iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 06/08/2026

This what pivot_wider() was born for

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Miami Mike @leather-peach.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Speaking of the odyssey this is the best post anyone's ever made about it

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

data visualization is my passion.

fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

fried rice, while delicious in theory, has never existed and cannot be made by human beings. it requires rice to be pre-made and refrigerated in advance and we as humans lack the capacity to plan that far ahead. in the future, computers may be able to help us do this

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Dune 1: Go White Boy, Go Dune 2: Oh Dune 3: Oh White Boy, No

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

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ceej @ceej.online · 16/02/2026

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

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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/

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

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

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Ben Rochford @benrochford.com · 17/02/2025

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

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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

🚨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...

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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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Host a Partner Location

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 19/11/2024

Due to the server issues some of your recent posts may have gotten fewer likes than they deserved Please accept this coupon to rectify this, which allows you to imagine you got 10 more likes on your post than you did

a coupon which says "10 likes*" and then in fine print says "* does not give you likes"

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Sanjay Kairam @skairam.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

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!

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Ben Rochford @benrochford.com · 15/11/2024

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

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Ben Rochford @benrochford.com · 15/11/2024

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.

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.

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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"!

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Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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

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Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 14/11/2024

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...

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

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

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Ben Rochford @benrochford.com · 15/11/2024

May I hop in? Thanks for doing this!

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

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...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

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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Ben Rochford @benrochford.com · 15/11/2023

Ok, but consider the Duo The Marvels Official Glasses

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

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...

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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.

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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 15/10/2023

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.

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