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Jason W. Burton

@jasonburton.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen // Associate Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) @cphsodas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can human-AI teams outperform either one by themselves? @officialberger.bsky.social, @jasonburton.bsky.social and co. found that they can, but it's important that the human gets explanations for the AI's answers and a chance to learn from wrong decisions. More in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Julian Berger @officialberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New paper out in @pnas.org 🚨 Human learning is an understudied but promising lever for boosting human–AI synergy @jasonburton.bsky.social @ralfkurvers.bsky.social @stefanherzog.bsky.social @dirkwulff.bsky.social
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Is human culture purely a product of bottom-up "social tinkering?" Or is it designed? In our commentary on Chater and Christiansen, @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social,
Ralph Hertwig, and I argue that we should pay more attention to the designed environments in which cultural evolution occurs.
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Social tinkering in designed environments | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Social tinkering in designed environments - Volume 49
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A simple trick if you have a Scandinavian reviewer you want to avoid: submit in June, July, or August
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy
*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...
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Kurt Luther @kurtluther.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Papers & Talks deadlines extended by one week for ACM Collective Intelligence 2026 and ACM HCOMP 2026! #ci2026 #hcomp2026 Abstracts now due June 8, full submissions June 15. ci.acm.org/2026/
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ACM Collective Intelligence 2026
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Submission deadlines for papers and talks have been extended by one week! ⏳ #CI2026 #HCOMP2026 ci.acm.org/2026/
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
⏰ Submission deadlines for CI 2026 are fast approaching! ⏰ June 1: Register the metadata for your paper or talk June 8: Submit your full paper (max. 6000 words) or talk (max. 1500 words) Great opportunity to get feedback on your work from a stellar program committee: ci.acm.org/2026/organiz...
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
⏰ Submission deadlines for CI 2026 are fast approaching! ⏰ June 1: Register the metadata for your paper or talk June 8: Submit your full paper (max. 6000 words) or talk (max. 1500 words) Great opportunity to get feedback on your work from a stellar program committee: ci.acm.org/2026/organiz...
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Politiken @politiken.dk · 17/05/2026
Nu siger forskere, at de har fundet en løsning på de sociale mediers store problem
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Sociale mediers algoritmer styrer, hvem og hvad vi tror på, viser nyt studie fra Københavns Universitet. Forskerne bag siger, at de har fundet en vej, der kan skabe bedre relationer mellem mennesker.
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DR Indland (dkbot) @dkbot-dr-indland.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Nyt studie: Det tyder på, at algoritmer gør mere ved os, end du måske lige tror www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/studie-ty… #dk #nyheder #dkbot
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Nyt studie: Det tyder på, at algoritmer gør mere ved os, end du måske lige tror
Forskerne mener, at vi bør være åbne for at afprøve flere forskellige algoritmer end dem, sociale medier bruger lige nu.
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Big news! The 14th ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2026) will be held September 27-30, 2026, at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing near Washington, DC. I'm excited to be a program co-chair this year. ci.acm.org/2026/ Papers and abstracts due 8 June. Check it out!
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Rebecca Adler-Nissen @adler-nissen.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🚀 We're hiring postdocs/assistant professors for my @erc.europa.eu project, TECHORDER, exploring how companies and states struggle over tech and global order. The project is based at the Dep of Political Science, University of Copenhagen Deadline: 20 April Apply: employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🧑‍💻 New paper at #chi2026 w @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social and @stefanherzog.bsky.social Are you worried about how social media algorithms affect people’s beliefs? We are, so we tested engagement-based ranking algorithms against alternatives in a pre-reg’d collaborative filtering experiment... 🧵
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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📣 Applications for the 23rd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! ✨Join us in Berlin @arc-mpib.bsky.social June 08–16, 2026, to explore the topic of “Decision Making in the Age of AI”. ✏️ More details + application form (deadline: March 16): www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...
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Alexander Schakowski @alexschakowski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry? New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com. Thread tomorrow. arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507
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Industry Influence in High-Profile Social Media Research
To what extent is social media research independent from industry influence? Leveraging openly available data, we show that half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to indus...
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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 10/12/2025
Christmas came early this year! Very happy to see our paper out in Science Advances. Led by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social, we ran a unique collective field-experiment on Reddit, to better understand who is participating in online debates and why. Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... And more below 👇
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Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment
A field experiment examines patterns of online political discussion participation and the challenges of addressing inequality.
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Pantelis P. Analytis @pantelispa.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I am hiring a postdoc for a DFF-funded project on social influence, and the decision processes that fuel rich-get-richer dynamics in the online/offline world. The position is for up to a year, competitive Danish salary, remote work possible. Interested or know somebody? DM me or share!
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Christoph Abels @cabels18.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Generative AI (GenAI) can do more than just answer questions - it can tailor its responses based on users’ preferences, habits, and even emotional tone. We call this capability hypercustomization - explored in our new paper in Behavioral Science & Policy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities - Christoph M. Abels, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, Jason W. Burton, Dawn L. Holford, Levin Brink...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is changing human–machine interactions and the broader information ecosystem. Much as social media algorithms persona...
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Luke Thorburn @lukethorburn.com · 30/06/2025
🔔 Often our tech policy interventions operate from linear, top-down assumptions that don't account for the complexity they seek to govern. To dig into this I'm co-organizing a workshop at ACM CI 2025 with Jason Burton, Joe Bak-Coleman, + Naomi Shiffman. You should come! ci-x-tp.github.io
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 19/06/2025
I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
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The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
🚨 Workshop update 🚨 We're excited to announce that @naomishiffman.bsky.social will be joining to share her experience with designing and passing implementable tech policy. Our half-day agenda is up (ci-x-tp.github.io) and early registration for @acmci.bsky.social ends on 23 June — don’t miss out!
