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We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to 1,000 individuals in the treatment group, with a group of 2,000 people receiving $50/month serving as the control. These are sizable transfers. 1/ 🧵

I'm still bummed that academic Twitter stayed here instead of finding a better home.

well this is totally nuts

Check this out, Reddit researchers!

So great to see Reddit making some moves to make data more open for researchers, especially as most other platforms lock down more and more. Especially heartening is that Sanjay Kairam is leading the effort. He is the best - a brilliant scholar and scientist reddit.com/r/reddit4resea…

Are you an academic interested in working with Reddit data for your research? I'm excited to announce that we've just opened up applications to participate in a Beta program for Reddit's new Reddit for Researchers data offering! To learn more: reddit.com/r/reddit4resea…

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵

Gambling is one thing I’ve flipped on as I got older. I used to laugh off the critics and think of gambling as “a tax on those who can’t do math” but I’ve come to think that’s cruel (and regressive) and paternalism is good here. This paper is another brick in that new wall.

The Crowdless Future? is now out Organization Science! In the paper, we demonstrate that LLMs, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT4 is reshaping how we crowdsource for innovative solutions. Read the open-access paper below to find out more, and tell us what you think! pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/or…

OpenAI: pip install openai and set OPENAI_API_KEY Anthropic: yea same but s/openai/anthropic/g Google: oh boy. ok so you have a GCP account? no? ok go set that up. and a payment method. now make a "project". SURVEY POPUP! k now gcloud auth. wait you have the gcloud CLI right–

How do you feel about happy hour?

Automating AI research is exciting! But can LLMs actually produce novel, expert-level research ideas? After a year-long study, we obtained the first statistically significant conclusion: LLM-generated ideas are more novel than ideas written by expert human researchers.

Let’s be clear: This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral College had met and voted. The Governor in every state had certified the results and sent a legal slate of electors to the Congress to be counted. The Vice

Blog post coming, but thanks so much to Eshwar Chandrasekharan for a fantastic keynote at our Frontiers in Online Community Research Symposium at Purdue!

My research group (Community Data Science Collective📈) will host a public/free workshop on research into online community governance as part of our Science of Community Dialogue Series: wiki.communitydata.science/Dialogues/Comp… (register at the link!) Talks by Seth Frey, now on 🦋🦋🦋 and (our own) sohyeon hwang. Anyone is welcome!

My only advice about emailing your professors is to make the subject line be “Decision on your manuscript”

In a new blog post, I discuss the emerging literature on simulating human behavior with LLMs. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/simulating-h…