Kaiping Chen
@kaipingchen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Science and Technology Communication, Computational Social Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison | Stanford/
Columbia / Fudan University alumni | Pianist
www.kaipingchen.com
Columbia / Fudan University alumni | Pianist
www.kaipingchen.com
🚨We were very excited to present our work on "Seeing Risk Before It Happens: How Vision Language Models Understand Real World Dangers" to American Family Insurance yesterday! We look forward to releasing our VLM benchmark soon!
November 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
🚨We were very excited to present our work on "Seeing Risk Before It Happens: How Vision Language Models Understand Real World Dangers" to American Family Insurance yesterday! We look forward to releasing our VLM benchmark soon!
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A new study by the @falklab.bsky.social and colleagues reveals that activity in brain regions associated with reward and social processing can predict the effectiveness of messages:
Brain Activity Reveals What Makes Persuasive Messages Stick
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November 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A new study by the @falklab.bsky.social and colleagues reveals that activity in brain regions associated with reward and social processing can predict the effectiveness of messages:
🚨I had a fantastic visit to UCLA this week. I shared my team’s work on gender representation in science and technology communication, from digital platforms to Large Vision Language Models. Thank you for the invitation!
Our studies are here:
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Our studies are here:
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November 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
🚨I had a fantastic visit to UCLA this week. I shared my team’s work on gender representation in science and technology communication, from digital platforms to Large Vision Language Models. Thank you for the invitation!
Our studies are here:
lnkd.in/d7cvXmDW
lnkd.in/dVHqJiez
Our studies are here:
lnkd.in/d7cvXmDW
lnkd.in/dVHqJiez
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Currently in FirstView: “Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content.” @kaipingchen.bsky.social and and colleagues introduce “vec-tionaries” which are embedding-based tools for measuring latent features of messages.
August 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Currently in FirstView: “Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content.” @kaipingchen.bsky.social and and colleagues introduce “vec-tionaries” which are embedding-based tools for measuring latent features of messages.
Our #AEJMC25 panel “Visualize Science Communication for Impactful Journalism” is happening now at Pacific C [4FL]! We have panelists from academia, foundation and journalism joining us to share perspective on visual credibility in the age of Generative AI. @aejmc.bsky.social
📢 Don't miss our upcoming PFR Panel Session: "Visualize Science Communication for Impactful Journalism" 📢
Time: 11:30 am to 12:45 pm
Location: Pacific C
#AEJMC25
Time: 11:30 am to 12:45 pm
Location: Pacific C
#AEJMC25
August 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Our #AEJMC25 panel “Visualize Science Communication for Impactful Journalism” is happening now at Pacific C [4FL]! We have panelists from academia, foundation and journalism joining us to share perspective on visual credibility in the age of Generative AI. @aejmc.bsky.social
💫Super excited to give a talk at my alma mater Fudan University June 13 on “AI and Social Change”. Welcome to join me online or on site. The talk will be delivered in English. 👇
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
💫Super excited to give a talk at my alma mater Fudan University June 13 on “AI and Social Change”. Welcome to join me online or on site. The talk will be delivered in English. 👇
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In our latest podcast episode, hear from @kaipingchen.bsky.social and Corey Jackson about trust in science and how researchers can create the kinds of environments where non-scientists can better engage with scientific work.
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Diversity Science Podcast: Kaiping Chen and Corey Jackson on Trust in Science
In this episode, Kaiping Chen and Corey Jackson talk about trust in science—and how we can think about it from the perspective of diversity science. They argue that the research community should aim t...
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May 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
In our latest podcast episode, hear from @kaipingchen.bsky.social and Corey Jackson about trust in science and how researchers can create the kinds of environments where non-scientists can better engage with scientific work.
