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.
- Reposted by Jeremy FooteDo ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15
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- A few weeks back I gave a talk at Stanford about some of our work on generative AI in the online social world. The video is at www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH-h... Preprints of the work are at: arxiv.org/abs/2601.10754 arxiv.org/abs/2601.20100
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- I gave a talk at Princeton about LLMs in the online social world - the video is now up at www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITjI... Slides are at jeremydfoote.com/presentation...
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- What's the most clichéd academic paper title template? It has to be "Mind the .* Gap", right?
- Another quick thought about LLMs: In the real world, we should always assume that "exponential" growth curves are actually logistic curves. That is, anything that connects to the real world will eventually be resource constrained in some way, and growth will slow...
- A hopeful thought about LLMs: Because they involve sharing information between people, they will always require moderation, servers, etc. These needs lead to some level of centralization (and in practice, corporate ownership). LLMs are different—very capable models can already be run on a laptop..
- Reposted by Jeremy Footenew paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
- Reposted by Jeremy FooteBBC really burying the lede there
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- There once was a man named Oz'mandias, Who had thought that he was the grandiest. "Look on me and despair" But now nobody cares And nothing remains but the sandy dust.
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- Reposted by Jeremy FooteIf you've ever wanted to learn how to make beautiful websites with #QuartoPub and #rstats , check out this workshop I'm giving in a couple weeks! It'll be a blast (and we're covering Quarto's brand new _brand dot yaml system!)
- Learn to create and publish a professional, data-focused website in “Create an Online Presence with Quarto Websites” on October 16-17, with @andrew.heiss.phd! Discover how to use #Quarto to build a variety of websites like personal portfolios, research compendiums, and interactive dashboards.
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- Reposted by Jeremy FooteI am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
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- I am recruiting PhD students this year! Our research group is holding an info session in a few weeks - details are at blog.communitydata.science/prospective-... , including a sign-up link.
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- Perfect weather for freshman move in day 😐
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- Last day of summer for the kids. Quick trip to Indiana Dunes.
- I am fascinated with how people come to such different beliefs about the world. In our new paper, led by Tiwalade Adekunle, we used @lauraknelson.bsky.social's computational grounded theory to compare how a pro-masking subreddit and an anti-masking subreddit talked about risks during COVID. 1/
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- I am fascinated with how people come to such different beliefs about the world. In our new paper, led by Tiwalade Adekunle, we used @lauraknelson.bsky.social's computational grounded theory to compare how a pro-masking subreddit and an anti-masking subreddit talked about risks during COVID. 1/
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[Not loaded yet] - IMO, one of the most important ideas from social networks is that our social world is not an agreed upon fact but is perceived differently by different people and those perceptions matter. I loved working on this project led by @kyosuketanaka.bsky.social , who is an expert in network perceptions.
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- This session on causal inference was very good with some well-designed studies. We should do more causal inference! #ica25
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- My new students brainstorming some project ideas
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- Reposted by Jeremy FooteMisinformation research continues to be urgent science. By @ethanvporter.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and me. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- I'm heading to ICA in a few weeks - would love to catch up with folks who are there.
- Reposted by Jeremy FooteI wrote a chapter on a functionalist account of social identity. IMO, thinking about identity in an instrumental way helps explain a lot of behavior that seems otherwise baffling. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Jeremy FooteEconomists looking at an idea from sociology literature that they will be the first to write a paper on.
- We're all trying to find the guy who did this! www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
