Sandra González-Bailón
@sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social
Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy, cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
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New publication (4+ years in the making): “The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU
We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social
We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Looking forward to this, next week! 'The Impact of AI on (Mis)Information' asc.upenn.edu/cind2025, w/ @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social @hwaight.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @lexipalmer.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang @ekvraga.bsky.social Kiran Garimella & Jennifer Allen + @ylelkes.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu
April 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Looking forward to this, next week! 'The Impact of AI on (Mis)Information' asc.upenn.edu/cind2025, w/ @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social @hwaight.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @lexipalmer.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang @ekvraga.bsky.social Kiran Garimella & Jennifer Allen + @ylelkes.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu
Great opportunity in beautiful Zurich 👇
I'm hiring for a postdoc! 🌟 pls help spread the word
Senior Research and Teaching Associate (PostDoc)
with a focus on Internet Use and Society
details here: webuse.org/postdoc/
Senior Research and Teaching Associate (PostDoc)
with a focus on Internet Use and Society
details here: webuse.org/postdoc/
March 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Great opportunity in beautiful Zurich 👇
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Nice article by Kevin Munger (based on @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social et al.'s paper on FB polarization and @jongreen.bsky.social et al.'s paper).
Part of the argument is that one reason we don't find filter bubbles is that we've been looking in 2D
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...
Part of the argument is that one reason we don't find filter bubbles is that we've been looking in 2D
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...
Unbundling and Abundance
on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology
open.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Nice article by Kevin Munger (based on @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social et al.'s paper on FB polarization and @jongreen.bsky.social et al.'s paper).
Part of the argument is that one reason we don't find filter bubbles is that we've been looking in 2D
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...
Part of the argument is that one reason we don't find filter bubbles is that we've been looking in 2D
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...
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Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political
March 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political
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Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?
March 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?
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Cfp: come join us at the 2025 Political Networks and Computational Social Science conference! sites.google.com/view/confpol...
March 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Cfp: come join us at the 2025 Political Networks and Computational Social Science conference! sites.google.com/view/confpol...
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WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
March 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!
#standupforscience2025
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My new piece in @theguardian.com
Techno-optimism is human pessimism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Techno-optimism is human pessimism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett
Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My new piece in @theguardian.com
Techno-optimism is human pessimism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Techno-optimism is human pessimism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Save the date! PolNet & PaCSS 2025 are joining forces at Harvard and Northeastern on August 11–14, 2025—workshops on Aug 11–12, conference on Aug 13–14. Stay tuned for details on CFP, registration, and more. See you at #PolNetPaCSS2025!
February 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Save the date! PolNet & PaCSS 2025 are joining forces at Harvard and Northeastern on August 11–14, 2025—workshops on Aug 11–12, conference on Aug 13–14. Stay tuned for details on CFP, registration, and more. See you at #PolNetPaCSS2025!
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New Bright Line Watch report brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-...
-Expert ratings of US democracy at post-2016 low
-55% of Trump-aligned Rs approve of "strong leader who does not have to bother w/Congress"
-Jan 6 pardons, exec branch firings, Musk influence rated as grave threats
🧵 of results below
-Expert ratings of US democracy at post-2016 low
-55% of Trump-aligned Rs approve of "strong leader who does not have to bother w/Congress"
-Jan 6 pardons, exec branch firings, Musk influence rated as grave threats
🧵 of results below
February 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New Bright Line Watch report brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-...
-Expert ratings of US democracy at post-2016 low
-55% of Trump-aligned Rs approve of "strong leader who does not have to bother w/Congress"
-Jan 6 pardons, exec branch firings, Musk influence rated as grave threats
🧵 of results below
-Expert ratings of US democracy at post-2016 low
-55% of Trump-aligned Rs approve of "strong leader who does not have to bother w/Congress"
-Jan 6 pardons, exec branch firings, Musk influence rated as grave threats
🧵 of results below
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📣 Our first speaker announcement for the Philly @standupforscience.bsky.social rally on March 7th, 11a at City Hall. 📣
We will hear from Congressmembers Jamie Gauthier and Nina Ahmad and squid biologist @sarahmackattack.bsky.social (Skype A Scientist).
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
We will hear from Congressmembers Jamie Gauthier and Nina Ahmad and squid biologist @sarahmackattack.bsky.social (Skype A Scientist).