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✨Excited to share our new publication @aapor.bsky.social in Public Opinion Quarterly👇:
Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback
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Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback
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Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback
Abstract. Social media has made it easier than ever for citizens to voice their opinion to their elected representatives. However, officials may infer that
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May 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
✨Excited to share our new publication @aapor.bsky.social in Public Opinion Quarterly👇:
Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback
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Voice and Value: How Elected Officials Evaluate Online and Offline Constituent Feedback
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✨Check our new paper👇
New paper with #IsabelVillanueva and @kaipingchen.bsky.social ✨
We tested how online users discuss #plagiarism, data #fraud, #replication failure, and (unintentional) errors by scientists – based on 19,462 X posts by @retractionwatch.com and 22,936 user replies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We tested how online users discuss #plagiarism, data #fraud, #replication failure, and (unintentional) errors by scientists – based on 19,462 X posts by @retractionwatch.com and 22,936 user replies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
April 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
✨Check our new paper👇
✨Sharing our new publication in @polanalysis.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social "Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content" #OpenAccess
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April 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
✨Sharing our new publication in @polanalysis.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social "Constructing Vec-tionaries to Extract Message Features from Texts: A Case Study of Moral Content" #OpenAccess
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Our @uw-lsc.bsky.social PhD student Isabel Villanueva is sharing her research on using #LLMs for content analysis in the Social Media Analytics class now! #lsc460 #AI
March 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Our @uw-lsc.bsky.social PhD student Isabel Villanueva is sharing her research on using #LLMs for content analysis in the Social Media Analytics class now! #lsc460 #AI
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New name, same great program.
The Department of Life Sciences Communication has answered the growing demand for experts in science communication with the newly renamed Science Communication PhD program.
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/03/06/d...
The Department of Life Sciences Communication has answered the growing demand for experts in science communication with the newly renamed Science Communication PhD program.
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/03/06/d...
March 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
New name, same great program.
The Department of Life Sciences Communication has answered the growing demand for experts in science communication with the newly renamed Science Communication PhD program.
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/03/06/d...
The Department of Life Sciences Communication has answered the growing demand for experts in science communication with the newly renamed Science Communication PhD program.
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/03/06/d...
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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
February 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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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This week, LSC's @kaipingchen.bsky.social will be presenting on "Auditing Equity in Large Language Models: Insights from dialogue and image classification tasks" at our Spring #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...
February 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This week, LSC's @kaipingchen.bsky.social will be presenting on "Auditing Equity in Large Language Models: Insights from dialogue and image classification tasks" at our Spring #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...
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Maybe a hot take, but what about the following advice to the next gen:
Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.
Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.
February 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Maybe a hot take, but what about the following advice to the next gen:
Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.
Don't get an AI degree; the curriculum will be outdated before you graduate. Instead, study math, stats, or physics as your foundation, and stay current with AI through code-focused books, blogs, and papers.
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“Our phenomenal faculty are top experts in the field, constantly engaging in innovative research and teaching."
Excited to see our 1950s Mass Communications program transition into @uwmadison.bsky.social's brand new Science Communication Ph.D. ...
Excited to see our 1950s Mass Communications program transition into @uwmadison.bsky.social's brand new Science Communication Ph.D. ...
Department of Life Sciences Communication launches renamed Science Communication PhD program
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February 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
“Our phenomenal faculty are top experts in the field, constantly engaging in innovative research and teaching."
Excited to see our 1950s Mass Communications program transition into @uwmadison.bsky.social's brand new Science Communication Ph.D. ...
Excited to see our 1950s Mass Communications program transition into @uwmadison.bsky.social's brand new Science Communication Ph.D. ...
✨Excited to get the best article award with my amazing coauthors. This is our article link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
✨Excited to get the best article award with my amazing coauthors. This is our article link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Next week, University of MIchigan Professor Maria Carmen Lemos will be presenting on "Scaling Up Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability" at LSC's #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...
LSC’s exciting lineup of renowned speakers for the 2025 science communication colloquium
Mark your calendars for LSC’s 2025 science communication colloquium series. The series brings distinguished speakers from all over the U.S. and the world to the UW-Madison campus, either in-person or ...
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January 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Next week, University of MIchigan Professor Maria Carmen Lemos will be presenting on "Scaling Up Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability" at LSC's #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...
