| Aug 7, 2026 |
The lab has a new GenAI policy laying out how we might consider, or choose not to, use generative AI in our research
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| Jun 1, 2026 |
Owen Lee, a long-time undergraduate researcher in the lab, has a paper at ICWSM’26 presenting the first large-scale analysis of public-facing, community-built chatbots on character.AI - 2.1 million greetings from around a million users. Code is here!
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| Mar 25, 2026 |
New preprint with Kim Williams and David Lazer on a conceptual framework for ideology beyond the left and right, arguing that NLP+CSS work needs to move past the single partisan axis and treat ideology as a multi-level socio-cognitive concept network.
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| Nov 26, 2025 |
Two new preprints from Steven Wang on methods for survey experiments: one asking whether finetuning LLMs on small human samples can produce more realistic simulated responses, and one on identifying subgroup and context effects in conjoint experiments.
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| Sep 25, 2025 |
A team of UB students led a paper at SIGITE’25 characterizing first-year students’ understanding of and commitment to social justice in computing education, contributing a novel typology of student motivations for (not) pursuing justice work.
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| Sep 21, 2024 |
Alex and Naveen Udhayasankar won runner-up for best student paper at SBP-BRiMS’24 for their paper on what they called explicit stance detection. A new task and dataset in the paper!
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| Sep 15, 2024 |
Our new paper on measuring dimensions of self presentation in Twitter bios has been accepted to ICWSM. See you in Copenhagen!
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| Aug 23, 2024 |
Kenny was quoted in a WaPo article about rumors surrounding Beyonce performing at the DNC
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| Jun 15, 2024 |
cubelab has four papers - three posters and one plenary talk, at this year’s IC2S2!
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| Jun 10, 2024 |
Check out our two newest papers- one at ICWSM’24 exploring the ways in which cross-partisan dialogue is shaped by the use of quote tweets on Twitter, and the other in PLOS One looking at ideological and identity variation in Bernie supporting accounts on Twitter in 2020!
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