Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026A short essay I wrote for Daedalus was just published in a special issue on how to renovate American Democracy. The gist of it: breakthroughs happen, information architectures are designed, and we should claim authority over whose priorities these architectures serve www.amacad.org/daedalus/how... 033
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Sacamos libro nuevo, esta vez en el idioma en el que aprendí a leer, escrito con @jordipc.bsky.social, periodista de El País. Es un ejercicio de divulgación en el que intentamos acallar el ruido y entender mejor por qué las redes (y ahora la IA) cambian el mundo en el que vivimos. ¡Ojalá os guste! 1122
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Really looking forward to this workshop and welcoming our guest speakers tomorrow and Friday! @asc.upenn.edu @ylelkes.bsky.social 142
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026It takes a village to produce research with impact. This is the idea that motivated us to write this paper, published today. Kudos to the team: @lluisdanus.bsky.social @william-dinneen.bsky.social @carotorreblanca.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 413950
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...time.comWhy I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of CongressI cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging. 471171185921
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Looking forward to this, next week! 'The Impact of AI on (Mis)Information' asc.upenn.edu/cind2025, w/ @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social @hwaight.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @lexipalmer.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang @ekvraga.bsky.social Kiran Garimella & Jennifer Allen + @ylelkes.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu 13313
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Great opportunity in beautiful Zurich 👇 010
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónJeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · 17/03/2025Nice article by Kevin Munger (based on @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social et al.'s paper on FB polarization and @jongreen.bsky.social et al.'s paper). Part of the argument is that one reason we don't find filter bubbles is that we've been looking in 2D open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...open.substack.comUnbundling and Abundanceon the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology 1145
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónMaya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political 271580428
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónChris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comComputational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI MediaAPPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a... 02323
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 06/03/2025WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW? 35792339
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónTed Chen @tedhchen.com · 04/03/2025Cfp: come join us at the 2025 Political Networks and Computational Social Science conference! sites.google.com/view/confpol... 033
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/03/2025WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025 7722481152
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónM.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 27/02/2025My new piece in @theguardian.com Techno-optimism is human pessimism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ CrockettResearch pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways 22451157
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónPolitical Networks @politicalnetworks.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Save the date! PolNet & PaCSS 2025 are joining forces at Harvard and Northeastern on August 11–14, 2025—workshops on Aug 11–12, conference on Aug 13–14. Stay tuned for details on CFP, registration, and more. See you at #PolNetPaCSS2025! 058
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025New Bright Line Watch report brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-... -Expert ratings of US democracy at post-2016 low -55% of Trump-aligned Rs approve of "strong leader who does not have to bother w/Congress" -Jan 6 pardons, exec branch firings, Musk influence rated as grave threats 🧵 of results below 17250124
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónMarion Leary, PhD, MPH, RN @marionleary.bsky.social · 24/02/2025📣 Our first speaker announcement for the Philly @standupforscience.bsky.social rally on March 7th, 11a at City Hall. 📣 We will hear from Congressmembers Jamie Gauthier and Nina Ahmad and squid biologist @sarahmackattack.bsky.social (Skype A Scientist). RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... 313837
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónInstituto Juan Linz @institute-juanlinz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025📢 Scholarship opportunities for our prestigious two-year interdisciplinary Master's program in Social Sciences! 💡 Available scholarships: ✅ 4 full scholarships 🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025. ✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships 🗓 Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🎓 Apply now! 🔗 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...uc3m.esMaster in Social Sciences | UC3MMaster in Social Sciences - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - UC3M 01219
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónMiranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · 21/02/2025📢 Postdoctoral position opportunity! We're seeking a full-time postdoc for 22 months to dive into societal cohesion research using network science/network statistics. At the COALESCE Lab in sunny Barcelona, Spain: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/319601. Apply before March 7th! #sociology #NetScieuraxess.ec.europa.euPost-doctoral researcher (2025DILIFRUA24)Job position 11116
