A simple trick if you have a Scandinavian reviewer you want to avoid: submit in June, July, or August

As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy

*For full list of signatories, updated every few hours, please click here.* In recent years, philosophical writing on areas such as climate change, technology, misinformation, and artificial intellige...

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Papers & Talks deadlines extended by one week for ACM Collective Intelligence 2026 and ACM HCOMP 2026! #ci2026 #hcomp2026 Abstracts now due June 8, full submissions June 15. ci.acm.org/2026/

Submission deadlines for papers and talks have been extended by one week! ⏳ #CI2026 #HCOMP2026 ci.acm.org/2026/

Jason W. Burton@jasonburton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

⏰ Submission deadlines for CI 2026 are fast approaching! ⏰ June 1: Register the metadata for your paper or talk June 8: Submit your full paper (max. 6000 words) or talk (max. 1500 words) Great opportunity to get feedback on your work from a stellar program committee: ci.acm.org/2026/organiz...

⏰ Submission deadlines for CI 2026 are fast approaching! ⏰ June 1: Register the metadata for your paper or talk June 8: Submit your full paper (max. 6000 words) or talk (max. 1500 words) Great opportunity to get feedback on your work from a stellar program committee: ci.acm.org/2026/organiz...

Jason W. Burton@jasonburton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Big news! The 14th ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2026) will be held September 27-30, 2026, at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing near Washington, DC. I'm excited to be a program co-chair this year. ci.acm.org/2026/ Papers and abstracts due 8 June. Check it out!

⏰ Submission deadlines for CI 2026 are fast approaching! ⏰ June 1: Register the metadata for your paper or talk June 8: Submit your full paper (max. 6000 words) or talk (max. 1500 words) Great opportunity to get feedback on your work from a stellar program committee: ci.acm.org/2026/organiz...

Jason W. Burton@jasonburton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Big news! The 14th ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2026) will be held September 27-30, 2026, at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing near Washington, DC. I'm excited to be a program co-chair this year. ci.acm.org/2026/ Papers and abstracts due 8 June. Check it out!

Nu siger forskere, at de har fundet en løsning på de sociale mediers store problem

Sociale mediers algoritmer styrer, hvem og hvad vi tror på, viser nyt studie fra Københavns Universitet. Forskerne bag siger, at de har fundet en vej, der kan skabe bedre relationer mellem mennesker.

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Nyt studie: Det tyder på, at algoritmer gør mere ved os, end du måske lige tror https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/studie-tyder-paa-algoritmer-goer-mere-ved-os-end-du-maaske-lige-tror #dk #nyheder #dkbot

Nyt studie: Det tyder på, at algoritmer gør mere ved os, end du måske lige tror

Forskerne mener, at vi bør være åbne for at afprøve flere forskellige algoritmer end dem, sociale medier bruger lige nu.

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Big news! The 14th ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI 2026) will be held September 27-30, 2026, at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing near Washington, DC. I'm excited to be a program co-chair this year. ci.acm.org/2026/ Papers and abstracts due 8 June. Check it out!

🚀 We're hiring postdocs/assistant professors for my @erc.europa.eu project, TECHORDER, exploring how companies and states struggle over tech and global order. The project is based at the Dep of Political Science, University of Copenhagen Deadline: 20 April Apply: employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

🧑‍💻 New paper at #chi2026 w @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social and @stefanherzog.bsky.social Are you worried about how social media algorithms affect people’s beliefs? We are, so we tested engagement-based ranking algorithms against alternatives in a pre-reg’d collaborative filtering experiment... 🧵

📣 Applications for the 23rd Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality are now open! ✨Join us in Berlin @arc-mpib.bsky.social June 08–16, 2026, to explore the topic of “Decision Making in the Age of AI”. ✏️ More details + application form (deadline: March 16): www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/research/res...

Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)

Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry? New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com. Thread tomorrow. arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

Industry Influence in High-Profile Social Media Research

To what extent is social media research independent from industry influence? Leveraging openly available data, we show that half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to indus...

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Christmas came early this year! Very happy to see our paper out in Science Advances. Led by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social, we ran a unique collective field-experiment on Reddit, to better understand who is participating in online debates and why. Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... And more below 👇

Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment

A field experiment examines patterns of online political discussion participation and the challenges of addressing inequality.

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Max Planck Institute for Human Development@mpib-berlin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Whose voices are heard in online discussions? Most people stay silent... and the drama may drive power users to post even more. A Reddit field experiment by @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @small-schulz.bsky.social & @lorenzspreen.bsky.social reveals why and explores ways to change it. tinyurl.com/3pwksmpu

I am hiring a postdoc for a DFF-funded project on social influence, and the decision processes that fuel rich-get-richer dynamics in the online/offline world. The position is for up to a year, competitive Danish salary, remote work possible. Interested or know somebody? DM me or share!

