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Sandra González-Bailón

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Professor of Communication @AnnenbergSchool, UPenn | Director, Center for Information Networks and Democracy, cind.asc.upenn.edu | sandragonzalezbailon.net

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Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · Dec 11

New publication (4+ years in the making): “The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook”. shorturl.at/VE2fU
We analyze the propagation of 1B+ posts across content moderation regimes, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jatucker.bsky.social @taliastroud.bsky.social @annenbergpenn.bsky.social

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Reposted by Rachel A. Gordon, Sandra González‐Bailón, Oscar Westlund

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 6

WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

Stand up for science flyer, happening on March 7th in DC & nationwide with more information at www.standupforscience2025.org

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Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) @knightgtown.bsky.social · Dec 5

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

@knightgtown.bsky.social and Georgetown’s CCT Program are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow! This is an exciting opportunity to lead research to understand how evidence and research is being used in social media and platform litigation. Apply here: bit.ly/4fWh8kY

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · Jan 22

UCD’s School of Sociology is hiring an Assistant Professor (permanent) in Computational Social Science.

– Salary Scale: €62,855–€99,533
– Application deadline: 10 Feb
– Details: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

@ucdsociology.bsky.social
@ucddublin.bsky.social

Lecturer / Assistant Professor - Computational Social Science, School of Sociology - Dublin, Leinster (IE) job with UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD) | 386526

We are seeking applications from individuals with expertise in one or more of the following areas: Computational Social ...

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 13

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

time.com/7285045/resi...

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

time.com

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Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · Apr 7

Looking forward to this, next week! 'The Impact of AI on (Mis)Information' asc.upenn.edu/cind2025, w/ @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social @hwaight.bsky.social @jolukito.bsky.social @lexipalmer.bsky.social Kaicheng Yang @ekvraga.bsky.social Kiran Garimella & Jennifer Allen + @ylelkes.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu

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Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · Mar 17

Great opportunity in beautiful Zurich 👇

Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com · Mar 17

I'm hiring for a postdoc! 🌟 pls help spread the word
Senior Research and Teaching Associate (PostDoc)
with a focus on Internet Use and Society
details here: webuse.org/postdoc/

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Eszter Hargittai @eszter.com · Mar 17

I'm hiring for a postdoc! 🌟 pls help spread the word
Senior Research and Teaching Associate (PostDoc)
with a focus on Internet Use and Society
details here: webuse.org/postdoc/

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Jeremy Foote @jeremydfoote.com · Mar 17

Nice article by Kevin Munger (based on @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social et al.'s paper on FB polarization and @jongreen.bsky.social et al.'s paper).

Part of the argument is that one reason we don't find filter bubbles is that we've been looking in 2D

open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...

Unbundling and Abundance

on the (high) dimensionality of 21st century ideology

open.substack.com

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · Mar 10

Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political

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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Mar 9

Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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Ted Chen @tedhchen.com · Mar 4

Cfp: come join us at the 2025 Political Networks and Computational Social Science conference! sites.google.com/view/confpol...

Poster for the Political Networks and Computational Social Science conference.

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Reposted by James H. Howard, Elizabeth Pisani, Donald Tomaskovic‐Devey , and 4 more James H. Howard, Elizabeth Pisani, Donald Tomaskovic‐Devey, Tanya Heikkila, Sandra González‐Bailón, Allison Eden, Zoë D. Peterson

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 2

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!?

Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one!

#standupforscience2025

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

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Reposted by Ana Delicado, J. Ignacio Criado, Sandra González‐Bailón , and 1 more Ana Delicado, J. Ignacio Criado, Sandra González‐Bailón, Mohammad Atari

M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · Feb 27

My new piece in @theguardian.com

Techno-optimism is human pessimism.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI is ‘beating’ humans at empathy and creativity. But these games are rigged | MJ Crockett

Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways

www.theguardian.com

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Reposted by Katherine Ognyanova, J. Ignacio Criado, Sandra González‐Bailón

Political Networks @politicalnetworks.bsky.social · Feb 26

Save the date! PolNet & PaCSS 2025 are joining forces at Harvard and Northeastern on August 11–14, 2025—workshops on Aug 11–12, conference on Aug 13–14. Stay tuned for details on CFP, registration, and more. See you at #PolNetPaCSS2025!

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Instituto Carlos III-Juan March/ Carlos III-Juan March Institute @ic3jm.bsky.social · Feb 26

📢 Scholarship opportunities for our prestigious two-year interdisciplinary Master's program in Social Sciences!

💡 Available scholarships:

✅ 4 full scholarships
🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2025.

✅ 3 tuition waiver scholarships
🗓 Deadline: May 31, 2025.

