My dog has better retrieval stats than your claw bot. #llm #ai

Our latest AI report is out at the National AI Opinion Monitor (naiom.net/reports). We look at how Americans are using AI, what they know about it, how much they trust it, and how they think it should be regulated. (1 of 4)

When Claude doesn't know something about its own interface (how groups differ from projects), it gives simply magnificent responses 😆 #llm @anthropic.com

Honestly, I still read your full papers. But academics are terrible at writing abstracts that explain what their work actually does. AI has improved my life by giving me a real summary upfront. So good news, I finally know where you were going with all of this before I reach p.17 of your manuscript.

New plan to combat political polarization: set aside our differences and unite against people who drop food that’s toxic to dogs on the sidewalk.

Check out CHIP50's most recent report, looking at immigration attitudes! Key takeaways: People lean towards strong disapproval, 49% to 37%, with enormous partisan divides. Independents disapprove about 2:1. www.chip50.org/reports/amer...

American Immigration Attitudes | The COVID States Project

Report #118

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Trump just signed an executive order preventing states from regulating AI. Our latest National AI Opinion Monitor survey shows that very few Americans from either party favor federal-only AI regulation.

Talked to @politifact.bsky.social about Trump & AI. Deepfakes from the Oval Office create: 1) higher epistemic uncertainty, tough to know what’s true; 2) tacit permission for others to use deepfakes in public comms; 3) excuse for liar’s dividend: public figures dismiss stuff they don't like as fake

How Trump and the White House use AI on social media

President Donald Trump has normalized sharing AI-generated content, largely without disclaimers. His posts glorify himself and attack his opponents.

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We just launched a new project tracking public attitudes to higher ed. First report is out: we find the public trusts universities and opposes funding cuts, but worries about tuition costs and free speech on campus. With @davidlazer.bsky.social, M. Baum, J. Druckman, & M. Santillana edbarometer.org

American Higher Education Barometer

Measuring American Attitudes Towards Higher Education

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Happy to release the first report from the American Higher Education Barometer (edbarometer.org), a 50 state survey re opinion on higher education. Key takeaways: 1) Generally, people see a universities as important to various high priority domains (economic growth, health, etc)

Video of our conversation at ICA's special anniversary session on Generative AI. Many thanks to @noshir.bsky.social for organizing! With @claesdevreese.bsky.social, @teachguz.bsky.social, Winson Peng, Yingdan Lu, and Jörg Matthes #GenerativeAI #LLM -- at @icahdq.bsky.social

ICA@75 ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL SESSION: Generative AI: Transforming Disrupting Communication Scho

YouTube video by ICA

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“If your work speaks to challenges that go beyond a single field, this is the place for it.” – Katherine Ognyanova, PNAS Nexus Reviewing Editor 🌍 @pnasnexus.org is open access & interdisciplinary, connecting rigorous research with broad audiences. Publish with us: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/pa...

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...

Yeah, I'm just watching OpenAI's newly released ChatGPT Agent power through my Qualtrics survey. I have thoughts about the future of human subject research.

New paper from our team, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jonathanschulman.bsky.social @royperlis.bsky.social and other smart people who keep off social media.

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People were more likely to believe in conspiracy theories about the attempted assassination of President Trump if they heard them from people they knew than if they heard them on social media, according to a study. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Support for maintaining or increasing research support remains largely bipartisan. Which raises the question: what exactly is the WH and Congress doing here? Source, CHIP50: www.chip50.org/reports/amer... Led by @ognyanova.bsky.social, @davidlazer.bsky.social, @royperlis.bsky.social + more.

New CHIP50 report on public approval of government interventions in science -- funding cuts, mass layoffs, etc. On average, twice as many Americans disapprove of these actions as approve #science @aaas.org @science.org @sciam.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social @sciencenews.bsky.social

American Attitudes Toward Government Interventions in Science | The COVID States Project

Report #115

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We just posted an interactive on changes in approval for Trump from right before he was inaugurated to the present. We have very large samples (30k), and the interactive allows you to look at changes within very small slices of the public. www.chip50.org/blog/whose-a...

Whose approval/disapproval of Trump has shifted the most?

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How does generative AI transform/ disrupt communication scholarship? Happy to be part of this great #ica25 panel. With answers and many more questions @noshir.bsky.social @teachguz.bsky.social @ognyanova.bsky.social and Peng, Lu, Matthes and 🙋

📣 Calling all #CHI2025 attendees who work with human participants: Join our panel discussion on #LLM, #simulation, #syntheticdata, and the future of human subjects research on Apr 30 (Wed), 2:10 - 3:40 PM (JP Time) Post your questions for panelists here: forms.gle/m2mXY3xFafAX...

LAST CHANCE for early registration to #WebSci25! Early reg closes TODAY, April 21! We hope you'll join us at #Rutgers this May for this interdisciplinary conference! Register at: www.websci25.org cc: @websciencetrust.bsky.social, @noshir.bsky.social

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ONE WEEK LEFT: Early registration for the 2025 ACM Web Science Conference closes April 21! #WebSci25 will be held at #Rutgers this May. For more details on our fantastic presenters and to register, visit www.websci25.org We hope you'll join us! cc: @websciencetrust.bsky.social

Next week, @rutgerscomminfo.bsky.social Associate Professor @ognyanova.bsky.social will be presenting on "False beliefs in unusual times: The role of trust, technology, and social ties" at LSC's #Scicomm Colloquium! #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

Princeton's president on the US government's attack on research universities in @nytimes.com's The Daily podcast: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...

The University President Willing to Fight Trump

Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.

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Reminder! CFP and workshop registration for the Political Networks and Computational Social Science Conference. We have a great lineup of network analysis workshop instructors: @michaeltheaney.bsky.social, @ognyanova.bsky.social, Shahryar Minhas, & Cassie McMillan. sites.google.com/view/confpol...

Friends, the 2025 ACM Web Science conference is coming up at #Rutgers this May. We have fantastic presenters and keynote speakers lined up. The schedule and registration just went live on www.websci25.org. Do come and join us! cc @websciencetrust.bsky.social @shugars.bsky.social

Join us for the 2025 Political Networks & Computational Social Science Conference (sites.google.com/view/confpol...), Aug 11-14 at Harvard & Northeastern, with Duncan Watts delivering the keynote. Workshops: Aug 11-12; panels: Aug 13-14. Submit by March 28:

🚨 new pub: #digitalinequality explains most variance in which UGs delayed graduation after 2 yrs of pandemic learning—more than #firstgen status, #race/ethnicity or other s-d markers. Just out in @plosone.org with @abjordan.bsky.social & @ognyanova.bsky.social! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

How it's going.

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!

U.S. scientists are losing funding and even their jobs under the new Trump administration. Researchers gathering at the 2025 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science shared their fears and hopes for the future.

The mood is ‘uncertain, anxious’ at 2025’s first big U.S. science meeting

Scientists are losing funding and even their jobs under the new Trump administration. Researchers at the AAAS meeting shared fears and coping strategies.

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