@sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social
Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy, cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net
"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...
Looking 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
07.04.2025 16:42 — 👍 29 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0Great opportunity in beautiful Zurich 👇
17.03.2025 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nice 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...
Spare 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
10.03.2025 13:09 — 👍 1604 🔁 434 💬 27 📌 34
Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
09.03.2025 02:07 — 👍 23 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 1
Stand up for science flyer, happening on March 7th in DC & nationwide with more information at www.standupforscience2025.org
WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?
06.03.2025 15:11 — 👍 798 🔁 344 💬 36 📌 83Cfp: come join us at the 2025 Political Networks and Computational Social Science conference! sites.google.com/view/confpol...
04.03.2025 22:53 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue
WHERE 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
My new piece in @theguardian.com
Techno-optimism is human pessimism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Save 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!
26.02.2025 18:21 — 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
New 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
📣 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...
📢 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...
📢 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 #NetSci
21.02.2025 12:39 — 👍 11 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
Want 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
24.02.2025 14:27 — 👍 145 🔁 91 💬 3 📌 15Our 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.
17.02.2025 16:36 — 👍 150 🔁 35 💬 9 📌 2
Welcome 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
Encyclopædia 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.
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Happy 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
13.02.2025 00:14 — 👍 1322 🔁 486 💬 23 📌 24
💥 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."
📢 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/4axBEXo
28.01.2025 07:00 — 👍 292 🔁 83 💬 13 📌 2
UCD’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.social
We 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...
21.01.2025 15:58 — 👍 40 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 3
Based 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.
‼️ 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.
In 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/326kskp2
16.01.2025 16:51 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
We 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
16.01.2025 11:14 — 👍 29 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
If 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-...
