Morgan R Frank
@mrfrank.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information.
www.pitt.edu/~mrfrank
www.pitt.edu/~mrfrank
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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How fair are the algorithms that decide who gets information online? Our new paper in PNAS Nexus shows that maximization algorithms, the ones used to pick “influencers” in social networks, unintentionally deepen inequality.
🧠 Sekara, Dotu, Cebrian, Moro & García-Herranz
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
🧠 Sekara, Dotu, Cebrian, Moro & García-Herranz
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Detecting bias in algorithms used to disseminate information in social networks and mitigating it using multiobjective optimization
Abstract. Social connections are conduits through which individuals communicate, information propagates, and diseases spread. Identifying individuals who a
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
How fair are the algorithms that decide who gets information online? Our new paper in PNAS Nexus shows that maximization algorithms, the ones used to pick “influencers” in social networks, unintentionally deepen inequality.
🧠 Sekara, Dotu, Cebrian, Moro & García-Herranz
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
🧠 Sekara, Dotu, Cebrian, Moro & García-Herranz
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
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This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Here is a ‘blame-praise curve’ for the percentage of household chores done by husbands
People think husbands are blameworthy if they do 20%, but praiseworthy if they do 40% (!)
Perceived average is above 40%, so people think below average is still praiseworthy
[Thread]
People think husbands are blameworthy if they do 20%, but praiseworthy if they do 40% (!)
Perceived average is above 40%, so people think below average is still praiseworthy
[Thread]
August 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Here is a ‘blame-praise curve’ for the percentage of household chores done by husbands
People think husbands are blameworthy if they do 20%, but praiseworthy if they do 40% (!)
Perceived average is above 40%, so people think below average is still praiseworthy
[Thread]
People think husbands are blameworthy if they do 20%, but praiseworthy if they do 40% (!)
Perceived average is above 40%, so people think below average is still praiseworthy
[Thread]
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You: pornbots keep randomly following me on Bluesky
Me, an intellectual: pornbots are citing my books on Google Scholar
Me, an intellectual: pornbots are citing my books on Google Scholar
July 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
You: pornbots keep randomly following me on Bluesky
Me, an intellectual: pornbots are citing my books on Google Scholar
Me, an intellectual: pornbots are citing my books on Google Scholar
Inflation
The 99-cent price of AriZona Iced Tea’s signature tallboys has stayed the same for nearly three decades. President Trump’s 50% tariff on imported aluminum may change that. “I hate even the thought of it,” the founder and chairman Don Vultaggio said. nyti.ms/4lkTrVg
August 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Inflation
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The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.
Federal judge rules cuts to humanities grants were 'unlawful'
The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.
n.pr
August 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.
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![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibwuu57ullc7vacjyno6c5z3gtyakkg2qub6cn3dbbjdpn2kaowmi@jpeg)
July 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Don’t eat your receipts
The chemicals in receipts have been linked with reproductive issues. We asked experts whether you should worry.
I’ve Heard Receipts Are Toxic. Is It Safe to Touch Them?
The chemicals in receipts have been linked with reproductive issues. We asked experts whether you should worry.
trib.al
June 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Don’t eat your receipts
Qing Chang will present research on “Upward mobility in the green sector for frontline fossil fuel workers”—joined by Michaël Aklin, Morgan Frank, and Shanti Gamper-Rabindran.
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May 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Qing Chang will present research on “Upward mobility in the green sector for frontline fossil fuel workers”—joined by Michaël Aklin, Morgan Frank, and Shanti Gamper-Rabindran.
Register NOW to join live seminar on Zoom:
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Register NOW to join live seminar on Zoom:
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The EO has to be interpreted in light of the (decades long) Republican attack on science.
This has nothing to do with improving science. They're using legitImate criticism from within science to (ironically) decrease the credibility of science. They then have no obligation to listen to scientists.
This has nothing to do with improving science. They're using legitImate criticism from within science to (ironically) decrease the credibility of science. They then have no obligation to listen to scientists.
There is a new Executive Order that is closely related to many of the topics promoted in the science reform movement. It deserves a close read as it will surely have implications for how some promoted reforms are implemented in policy and practice. My hot take 🧵
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
May 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The EO has to be interpreted in light of the (decades long) Republican attack on science.
This has nothing to do with improving science. They're using legitImate criticism from within science to (ironically) decrease the credibility of science. They then have no obligation to listen to scientists.
This has nothing to do with improving science. They're using legitImate criticism from within science to (ironically) decrease the credibility of science. They then have no obligation to listen to scientists.
