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 consider myself a computational communication scholar / computational social scientist, but my students and I use qualitative methods and experiments and surveys as well as large-scale data analyses.

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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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🦇 DEADvin 🎃 GHASTney 👻 @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

I'm so glad that Hsuen-Chi Chiu invited me to work on this with her. I think that AI companions are a really, really important space to understand and I'm looking forward to doing and reading more research in this area.

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

However, some participants talked about being more willing to share fairly private things with chatbots than humans. In part, this was because bots are not connected to human social networks. No matter what you tell them, they can't spread rumors or gossip.

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

For chatbots, that isn't an option, as any communication with the AI has to occur through the platform, changing this privacy calculus. Our participants took steps to mitigate some of these risks, such as using pseudonyms when talking about others or not share PII.

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

@masurphil.bsky.social argues that on social media, people also consider privacy risks from platforms. @vitak.bsky.social and @nellison.bsky.social found that when we talk to humans we often take private conversations to more private media, away from the prying eyes of other people and platforms.

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

Chatbots represent a unique situation - like in human-human relationships, users have to manage the tension of disclosure - we have to disclose to receive support, but it also makes us vulnerable.

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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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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 18/06/2026

I spent some time reading the radicalization literature and my understanding is that this is a pretty mainstream theory. IIRC, the main idea is that each layer of the pyramid draws from and is supported by the lower layers. And then a bunch of the research is on how people move between layers.

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 10/06/2026

It seems like incentives should help but as countries get richer they have fewer kids. ourworldindata.org/grapher/chil...

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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 · 18/05/2026

Yeah, I get both sides but do we really expect every author to manually check every citation in a paper? That is just a ton of duplicated, wasted effort

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 17/05/2026

I'm saying that I don't check references and I don't think many reviewer do

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 17/05/2026

For better or worse, this isn't really true. Peer reviewing a paper is a ton of unpaid work and in my experience it's rare that reviewers will be in the weeds about references. Unless it's citing a paper you know well, you trust the authors to represent it correctly.

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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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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 27/04/2026

How does this compare with the amount of misinformation that was returned by Google search results before AI summaries?

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 10/04/2026

That's Smee in the spotlight

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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

If it's slow, I've probably hit the Bluesky rate limits. Sorry!

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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

It clearly is and I think this is part of my ambivalence. There are some uses of AI that are clearly unethical and unhelpful for science and I think that their existence may be pushing us away from exploring what is ethical and good for science.

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

I wonder if there are ways to capture some of the benefits of writing together with some of the benefits of co-writing with LLMs.

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

I agree but I have also had the experience where an LLM suggests doing something in a way I hadn't considered. The feeling is similar to being surprised by a grad student taking a project in a direction you hadn't considered, and I have found that generative as well.

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

We are developing new social norms and there's a bit of a feeling of being morally unmoored while they solidify. My strong suspicion is that it will be totally normal to have AI do most academic writing, just as it's quickly becoming acceptable to use Claude Code or similar. Thoughts?

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

On the other hand, I've found that writing with an LLM (e.g., with Copilot) can also spark new ideas or ways of thinking about something. So far, I think that my reservations are mostly ethical/moral, but in an uncomfortable way.

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

And I think the main reason is that it *feels* like cheating. I think that it's likely that by integrating LLMs more into my process I could write better, clearer, and certainly faster. There are certainly downsides to this - e.g., the process of writing helps to clarify thinking and spawn new ides

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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

The open source GitHub project is at: github.com/jdfoote/Redd... We (with @lbitsiko.bsky.social, Hitesh Goel, and @kumarde.bsky.social) hope that this paper and library make it much easier for others to pursue this kind of research. Contributions and pull requests to the project are very welcome!

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GitHub - jdfoote/Reddit-Conversation-Laboratory: Software to enable LLM conversation testing with Reddit users

Software to enable LLM conversation testing with Reddit users - jdfoote/Reddit-Conversation-Laboratory

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

It recruits and consents Reddit users, assigns them to conditions, manages and store their conversations with chatbots, and tracks their public behavior before and after the intervention. This allows researchers to track longer-term changes to behavior in a real-life setting.

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

We wanted to look at the long-term impact of chatbot conversations on behaviors, so we built the Reddit Conversation Library. This is a set of software tools designed to do conversational AI field experiments.

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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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