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
February 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
📣 Our first speaker announcement for the Philly @standupforscience.bsky.social rally on March 7th, 11a at City Hall. 📣
We will hear from Congressmembers Jamie Gauthier and Nina Ahmad and squid biologist @sarahmackattack.bsky.social (Skype A Scientist).
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
We will hear from Congressmembers Jamie Gauthier and Nina Ahmad and squid biologist @sarahmackattack.bsky.social (Skype A Scientist).
RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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📢 Scholarship opportunities for our prestigious two-year interdisciplinary Master's program in Social Sciences!
💡 Available scholarships:
✅ 4 full scholarships
🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025.
✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships
🗓 Deadline: May 31, 2025.
🎓 Apply now! 🔗 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...
💡 Available scholarships:
✅ 4 full scholarships
🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025.
✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships
🗓 Deadline: May 31, 2025.
🎓 Apply now! 🔗 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...
Master in Social Sciences | UC3M
Master in Social Sciences - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - UC3M
www.uc3m.es
February 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📢 Scholarship opportunities for our prestigious two-year interdisciplinary Master's program in Social Sciences!
💡 Available scholarships:
✅ 4 full scholarships
🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025.
✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships
🗓 Deadline: May 31, 2025.
🎓 Apply now! 🔗 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...
💡 Available scholarships:
✅ 4 full scholarships
🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025.
✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships
🗓 Deadline: May 31, 2025.
🎓 Apply now! 🔗 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...
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📢 Postdoctoral position opportunity! We're seeking a full-time postdoc for 22 months to dive into societal cohesion research using network science/network statistics. At the COALESCE Lab in sunny Barcelona, Spain: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/319601. Apply before March 7th! #sociology #NetSci
Post-doctoral researcher (2025DILIFRUA24)
Job position
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
February 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
📢 Postdoctoral position opportunity! We're seeking a full-time postdoc for 22 months to dive into societal cohesion research using network science/network statistics. At the COALESCE Lab in sunny Barcelona, Spain: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/319601. Apply before March 7th! #sociology #NetSci
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Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
February 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
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Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities.
February 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities.
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
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Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org
February 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org
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💥 Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal 💥 (via @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social and @davidlazer.bsky.social)
Researchers are "skeptical" the new system will slow the spread of misinformation and "anticipate [Meta's policy changes] will cause a flood from some Pages."
Researchers are "skeptical" the new system will slow the spread of misinformation and "anticipate [Meta's policy changes] will cause a flood from some Pages."
Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal | TechPolicy.Press
David Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón raise concern that no one outside of Meta will know the true effects of Meta's change in its moderation policy.
www.techpolicy.press
January 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
💥 Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal 💥 (via @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social and @davidlazer.bsky.social)
Researchers are "skeptical" the new system will slow the spread of misinformation and "anticipate [Meta's policy changes] will cause a flood from some Pages."
Researchers are "skeptical" the new system will slow the spread of misinformation and "anticipate [Meta's policy changes] will cause a flood from some Pages."
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📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core
Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging
cup.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo
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UCD’s School of Sociology is hiring an Assistant Professor (permanent) in Computational Social Science.
– Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533
– Application deadline: 10 Feb
– Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
@ucdsociology.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social
– Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533
– Application deadline: 10 Feb
– Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
@ucdsociology.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social
Lecturer / Assistant Professor - Computational Social Science, School of Sociology - Dublin, Leinster (IE) job with UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD) | 386526
We are seeking applications from individuals with expertise in one or more of the following areas: Computational Social ...
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:49 AM
UCD’s School of Sociology is hiring an Assistant Professor (permanent) in Computational Social Science.
– Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533
– Application deadline: 10 Feb
– Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
@ucdsociology.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social
– Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533
– Application deadline: 10 Feb
– Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
@ucdsociology.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social
We wrote another piece about why Zuckerberg's decision to end fact-checking is so disingenuous -- check it out @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/mark-zuckerb...
Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal | TechPolicy.Press
David Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón raise concern that no one outside of Meta will know the true effects of Meta's change in its moderation policy.
www.techpolicy.press
January 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We wrote another piece about why Zuckerberg's decision to end fact-checking is so disingenuous -- check it out @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/mark-zuckerb...