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A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
May 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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Thanks to all who joined our conversation on Social Capital in the Age of AI and the screening of Join or Die. 25 years after Bowling Alone, we explored how tech is reshaping trust, connection & civic life in the algorithmic era. @danielaldrich.bsky.social @hamishgibbs.bsky.social socialurban.net
May 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thanks to all who joined our conversation on Social Capital in the Age of AI and the screening of Join or Die. 25 years after Bowling Alone, we explored how tech is reshaping trust, connection & civic life in the algorithmic era. @danielaldrich.bsky.social @hamishgibbs.bsky.social socialurban.net
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📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵
April 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵
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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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🚨New WP🚨
Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction
-Sig more effective than consensus messaging
-Works for Republicans
-Evidence of persistence @ 1mo
-Scalable!
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change
Here’s how 👇
Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction
-Sig more effective than consensus messaging
-Works for Republicans
-Evidence of persistence @ 1mo
-Scalable!
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change
Here’s how 👇
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🚨New WP🚨
Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction
-Sig more effective than consensus messaging
-Works for Republicans
-Evidence of persistence @ 1mo
-Scalable!
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change
Here’s how 👇
Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction
-Sig more effective than consensus messaging
-Works for Republicans
-Evidence of persistence @ 1mo
-Scalable!
PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change
Here’s how 👇
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This, @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social might be the dumbest take I've ever seen on social media. "Moderate their position on Canada?" WTF?!
If the Republican party started believing in levitation, would you ask Democrats to moderate their position on gravity?
If the Republican party started believing in levitation, would you ask Democrats to moderate their position on gravity?
democrats risk losing swing voters if they don’t moderate their position on canada
April 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This, @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social might be the dumbest take I've ever seen on social media. "Moderate their position on Canada?" WTF?!
If the Republican party started believing in levitation, would you ask Democrats to moderate their position on gravity?
If the Republican party started believing in levitation, would you ask Democrats to moderate their position on gravity?
AI exposure scores can predict workers' unemployment risk! While individual AI exposure models aren't predictive of job losses, combining them creates a powerful predictive tool. #AIandJobs #FutureOfWork
New work with @yyahn.bsky.social & @estebanmoro.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
New work with @yyahn.bsky.social & @estebanmoro.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
April 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
AI exposure scores can predict workers' unemployment risk! While individual AI exposure models aren't predictive of job losses, combining them creates a powerful predictive tool. #AIandJobs #FutureOfWork
New work with @yyahn.bsky.social & @estebanmoro.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
New work with @yyahn.bsky.social & @estebanmoro.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
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Perfection
March 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Perfection
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I'm in the @wsj.com with @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social explaining the #CleanEnergy revolution is unstoppable. Despite the Trump administration's determination to promote fossil fuels, the economic and technological forces driving green energy are too powerful to resist.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Essay | The Clean Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable
The Trump administration is determined to promote fossil fuels, but the economic and technological forces driving solar, wind and other sources are now too powerful to resist.
www.wsj.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I'm in the @wsj.com with @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social explaining the #CleanEnergy revolution is unstoppable. Despite the Trump administration's determination to promote fossil fuels, the economic and technological forces driving green energy are too powerful to resist.
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Next was an amazing talk by @mrfrank.bsky.social on challenges with determining how susceptible jobs are to automation at @nicoatnu.bsky.social. Frank presents a compelling network-oriented approach for modeling automation shocks. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p0L... (7/8)
Wed@NICO - 2/26/25 - Morgan Frank
YouTube video by Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
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February 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Next was an amazing talk by @mrfrank.bsky.social on challenges with determining how susceptible jobs are to automation at @nicoatnu.bsky.social. Frank presents a compelling network-oriented approach for modeling automation shocks. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p0L... (7/8)
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#AI has evolved and now challenges our understanding of skills and careers. This Wednesday, we are thrilled to host @mrfrank.bsky.social to explore "AI, Complexity, and the Future of Work". Join us in person in Chambers Hall or via Zoom. #WedatNICO
🗓️ Wed 2/26 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
🗓️ Wed 2/26 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
February 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
#AI has evolved and now challenges our understanding of skills and careers. This Wednesday, we are thrilled to host @mrfrank.bsky.social to explore "AI, Complexity, and the Future of Work". Join us in person in Chambers Hall or via Zoom. #WedatNICO
🗓️ Wed 2/26 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
🗓️ Wed 2/26 at 12pm US Central
🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO