After years of work, we (w/ @simonchauchard) are releasing our new tool to collect WhatsApp data at scale! Introducing WhatsApp Explorer, a tool to collect data in a privacy preserving, opt-in, legal and practical way paper: osf.io/k6qv5 whatsapp.whats-viral.me 🧵👇

📢POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY📢 Come join me Gordon Pennycook & Tom Costello as we launch a research program using dialogues with LLMs as a tool to study human psychology and decision-making! Located at MIT or Cornell, and open applicants from all kinds of intellectual backgrounds/training

Excited to present tomorrow on "Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on Scientific Papers and Peer Reviews." Join me for the Lightning Talks session at 8:45am in the Main Auditorium. See you there! 🌟 #ICSSI2024 #AI #LLM #PeerReview 📅

Congrats!!!

If you are a current HCI student in the US with experience in AR/VR software development and interested in accessibility looking for an internship (summer and fall) reach out to me!

Excited that our paper quantifying #LLMs usage in paper reviews is selected as an #ICML2024 oral (top 1.5% of submissions)! 🚀 Main results👇

📣Thrilled that our study on the effectiveness of #LLMs in providing research feedback is now published in NEJM AI! Updated paper: ai.nejm.org/stoken/default…

Sadly to miss #IC2S2 this year. Looks like there are lots of fun things going on! Wishing everyone a great time! #FOMO

Truly fun collaboration with Weixin Liang Hancheng Cao Yuhui Zhang James Zou and many others!

It’s great to see that next year’s #ic2s2 will be hosted by sociologist Peter Hedstrom and his team in Sweden! Looking forward to seeing mingling between analytical sociologists and computational social scientists Duncan Watts Analytical Sociology Benjamin F Jarvis

📣 The Student Volunteer (SV) lottery for #UIST2024 is now open! Don’t miss your chance to be part of the amazing organizing team that makes this conference unforgettable. 🤩 🔗 Register now: new.chisv.org/conference/uis… 🗓️ Apply by: August 23, 2024 (AoE)

Original Article by Weixin Liang, MS, et al.: Can Large Language Models Provide Useful Feedback on Research Papers? A Large-Scale Empirical Analysis nejm.ai/3y10ccm #ArtificialIntelligence

Thanks for having me at SICSS-Chicago!!

Do you work with text-based conversation data? 💬 I’m thrilled to share that the Team Communication Toolkit just launched this weekend — we extract 160+ features in just a few lines of code! The goal? A more accessible, more cumulative, science of conversations.

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

Our Williams College computer science department is hiring TWO TENURE-TRACK FACULTY this cycle: apply.interfolio.com/148956 (1/4)

My colleagues and I will host several webinars to introduce you to the Education Data Science MS program. Please join me if you are interested, or share this with anyone you think would be a good fit! Friday, September 6 | Register: bit.ly/3YQhhAM

🔗 Thoughts on Research Impact in AI. Grad students often ask: how do I do research that makes a difference in the current, crowded AI space? This is a blogpost that summarizes my perspective in six guidelines for making research impact via open-source artifacts. Link below.

🚨Hiring alert! My team Spotify Research is looking to hire a research scientist with a machine learning background! Come help us improve personalization experiences by integrating innovative generative AI technologies into our recommender systems. lifeatspotify.com/jobs/research-…