Dune 1: Go White Boy, Go

Dune 2: Oh

Dune 3: Oh White Boy, No

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

today I saw a dad at costco deploy a high-risk “fine, I’ll buy you this basketball hoop if you can make this shot” maneuver to his young son only for the boy to swish from like twenty feet away. net barely moved

Only two days until #SCAI2026: our annual Conference on Society-Centered AI at Duke. Can't wait to hear amazing talks by Arvind Narayanan, Nicholas Christakis, Ronnie Chatterji, Reggie Townsend, and so many more! sites.duke.edu/scai/

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

I had a great experience at SICSS-Penn last year. Highly recommend to any early-career scholar interested in Computational Social Science!

🚨OpEd+data: Meta is out of step with public opinion🚨
Zuck cut moderation b/c he said people no longer want it. But he's wrong!
We polled 1k Americans and most people, including majority of Reps:
i) want content moderation
ii) don't want Community Notes w/o fact-checkers
thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Applications to host a 2025 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science are due December 1st. Feel free to email me with questions and/or help connecting with others (especially since grant support will be limited): sicss.io/host

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Please accept this coupon to rectify this, which allows you to imagine you got 10 more likes on your post than you did

I'm eager to engage with folks here who are interested in building healthier communities, supporting the participants and drivers of these communities, and finding ways to leverage AI both to support community objectives and study these communities in new ways.

If that sounds like you, say hello!

Why yes actually. The one that mentions sidewalk contains posts that distinctly mention people parking electric scooters in inappropriate places, and being run over by them on the way to class. Worth noting that all discussion of scooters on the sub evaluates scooter owners as morally suspect

A 2d projection of a topic modeling of the r/gatech subreddit. Highlighted clusters include things like "hackathon_hackgt," "buzz_mascot," and "eduroam_down_dogshit." It's very illustrious.

Hello to all my new followers, most of whom are (luckily) nerds.

I will not let you down.

Here is a topic modeling of my college subreddit. Equipped with my deep domain expertise, I'm taking questions.

With oh so many social apps today, it's time for us social computing builders and designers to take a pause, zoom ALL the way out, and also take a trip down memory lane...

Check out @mbernst.bsky.social's talk on Wed at #CSCW2024 9:00 – 10:30 "Session 1d: Understanding and Shaping Online Behavior"!

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack?

Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented!

go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d

GitHub - brianckeegan/bluesky-datascience: Exploratory notebooks for data science using Bluesky data Exploratory notebooks for data science using Bluesky data - brianckeegan/bluesky-datascience

Here is a @github.com repo where I will share tutorial notebooks on how to retrieve and analyze data from @bsky.app @atproto.com

Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are welcome!

github.com/brianckeegan...

May I hop in? Thanks for doing this!

Making sense of rumors about the Trump assassination attempt We share some of what we have seen on social media and other online spaces in the aftermath of the Trump assassination attempt, and put that into context based on what we know about how people use …

Our team just published a "rapid" analysis of some of the rumors we've been tracking since the assassination attempt on Saturday, drawing on these foundational understandings of "collective sensemaking" during crises: www.cip.uw.edu/2024/07/15/t...

New research across 30 countries (N = 15,202) finds that online hostility is driven by a small number of status-seeking individuals.

These folks are more hostile in situations of inequality (both online and offline) as a strategy to gain social status.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Discourse around misinformation doesn't always line up w/ our research team's findings re: how falsehoods actually spread in online spaces. Here, I provide a more nuanced view, describing the problem of misinformation as one of collective sensemaking gone awry: www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/r...

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A flood of misinformation shapes views of Israel-Gaza conflict A flood of misinformation in the Israel-Gaza war is shaping how panicked citizens and a global public view the conflict with Hamas.

Conflicts are always “fog of war" situations — where information is uncertain & ambiguous. With recent disruptions to the info ecosystem (diminished moderation, Twitter's deterioration), we have perhaps never been so vulnerable to deception and manipulation. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This is the clearest analysis I’ve seen of the fundamental problem with Community Notes in crisis situations: The overwhelming majority of impressions on tweets happen in the first 1-3 hours after posting, but it takes an average of 10 hours and 44 minutes for Community Notes to publicly show up.