Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 19/09/20268 games left - Schwarber (214) and Colson Montgomery (213) 000
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Your earlier work on OR has been super valuable to me - extremely happy to hear you might have a follow up! 110
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026To your point though - I think this varies a lot - opposition strategies are somewhat diverse by venue and by geography...the latter set of issues (IP, consolidation of power) are invoked but not evenly. 110
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026stack 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?... 030
Reposted by Nic WeberDerek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Really interesting use of my database of political fundraising emails by Andrew Hall: freesystems.substack.com/p/ai-is-the-...freesystems.substack.comAI is the Democratic Party's Next VillainWe analyze roughly 280,000 candidate fundraising emails to trace the rise of anti-billionaire populism in the Democratic party and see how it is slowly merging with a new kind of anti-AI populism. 052
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026this 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) 010
Reposted by Nic WeberICSSI @icssi.org · 28/05/2026Students 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! 0166
Reposted by Nic WeberKyle Niemeyer, PhD @kyleniemeyer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Funding 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...urssi.usURSSI Blog 063
Reposted by Nic WeberHannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I’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.nature.comState media control influences large language models - NatureGovernment-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 ... 111651
Reposted by Nic WeberMinor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Good news everyone! Check out rite.mino.mobi 168921
Reposted by Nic WeberAdam Visokay @avisokay.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Excited 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/ 1226
Reposted by Nic WeberDavid Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026PaCSS (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/pacss2026cssi.umass.eduPACSS 2026: Politics and Computational Social Science Conference | Computational Social Science Institute 084
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I think your link got cut off - is this the right one? kylesaunders.substack.com/p/ai-and-pol... 110
Reposted by Nic WeberMolly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Judge 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. 416325
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026This could be a great way to build a reliable classifier for domain specific detection. Use the "can you do X papers in Y time" to find people that are v good at the task, and then show them unlabeled but suspected LLM generated papers. 120
Reposted by Nic WeberKatelyn 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. 1173
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Yes! We're working on trying to measure sustained vs abandoned sci software based on some rough heuristic categories like paper scripts, lab tools, disciplinary infra etc 010
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026If you want to collaborate on anything above get in touch. Also, please use our models and data. There are lots of open questions about software in science, and we need more rigorous empirical work to answer them ✌️ 040
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026We're working on building a larger corpus of paper and software repository pairs, linking funding to repos, and a suite of metrics related to software quality, sustainability etc. 210
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Open licenses and publicly available: - Models: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... - Code (and most data): doi.org/10.5281/zeno... - Data (all): doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 121
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026There are many potential confounders for this negative relationship. We hope this finding encourages more work on career trajectories and software contributions. 110
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Our most depressing result ... We find, paradoxically, that there is a significant *negative* relationship between frequency of code contribution and an individual’s h-index That is, for an individual scientist the more they contribute to software development the smaller their h-index 131
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026There is a small but significant citation advantage for each additional author who contributes code to a paper. Put another way, papers with more authors contributing to software tend to accumulate more citations (This is not a causal claim and there are potential confounders) 110
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Some findings we think are interesting: - >25% of papers have code contributors that are not authors (this is stable across time and field) - On average papers that produce software have just one code contributor - 70% of all 1st authors contribute code (only ~29% for corresponding authors) 110
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026In short, we wanted to study collaboration and the allocation of credit (at both group and invidual levels) in research that produces software... To do that we have to connect papers to repositories, and authors to their developer accounts (more details in our paper on how we did this at scale) 120
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/...direct.mit.eduCode Contribution and Credit in ScienceAbstract. 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... 184
Reposted by Nic WeberICSSI @icssi.org · 26/02/2026The 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 👈 01412
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 18/02/2026This is good - adopting LLMs to write consumer complaints results in better relief. 000
Reposted by Nic WeberRodrigo Dorantes Gilardi @rodgdor.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I 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 063
Reposted by Nic WeberDakota Murray @dakotamurray.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Excited 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!netscisci.github.ioNetworks in Science of ScienceA NetSci 2026 Satellite Workshop 074
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 :) 100
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026You 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...youtube.comJohnny Cash - One Piece at a Time (Official Audio)YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO 010
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Extremely 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...hoopflow.limboy.meHoopFlowNBA data analytics platform focused on Game Flow and advanced performance metrics. 020
Reposted by Nic Webernlpandcss.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.socialsites.google.comNLP+CSS Workshopshttps://www.pexels.com/photo/group-hand-fist-bump-1068523/ 01912
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Extremely impressive answer by Opus - the strategy all Weber games is actually obfuscation 010
Reposted by Nic WeberKenny 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...icwsm.orgICWSM 2026: SubmitICWSM 2026: Submit 056
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Fwiw - Interfolio allows you to assemble the dossier and download dossiers in batches. 010
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 29/10/2025"You like School House Rock, right? Ok, this is Math Rock. Basically the same thing." 020
Nic Weber @nmw.bsky.social · 08/10/2025This is was essentially Tom Griffiths' keynote this morning at COLM 060
