IC2S2 2026 Keynote Gašper Beguš explores "Language as Informative Imagitation" youtu.be/6l-WQlZkSsY?...
2026 IC2S2: Keynote Presentation by Gašper Beguš
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The 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be held in Burlington, Vermont July 28-31 2026 Website: https://ic2s2-2026.org/
IC2S2 Keynote from Jonathan Gilmour, "Data As Civic Infrastructure" youtu.be/rEn2QDNYo0o?...
2026 IC2S2: Keynote Presentation by Jonathan Gilmour
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IC2S2 2026 Keynote from Kate Starbird, "From Rumors to Influence: Participatory Propaganda to Policy": youtu.be/B5a651PKTN0
2026 IC2S2: Keynote Presentation by Kate Starbird
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A Keynote from @rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social exploring the persistent challenges of overcoming the influence of cartels in Mexico: youtu.be/XuZ4j-SdjkE
2026 IC2S2: Keynote Presentation by Rafael Prieto-Curiel
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We are pleased to share that the 2026 keynote presentations will be available at the @vcsi.bsky.social youtube channel, and will be shared here for anyone who missed them. Here are Jennifer Gradecki and Derek Curry sharing their creative approaches to reconstruction as method: youtu.be/J85Ti0y3bgY
2026 IC2S2: Keynote Presentation with Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki
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Photos from IC2S2 2026
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It’s been an honor to organize IC2S2 2026 with a great team from the Vermont Complex Systems Institute at the University of Vermont and I’m especially happy to have lived the ultimate Michael Scott… ...
It’s been an honor to organize IC2S2 2026 with a great team from the Vermont Complex Systems Institute at the University of Vermont and I’m especially happy to have lived the ultimate Michael Scott d...
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My PhD’s conference farewell tour ended with a special surprise: Best Poster Award at IC2S2🏆 Deeply grateful to my coauthors and the @ic2s2.bsky.social community. Thank you @vcsi.bsky.social and organizers, for a wonderful conference. See you next year in Italy— @icssi.org + @ic2s2.bsky.social !
En las últimas semanas tuve el honor de ser ponente magistral en dos conferencias internacionales sobre sistemas complejos: en la @system-dynamics.bsky.social y en @ic2s2.bsky.social. Presenté modelos sobre los cárteles mexicanos: reclutamiento, encarcelamiento y restricciones presupuestarias.
Amir Tohidi @atohidi.bsky.social presented at #IC2S2 Measuring "Copaganda": An Analysis of How U.S. National News Covers Crime, with Baird Howland, Billy Pierce, Duncan Watts @duncanjwatts.bsky.social, and David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social.
Samar Haider @samarhaider.bsky.social presented Whose Voice Matters? Measuring Political Representation in News Quotations, with Chris Callison-Burch and Duncan Watts @duncanjwatts.bsky.social! #IC2S2
Using nearly 19,000 human survey responses collected across 40 waves during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Elliot Pickens(@elliot-p.bsky.social), David Rothschild, Jenny Wang, and Jonas Mikhaeil compared LLM-generated and human survey responses. #IC2S2
That's a wrap on IC2S2 2026... we'll see you next year in Milan! 😍
Reminder to vote! Voting is open for a few more hours. Best lightning talk, parallel talk, and poster will be announced this afternoon in our closing ceremony. Click on the red "vote" button: ic2s2-2026.org/program/
Program — International Conference on Computational Social Science | Burlington, VT 2026
Join us for IC2S2 2026 — the 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science. Burlington, Vermont, July 28-31.
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This morning at #ic2s2 I have the chance to present ongoing work on applying a SEM from survey methods to LLM text annotations: 👉 Evaluating LLM Text Annotations Without Ground Truth 📍10:45, Mansfield (210), Understanding LLMs w/ @maximiliankreutner.bsky.social Alex Cernat & @mstrohm.bsky.social
MassMutual Fellow and Computational Story Lab PhD student Calla Beauregard discussing gender stereotypes in film at @ic2s2.bsky.social : www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Calla G. presenting a parallel session talk “Archetypes and gender in fiction: A data-driven mapping of gender stereotypes in stories” at IC2S2 | Vermont Complex Systems Institute
Calla G. presenting a parallel session talk “Archetypes and gender in fiction: A data-driven mapping of gender stereotypes in stories” at IC2S2
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I couldn't make it to #IC2S2 but Huaman Sun will be presenting our work on validation of silicon samples shortly -- if you're attending check it out! Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.15785
Happening now: Keynote from Kyle Mahowald: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Happening now: Keynote Kyle Mahowald discusses how LLMs expand new analytical opportunities for computational linguistics, and how AI models of language can inform our understanding of human language…...
Happening now: Keynote Kyle Mahowald discusses how LLMs expand new analytical opportunities for computational linguistics, and how AI models of language can inform our understanding of human language ...
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Morning lightning talk from Sam Bestvater: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Happening now: lightning talks! Sam Bestvater presents “The Religious Radio Corpus: Building a Large-Scale Dataset of American Faith Broadcasting” - link to corpus in comments | IC2S2
Happening now: lightning talks! Sam Bestvater presents “The Religious Radio Corpus: Building a Large-Scale Dataset of American Faith Broadcasting” - link to corpus in comments
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Do falsehoods persuade more than selective facts? Jenny Allen presented Falsehoods Offer No Persuasive Advantage Over Selective Facts: Evidence from Real-World Political Misinformation at today's #IC2S2 Plenary Lightning Talks with David Rothschild, Duncan Watts, Amir Tohidi, and Samar Haider!
At today's #IC2S2 Methods and Measurement session, Linnea Gandhi @linneagandhi.bsky.social presented her study with Elizabeth Tipton and Duncan Watts, which tests whether research syntheses can predict the results of new studies and highlights the challenges of producing generalizable knowledge.
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting at #ic2s2 during the 10:45am Human-AI Interaction session! Have you ever wondered… what happened to petitions when change.org integrated an AI-assisted writing tool to the platform ?? If so, come find out! pre-print 🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949
Presenting our ACL paper this afternoon at #IC2S2 (Understanding LLMs session @ 2:15) aclanthology.org/2026.finding...
Large Language Models Require Curated Context for Reliable Political Fact-Checking—Even with Reasoning and Web Search
Matthew R. DeVerna, Kai-Cheng Yang, Harry Yaojun Yan, Filippo Menczer. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026. 2026.
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Keynote @katymilkman.bsky.social expanding our perspectives on megastudies! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Happening now: #ic2s2 Keynote Katy Milkman discusses the interdisciplinary advantages of behavioral health intervention megastudies and shares examples of four studies:
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Thanks to @katestarbird.bsky.social for an inspiring keynote: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Happening now: Keynote Kate Starbird discusses faulty framing, rumoring, and online disinformation: | IC2S2
Happening now: Keynote Kate Starbird discusses faulty framing, rumoring, and online disinformation:
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Wonderful talk by @sjgreenwood.bsky.social about @paper-feed.bsky.social! Custom feeds on Bluesky are unique resources for researchers interested in recommendation algorithms #IC2S2 Featuring many Bluesky friends like @graze.social @devingaffney.com @kissane.myatproto.social @aendra.com
Happening now - Parallel session: Cultural Dynamics, Beliefs, and Narratives (Networks)
