🚨Announcing our UK #GeneralElection2024 🚨 tweet explorer. A tool you can use to track and visualize campaign trends over the course of the 2024 UK General Election. This is joint work with Alia ElKattan and Aybuke Atalay. ukgetweets.net

First time sharing my experimental research on perceptions of hate speech on social media at today’s poster session at #IC2S2 in Philadelphia. Come by to talk about hate speech, algorithmic biases, and content moderation.

I've been trying to run some fine-tuning jobs that worked with other models but the system blocks them due to training examples violating content policies. Texts are political and some are offensive but nothing too extreme. Has anyone else had this issue?

ATTN ASA Sociology attendees! We will have the annual Computational Sociology Happy Hour at BENELUX on Saturday, 8/10, from 8:30p to 11:30p. brasseriebenelux.com/sherbrooke# Like every year, this is an informal gathering---no reservation or provided food. Stop by & hang out! #ASA24

We made some big updates to our work on LLMs for text classification. New analyses show how instruction-tuning can help with more complex prediction tasks and that Llama3 70B can compete GPT-4o at conversational stance detection. Feedback welcome! doi.org/10.31235/osf.i…

Just a reminder about the Computational Sociology Happy Hour! See the quoted tweet below for details ⤵️ #ASA24

Musk is following in the footsteps of Trump, who retweeted Britain First in 2017: bbc.com/news/world-us-… Check out my article on how Britain First gamed social media platforms to attract an audience larger than any other political group in the UK (doi.org/10.17813/1086-…)

Another big loss for computational social science! Our recent paper combined data from the Twitter Academic and CrowdTangle APIs, both of which have since been shut down tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Duke is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of sociology this fall as well as a professor of the practice-- I'd love to see some great young computational social scientists apply! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28065 & academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28071

Come join our department. Great university, great location, and great colleagues. I am on the search committee for (human centered) AI and please DM for questions.