Matt DeVerna
@matthewdeverna.com
Postdoc with Stanford's Tech Impact and Policy Center
(@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social). Past: Indiana University / Observatory on Social Media.
Societal impacts of AI within the information ecosystem.
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(@techimpactpolicy.bsky.social). Past: Indiana University / Observatory on Social Media.
Societal impacts of AI within the information ecosystem.
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Matt DeVerna
@matthewdeverna.com
· Aug 4
A little bit late, but this paper has now been published in ACL.
Note: more recent (unpublished) analyses suggest agents are getting better at searching the web—which I've been mentioning in my conference presentations this summer.
Note: more recent (unpublished) analyses suggest agents are getting better at searching the web—which I've been mentioning in my conference presentations this summer.
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Registration for #TSRConf closes in less than one week!
If you’ve been thinking about joining us, this is your last chance to be part of this year’s conference.
Sign up by Sunday, September 20! ⤵️
🎟️ stanford.io/3SgrmWl
If you’ve been thinking about joining us, this is your last chance to be part of this year’s conference.
Sign up by Sunday, September 20! ⤵️
🎟️ stanford.io/3SgrmWl
September 15, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Registration for #TSRConf closes in less than one week!
If you’ve been thinking about joining us, this is your last chance to be part of this year’s conference.
Sign up by Sunday, September 20! ⤵️
🎟️ stanford.io/3SgrmWl
If you’ve been thinking about joining us, this is your last chance to be part of this year’s conference.
Sign up by Sunday, September 20! ⤵️
🎟️ stanford.io/3SgrmWl
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I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
Post-Doctoral Fellow, AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge
Remote
job-boards.greenhouse.io
June 22, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I am hiring a qualitative postdoc to start this fall for the @datasociety.bsky.social project AI-Enabled Scams as a Systemic Security Challenge. Fully remote but must be US-based. Interested in youth, scams, hustle/financial/consumer culture? More here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...
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Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships.
SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research.
Deadline: September 30, 2026
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research.
Deadline: September 30, 2026
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
September 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships.
SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research.
Deadline: September 30, 2026
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research.
Deadline: September 30, 2026
Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
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The 2027 Tech Policy Press Fellowship application is live! We’re seeking journalists, policy professionals, and researchers to pursue independent reporting and analysis on issues at the intersection of technology and democracy.
Call for Applications: 2027 Tech Policy Press Fellowship Program
2027 Tech Policy Press fellowship applications are due on September 24, 2026.
www.techpolicy.press
September 9, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The 2027 Tech Policy Press Fellowship application is live! We’re seeking journalists, policy professionals, and researchers to pursue independent reporting and analysis on issues at the intersection of technology and democracy.
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Friends, countrymen, lend me your shares! We are hiring a *𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫* to lead a *𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦* as we build Penn MEDIATED into the first† public-facing data science institute for the information ecosystem (think the Urban Institute or CSET, but for media and information technology).
September 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Friends, countrymen, lend me your shares! We are hiring a *𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫* to lead a *𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦* as we build Penn MEDIATED into the first† public-facing data science institute for the information ecosystem (think the Urban Institute or CSET, but for media and information technology).
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📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna!
🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication
📍 Vienna
⏳ 6 years, full-time
⏰ Apply by 3 Oct
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Find out more about our team here:
compcommlab.univie.ac.at
🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication
📍 Vienna
⏳ 6 years, full-time
⏰ Apply by 3 Oct
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Find out more about our team here:
compcommlab.univie.ac.at
September 9, 2026 at 11:09 AM
📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna!
🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication
📍 Vienna
⏳ 6 years, full-time
⏰ Apply by 3 Oct
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Find out more about our team here:
compcommlab.univie.ac.at
🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication
📍 Vienna
⏳ 6 years, full-time
⏰ Apply by 3 Oct
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Find out more about our team here:
compcommlab.univie.ac.at
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I'm excited to share this article about a project I've been working on with fantastic collaborators. Check out the dashboard for yourself here: llmelectionobservatory.org
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b...
