Matthew DeVerna
@mdeverna2
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Informatics PhD from Indiana University working with the Observatory on Social Media. Incoming postdoc (Sep. 2025) at the Stanford Social Media Lab.
Joined October 2020
Thrilled to share that I'll be moving to California over the summer to join the @StanfordSML as a postdoctoral researcher!
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Ready for #ICWSM2026 in LA next May? 🌴 📅 Deadlines: • Jan 15, 2026 – Papers, posters, demos, datasets, tutorials (note: posters/demos/datasets submitted in Sep '25 are reviewed only after this deadline) • Jan 30, 2026 – Workshop proposals 🔗 Details: https://t.co/KTnOPzuutb
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Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: https://t.co/eP568TdsJE Associate/Full Prof: https://t.co/T9UpRfJKGv
jobmarket.unibocconi.eu
Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts
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Don't forget, we kick off the 2025-2026 OSoMe Awesome Speakers with Patrick Warren tomorrow! Register for the 12pm ET talk here:
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First CoCo seminar of this semester features Kai-Cheng Yang, a new Assistant Professor in the School of Computing! Wed. Sep. 17th at 12:15pm EDT (note the slightly different time than before)
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🚨 First OSoMe Awesome Speaker of the year! 🚨 📅 Sept 12 | 12pm ET 🎤 Patrick Warren (Clemson University) 📍 Zoom Measuring the Impact of a Large State-Sponsored Narrative-Laundering Campaign: The case of the Storm-1516 attack on Zelensky 🔗 Register: https://t.co/K05KBev30p
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Learn more—and check out the entire incredible agenda—on the conference site: https://t.co/FqF79e2trn
cyber.fsi.stanford.edu
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Looking forward to moderating the 💥 AI and Algorithm Auditing 💥 session in just a few weeks at the Trust and Safety Research Conference at Stanford!! 🎟️ Last chance to register: https://t.co/OQXHKMHkNX
#TSRConf @StanfordCyber @JournalSafeTech
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Awesome opportunity 👇
🚨 PhD Position at the University of Amsterdam 🚨 Join my team as a computer scientist / computational social scientist working on LLMs, social media, and politics. Freedom, impact, and an inspiring environment at one of Europe's leading universities 🔗
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College https://t.co/UQVp1Gq1by Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions! (posting again with link below because this horrible site suppresses links)
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More and more papers are proposing to use LLMs to simulate human agents in agent-based models. I have strong reservations about attribution/causation/interpretability in this methodology, as I discuss in this article about one (excellent) such paper: 🧪 https://t.co/jNof2vdhvc
science.org
In simulations, AI-generated users of stripped-down social media without content algorithms still split into polarized echo chambers
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I wrote a piece about how people are actually using AI tools like ChatGPT. It summarizes over half a dozen recent studies using large real usage logs including studies from Anthropic and Microsoft. link in the first comment
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A lot of NSF grants in areas like misinformation have been cancelled. Including mine. Many researchers have built their careers doing this type of work. I wrote about how I am thinking about my work: https://t.co/C5jgtQgKrz…
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I'm trying something new -- a three day online workshop on survey design for social science research. Details on seminar and how to sign up at the link below. Instats Seminar: Survey Design for Research and Practice
instats.org
PhD-level seminar on Survey Design for Research and Practice with Adam Berinsky . Live Q&A plus on‑demand access. Join via your university’s Instats membership or enroll directly.
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🔥🧯 Excited to announce the program of our 2025 MIT workshop on polarization, norms & trust (co-organized w/ @DG_Rand, @ylelkes @AdamBerinsky @kati_kish)! Speakers incl. @BrendanNyhan @jdbk @dhopkins1776 et al. Info: https://t.co/9DPMsDkqDL To attend: https://t.co/Dd7K3tWKoF
📣 Call for Papers 📣 Interested in the newest research on polarization, norms & trust? Present your work our workshop on Dec 5-6 @ MIT, co-organized with @DG_Rand, @ylelkes @AdamBerinsky & @kati_kish 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: https://t.co/9DPMsDkqDL 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: July 14
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🚨 We’re #hiring Postdoctoral Researchers in AI/ML at Georgia State University! Join us to work on novel and exciting ideas in machine/deep learning, #agenticAI / #generativeAI, #neurosymbolicAI, and #knowledgegraphs, applied to problems in social, business, and health domains.
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🎉 After 8 amazing years, Hoaxy is retiring! Its legacy lives on in OSoMeNet—our new, unified tool for social media research. Thank you for supporting Hoaxy! 🙌 https://t.co/7Z2mAASI60
osome.iu.edu
Visualize information spreading patterns across social media platforms
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