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Matt DeVerna

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Postdoc with Stanford's Tech Impact and Policy Center (@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social). Past: Indiana University / Observatory on Social Media. Societal impacts of AI within the information ecosystem. 🧨 matthewdeverna.com

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️
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CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder
The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.
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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 29/09/2026
OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/t...
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OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.
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Stephanie Wang @stephanietwang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Excited to share a working preprint on GenAI platforms and publishers! We study the causal effects of AI Overviews and AI Mode on users’ behavior, perceptions, & traffic to web publishers. Co-led w/ @jlgleason.bsky.social , & Yakov Bart, Christo Wilson, and Danaé Metaxa. arxiv.org/abs/2608.18352 1/
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AI in Search Reduces Publisher Referrals Without Improving User Experience: Experimental Evidence
The integration of generative AI into web search delivers synthesized answers to user queries, changing how people navigate and assess information, while raising concerns about the downstream impacts ...
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Interested in doing a postdoc with me & @dgrand.bsky.social? Consider applying to Cornell's Klarman Fellowship: as.cornell.edu/research/kla... It involves a competitive internal application process, but it's 3 years of funding @$80k/year Please email me/Dave if you're interested! Oct 15th deadline
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Klarman Fellowships
The Klarman Fellowships in the College of Arts & Sciences provide postdoctoral opportunities to early-career scholars of outstanding talent, initiative and promise. Among the most selective of its kin...
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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 20/09/2026
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Gwyneth McClendon @gmcclendon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NYU is hiring in American Politics! Deadline October 6. See more details here: apply.interfolio.com/193724 @rozenas.bsky.social @cdsamii.bsky.social @sanfordgordon.bsky.social @bryantjmoy.bsky.social @awilke.bsky.social @stasavage.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @peterrosendorff.bsky.social
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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 19/09/2026
Can someone explain why some journals ask authors to submit their manuscripts with figures at the end? This is not how the work is published and it makes reviewing a nightmare. On page 6, the authors are walking me through a figure that is included (at the request of the editor) on page 45... 🤦‍♂️
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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 19/09/2026
www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/g...
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Google's Gemini becomes latest AI model to break out and hack computer systems
The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.
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Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📝 New Report! #AICompanions are rapidly emerging as a new form of interaction with #AI systems that users increasingly engage with not only as tools, but also as sources of emotional support, companionship, mentorship, role-play, and intimacy. 🔗 stanford.io/4dJrvJI
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Omar García-Ponce @garciaponce.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We're hiring! GW’s Political Science Department is seeking a junior tenure-track professor in Comparative Politics. The search is open to any substantive or regional focus and all methodological approaches. Review of applications begins October 16. www.gwu.jobs/postings/128...
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Assistant Professor of Political Science
The Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in Comparative Politics at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning as early as Fall 2027. This position is pendin...
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Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Registration for #TSRConf closes in less than one week! If you’ve been thinking about joining us, this is your last chance to be part of this year’s conference. Sign up by Sunday, September 20! ⤵️ 🎟️ stanford.io/3SgrmWl
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
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Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The 2027 Tech Policy Press Fellowship application is live! We’re seeking journalists, policy professionals, and researchers to pursue independent reporting and analysis on issues at the intersection of technology and democracy.
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Call for Applications: 2027 Tech Policy Press Fellowship Program
2027 Tech Policy Press fellowship applications are due on September 24, 2026.
