That's a wrap on IC2S2 2026... we'll see you next year in Milan! 😍
International Conference on Computational Social Science
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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/
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)
@lhd.bsky.social talks witches at @ic2s2.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/uvm-vc...
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Laurent Hébert-Dufresne presenting “Witchcraft as Narrative Contagion: Modeling the Diffusion and Mutation of Transmission Mechanisms in the 1692 Salem Crisis” at #ic2s2
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I am presenting my work in @ic2s2.bsky.social today 1:15-2:15 pm at Davis Center (1st Floor) Poster # 24. If you are interested in bias auditing, please stop by. This work is published in @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2026. #ic2s2 #ic2s22026 @uvmvermont.bsky.social @vcsi.bsky.social
Presented today at #IC2S2 by the great @isabelcorpus.bsky.social -- will be posting more about this work soon!
Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · 4w agoSee here for @isabelcorpus.bsky.social paper showing that the "write with AI" feature on change.org made petitions longer and their text more complicated. The outcomes? Did not improve. arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949
@rafaelprietocuriel.bsky.social presents our morning Keynote: www.linkedin.com/posts/ic2s2_...
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Happening now: Keynote Rafael Prieto-Curiel presents an approach to solving the problem of organized crime using complex systems, modeling Mexican Cartel behavior and recruitment patterns. #ic2s2
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Presented our work on how friendship muda lets the expression of hierarchy in cooperation for elementary school children on the lighting talks at #ic2s2 #ic2s22026 @ic2s2.bsky.social today!
#IC2S2 keynote Gasper Begus giving a fascinating talk about analyzing languages spoken by whales @ic2s2.bsky.social
Voting is open! Select your favorite #ic2s2 posters, lightning talks, and parallel talks. Voting will be open until our closing session on Friday when winners will be announced. complexforms.uvm.edu/ic2s2/
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Vicky Yang studies when social influence helps/hurts collective binary decision making #IC2S2 @ic2s2.bsky.social
Lucas Gautheron conducts a really interesting online design experiment to show popularity feedback kills diversity and innovation. Super cool work!! #IC2S2 @ic2s2.bsky.social
Tomoya Akiyama proposes a new model of hype cycles that does not need to involve any real technological progress #IC2S2 @ic2s2.bsky.social
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Rafael M Batista@rafmbatista.bsky.social · last wk.I’ve created a Collection on @semble.so for #IC2S2. It’s open for anyone to throw in a link to their paper. If that’s too much work, you can reply here with a link and I’ll do it for you and send you the “card” Semble is proving to be a great tool for discovering new research @ic2s2.bsky.social