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Duncan Watts

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Stevens University Professor, University of Pennsylvania Computational Social Scientist. Founder and director of CSS Lab at Penn @csspenn

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RT @minzlicht: I just became president of a scientific society and my first act was to disagree with one of my heroes. Arie Kruglanski gav….
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RT @stevenstrogatz: My latest for @nytimes -- please repost so your followers can see this for free.
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RT @danwilliamsphil: New post in which I reflect on media trends:.– Legacy media is in rapid decline.– The media environment of 2025 is ver….
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RT @AlexCEngler: 🚨We are hiring an Engagement & Policy Manager at the Penn Center for Media, Technology & Democracy! 🚨. They will lead an….
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RT @noelTbrewer: The 17 fired members of ACIP, including me, have written an article in JAMA about our experience and our concerns. https….
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Penn's Center for Media, Technology and Democracy is looking to hire an Engagement and Policy Manager. Great opportunity for someone wanting to help build this exciting new center!
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RT @GregTSargent: Remarkable: Vulnerable House Republicans are quietly urging Trump to refocus deportations away from noncriminal migrants….
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RT @ScienceMagazine: “As the Trump administration continues to drastically defund and dismantle basic science in America, the United States….
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RT @Brcremer: One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusi….
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I read it quickly and thought "This sounds like what we're already trying to do. What's the catch?" Well, here's the catch:
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I don't always agree with @sapinker but this is a very sensible and balanced take on academic freedom and the value of universities
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RT @cfchabris: At @GeisingerHealth we have created a new team to conduct rigorous evaluations of important health system initiatives, progr….
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RT @alondra: Perseverance has its limits. Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Counc….
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RT @danwilliamsphil: A recent article in Time Magazine cites me as an example of someone “cultivated” by authoritarian leaders like Trump t….
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No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines
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Wow this is great!.
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@PennEngineers @csspenn @duncanjwatts Here’s an attempt to make it more vivid.
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RT @chris_bail: Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI:
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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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RT @manoelribeiro: 🍞🔥🧑‍🍳 Fresh of out the oven!. In a new blog post, I argue we must be more critical in evaluating research on “algorithmi….
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RT @PennPARC: The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science brings together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and junior….
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