by the nurse to pick up one of your other kids
A colleague is looking for technical folks to review papers for a special issue in the Journal of Social Work Research on Social Work and AI.
Chance to do some interdisciplinary dialogue in an important area!
Fill out this google form if you're interested:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Chance to do some interdisciplinary dialogue in an important area!
Fill out this google form if you're interested:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reviewer Solicitation Form
This form asks for your interest and availability in reviewing 1 - 2 full length (approx. 20-35 pgs) interdisciplinary manuscripts for a special issue of the Journal on Social Work Practice. The revie...
docs.google.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A colleague is looking for technical folks to review papers for a special issue in the Journal of Social Work Research on Social Work and AI.
Chance to do some interdisciplinary dialogue in an important area!
Fill out this google form if you're interested:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Chance to do some interdisciplinary dialogue in an important area!
Fill out this google form if you're interested:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Who won the Trump/Vance/Zelensky Oval Office shouting match? We asked three Russian bots in an X comment thread.
March 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Who won the Trump/Vance/Zelensky Oval Office shouting match? We asked three Russian bots in an X comment thread.
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Rufo straight up admits that the entire framing of being against "cancel culture" was BS and they just wanted to be the ones doing the "canceling."
Every radical centrist who was just asking questions in the Atlantic played their useful idiot role in bringing this to fruition.
Every radical centrist who was just asking questions in the Atlantic played their useful idiot role in bringing this to fruition.
February 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Rufo straight up admits that the entire framing of being against "cancel culture" was BS and they just wanted to be the ones doing the "canceling."
Every radical centrist who was just asking questions in the Atlantic played their useful idiot role in bringing this to fruition.
Every radical centrist who was just asking questions in the Atlantic played their useful idiot role in bringing this to fruition.
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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
February 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place):
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."
1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."