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Welcome to the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Penn, taking place in Philadelphia from June 30 to July 11, 2025.
University of Pennyslvania
Joined February 2023
Welcome to SICSS-Penn 2025! We are excited to have our faculty organizers, @xisong and @dhopkins1776, deliver opening remarks this morning.
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Language technologies like LLMs encode an enormous amount of cultural knowledge. Today, we learn from @LyleUngar of @PennEngineers about how to use them to study social norms around the world.
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Welcome to the eighth day of SICSS-Penn 2025! We are honored to have @JaneEsberg of @Penn's Political Science Department, who talked about her work on using text analysis to understand political censorship.
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Facilitating cross-partisan conversations is a potential intervention to address affective polarization — but the topic of discussion matters! Today, we welcome James Houghton of @CSSPenn to talk about his "deliberation lab" in this direction.
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How do different people — and AI models — perceive hate speech? What are the implications of this heterogeneity in content moderation on social media? We're excited learn from @thomasrdavidson of @RutgersU at SICSS-Penn today!
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On day 4, @DaniSBassett from @PennEngineers used network science to investigate the different "styles" of human curiosity — Are we more like "busybodies," "hunters," or "dancers"? — and how they might help us build better, more human-like artificial intelligence.
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What is the value of a career? What are the effects of automation on the labor market? We are excited to have @Prof_Yildirim at @Wharton who is talking about "Automation, Career Values, and Political Preferences."
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What can we do to address the replication crisis, the file drawer problem, and incommensurable experiments? We are honored to welcome Sean Ellis this morning to talk about the amazing "megastudies" conducted at @BehaviorChange.
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The first day of SICSS-Penn 2025 just concluded with @manoelribeiro's talk "Content Curation in Online Platforms."
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We are proud to welcome 35 scholars who bring a remarkable breadth of academic and technical expertise to SICSS-Penn 2025. Stay tuned to see what they will achieve this summer! #CompSocSci #SICSS #SICSS2025.
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One more week until applications are due. Don't miss your chance to attend SICSS-Penn this summer!.
SICSS-Penn application is open! Deadline March 7, 2025. More information can be found ➡️@xisong @dhopkins1776 @duncanjwatts #computational #socialscience #SICSS.
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RT @chris_bail: Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excit….
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SICSS-Penn application is open! Deadline March 7, 2025. More information can be found ➡️@xisong @dhopkins1776 @duncanjwatts #computational #socialscience #SICSS.
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SICSS-Penn alumni shining in CSS😻.
Please drop by my poster tomorrow at 1:30pm (Houston Hall, UPenn) if you're attending #IC2S2 this year☺️. I'm staying in Philly until Saturday afternoon, and I'd love to chat with anyone who's in town :).
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RT @PennPSC: @SICSS_Penn attendees had a great first week. Full sprint into week two! Co-sponsored by @PennPSC.
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RT @xisong: It’s great to see professors and graduate students from so any different fields working on important questions at the intersect….
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Book and save today!.
The Study Hotel on Penn Campus is offering exclusive rates for @IC2S2 attendees. This special rate is available until Monday, June 24th at 12:00 PM ET. Use the booking link:.or call 215.387.1400. @dhopkins1776 @duncanjwatts #IC2S2 #sicss.
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