Kevin Yang
@yang3kc.bsky.social
Kaicheng Yang, PhD | Assistant professor @Binghamton University CS | Computational social science, bots, + | views mine
Thrilled to announce the next talk in our Research with AI Agents Workshop Series. Dr. Byungkyu Lee from NYU will present "Using Coding Agents as Research Tools: A Plan-Based Workflow for the Age of Generative AI." Time: Mon, June 29, 2026, 10am-11am ET 1/2
I recently wrapped up my AI and Society class for the spring semester. It was a challenging but rewarding experience. I wrote about my reflections here: www.kaichengyang.me/blog/apps-an...
My AI Agent Stack
Claude Code is my primary agent; I also use Codex and Pi, all from the terminal For managing multiple agents, I use herdr (a tmux-style dashboard) and...
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Kevin Yang@yang3kc.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis semester, I have been teaching an AI and Society class. As the name suggests, the goal is to explore the transformative impact of AI, particularly LLMs and AI agents, on society. This is a seminar class, and here is the reading list: yangkclab.github.io/ai-and-socie... 1/3
Last week at #CySoc2026 at #ICWSM2026, Los Angeles, we brought together researchers studying #onlinetoxicity, #onlineharassment, platform dynamics, #onlineinfluence, cross-lingual threats, and the growing role of AI in online platforms. 1/3
Excited to share this year's program for #CySoc2026 @icwsm.bsky.social in Los Angeles. This year’s workshop focuses on human–AI relationships, online toxicity, platform dynamics, and broader societal risks emerging around generative and agentic AI. 🧵1/2
🚨 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
This semester, I have been teaching an AI and Society class. As the name suggests, the goal is to explore the transformative impact of AI, particularly LLMs and AI agents, on society. This is a seminar class, and here is the reading list: yangkclab.github.io/ai-and-socie... 1/3
Last day to submit your work to #CySoc2026 !
Kevin Yang@yang3kc.bsky.social · 5mo agoWe've extended the #CySoc2026 deadline to March 25 to give authors a few additional days to prepare their submissions! Please consider submitting your work and sharing this information! More information: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Submission portal: easychair.org/conferences?...
We've extended the #CySoc2026 deadline to March 25 to give authors a few additional days to prepare their submissions! Please consider submitting your work and sharing this information! More information: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Submission portal: easychair.org/conferences?...
I'm organizing a Research with AI Agents Workshop Series, inviting colleagues and friends who have been actively exploring the application of AI agents to share how they're using them in their work and research. The first talk will feature Dr. Yanbo Zhang. See abstract and bio below. 1/2
If your code skills require user input at some point, explicitly require it by using the "AskUserQuestions" tools in skills.md, which would trigger the confirmation dialog shown below every time.
If you are reviewing for IC2S2 and it gives you a headache from reading all 700+ paper titles/abstracts while bidding, I just built a tool for it. It uses an LLM to score how relevant each paper is to your research interests (you can define a list of keywords). 1/2
📣CFP: 7th edition International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats (CySoc) We welcome papers that examine a diverse range of issues related to online harmful communications. 📅Submission: March 22nd, 2026 📅Notification: April 8th, 2026 🔗 Details: cy-soc.github.io/2026/
CySoc 2026 - International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats
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We are looking forward to your amazing submissions to the CySoc workshop at ICWSM 2026! Learn more here: cy-soc.github.io/2026/ Note: the previously circulated submission deadline has been shifted.
CySoc 2026 is back! Check out the CfP below. We are also looking for PC members. Pin me if you are interested in joining!
This story via @theconversation.com weaves together research done with @yang3kc.bsky.social @baottruong.bsky.social and several others: 🧪 Swarms of AI bots can sway people's beliefs – threatening democracy theconversation.com/swarms-of-ai...
Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy
A simulation shows that social media bots powered by today’s AI can infiltrate human networks on social media and influence what people believe.
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Our latest paper in @science.org warns about malicious AI swarms, agents capable of adaptive influence campaigns at scale. We already observed some in the wild (picture). AI is a real threat to democracy. #SciencePolicyForum #ScienceResearch 🧪 Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Sander van der Linden@profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe have a new paper in Science today on how malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy. AI systems can already coordinate autonomously, infiltrate communities, and fabricate social consensus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Led by @kunstjonas.bsky.social & @daniel-thilo.bsky.social!
🚨 New working paper 🚨 Can LLMs with reasoning + web search reliably fact-check political claims? We evaluated 15 models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek on 6,000+ PolitiFact claims (2007–2024). Short answer: Not reliably—unless you give them curated evidence. arxiv.org/abs/2511.18749
🌍 Are you new to @icwsm.bsky.social or JQD:DM and based in a low- or middle-income country? 💡 Submit a project idea, get matched with a mentor, present virtually at ICWSM'26, and prepare a submission for Sept 2026! 📢 Call icwsm.org/2026/submit.... 🚀 Apply by Jan 15 forms.gle/A9GkJboP7qi3...
ICWSM 2026: Submit
ICWSM 2026: Submit
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𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will give their first-ever 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 at NetSci 2026! Their groundbreaking work has shaped how we understand networks, & this session will be a highlight of NetSci’s 20th anniversary. Call for abstracts: tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83 Call for satellites: tinyurl.com/42sru6kz
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
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We are excited to share that this paper has been published in Scientific Data. The whole dataset is now available to download. Please see the paper for details! Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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
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Kevin Yang@yang3kc.bsky.social · 2y agoIntroducing “DomainDemo: a dataset of domain-sharing activities among different demographic groups on Twitter.” Today, we release five derived metrics of over 129,000 domains, quantifying their characteristics such as geographical reach and audience partisanship. 1/3
Now live: “Declining information quality under new platform governance” by Burak Özturan, Alexi Quintana-Mathé, Nir Grinberg, Katherine Ognyanova, and David Lazer. misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/decl...
Wrote a new blog post on my experience using Claude Code to do data analysis with lessons I learned. I think it's a paradigm shift. Link: open.substack.com/pub/yang3kc/...
Claude Code is secretly an excellent data analysis agent
How I vide code papers with it
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An astronomical theme is emerging for this great #ica25 session as I'm also looking forward to presenting one of the new tools from our own @internetobservatory.org.au. Please come and join us this afternoon as we chart the constellations of public communication 🔭🌠. Note this is in the GRAND Hyatt
Kevin Yang@yang3kc.bsky.social · last yr.Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25
Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25