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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Location: please email me for the Zoom link More information: research-with-ai-agents-workshop.github.io/events/2026-... We also have a mailing list now in case you want to stay in touch: groups.google.com/g/research-w... 2/2

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Thrilled to announce the next talk in our Research with AI Agents Workshop Series. Dr. Byungkyu Lee from NYU will present "Using Coding Agents as Research Tools: A Plan-Based Workflow for the Age of Generative AI." Time: Mon, June 29, 2026, 10am-11am ET 1/2

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I recently wrapped up my AI and Society class for the spring semester. It was a challenging but rewarding experience. I wrote about my reflections here: www.kaichengyang.me/blog/apps-an...

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My AI Agent Stack

Claude Code is my primary agent; I also use Codex and Pi, all from the terminal For managing multiple agents, I use herdr (a tmux-style dashboard) and...

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Ugur Kursuncu @ugurkursuncu.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Last week at #CySoc2026 at #ICWSM2026, Los Angeles, we brought together researchers studying #onlinetoxicity, #onlineharassment, platform dynamics, #onlineinfluence, cross-lingual threats, and the growing role of AI in online platforms. 1/3

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Ugur Kursuncu @ugurkursuncu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Excited to share this year's program for #CySoc2026 @icwsm.bsky.social in Los Angeles. This year’s workshop focuses on human–AI relationships, online toxicity, platform dynamics, and broader societal risks emerging around generative and agentic AI. 🧵1/2

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The share of empirical social media papers tripled 2010→peak, then plateaued and started declining — driven by Twitter/X and Facebook. Access shifts may be reshaping what's studiable. More in the paper. 7/8

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Platform mix: Twitter/X 51%, Facebook 36%, YouTube 17%, Reddit 6%. Mismatch: Twitter/X is 51% of papers vs. 21% of users; YouTube is 84% of users vs. 17% of papers. 83% of the papers study just one platform. 6/8

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Big variation by field. Communication: ~13% of papers use social media data. Political Science: ~5%. Psychology: ~1%. Economics: under 1%. The gap between Communication and everyone else is striking. 5/8

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

How common is it? About 0.78% of all papers in our sample, 3.15% when you restrict to social science journals. A small slice, but it's grown a lot over time (more on that below). 4/8

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We looked at 59 journals across Communication, Political Science, Psychology, Economics, Sociology, and leading interdisciplinary outlets. Used human-in-the-loop AI annotation to identify which papers actually use social media data for empirical analysis. 3/8

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Share of social media papers tripled between 2010 and early 2020s, but has started declining in recent years! This recent plateauing and decline in social media use has been driven largely by the pullback in Twitter/X and Facebook data access. 2/8

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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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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

As AI evolves, I will continue to update the reading list. If you have suggestions, such as key topics, papers, or materials I might have overlooked, I welcome your input. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated. 3/3

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

In the list, I try to cover a range of topics and include academic papers, industry white papers, policy documents, and even social media posts. I developed this course in the spring and plan to offer it in future semesters. 2/3

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This semester, I have been teaching an AI and Society class. As the name suggests, the goal is to explore the transformative impact of AI, particularly LLMs and AI agents, on society. This is a seminar class, and here is the reading list: yangkclab.github.io/ai-and-socie... 1/3

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

New blog post: www.kaichengyang.me/blog/sharing...

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Last day to submit your work to #CySoc2026 !

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

We've extended the #CySoc2026 deadline to March 25 to give authors a few additional days to prepare their submissions! Please consider submitting your work and sharing this information! More information: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Submission portal: easychair.org/conferences?...

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Time: Sat, March 21, 10am-11am ET Location: please email me for Zoom link More information can be found at: research-with-ai-agents-workshop.github.io 2/2

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Research with AI Agents Workshop Series

A workshop series exploring the intersection of AI agents and academic research

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I'm organizing a Research with AI Agents Workshop Series, inviting colleagues and friends who have been actively exploring the application of AI agents to share how they're using them in their work and research. The first talk will feature Dr. Yanbo Zhang. See abstract and bio below. 1/2

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

ICYMI. Website: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Submission site: easychair.org/conferences?...

