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I am deeply honored to have been awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for 2024, together with my friends and colleagues Simon Johnson and James Robinson. pune.news/trending/nobel…

No s#!t Sherlock 🥲 Really honored that Alvin Zhou and Δαναη Μεταξα invited me onto this project, live now on Taylor & Francis Research Insights, where we drop this and other truth bombs. "User centric Behavioral Tracking", a guide for diy #computationalsocialscience!

Read it at osf and tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I'm recruiting a Research Assistant with an appetite for adventurous computational social science research. Come work in a jungle paradise ie NUS! careers.nus.edu.sg/job-invite/266… Deadline: Oct 25 ICWSM IC2S2 ACL 2025 EMNLP 2025 1/2

Despite so much focus of the U.S. Election on a few battleground states, affective polarization is actually geographically uniformly distributed across states, finds Derek Holliday Yphtach Lelkes Sean Westwood doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

New at PNASNews with David Broockman, christian caballero & Matty Easton: "Political practitioners poorly predict which messages persuade the public." As we head into the last week of the campaign, a good reminder that political practitioners have poor intuitions as to what persuades

The great Emily Van Duyn wrote a whole book about this phenomenon after Trump got elected in 2016… global.oup.com/academic/produ…

🚨We (Alvin Zhou @ehmaslowska) are editing a special issue for Computational Communication Research on GenAI! Submissions on GenAI as comm phenomena or research tools are welcome: z.umn.edu/ccrgenai Abstracts due: Dec 31 '24 Full papers: Apr 30 '25 ICA Comp Methods Computational Communication Research

We are editing a special isue on Generative AI for Computational Communication Research. Extended Abstract due on December 31. See below for the Call for Papers 👇

🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior? The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵

🚨Special issue on GenAI at Computational Communication Research Computational Communication Research due on Dec 31!

[Extended Abstract Deadline: January 15, 2025] We’ve pushed the deadline back two weeks to give everyone a little extra breathing room during the holidays. Take your time, and we look forward to your submissions! #GenAI #AI #Computational

Excited to share our new publication in PNASNews! Through four analyses on 435,261 Weibo posts and 8.26 million news articles, we found that Chinese state media wasn't the main gatekeeper of information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for Weibo users: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New year --> new adventures! Next quarter Stanford Graduate School of Business I’m thrilled to be teaching a PhD seminar on “Theoretical Computational Social Science.” We will explore the possibility of shifting away from a methods-based definition of CSS to one grounded in a unifying theoretical

Sharing our paper accepted to CSCW 2025 (arxiv.org/abs/2501.01220)! Social stigma often targets groups with mental illnesses. Inspired by social psychology theory, we designed an LLM-powered agent to role-play as a mental illness person and enabled users to interact with it.

Some personal news – thrilled to have received this mail! Feeling grateful to my colleagues, mentors, students, collaborators, and everyone who has supported me on this journey. 🙏

Happy to share that my paper, "The Political Transformation of Corporate America, 2001-2022," has been conditionally accepted at the American Political Science Review (American Political Science Review)! Updated draft here: bit.ly/3DU4Vj7

Very exciting to have this project in the wild! 9,707 presidential ads (videos) + transcripts + metadata are now available to you! Data is here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ctap and the paper is here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.22589 #videoasdata

Were wealthy donors key to Trump’s campaigns in 2016 and 2020? I'm thrilled to announce a new paper in which @ SKates5350, Eric Manning, Tali Mendelberg and I analyzed data on 108 million (!) homeowner-voters. See cup.org/4cfm0Az 🧵 1/

🚨 Grad students! Join us for the Summer Workshop on Computational Social Science! 📆 June 2–6 & 9–10 🧠 Code + theory + community 📍 32 Murphy Hall 📝 Apply now—spots are limited! 🔗 cla.umn.edu/statistics/new… Hubbard SJMC #CompSocSci #UMN #GradLife #RStats #Python #CLAUMN