Jeremy Foote
Computational social scientist; assistant professor @ Purdue; I study how people self-organize in online communities and how we can make them work better.
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- Reposted by Jeremy FooteOn the verge of declaring defeat with chatgpt in my asynchronous online dataviz class. Something changed this semester compared to past ones and SO MANY assignments are essentially 100% LLM output.
- Reposted by Jeremy FootePeople tend to dismiss VP Pence’s actions on J6: he was just doing his job, why should he get any credit for simply sticking to the letter of the law? But if it was so easy to do, why was he one of the very few in his party to do it? apnews.com/article/penc...
- #Purdue folks - every 5 years or so I figure out how to parse the new version of the academic calendar website so that I can import it into Google Calendar. If you want it, I believe this link should let you view and subscribe to the calendar - calendar.google.com/calendar/emb...
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- Reposted by Jeremy FooteFor the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵
- I was really hoping that Mitch Daniels would come out with a principled take about how protecting free speech on universities means protecting even speech we disagree with. Instead... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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- Feeling optimistic tonight. We are going to stop him. There are enough of us, and we are brave enough.
- Learn how to make a follower graph from network data on Bluesky! It's super easy - I made a video here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lt3...
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- What has the cost to science been from the added stress and uncertainty that our international students are feeling?
- Reposted by Jeremy FooteWhether it’s Republicans causing chaos with random arrests and deportations, Republicans causing chaos with mass layoffs, or Republicans causing chaos with whiplash tariffs, voters are exhausted by chaos from both parties.
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[Not loaded yet] - I love it when a credit card invites you to apply and then rejects you. Does it make them feel better about themselves?
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- Reposted by Jeremy FooteTrying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
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- Reposted by Jeremy FooteI’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
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- Nice article by Kevin Munger (based on @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social et al.'s paper on FB polarization and @jongreen.bsky.social et al.'s paper). Part of the argument is that one reason we don't find filter bubbles is that we've been looking in 2D open.substack.com/pub/kevinmun...
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- This morning I read this paper - doi.org/10.1177/2056... - by Angèle Christin, @mbernst.bsky.social, Jeff Hancock, @jiachenyan.bsky.social, Marijn Mado, Jeanne Tsai, and Chunchen Xu. They make the argument that we should see social media platforms as engaging in fights between competing logics. 1/
- Reposted by Jeremy FooteGreat job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!
- Just finished reading this piece (doi.org/10.1126/scie...) by @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @williambrady.bsky.social Aden Goolsbee, @benkaiserart.bsky.social @klonick.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social As with many Science papers, I wanted more details (especially since it combines 10 studies!)
- Why is systems research so male-skewed?
- Did you know that the (free) Washington Post crossword is collaborative?! There's a little icon at the top left that lets you "play with friends". My brother and I have been playing together for years now, every weekday. It's great!
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- Overleaf is really good software.
- Reposted by Jeremy FooteSubmit to the 👥 Doctoral Consortium 📚 for #CSCW2025! 📆 Deadline: May 9th, 23:59 AOE. 📍 The DC will on October 19th in Bergen, Norway. The DC provides a forum for promising PhD students to present and develop their dissertation research. More details at the link below ⤵️ cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...
- The intro of this great post by @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social, and you should read the whole thing, but I'm focusing on a quickly made argument in the intro. 1/
- After 15 years of having at least one kid in diapers, we are finally done! I'll miss having little ones a little bit, but I am ready for the next phase!
- My wife and I have five kids and have only had one car for the last 10+ years. AMA.
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- Food in America has gotten so much better in my lifetime. The only "ethnic" food we ate as kids was white person taco night. Now even my small Midwestern town has decent Japanese, Korean, Indian, Mediterranean, Mexican, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai restaurants.
- Fantastic article by @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social about the current state of our understanding about algorithmic radicalization (with some valuable asides about the theoretical and practical challenges of doing this kind of work) doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/does-tikto...
- Reposted by Jeremy FooteMy doctor is getting stronger. I’m up to six apples a day and he just keeps inching closer
- Our paper that I was (am!) super excited about got rejected from #CSCW.