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónChris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations 314691
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónAngelina Wang @ COLM @angelinawang.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities. 914935
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónStand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence 289114565402
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónEncyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 12/02/2025Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️ 562325726972
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónMitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org 231308485
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónMatt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 29/01/2025💥 Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal 💥 (via @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social and @davidlazer.bsky.social) Researchers are "skeptical" the new system will slow the spread of misinformation and "anticipate [Meta's policy changes] will cause a flood from some Pages."techpolicy.pressMark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal | TechPolicy.PressDavid Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón raise concern that no one outside of Meta will know the true effects of Meta's change in its moderation policy. 0122
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónAina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · 28/01/2025📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXocup.orgPositioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging | Political Analysis | Cambridge CorePositioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging 1128781
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónStefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 22/01/2025UCD’s School of Sociology is hiring an Assistant Professor (permanent) in Computational Social Science. – Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533 – Application deadline: 10 Feb – Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list... @ucdsociology.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.socialtimeshighereducation.comLecturer / Assistant Professor - Computational Social Science, School of Sociology - Dublin, Leinster (IE) job with UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD) | 386526We are seeking applications from individuals with expertise in one or more of the following areas: Computational Social ... 01424
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025We wrote another piece about why Zuckerberg's decision to end fact-checking is so disingenuous -- check it out @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/mark-zuckerb...techpolicy.pressMark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal | TechPolicy.PressDavid Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón raise concern that no one outside of Meta will know the true effects of Meta's change in its moderation policy. 24114
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Based on their research, David Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón anticipate that Meta's elimination of penalties for sharing misinformation will cause a flood from some Pages– which are still the most effective means to spread content on Facebook. buff.lyMark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal | TechPolicy.PressDavid Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón raise concern that no one outside of Meta will know the true effects of Meta's change in its moderation policy. 22215
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónJorge M. Fernandes @jmfernandes86.bsky.social · 21/01/2025‼️ Hiring‼️ One postdoctoral position in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid. Application deadline: end of February. Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun! Please share widely.tinyurl.comDropbox 18950
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónBoris Holzer @fernschreiber.bsky.social · 16/01/2025In the wake of Meta's announcement to scrap fact-checking, a recent study of Facebook during the 2020 US election is instructive: Content moderation works, but peer-to-peer distribution still allows fake news to spread. [autotranslated:] tinyurl.com/2ahy88at [original German:] tinyurl.com/326kskp2tinyurl.comKann man Falschinformationen bei Facebook Herr werden?Meta und andere Konzerne wollen die Verbreitung von Lügen in ihren Netzwerken verhindern. Ihre Methoden können durchaus erfolgreich sein. 183
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónThomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · 16/01/2025We are excited to launch a CFP for a special issue of Digital Journalism on Platform Governance and Fact Checking. Abstract deadline: June 2; Editors: Oscar Westlund @anjabechmann.bsky.social @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social @gravesmatter.bsky.social @mediarepublik.bsky.social Steen Steensen & myself 13016
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónEva Anduiza @evaanduiza.bsky.social · 09/01/2025If you are outside Spain and would like to come to Barcelona for a postdoc, the Beatriu de Pinós call is out. Check the conditions and contact us if you want to come to the UAB! agaur.gencat.cat/ca/beques-i-...agaur.gencat.catAjuts postdoctorals Beatriu de Pinós (BP 2024)L'objecte de la convocatòria Beatriu de Pinós és atorgar ajuts en règim de concurrència competitiva, destinades a finançar la contractació i la incorporació de personal investigador postdoctoral al si... 01715
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónManlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 08/01/2025If you feel that BlueSky is “different“ from X, the data supports you :) Using a network of 15M users (56% of the platform) we find that the probability that the log-normal law is wrong wrt to the power-law is just ~7% Why that matters? Pop 🧵 follows! 1/ #scaling #NetSky #ComplexSystems 🧪 1019979
