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Morgan R Frank

@mrfrank.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. www.pitt.edu/~mrfrank

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Alireza Javadian Sabet @arjsabet.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Thrilled to share that two of our submissions have been accepted as talks at @icssi.org!!!🎉 If you’re interested in #migration and how institutions shape #mobility and #innovation, I’d love to connect. @mrfrank.bsky.social, Junghyun Lim, Yixiao Li, Lisa K. Simon, Ziji Ma, and Qing Chang.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
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Morgan R Frank @mrfrank.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This. And two-factor authentication
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 27/11/2025
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
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estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
How fair are the algorithms that decide who gets information online? Our new paper in PNAS Nexus shows that maximization algorithms, the ones used to pick “influencers” in social networks, unintentionally deepen inequality. 🧠 Sekara, Dotu, Cebrian, Moro & García-Herranz 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
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Detecting bias in algorithms used to disseminate information in social networks and mitigating it using multiobjective optimization
Abstract. Social connections are conduits through which individuals communicate, information propagates, and diseases spread. Identifying individuals who a
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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Here is a ‘blame-praise curve’ for the percentage of household chores done by husbands People think husbands are blameworthy if they do 20%, but praiseworthy if they do 40% (!) Perceived average is above 40%, so people think below average is still praiseworthy [Thread]
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
You: pornbots keep randomly following me on Bluesky Me, an intellectual: pornbots are citing my books on Google Scholar
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Morgan R Frank @mrfrank.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Inflation
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NPR @npr.org · 07/08/2025
The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.
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Federal judge rules cuts to humanities grants were 'unlawful'
The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/07/2025
Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/
4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
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Morgan R Frank @mrfrank.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Don’t eat your receipts
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Morgan R Frank @mrfrank.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Qing Chang will present research on “Upward mobility in the green sector for frontline fossil fuel workers”—joined by Michaël Aklin, Morgan Frank, and Shanti Gamper-Rabindran. Register NOW to join live seminar on Zoom: lnkd.in/gAhgfjMq
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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The EO has to be interpreted in light of the (decades long) Republican attack on science. This has nothing to do with improving science. They're using legitImate criticism from within science to (ironically) decrease the credibility of science. They then have no obligation to listen to scientists.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/05/2025
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Thanks to all who joined our conversation on Social Capital in the Age of AI and the screening of Join or Die. 25 years after Bowling Alone, we explored how tech is reshaping trust, connection & civic life in the algorithmic era. @danielaldrich.bsky.social @hamishgibbs.bsky.social socialurban.net
Picture of the panelist in the event "Bowling alone, together" addressing the questions from the chair and audience
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵
The NSF building, photo courtesy of Duke University
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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David Rand @dgrand.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
🚨New WP🚨 Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction -Sig more effective than consensus messaging -Works for Republicans -Evidence of persistence @ 1mo -Scalable! PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps... Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change Here’s how 👇
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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This, @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social might be the dumbest take I've ever seen on social media. "Moderate their position on Canada?" WTF?! If the Republican party started believing in levitation, would you ask Democrats to moderate their position on gravity?
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Morgan R Frank @mrfrank.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
AI exposure scores can predict workers' unemployment risk! While individual AI exposure models aren't predictive of job losses, combining them creates a powerful predictive tool. #AIandJobs #FutureOfWork New work with @yyahn.bsky.social & @estebanmoro.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Perfection
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J. Doyne Farmer @doynefarmer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I'm in the @wsj.com with @ericbeinhocker.bsky.social explaining the #CleanEnergy revolution is unstoppable. Despite the Trump administration's determination to promote fossil fuels, the economic and technological forces driving green energy are too powerful to resist. www.wsj.com/business/ene...
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Essay | The Clean Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable
The Trump administration is determined to promote fossil fuels, but the economic and technological forces driving solar, wind and other sources are now too powerful to resist.
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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Next was an amazing talk by @mrfrank.bsky.social on challenges with determining how susceptible jobs are to automation at @nicoatnu.bsky.social. Frank presents a compelling network-oriented approach for modeling automation shocks. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p0L... (7/8)
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Wed@NICO - 2/26/25 - Morgan Frank
YouTube video by Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
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NICO @nicoatnu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#AI has evolved and now challenges our understanding of skills and careers. This Wednesday, we are thrilled to host @mrfrank.bsky.social to explore "AI, Complexity, and the Future of Work". Join us in person in Chambers Hall or via Zoom. #WedatNICO 🗓️ Wed 2/26 at 12pm US Central 🔗 bit.ly/WedatNICO
An event flyer for a Wednesdays @ NICO talk on 2/26/25 with Morgan Frank of the University of Pittsburgh.
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Wilim Abrook @wilimabrook.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🎨 Is AI democratising creativity—or racing to the bottom? 🎙️ This week I talked with @mrfrank.bsky.social about how AI is reshaping creative industries. 📢 Listen now: [Podcast Link] What do you think—is AI helping or hurting creative professionals? 👇 #AIart #TechAndArt #GenerativeAI #AIethics
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Morgan R Frank @mrfrank.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I had a great time on the Narrow Window podcast discussing AI and the future of work. We correctly identified that LLMs run on your laptop were imminent just weeks before DeepSeek R1 open.substack.com/pub/thenarro...
