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Pranav Goel

@pranavgoel.bsky.social
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Researcher: Computational Social Science, Text as Data On the job market for Fall 2026 opportunities! Currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Network Science Institute, Northeastern University Website: pranav-goel.github.io/

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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Happening next week, July 28, at @ic2s2.bsky.social !!
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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
How to obtain data for CSS research in the Post-API age? And what if you can access a treasure trove of cross-platform, cross-device online activity data for your research? 👀 Come to our @ic2s2.bsky.social 2026 Tutorial in Vermont in ~3 weeks! (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social) (1/7)
An image summarizing the tutorial's information. On top is a logo for the National Internet Observatory. Below it is the title of the tutorial: "Beyond APIs: Collecting Online Activity Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory." This is followed by a small subheading below "A Tutorial at IC2S2 2026". Below this are details in text: the location, tutorial time, and the conference dates. This screenshot is directly taken from the website of the tutorial that is linked in the post (provided in the thread).
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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Happening in less than a week! June 22, 9 AM in Daytona Beach! View details and sign up now: forms.gle/rA1XxibZ2ydX...
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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Let's discuss Internet data collection in the Post-API age at the Sunbelt conference in Daytona Beach, Florida (Jun 22)! @insna.bsky.social (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social) + learn about a unique online activity dataset to enable cross-platform social network and social science research 👀
An image summarizing the workshop's information. On top is a logo for the National Internet Observatory. Below it is the title of the workshop: "Beyond APIs: Collecting Online Activity Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory." This is followed by a small subheading below "A Workshop at Sunbelt 2026". Below this are details in text: the location, workshop time, and the conference dates. This screenshot is directly taken from the website of the workshop that is linked in the post.
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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Happening in just a week (June 1) in Boston-Cambridge! Come learn about a new, unique source of data for your network science and computational social science research! (Sign up here: forms.gle/sgjVPMSNWYeY...)
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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In just a week, in LA! A new, crucial resource for the computational social science community! (Sign up at forms.gle/DQk8PFGXHhy2...)
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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Happening in Boston in exactly 3 weeks! Come learn about how to collect online activity data in the post-API age to conduct network science research! And the treasure trove of already collected and processed data you could gain access to 👀 Sign up here (limited capacity): forms.gle/sgjVPMSNWYeY...
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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Happening in exactly 3 weeks! (Please sign up! forms.gle/DQk8PFGXHhy2...)
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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🚨 New preprint alert: we analyzed how social scientists use social media data for empirical research, drawing data from 59 journals, 5 social science disciplines + interdisciplinary, 2010–2024. Link: doi.org/10.31235/osf... Details in 🧵 1/8
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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
How to obtain online activity data for research in the Post-API age? And what if there's already a unique collection of online activity data that you could obtain access to for your research? 👀 Come to our tutorial (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social ) at @icwsm.bsky.social 2026 in LA! (1/7)
An image summarizing the tutorial's information. On top is a logo for the National Internet Observatory. Below it is the title of the tutorial: "Beyond APIs: Collecting Online Activity Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory." This is followed by a small subheading below "A Tutorial at ICWSM 2026". Below this are details in text: the location, tutorial time, and the conference dates. This screenshot is directly taken from the website of the tutorial that is linked in the post (2nd post in the thread).
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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Going to Netsci in Boston in June? Interested in access to data from the National Internet Observatory, including our RFPs on AI chatbots, browsing behavior, search, and more to come over the next few months? Sign up for our workshop at Netsci: national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_ne...
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Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory
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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Very excited to announce a new satellite coming to NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social, co-organized with Scott Cambo and @davidlazer.bsky.social! More details in this thread and the website (national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_ne...) Sign up here: forms.gle/sgjVPMSNWYeY...
An image summarizing the satellite's information. On top is a logo for the National Internet Observatory. Below it is the title of the satellite: "Beyond APIs: Collecting Online Activity Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory." This is followed by a small subheading below "A Satellite at NetSci 2026". Below this are details in text: the location, satellite time, and conference dates. This screenshot is directly taken from the website of the satellite that is linked in the post.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
AI data centers are straining already fragile power and water infrastructures in communities around the world, leading to blackouts and water shortages. “Data centers are where environmental and social issues meet,” says Rosi Leonard, an environmentalist with @foeireland.bsky.social.
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From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
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Alexander Hoyle @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
LLMs are often used for text annotation, especially in social science. In some cases, this involves placing text items on a scale: eg, 1 for liberal and 9 for conservative There are a few ways to accomplish this task. Which work best? Our new EMNLP paper has some answers🧵 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00828
A diagram illustrating pointwise scoring with a large language model (LLM). At the top is a text box containing instructions: 'You will see the text of a political advertisement about a candidate. Rate it on a scale ranging from 1 to 9, where 1 indicates a positive view of the candidate and 9 indicates a negative view of the candidate.' Below this is a green text box containing an example ad text: 'Joe Biden is going to eat your grandchildren for dinner.' An arrow points down from this text to an illustration of a computer with 'LLM' displayed on its monitor. Finally, an arrow points from the computer down to the number '9' in large teal text, representing the LLM's scoring output. This diagram demonstrates how an LLM directly assigns a numerical score to text based on given criteria
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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download! 📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info 💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org
DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter
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Pranav Goel @pranavgoel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
There's a lot of concern out there about online misinformation, but when we try and measure it by identifying sharing of/traffic to unreliable sources, it looks like a tiny share of users' information diets. What gives?
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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · 10/06/2025
Goel et al. examine why some factually correct news articles are often shared alongside fake news claims on social media. @pranavgoel.bsky.social @jongreen.bsky.social @davidlazer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Using co-sharing to identify use of mainstream news for promoting potentially misleading narratives - Nature Human Behaviour
Goel et al. examine why some factually correct news articles are often shared by users who also shared fake news articles on social media.
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David Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
If you are at #WebSci2025, join our "Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory" - a tutorial that addresses the critical challenges of web data collection in the post-API era. national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_websci25/
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Alyssa Smith @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If you study networks, or have been stuck listening to people who study networks for long enough (sorry to my loved ones), you may have heard that open triads – V shapes – in social networks tend to turn into closed triangles. But why does this happen? In part, because people repost each other.
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