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
(1/4) Ever wondered what tech policy might look like if it were informed by research on collective intelligence and complex systems? 🧠🧑‍💻 Join @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @lukethorburn.com, and myself in San Diego on Aug 4th for the Collective Intelligence x Tech Policy workshop at @acmci.bsky.social!
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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🚨New podcast episode!!🚨 Ralph Hertwig calls for a shift from nudging to boosting—empowering people with the skills to make informed decisions. It’s a transparent way to strengthen agency in the face of challenges like misinformation, climate change, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9r-...
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Ralph Hertwig: Beyond Nudging—How Boosting Empowers Citizens to Make Good Decisions
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
(1/4) Ever wondered what tech policy might look like if it were informed by research on collective intelligence and complex systems? 🧠🧑‍💻 Join @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @lukethorburn.com, and myself in San Diego on Aug 4th for the Collective Intelligence x Tech Policy workshop at @acmci.bsky.social!
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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 15/05/2025
New preprint with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social where we argue for a complex-system perspective to understand the causal effects of social media on society and for a triangulation of methods arxiv.org/abs/2505.09254
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Moving towards informative and actionable social media research
Social media is nearly ubiquitous in modern life, and concerns have been raised about its putative societal impacts, ranging from undermining mental health and exacerbating polarization to fomenting v...
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I'm excited that I can finally share what I've been working on for the past 9 months: The United Nations 2025 Human Development Report: "A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI" 🧵 hdr.undp.org/content/huma...
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Another example of why we need a new approach to address the ethics of social media experiments www.nature.com/articles/s44... @vincentjstraub.bsky.social
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Participatory approaches should be used to address the ethics of social media experiments - Communications Psychology
The use of social media field experiments has led to calls for revised ethical guidelines—but none have stuck. A participatory governance approach, similar to developments in AI, can improve practices...
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Stefan Herzog @stefanherzog.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨🤖👥 Webinar "Collective Intelligence in the era of LLMs" April 24 5-6pm CET www.hacid-project.eu/hacid-webina... Register nesta.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Speakers: - Jason Burton, Copenhagen Business School - Lucie Flek, University of Bonn - Nikolas Zöller, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
A group of six people sits around a large wooden table working collaboratively with laptops, tablets, smartphones, and notebooks. The screens display a presentation slide titled “Discussion Outline.” The table also has coffee mugs, notebooks with handwritten notes, and small potted plants, suggesting a casual but focused team meeting or brainstorming session.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 28/02/2025
🚨 UPCOMING EVENT: Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms, April 10-11 at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social & online. In collaboration with Senior AI Advisor @sethlazar.org & co-sponsored by the Knight Institute and @columbiaseas.bsky.social. RSVP: knightcolumbia.org/events/artif...
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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 21/02/2025
Revised ethical guidelines for social media experiments have not stuck. A participatory governance approach, akin to developments in AI, can improve practices & align the interests of researchers, platforms & users. @vincentjstraub.bsky.social @jasonburton.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Participatory approaches should be used to address the ethics of social media experiments - Communications Psychology
The use of social media field experiments has led to calls for revised ethical guidelines—but none have stuck. A participatory governance approach, similar to developments in AI, can improve practices...
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Helen Pearson @helenpearson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Endlessly reading news, but can’t recall details of it later? Worried you rely on the internet/your phone to store things instead of your brain? Me too. I explored for @nature.com whether the internet (and AI) is worsening human memory, according to research. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/3
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Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says
Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI might do.
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Center for Adaptive Rationality (MPIB, Berlin) @arc-mpib.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨 Applications for the 22nd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! 🌐 Join us in Berlin @mpib-berlin.bsky.social from June 17–25, 2025 to explore "Decision Making in a Digital World". ✏️ Application deadline is March 9 - more info at 👇!! www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
There's been lots of speculation about potential societal impacts of LLMs 🌍 In a new Nature Human Behaviour (@natureportfolio.bsky.social) article, I and 27 researchers argue that we should be thinking about those impacts through the lens of collective intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How large language models can reshape collective intelligence - Nature Human Behaviour
Collective intelligence is the basis for group success and is frequently supported by information technology. Burton et al. argue that large language models are transforming information access and tra...
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Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
Academics! Where do you prefer or hope to publish? Have a few minute to tell us? My group at CU Boulder is surveying the publication preferences of academics in a pairwise comparison survey called Publish or Comparish. → tinyurl.com/PubPrefs Thanks for considering & pls share with colleagues!
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Jason W. Burton @jasonburton.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
Are social media algorithms affecting the beliefs people form? Can we design prosocial algorithms to promote belief accuracy and consensus?   Check out my recent work w/ @stefanherzog.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social for new evidence from a controlled, pre-reg'd experiment.   bit.ly/4bL1AOZ
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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
Join us at this year's EADM summer school at the MPI for Human Development, Sep 9-13, with keynotes from @melaniemitchell.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Gaël Le Mens, @chiaralongoni.bsky.social and talks from Laura Weidinger, @jasonburton.bsky.social, @zoepurcell.bsky.social, and Nils Köbis!
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 21/09/2023
NEW ESSAY: In Algorithmic Amplification for Collective Intelligence, Jason W. Burton posits that the promise of democratized social media has largely gone unrealized, and suggests how to design & evaluate algorithms to enhance deliberation online. Read here: knightcolumbia.org/content/algo...
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