Yesterday, I defended my PhD dissertation: https://t.co/vbVmRcsEvn I'm very grateful for God's grace to come this far. So many people made valuable contributions to make this possible. I will attempt in this thread to identify some.

Next week! Inside the Kremlin: A Conversation with Jill Dougherty @jillrussia, moderated by @kelly_zvobgo Nov. 13, 6PM, @williamandmary Music Arts Center, Comey Recital Hall Dougherty, currently @CERESGeorgetown, will discuss her journalism career and new @simonschuster book!

New paper 🧪 We propose a field experiment to study the effects of friction interventions for curbing the spread of misinformation. ABM simulations suggest that when combined with learning, friction could significantly increase average post quality https://t.co/esANX0JASv

What's Your Wayback? We've archived 1 trillion pages. Now we need your help! Share the top 5 web pages or sites you want to preserve for future generations. We'll start: 1️⃣ The first ever web page at CERN 2️⃣ Wikipedia 3️⃣ GeoCities 4️⃣ WebArchive 96 5️⃣ Wayback Machine 🔗 ⬇️

What is the impact of censorship (withholding accounts in certain countries) on X? In our new #CIKM25 paper, we find that censored (but not suspended) accounts lose 25% engagements on their subsequent tweets and experience a 90% drop in follower growth @cikm2025

ICYMI, our DomainDemo dataset, which describes how different demographic groups share domains on Twitter, is now available to download! 📄 Data descriptor: https://t.co/ZNqDHPYrxg 📈 Interactive app to explore the data: https://t.co/EOX1aqYOti 💽 Dataset: https://t.co/lHo4BPzzA8

What does the web mean to you? As we celebrate 1 trillion webpages archived in the Wayback Machine, we want to hear your story. Why does preserving the web matter to you? 📝 Share your story now: https://t.co/29MlTn2Q5X #Wayback1T #WaybackMachine

Our introduction to the National Internet Observatory, a platform for collecting and sharing online activity data designed for researchers, is happening this afternoon at #ica25

At #WebSci2025? Join our "Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory" tutorial that addresses the critical challenges of web data collection in the post-API era. 📍Where: ABE 2400 (15 Seminary Place) ⏰When: Tue, May 20, 9-12. 1/2

We've released an extended version of our contribution on the @WebSciDL blog. Cliff was instrumental in helping OAI-PMH and SFX/OpenURL get started, and thus had an outsized impact on our early careers. #CNI25S https://t.co/bZi4n1j8pi

The slides for my #iipcWAC25 talk, "What You See No One Saw" are available at https://t.co/CDypp7NXlS #webarchiving

New paper: Modeling the amplification of epidemic spread by individuals exposed to misinformation on social media Simulations informed by social media data yield a worst-case bound on additional infections due to exposure to online vaccine misinfo. https://t.co/yJXV2F2UBK

Fascinating look at quantifying uncertainty of social media bot detection by Giroux, @GanganiAri, @acnwala & Fanelli in @epj_ds https://t.co/Ar1ABIKcDQ

Doug Schmidt B.A. ’84, M.A. ’86, the inaugural dean of @williamandmary's new School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics, will present the spring Tack Faculty Lecture on “Surfing the AI Wave: A Human-Centered Approach to Innovation and Ethics.” https://t.co/6l4mOuvwap

The Local Memory Project features an interactive map that lets you easily find local news sources. https://t.co/IzEfAIzDgB

Thanks @WMNews for highlighting our work on the Local Memory Project. Support your local media! https://t.co/sOA3tE0RT2

Something really useful 👇

I'll be @RealAAAI on 2/27-3/2. My student Yang Li @little____stone will present "Population Aware Diffusion for Time Series Generation", a diffusion model that generates time series data with better population-level property preservation. Poster: 2/27 at 12pm. Happy to connect!!

Introducing 3DLNews2: version 2 of our three-decade dataset of US local news articles built from a 3.5 month-long scraping effort: https://t.co/r0DOsFNYSm * 1995 -- 2024: 4 million URLs (with HTML text) * 14k local newspapers, TV, & radio in 50 states ( https://t.co/juLDfVPbzg)

I would love to visit Paris. Which Paris? Paris, France or Paris, Virginia, or Paris, Texas. Welcome to annoying problem of toponym disambiguation Greatness Emmanuel-King (@WMdatascience, @Microsoft) tested a dozen tools for this: https://t.co/WNFfve4jcp You're welcome!

In my interview with @BusinessDayNg today, I respond to questions on frontier risks that AI systems pose and how countries can build techno-legal resilience against these risks. See Page 28 of today’s Business Day Newspaper or read online: