International Conference on Computational Social Science

International Conference on Computational Social Science

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The 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) will be held in Burlington, Vermont July 28-31 2026 Website: https://ic2s2-2026.org/

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We are pleased to share that the 2026 keynote presentations will be available at the @vcsi.bsky.social youtube channel, and will be shared here for anyone who missed them. Here are Jennifer Gradecki and Derek Curry sharing their creative approaches to reconstruction as method: youtu.be/J85Ti0y3bgY

youtu.be2026 IC2S2: Keynote Presentation with Derek Curry and Jennifer GradeckiYouTube video by Vermont Complex Systems Institute

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Alexa Woodward
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🐙 🪕 ❤️. lnkd.in/p/eW87T9-z #ic2s2

lnkd.inIt’s been an honor to organize IC2S2 2026 with a great team from the Vermont Complex Systems Institute at the University of Vermont and I’m especially happy to have lived the ultimate Michael Scott… ...It’s been an honor to organize IC2S2 2026 with a great team from the Vermont Complex Systems Institute at the University of Vermont and I’m especially happy to have lived the ultimate Michael Scott d...

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CSSLab at Penn
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Using nearly 19,000 human survey responses collected across 40 waves during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Elliot Pickens(@elliot-p.bsky.social), David Rothschild, Jenny Wang, and Jonas Mikhaeil compared LLM-generated and human survey responses. #IC2S2

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Reminder to vote! Voting is open for a few more hours. Best lightning talk, parallel talk, and poster will be announced this afternoon in our closing ceremony. Click on the red "vote" button: ic2s2-2026.org/program/

ic2s2-2026.orgProgram — International Conference on Computational Social Science | Burlington, VT 2026Join us for IC2S2 2026 — the 12th International Conference on Computational Social Science. Burlington, Vermont, July 28-31.

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Vermont Complex Systems Institute
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MassMutual Fellow and Computational Story Lab PhD student Calla Beauregard discussing gender stereotypes in film at @ic2s2.bsky.social : www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

linkedin.comCalla G. presenting a parallel session talk “Archetypes and gender in fiction: A data-driven mapping of gender stereotypes in stories” at IC2S2 | Vermont Complex Systems InstituteCalla G. presenting a parallel session talk “Archetypes and gender in fiction: A data-driven mapping of gender stereotypes in stories” at IC2S2
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Happening now: Keynote from Kyle Mahowald: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

linkedin.comHappening now: Keynote Kyle Mahowald discusses how LLMs expand new analytical opportunities for computational linguistics, and how AI models of language can inform our understanding of human language…...Happening now: Keynote Kyle Mahowald discusses how LLMs expand new analytical opportunities for computational linguistics, and how AI models of language can inform our understanding of human language ...
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Morning lightning talk from Sam Bestvater: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

linkedin.comHappening now: lightning talks! Sam Bestvater presents “The Religious Radio Corpus: Building a Large-Scale Dataset of American Faith Broadcasting” - link to corpus in comments | IC2S2Happening now: lightning talks! Sam Bestvater presents “The Religious Radio Corpus: Building a Large-Scale Dataset of American Faith Broadcasting” - link to corpus in comments

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CSSLab at Penn
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Do falsehoods persuade more than selective facts? Jenny Allen presented Falsehoods Offer No Persuasive Advantage Over Selective Facts: Evidence from Real-World Political Misinformation at today's #IC2S2 Plenary Lightning Talks with David Rothschild, Duncan Watts, Amir Tohidi, and Samar Haider!

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CSSLab at Penn
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At today's #IC2S2 Methods and Measurement session, Linnea Gandhi @linneagandhi.bsky.social presented her study with Elizabeth Tipton and Duncan Watts, which tests whether research syntheses can predict the results of new studies and highlights the challenges of producing generalizable knowledge.

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Matt DeVerna
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Presenting our ACL paper this afternoon at #IC2S2 (Understanding LLMs session @ 2:15) aclanthology.org/2026.finding...

aclanthology.orgLarge Language Models Require Curated Context for Reliable Political Fact-Checking—Even with Reasoning and Web SearchMatthew R. DeVerna, Kai-Cheng Yang, Harry Yaojun Yan, Filippo Menczer. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026. 2026.

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Mor Naaman
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Presented today at #IC2S2 by the great @isabelcorpus.bsky.social -- will be posting more about this work soon!

Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social

See here for @isabelcorpus.bsky.social paper showing that the "write with AI" feature on change.org made petitions longer and their text more complicated. The outcomes? Did not improve. arxiv.org/abs/2511.13949

arxiv.orgIntroducing AI to an Online Petition Platform Changed Outputs but not OutcomesThe rapid integration of AI writing tools into online platforms raises critical questions about their impact on content production and outcomes. We leverage a unique natural experiment on Change$.$org...
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Check out this thread and contribute your papers if you'd like to share!

Rafael M Batista@rafmbatista.bsky.social

I’ve created a Collection on @semble.so for #IC2S2. It’s open for anyone to throw in a link to their paper. If that’s too much work, you can reply here with a link and I’ll do it for you and send you the “card” Semble is proving to be a great tool for discovering new research @ic2s2.bsky.social