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THE DREAM HAS COME TRUE! Juan Soto is a New York Met!

It's not a dream. This is not a drill. The Mets are signing Juan Soto to the biggest contract, by far, in Major League history: mlb.com/news/juan-soto…

#Mets owner Steve Cohen has just changed the landscape of free agency with one of baseball's great generational talents. He has completely reimagined the business of the game, and the franchise itself. Light years ahead of where they were before he took over.

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In the absence of federal regulation, states continue to lead the development of technology policy in the US, passing 238 bills in 46 states in 2024, a 163 percent increase from last year. New report published today by us & Scott Babwah Brennen 🧵 1/

Mets, LHP Sean Manaea reportedly agree to 3-year deal, per multiple reports including MLB Network insider Jon Heyman.

Good morning Mets fans! Great news on many levels for the Mets. For one, the team needed more at the top of the rotation. Beyond that though, Manaea was a huge part of the positive vibes and culture that was built last year. Important to keep as much of that in tact as possible.

Happy Festivus, New York Mets fans. Not only have the Mets brought back a terrific pitcher, but Sean Manaea is one of the nicest, friendliest, most down to earth people to come through their clubhouse in years. Always smiling, yet fiercely competitive. Great move.

Congrats to CDS-affiliated Julius Silver Professor Joshua Tucker (Joshua Tucker), named to Clarivate's 2024 Highly Cited Researchers list, recognizing the top 1% of scholars by citations over the past decade. Tucker studies the intersection of digital + social media and politics.

In #FirstView by Marisa Abrajano, Marianna Garcia, Aaron Pope, Edwin Kamau, Robert Vidigal, Joshua Tucker, and Jonathan Nagler: "Understanding Latino Political Engagement and Activity on Social Media" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

PETE ALONSO IS BACK! The Mets and Pete have agreed on a 2-year, $54 million deal

He's back. 🐻‍❄️

It was inevitable: Pete Alonso is returning to the Mets. mlb.com/news/pete-alon…

Maybe Pete Alonso plays just one more year with the Mets, opts out and leaves. Maybe he plays his entire career with the Mets. Either way, if he stays healthy, sometime this summer he should become the franchise’s all time home run leader. That’s pretty cool. Welcome back, Pete!

So happy about to see Alonso back!!!

Mon webinar: "Understanding Russia’s Influence in the Middle East After Assad’s Fall" w/ Nicole Grajewski & Dimitar Bechev will examine the impact of Assad's collapse on Russian FP. Cosponsored w/ NYU Jordan Center. Mod: Joshua Tucker & Alexander Cooley ow.ly/XGE350V1AXz

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

Join us NYU Jordan Center for "Living as a Central Asian in Urban Russia in the Aftermath of the Crocus City Hall Attacks" in person or on Zoom starting at 4:00 PM ET! jordanrussiacenter.org/events/living-…

🧵 NEW PAPER - "Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages" is live at SMR. We combine NLP w pairwise LLM evals to track ideas across media ecosystems and languages. We also figured out a way to eval unsupervised probs on widely understood supervised performance metrics.

So excited to see this article in print! Incredibly proud of all the amazing work done on this article by my incredible co-authors, but extra special shout out to Hannah Waight and Sol Messing, co-first authors on the piece. See the 🧵 👇