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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 1d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 1h

$10 million for a computer scientist who is interested in building a lab that creates new technology to increase civil discourse-- really looking forward to working with the Laude Institute on this new "moonshot" program: moonshots.laude.org

Laude Institute | Moonshots

Seed funding and multi-year labs for proven academic researchers using AI to tackle species-level challenges. Apply for Moonshot funding in civic discourse, scientific acceleration, frontline healthca...

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Sarah Brayne @sarahbrayne.bsky.social · 9d

Stanford Sociology is fortunate to have an open senior search this year! More info in the job announcement here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Senior appointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 2d

🚨New WP!🚨

Structured AI Dialogues Can Increase Happiness and Meaning in Life

In a preregistered RCT, four psychology-grounded #AI chatbots improved well-being across several outcomes.

Co-authors: Jonas Schoene, Johannes Eichstaedt, Aadesh Salecha, Sonja Lyubomirsky

🧵👇

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 2d

Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 2d

New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

Assistant Professor

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

unc.peopleadmin.com

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 11d

Really great discussion of political violence in the U.S. today featuring political scientist Sean Westwood: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

What we get wrong about political violence in the U.S.

Podcast Episode · Apple News Today · 09/27/2025 · 27m

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 11d

New dataset that describes social media activity of a very large group of US elected officials: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The digitally accountable public representation database: online communication by U.S. officials - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The digitally accountable public representation database: online communication by U.S. officials

www.nature.com

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 20d

One of the most perplexing things about the decrease in federal funding for research in universities is that Republicans have historically led the way on this (at least between 1980-2020) according to this fascinating new analysis from Dashun Wang's team): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Partisan disparities in the funding of science in the United States

Republican lawmakers consistently provided robust federal funding, often exceeding Democrats

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 24d

How much did Elon's takeover reshape Twitter/X? How did the partisan tilt of social media use change from 2020 to 2024?

The ANES 2024 data is out — and this thread answers all your burning questions! 🔥

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Sep 5

New Anthropic paper suggests LLMs have “personality vectors”: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21509

arxiv.org

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Sep 2

A new Open-Source LLM from ETH Zurich just came out: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model — a milestone in generative AI for trans...

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