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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let me know if you'd like my heart rate and cadence

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let history know you asked for it

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Going out for beers tonight at the NYC Man City supporters club bar just to celebrate United winning the league in 2021

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pleased to see my pied a terre getting a nice write-up

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The really cool thing about meeting note-taking apps is that now, every time I have a meeting, about six different apps ask if I want to take notes, which makes things very efficient.

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Brb I'm just about to post on LinkedIn about how my broken wrist helps us understand synergies in large organizations

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There are (obviously) legitimate concerns around AI capabilities. But Sky News choosing earnestly to report on an AI agent applying for a job is stupid af...

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Live scenes from the APSA fourth day beers

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 31/08/2026

i don't even know what to say, if you're freaked out about code requesting admin privileges i just don't know what to say.

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Currently setting up human annotation loop for a large scale LLM eval and some of the outputs read like avant-garde poetry:

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My niece just sent me a video of an AI generated banjo song on Spotify being played from a phone to an iPad where an animated cat was listening to the song then repeating it back in a funny voice. Somebody filmed this and it has 527 thousand likes anyway I'm going to live in the woods now bye

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have considered buying my own surfboard. I guess that means maybe

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just an enormous cost to the US economy that is hard to communicate politically because intangible. But such utter lunacy. International scholars drawn to the US are part of what makes the sector great. It should continue

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Who wants to play a game of spot the absolute bloody legend

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you tap the thumbs up, you get more citations FYI

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Best non fiction recommendations for my holibobs?

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Also p sure this *has* happened but that prompt seems too on the nose!

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Agree this is horrible but this image smells like bullshit to me

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Is there any data behind this "Gen Z are workshy and immature" stuff or is this just vibes FM stuff again?

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"I've created a bluesky account for my solar panels" is about as bluesky as bluesky gets Hats off to you, @jamesomalley.co.uk

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Something weird happening with the interfolio link. Access through here csmapnyu.org/jobs

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Work With Us - NYU’s Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We want to hire a new, more techy AI person in the lab. Think mechanistic interpretability, fine tuning, large-scale evals that kind of thing. If you're interested and have Qs, lmk! interfolio.com/181820

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We hope this will lead to more papers (some I'm already working on) integrating attention measures into their designs + the downstream consequences of attention. Especially as so many algorithms now are attention based.

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This suggests (once again) that echo chamber narratives are likely overstated---not least because we tend not to measure actual attention to things we're exposed to online.

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We replicated the findings four times across different panels and different national contexts...

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Passive telemetry records everything they click on and, crucially, what they decide to click to read more on...

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We do so using a clone social media environment that we get participants to interact with

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Absolutely gutted for Argentina. They seem like a really lovely bunch of blokes too

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm actually something of a Who's Who myself

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...

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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

To do so, we're using an enormous trove of citizen reporting data from well-known mobile applications. You'll get to work alongside @letitbk.bsky.social and Delia Baldassarri. Hmu w/ any Qs apply.interfolio.com/189355

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