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AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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Our work got featured in Science News! What a great end to an amazing #ICML2026🇰🇷 Peer review is at a crossroads. How we handle the submission and review crisis over the next years will shape the future of scientific publishing. True impact will come from people writing fewer, more meaningful papers!

Science News@sciencenews.bsky.social · 4w ago

AI tools might inadvertently perpetuate the biases they’re known to carry and reduce the variety of opinions weighing in on new science. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-tools-science-peer-review-problems

Weizenbaum researchers were well represented at #FAccT2026 in Montréal, one of the leading conferences on the sociotechnical dimensions of #AI and #computing. Contributions included tutorials, paper presentations, & session chair roles. Congratulations to all involved! 🎉 @facct.bsky.social @acm.org

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Romina Mahinpei@rmahinpei.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Are you a Bluesky user or developer? Princeton's HCI group is conducting an IRB-approved interview study on perspectives about generative AI (genAI) in decentralized social media. Participation includes: • 45–60 min Zoom interview • $30 USD digital gift card Signup: forms.gle/EDmcLnjbamtb...

“Social media does not create these tensions but it amplifies and accelerates them and a lot of that amplification is built into how the platform works...” @manueltonneau.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk on the rise of online hate and its spillover into real world violence. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Social media branded 'tinder box' in aftermath of scandals like Nowak murder

EXCLUSIVE: Online and political experts have warned that social media firms must take greater action to stop the rapid spread of anger on their sites to avoid it spilling onto the streets

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🧵 Thread: Does the internet threaten democracy? I argue that it does in my latest piece in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie... Here's the short version. 1/9 1/10

The architecture of the internet creates risks for democracy

Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.

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🚨New preprint!🚨 arxiv.org/abs/2606.03095 In a randomized field experiment in a 300-level machine learning course, teaching assistants received AI-assisted feedback drafts after grading student submissions. Did AI help them provide more feedback when feedback was optional? A thread 🧵

Can you boost your AI review scores by asking an LLM to rewrite your paper? Yes! We call it paper laundering Our @icmlconf.bsky.social spotlight paper argues current AI reviewers aren't ready to automate peer review, and outlines what a science of peer review automation should look like 🧵👇 #ICML2026

New paper w/ UK AISI: Millions of people now use AI to help them write and communicate. In three experiments (14k participants, 3m+ human ratings) we show that AI writing assistance systematically distorts writer personas – their perceived beliefs, personality, and identity. 🧵

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

WOAH is coming back for its 10th edition at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest! 🎊 For this important anniversary, we invite authors to critically reflect on our achievements as a community and adjust the aim going forward. Stay tuned, more updates coming soon! #EMNLP2026 #WOAH2026 #NLProc

Thrilled to share that our paper has been accepted to FAccT! See you all in Montréal in June 🇨🇦

Manuel Tonneau@manueltonneau.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Social media platforms operate globally, but do they allocate human moderation equitably across languages? Our new WP shows the answer is no: -Millions of users post in languages with zero moderators -Where mods exist, mod count relative to content volume varies widely across langs osf.io/amfws

Due to the high number of applicants we extended the deadline by one week to **March 8th**. css2.lakecomoschool.org

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Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities 2nd Edition June 22-26, 2026 Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy Over the past decade, computational social science (CSS) has risen as ...

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Francesco Pierri@frapierri.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Final call for applications - deadline on February 28th!

Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨New WP "@Grok is this true?" We analyze 1.6M factcheck requests on X (grok & Perplexity) 📌Usage is polarized, Grok users more likely to be Reps 📌BUT Rep posts rated as false more often—even by Grok 📌Bot agreement with factchecks is OK but not great; APIs match fact-checkers osf.io/preprints/ps...

Demographic cues (eg, names, dialect) are widely used to study how LLM behavior may change depending on user demographics. Such cues are often assumed interchangeable. 🚨 We show they are not: different cues yield different model behavior for the same group and different conclusions on LLM bias. 🧵👇

Détection de coordination, détection de #deepfakes, biais et vulnérabilités des algorithmes de recommandation... @viginum.bsky.social et #INRIA lancent un prix scientifique de lutte contre les manipulations de l'information. 👉 pvi-lmi.sciencescall.org Deadline le 14/02. #disinfo #FIMI

🚨 New paper out in @pnasnexus.org We show how skewed social media data can still be used to reliably estimate unemployment, not just nationally but down to the city level. 📈 doi.org/10.1093/pnas... 1/N

Can social media reliably estimate unemployment?

Abstract. Digital trace data hold tremendous potential for measuring policy-relevant outcomes in real-time, yet its reliability is often questioned. Here,

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A transformer encoder-based classifier called JoblessBERT can identify posts about unemployment on social media, allowing researchers to predict US unemployment claims, up to two weeks in advance, at the national, state, and city levels. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/Zvi850XRa8I

ICYMI: Listen to @manueltonneau.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk's interview with the SOEP podcast talking about his new research into hate speech, online platforms and disparities in content moderation across different European countries. Available here: bit.ly/4ntsiRU

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🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...

📣 New Preprint! Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?

Social media feeds today are optimized for engagement, often leading to misalignment between users' intentions and technology use. In a new paper, we introduce Bonsai, a tool to create feeds based on stated preferences, rather than predicted engagement. arxiv.org/abs/2509.10776

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

1/ 🚨 Big news 🚨 today we’re launching Tech for Open Minds (TOM) at @DukeU— a global program exploring how technology shapes open-mindedness, humility & polarization 🌍🧠 🔗https://sicss.io/stories/2025-08-18

@themedialeader.bsky.social highlights new insights from @manueltonneau.bsky.social, @deeliu97.bsky.social, Prof. Ralph Schroeder + Prof. @computermacgyver.bsky.social, whose have found that 16mn EU-based X users “do not have moderators for their language.” uk.themedialeader.com/social-platf...

Social platforms' 'language blind spots' in content moderation bring brand safety concerns

A new study of recently mandated transparency data under the EU Digital Services Act found that millions of users of social platforms in the region post in languages without any human moderation.

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Millions of users are posting to social media and other platforms in languages with zero moderators, even within the EU. That's the topline finding from an impressive new working paper leveraging newly mandated transparency data under the DSA led by @manueltonneau.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so...

Social media platforms operate globally, but do they allocate human moderation equitably across languages? Our new WP shows the answer is no: -Millions of users post in languages with zero moderators -Where mods exist, mod count relative to content volume varies widely across langs osf.io/amfws

Very cool piece by my colleague @antisomniac.bsky.social on how YouTube is used differently across languages. Worth a read!

Ryan McGrady@antisomniac.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I wrote an article about linguistic bias and the internet for the BBC, based on a paper @ze.vin, @ethanz.bsky.social, and I wrote comparing four language-specific samples of YouTube. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

🏆 Thrilled to share that our HateDay paper has received an Outstanding Paper Award at #ACL2025 Big thanks to my wonderful co-authors: @deeliu97.bsky.social, Niyati, @computermacgyver.bsky.social, Sam, Victor, and @paul-rottger.bsky.social! Thread 👇and data avail at huggingface.co/datasets/man...

Manuel Tonneau@manueltonneau.bsky.social · 2y ago

Can we detect #hatespeech at scale on social media? To answer this, we introduce 🤬HateDay🗓️, a global hate speech dataset representative of a day on Twitter. The answer: not really! Detection perf is low and overestimated by traditional eval methods arxiv.org/abs/2411.15462 🧵