Chris Bail
@chrisbail.bsky.social
Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
Please tell UNC not to destroy a pristine forest in order to build a new basketball stadium with luxury boxes by signing this petition: renovatesmithcenter.org?utm_source=s...
Renovate Don’t Relocate - Smith Center Petition
Renovate Don't Relocate Join us in asking UNC Administration to keep Tar Heel Basketball on South Campus. Add My Name We do not support the move of the Smith Center and our historic Carolina men’s…
renovatesmithcenter.org
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Please tell UNC not to destroy a pristine forest in order to build a new basketball stadium with luxury boxes by signing this petition: renovatesmithcenter.org?utm_source=s...
We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
January 13, 2026 at 2:01 PM
We are hiring a post-doc to study the impact of AI agents on complex social systems in Duke's Society-Centered AI Initiative and/or the Polarization Lab! Apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/314...
Dr. Nicholas Christakis (@nachristakis.bsky.social ) will be joining us as a Keynote Speaker at the Conference on Society-Centered AI 2026 Feb 12-14th! Learn more and Register here: sites.duke.edu/scai/
January 8, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Dr. Nicholas Christakis (@nachristakis.bsky.social ) will be joining us as a Keynote Speaker at the Conference on Society-Centered AI 2026 Feb 12-14th! Learn more and Register here: sites.duke.edu/scai/
Rest in peace, Perspective API
January 7, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Rest in peace, Perspective API
Dr. Arvind Narayanan (@randomwalker.bsky.social ) will be joining us as a Keynote Speaker at the Conference on Society-Centered AI 2026! Join us Feb 12-14 at Duke for industry and academic keynotes, research spotlight talks, and poster sessions. Learn more and Register here: sites.duke.edu/scai/
January 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Dr. Arvind Narayanan (@randomwalker.bsky.social ) will be joining us as a Keynote Speaker at the Conference on Society-Centered AI 2026! Join us Feb 12-14 at Duke for industry and academic keynotes, research spotlight talks, and poster sessions. Learn more and Register here: sites.duke.edu/scai/
How can we create new benchmarks to measure the social impact of AI? Join us for an interdisciplinary hackathon where teams will tackle this question and compete for prizes including the chance to present their work at the Conference on Society-Centered AI: sites.duke.edu/scai/hackath...
Hackathon - #SCAI2026
SCAI Hackathon Join us for the second annual Society-Centered AI Hackathon at Duke University, where teams will work on a topic of importance in society-centered AI. Open to members of the Duke…
sites.duke.edu
January 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
How can we create new benchmarks to measure the social impact of AI? Join us for an interdisciplinary hackathon where teams will tackle this question and compete for prizes including the chance to present their work at the Conference on Society-Centered AI: sites.duke.edu/scai/hackath...
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Tutorial Submissions close on February 2nd!
2026 tutorial submissions are open!
✔️ Submission deadline: February 2nd, 2026
✔️Acceptance Notification: February 16th, 2026
View the guidelines here:
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✔️ Submission deadline: February 2nd, 2026
✔️Acceptance Notification: February 16th, 2026
View the guidelines here:
lnkd.in/eBHVe2tP
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Tutorial Submissions close on February 2nd!
Join us for the 2nd annual Conference on Society-Centered AI at Duke University (Feb 12-14th). Last year’s event drew over 700 people from 50+ companies and 20 universities to discuss topics ranging from AI safety to alignment to the impact of AI systems. Register here: sites.duke.edu/scai/
Main - #SCAI2026
Conference on Society Centered AI February 12 -14, 2026 Duke University, Durham, NC https://youtu.be/m9CGFovLZGQ The #SCAI2026: Conference on Society-Centered AI (previously Responsible AI…
sites.duke.edu
January 5, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Join us for the 2nd annual Conference on Society-Centered AI at Duke University (Feb 12-14th). Last year’s event drew over 700 people from 50+ companies and 20 universities to discuss topics ranging from AI safety to alignment to the impact of AI systems. Register here: sites.duke.edu/scai/
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some good climate/energy news:
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
Clean energy is going to win. It's just a question of when.
Clean energy is still winning. These 10 charts prove it.
Solar and wind are beating new power demand, steelmaking is slowly getting off coal, and more clean energy victories are clear in these charts.
www.canarymedia.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
some good climate/energy news:
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
* 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!)
* 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free
* The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels
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🔹 3rd Workshop, Mar 10-13, 2026: Social Reasoning and the Ecology of Thought with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social @ashtonanderson.bsky.social @chrisbail.bsky.social @joehenrich.bsky.social @jzleibo.bsky.social ivado.ca/en/events/so...
December 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🔹 3rd Workshop, Mar 10-13, 2026: Social Reasoning and the Ecology of Thought with @blaiseaguera.bsky.social @ashtonanderson.bsky.social @chrisbail.bsky.social @joehenrich.bsky.social @jzleibo.bsky.social ivado.ca/en/events/so...
Applications to host a 2026 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science are due Sunday (December 1st) by 5pm. Don't forget to check out our new "Tech for Open Minds" program too. Apply here: sicss.io/host
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sicss.io
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Applications to host a 2026 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science are due Sunday (December 1st) by 5pm. Don't forget to check out our new "Tech for Open Minds" program too. Apply here: sicss.io/host
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🚨Out in PNAS🚨
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🚨Out in PNAS🚨
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
The ENSAE-CREST is hiring a computational sociologist -- Assistant or Associate Professor.
Date of appointment: September 2026.
Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...
Date of appointment: September 2026.
Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...
www.css.cnrs.fr
October 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The ENSAE-CREST is hiring a computational sociologist -- Assistant or Associate Professor.
Date of appointment: September 2026.
Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...
Date of appointment: September 2026.
Details here : www.css.cnrs.fr/assistant-or...
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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.
October 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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.
$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...
moonshots.laude.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
$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
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🚨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
🧵👇
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
🧵👇
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🚨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
🧵👇
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
🧵👇
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
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843
Job Market - Bocconi University
Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts
jobmarket.unibocconi.eu
October 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843
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
October 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...
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
podcasts.apple.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Really great discussion of political violence in the U.S. today featuring political scientist Sean Westwood: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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
September 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
New dataset that describes social media activity of a very large group of US elected officials: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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
www.science.org
September 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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/...
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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! 🔥
The ANES 2024 data is out — and this thread answers all your burning questions! 🔥
September 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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! 🔥
The ANES 2024 data is out — and this thread answers all your burning questions! 🔥
New Anthropic paper suggests LLMs have “personality vectors”: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21509
arxiv.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
New Anthropic paper suggests LLMs have “personality vectors”: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21509