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Center for an Informed Public @cip.uw.edu · 20/11/2025

Our team at the @cip.uw.edu is currently seeking applications for up to two postdoctoral scholar positions. Applications received prior to January 15, 2026 will be given priority. Learn more about the positions, salary range, qualifications and application process: apply.interfolio.com/177901

A view of Mount Rainier from the University of Washington campus in Seattle with bright blue skies.

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 07/11/2025

🚨 New paper! 🔍 “Question the Questions: Auditing Representation in Online Deliberative Processes” In deliberative polls, participants propose questions for experts but only a few make it to the panel. How representative are those chosen questions of everyone’s interests? 🧵👇

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Sophie Greenwood @sjgreenwood.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Please repost to get the word out! @nkgarg.bsky.social and I are excited to present a personalized feed for academics! It shows posts about papers from accounts you’re following bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 24/04/2025

I'll be in Sydney presenting ✨Supernotes✨ at the ACM WebConf 🚀 (WWW'25). Incase you missed it, here's a very short thread about it: 🧵 Full paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #www2025 #thewebconf2025

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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 27/01/2025

This week’s newsletter brings together past, present and future of fact-checking social media: ✔️ Sorting out moderation vs fact-checking ✔️ Where social media fact-checking came from ✔️ What actually works and what else to consider

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🕵🏼‍♀️✅ Fact-checking’s future: can social media handle the truth?

Who should decide what’s true online?

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 05/12/2024

Super cool & important work from @matthewdeverna.com!

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 25/11/2024

I've been eagerly waiting for this to come out -- and the results are so worth it! Very cool how impactful a 7-day intervention can be!!

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 24/11/2024

While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network. I blogged about it here:

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Benefits of an open network

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 13/11/2024

90 days ago Bluesky had 6.18M users 30 days ago Bluesky had 10.85M users Tomorrow Bluesky will have 15M users This is absolutely wild, thanks for believing in us y'all

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Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

[Please reshare] I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at UW! I’m looking for students passionate about developing new *social media algorithms*, both broadly and within the scope of this NSF grant: tinyurl.com/395yfphd More info: faculty.washington.edu/msaveski/ cc @uwischool.bsky.social

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 07/02/2024

Welcome to Bluesky, everyone! We opened access yesterday, and we just crossed 4M people total on the network. 🎉 • 800k+ new users have signed up • Averaged 8.5 new accounts/second • 2M posts were created in the last 24 hours We're so excited to have you here!

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Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I’m recruiting PhD students to work with me at UW! I’m looking for students passionate about using computational methods to study how social platforms can be reimagined to enable better conversations, bridge political divides, and reduce the spread of misinfo. >>

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 25/09/2023

Pardon me as I test some features here :P

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Soham De @sohamde.in · 25/09/2023

I feel like a lab rat here, this is cool!

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