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People from all over the world will begin learning about computational social science *for free* this week as part of sicss.io . Check out the amazing SICSS West/Central Africa site below! #SICSS2022

#IC2S2 2022 kicking off at U Chicago today. Thrilled to be here in person.

1/Is the enemy of your enemy your friend? In a new paper we show the opposite, where exposure to the threat of a common enemy increased polarization among Reps and Dems. Our evidence comes from a pre-registered bot experiment during the 2020 US-Iran Crisis nature.com/articles/s4159…

How do emotions on Twitter to correlate with the actual collective emotion in a specific group? Two recent papers (link in comments) by the amazing David Garcia and Max Pellert provide some impressive evidence that they do (links in comments).

current system (supply): professors choose what they wanna do, get $$$, and create positions for students/postdocs alternative system (demand): give $$$ to students and they choose where they want positions created journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/ip…

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New preprint (provocation?) 📜"𝐃𝐨 '𝐛𝐚𝐝' 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 '𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝' 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬?"📜 with Honglin Bao (Honglin (虹霖) Bao ) arxiv.org/abs/2304.06190 Quick explainer below👇

New📜forthcoming ASQ Journal! Is being weird a good thing? Using word embeddings to analyze 10Ks of quarterly earnings calls, we find that analysts overestimate the future performance of atypical firms, especially if they emulate cool companies. A🧵 >> osf.io/preprints/soca…

New article by Vanessa Conzon (Boston College Carroll School) finds men managers more likely than women managers to support a flex work policy aimed (in part) at improving gender equality. journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default…

Are you curious about the harms AI is or is not causing in the world? Check out the AI Incident Database, which you can contribute to as well. incidentdatabase.ai

🚨You won't want to miss this one!! We're so excited for this next talk by Matt Marx: "New Datasets for Tracking the Commercialization of Science". Catch it on Wed morning at #ICSSI2023!🙌 icssi.org/2023-schedule

🌟Here's another feature for your Friday!🌟 We are thrilled to highlight our next speaker, Joel Mokyr, with his talk "An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Useful Knowledge" 📣Catch this talk Wed afternoon at #ICSSI2023!! icssi.org/2023-schedule

Last week, my fantastic Haas School of Business student and collaborator Matteo Tranchero presented a preview of his job-market paper for the first time at CCC Conference last week #CCC2023 a quick 🧵 about why he/his work is so amazing and why you should all be making a bee-line to hire him!

New paper out w/Sam Fraiberger 🔎🌍 Michael Bailey Dean Eckles doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… In this paper, we ask how long ties in networks are related to economic outcomes? What is the interplay between tie strength & range? What makes some people more likely to develop these valuable ties?