The English book is out! 🎉 🥳 Happy and proud that the English version of our book is presented today at the Global Progressive Mobilisation meeting in Barcelona!
"The Open Future and Its Enemies: How we can Protect Free Society from AI Dictatorship"
@paulnemitz.bsky.social
#OpenFuture #Democracy
🚨NEW ESSAY ALERT🚨Broken Connections: Fieldnotes from the Old Internet. The most personal thing I've written in years. I trace my history with internet communities & online relationships & how much of that is now gone. And a lot about LiveJournal. Open Access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Quite coincidentally, I just sent this paper to all of the students in my lab this morning!
I have been thinking for the last few years about ideologies and how they emerge in text.
This paper, with @davidlazer.bsky.social and Kim Williams, reflects some of those thoughts, and how I think we can improve and expand on how we operationalize ideology in discourse.
arxiv.org/abs/2603.18945
One of the benefits of writing a paper with only senior co-authors is that I do not have to avoid the satisfaction of informing this reviewer that this is not what the E stands for in EMNLP
I've tried to spell accommodate like, maybe, 1000 times in my life and never once have I done it correctly
Consider submitting an ICWSM workshop proposal! It’s a great opportunity to create space for discussions around emerging research threads, new methods, or even old but exciting topics. Deadline: Jan 30.
Extended deadline for the ICWSM/JQD Global Initiative. (Ask your friends) to submit a 2-page proposal by Jan. 23. A free trip to ICWSM'27 in (TBD) and mentorship on your paper submission!
Child 1: I am sad, I will cry and seek comfort
Child 2: I am sad, I will cry and then try to hit you
Child 3, this morning: I am sad, I will not cry but will somehow find a metal wrench and throw it at you
New paper (**w/ several brilliant folks looking for PhD positions!**)
We look at attitudes towards doing social justice work in 500 students taking a first-year seminar class about computing, and qualitatively assess reasons for (not) wanting to do justice work.
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
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and based in a low- or middle-income country?
💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026!
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
We do, Lucy! Not roaming the campus yet, but it's only a matter of time. I just need that one-on-one meeting with the Provost...
every now and then I stumble on a place like r/slowcooking where people just all out stan each others slow cooker recipes and it temporarily restores my faith in humanity and the internet
🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM
and based in a low- or middle-income country?
💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026!
📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit....
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“The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.”
Check our article instead, which uses conversations not individually chosen for public sharing, actually describes our methods and data, and finds quite different distributions for how people use ChatGPT and personal info disclosed in their chats.
Come be my boss!
The new AI & Society Dept., focusing on critical and community-driven approaches to AI, is looking for our first permanent chair.
Please feel free to reach out with questions!
www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/58816
[Plz repost]
the key to good writing:
1. Decide 1-3 days before the deadline to rewrite the intro
2. End up drafting the leading phrase "At it's core, human communication is about..."
3. Question life choices
What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar?
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.
ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download!
📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info
💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Reposting for the #ic2s2 crowd!
UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025.
More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734
Only problem with the baby starting to sleep through the night is that I need to find a new excuse to justify my caffeine intake now
So ICWSM concluded today and it was a blast, was a great honor to attend @icwsm.bsky.social at Copenhagen and present my work with @kennyjoseph.bsky.social and other colleagues. The paper link is here :
ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...,
How information sharing in social media has slowly shifted from public posting to private channels. Strong empirical evidence from Facebook by the one and only Kiran Garimella. DETOX #ICWSM.
In our new paper (w/ @jongreen.bsky.social , @davidlazer.bsky.social, & Philip Resnik), now up in Nature Human Behaviour (nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02223-4), we argue that this tension really speaks to a broader misconceptualization of what misinformation is and how it works.
UB is starting an AI and Society Department. The first job positing is for a postdoc position (F26 or S27 start).
engineering.buffalo.edu/home/researc...
Please reach out if you have questions!
+1000
Not that I'm aware of, although agree that's the natural place to head next. c.ai also just introduced several new models, would be really interesting to explore changes to the site surrounding that! The subreddit (r/CharacterAI) has a lot of interesting thoughts on this.