#Habermas Machine: "#AI-mediated #deliberation reduced division within groups, with participants’ reported stances converging toward a common position...after deliberation; this result did not occur when discussants directly exchanged views, unmediated." science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

If you are interested in how to improve decision-making, and more fundamentally, how causal inference & RL are related, check out our "Intro to Causal RL" paper: causalai.net/r65.pdf (with Sanghack Lee & Junzhe Zhang). This follows our ICML tutorial: crl.causalai.net

LLM-as-a-Judge metrics are standard practice in the eval world, but have you ever used an "LLM jury"? Follow along with this free tutorial to learn how to ensemble multiple LLMs into a panel of experts that beats GPT-4 🔥

From our new issue: "On Accountability and Hierarchy" by Jonathan Bendor and Piotr Swistak. #APSRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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

We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

We build Knoll (knollapp.com) – your smart knowledge module for ChatGPT & Claude, seamlessly integrated as a Chrome Extension 🚀 Easily set up group modules for your running club, community center, hiking trails, or even your favorite conference papers and socials --

great one-stop resource!

Computational communication research (CCR): An early and active adopter of computational social science (CSS) - Jonathan JH Zhu, Tai-Quan Peng, Hai Liang, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Prof. Hai Liang has recently published a research article in the Chinese Journal of Sociology, co-authored with Prof. Jonathan Zhu and Prof. Tai-Quan Peng. Read more here: doi.org/10.1177/205715…

Theory and Theorizing These are two interesting articles by sociologist Richard Swedberg on theorizing. Download Annual Review: annualreviews.org/docserver/full… Download BJS: is.muni.cz/el/1423/podzim…

Want to add an LLM chatbot to your Qualtrics surveys? Here's a step-by-step guide showing exactly how to do this with AWS Bedrock joshuakalla.github.io/llm_persuasion/

Our computer vision textbook is now available for free online here: visionbook.mit.edu We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs. Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!

Slides from my talk on "Language as a Visual Format" at the Visual Generative Modeling workshop at CVPR (mostly derived from slides made by Hyojin Bahng and Caroline 🐳): dropbox.com/scl/fi/5ok46te…

The best image recognition model learns directly from raw pixels. The best language model learns directly from raw text tokens. Yet, over 99.9% of predictive models in production today don't learn from raw data. Instead they still rely on manually engineered features. The

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

When Can We Use Two-Way Fixed-Effects (TWFE): A Comparison of TWFE and Novel Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Estimators. arxiv.org/abs/2402.09928

🚨Call for Papers – HCR🚨 Special Issue: Advancements in the Study of Causal Mechanisms across Communication Contexts Guest Editor: R. Lance Holbert (University of Pennsylvania) 📌 Abstracts due: September 15, 2025 📝 Full papers due: March 2026 academic.oup.com/hcr/pages/caus…