A new faculty position in media and politics at Stanford: facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Chris Bail
Профиль VivelyDuke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
It is so important to recognize the vital role of scientific innovation as we contemplate America's 250th birthday. Check out this great commentary in Science by my colleagues SharonBelenzon , Ashish Arora, and Daniel Gross : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Another New Nature editor position: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
Nature Human Behavior is searching for a new editor to handle Computational Social Science: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
I can't think of many better causes right now than supporting science education for kids like the Tumble Science Podcast: givebutter.com/JokeHaThon2026
New job in computational social science: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Proposal would “dissolve the social and behavioral sciences at NSF”: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Join us tomorrow (April 2nd) for Tech for Open Minds-- a conference at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Registration is not required, we will accommodate as many people as our room allows! sicss.io/tom
Interested in whether technology can be leveraged to increase open-mindedness? There are a limited number of spots available to the public for our Tech for Open Minds conference next Thursday (April 2nd), we will accommodate all up to room capacity! Learn more here: sicss.io/tom
Near the top of my list of book's I'm looking forward to reading this year is Disagree Better, by the great Julia Minson! disagreeingbetter.com/order/the-book
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations
Seats have opened up at Duke's Conference on Society-Centered AI today! Come join us to hear Nicholas Christakis, Ronnie Chatterji, Reggie Townsend, Kaamna Bhojwani, and many more: sites.duke.edu/scai/schedule/
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/
Fascinated by #Moltbook? The Duke Polarization Lab has been studying how humans interact with large groups of bots simulating humans for the past three years, and we've learned a lot. For example, this forthcoming paper in AJPS documents how a "spiral of toxicity" unfolds: osf.io/preprints/os...
Interested in #Moltbook? Social scientists have been studying whether LLMs can simulate entire social media platforms for some time. 2.5 years ago we published the paper below, and there have been dozens of studies since then which I reviewed last year in this piece: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Please tell UNC not to destroy a pristine forest in order to build a new basketball stadium with luxury boxes by signing this petition: renovatesmithcenter.org?utm_source=s...