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónDavid Lazer @davidlazer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Reflecting on the remarkable announcement from Meta today regarding content moderation. @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social & I & team had a recent paper looking at the diffusion of (mis)information on Facebook during the 2020 election. A few reflections... sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11... 36835
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónAnnenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 07/01/2025In a recent paper, Prof. @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social and David Lazer found that content moderation interventions by Facebook led to a reduction in the diffusion of content fact-checked as false. They wrote about their findings in Tech Policy Press: www.techpolicy.press/the-need-to-...techpolicy.pressThe Need to Make Content Moderation Transparent | TechPolicy.PressSandra González-Bailón and David Lazer, contemplating results of a recent study on election misinformation, say Big Tech's power must be checked. 022
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónPolarization Research Lab @prl.bsky.social · 07/01/2025⚠️Job⚠️ Deadline to apply to our postdoc at the Polarization Research Lab is Jan. 15! We study democratic attitudes and behaviors. Postdocs have the opportunity to lead and propose projects and get a lot of writing experience. Join our group! polarizationresearchlab.org/hiring/ 02321
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025There will still be concerning opacity about how Meta applies its content moderation policies to control information flows, as we wrote in www.techpolicy.press/the-need-to-... 051
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónJana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social · 06/01/2025I have an open 3-year PostDoc position in my research group, centered on the extraction and analysis of relations of societal actors (e.g. politicians, CEOs, ...) from unstructured text data. Feel free to reach out if you want to know more! Deadline is Jan 1st. jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/a122...jobs.uni-graz.atUniversität Graz 22622
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónHerman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 16/12/2024My new blog on substack. Avoiding the causality trap. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comHome | SubstackDiscover and discuss great writing with the world’s smartest readers on Substack. 35122
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónAnnenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 11/12/2024A new study by Professor Sandra González-Bailón and colleagues analyzed the spread of over one billion Facebook posts to reveal how information flowed on the social network during the U.S. 2020 presidential election. Learn more: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/... @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.socialasc.upenn.eduA New Study Uncovers How Information Spread on Facebook in the Lead up to and After the 2020 Election 054
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Content moderation is a power platforms exercise with consequence at moments of collective vulnerability, such as during elections. Assuming that platforms act for the betterment of all is, at this point, one assumption too many, write Sandra González-Bailón and David Lazer.techpolicy.pressThe Need to Make Content Moderation Transparent | TechPolicy.PressSandra González-Bailón and David Lazer, contemplating results of a recent study on election misinformation, say Big Tech's power must be checked. 16614
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Related to this, @davidlazer.bsky.social and I also wrote an opinion piece www.techpolicy.press/the-need-to-... @annenbergpenn.bsky.socialtechpolicy.pressThe Need to Make Content Moderation Transparent | TechPolicy.PressSandra González-Bailón and David Lazer, contemplating results of a recent study on election misinformation, say Big Tech's power must be checked. 0207
Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024New publication (4+ years in the making): “The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social 925494
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónKnight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · 05/12/2024🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 @knightgtown.bsky.social and Georgetown’s CCT Program are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow! This is an exciting opportunity to lead research to understand how evidence and research is being used in social media and platform litigation. Apply here: bit.ly/4fWh8kY 023
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónDavid Garcia @dgarcia.eu · 10/12/2024Job announcement: Junior Professorship in Computational Social Science at the University of Konstanz. Join us at the Center for Data and Methods! Feel free to reach out if you have questions. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...stellen.uni-konstanz.deJunior Professorship (W1, non tenured) in Computational Social ScienceDeadline: 7th of January 2025 03530
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónFundación Triángulo @ftriangulo.bsky.social · 09/12/2024@sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social lanza preguntas interesantes sobre la difusión de discursos de odio en redes sociales: "¿se pueden diseñar algoritmos que construyan puentes en lugar de algoritmos que separen cada vez más?" www.pagina12.com.ar/788858-el-pa...pagina12.com.arEl papel de las redes sociales en la polarización política | Sandra González-Bailón analiza los circuitos de la desinformaciónLa investigadora catalana estudia la circulación de las noticias falsas y los discursos de odio. Por qué las personas conservadoras cosumen y difunden más fake news. 042
Reposted by Sandra González-BailónFil Menczer @fil.bsky.social · 04/12/2024New paper in PNAS 🧪 Fact-checking information from large language models can decrease headline discernment What are the unintended consequences of AI fact-checking? Even LLMs that accurately identify false headlines can actually cause harm. Read all about our experiment: doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 58030