🎓 Apply now! 🔗 www.uc3m.es/master/socia...

Master in Social Sciences | UC3M

Master in Social Sciences - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - UC3M

www.uc3m.es

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Marion Leary, PhD, MPH, RN @marionleary.bsky.social · Feb 24

📣 Our first speaker announcement for the Philly @standupforscience.bsky.social rally on March 7th, 11a at City Hall. 📣

We will hear from Congressmembers Jamie Gauthier and Nina Ahmad and squid biologist @sarahmackattack.bsky.social (Skype A Scientist).

RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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Reposted by Joshua A. Tucker, Wendy D. Manning, Adam Roberts , and 3 more Joshua A. Tucker, Wendy D. Manning, Adam Roberts, Matthew Salganik, Sandra González‐Bailón, Anita Gohdes

Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Feb 24

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Feb 24

New Bright Line Watch report brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-...

-Expert ratings of US democracy at post-2016 low
-55% of Trump-aligned Rs approve of "strong leader who does not have to bother w/Congress"
-Jan 6 pardons, exec branch firings, Musk influence rated as grave threats

🧵 of results below

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Miranda Lubbers @mirandalubbers.bsky.social · Feb 21

📢 Postdoctoral position opportunity! We're seeking a full-time postdoc for 22 months to dive into societal cohesion research using network science/network statistics. At the COALESCE Lab in sunny Barcelona, Spain: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/319601. Apply before March 7th! #sociology #NetSci

Post-doctoral researcher (2025DILIFRUA24)

Job position

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social · Feb 17

Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities.

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Reposted by Klaus Dodds, Liz Kelly, Sandra González‐Bailón , and 1 more Klaus Dodds, Liz Kelly, Sandra González‐Bailón, Lynette Shultz

Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · Feb 12

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · Feb 13

Happy to report that APA wrote this letter, gathered a coalition across science, and will now pay for ads for it to be disseminated in Science and Chronicle of Higher Ed to spread the word!! unitedsciencealliance.org

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Feb 12

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Matt DeVerna @matthewdeverna.com · Jan 29

💥 Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal 💥 (via @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social and @davidlazer.bsky.social)

Researchers are "skeptical" the new system will slow the spread of misinformation and "anticipate [Meta's policy changes] will cause a flood from some Pages."

Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal | TechPolicy.Press

David Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón raise concern that no one outside of Meta will know the true effects of Meta's change in its moderation policy.

www.techpolicy.press

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Reposted by Fabrizio Gilardi, Henning Finseraas, Aleksandra Cichocka , and 3 more Fabrizio Gilardi, Henning Finseraas, Aleksandra Cichocka, Damien Bol, Markus Wagner, Sandra González‐Bailón

Aina Gallego @ainagallego.bsky.social · Jan 28

📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo

Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging | Political Analysis | Cambridge Core

Positioning Political Texts with Large Language Models by Asking and Averaging

cup.org

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Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · Jan 21

We wrote another piece about why Zuckerberg's decision to end fact-checking is so disingenuous -- check it out @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/mark-zuckerb...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal | TechPolicy.Press

David Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón raise concern that no one outside of Meta will know the true effects of Meta's change in its moderation policy.

www.techpolicy.press

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Jan 21

Based on their research, David Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón anticipate that Meta's elimination of penalties for sharing misinformation will cause a flood from some Pages– which are still the most effective means to spread content on Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Immoderate Proposal | TechPolicy.Press

David Lazer and Sandra González-Bailón raise concern that no one outside of Meta will know the true effects of Meta's change in its moderation policy.

buff.ly

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Jorge M. Fernandes @jmfernandes86.bsky.social · Jan 21

‼️ Hiring‼️

One postdoctoral position in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid.

Application deadline: end of February.

Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb

Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun!

Please share widely.

Dropbox

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Boris Holzer @fernschreiber.bsky.social · Jan 16

In the wake of Meta's announcement to scrap fact-checking, a recent study of Facebook during the 2020 US election is instructive: Content moderation works, but peer-to-peer distribution still allows fake news to spread. [autotranslated:] tinyurl.com/2ahy88at [original German:] tinyurl.com/326kskp2

Kann man Falschinformationen bei Facebook Herr werden?

Meta und andere Konzerne wollen die Verbreitung von Lügen in ihren Netzwerken verhindern. Ihre Methoden können durchaus erfolgreich sein.

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Thomas Poell @tpoell.bsky.social · Jan 16

We are excited to launch a CFP for a special issue of Digital Journalism on Platform Governance and Fact Checking. Abstract deadline: June 2; Editors: Oscar Westlund @anjabechmann.bsky.social @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social @gravesmatter.bsky.social @mediarepublik.bsky.social Steen Steensen & myself

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