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

If your code skills require user input at some point, explicitly require it by using the "AskUserQuestions" tools in skills.md, which would trigger the confirmation dialog shown below every time.

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Then you can review the scored list in a Streamlit app and assign your own final ranking. In my case, it scored 700+ papers in under 3 minutes with 20 workers using gpt-4.1-mini (requires an OpenAI API key). Results are pretty good. Link: github.com/yang3kc/conf... 2/2

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GitHub - yang3kc/conference_review_bidder: A tool to identify papers that you might want to review

A tool to identify papers that you might want to review - yang3kc/conference_review_bidder

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

If you are reviewing for IC2S2 and it gives you a headache from reading all 700+ paper titles/abstracts while bidding, I just built a tool for it. It uses an LLM to score how relevant each paper is to your research interests (you can define a list of keywords). 1/2

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icwsm.bsky.social @icwsm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

📣CFP: 7th edition International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc) We welcome papers that examine a diverse range of issues related to online harmful communications. 📅Submission: March 22nd, 2026 📅Notification: April 8th, 2026 🔗 Details: cy-soc.github.io/2026/

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CySoc 2026 - International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats

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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 27/02/2026

We are looking forward to your amazing submissions to the CySoc workshop at ICWSM 2026! Learn more here: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Note: the previously circulated submission deadline has been shifted.

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

CySoc 2026 is back! Check out the CfP below. We are also looking for PC members. Pin me if you are interested in joining!

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Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our latest paper in @science.org warns about malicious AI swarms, agents capable of adaptive influence campaigns at scale. We already observed some in the wild (picture). AI is a real threat to democracy. #SciencePolicyForum #ScienceResearch 🧪 Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Network showing an AI swarm -- bots controlled through ChatGPT, in yellow -- and people who followed them on Xitter.

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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · 29/11/2025

🚨 New working paper 🚨 Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims? We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024). Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence. arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749

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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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NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will give their first-ever 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 at NetSci 2026! Their groundbreaking work has shaped how we understand networks, & this session will be a highlight of NetSci’s 20th anniversary. Call for abstracts: tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83 Call for satellites: tinyurl.com/42sru6kz

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Congrats!! Though sad to see you leave the US.

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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...

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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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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

We are excited to share that this paper has been published in Scientific Data. The whole dataset is now available to download. Please see the paper for details! Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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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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HKS Misinformation Review @misinforeview.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Now live: “Declining information quality under new platform governance” by Burak Özturan, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Nir Grinberg, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/decl...

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Wrote a new blog post on my experience using Claude Code to do data analysis with lessons I learned. I think it's a paradigm shift. Link: open.substack.com/pub/yang3kc/...

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Claude Code is secretly an excellent data analysis agent

How I vide code papers with it

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Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

An astronomical theme is emerging for this great #ica25 session as I'm also looking forward to presenting one of the new tools from our own @internetobservatory.org.au. Please come and join us this afternoon as we chart the constellations of public communication 🔭🌠. Note this is in the GRAND Hyatt

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Attending #ICA this week. Let’s catch up 😀

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

A command I found particularly useful in data analysis: data_frame.sample(10). Repeat it a few times, and you can get a sense of what's in your data frame.

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Search Google AI model directly: google.com/search?q={qu... . Key is the "udm=50" part, not sure what it means.

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kayo mimizuka @kmzkk.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

The age of mass data access is gone with the sunset of major social media APIs. DSA-mandated data access programs sparked optimism, but do they provide adequate data access? We conducted a survey (180) + interview (19) study & the preprint is available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.09877

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Kevin Yang @yang3kc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Thank you for the feedback!

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