Chris Bail (chris_bail_duke 🧵)
@chris_bail
Duke Professor directing https://scai.duke.edu/, https://sicss.io/ & https://www.polarizationlab.com/ author of Breaking the Social Media Prism.
What is the only thing cooler than one of your favorite columnists writing about one's book? When she offers a fascinating elaboration of your argument: maybe social media polarizes us because we were never meant to connect with so many different people nytimes.com/2021/11/01/opi…
"On the Internet, exposure to people unlike us often makes us hate them, and that hatred increasingly structures our politics," argues @michelleinbklyn. nyti.ms/3jWuQcS
Grateful that some Republican leaders are pushing back against efforts to defund American universities: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/…
Fascinating new paper on AI companionship w/data donation from Character.ai by @Diyi_Yang and colleagues: arxiv.org/abs/2506.12605
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
We look forward to Week 2️⃣ #SICSSKENYA2025 Our Guest Speakers👇🏿 ✅️@BlessingManB discusses #Artificial #Intelligence, #AI and Computational Social Science ✅️@chris_bail covers two sessions: Social Media #Polarization, and #Ethics in Computational Social Sciences. #CSS #AI
It's #SICSS O'clock!!!! Hundreds of students all over the world are learning about computational social science *for free* thanks to the brilliant young scholars who dedicated their time this summer to train the next generation-- from Colombia to Kenya! sicss.io
Bernie is well aligned with the social science literature in this take. There's good reason "non-violent discipline" is core to activist training. Some of the relevant research ITT 👇
I was honored to present Jesters and Fools at the @LibertyMuseum preview event for their latest exhibition. Grateful to have shared this experience with friends from @TheFIREorg and @HdxAcademy, celebrating an initiative that fosters open dialogue. #LetsTalk #JestersAndFools
Some nice coverage of our responsible AI symposium at Duke this spring- join us next year! responsibleaisymposium.com
"The grand challenge [for AI] is how do we capitalize on the benefits and mitigate the risks.” The Responsible AI Symposium at Duke brought together global experts to explore how society-centered AI can shape a safer, more ethical future—across disciplines.
New paper suggests conversations with an LLM may increase people's support for climate change interventions: osf.io/preprints/psya…
Can LLMS reproduce the treatment effects of field experiments in silico? Interesting new paper suggests they do so about 78% of the time: arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01167
Using Facebook advertising data to improve survey sampling: A project started at the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science! cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Harvard prez announcing staff AND faculty hiring freezes for this semester and possibly longer A very ominous sign for the higher ed economic sector (They likely have info on indirects + endowment taxes that we don’t…)
Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/j…