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Chris Bail
@chrisbail.bsky.social
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Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu, https://sicss.io & https://polarizationlab.com. Author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 13h
🚨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 · 10h
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
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 10h
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.
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 9d
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 · 9d
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 · 18d
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
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 21d
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
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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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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Aug 29
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This program is made possible by the remarkable generosity of @TempletonWorld . Learn more about their amazing "Listening in a Polarized World" initiative here: www.templetonworldcharity.org/our-prioriti...
Listening & Learning in a Polarized World
Making use of a range of funding, networking and engagement mechanisms to discover innovations that can help humans flourish in a world confronted with…
www.templetonworldcharity.org
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Aug 29
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👩‍💻 Want to be part of it? Apply to host a TOM site in 2026 and join the movement. Details here:
🔗 sicss.io
#TechForOpenMinds #SICSS #OpenScience #ComputationalSocialScience
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
sicss.io
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Aug 29
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Now, TOM will provide funding for an additional 11 locations each year, expanding global collaborations, and growing a community of researchers exploring new solutions to address polarization using the tools of computational social science.
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Aug 29
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This builds on last year’s SICSS-Templeton World Charity Foundation collaboration, which connected 11 sites across 5 continents studying tech & society — from climate discourse in Brazil to influence campaigns in Nigeria.
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Aug 29
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TOM will:
✅ Host 11 free in-person training events worldwide each year as part of the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science
✅ Create an annual conference at Duke, supported by our Society-Centered AI Initiative
✅ Share open-source videos and curricular materials for all
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Aug 29
1/ 🚨 Big news 🚨 today we’re launching Tech for Open Minds (TOM) at @DukeU— a global program exploring how technology shapes open-mindedness, humility & polarization 🌍🧠
🔗https://sicss.io/stories/2025-08-18
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Aug 27
Open Research (OpenAI-linked research outfit) just put out a new report on using LLMs for public opinion polling that suggests they may improve response rates substantially: www.openresearchlab.org/findings/ai-...
Can Conversational AI Improve Survey Research? | Findings
Early Insights from Testing a Chat-Based Survey
www.openresearchlab.org
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Aug 1
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Social media supercharged our disagreements. Could AI help us resolve them?
Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Jul 29
Over the last 30 years, people a) walk faster in urban spaces; and b) linger less often according to an AI-Assisted study of video footage in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Jul 23
Congratulations!!! The citation is a classic already.
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Jul 16
My uncle Darius has been one of the most important people in my life-- constantly inspiring me with his generous spirit. Now his life depends on the generosity of a stranger who might be willing to donate an organ. Please help my family spread the word! nkr.org/XAX634
Darius Jonathan Needs a Kidney | Can You Help?
Darius Jonathan Needs a Kidney | Can You Help?
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Jun 27
www.science.org/content/arti... NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order | Science | AAAS
NIH will reinstate 900 grants in response to court order
Projects touching on sensitive topics such as DEI had been illegally terminated, judge found
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Łukasz Szoszkiewicz @lszoszk.bsky.social · Jun 22
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Just wrapped up the 3rd edition of #SICSS AMU/Law – a summer school on using AI & computational social science to study law and human rights. This year, we leveled up. Big time. ⬇️
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Jun 20
It's #SICSS O'clock!!!! Hundreds of students all over the world are learning about computational social science *for free* thanks to the hard work of so many brilliant young scholars who dedicated their time this summer to train the next generation-- from Colombia to Kenya! sicss.io
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Jun 18
Stay tuned for exciting announcements about events and other networking opportunities for those interesting Society-Centered AI that we will host in Durham this fall in case you missed our Responsible AI Symposium featuring @yann-lecun.bsky.social: www.responsibleaisymposium.com
Responsible AI Symposium
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Jun 18
This effort, launched by our Society-Centered AI Initiative (scai.duke.edu) will compliment our new undergraduate constellation of coursework in AI and society and-- we hope-- seed a new generation of researchers to spread the gospel of society-centered AI. trinity.duke.edu/courses/cons...
Front Page | Society-Centered AI
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