Very nice coverage of CSSLab at Penn's just-launched Media Bias Detector. I'm very excited about this project, which has been a Herculean team effort! ai.seas.upenn.edu/news/mapping-m… mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu

🚨New Paper in nature🚨 To simplify & speed up COVID vaxxes in mid-2021, the White House announced free Uber & @Lyft rides to vax sites. Great idea, right? We ran a HUGE experiment: Do free round-trip @Lyft rides to pharmacies boost vaccination? A🧵 nature.com/articles/s4158…

📣📣 New(ish) preprint announcement📣📣 Experimental evidence that exerting effort increases meaning Led by Aidan Campbell and with Yiyi Wang osf.io/preprints/psya… /1

"Long ties accelerate noisy threshold-based contagions" — our long-in-the-works paper on how network structure affects social contagion appeared this year in Nature Human Behaviour. My hope is that is triggers a reevaluation of ideas about "complex contagion" nature.com/articles/s4156…

Our group at MIT is hiring an assistant professor! Come join our wonderful crew Rahul Bhui Dean Eckles Drazen Prelec Catherine Tucker Dr. Renée Gosline Sinan Aral Duncan Simester, John Hauser, JuanJuan Zhang. Applications due Aug 12 - happy to answer any qs! apply.interfolio.com/149758

My 'GPTology' paper, on perils and opportunities in using LLMs in social science, is now published in PNAS Nexus academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

I am excited to start my research group "Computational Social Science" at the Center Synergy of Systems (synosys.github.io) with Dirk Brockmann and the Center for Interdisci­plinary Digital Sciences at TU Dresden, beginning this fall! I will be hiring, job ads below👇

📢 Think before you share - nice social media experiment where the treatment comes as an advertisement presented by Hause Lin @ #IC2S2 #misinformation #OSN

🚨 A new working paper that tackles the big question: "Will prompt engineering still matter in the future?" 🤔 bit.ly/3YdExbt This is joint work w/ Eaman Jahani, Benjamin Manning, Joe Zhang, Hong-Yi TuYe, Mohammed Alsobay | محمد الصبي, Christos Nicolaides and Siddharth (Sid) Suri. More details below 👇 1/

Are you passionate about the social sciences and keen on expanding nature publications on societally relevant topics? If so, Nature is hiring a social sciences editor! Read more here: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNature…

The value of ‘wasting time’ on deep thinking is often overlooked in a scientific ecosystem increasingly tainted by Wall Street’s productivity mindset. nature.com/articles/d4158…

MORE HIRING in my team 🚨 1 year Research Assistant / Associate (closing 11.8.): jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47632/ 2 year (Senior) Research Associate (closing 19.8.): jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47338/ PhD positions to start in October 2025 (closing 3.12.): orben.group/phd-study

📣📣BIG NEWS:📣📣 I'll be accepting (a) graduate student(s) this cycle to come work with me at Pitt starting Fall 2025!!! If you want to work on understanding and improving people's intergroup experiences, please apply! Info about the lab: joelleforestier.com

New #Rstats tutorial: How to Interpret Interactions, Polynomials, and Splines with {marginaleffects} I'd love to get feeback on this one. It's the first draft of what could become one of the "recipe" chapters in the book. marginaleffects.com/vignettes/inte…

AI search engines use LLMs to summarize results for you, but can LLMs discern low-credibility sources from credible ones? Our paper measures the accuracy of LLMs' credibility ratings on news sources and political biases. With Observatory on Social Media 🔗arxiv.org/abs/2304.00228 1/9

Diagnostic performance measures in clinical medicine (R2, AUC, OR) are all mathematically related, but far from linearly. I made these figs to discuss w my PhD students. Venk Murthy MD PhD Brett Atwater Hause Lin source data: escal.site

{tinytable} 0.4.0 for #RStats is out! 🚀 This 📦 converts dataframes to html, tex, docx, typ, or md tables. Super simple, ultra flexible, 0-dependency, and the website hosts a billion tutorials: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/ 0.4.0 is a big release. Please install and try it out!

Check out this exciting new postdoc opportunity w/ Romy Frömer's amazing lab at the Univ of Birmingham (ACCB Lab), to work on a collaborative U.S. National Science Foundation CRCNS grant along with our lab at Berkeley and Sebastian Gluth's lab at the Univ of Hamburg (General Psychology Lab)!✨ edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

🚨New in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 Will misinfo warning labels backfire for ppl who distrust fact-checkers? No! Labels reduce belief in & sharing of false news even for those highly distrusting of fact-checkers - warning labels are a key tool for platforms! rdcu.be/dSHtF