Election LLM Observatory
llmelectionobservatory.org
September 10, 2026 at 12:30 PM
I'm excited to share this article about a project I've been working on with fantastic collaborators. Check out the dashboard for yourself here: llmelectionobservatory.org
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b...
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New on @indicator.media: Community Notes on Instagram covered just 3% of false posts debunked by the US bureau of AFP Fact Check.
This analysis comes one day after Meta announced it would expand the program to 16 new countries.
This analysis comes one day after Meta announced it would expand the program to 16 new countries.
Meta says Community Notes is bigger than fact-checking. That's not the whole story
Crowdsourced fact-checking on Instagram covered just 3% of false posts debunked by one fact-checking website
indicator.media
September 10, 2026 at 12:32 PM
New on @indicator.media: Community Notes on Instagram covered just 3% of false posts debunked by the US bureau of AFP Fact Check.
This analysis comes one day after Meta announced it would expand the program to 16 new countries.
This analysis comes one day after Meta announced it would expand the program to 16 new countries.
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Get to know Assistant Professor @tiziano.bsky.social in our New Faculty Q&A:
New faculty Q&A: Tiziano Piccardi
Get to know Tiziano Piccardi, who joins Johns Hopkins as an assistant professor of computer science and a member of the Data Science and AI Institute.
www.cs.jhu.edu
September 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Get to know Assistant Professor @tiziano.bsky.social in our New Faculty Q&A:
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The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is thrilled to release its new special issue: Digital Intersectionality and Marginalization in the Majority World. 🌏
🔗 tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...
#JOTS #TrustAndSafety #MajorityWorld #GlobalSouth
🔗 tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...
#JOTS #TrustAndSafety #MajorityWorld #GlobalSouth
September 8, 2026 at 7:03 PM
The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is thrilled to release its new special issue: Digital Intersectionality and Marginalization in the Majority World. 🌏
🔗 tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...
#JOTS #TrustAndSafety #MajorityWorld #GlobalSouth
🔗 tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...
#JOTS #TrustAndSafety #MajorityWorld #GlobalSouth
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Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
September 8, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Co-directing the first @casbsstanford.bsky.social Summer Institute on AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS) with Lara Tiedens was one of the highlights of my sabbatical at CASBS. A month later, here are five key takeaways. 🧵
Co-directing the first @casbsstanford.bsky.social Summer Institute on AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS) with Lara Tiedens was one of the highlights of my sabbatical at CASBS. A month later, here are five key takeaways. 🧵
September 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Co-directing the first @casbsstanford.bsky.social Summer Institute on AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS) with Lara Tiedens was one of the highlights of my sabbatical at CASBS. A month later, here are five key takeaways. 🧵
Co-directing the first @casbsstanford.bsky.social Summer Institute on AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS) with Lara Tiedens was one of the highlights of my sabbatical at CASBS. A month later, here are five key takeaways. 🧵
Trust and safety gig at the bottom
we’re hiring!! bsky.social/about/join
September 2, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Trust and safety gig at the bottom
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What happens when agentic systems no longer show their work?
In a post for @lawfaremedia.org, @rer.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social shared takeaways from their analysis of the edit logs of Grokipedia, offering insights into the governing practices of an AI-generated reference system. ⤵️
In a post for @lawfaremedia.org, @rer.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social shared takeaways from their analysis of the edit logs of Grokipedia, offering insights into the governing practices of an AI-generated reference system. ⤵️
Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.
A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.
bit.ly
September 1, 2026 at 4:11 PM
What happens when agentic systems no longer show their work?
In a post for @lawfaremedia.org, @rer.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social shared takeaways from their analysis of the edit logs of Grokipedia, offering insights into the governing practices of an AI-generated reference system. ⤵️
In a post for @lawfaremedia.org, @rer.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social shared takeaways from their analysis of the edit logs of Grokipedia, offering insights into the governing practices of an AI-generated reference system. ⤵️
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New preprint: Community Notes are good at correcting posts. But do they change the people behind them?
