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SICSS-Penn application is open! Deadline March 7, 2025. More information can be found ➡️sicss.io/2025/penn/apply Xi Song Dan Hopkins Duncan Watts #computational #socialscience #SICSS

📣New Paper in PNAS: Short-term exposure to filter-bubble recommendation systems has limited polarization effects: Naturalistic experiments on YouTube pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Want to hear dozens of amazing AI research talks, develop new interdisciplinary conversations as part of Duke's new Society-Centered AI initiative, or participate in our organization's first hackathon? Check out our responsibleaisymposium.com February 28-March 3rd.

Join us this weekend for the first-ever Society-Centered AI Hackathon at Duke as part of our inaugural Responsible AI Symposium. First 75 registrants get this t-shirts, and the winners will present their work before Yann LeCun's keynote talk! Register here: responsibleaisymposium.com

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

New preprint suggests large language models use trigonometry to do addition: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00873?

Amazing lecture on creating confidence metrics within multi-agent LLM frameworks by UNC's Mohit Bansal here at Duke's Responsible AI Symposium today. You can still join for Yann LeCun and Ronnie Chatterji later today: responsibleaisymposium.com

Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/j…

Harvard prez announcing staff AND faculty hiring freezes for this semester and possibly longer A very ominous sign for the higher ed economic sector (They likely have info on indirects + endowment taxes that we don’t…)

Grateful that some Republican leaders are pushing back against efforts to defund American universities: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…

Using Facebook advertising data to improve survey sampling: A project started at the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Can LLMS reproduce the treatment effects of field experiments in silico? Interesting new paper suggests they do so about 78% of the time: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01167

New paper suggests conversations with an LLM may increase people's support for climate change interventions: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Some nice coverage of our responsible AI symposium at Duke this spring- join us next year! responsibleaisymposium.com

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Bernie is well aligned with the social science literature in this take. There's good reason "non-violent discipline" is core to activist training. Some of the relevant research ITT 👇