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Google doc? (Gemini can do it)

If you’re an experimentalist interested in using LLMs for communication research, check out our four pre-registered studies (w/ Zening (“Ze”)Duan & Shengchun Huang ) evaluating how well LLMs perform in generating message stimuli. Preprint here: doi.org/10.31235/osf.i…

Our team just launched three new tools to help you explore social media data: 🌉NewsBridge – Adds AI-powered context to Facebook posts 🔎Barney’s Tavern – Search 34B social media posts 🌎OSoMeNet – Visualize how info spreads across platforms osome.iu.edu/research/blog/…

What does coordinated inauthentic behavior look like on TikTok? We introduce a new framework for detecting coordination in video-first platforms, uncovering influence campaigns using synthetic voices, split-screen tactics, and cross-account duplication. 📄arxiv.org/abs/2505.10867

"Beyond APIs" was a great talk from the National Internet Observatory at Northwestern WebSciConf #websci25

They have to call it io 😂

Asked OpenAI Codex to search a function in a unfarmilar codebase, it was like: "I notice there's a typo in the file names: "tempetature" instead of "temperature" in both tempetature.sh and eval_tempature.sh. That's a bug, but not what the user asked."

🚨New paper🚨 Excited to share our latest on nature today: The PIVOT PENALTY in research. nature.com/articles/s4158… More than five years in the making. Key finding: The impact of new research steeply declines the further a researcher moves from their previous work.

Feeling really tired

Search Google AI model directly: google.com/search?q={query}&udm=50 . Key is the "udm=50" part, not sure what it means.

A command I found particularly useful in data analysis: data_frame.sample(10). Repeat it a few times, and you can get a sense of what's in your data frame.

o4-mini is great if you need to run batch processing. My benchmark suggests it's better than gpt-4.1, but cheaper. But otherwise, o3 for complex tasks, and 4o for easy ones.