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SICSS-Penn application is open! Deadline March 7, 2025. More information can be found ➡️sicss.io/2025/penn/apply Xi Song Dan Hopkins Duncan Watts #computational #socialscience #SICSS

📣New Paper in PNAS: Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Want to hear dozens of amazing AI research talks, develop new interdisciplinary conversations as part of Duke's new Society-Centered AI initiative, or participate in our organization's first hackathon? Check out our responsibleaisymposium.com February 28-March 3rd.

Join us this weekend for the first-ever Society-Centered AI Hackathon at Duke as part of our inaugural Responsible AI Symposium. First 75 registrants get this t-shirts, and the winners will present their work before Yann LeCun's keynote talk! Register here: responsibleaisymposium.com

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

New preprint suggests large language models use trigonometry to do addition: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00873?

Amazing lecture on creating confidence metrics within multi-agent LLM frameworks by UNC's Mohit Bansal here at Duke's Responsible AI Symposium today. You can still join for Yann LeCun and Ronnie Chatterji later today: responsibleaisymposium.com

Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/j…

Harvard prez announcing staff AND faculty hiring freezes for this semester and possibly longer A very ominous sign for the higher ed economic sector (They likely have info on indirects + endowment taxes that we don’t…)

Grateful that some Republican leaders are pushing back against efforts to defund American universities: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

Using Facebook advertising data to improve survey sampling: A project started at the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Can LLMS reproduce the treatment effects of field experiments in silico? Interesting new paper suggests they do so about 78% of the time: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01167

New paper suggests conversations with an LLM may increase people's support for climate change interventions: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Some nice coverage of our responsible AI symposium at Duke this spring- join us next year! responsibleaisymposium.com

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I was honored to present Jesters and Fools at the National Liberty Museum preview event for their latest exhibition. Grateful to have shared this experience with friends from FIRE and Heterodox Academy, celebrating an initiative that fosters open dialogue. #LetsTalk #JestersAndFools

Bernie is well aligned with the social science literature in this take. There's good reason "non-violent discipline" is core to activist training. Some of the relevant research ITT 👇