@chrisbail.bsky.social
Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
Over the last 30 years, people a) walk faster in urban spaces; and b) linger less often according to an AI-Assisted study of video footage in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
29.07.2025 15:35 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1Congratulations!!! The citation is a classic already.
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My uncle Darius has been one of the most important people in my life-- constantly inspiring me with his generous spirit. Now his life depends on the generosity of a stranger who might be willing to donate an organ. Please help my family spread the word! nkr.org/XAX634
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www.science.org/content/arti... NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order | Science | AAAS
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Just wrapped up the 3rd edition of #SICSS AMU/Law – a summer school on using AI & computational social science to study law and human rights. This year, we leveled up. Big time. ⬇️
It's #SICSS O'clock!!!! Hundreds of students all over the world are learning about computational social science *for free* thanks to the hard work of so many brilliant young scholars who dedicated their time this summer to train the next generation-- from Colombia to Kenya! sicss.io
20.06.2025 15:37 — 👍 30 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Stay tuned for exciting announcements about events and other networking opportunities for those interesting Society-Centered AI that we will host in Durham this fall in case you missed our Responsible AI Symposium featuring @yann-lecun.bsky.social: www.responsibleaisymposium.com
18.06.2025 14:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This effort, launched by our Society-Centered AI Initiative (scai.duke.edu) will compliment our new undergraduate constellation of coursework in AI and society and-- we hope-- seed a new generation of researchers to spread the gospel of society-centered AI. trinity.duke.edu/courses/cons...
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Excited to announce we are launching a Graduate Certificate in Society-Centered AI at Duke w/coursework in computer science, social science, and philosophy/ethics and provide support to 12 current Duke students each year thanks to a new $2.4 million grant interdisciplinary.duke.edu/news/equippi...
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An engraved paving stone that says "publish." The word appears twice, in mirror image, so you can see it whether you're coming or going.
Christ's sake, Chicago, I'm just trying to go for a walk.
14.06.2025 00:50 — 👍 807 🔁 110 💬 8 📌 6From concerns about social media addiction to urgent civil liberties issues, courts are asking scientists to be arbiters of alleged technology harms. How can scientists reliably inform courts and how can courts interpret our work?
New article with @penney.bsky.social
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Here's some good news!
The file drawer problem may have diminished in recent years, at least in social science survey experiments
"This suggests increased recognition of the importance of null results."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy www.science.org/content/arti...
24.04.2025 18:56 — 👍 272 🔁 138 💬 9 📌 27New preprint on the global state of political polarization research 🎉
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We discuss the many different ways polarization can be conceptualised, how it manifests very differently across countries and domains, and the problems with the dominance of US focused research.
New paper suggests conversations with an LLM may increase people's support for climate change interventions: osf.io/preprints/ps...
06.04.2025 19:48 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Good question
05.04.2025 20:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can LLMS reproduce the treatment effects of field experiments in silico? Interesting new paper suggests they do so about 78% of the time: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01167
05.04.2025 18:38 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Using Facebook advertising data to improve survey sampling: A project started at the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Grateful that some Republican leaders are pushing back against efforts to defund American universities: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
31.03.2025 13:16 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Timely wisdom in light of recent attacks on U.S. science!
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I had the great honor to award Yann leCun Duke's inaugural "Distinguished Lectureship in Society-Centered AI" last week. One of my favorite parts of his lecture was his argument that one of the greatest risks of future AI models is that they may not be built by a diverse enough group of people.
14.03.2025 15:05 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Bluesky is the place for science.
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Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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03.03.2025 15:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Amazing lecture on creating confidence metrics within multi-agent LLM frameworks by UNC's Mohit Bansal here at Duke's Responsible AI Symposium today. You can still join for Yann LeCun and Ronnie Chatterji later today: www.responsibleaisymposium.com
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