We tracked 19,854 corrected accounts on X — 11.9M posts, 4 weeks before/after each correction. The answer: it depends who you are. @oii.ox.ac.uk
📎 arxiv.org/abs/2608.27526
We tracked 19,854 corrected accounts on X — 11.9M posts, 4 weeks before/after each correction. The answer: it depends who you are. @oii.ox.ac.uk
📎 arxiv.org/abs/2608.27526
Community corrections have divergent downstream effects across corrected accounts
Community-based fact-checking can reduce the spread of annotated misleading posts, but whether it produces lasting behavioral change among corrected authors remains unclear. Here, we conduct a large-s...
arxiv.org
August 31, 2026 at 7:58 AM
New preprint: Community Notes are good at correcting posts. But do they change the people behind them?
We tracked 19,854 corrected accounts on X — 11.9M posts, 4 weeks before/after each correction. The answer: it depends who you are. @oii.ox.ac.uk
📎 arxiv.org/abs/2608.27526
We tracked 19,854 corrected accounts on X — 11.9M posts, 4 weeks before/after each correction. The answer: it depends who you are. @oii.ox.ac.uk
📎 arxiv.org/abs/2608.27526
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We’re hiring!
Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in:
Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB
International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf
Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA
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Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in:
Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB
International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf
Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA
1/3
August 31, 2026 at 7:57 AM
We’re hiring!
Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in:
Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB
International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf
Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA
1/3
Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in:
Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB
International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf
Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA
1/3
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PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
Cornell University, Department of Communication
Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
August 28, 2026 at 10:36 PM
PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
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We are hiring an assistant professor in American Politics this Fall, at the intersection of law and political economy.
Review will begin after September 21st.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32519
Review will begin after September 21st.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32519
Cornell University, Government Department
Job #AJO32519, American Politics Assistant Professor, Government Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
academicjobsonline.org
August 27, 2026 at 2:33 AM
We are hiring an assistant professor in American Politics this Fall, at the intersection of law and political economy.
Review will begin after September 21st.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32519
Review will begin after September 21st.
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32519
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Submissions for CODE@MIT are open until Sept 13th.
As @dholtz.bsky.social noted www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... we're particularly interested in these topics this year:
As @dholtz.bsky.social noted www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... we're particularly interested in these topics this year:
August 28, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Submissions for CODE@MIT are open until Sept 13th.
As @dholtz.bsky.social noted www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... we're particularly interested in these topics this year:
As @dholtz.bsky.social noted www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... we're particularly interested in these topics this year:
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Rochester Political Science is hiring an Assistant Professor in political methodology this year! Please apply!!! Feel free to reach out with any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/192333
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August 28, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Rochester Political Science is hiring an Assistant Professor in political methodology this year! Please apply!!! Feel free to reach out with any questions.
apply.interfolio.com/192333
apply.interfolio.com/192333
August 28, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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What does #AI look like in the future of online trust and safety?
This year, #TSRConf will feature multiple sessions exploring AI and its growing role in #TrustAndSafety, including the new risks these systems create and how they can be evaluated, governed, and used to make digital spaces safer.
This year, #TSRConf will feature multiple sessions exploring AI and its growing role in #TrustAndSafety, including the new risks these systems create and how they can be evaluated, governed, and used to make digital spaces safer.
August 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
What does #AI look like in the future of online trust and safety?
This year, #TSRConf will feature multiple sessions exploring AI and its growing role in #TrustAndSafety, including the new risks these systems create and how they can be evaluated, governed, and used to make digital spaces safer.
This year, #TSRConf will feature multiple sessions exploring AI and its growing role in #TrustAndSafety, including the new risks these systems create and how they can be evaluated, governed, and used to make digital spaces safer.
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23% drop in student visas to US in 2025
57% drop from India alone
catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
57% drop from India alone
catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
August 26, 2026 at 11:22 AM
23% drop in student visas to US in 2025
57% drop from India alone
catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
57% drop from India alone
catastrophic for research and learning, here and abroad
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢
Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise.
apply.interfolio.com/189477
Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise.
apply.interfolio.com/189477
July 13, 2026 at 11:36 PM
📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢
Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise.
apply.interfolio.com/189477
Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise.
apply.interfolio.com/189477