Jeremy Foote

Hi folks! I'm Jeremy, I study online communities. A bunch of my work has been on new and small communities and recently I've been doing some stuff on how AI agents can help communities work better.

New Fed estimates of wealth by age are out. Under-35 wealth dropped 23% over these three years www.wsj.com/economy/affl...

Sunderland is going to be really fun to watch this year! #premierleague

There is an opportunity for the funniest thing to happen here cc @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social

For over a year now, I have been annoyed by this problem with my e-reader. The pen sometimes stopped working correctly, usually near an edge, but often a different edge. I had googled some without luck and finally asked AI about it. Right away it suggested it might be a magnet, like on the case!

Cabo Verde just put in one of the best performances in WC history. What a game!

Looked like a foul for Cape Verde right at the end there

I wanted to get some ice cream, but for some reason just couldn't make it all the way into the store.

Really nice keynote at Sunbelt by @davidlazer.bsky.social He showed that peripherality of communities in the past predicts a lot about current trust in science, health outcomes, and political orientation.

a little over a year ago elon was dancing around having successfully cut off USAID, which caused ~600,000 people to die including ~400,000 children). now he is our first trillionaire. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s....

What a half of soccer!! #USMNT

"I switched all the labels on my wife's Spice Rack." "I'm not in trouble yet, but the thyme is cumin."

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Is that butter? No it's ghee. Oh thanks for clarifying

One of the worst things about being a professor right now is not being able to fully celebrate great work by students without suspecting they used an LLM.

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

One thing that galls me about AI slop is the total reign of disingenuousness. A person "wrote" a detailed, impassioned appeal of their terrible AI slop paper's rejection. I explained why it was rejected. /1

📢 #PhD students & #HCI faculty — we want to hear from you! @mirandawei.bsky.social @samanthadalal.bsky.social @mariannealq.bsky.social and I are studying how GenAI use is impacting the #research advisor-advisee relationship. Sign-up link for a 45 min interview, virtual or in-person, in the thread 🧵

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Based a lot on @duncanjwatts.bsky.social, @msalganik.bsky.social, and collaborators' research

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Yes absolutely. And in particular, we desperately need social scientists in the middle of testing and publishing on these methodological questions, for all the reasons Phil and Jeff outline. This is too consequential to leave to CS.

Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10,000 to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom that's warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Submit your work on causality and networks today!

Super excited to see my first R package `imaginarycss' in CRAN (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...) #R #Network #SNA

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.