Christopher Barrie

25 Feb

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

cjbarrie.comChristopher BarrieComputational social science, language models, and political contention.

I have a new website and I think it's nice cjbarrie.com

gofundme.comDonate to Chris run Athens Marathon for Medical Aid for Palestinians, organized by Chris BarrieI have decided to run a marathon... I am doing this … Chris Barrie needs your support for Chris run Athens Marathon for Medical Aid for Palestinians

Hello Bluesky! I am running Athens Marathon in a couple of weeks. I'm running for Medical Aid for Palestinians. If you'd like to donate, you can do so here: www.gofundme.com/f/chris-run-... Thank you 🙏

No one knows I ran 35km today

Going out for beers tonight at the NYC Man City supporters club bar just to celebrate United winning the league in 2021

Pleased to see my pied a terre getting a nice write-up

15 Sept

The really cool thing about meeting note-taking apps is that now, every time I have a meeting, about six different apps ask if I want to take notes, which makes things very efficient.

13 Sept

Brb I'm just about to post on LinkedIn about how my broken wrist helps us understand synergies in large organizations

There are (obviously) legitimate concerns around AI capabilities. But Sky News choosing earnestly to report on an AI agent applying for a job is stupid af...

7 Sept

Live scenes from the APSA fourth day beers

5 Sept

Partisanship eh, helluva drug

doi.orgImproving computational reproducibility in the social sciences - Nature Human BehaviourCode underlying published findings in the social sciences often fails to reproduce reported results when others re-run it on the original data. This Comment proposes four recommendations to strengthen...

5 Sept

Nobody knows I ran 21km today

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ali alkhatib

@ali-alkhatib.com

30 Aug

Replying to @ali-alkhatib.com

i don't even know what to say, if you're freaked out about code requesting admin privileges i just don't know what to say.

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Johannes Breuer

@johannesbreuer.com

1 Sept

New discussion paper led by @hroggenkamp.bsky.social and @mvreiss.bsky.social published in Nature Human Behavior: "Improving computational reproducibility in the social sciences" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

nature.comImproving computational reproducibility in the social sciences - Nature Human BehaviourCode underlying published findings in the social sciences often fails to reproduce reported results when others re-run it on the original data. This Comment proposes four recommendations to strengthen...

1 Sept

Pleased to have contributed to this Comment just out in Nature Human Behaviour! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

25 Aug

Currently setting up human annotation loop for a large scale LLM eval and some of the outputs read like avant-garde poetry:

washingtonpost.comForeign student enrollment will fall nearly 10%, report predictsA report released this week forecasts a decline of about 111,000 international students at U.S. colleges and universities.

20 Aug

My niece just sent me a video of an AI generated banjo song on Spotify being played from a phone to an iPad where an animated cat was listening to the song then repeating it back in a funny voice. Somebody filmed this and it has 527 thousand likes anyway I'm going to live in the woods now bye

Me too

Just an enormous cost to the US economy that is hard to communicate politically because intangible. But such utter lunacy. International scholars drawn to the US are part of what makes the sector great. It should continue

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

There will probably be far fewer foreign students on college campuses nationwide this fall following the Trump administration’s crackdown on international visas. A new report predicts international enrollment will decrease by 9.5 percent this fall.

13 Aug

Who wants to play a game of spot the absolute bloody legend

9 Aug

If you tap the thumbs up, you get more citations FYI

7 Aug

Best non fiction recommendations for my holibobs?

6 Aug

No they didn't; no they didn't

27 July

Is there any data behind this "Gen Z are workshy and immature" stuff or is this just vibes FM stuff again?

26 July

"I've created a bluesky account for my solar panels" is about as bluesky as bluesky gets Hats off to you, @jamesomalley.co.uk

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk

Good news! I now have solar panels on my house so I am going to be *even more* smug and insufferable than ever. And I've started by creating a Bluesky account for my solar, ripping off @edent.tel's idea, and even re-using his code to do it.

interfolio.cominterfolio.com

23 July

We want to hire a new, more techy AI person in the lab. Think mechanistic interpretability, fine tuning, large-scale evals that kind of thing. If you're interested and have Qs, lmk! interfolio.com/181820

csmapnyu.orgWork With Us - NYU’s Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics

23 July

Something weird happening with the interfolio link. Access through here csmapnyu.org/jobs

sociologicalscience.comInformation Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in EngagementArticle: Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement | Sociological Science | Posted July 21, 2026

I have a new paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social w/ the briliant @aybukeatalay.bsky.social and @aliaelkattan.com We show that what we pay attention to online is a lot more politically diverse than what public engagement signals would suggest... sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

We hope this will lead to more papers (some I'm already working on) integrating attention measures into their designs + the downstream consequences of attention. Especially as so many algorithms now are attention based.

github.comGitHub - cjbarrie/smcloneContribute to cjbarrie/smclone development by creating an account on GitHub.

Replication materials here: github.com/cjbarrie/smc...

We replicated the findings four times across different panels and different national contexts...

This suggests (once again) that echo chamber narratives are likely overstated---not least because we tend not to measure actual attention to things we're exposed to online.

We do so using a clone social media environment that we get participants to interact with

Passive telemetry records everything they click on and, crucially, what they decide to click to read more on...

OOO LOL XOXOXO

Absolutely gutted for Argentina. They seem like a really lovely bunch of blokes too

18 July

This is the real quiz

15 July

I'm actually something of a Who's Who myself

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14 July

🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...

14 July

🙏 Come work with me 🙏 We're hiring a postdoc. to work on a v cool project using AI to better understand local-level social cohesion...

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14 July

To do so, we're using an enormous trove of citizen reporting data from well-known mobile applications. You'll get to work alongside @letitbk.bsky.social and Delia Baldassarri. Hmu w/ any Qs apply.interfolio.com/189355

9 July

Comte Tete-de-poubelle is actually my old man's preferred cheese

John Walton@thatjohn.bsky.social

fascinatingly* the French news is translating "Count Binface" as « le Compte Tête-de-Poubelle » rather than « Visage-de-Poubelle) which is, in fairness, more accurate (his entire head is a bin, not just his face) typical British media not asking the important underlying questions * ta gueule

jobbnorge.noAssociate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of OsloJob title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

8 July

Do I know anyone who works at YouGov?

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Dan Quintana

@dsquintana.bsky.social

6 July

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

8 July

Trying to explain to US colleagues why Nigel Farage is in a two-way election contest against a malevolent spaceman from the future with a bin on his head