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Submit your abstracts until January 15 🔆 Would be great to see you at #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna 🤩
🎉 Happy New Year!
Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna!
⏳Submission deadline: January 15
More here: shorturl.at/AmocX
#css #commsky #polisky
Start 2025 strong—submit your work to #COMPTEXT2025, international conference on quantitative and computational analysis of text, image, and video as data 🚀 We can’t wait to welcome you to Vienna!
⏳Submission deadline: January 15
More here: shorturl.at/AmocX
#css #commsky #polisky
7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project
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January 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Submit your abstracts until January 15 🔆 Would be great to see you at #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna 🤩
🚨New paper out. Combining a large-scale survey with an extensive #COVID media archive in five countries, we show that fear in headlines boosts our sense of risk, but can actually reduce how often we follow preventive measures. 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Fear in Media Headlines Increases Public Risk Perceptions but Decreases Preventive Behaviors: A Multi-Country Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The perception of reality could matter more than reality itself when it comes to disease outbreaks. News media are important sources of information during global disease outbreaks, such as the COVI...
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December 30, 2024 at 12:09 AM
🚨New paper out. Combining a large-scale survey with an extensive #COVID media archive in five countries, we show that fear in headlines boosts our sense of risk, but can actually reduce how often we follow preventive measures. 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)
December 5, 2024 at 12:30 PM
APSR will start inviting replications for a random subset of accepted papers. I really like this as well as the constructive tone around it 👏 (from the latest Notes from the Editors)
🥰Feel super humbled and grateful for this new milestone in my career. Thanks to my students and colleagues @UW_LSC and beyond that inspire my work all the time! Look forward to continue bringing social impact to science & society!
🎉🎉 Congratulations to Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in LSC! 🎉🎉
#OnWisconsin #scicomm
#OnWisconsin #scicomm
December 21, 2024 at 12:30 AM
🥰Feel super humbled and grateful for this new milestone in my career. Thanks to my students and colleagues @UW_LSC and beyond that inspire my work all the time! Look forward to continue bringing social impact to science & society!
🥰Feel super humbled and grateful for this new milestone in my career. Thanks to my students and colleagues @UW_LSC and beyond that inspire my work all the time! Look forward to continue bringing social impact to science & society!
🎉🎉 Congratulations to Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in LSC! 🎉🎉
#OnWisconsin #scicomm
#OnWisconsin #scicomm
December 21, 2024 at 12:28 AM
🥰Feel super humbled and grateful for this new milestone in my career. Thanks to my students and colleagues @UW_LSC and beyond that inspire my work all the time! Look forward to continue bringing social impact to science & society!
🚨Excited to share our new publication @jmcquarterly.bsky.social. In our experiment, we showed promising evidence of how to design intergroup framing in news coverage to reduce conspiracy beliefs in the context of Sino-U.S. relationship👇 #journalism #scicomm
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 19, 2024 at 7:13 AM
🚨Excited to share our new publication @jmcquarterly.bsky.social. In our experiment, we showed promising evidence of how to design intergroup framing in news coverage to reduce conspiracy beliefs in the context of Sino-U.S. relationship👇 #journalism #scicomm
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
✨Feel honored to receive the Vilas Early-Career Award. Very grateful to my students, colleagues and communities that inspire my work all the time! Excited for the next journey! 🥰
Congratulations to LSC Assistant Professor @kaipingchen.bsky.social and Professor Mike Xenos for receiving Vilas Faculty Investigator Awards for teaching and research excellence! 🎉
#OnWisconsin #scicomm
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2024/12/12/l...
#OnWisconsin #scicomm
Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2024/12/12/l...
LSC Faculty Receive Vilas Faculty Investigator Awards
Life Sciences Communication (LSC) Assistant Professor Kaiping Chen and Professor Mike Xenos have been awarded Vilas Faculty Investigator Awards from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Chen, whose re...
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December 12, 2024 at 5:03 PM
✨Feel honored to receive the Vilas Early-Career Award. Very grateful to my students, colleagues and communities that inspire my work all the time! Excited for the next journey! 🥰