The vast majority of attempts to build communities (open source, wikis, subreddits, etc.) don't really go anywhere. Most get only a few contributions from a few contributors. Why do so many fail?. 🧵 about our new paper - - with @aaronshaw and @makoshark.

RT @manoelribeiro: In a new blog post, I discuss the emerging literature on simulating human behavior with LLMs. h….

Huge thanks to the @LambSchool and the Methodology Center at Purdue for helping to fund the event, and to @dyutibound, Ryan Funkhouser, Hazel Chiu, and Loizos Bitsikokos for helping to organize everything!.

The grand finale of the event was a fantastic keynote by @eshwar_chan on some of the really great work his lab is doing. A blog post about the event is up at

A few weeks ago we had our lab retreat at Purdue and organized a public-facing symposium. It was great! We had panels and presentations by @diana_zulli @MannMarcus @aaronshaw @makoshark @sohwng @carlcolglazier @kayleachampion about the cutting edge of online community research.

RT @matt_blackwell: My only advice about emailing your professors is to make the subject line be “Decision on your manuscript”.

RT @makoshark: My research group (@comdatasci) will host a public/free workshop on research into online community governance as part of our….

Blog post coming, but thanks so much to @eshwar_chan for a fantastic keynote at our Frontiers in Online Community Research Symposium at Purdue!

RT @Liz_Cheney: Let’s be clear: This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral Co….

RT @ChengleiSi: Automating AI research is exciting! But can LLMs actually produce novel, expert-level research ideas?. After a year-long st….

RT @MrRBourne: How do you feel about happy hour?.

RT @moyix: OpenAI: pip install openai and set OPENAI_API_KEY.Anthropic: yea same but s/openai/anthropic/g.Google: oh boy. ok so you have a….

RT @jackienlane: The Crowdless Future? is now out @OrganizationSci! .In the paper, we demonstrate that LLMs, such as @OpenAI's ChatGPT4 is….

RT @ryancbriggs: Gambling is one thing I’ve flipped on as I got older. I used to laugh off the critics and think of gambling as “a tax on t….

RT @SpencrGreenberg: Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological sk….

RT @skairam: Are you an academic interested in working with Reddit data for your research? . I'm excited to announce that we've just opened….

So great to see Reddit making some moves to make data more open for researchers, especially as most other platforms lock down more and more. Especially heartening is that @skairam is leading the effort. He is the best - a brilliant scholar and scientist.

Check this out, Reddit researchers!.

RT @johnjhorton: well this is totally nuts.

I'm still bummed that academic Twitter stayed here instead of finding a better home.

RT @evavivalt: We are happy to release the first results of a RCT of a US program that provided $1,000/month unconditionally for 3 years to….