“Social media does not create these tensions but it amplifies and accelerates them and a lot of that amplification is built into how the platform works...” @manueltonneau.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk on the rise of online hate and its spillover into real world violence. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Can you boost your AI review scores by asking an LLM to rewrite your paper?
Yes! We call it paper laundering
Our @icmlconf.bsky.social spotlight paper argues current AI reviewers aren't ready to automate peer review, and outlines what a science of peer review automation should look like
🧵👇 #ICML2026
New paper w/ UK AISI:
Millions of people now use AI to help them write and communicate. In three experiments (14k participants, 3m+ human ratings) we show that AI writing assistance systematically distorts writer personas – their perceived beliefs, personality, and identity.
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WOAH is coming back for its 10th edition at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest! 🎊
For this important anniversary, we invite authors to critically reflect on our achievements as a community and adjust the aim going forward.
Stay tuned, more updates coming soon!
#EMNLP2026 #WOAH2026 #NLProc
I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social
Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments.
📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026
Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)
🧵 Thread: Does the internet threaten democracy? I argue that it does in my latest piece in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Here's the short version. 1/9
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🚨New preprint!🚨
arxiv.org/abs/2606.03095
In a randomized field experiment in a 300-level machine learning course, teaching assistants received AI-assisted feedback drafts after grading student submissions.
Did AI help them provide more feedback when feedback was optional?
A thread 🧵
Due to the high number of applicants we extended the deadline by one week to **March 8th**.
css2.lakecomoschool.org
Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebook’s surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.
Thrilled to share that our paper has been accepted to FAccT! See you all in Montréal in June 🇨🇦
Oxford Internet Institute
Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms
Joachim Baumann
Paul Röttger
Manoel Horta Ribeiro
Manoel Horta Ribeiro
Lisa Oswald
Stephan Lewandowsky
Francesco Pierri
Manuel Tonneau
EXCLUSIVE: Online and political experts have warned that social media firms must take greater action to stop the rapid spread of anger on their sites to avoid it spilling onto the streets
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
Computational Social Science: Advances, Challenges and Opportunities 2nd Edition June 22-26, 2026 Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy Over the past decade, computational social science (CSS) has risen as ...
css2.lakecomoschool.org
Are you a Bluesky user or developer?
Princeton's HCI group is conducting an IRB-approved interview study on perspectives about generative AI (genAI) in decentralized social media.
Participation includes:
• 45–60 min Zoom interview
• $30 USD digital gift card
Signup: forms.gle/EDmcLnjbamtb...
