iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 20/09/2026

Sunderland is going to be really fun to watch this year! #premierleague

Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 19/09/2026

I am hoping to recruit new PhD student(s) to come to Purdue and work with me! I study the evolution and influence of online communities. I'm also interested in the social implications of AI, especially for online communities, collaboration, and social cognition.

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Devin Gaffney @devingaffney.com · 07/09/2026

There is an opportunity for the funniest thing to happen here cc @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

Header of the Wiki page for Louis Cancelmi

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 17/08/2026

For over a year now, I have been annoyed by this problem with my e-reader. The pen sometimes stopped working correctly, usually near an edge, but often a different edge. I had googled some without luck and finally asked AI about it. Right away it suggested it might be a magnet, like on the case!

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 01/08/2026

Our new JCMC paper - led by Hsuen-Chi Chiu - looks at privacy attitudes when chatting with AI companions. Based on interviews with 15 chatbot users, we argue that there is a paradox - people trust their AI friends but distrust the corporations that run them! academic.oup.com/jcmc/article...

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Chatting with confidants or corporations? Privacy management with AI companions

Abstract. AI companion chatbots feel like intimate confidants but exist as part of corporate data systems. Drawing on Communication Privacy Management (CPM

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 04/07/2026

Cabo Verde just put in one of the best performances in WC history. What a game!

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 04/07/2026

Looked like a foul for Cape Verde right at the end there

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 27/06/2026

I wanted to get some ice cream, but for some reason just couldn't make it all the way into the store.

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 25/06/2026

Really nice keynote at Sunbelt by @davidlazer.bsky.social He showed that peripherality of communities in the past predicts a lot about current trust in science, health outcomes, and political orientation.

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MickDundee58 @lairdmickd.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"I switched all the labels on my wife's Spice Rack." "I'm not in trouble yet, but the thyme is cumin."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

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NikkiJay is making Shards Of A God @nikkijay.games · 20/05/2026

Is that butter? No it's ghee. Oh thanks for clarifying

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 07/05/2026

One of the worst things about being a professor right now is not being able to fully celebrate great work by students without suspecting they used an LLM.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 04/05/2026

One thing that galls me about AI slop is the total reign of disingenuousness. A person "wrote" a detailed, impassioned appeal of their terrible AI slop paper's rejection. I explained why it was rejected. /1

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sohyeon hwang @s0hw.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

📢 #PhD students & #HCI faculty — we want to hear from you! @mirandawei.bsky.social @samanthadalal.bsky.social @mariannealq.bsky.social and I are studying how GenAI use is impacting the #research advisor-advisee relationship. Sign-up link for a 45 min interview, virtual or in-person, in the thread 🧵

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 28/03/2026

For my social networks course Claude Code and I vibecoded this app to teach about the unpredictability of virality in online social networks. can-s26.jeremydfoote.com/activities/v... It shows 4 Bluesky posts and has you predict which one was most popular. Give it a try!

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Virality Prediction Game

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 17/03/2026

Just read this great piece - paulgp.com/2026/03/16/r... by @paulgp.com and it got me thinking. It feels like there is a lot of moral(?) ambiguity and ambivalence around the use of LLMs for academics. So far, I've avoided having LLMs do basically any of my research writing ...

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 16/03/2026

New paper! Conversations with AI chatbots have been shown to be persuasive across a bunch of contexts. However, most of these studies are short-term and track only changes in attitudes or beliefs. ...

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Yes absolutely. And in particular, we desperately need social scientists in the middle of testing and publishing on these methodological questions, for all the reasons Phil and Jeff outline. This is too consequential to leave to CS.

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McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10,000 to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom that's warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Submit your work on causality and networks today!

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William Stone @itswilliamstone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/02/2026

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Stop sharing the “our AI agent made up data” reddit story. It is as fake as the AI you think you are critiquing & the people sharing it have done zero due dilligence 🙄🙄🙄🙄

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Cool/important job alert: Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's Research team for the area of knowledge integrity Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...

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Principal Research Scientist

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Jona de Jong @jonadejong.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15

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Wikimedia Foundation @wikimediafoundation.org · 29/01/2026

Bots help keep Wikipedia running. They fix broken links, revert vandalism, and tag pages so volunteers can focus on writing. Each bot is reviewed by the community and must be harmless and accountable. Meet the bots ➡️ w.wiki/WPH

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 29/01/2026

A few weeks back I gave a talk at Stanford about some of our work on generative AI in the online social world. The video is at www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH-h... Preprints of the work are at: arxiv.org/abs/2601.10754 arxiv.org/abs/2601.20100

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Have any academic researchers been able to get access to Reddit data through their new "Responisble Builder Policy" and approval process? www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/...

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From the redditdev community on Reddit: Introducing the Responsible Builder Policy + new approval process for API access

Explore this post and more from the redditdev community

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 04/12/2025

I gave a talk at Princeton about LLMs in the online social world - the video is now up at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITjI... Slides are at jeremydfoote.com/presentation...

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CITP Seminar: Jeremy Foote - LLMs are Social Actors: Chatbots in the Social World

YouTube video by CITP Princeton

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 24/11/2025

CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 19/11/2025

What's the most clichéd academic paper title template? It has to be "Mind the .* Gap", right?

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 19/11/2025

Another quick thought about LLMs: In the real world, we should always assume that "exponential" growth curves are actually logistic curves. That is, anything that connects to the real world will eventually be resource constrained in some way, and growth will slow...

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 19/11/2025

A hopeful thought about LLMs: Because they involve sharing information between people, they will always require moderation, servers, etc. These needs lead to some level of centralization (and in practice, corporate ownership). LLMs are different—very capable models can already be run on a laptop..

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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

BBC really burying the lede there

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communitydata.science @communitydata.science · 28/10/2025

Join the CDSC on Nov. 7th for our next Community Dialogue! Northwestern Student Matt Gaughan and Dr. Igor Steinmacher will discuss how FLOSS projects adapt their work processes to recruit new contributors and build the project communities that they want. Learn more and register:

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The Impacts of Organizational Interventions in Open Source Software Engineering - CommunityData

Please read the Virtual Event Code of Conduct. We will be recording the event presentations, but not discussions.

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 31/10/2025

There once was a man named Oz'mandias, Who had thought that he was the grandiest. "Look on me and despair" But now nobody cares And nothing remains but the sandy dust.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This morning, I’m at the CSCW conference in a session on “Activism in a Time if Data.” Most of the papers seem to assume activism for “good,” ending with design recs for supporting activism. As far as I can tell, none of the papers center right wing activism. Seems like we have a massive blind spot.

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

so sick of the explore-exploit dilemma, how about something new?

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 03/10/2025

If you've ever wanted to learn how to make beautiful websites with #QuartoPub and #rstats , check out this workshop I'm giving in a couple weeks! It'll be a blast (and we're covering Quarto's brand new _brand dot yaml system!)

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