AI data centers are straining already fragile power and water infrastructures in communities around the world, leading to blackouts and water shortages. “Data centers are where environmental and social issues meet,” says Rosi Leonard, an environmentalist with @foeireland.bsky.social.

LLMs are often used for text annotation, especially in social science. In some cases, this involves placing text items on a scale: eg, 1 for liberal and 9 for conservative

There are a few ways to accomplish this task. Which work best? Our new EMNLP paper has some answers🧵
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00828

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...

There's a lot of concern out there about online misinformation, but when we try and measure it by identifying sharing of/traffic to unreliable sources, it looks like a tiny share of users' information diets. What gives?

Goel et al. examine why some factually correct news articles are often shared alongside fake news claims on social media. @pranavgoel.bsky.social @jongreen.bsky.social @davidlazer.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you are at #WebSci2025, join our "Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory" - a tutorial that addresses the critical challenges of web data collection in the post-API era.

national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_websci25/

If you study networks, or have been stuck listening to people who study networks for long enough (sorry to my loved ones), you may have heard that open triads – V shapes – in social networks tend to turn into closed triangles. But why does this happen? In part, because people repost each other.