Generative AI (GenAI) can do more than just answer questions - it can tailor its responses based on users’ preferences, habits, and even emotional tone. We call this capability hypercustomization - explored in our new paper in Behavioral Science & Policy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities - Christoph M. Abels, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, Jason W. Burton, Dawn L. Holford, Levin Brink...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is changing human–machine interactions and the broader information ecosystem. Much as social media algorithms persona...

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🔔 Often our tech policy interventions operate from linear, top-down assumptions that don't account for the complexity they seek to govern. To dig into this I'm co-organizing a workshop at ACM CI 2025 with Jason Burton, Joe Bak-Coleman, + Naomi Shiffman. You should come! ci-x-tp.github.io

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

🚨 Workshop update 🚨 We're excited to announce that @naomishiffman.bsky.social will be joining to share her experience with designing and passing implementable tech policy. Our half-day agenda is up (ci-x-tp.github.io) and early registration for @acmci.bsky.social ends on 23 June — don’t miss out!

Jason W. Burton@jasonburton.bsky.social · last yr.

(1/4) Ever wondered what tech policy might look like if it were informed by research on collective intelligence and complex systems? 🧠🧑‍💻 Join @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @lukethorburn.com, and myself in San Diego on Aug 4th for the Collective Intelligence x Tech Policy workshop at @acmci.bsky.social!

(1/4) Ever wondered what tech policy might look like if it were informed by research on collective intelligence and complex systems? 🧠🧑‍💻 Join @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @lukethorburn.com, and myself in San Diego on Aug 4th for the Collective Intelligence x Tech Policy workshop at @acmci.bsky.social!

🚨New podcast episode!!🚨 Ralph Hertwig calls for a shift from nudging to boosting—empowering people with the skills to make informed decisions. It’s a transparent way to strengthen agency in the face of challenges like misinformation, climate change, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9r-...

Ralph Hertwig: Beyond Nudging—How Boosting Empowers Citizens to Make Good Decisions

YouTube video by Unraveling Behavior

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Ana Sofia Morais@anasofiamorais.bsky.social · last yr.

Nudging has shaped behavioral policy for years—but what are its downsides? In our latest episode, 𝐑𝐚𝐥𝐩𝐡 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐠 makes the case for shifting from nudging to 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠—an alternative behavioral science approach that fosters people’s agency, self-control, and decision-making skills. tinyurl.com/3yvfwxc8

(1/4) Ever wondered what tech policy might look like if it were informed by research on collective intelligence and complex systems? 🧠🧑‍💻 Join @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @lukethorburn.com, and myself in San Diego on Aug 4th for the Collective Intelligence x Tech Policy workshop at @acmci.bsky.social!

New preprint with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @randomwalker.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @lfoswaldo.bsky.social where we argue for a complex-system perspective to understand the causal effects of social media on society and for a triangulation of methods arxiv.org/abs/2505.09254

Moving towards informative and actionable social media research

Social media is nearly ubiquitous in modern life, and concerns have been raised about its putative societal impacts, ranging from undermining mental health and exacerbating polarization to fomenting v...

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I'm excited that I can finally share what I've been working on for the past 9 months: The United Nations 2025 Human Development Report: "A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI" 🧵 hdr.undp.org/content/huma...

Another example of why we need a new approach to address the ethics of social media experiments www.nature.com/articles/s44... @vincentjstraub.bsky.social

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: Researchers secretly ran a massive, unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users in a large debate subreddit. The bots' answers mined the original posters' identity and post history to generate its answers & created identities such as "rape survivor" www.404media.co/researchers-...

🚨🤖👥 Webinar "Collective Intelligence in the era of LLMs" April 24 5-6pm CET www.hacid-project.eu/hacid-webina... Register nesta.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Speakers: - Jason Burton, Copenhagen Business School - Lucie Flek, University of Bonn - Nikolas Zöller, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

🚨 UPCOMING EVENT: Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms, April 10-11 at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social & online. In collaboration with Senior AI Advisor @sethlazar.org & co-sponsored by the Knight Institute and @columbiaseas.bsky.social. RSVP: knightcolumbia.org/events/artif...

Revised ethical guidelines for social media experiments have not stuck. A participatory governance approach, akin to developments in AI, can improve practices & align the interests of researchers, platforms & users. @vincentjstraub.bsky.social @jasonburton.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Endlessly reading news, but can’t recall details of it later? Worried you rely on the internet/your phone to store things instead of your brain? Me too. I explored for @nature.com whether the internet (and AI) is worsening human memory, according to research. www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/3

Are the Internet and AI affecting our memory? What the science says

Search engines, GPS maps and other tech can alter our ability to learn and remember. Now scientists are working out what AI might do.

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