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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · 1d

🚨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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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · 27d

Stanford Engineering (@StanfordEng) launched an open-rank faculty search in design. It can place candidates in any department in our School of Engineering: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

I'm thrilled to bring in more colleagues at the intersection of engineering+design!

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Faculty Position in School of Engineering, Design

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jul 27

Thank you so much, Ludwig! I hope you’re doing well!

Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you!

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you!!

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you!!

Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you!

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you Danaé!

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jul 8

90s kid sitting in front of CRT display giving a thumbs up!

Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jul 8

:) Thank you sir!

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you Martin!

Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jul 8

Thank you!!

Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thank you to everyone for your energy and enthusiasm in joining this adventure with me so far!

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Zana Buçinca @zbucinca.bsky.social · May 31

Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD dissertation and I will be joining MIT as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026, with a shared appointment between Sloan and EECS!

I will be recruiting 1-2 PhD students this upcoming cycle. Consider applying to MIT EECS!

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Jun 1

Congratulations!!!

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Politics and Social Change Lab @pascl-stanford.bsky.social · May 21

Very cool to see this research developed into a policy brief! Impactful work from a superstar team: @joon-s-pk.bsky.social
@cqzou.bsky.social ‬ @aaronshaw.bsky.social @mako.cc Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, @robbwiller.bsky.social Percy Liang, @mbernst.bsky.social

Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social · May 21

AI agents that can simulate human behaviors and attitudes can help test ideas in social science. Our latest brief introduces a generative AI agent architecture that simulates the attitudes of 1,000+ real people. Read more: hai.stanford.edu/policy/simul...

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Robb Willer @robbwiller.bsky.social · May 21

Take a 👀 at this policy brief from @stanfordhai.bsky.social on how AI agents can test ideas in social science. Honored to be part of this amazing team: @joon-s-pk.bsky.social @cqzou.bsky.social @aaronshaw.bsky.social @mako.cc Carrie Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, @mbernst.bsky.social

Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social · May 21

AI agents that can simulate human behaviors and attitudes can help test ideas in social science. Our latest brief introduces a generative AI agent architecture that simulates the attitudes of 1,000+ real people. Read more: hai.stanford.edu/policy/simul...

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Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw.bsky.social · May 21

A policy brief on what generative AI simulations of people might be good for! (based on work with the amazing team of @joon-s-pk.bsky.social @cqzou.bsky.social @mako.cc @robbwiller.bsky.social @mbernst.bsky.social Merrie Morris, Carrie Cai, and Percy Liang)

Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social · May 21

AI agents that can simulate human behaviors and attitudes can help test ideas in social science. Our latest brief introduces a generative AI agent architecture that simulates the attitudes of 1,000+ real people. Read more: hai.stanford.edu/policy/simul...

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Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang @angelhwang.bsky.social · Apr 22

📣 Calling all #CHI2025 attendees who work with human participants: Join our panel discussion on #LLM, #simulation, #syntheticdata, and the future of human subjects research on Apr 30 (Wed), 2:10 - 3:40 PM (JP Time)

Post your questions for panelists here: forms.gle/m2mXY3xFafAX...

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Jacy Reese Anthis @jacyanthis.bsky.social · Apr 4

Should we use LLMs 🤖 to simulate human research subjects 🧑? In our new preprint, we argue sims can augment human studies to scale up social science as AI technology accelerates. We identify 5 tractable challenges and argue this is a promising and underused research method 🧪🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2504.02234

LLM Social Simulations Are a Promising Research Method

Accurate and verifiable large language model (LLM) simulations of human research subjects promise an accessible data source for understanding human behavior and training new AI systems. However, resul...

arxiv.org

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Surya Ganguli @suryaganguli.bsky.social · Mar 24

This might be the most useful thing I have come across in social media - a personalized feed of academic papers filtered by your follower network! Highly recommend. #academicsky

Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · Mar 10

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Mar 18

Thanks @dorazhao.bsky.social for creating this!

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Mar 18

Step 1) Install the #chi2025 module to your Claude/ChatGPT: knollapp.com/add/ZlRKvCmB...

Step 2) Ask the LLM, "Given my interests, what are some CHI 2025 papers I should check out?" (If the model doesn't already know your interests, you might need to state them.)

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Michael Bernstein @mbernst.bsky.social · Mar 16

I'm sorry this has taken so long for me to reply! It's a really good question. Taking Meta's walkback of its moderation policies as an example, it's couched as a public debate logic (about.fb.com/news/2025/01...). But the broader story of that change was about a cold political calculation, so...

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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · Mar 16

New funding opportunity for Wikimedia-related research! Grants up to $150K available. Apply by April 16th:
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:...

Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Research & Technology Fund/Wikimedia Research Fund - Meta

meta.wikimedia.org

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