Sam Goree
@samgoree.bsky.social
Interested in things that are both computational and qualitative, especially surrounding AI. Assistant professor of computer science at Stonehill College, he/him https://samgoree.github.io
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Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
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This Data Through Design program looks really cool.
You can submit a proposal to make an art exhibition with data from NYC's open data portal. They give $900 stipends.
Proposals are due November 2.
datathroughdesign.com/2026
You can submit a proposal to make an art exhibition with data from NYC's open data portal. They give $900 stipends.
Proposals are due November 2.
datathroughdesign.com/2026
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This Data Through Design program looks really cool.
You can submit a proposal to make an art exhibition with data from NYC's open data portal. They give $900 stipends.
Proposals are due November 2.
datathroughdesign.com/2026
You can submit a proposal to make an art exhibition with data from NYC's open data portal. They give $900 stipends.
Proposals are due November 2.
datathroughdesign.com/2026
This sort of thing drives home the point that objections to "AI" today are overwhelmingly objections to generative AI everything machines. Algorithms which solve specific problems and work, even if they use classical AI techniques, aren't really AI anymore.
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This sort of thing drives home the point that objections to "AI" today are overwhelmingly objections to generative AI everything machines. Algorithms which solve specific problems and work, even if they use classical AI techniques, aren't really AI anymore.
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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Any of you internet research people working on religion apps? (Thinking like the “pray with Gwen Stefani” Catholicism app.)
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Any of you internet research people working on religion apps? (Thinking like the “pray with Gwen Stefani” Catholicism app.)
It's become increasingly clear that generative AI produces the appearance of intellectual labor without the substance.
That means it increases productivity a ton for performative tasks that were already a little pointless, and does little for tasks that require substance backed by human expertise.
That means it increases productivity a ton for performative tasks that were already a little pointless, and does little for tasks that require substance backed by human expertise.
October 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
It's become increasingly clear that generative AI produces the appearance of intellectual labor without the substance.
That means it increases productivity a ton for performative tasks that were already a little pointless, and does little for tasks that require substance backed by human expertise.
That means it increases productivity a ton for performative tasks that were already a little pointless, and does little for tasks that require substance backed by human expertise.
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I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making.
In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894
In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894
October 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making.
In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894
In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894
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I agree with much here & want to add a puzzling (to me) pattern: I asked my interdisciplinary class whether AI use should be allowed. The math/CS folk said only in socsci and humanities courses, and the SS/H folk said only in math/CS courses. This OP says yes in math/CS and no in humanities 🤔
go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary
"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...
"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...
Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum
The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.
www.ndsmcobserver.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I agree with much here & want to add a puzzling (to me) pattern: I asked my interdisciplinary class whether AI use should be allowed. The math/CS folk said only in socsci and humanities courses, and the SS/H folk said only in math/CS courses. This OP says yes in math/CS and no in humanities 🤔
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telling that so many (good and correct) critiques of AI sound exactly like the main critiques of the media culture AI was born into
So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed
have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours
October 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
telling that so many (good and correct) critiques of AI sound exactly like the main critiques of the media culture AI was born into
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Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.
www.aaup.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
I'm totally at an impasse regarding AI in intro CS.
On the one hand, I am not a fan of generative AI. I don't find it particularly useful and hate the style of code that it tends to generate. My research agenda is generally critical of the claims AI researchers make.
On the one hand, I am not a fan of generative AI. I don't find it particularly useful and hate the style of code that it tends to generate. My research agenda is generally critical of the claims AI researchers make.
September 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I'm totally at an impasse regarding AI in intro CS.
On the one hand, I am not a fan of generative AI. I don't find it particularly useful and hate the style of code that it tends to generate. My research agenda is generally critical of the claims AI researchers make.
On the one hand, I am not a fan of generative AI. I don't find it particularly useful and hate the style of code that it tends to generate. My research agenda is generally critical of the claims AI researchers make.
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The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
September 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
TIL there is in fact a chi distribution that is used for something, and it is the distribution of the square root of a chi-squared-distributed random variable.
September 12, 2025 at 2:26 AM
TIL there is in fact a chi distribution that is used for something, and it is the distribution of the square root of a chi-squared-distributed random variable.
I think I'm beginning to understand how faculty end up with extremely out of date photos. I recently learned that my pfp on linkedin was last updated while I was an undergrad
September 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I think I'm beginning to understand how faculty end up with extremely out of date photos. I recently learned that my pfp on linkedin was last updated while I was an undergrad
If you teach CS1 (or equivalent), have you revised any of your assignments due to generative AI?
