Magnifico esto de ⁦Máriam M.Bascuñán⁩ hoy en ⁦EL PAÍS⁩ elpais.com/opinion/2024-0…

Did you know that online conversations show similar patterns across topics, platforms and time? W. Quattrociocchi Andrea Baronchelli Matteo Cinelli et al's @nature paper shows longer conversations are more toxic, but that this toxicity doesn't discourage participation nature.com/articles/s4158…

We hope everyone had a great spring break 🏖️

OSoMe Awesome Speakers is back in action tomorrow with Sandra González-Bailón! Register for her talk 'Social and algorithmic choices in the transmission of information' here: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Are you interested in learning about computational social science *for free* and identifying new opportunities for interdisciplinary research? The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science will run in >20 places around the world: sicss.io/locations #SICSS

Barcelona, la provincia de la que se van más jóvenes (25.640); Madrid, la que capta más (58.190) elcorreo.com/bizkaia/cinco-…

The last two terms I've really started to notice students using generative AI in their assignments—in ways both good and bad.

Since all of us who teach should be thinking about this, I thought I'd share my own guidelines, maybe you find them useful.

Feedback always welcome!

🚨Out in Nature Human Behaviour🚨

Effort is costly--how can we learn to value doing effortful things? Reward effort, not outcomes/performance!

Our registered report (w/ Hause Lin Andrew Westbrook) shows people can learn to prefer doing effortful tasks doi.org/10.1038/s41562… /1

If you don't live in a 'swing state,' your vote still counts, but it's worth a lot less. Here's how we can reform the Electoral College to fix that.

NOTE: Since making this video, we've come one step closer, with Minnesota joining the map.

CfP! II Barcelona Workshop in Political Theory!
Deadline: 5th April
Date: 11th July
Plenty of time for Thick and thin chatter in a wonderful space, at Can Jaumandreu
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Interesting results from #ThreatPie project presented by Ana S. Cardenal Who visit untrustworthy websites? Older, male, more right-leaning, and politically involved citizens.

#MLmatters #medialiteracy

🚨My Annual Review article 'Endogenous State Capacity' is now online. I am grateful for the rich conversations with Anna Grzymala-Busse Pablo Beramendi Cathy Boone, David Stasavage, Emily Sellars, Volha Charnysh , Dann Naseemullah, Francesca R. Jensenius , Mai Hassan & Xiuyu Li: tinyurl.com/3ux8dyds

What can research tell us about how people engage with misinformation, how it is created, and how it might be countered?

Journalists interested in covering this can apply to join free Reuters Institute Digital Deep Dives in March and April connecting practice and research.

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New Reuters Institute factsheet by me that asks: How many news websites block generative AI like ChatGPT and Gemini from using their content to train their models?

It depends on the country. Very large differences in how many top news sites are blocking, and how soon they started.

Jaume López Marta Corcoy Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2️⃣ La recerca “Avaluació ciutadana dels pressupostos participatius a Catalunya: satisfacció, problemes i efectes sobre la confiança i legitimitat polítiques' vol conèixer el grau de satisfacció ciutadana d'aquesta tipologia de procés.
🗣️ Rosa Borge UOCuniversitat #DEMOC

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨with Sebastian Stier Ana S. Cardenal Andy Guess Ericka Menchen-Trevino Magdalena Wojcieszak in the Social Science Computer Review

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08…

A pleasure and an honour to have worked on this piece with these outstanding group of scholars #CSS #DataScience #webtracking

We are excited to share the call for submissions of the 2nd edition of the Yale-UB HPE workshop. Please distribute widely.
cc Francesc Amat

Moderates are the most knowledgeable about politics, according to a study of 45 countries: nature.com/articles/s4159…

🎉Very happy that my first #ICA submission has been accepted under the APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions division! I'll be presenting our work (w/ Ana S. Cardenal) on the prevalence of 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 news avoidance and its implications for political knowledge at #ICA 23 🇨🇦

Help me protect life in Ukraine. Last year, many of you joined me in a UNITED24 project to fund an anti-drone system. I very much hope you will join me in a new fundraiser to spread the drone-detection system throughout the country. Please help.
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