Happening next week, July 28, at @ic2s2.bsky.social !!

How to obtain data for CSS research in the Post-API age? And what if you can access a treasure trove of cross-platform, cross-device online activity data for your research? 👀 Come to our @ic2s2.bsky.social 2026 Tutorial in Vermont in ~3 weeks! (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social) (1/7)

How to obtain data for CSS research in the Post-API age? And what if you can access a treasure trove of cross-platform, cross-device online activity data for your research? 👀 Come to our @ic2s2.bsky.social 2026 Tutorial in Vermont in ~3 weeks! (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social) (1/7)

Happening in less than a week! June 22, 9 AM in Daytona Beach! View details and sign up now: forms.gle/rA1XxibZ2ydX...

Let's discuss Internet data collection in the Post-API age at the Sunbelt conference in Daytona Beach, Florida (Jun 22)! @insna.bsky.social (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social) + learn about a unique online activity dataset to enable cross-platform social network and social science research 👀

Happening in just a week (June 1) in Boston-Cambridge! Come learn about a new, unique source of data for your network science and computational social science research! (Sign up here: forms.gle/sgjVPMSNWYeY...)

Very excited to announce a new satellite coming to NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social, co-organized with Scott Cambo and @davidlazer.bsky.social! More details in this thread and the website (national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_ne...) Sign up here: forms.gle/sgjVPMSNWYeY...

In just a week, in LA! A new, crucial resource for the computational social science community! (Sign up at forms.gle/DQk8PFGXHhy2...)

How to obtain online activity data for research in the Post-API age? And what if there's already a unique collection of online activity data that you could obtain access to for your research? 👀 Come to our tutorial (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social ) at @icwsm.bsky.social 2026 in LA! (1/7)

Happening in Boston in exactly 3 weeks! Come learn about how to collect online activity data in the post-API age to conduct network science research! And the treasure trove of already collected and processed data you could gain access to 👀 Sign up here (limited capacity): forms.gle/sgjVPMSNWYeY...

Very excited to announce a new satellite coming to NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social, co-organized with Scott Cambo and @davidlazer.bsky.social! More details in this thread and the website (national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_ne...) Sign up here: forms.gle/sgjVPMSNWYeY...

Happening in exactly 3 weeks! (Please sign up! forms.gle/DQk8PFGXHhy2...)

How to obtain online activity data for research in the Post-API age? And what if there's already a unique collection of online activity data that you could obtain access to for your research? 👀 Come to our tutorial (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social ) at @icwsm.bsky.social 2026 in LA! (1/7)

🚨 New preprint alert: we analyzed how social scientists use social media data for empirical research, drawing data from 59 journals, 5 social science disciplines + interdisciplinary, 2010–2024. Link: doi.org/10.31235/osf... Details in 🧵 1/8

How to obtain online activity data for research in the Post-API age? And what if there's already a unique collection of online activity data that you could obtain access to for your research? 👀 Come to our tutorial (organized w/ @davidlazer.bsky.social ) at @icwsm.bsky.social 2026 in LA! (1/7)

Going to Netsci in Boston in June? Interested in access to data from the National Internet Observatory, including our RFPs on AI chatbots, browsing behavior, search, and more to come over the next few months? Sign up for our workshop at Netsci: national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_ne...

Very excited to announce a new satellite coming to NetSci 2026 @netsciconf.bsky.social, co-organized with Scott Cambo and @davidlazer.bsky.social! More details in this thread and the website (national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_ne...) Sign up here: forms.gle/sgjVPMSNWYeY...

AI data centers are straining already fragile power and water infrastructures in communities around the world, leading to blackouts and water shortages. “Data centers are where environmental and social issues meet,” says Rosi Leonard, an environmentalist with @foeireland.bsky.social.

From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

nytimes.com

LLMs are often used for text annotation, especially in social science. In some cases, this involves placing text items on a scale: eg, 1 for liberal and 9 for conservative There are a few ways to accomplish this task. Which work best? Our new EMNLP paper has some answers🧵 arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00828

ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download! 📄 Data descriptor: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📈 Interactive app to explore the data: domaindemo.info 💽 Dataset: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter

doi.org

There's a lot of concern out there about online misinformation, but when we try and measure it by identifying sharing of/traffic to unreliable sources, it looks like a tiny share of users' information diets. What gives?

Goel et al. examine why some factually correct news articles are often shared alongside fake news claims on social media. @pranavgoel.bsky.social @jongreen.bsky.social @davidlazer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Using co-sharing to identify use of mainstream news for promoting potentially misleading narratives - Nature Human Behaviour

Goel et al. examine why some factually correct news articles are often shared by users who also shared fake news articles on social media.

nature.com

If you are at #WebSci2025, join our "Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory" - a tutorial that addresses the critical challenges of web data collection in the post-API era. national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_websci25/

If you study networks, or have been stuck listening to people who study networks for long enough (sorry to my loved ones), you may have heard that open triads – V shapes – in social networks tend to turn into closed triangles. But why does this happen? In part, because people repost each other.