The Social Network, 1928

For those of us who lived through the 2011 VA quake, that was a 5.8 by comparison. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virg…

Hi all, a non-academic colleague is looking for a consultant to help her plan an applied, disinfo-related project on a short timeline. The position is paid and remote. drive.google.com/file/d/1qxMP0r…

Junior scholars: 'I feel awkward citing myself'

Senior scholars: 'as I cleverly argued (1988; 1991), admirably reiterated (1993; 1995; 1996); and handsomely concluded (2001; 2004; 2007)...'

Ugh not this shit again...

I and thot leedurr are quoted in this WIRED piece about the persistence of Black Twitter in the X era. wired.com/story/black-tw…

I, Deen Freelon, and Dr. Danna Young🇺🇸✌🏻 talked to WHYY about external researcher access to social media data. We agreed that we don't expect total access, but an outside view can offer valuable insights. We need the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act now!
whyy.org/segments/faceb…

For most people, Twitter is a non-political, moderate information environment (although more political than the open web), finds Deen Freelon Dr. Meredith L. Pruden Qunfang Wu Yiping Xia 夏逸平 Daniel Johnson & colleagues using a novel and impressive user-centric approach doi.org/10.1002/asi.24…

We're accepting applications for both post-docs and senior visiting scholars at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt. Deadline is 1/5/24. Please apply and share widely!

Visting scholar: apply.interfolio.com/137248

Post-doc: apply.interfolio.com/137242

In the first article Jakob Ohme theo araujo | @[email protected] Laura Boeschoten Deen Freelon, Ram, Reeves and Robinson compare various digital trace data collection methods to measure the content of people's social media use tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We have a new report on Using Psychological Science to Understand and Fight Health #Misinformation

This is a consensus report for American Psychological Association and CDC from a team of misinformation experts on why people believe and spread misinformation

We offer 8 recommendations:

1) Avoid…

And if you're in Chicago this weekend, we'll be digging into the data further with a bunch of great folks from TV studies, platform studies, and the computational social sciences. Many thanks to UChicago CEAS and UChicago Franke Inst for sponsoring this event! ceas.uchicago.edu/content/platfo…

Mizzou is hiring a ton of postdocs, including in Comm. Focal areas include:
•democracy, stereotyping, or dis/misinformation
•Equity and social justice in the context of political
and media effects
•Emerging technologies (e.g., VR, AI)
gradschool.missouri.edu/postdoctoral-e…

Damn, not even Nature is safe. *Top science journal faced secret attacks from Covid conspiracy theory group* computerweekly.com/news/366553435…

North Carolina’s most important furniture maker was a free man of color who owned slaves. He also might have been an abolitionist. Matt Hartman asks whether the state is ready for his story:

theassemblync.com/culture/thomas…

w/ photos from Cornell Watson (He/Him)

This Karikó career progression is remarkable:
(1) fired from an Ivy
(2) work endlessly rejected
(3) creates an amazing technology that saves billions of lives and changes history for the better

I know how to get you the first two thirds of the way there — follow me for tips

Incredibly interesting and troubling research.

Big news from Network Science Institute at Northeastern University London: we are hiring three multidisciplinary and exciting postdocs! Come work with us! Below 👇you can find details and information about who to contact for information:

McCourt School of Public Policy Georgetown University invites applications for a tenure-line assistant professor in Computational Social Science. Application review begins Oct 15.

We're hiring a postdoc to work at the intersection of identity+computing!

NOTE: This is an NSF-funded position that requires US citizenship or permanent resident.

Review qualifications/expectations and apply at bit.ly/aiice-prf