📣 Postdocs at Yale FDS! 📣 Tremendous freedom to work on data science problems with faculty across campus, multi-year, great salary. Deadline 12/15. Spread the word! Application: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31114 More about Yale FDS: fds.yale.edu

🚨 New paper! 🔍
“Question the Questions: Auditing Representation in Online Deliberative Processes”

In deliberative polls, participants propose questions for experts but only a few make it to the panel. How representative are those chosen questions of everyone’s interests? 🧵👇

🚨 Study alert!

We've developed a prototype that enables you to create personalized social media feeds using natural language rules and import them into Bluesky.

Join our study to try out the tool, give us your feedback, and earn a $50 gift card!

Sign up: forms.gle/MkSGKzxDfBEc...

Please share :)

Looking forward to giving a tutorial on Social Media Feed Ranking Algorithms with @tiziano.bsky.social at @icwsm.bsky.social today! Come join us at AAU, Room 2.1.083.

I'll be in Sydney presenting ✨Supernotes✨ at the ACM WebConf 🚀 (WWW'25). Incase you missed it, here's a very short thread about it: 🧵

Full paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

#www2025 #thewebconf2025

Have you ever asked yourself about the overall extent of TikTok? Here some numbers from "Just Another Hour on TikTok" - Great compliment to @bendavidsteel.bsky.social for this data collection effort!
w/ @miriamschirmer.bsky.social & Derek Ruths
arxiv.org/abs/2504.13279

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

We're currently seeking applications for up to two @cip.uw.edu postdoctoral fellows who will be hired as postdoctoral scholars.

Learn more: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/12/03/c...

Thanksgiving staples: turkey, cranberry sauce, and WWW reviews.

Realtime LLM social media reranking enables field experiments demonstrating how we can depolarize. Congratulations @tiziano.bsky.social, @msaveski.bsky.social, and @jiachenyan.bsky.social!

📢 We ran a field experiment reranking the feeds of 1000+ participants and found that modulating the exposure to antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity significantly impacts affective polarization.

More below ⤵️

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I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at UW!

I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd

More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/

cc @uwischool.bsky.social

Talks from CODE@MIT are up! My plenary on off-policy evaluation in peer review matching, from ~7 min: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkbv... Covers two papers (w/ @msaveski.bsky.social, Steven Jecmen, Samir Khan, and Nihar Shah) from NeurIPS'23 arxiv.org/abs/2305.17339 & ICML'24 arxiv.org/abs/2305.11812

Deb Roy explains how the erosion of “trust networks” contributes to “truth decay”. From this researcher’s perspective studying social media for a decade plus… networks of influence (formed through attention dynamics) have replaced networks of trust.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Hi! I (+ @axz.bsky.social and a couple others) am conducting a study on new tools for content curation in social media feeds, esp Bluesky! We’d love to have you participate. It’ll take around 45 minutes and you’ll get a $20 USD gift card. More details + sign up here: forms.gle/yrAzteTqFqMP....

If you're interested in AI and social media, apply for this postdoc position at
@Stanford: hci.stanford.edu/postdoc.php

I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at UW!

I’m looking for students passionate about using computational methods to study how social platforms can be reimagined to enable better conversations, bridge political divides, and reduce the spread of misinfo. 

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