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Alex Engler @alexengler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Friends, countrymen, lend me your shares! We are hiring a *𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫* to lead a *𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦* as we build Penn MEDIATED into the first† public-facing data science institute for the information ecosystem (think the Urban Institute or CSET, but for media and information technology).
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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 10/09/2026
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Opinion | The Research We Need to Understand A.I. Is Falling Apart
Just as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like.
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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at
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Adam Berinsky @adamberinsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm excited to share this article about a project I've been working on with fantastic collaborators. Check out the dashboard for yourself here: llmelectionobservatory.org www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b...
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Election LLM Observatory
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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 10/09/2026
New on @indicator.media: Community Notes on Instagram covered just 3% of false posts debunked by the US bureau of AFP Fact Check. This analysis comes one day after Meta announced it would expand the program to 16 new countries.
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Meta says Community Notes is bigger than fact-checking. That's not the whole story
Crowdsourced fact-checking on Instagram covered just 3% of false posts debunked by one fact-checking website
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JHU Computer Science @jhucompsci.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Get to know Assistant Professor @tiziano.bsky.social in our New Faculty Q&A:
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New faculty Q&A: Tiziano Piccardi
Get to know Tiziano Piccardi, who joins Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor of computer science and a member of the Data Science and AI Institute.
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Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is thrilled to release its new special issue: Digital Intersectionality and Marginalization in the Majority World. 🌏 🔗 tsjournal.org/index.php/jo... #JOTS #TrustAndSafety #MajorityWorld #GlobalSouth
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Noshir Contractor @noshir.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
1/ Co-directing the first @casbsstanford.bsky.social Summer Institute on AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS) with Lara Tiedens was one of the highlights of my sabbatical at CASBS. A month later, here are five key takeaways. 🧵
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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 02/09/2026
Trust and safety gig at the bottom
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Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What happens when agentic systems no longer show their work? In a post for @lawfaremedia.org, @rer.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social shared takeaways from their analysis of the edit logs of Grokipedia, offering insights into the governing practices of an AI-generated reference system. ⤵️
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Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.
A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.
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Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New preprint: Community Notes are good at correcting posts. But do they change the people behind them? We tracked 19,854 corrected accounts on X — 11.9M posts, 4 weeks before/after each correction. The answer: it depends who you are. @oii.ox.ac.uk 📎 arxiv.org/abs/2608.27526
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Community corrections have divergent downstream effects across corrected accounts
Community-based fact-checking can reduce the spread of annotated misleading posts, but whether it produces lasting behavioral change among corrected authors remains unclear. Here, we conduct a large-s...
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We’re hiring! Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in: Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA 1/3
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
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Cornell University, Department of Communication
Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We are hiring an assistant professor in American Politics this Fall, at the intersection of law and political economy. Review will begin after September 21st. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32519
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Cornell University, Government Department
Job #AJO32519, American Politics Assistant Professor, Government Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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CODE@MIT @codemit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Submissions for CODE@MIT are open until Sept 13th. As @dholtz.bsky.social noted www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... we're particularly interested in these topics this year:

