Our paper on the detectability limit of neural embeddings is finally out from Nature Communications! We showed that a simple shallow neural net w/o non-linear activation can achieve the optimal community detectability limit. Let's dive in! Santo Fortunato Filippo Radicchi nature.com/articles/s4146…

This is the best paper written so far about the impact of AI on scientific discovery

Just arrived in Costa Rica for ACM CSCW – excited for my first HCI conference and the chance to connect! I’m a computational social scientist focused on the science of science, creativity, and innovation. Let’s chat if you’re interested! 😁😁😁

🌟 UMSI doctoral candidate Yulin Yu is a 2024 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Rising Star MIT EECS. "The program inspired me to grow as a scholar and to think more about how my work can create a meaningful impact in the real world." myumi.ch/XG4zJ

Introducing “DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter.” Today, we release five derived metrics of over 129,000 domains, quantifying their characteristics such as geographical reach and audience partisanship. 1/3

I'm joining School of Computing, Binghamton University as an assistant professor this Sep. I'm recruiting two PhD students to work on topics related to AI and information ecosystem. If you are interested in joining me, send your CV and a short statement of purpose to my email [email protected]

How do scientists choose which topic to study? Studies of this are dispersed across fields, and it's surprisingly hard to find a review. Fortunately Sidney Xiang has written a fantastic one, focusing on literature in economics and sociology (link in next comment)

I'm Hiring: Postdoc at Warwick Join me to delve into the study of Scientific Prize. Successful candidate will work closely with me at Warwick, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with leading scientists at Northwestern, Cornell and many more. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/candidate/a…

How did #IGotAThingFor become a thing? Louise Zhu David Jurgens is now on BlueSky only Daniel Romero and I explored the roles of networks and identity in the adoption of hashtags in our new The Web Conference paper (Poster 01, Thu 5pm)! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114… #www2025 #thewebconf2025 1/9

Conventional wisdom says interdisciplinary research is valuable but harder to get through peer review (need to please diverse reviewers, etc). In new PNASNews paper, Sidney Xiang Daniel Romero and I partnered with IOP Publishing to test this wisdom and add nuance (1/3)

🚨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.

Do you have strong programming skills but need research experience before heading off to grad school for computational social science / business / econ? Apply now to predoc with me and David Rothschild 🌻 and jake hofman DMs open microsoft.com/en-us/research…

New paper from my group at Microsoft Research! 📄arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935 Promises about how AI will change work are cheap. What does the actual data say? We measured which work activities people use AI for, how successful they are, and which jobs do those tasks. 🧵1/8