There are a lot of research papers about custom CS1 chatbots, and assignments involving them, but I can't imagine that's the norm at most schools.
There are a lot of research papers about custom CS1 chatbots, and assignments involving them, but I can't imagine that's the norm at most schools.
September 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
If you teach CS1 (or equivalent), have you revised any of your assignments due to generative AI?
There are a lot of research papers about custom CS1 chatbots, and assignments involving them, but I can't imagine that's the norm at most schools.
There are a lot of research papers about custom CS1 chatbots, and assignments involving them, but I can't imagine that's the norm at most schools.
IMO the best interdisciplinary projects involve borrowing ideas and methods from another field to enrich your own, not taking your field's ideas and imposing them on another field.
The problem is, it's much easier to "revolutionize" a field you don't know than it is to really learn something new.
The problem is, it's much easier to "revolutionize" a field you don't know than it is to really learn something new.
"Interdisciplinary" means collaborating across disciplinary boundaries--not swanning in without doing the reading or consulting existing experts.
August 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
IMO the best interdisciplinary projects involve borrowing ideas and methods from another field to enrich your own, not taking your field's ideas and imposing them on another field.
The problem is, it's much easier to "revolutionize" a field you don't know than it is to really learn something new.
The problem is, it's much easier to "revolutionize" a field you don't know than it is to really learn something new.
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We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
Human Literacy
Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching
You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. They should know what to type into prompt windows, ...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
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here's my controversial take: i’m finding some sensational predictions about when the AI bubble will burst as unhelpful and unrealistic as some of the AGI predictions. hear me out
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August 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
here's my controversial take: i’m finding some sensational predictions about when the AI bubble will burst as unhelpful and unrealistic as some of the AGI predictions. hear me out
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This is creepy and bad on a number of levels, but on top of all of that it likely also doesn't work. Personal preferences are not stable and predictable on an individual level.
What the actual fucking fuck. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
August 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is creepy and bad on a number of levels, but on top of all of that it likely also doesn't work. Personal preferences are not stable and predictable on an individual level.
Honestly, copyright and tech is so interesting specifically because it doesn't fit nicely into left/right boxes. Copyright both protects authors' ownership of their work, as well as companies' exclusive rights to publish that work. It is somehow both essential to capitalism and a labor right.
I can’t believe we’re actually supposed to be pro copyright now. I am honestly flabbergasted this is being sold as a leftist opinion to have
feel like I’ve woken from a coma and everyone was turned into a temporarily embarrassed patent troll.
feel like I’ve woken from a coma and everyone was turned into a temporarily embarrassed patent troll.
August 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Honestly, copyright and tech is so interesting specifically because it doesn't fit nicely into left/right boxes. Copyright both protects authors' ownership of their work, as well as companies' exclusive rights to publish that work. It is somehow both essential to capitalism and a labor right.
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Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
July 29, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n
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As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
August 14, 2025 at 1:24 AM
As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview.
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...
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Cool job alert for sociologists of science! 📢
The University of San Diego is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor whose work takes a critical approach to science and technology studies—broadly defined. Great job in an awesome city!
#SociologyJobs #STSinSociology #TenureTrack #HigherEdJobs
The University of San Diego is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor whose work takes a critical approach to science and technology studies—broadly defined. Great job in an awesome city!
#SociologyJobs #STSinSociology #TenureTrack #HigherEdJobs
Details - Assistant Professor, Sociology
jobs.sandiego.edu
August 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Cool job alert for sociologists of science! 📢
The University of San Diego is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor whose work takes a critical approach to science and technology studies—broadly defined. Great job in an awesome city!
#SociologyJobs #STSinSociology #TenureTrack #HigherEdJobs
The University of San Diego is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor whose work takes a critical approach to science and technology studies—broadly defined. Great job in an awesome city!
#SociologyJobs #STSinSociology #TenureTrack #HigherEdJobs
I like this whole thread, but most of all I think it gets at my issue with LLMs as "AGI". These models are good at producing smart-sounding language, but the thing that AI should be about is "seeing what is in light of what can be." To some extent, this is the goal of classical AI, but fell off.
Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.
August 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I like this whole thread, but most of all I think it gets at my issue with LLMs as "AGI". These models are good at producing smart-sounding language, but the thing that AI should be about is "seeing what is in light of what can be." To some extent, this is the goal of classical AI, but fell off.
