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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

stack rank coffee roasters in Burlington 1. Brio www.briocoffeeworks.com 2. Kestrel kestrelcoffees.com 3. Vivid vividcoffee.com No rank for 'coffee shops' bc its a 1 of 1: Tight Squeeze -> www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

this is very good - DiD design shows that introduction of accessibility features (enhanced by AI) improves exp. for a class of workers that were previously penalized by platform metrics - allowing for higher earnings, longer tenure, and improved cust ratings (which equates to > job satisfaction)

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 28/05/2026

Students are critical to a vibrant ICSSI community. Today, thanks to support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the NSF, we're thrilled to announce: FREE ICSSI 2026 registration for ALL trainees! Registration reopened: icssi.org/register/ Already registered? Look for a refund soon!

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem

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Kyle Niemeyer, PhD @kyleniemeyer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Funding opportunity for US-based early career researchers! tl;dr: $25k for 6-mo projects in AI/ML Integration in Scientific Software Development, Scientific Software Sustainability, or Software education research. Applications due 1 June 2026. 🔗 urssi.us/blog/2026/05...

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URSSI Blog

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Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.

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State media control influences large language models - Nature

Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...

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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Good news everyone! Check out rite.mino.mobi

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Adam Visokay @avisokay.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Excited to announce that Tyler McCormick and I are organizing a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at the University of Washington, with a focus on AI and social science research. July 6-17 We encourage applications from PhD students, postdocs, and junior faculty: sicss.io/2026/uw/

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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

PaCSS (Politics and Computational Social Science) is back! APSA preconference at BU joint with Political Communication, deadline for submission is May 8. Should be great! cssi.umass.edu/pacss2026

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PACSS 2026: Politics and Computational Social Science Conference | Computational Social Science Institute

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Judge Lin says it's not like Anthropic can secretly update the software without DoD's consent. DOJ says there's an audit underway to better understand what may be in the platform. Essentially no one seems to get how AI works.

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Katelyn Mei @katelynxmei.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

🚨🎉Excited to announce that our paper “Grok in the Wild: Characterizing the Roles and Uses of Large Language Models on Social Media” is accepted at @icwsm.bsky.social 2026! In this paper, we investigate how, when, and to what effect Grok is used on X.

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

'Code Contribution and Credit in Science' - new paper led by @evamaxfield.bsky.social w/ @isaacslaughter.bsky.social 1. We build a model that matches scientists (authors) with their GitHub accounts 2. We apply our model to ~140K paper-software repository pairs direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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Code Contribution and Credit in Science

Abstract. Software development has become essential to scientific research, but its relationship to traditional metrics of scholarly credit remains poorly understood. We develop a dataset of approxima...

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ICSSI @icssi.org · 26/02/2026

The International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation #ICSSI2026 will be in beautiful Boulder, CO, USA! ☀️ June 29 - July 1 ☀️ & Open Data Hackathon, June 28 🧑‍💻 We welcome submissions on all topics in the science of science and innovation, broadly defined. Learn more at 👉 icssi.org 👈

An image of beautiful Boulder, CO, USA, with the iconic flatiron rock formations and red roofed campus.

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This is good - adopting LLMs to write consumer complaints results in better relief.

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Rodrigo Dorantes Gilardi @rodgdor.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I am really excited to co-organize this year's Science of Science Satellite of NetSci 2026 in Boston. Submissions are very open and can include work in progress, work under review, or accepted publications. Please consider submitting before March 18th! Website: netscisci.github.io

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Dakota Murray @dakotamurray.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Excited for the Networks of Science of Science satellite at NetSCI 2026 this year in Boston! netscisci.github.io Be sure to submit by March 4th!

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Networks in Science of Science

A NetSci 2026 Satellite Workshop

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

@dwillis.bsky.social - Is there an archive of pol campaign SMS messages? For some reason, I remember you working on this... But I might be conflating this with the 10000 other projects of yours that I've envied :)

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

You can change the spinner verbs in CC by editing `~/.claude/config.json` Mine follw the $cash theme { "spinnerVerbs": { "mode": "replace", "verbs": ["The first day I got me a fuel pump" ,"And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk"] } } www.youtube.com/watch?v=uErK...

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Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time (Official Audio)

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

too many polecats not enough deacons

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

"do you have 5 minutes to chat?"

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Extremely good visualization of NBA games. I especially like being able to see the +/- of different lineups over the course of a game (and not just because it supports my thesis that Devin Vassell is the engine that makes SA run) hoopflow.limboy.me?tab=games&ga...

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HoopFlow

NBA data analytics platform focused on Game Flow and advanced performance metrics.

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nlpandcss.bsky.social @nlpandcss.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨ And this year, we have a new shared task with prizes! Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc... Deadlines: March 5 (direct), March 24 (pre-reviewed ARR) #NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social

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NLP+CSS Workshops

https://www.pexels.com/photo/group-hand-fist-bump-1068523/

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Extremely impressive answer by Opus - the strategy all Weber games is actually obfuscation

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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...

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ICWSM 2026: Submit

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This is was essentially Tom Griffiths' keynote this morning at COLM

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This is good. Like really good.

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

'Examining the effects of birth order on personality' in PNAS -> across multiple controls in three countries (UK, Germany, USA) "...we conclude that birth order does not have a lasting effect on broad personality traits outside of the intellectual domain." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

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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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

today we will all read imbens 2021 on statistical significance and p values, which is a strong contender for having the best opening paragraph of any stats paper pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Every department chair rn:

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Randomized policy experiments are often assumed to be hard, expensive (financially and politically), and disliked by voters... "Collecting survey data representative of the Dutch electorate, we find clear evidence contradicting this view." doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...

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Who's Afraid of Policy Experiments?

Abstract. In many public policy areas, randomised policy experiments can greatly contribute to our knowledge of the effects of policies and can thus help t

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Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I joined bsky 1 year ago to follow @electricalwsop.bsky.social ... Hope it turns out better for the rest of you

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