Carl Colglazier

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I research online communities and create computational social science tools.

PhD student with @communitydata

Websitehttps://carlcolglazier.com/
GitHubhttps://github.com/CarlColglazier
Carl ColglazierMay 28, 2025
Evan ProdromouMay 28, 2025

ap-components

I want to share some information about a repository we just published. ap-components is a set of Web Components for building interfaces for the ActivityPub API. I built it as I was making a sample application for handling the acct: URI scheme. I found myself making more and more components for the UI, and realised that they would probably be useful for other applications, too. The library is available on npm at @socialwebfoundation/ap-components. It currently covers some of the simplest […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/05/28/ap-components/

ap-components

I want to share some information about a repository we just published. ap-components is a set of Web Components for building interfaces for the ActivityPub API. I built it as I was making a sample …

Social Web Foundation
Carl ColglazierMay 22, 2025

Does anyone have strong feelings about citation key formatting?

Any reason not to just use the default of `auth.lower + shorttitle(3,3) + year`?

#Zotero #BetterBibTex

Carl ColglazierApr 25, 2025
Matt GaughanMar 5, 2025
new paper (w/ @kaylea, @s0hw, @aaronshaw)! where we looked at when FLOSS projects first publish documentation files and the nature of what they end up publishing https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18440
The Introduction of README and CONTRIBUTING Files in Open Source Software Development

README and CONTRIBUTING files can serve as the first point of contact for potential contributors to free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) projects. Prominent open source software organizations such as Mozilla, GitHub, and the Linux Foundation advocate that projects provide community-focused and process-oriented documentation early to foster recruitment and activity. In this paper we investigate the introduction of these documents in FLOSS projects, including whether early documentation conforms to these recommendations or explains subsequent activity. We use a novel dataset of FLOSS projects packaged by the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and conduct a quantitative analysis to examine README (n=4226) and CONTRIBUTING (n=714) files when they are first published into projects' repositories. We find that projects create minimal READMEs proactively, but often publish CONTRIBUTING files following an influx of contributions. The initial versions of these files rarely focus on community development, instead containing descriptions of project procedure for library usage or code contribution. The findings suggest that FLOSS projects do not create documentation with community-building in mind, but rather favor brevity and standardized instructions.

arXiv.org
Carl ColglazierApr 24, 2025
Mastodon EngineeringApr 23, 2025
Note for app developers 💻 the future Mastodon 4.4 release will contain an option for server admins to require a minimum age for user sign-up. If enabled, the sign-up API will behave differently. This is a change that some developers will need to know about, so we wanted to tell you about it in advance. More background in the discussion post on our repository. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34495
Upcoming change affecting sign-up API for app developers · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #34495

In the next minor release of Mastodon (4.4) we are introducing a new option for server administrators to set a minimum age required for sign-up. When enabled, this option requires a date of birth t...

GitHub
Carl ColglazierApr 24, 2025
sohyeon hwangApr 22, 2025

📢 research call 📢

please boost! we're running a series of small group design workshops for community governance on fedi. if you are a user, admin, mod, dev, organizer - or have thought quite a bit about governance on fedi - and a legal adult in your locale, join us!

each workshop, scheduled based on peoples' availability, is:
🌐 2 hrs on Zoom
👥 w/ 6-10 people
💲 comes w/ $60 USD per person

details: https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu/
sign up: https://princetonsurvey.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e3SdG4y6wocMPie
questions: [email protected]

Decentralized Social Media Workshop

Decentralized Social Media Workshop
Carl ColglazierApr 3, 2025
Benjamin Mako HillApr 3, 2025

Last chance to register for this public event on online community governance that my research @communitydata is organizing tomorrow (Friday 4/4) as part of our Science of Community Dialogues series.

https://blog.communitydata.science/community-dialogue-on-the-role-of-community-governance/

Community Dialogue on The Role of Community Governance

Join the Community Data Science Collective (CDSC) for our 11th Science of Community Dialogue! This Community Dialogue will take place on April 4th at 12:00 pm CT. This Dialogue focuses on resisting…

Community Data Science Collective
Carl ColglazierMar 25, 2025

Updates to my #NCAAWBB model as we reach the Sweet Sixteen. Pulling for the 0.82% outcome!

#NCAAW #MarchMadness

Carl ColglazierMar 24, 2025

Ran a little Monte Carlo simulation for the 2025 NCAA women's basketball tournament.

I'm on UConn this year.

https://carlcolglazier.com/notes/2025-wbb/

#NCAAWBB #MarchMadness

Predicting the 2025 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament with a Multilevel Model | Carl Colglazier

Using offensive and defensive ratings to simulate the odds of cutting down the nets

Carl Colglazier
Carl ColglazierFeb 19, 2025
Lucio La CavaFeb 19, 2025

🔥 Are you working on next-gen or alternative social media platforms like #Bluesky or #Mastodon?

👇🏻 This #ICWSM2025 workshop is for you! 😎
📢 https://nextgensocial-workshop.github.io/

📚 We solicit research, position, demo, and dataset paper submissions!
📆 Submissions: March 31, 2025

@computationalsocialscience @networkscience

Nex-Gen and Alternative Social Media @ICWSM2025

Carl ColglazierJan 21, 2025
sohyeon hwangJan 14, 2025

I'm organizing a panel at 4S 2025 with the wonderful @kaylea on "social model collapse" in online spaces as human participation and interaction become replaced by AI modalities, disrupting fundamental social processes that sustain our digital ecosystem. If you have thoughts or ongoing work on this, we would love to have you! The call is lightweight, it only asks for a 250-word abstract due Jan 31: https://blog.communitydata.science/thinking-about-ai-harms-to-communities-submit-to-our-upcoming-4s-panel/

please boost + share 😊🔁

#mastodon #fediverseresearch #academicchatter

Thinking about AI harms to communities? Submit to our upcoming 4S Panel!

We advocate for consideration of harms to communities (including online communities) as they respond to, are used for, and incorporate generative AI algorithms. One area of risk is one we call &#82…

Community Data Science Collective