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AI & Unemployment with Dr Morgan Frank
How will AI reshape jobs, wages, and economic resilience?
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Morgan R Frank @mrfrank.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In a fast-changing economy, we need dynamic solutions for communicating and verifying our skills, knowledge, and abilities. Come have an early look at our solution! @youngjinyoo.bsky.social @kerrilemoie.bsky.social
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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 21/01/2025
Brilliant paper co-authored by two former MIT Media Lab group colleagues. As conflict, disease, and climate events continue to bite into systemic stability, designing for resilience in mitigation of and recovery from shocks to networks of custom become more urgent. #networks #urban #resilience
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estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Did you know that places within cities are deeply interconnected? Stores 🛒, workplaces 🏢, parks🏞️ and other places rely on each other through the flow of people and shared patronage, creating complex dependency networks between them.
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estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🚀 We just launched an interactive visualization to explain our recent @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper results on how lifestyles create "Invisible Urban Dependencies" between places that shape economic resilience [Viz] 👉 socialurban.net/dependency [Paper] 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Morgan R Frank @mrfrank.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
New @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper tracks mobility to reveal surprisingly long-distance dependencies between businesses. These insights could improve policy to bolster neighborhood economies and help business owners see how closures elsewhere might impact them www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Daniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Really cool personalized LLM use case. If your reaction to this is negative I don’t know what to tell you.
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Shahan Ali Memon @shahanmemon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
📢 Excited to share our latest publication in @natureportfolio.bsky.social Scientific Reports: "China and the U.S. produce more impactful #AI research when collaborating together." collaboration w/ Bedoor AlShebli, James Evans, & Talal Rahwan 🇨🇳🇺🇸🤖 🧵1/13 #scisci @uwischool.bsky.social #AcademicSky
US map and China map shaking hands with robot (signifying AI) in the middle -- A visual to represent US-China collaboration in AISnapshot of the published paper from Scientific Reports.
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Behaviour-based dependency networks between places shape urban economic resilience www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Behaviour-based dependency networks between places shape urban economic resilience - Nature Human Behaviour
Yabe and colleagues use human mobility data to identify dependencies in visitation patterns between places in cities, with unexpected prevalence at long-distance connections. Leveraging this network e...
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Geoffrey Supran @geoffreysupran.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
🚨No better day to announce the Climate Accountability Lab at the University of Miami is hiring for 4 new positions in computational social science (2xPhD, Postdoc, Software Engineer) to investigate disinformation & propaganda. Come help shape climate accountability for the next four years. ⬇️ 1/n
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estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
By analyzing these behavior-based dependency networks, we demonstrate how changes in foot traffic to one location—whether from temporary closures or shifts in consumer behavior—can affect the visits of surrounding and far-away businesses.
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estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
📣 New paper in Nature Human Behavior @natureportfolio.bsky.social! Using large-scale mobility data, we find how businesses, amenities, and other urban places depend on each other. It reveals connections that aren’t always visible but have substantial economic impacts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Postdoc opportunities at the Knowledge Lab at U Chicago. Application review begins Jan 31. form.jotform.com/241295631499...
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estebanmoro @estebanmoro.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We are hiring a postdoc/researcher at my group (SUNLab) @nunetsi.bsky.social. Interested in working on multidisciplinary problems like segregation, health, or economic growth from the perspective of Social Urban Networks? Contact me if you are interested. Please share it!
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Morgan R Frank @mrfrank.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Is there more granular data reflecting workers risk of unemployment given their location and occupation? Yes! Hear about in my conversation in the AI Horizon series through the @whartonschool.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXyN...
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AI's Effect on the Workforce
YouTube video by Wharton School
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/11/2024
Bluesky's firehose is a treasure trove of public data for researchers and developers, and it's completely free. Check out our developer docs: docs.bsky.app
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Bluesky Documentation | Bluesky
Explore guides and tutorials to the Bluesky API.
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Matt Groh @mattgroh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the Human AI Collaboration lab at Kellogg, NU CS, and @nicoatnu.bsky.social If you're excited about computational social science, LLMs, digital experiments, real-world problem solving, this could be a great fit Please reshare! Deets 👇
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We might have FINALLY met our match… #WorldBollardAssociation
One of the biggest dogs in the world pulls a tiny bollard almost out the ground.
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Maria del Rio-Chanona @maria-drc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🚨Funded PhD position at UCL Computer Science! 🌍💻 Learn how to use and develop LLMs, RL, Networks, and Agent-Based Models to forecast the impact of #AI in society and pathways towards a #net-zero economy. 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #MachineLearning #ComplexSystems #GreenTransition #PhD
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Agent-Based and Machine Learning Models for understanding the Economic Impacts of AI and/or the Green Transition at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Agent-Based and Machine Learning Models for understanding the Economic Impacts of AI and/or the Green Transition at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Morgan R Frank @mrfrank.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A wonderful postdoc opportunity to work with @estebanmoro.bsky.social who is the best collaborator and a thoughtful, dedicated mentor. I have had so much fun working with him and I learn so much from him. You will too! Apply! lnkd.in/eZ_E8pCW
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