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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · Aug 20

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.

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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Aug 8

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

AEJMC ComSHER @comsher.bsky.social · Aug 8

📢 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

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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Jun 5

💫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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Institute for Diversity Science @idswisc.bsky.social · May 27

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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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · May 12

✨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

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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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · May 5

Thanks for the support from DSI!!!

Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Apr 28

✨Check our new paper👇

Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · Apr 28

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/...

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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Apr 14

✨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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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Mar 13

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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UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · Mar 6

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...

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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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UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · Feb 10

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...

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Sebastian Raschka (rasbt) @sebastianraschka.com · Feb 9

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.

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Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · Feb 4

“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. ...

Department of Life Sciences Communication launches renamed Science Communication PhD program

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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Feb 4

✨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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UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · Jan 23

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...

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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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · Jan 7

Submit your abstracts until January 15 🔆 Would be great to see you at #COMPTEXT2025 in Vienna 🤩

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · Jan 2

🎉 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

7th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2025 – The Comptext Project

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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Dec 30

🚨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. 👇

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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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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · Dec 5

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)

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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Dec 21

🥰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!

UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · Dec 20

🎉🎉 Congratulations to Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in LSC! 🎉🎉

#OnWisconsin #scicomm

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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Dec 21

🥰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!

UW-Madison LSC @uw-lsc.bsky.social · Dec 20

🎉🎉 Congratulations to Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in LSC! 🎉🎉

#OnWisconsin #scicomm

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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Dec 19

@liweishen.bsky.social @Yiming_Wang

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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Dec 19

🚨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
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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thank you! Inspired by lots of work and the support from the DSI!

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Kaiping Chen @kaipingchen.bsky.social · Dec 12

Thanks for supporting my work! Great to be part of the IDS community!

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