 - New metrics and outcomes for changing products and user experiences (e.g., designing outcome measures for conversational, generative, and other complex products; measuring productivity and the quality of product-development and experimentation processes; distinguishing meaningful outcomes from engagement and other intermediate signals; constructing metrics from text and high-dimensional behavioral data; validating AI-generated labels, evaluations, and measures)

 - Using experiments to uncover causal mechanisms (e.g., moving beyond average treatment effects and ship/no-ship decisions to understand why interventions work; using process data (including AI-mediated conversations) to reconstruct heterogeneous user experiences; causal mediation and mechanism discovery; identifying which components of complex or AI-based treatments generate observed effects; using AI tools to analyze previously intractable qualitative and behavioral data)

- Experimental design under rapid iteration and treatment abundance (e.g., designing experiments when AI and other technologies make treatments inexpensive and continuously generated; exploring large, continuous, or combinatorial treatment spaces; allocating scarce traffic across many candidate interventions; integrating offline and synthetic evaluation, factorial designs, bandits, and sequential experiments; determining the diminishing value of additional treatments and iterations)
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Scott Abramson @scottfabramson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Rochester Political Science is hiring an Assistant Professor in political methodology this year! Please apply!!! Feel free to reach out with any questions. apply.interfolio.com/192333
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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 28/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/t...
New York Times article screenshot, which says “Trump administrations blacklisting of anthropic was illegal, judge rules”
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Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center @techimpactpolicy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What does #AI look like in the future of online trust and safety? This year, #TSRConf will feature multiple sessions exploring AI and its growing role in #TrustAndSafety, including the new risks these systems create and how they can be evaluated, governed, and used to make digital spaces safer.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025 57% drop from India alone catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
Graph of visas issued to students per month in 2024 and 2025
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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise. apply.interfolio.com/189477
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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 26/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/t...
NYT screenshot reads: Meta to pay up to 17 billion in landmark settlement over social media addiction claims
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Steven W. Webster @stevenwwebster.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
IU political science is hiring in two areas this year: 1. Quantitative methods 2. Security (interest in the relationship btwn emerging technologies and conflict) This is part of the University's "Faculty Strategic Hiring Initiative," so both positions should be well-resourced. Ads to come soon.
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Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Rachith Aiyappa earns IU Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award -- congrats!! 🧪🏆🎓🎉 osome.iu.edu/research/blo...
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Rachith Aiyappa earns IU Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Rachith Aiyappa, a recent Ph.D. graduate in Informatics from Indiana University’s Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, Observatory on Social...
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alex benzer @alexbenzer.com · 26/08/2026
thread numbering badges now show up on posts in feeds! to see them, make sure you have beta features enabled. you can do that here: bsky.app/settings/bet... once that's enabled, you should see them on posts in feeds like in the photo below. let us know what you think!
A demo showing where the thread number badge appears on posts in feeds.
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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 26/08/2026
I made an LLM-powered "external brain" template for researchers. It is based on Karpathy's "llm-wiki" idea and designed for Obsidian. Built-in skills let you feed Claude Code links, papers, or notes and it files them away, links them together, and keeps the vault tidy.
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GitHub - mr-devs/cc-external-brain: An LLM-maintained external brain — a folder of markdown notes where Claude Code does the filing, linking, and indexing.
An LLM-maintained external brain — a folder of markdown notes where Claude Code does the filing, linking, and indexing. - mr-devs/cc-external-brain
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Will Schulz @small-schulz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So proud of this amazing collab w @crobertson500.bsky.social and so many others (see below) -- a labor of love in which we combined two dissertations and made them more than the sum of their parts! Can't wait to hear what you think!
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Berkeley Linguistics is hiring a semanticist! Consider applying and spreading the word! Our department was founded 125 years ago as the first linguistics department in the country. This is a nice celebration of Berkeley linguistics legacy! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05458
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Assistant Professor - Semantics - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Michael Donnelly @mjdonnelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Come work with me! U of T is searching in American politics. I'm on the committee. My APSA schedule is booked, but if you see me around, feel free to introduce yourself and ask anything about the search. I'm also happy to do Zooms before or after APSA. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Assistant Professor - American Politics
Assistant Professor - American Politics
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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andyguess @andyguess.com · 25/08/2026
Glad to finally be able to post about this long-in-the-works paper, led by the amazing @crobertson500.bsky.social and @small-schulz.bsky.social! "Everyone knows" that social media gives a distorted view of public opinion (...right?). 1/8
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International Conference on Computational Social Science @ic2s2.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
IC2S2 2026 Keynote from Kate Starbird, "From Rumors to Influence: Participatory Propaganda to Policy": youtu.be/B5a651PKTN0
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2026 IC2S2: Keynote Presentation by Kate Starbird
YouTube video by Vermont Complex Systems Institute
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"TikTok on Friday reached a $400 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department that accused the company of illegally gathering children’s information." [Gift link]
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TikTok Settles With U.S. Over Child Privacy Concerns for $400 Million (Gift Article)
The Justice Department resolved a lawsuit that accused the social media company of illegally gathering children’s information.
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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Special issue on political networks! check it out.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Alex Engler @alexengler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In my first piece in 3 years (!), Danaé Metaxa and I write for @carnegieendowment.org on why we need a new paradigm of scientific research for AI—longitudinal monitoring—to ensure the public has a meaningful say in the societal role of LLMs. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
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We Need Ongoing Monitoring of AI and Political Information
Monitoring is essential so that policymakers and the public can understand—and have a say in—how AI systems affect politics.
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