David Lazer

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Computational social scientist at Northeastern and Harvard Universities. Cofounder of: VolunteerScience.com & NationalInternetObservatory.org.
Check out the COVID States Project report 100, looking at vaccination rates. https://www.covidstates.org/reports/estimating-current-vaccination-rates
Estimating Current Vaccination Rates | The COVID States Project

Report #100

Watch out tomorrow morning for http://COVIDStates.org REPORT #98: DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, STRESS, AND LONELINESS AMONG YOUNG AMERICANS.
The COVID States Project

The State of the Nation: A 50-state COVID-19 Survey

Check our newest http://COVIDStates.org report looking for our report on changes in usage of Twitter, pre/post Musk. TLDR, the number of users has dropped by ~9%, driven by a big drop in use by Democrats. Lots more info on perceptions of bias of various platforms, etc.

Fantastic new dataset for research on postsecondary education

Please boost!

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/about/cms/4369

College and Beyond II (CBII)

What would be some examples of "best of" websites for labs? What features do you think are especially important?

Thanks to
@GregoryEady, @tpaskhalis, the co-lead authors on this paper, for their amazing work, as well as the rest of my co-authors @janzilinsky, @RichBonneauNYC & @Jonathan_Nagler! You can read the full article (#OpenAccess!) here: ​​

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35576-9

Exposure to the Russian Internet Research Agency foreign influence campaign on Twitter in the 2016 US election and its relationship to attitudes and voting behavior - Nature Communications

Here, using longitudinal survey and Twitter data, the authors examine the relationship between exposure to Russian Internet Research Agency activities on Twitter and voting behavior and attitudes in the 2016 US election.

Nature
A new paper shows Russia's 2016 social media campaign had minimal influence on American attitudes and behaviors/voting. Between @dlazer 's work and our work and this new paper the fog of the 2016 election is starting to lift. Nice work @j_a_tucker !
@Prof_BearB @WeedenKim Yeah, I think that would have merited some ridicule....
What's the verb form of mastodon? (twitter: tweet vs mastodon: ??)
A faculty search of potential interest to computational social scientists, at the new Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/23587
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