Chris Bail
@chrisbail.bsky.social
Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
A new faculty position in media and politics at Stanford: facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in Communication - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Communication at Stanford University seeks applicants for a junior appointment at the rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor. We invite applications from individuals working at the...
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People can be trained to identify AI-generated faces, doubling their accuracy. Instead of focusing on tells, participants were told to focus on gestalt symmetry, proportionality, attractiveness, expressiveness, distinctiveness, and memorability. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/SKqz50ZkHNn
It is so important to recognize the vital role of scientific innovation as we contemplate America's 250th birthday. Check out this great commentary in Science by my colleagues SharonBelenzon , Ashish Arora, and Daniel Gross : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
From Edison’s Invention Factory to the new architecture of innovation
Shifts reflect the maturation of institutions surrounding science
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Another New Nature editor position: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
Associate/Senior Editor, Nature Communications (Human Behaviour)
Title: Associate/Senior Editor, Nature Communications (Human Behaviour team) Location: New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Berlin, Shanghai, Pune or Delhi Closing date: July 10, 2026 About Springer N...
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Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment
Nature Human Behavior is searching for a new editor to handle Computational Social Science: nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour
Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Human Behaviour Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: Shanghai, Milan or Pune – hybrid working model Closing date: 10th July 2026 About Springer Nature...
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📄 New paper: people choose AI models partly on political grounds This is joint work with @pettertornberg.com @chrisbail.bsky.social @michelleschimmel.bsky.social and led by @michaelheseltine.bsky.social
I can't think of many better causes right now than supporting science education for kids like the Tumble Science Podcast: givebutter.com/JokeHaThon2026
Joke-ha-thon 2026
By Tumble Education, Inc.
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This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people 3 people are producing most toxic content Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive and amplified by engagement based algorithms. The other 97 quiet voices disappear thenoisyroom.com
Prestige bias is a major problem in academia: success in academia leads to other unfair advantages. Prestige bias is bigger in fields that are less scientific (eg., art, history). Fields where claims are more testable have lower prestige markers (eg math, physics). kurtishingl.com/files/PTTS_l...
New job in computational social science: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Assistant Professor in collaborative civil defence and crisis management, with a focus on computational methods
Department of Building and Environmental Technology at Lund University, Faculty of Engineering invites applications for a position as Assistant Professor. We are currently seeking a promising early
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Proposal would “dissolve the social and behavioral sciences at NSF”: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Join us tomorrow (April 2nd) for Tech for Open Minds-- a conference at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Registration is not required, we will accommodate as many people as our room allows! sicss.io/tom
Interested in whether technology can be leveraged to increase open-mindedness? There are a limited number of spots available to the public for our Tech for Open Minds conference next Thursday (April 2nd), we will accommodate all up to room capacity! Learn more here: sicss.io/tom
Near the top of my list of book's I'm looking forward to reading this year is Disagree Better, by the great Julia Minson! disagreeingbetter.com/order/the-book
Torn between arguing or staying silent? Consider a different path that gets results.
Harvard behavioral scientist Julia Minson reveals why persuasion backfires, and the counterintuitive approach that actually gets you what you want while improving your decisions and strengthening…
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Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and identify new research partners across academic fields? Apply to one of the 2026 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (described in yellow in the attached map) here: sicss.io/locations
Seats have opened up at Duke's Conference on Society-Centered AI today! Come join us to hear Nicholas Christakis, Ronnie Chatterji, Reggie Townsend, Kaamna Bhojwani, and many more: sites.duke.edu/scai/schedule/
What better way to kick off Duke's Conference on Society-Centered AI than a killer talk by Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) followed by an amazing student panel on topics from empathy to economic development.
Only two days until #SCAI2026: our annual Conference on Society-Centered AI at Duke. Can't wait to hear amazing talks by Arvind Narayanan, Nicholas Christakis, Ronnie Chatterji, Reggie Townsend, and so many more! sites.duke.edu/scai/
How can we create new benchmarks to measure the social impact of AI? More than 185 people registered to participate in our second annual society-centered AI hackathon at Duke last weekend-- I've never felt more confident that the future is bright!
Fascinated by #Moltbook? The Duke Polarization Lab has been studying how humans interact with large groups of bots simulating humans for the past three years, and we've learned a lot. For example, this forthcoming paper in AJPS documents how a "spiral of toxicity" unfolds: osf.io/preprints/os...
Interested in #Moltbook? Social scientists have been studying whether LLMs can simulate entire social media platforms for some time. 2.5 years ago we published the paper below, and there have been dozens of studies since then which I reviewed last year in this piece: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Please tell UNC not to destroy a pristine forest in order to build a new basketball stadium with luxury boxes by signing this petition: renovatesmithcenter.org?utm_source=s...
Renovate Don’t Relocate - Smith Center Petition
Renovate Don't Relocate Join us in asking UNC Administration to keep Tar Heel Basketball on South Campus. Add My Name We do not support the move of the Smith Center and our historic Carolina men’s…
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We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
Dr. Nicholas Christakis (@nachristakis.bsky.social ) will be joining us as a Keynote Speaker at the Conference on Society-Centered AI 2026 Feb 12-14th! Learn more and Register here: sites.duke.edu/scai/
Dr. Arvind Narayanan (@randomwalker.bsky.social ) will be joining us as a Keynote Speaker at the Conference on Society-Centered AI 2026! Join us Feb 12-14 at Duke for industry and academic keynotes, research spotlight talks, and poster sessions. Learn more and Register here: sites.duke.edu/scai/
How can we create new benchmarks to measure the social impact of AI? Join us for an interdisciplinary hackathon where teams will tackle this question and compete for prizes including the chance to present their work at the Conference on Society-Centered AI: sites.duke.edu/scai/hackath...
Hackathon - #SCAI2026
SCAI Hackathon Join us for the second annual Society-Centered AI Hackathon at Duke University, where teams will work on a topic of importance in society-centered AI. Open to members of the Duke…
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